"The Attack on the USNS Card " Topic

"In the early morning hours of May 2nd, 1964, Captain Borge Langeland of the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) was supervising the loading of old helicopters aboard the converted auxiliary aircraft carrier for their return to the United States from the Port of Saigon. The Card had just unloaded her cargo of helicopters and fighter-bombers from Manila in the Philippines, and was now getting ready to sail again for the United States. It was all routine work.

Capt. Langeland, a Norwegian by birth, was undoubtedly happy with routine. He had seen more than his share action as 2nd mate aboard the Norwegian ship Grenanger during World War II. The Grenanger was sunk in 1943 by the U-120, and he had been rescued by the US Coast Guard after spending a week stranded in a lifeboat. Adopting the United States as his new home, he had joined the Maritime Service shortly after the war's end.

But now his service saw him involved in the early stages of a new war in Vietnam. Before the military buildup and escalation began in earnest, cargo destined for the country was moved rather routinely out of ports in the continental United States. Most was loaded aboard ships, which would then steam for Saigon Port, the only port with piers of deep enough drafts to accommodate large oceangoing vessels like the Card…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Thanks for posting this. My Dad flew anti-sub patrols from the USS Card in WW2 (Atlantic). He was the radioman in a TBM Avenger.

No mention my friend!. (smile)

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Armand