USS Whitehurst Logo by: Pat Stephens, Webmaster, DESA
 

Pictures from the Early Viet Nam Era

 

In 1962 Whitehurst was on patrol in the South China Sea in support of the South Viet Namese Government.  The ship dropped anchor near Phu Quoc on the west coast of South Viet Nam, where the ship's company went ashore for a beach party.  

Pictures contributed by various Whitehurst veterans of the late 1950s and 1960s. Not necessarily in chronological sequence.
Pictures contributed by: Rodger Clement, Tim Dorgan, Gary w. Hendrickson,
Bill Endter, George Parmeter, and Maynard Cox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Maynard Cox.  After leaving the USN,
became famous as the "Snake Man" of Florida

 

     USS Whitehurst DE-634, Phu Quoc Viet Nam. photo provided by Rodger Clement QM3


Loading the Motor Whale Boat  Photo by Bob Kenagy
 


Whitehurst's Motor Whale Boat takes crewmen ashore  Photo by Bob Kenagy SOG2


 


Beach Party near Phu Quoc South Viet Nam   1962

 

Color Beach photos contributed by Rodger Clement QM3

 

 

 

For more on the beach party and details of Whitehurst involvement in Viet Nam see "On Battle Patrol" by Bill Mulcahy Torpedoman 2/c  Battle Patrol

 
 


 Fishing off Viet Nam  1961 or '62
On Right wearing Glasses is Jim Stotts EM2

 

 


Duty Day, Can you name men or the ship alongside?
Foreground profile is Jim Stotts EM2, Sitting is Gerald Swartzrock EM2, Background is ??

 


"Sully" Sullivan & George Parmeter, Viet Nam  '61 or '62

 


First Liberty, Japan

 

 

 

 


 Gerald Laws Eng. Off.


     Gerald Laws' Zippo

         Engineering Dept. Patch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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