1968 US Navy USS Hector AR-7 Divers Vietnam Cruise Book
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is a very rare USS Hector AR-71968 Vietnam deployment Cruise Book. The book is in excellent shape and is 97 pages. Great operational photos, Hard Hat MKV Divers with full dive equipment, liberty ports and beauty queen actress Linda Harrison. Very little wear and a great find. HECTOR was built by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation in San Pedro, California. She was christened by Mrs. Ramona Heim, wife of Captain Schuyler Heim USN, and launched 11 November 1942. She was commissioned 7 February 1944. After shakedown along the West Coast, she sailed the Pacific, arriving in Pearl Harbor on 9 April 1944. She departed for Eniwetok on 5 June, arriving t 13 June. HECTOR spent the summer t, and on 30 September, departed for Ulithi. Her largest repair job in WWII was the USS HOUSTON which was torpedoed twice by Japanese submarines. The HOUSTON was towed alongside on 27 October. Although hampered by a severe typhoon season, which twice sent her out to sea for safety, HECTOR managed to repair HOUSTON by the end of 1944; this in addition to repairs on other ships. HECTOR departed Ulithi 16 February 1945 and arrived at Tarragona, Leyte Gulf, to repair ships during the battle for the Philippines. She then returned to Ulithi 30 March and on to Saipan 22 May. After WWII in the Pacific ended, Hector remained in the Pacific and Asiatic
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