Photo History 1950s

USS Los Angeles CA-135

WESTPAC Cruises 1958 & 1959

 


ITINERARY
1958
10-15 June
2-6   July 
27    August 
31    August
11    September 
12    September 
15    September 
22-30 September
10-17 October 
19-20 October 
29-30 October 
5     November 
12-18 November 
19    November
28-30 November
5     December

1959
28    March
4-8   April
12    April
18-21 April
24-26 April
28    April-8 May
15-17 May
18-21 May
31    May
3-9   June
13-15 June
19-29 June 
10-11 July
18    July
Portland
San Francisco
Underway for WestPac
Pearl Harbor
Keelung, Formosa
Boko-ko, Pescadores
Kaoshiung, Formosa
2Subic Bay, Philippines
Yokosuka, Japan
Buckner Bay, Okinawa
Keelung
Buckner Bay
Yokosuka
Yokohama, Japan
Pearl Harbor
Long Beach
 

Enroute WestPac
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Guam
Buckner Bay
Yokosuka
Shimoda, Japan
Kobe, Japan
Buckner Bay
Hong Kong
Nagoya, Japan
Yokosuka
Pearl Harbor
Long Beach
 

Emergency Deployment to Quemoy, August 1958

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The LA leaves Long Beach, CA
 for WESTPAC, 27 Aug '58

Two 3-inch gun mounts at general quarters

Combat Information Center (CIC) personnel
 busy controlling aircraft.  OE Division Officer
 Lt Hudson is at right.

USS Los Angeles at sea, WESTPAC


USS Los Angeles, with a destroyer
being refueled at right

USS Los Angeles at a dock in Yokosuka,
 Japan, 1958, after the Quemoy Crisis.

USS Mulany DD-528 is tied up to the LA.

USS Los Angeles at Yokosuka,
with a cargo ship to starboard

USS Los Angeles being replenished, with
 a destroyer and USS Midway CV-41 at right

In Hawaii on each cruise to & from WESTPAC:
Cruise 1: Aug 58 & Nov 58
Cruise 2: Apr 59 & July 59
Also for a change of command in Aug. 1960.

USS Midway at Yokosuka, 1958

I was on the Midway for a visit in 1958
& went aboard a 2nd time in October 2005.

OE Division, 1958 - 1960

Electronic Technicians (ETs) maintained the radios, radars and some other electronic gear on the ship.
 There were about 18 people in OE div (OE means Operations, Electronics).


OE Div personnel during WESTPAC cruise March - July 1959. Yours Truly is in the 2nd row, 3rd from left.

Capt. Martineau inspecting OE Div
(happily, a rare event)

Mr Kempton in the ET Shop - both CWO Kempton & Lt Hudson were the best.  Both are shown in the first row of the OE div picture above.  Mr Hudson is also shown in the CIC photo (on the right edge of the photo).

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Off duty in the ET Shop.

Max Shuck, on the right, was our division petty officer.  He was a cool guy - we called him "Sam".  Sam passed away in the winter of 1997.  Sam is also shown in the division photo above, on the left in the first row.

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