Description
Title: HMAS Perth – US Navy Commendation Booklet
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Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1969
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 16 pages
Comments: The now scarce US Navy Commendation book for HMAS Perth to commemorate her 1967/1968 Vietnam War cruise.
HMAS Perth (D 38) was the lead ship of the Perth class guided missile destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in the United States of America to a modified version of the Charles F. Adams design, Perth entered service with the RAN in 1965.
The destroyer made three deployments to the Vietnam War, earning a RAN battle honour and two United States Navy commendations for her service. The majority of the ship’s career was spent on training exercises and goodwill visits to other nations, with one deployment as far as the Mediterranean. Perth was decommissioned in 1999, and sunk as a dive wreck off the coast of Western Australia in 2001.
Includes Vietnam Awards & the ships company Vietnam 1967 – 68
