Vietnam War US Navy Destroyer USS NK PERRY DD-883 Patch

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Vintage original Vietnam war in-country machine-embroidered patch, size is 3.8" by 3.25" - used condition. Latin phrase "PACEM ET BELLUM GERENS VIGILANS" means Peace and War Managing Vigilant. Due to global pandemic, USPS delivery may be temporarily delayed.
For her Western Pacific overseas deployment in 1966, departing Newport with Destroyer Division 201 on 4 October,
USS NEWMAN K PERRY
DD-883
transited the
Panama Canal
, stopped in
Hawaii
, Japan, Okinawa and the
Philippines
, and arrived on station in the
Mekong Delta
of
South Vietnam
on 23 November. Assigned to fire support duties, she shelled enemy coastal storage areas until the 28th. She then shifted to
Phú Quốc
island, off the
Cambodian
-South Vietnamese border, to support Vietnamese and
Special Forces
units for five days, returning to the Delta area in December. Other assignments on that tour with the
7th Fleet
took her along the coast to the DMZ and then to the
Gulf of Tonkin
for
plane guard
and
search and rescue
missions. On 8 March 1967, she departed the combat zone for
Hong Kong
before returning to
Subic Bay
for the last time. On the 27th she departed the Philippines for the Mediterranean and Newport, arriving on 8 May.
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