Photos From the Rose

By John Venters

Oakland Army band jauntily sending us off to Viet Nam 

aboard the USNS Rose, December 1966

Oakland tug setting to move the

 USNS Rose, December 1966

Oakland Bay Bridge in distance, from aboard

 USNS Rose, December 1966

Nearing Oakland Bay Bridge aboard

 USNS Rose, December 1966

Passing under the Oakland Bay Bridge 

aboard USN Rose, December 1966

PFC John Venters, Batt A 1st Bn 11th Arty, aboard USNS Rose docked at Okinawa enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

At EM club at White Sands Beach, Okinawa, while

 USNS enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

PFC John Venters, Batt A 1st Bn 11th Arty, in bunk hold 

aboard USNS Rose enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

USNS Rose docked at Okinawa enroute to Vietnam-notice 

blurry effect from alcohol consumed at EM club,

 December 1966

Approaching White Sands Beach, Okinawa, aboard 

USNS Rose enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

Approaching White Sands Beach, Okinawa, aboard

USNS Rose enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

PFC Larry Dunbar and PFC Howard Hyde, HHBatt 1st 11th Arty, aboard USNS Rose enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

-PFC John Venters, Batt A 1st Bn 11th Arty, 

aboard USNS Rose enroute to Vietnam, December 1966

Domain of the Golden Dragon, crossing the 180th Meridian aboard the USNS Gen[1]. Maurice Rose, Dec. 19, 1967, enroute to Viet Nam

It was the USNS Gen. Maurice Rose.  Units of the 1st Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division were transported on the Rose, leaving Oakland in mid-December 1966.  The ship entered Vung Tau harbor December 31, 1966 and troops were landed the morning of New Year's Day, January 1, 1967, and
trucked to Bearcat.

Thank you John for helping the 709th Maint Bn.

 with the photos for this site

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