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13OCT67

 

From: Where the Action is - Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club

We've been on the line now since Sunday night.  Today is our busiest day with 5 missions starting at 0300 and the last one is at 2245 tonight.  The other night we shot up 200 rounds of 8" in 3 minutes.  We have nine 8" guns and each can fire a round every 6 seconds.  If we had to fight our other 3 cruisers in the Pacific we could shoot 27 rounds while all 3 of them could only get off 21 rounds together!

We're giving them hell out there right this minute.  We're at GQ now on our second mission today.  My job is in sickbay, itself, to help in the OR and Ward in case of a hit or other injury.  We were fired on a couple times the other night but the closest missed by a 1000 yards at least.  We generally, don't go in any closer that 15,000 yards and never any slower than 15 knots so you can see that they will have a hard time hitting us.

Please tell everyone "Hi" for me,

Mike
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