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| U.S.S. Allen M. Sumner DD-692 | ||||
| 1958 Cruise Book | ||||
This is the story of the USS Allen M. Sumner and her Deployment to the Mediterranean - February to August 1958 |
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Our Officers |
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The Divisions |
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The Radar Gang |
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Our Radioman and Electronics Technicians |
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The Signal Gang and the Ship's Office Crew |
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Supply Office and Ship's Service Crew |
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The Cooks, Stewards and the Corpsman |
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The Boatswains of 1st Division |
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The Deck Force 2nd Division |
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The 5" and 3" Gunners |
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The Fire Controlman and the Torpedo Gang |
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The Sonarman and Quartermasters |
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The Engineering gang from the Forward Fire Room and Forward Engine Room |
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The guys from the After Fire Room and the After Engine Room |
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"A" Gang and the Pipe Fitters |
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The Interior Communications Team and the Electricians |
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The photo history of our deployment |
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The front cover of our Cruise Book |
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Introduction and foreword |
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Some highlights and all the places we visited - Page 1 2 |
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A profile of the Sumner as she appeared in 1958 (note: this is two pages merged into one) |
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Highlights of Pollensa, Mallorca |
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Highlights of Genoa |
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Highlights of Palma
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A welcome to Athens from Piraeus |
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The Parthenon and Athens
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Mersin, Rhodes and Izmir |
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The Change of Command Ceremony for Captain Beers and Captain Oller - Page 1 2 |
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Barcelona and the Ship's Party - Page 1 2 |
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Bull fights in Valencia |
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Another stretch in Palma |
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Suda Bay, Crete |
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It's on to Salonika, Greece |
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This time we get to see the Rock |
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Slouch Day on our way home |
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The Ship's Company and where they are from - Page 1 2 |
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The Calendar of Ports we visited |
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Sumner Sailors at their favorite Watering Hole |
A Sincere Thank You to Gordon Headley who let us borrow his Cruise Book for scanning
