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USS Morton (DD-948) was a ... when she steamed to the South China Sea and patrolled off South Vietnam. ... Morton began Sea Dragon operations off North Vietnam in May ...
USS General C. G. Morton (AP-138) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. ... Communist China Aggression, 21 to 28 December ...
USS John R. Craig: USN-467Y 18 28 July - 23 August 1964 USS Maddox: USN-467N 19 14–21 September 1964 USS Morton: USN-467P 20 1–15 October 1964 USS Richard S. Edwards: USN-467R-1 21 15 October - 14 November 1964 USS Morton: USN-467R-2 22 8–14 November 1964 USS Richard S. Edwards: USN-467S 23 14 November - 27 December 1964 USS Richard S ...
Operation Sea Dragon was a series of American-led naval operations during the Vietnam War They began in October 1966 to interdict sea lines of communications and supply going south from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, and to destroy land targets with naval gunfire. Sea Dragon assets were a part of Task Force 70.8, whose mission was naval shore ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's military on Monday said a U.S. Navy ship illegally entered waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed South China Sea atoll that has recently seen several ...
Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao class) Type 054A frigate (Jiangkai II class) Type 905 replenishment ship (Fuqing class). The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious transport docks, landing ships, tank, landing ships, medium, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats ...
On 11 September, her progress into the South China Sea was delayed by an emergency appendectomy performed successfully on Seaman Darrell Rector by Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes, the first such performed on a submarine. [13] This incident was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning account by Chicago Daily News reporter George Weller.
The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said in a statement that the destroyer USS Ralph Johnson made a "routine" transit of the strait in accordance with international law. China says it monitored, warned US ...