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During this tour, Long Beach was responsible for directing the downing of one Soviet-made An-2 "Colt" aircraft that was attempting to engage South Vietnamese naval units. The shoot-down was executed by an F-4 Phantom II under the control of a Long Beach air intercept controller. The cruiser returned to Long Beach, California, in July 1967.
Title Director Cast Genre Note The Family Jewels: Jerry Lewis: Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Donna Butterworth: Comedy: Paramount: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams
Two nuclear-powered cruisers escort the carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in 1964 during Operation Sea Orbit: at center is the USS Long Beach (CGN-9), at left the destroyer leader USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), which was reclassified as cruiser (CGN-25) in 1975. This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called ...
Operation Sea Orbit was the 1964 circumnavigation of Task Force One of the United States Navy, consisting of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and her escorts, the cruisers USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge. This all-nuclear-powered unit sailed 30,565 miles around the world for sixty-five days without refueling. [1] [2]
USS Long Beach (PF-34), launched in 1943, was a Tacoma-class frigate that saw use from 1943 to 1945, before being loaned to the Soviet Navy and then in 1962 to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii. USS Long Beach (CGN-9), launched in 1959, was the first nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the world, serving from 1961 to 1995 ...
Operation "Sea Orbit" – Bainbridge (top), Long Beach (center) and Enterprise (bottom) in 1964. In October 1965, Bainbridge again rounded Cape Agulhas, en route to the Western Pacific for the first of eleven Seventh Fleet cruises. Operating for much of this deployment off strife-torn Vietnam, she screened aircraft carriers, served as a radar ...
Documentary films about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 (3 P) Pages in category "Films set in 1965" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
Early in 1966 she headed for home and reached Long Beach 1 February. [1] In 1965 Gridley was runner up of the Capt. Edward F. Ney Memorial Award, for the best feeding food ship in the Navy.(Medium afloat class) In 1966, the destroyer leader won the Capt. Edward F. Ney Memorial Award, for the best feeding food ship in the navy (Medium afloat ...