Entry 445
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 Time: 1:39 PM EST
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Name= Edward Juchnowski SM3
Served= June 1967 - July 1969
Ship / Unit= USS Vance DER 387, USS Tekelma TF113
Age= 57
City= Strongsville
State= Ohio
Zip= 44136
Country= United States
Phone= 000-000-0000
A URL to share= No
How did you find this site?= Followed link from another page
Reasons for reading about the Vance= To find shipmates
Comments= I left Travis AFB and flew to Clark AFB sailing up from Subic Bay on the USS Mars then waited on the USS Savage till the Vance returned from patrol in the Straits. I came on board in Koahisung Taiwan in July 1967. I had been stationed at Great Lakes from February 1966. I was a deck ape at first and I believe the BM3 last name was Stewart?

I remember after we left Taiwan we went up to Yokosuka Japan and docked across from the USS Kitty Hawk. We apes scrapped the side of the ship and I got my first or second "welcome aboard" going over the side into the water. My signalman bosses while aboard was a guy named Billy Joe Huxford SM1 and Rex Albertson SM3.

I remained on board through it's decommision at Vallejo CA in 1969. We stayed on a floating bunk house for a while. Then I went back to Pearl to board the ocean fleet tug USS Tekelma TF113.
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