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Service News
USS Everglades (FHTNC)— Navy Chief Warrant Officer Roger A. Palmer, husband of the former Miss Jessie M. Gaunt of Route 1, Sperryville, is serving aboard the destroyer tender USS Everglades, operating out of Charleston, S. C. Everglades departed Feb. 8 for a tour of duty with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean area. The Sixth Fleet is a versatile, well-balanced force consisting of an attack carrier striking force, an amphibious task group and a variety of auxiliary ships which enable the fleet to operate for extended periods of time without the support of land bases. USS KITTY HAWK —George D. Fincham, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Fincham of Sperryville, is participating aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in a coordinated U. S. Nationalist Chinese amphibious exercise called“Operation Backpack" being conducted off the coast of Taiwan.
Backpack is an exercise to test the amphibious capabilities and readiness of the forces of the Seventh Fleet and the Nationalist Chinese Navy. The exercise, with over 40,000 men and 140 units participating, will culminate in an amphibious assault on beaches of southern Taiwan, and will demonstrate the effectiveness of the United States Seventh Fleet to rapidly move a significant combat force to a troubled area in order to assist an ally.
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