She turned to unmask both her guns and engaged the North Vietnamese 8-inch batteries. Then I saw a FRAM I (Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization) destroyer steaming in to engage those batteries and making smoke to help hide us while she closed in-firing away with her forward, 5-inch/38-caliber mount. “Worden maneuvered to open the range since its 3-inch guns were no match for the enemy’s artillery. That experience shaped his post-commissioning journey. Glutting, a 1968 Naval Academy graduate and retired commander, saw firsthand the realities of war during summer at-sea training in 1967. “The first rounds were a bit off, but the second set was very close-they hit so close aboard that the explosions drenched me and my gun crew with sea water.” “Our helicopter went in and rescued him, but then North Vietnamese 8-inch shore batteries opened up,” Glutting said. Glutting is aboard the guided-missile destroyer leader Worden near islands south of Hanoi, North Vietnam, during the search-and-rescue operation. Peterson ’68, USN (Ret.)Ī mayday call from a downed American pilot springs a Navy helicopter aircrew into rescue mode. MIDSHIPMEN AT WAR: VIETNAM-AN UNTOLD STORYīy Captain Gordon I.
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