James Long’s Photos

USS Satyr (ARL-23)

May 1968 – May 1969

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A bunch of tangos or gunboats coming in from a mission

A bunch of tangos or gunboats coming in from a mission

* You could see where it got hit at the side with a rocket. There were two killed and two wounded on it
* PBR that got shot up with a rocket and machine gun
* Picking up a landing craft that hit a sampan head on
* This is our XO on the USS Satyr

* Patrol boats getting into their squads. Our ship getting ready to move out on the special sea and anchor detail
* Good look at an alpha boat and its 30 ad 50 caliber machine guns
* Getting ready to move out on patrol. You could see the machine turrets on the one boat
* Here’s my drinking buddies–that’s 3.2 beer like drinking embalming fluid

* Shipmates joking around
* Take notice of her measurements
* Boats coming in for repairs and refueling. I hate me