USS RICH  (DD/DDE 820)
USS Rich insignias
Serving her country 1946 - 1977

The life and times of this great ship in photos and word by the great sailors who crewed her.


 

Feb '7: PN3 Ciervo - tattoo parlor in Hong Kong.

(Still has the tattoo, lost the good looks!

Feb '73: (L-R) GMG3 Tom Turner, "Lou" our favorite saloon keeper, PN3 Jon Underwood, Hong Kong

GMG3 Tom Turner  - tattoo parlor in Hong Kong

 

Feb '73:  GMG3 Tom Turner, "Lou", PN3 Ron Ciervo, "MamaSan" in Hong Kong

PN3 Jon Underwood & GMG3 Tom Turner - tatto parlor in Hong Kong. (Jon "talked" Tom and I into getting tattoos claiming that we would then be "salty")  Yeah, right!

Oct 72: F(rancis) X(avier) Munger, XO on bridge wing during transit of Panama Canal enroute WESTPAC

 

Jan 73: Ed O'Donnoghue arms H.E. projectile outside Mount 52 upper handling room. Assist is Charlie Mann

Another underway refueling gone "bad".  Perhaps a harbinger of things to come?

Not any better on this try either.

 

Nov '72:  Mount 51 following extensive shore bomb- ardment, aka Naval Gunfire Support - South Vietnam

Taking on over the bow.

YN3 Douglas Delmar Post - Ship's Office

PN3 Jon H Underwood & PSSN Long - Ship's Office

PN3 Ron Ciervo

STG Lovejoy & GMG3 Tom Turner - Ship's Office

 

PN3 Jon Underwood without his trademark handlebar moustache

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