Photo #: NH 97031
USS PC-581
Alongside the Long Wharf in Newport, Rhode Island, just before
she got underway to greet the ships of Escort Destroyer Division
Sixty-One as they returned from a deployment to the Korean War
zone on 14 March 1951.
"CortDesDiv61", an Atlantic Fleet unit, had left Newport
on 5 July 1950, and subsequently deployed to Korea via the Mediterranean
Sea and the Suez Canal. It returned to Newport via the Panama
Canal, thus circumnavigating the Earth. The Division's ships
were USS Fred T. Berry (DDE-858), the Division Flagship,
USS Norris (DDE-859), USS McCaffery (DDE-860) and
USS Keppler (DDE-765).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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