Wednesday, September 5, 2007

WESTPAC : ships involved during 1960-70

Consult with NHC's Operational Archives Branch in Naval Historical Center.
They keep records on the Navy in the Pacific during the Vietnam War era period.

Many of the ships on WESTPAC deployment served with Seventh Fleet.
Seventh Fleet records presumably identify ship's serving with fleet.

Phone: (202) 433-3224; Fax (202) 433-2833 http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg10.htm

Our library has a cruise book collection. Cruise books are kind of yearbook for individual ships.
You can search records of our cruise books' records in Worldcat.
http://www.worldcat.org

Try the advance search with keywords 'westpac' and publication year from 1967-1970 (since the publication date of 69's cruise could be 1970)
Example record:
USS Robison DDG 12, WestPac 1969.
by Robison (Guided missile destroyer : DDG-12)
Language: English Type: Book
Publisher: [Marceline, Mo. : Walsworth Pub. Co. ; La Jolla, Ca. : Cruise Book Sales Offices, 1969?]
OCLC: 34343825
Subjects: Robison (Guided missile destroyer : DDG-12) United States. -- Navy -- Cruise books.
Our library has a list of cruise book collection. Take a look at the following site.
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/special/cruise_list.htm

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