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| Current Message 1 - July 21, 2005 |
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Entry: 52172
USS Rainier (AE-5) |
USS Rainier Book |
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William Freeman wrote on 2005-07-21 00:00:00.0
Comments: Shipmate Steven "Spanky" Temple has written a great book about USS Rainier and it's operations in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970 from the viewpoint of a deck seaman and signalman. The book is "We Deliver, You Fire" and it is available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
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| Current Message 2 - December 2, 2004 |
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Entry: 47236
USS Rainier (AE-5) |
U.S.S. RAINIER AE-5 |
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Bill Watson wrote on 2004-12-02 11:12:40.0
Comments: I reported aboard the Rainier after completing the USAFI Public Information school at Fort Slocum, NY. The Rainier, of course, had no Public Information billet and my arrival did not create one.
I was on the run from San Francisco in November, 19532 and tied to a bouy in Sasebo harbor in December, 1953.
The Rainier returned to the states, Mare Island, Vallejo, CA in June, 1954. I was discharged in August, 1954.
Keywords: With a rating of PN3, I was the enlisted man in charge of the exec's office on the Rainier from 11/52 though 5/53.
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| Current Message 3 - September 1, 2003 |
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Entry: 36664
USS Rainier (AE-5) |
Searching for an old friend |
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Janie Andersen wrote on 2003-09-01 18:03:09.0
Comments: I am searching for an old friend, Fred E Murphy, formerly F. E. Murphy ENFN of the USS Rainier AE-5. c/o F.P.O. San Francisco, CA. I was Janie Andersen and lived in Oakland, CA.
Keywords: A former personal friend:
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US Navy Ammunition Ship
On Sat, 23 May 1998
William Freeman Email address wrote:
datein: 03-68 dateout: 02-70
cas: no
comments:
Here's a bit about Rainier in Korea...On May 25, 1951, Rainier was
recommissioned, to support American operations in Korea. At the start of
the Korean War, supplies, particularly ammunition were in short supply
in the Pacific. The USS Mt Katmai was the only ammunition ship in the
Pacific.
When Rainier was recommissioned, it remained on the West Coast until
November when she sailed west to operate out of Sasebo, Japan, carrying
her cargo to replenishment areas off the coast of Korea.
Following the Korean War, Rainier's peacetime task, through the 1960's
was that of ensuring that the Seventh fleet combatant ships had a ready
supply of ammunition to meet any emergency.
-Bill
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3535
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