Navy War Stories
By Gary Carson
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Memoir on being in the Navy and on the Naval Gunline in the DMZ of Vietnam during 1968. A collection of personal stories of war and the people who wage war.
Gary Carson
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Navy War Stories - Gary Carson
-1Navy War Stories
A collection of essays on being in the Navy
Or
On the Naval Gun Line in the DMZ of Vietnam
by Gary Carson
Vol. I in the War Stories series
Copyright 2010 by Gary Carson
All rights reserved
Published by Broken Pine Press
315 N. Violet
Cushing OK, 74023
www.brokenpinepress.com
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ISBN 978-0-9798023-0-0
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Copyright 2010 Gary Carson
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Navy War Stories
PREFACE
About this book
Most of these stories are from over 40 years ago. That’s because the first half of 1968 was my personal time of war That’s when I was in Vietnam. Not actually in Vietnam, but on a warship, USS Hull, a United States destroyer, off the coast of Vietnam. We were certainly in Vietnamese waters, our gunfire was directed to Vietnam and the few times we were fired on the guns aimed at us were located on Vietnamese soil.
There’s a lack of naval guns these days The gunships of old have been replaced by missile carrying frigates. Naval warfare in Vietnam was mostly divided into three parts 1.) The brown water Navy, shallow draft small boats patrolling the rivers,
2.) an air war that was launched from carriers cruising in Yankee Station, and
3.) the cruisers and destroyers along the gunline of the coastal waters of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Those cruisers and destroyers had the big guns back then, not missiles.
Crewmembers of the USS Hull were awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation for service during our deployment in the Winter/Spring of 1968 and the Combat Action Ribbon for combat action in February, March, and May of 1968. Incoming shells came close enough to cover me with water from on explosion off our bow.
My ship had a DD designation, which is the Navy’s way to designate that the primary weapon was guns rather than missile (DD stands for destroyer, the second D is superfluous).
The ship operated between Cap Lay and Tiger Island, about a mile offshore on the northern edge of the DMZ. It patrolled a one mile strip (north to south) called the gunline. There were typically two destroyers and a cruiser on station, with a couple of brown water Navy swift boats south of Cap Lay.
No Navy vessel in the gunline escaped enemy fire. We didn't lose any ships patrolling the gunline, although some ships did take direct hits and lost some sailors. The brown water Navy did lose some boats (and crews) that were patrolling the inland waters in the area.
At one point the exchange of gunfire was so intense that the barrels on our 5 inch guns literally melted. We had to transfer