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Welcome Aboard!
If you ever served aboard the USS enry WHenry W.
Tucker DD/DDR 875, this is your website. We hope that the site will help you reconnect
with your shipmates and bring you to a reunion. Enjoy!
The USS Henry W.
Tucker was in commission in the US Navy from 1945 to 1973 and saw
service in World War II, the Korean Conflict, the “Cold War”
and Vietnam. Through much of her career she was a
DDR (Radar Picket Ship) and was involved in many activities, such as the
atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, the NASA Apollo program, and the U-2
flights. in
1973, she was decommissioned and sold to the Brazilian Navy and became the Marcilio Dias D25. She was in commission in Brazil
from 1973 to 1992. After nearly
50 years continuous service, she was decommissioned and was sunk in target
practice by a torpedo of Brazilian design fired from a submarine of
Brazilian design, which was an historic event. One of her officers sent us a
newspaper article and photos of the sinking. To see the photos and a translation,
please click here. Thanks to Mike McDermott (LTJG, 68-69) for translating the article from
Portuguese to English. Click on
“history” at the top of any page to view the history.
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Reunion
2012 - Nashville, Tennessee
The next reunion will be from October 9 to 14, 2012 in
Nashville, TN. The reunion hosts are Ronald Holt and his wife Jerry Ann.
They have put together an excellent reunion. Details can be found here.
They can also be found in the January 2012 Newsletter. We discovered that
the dates weren't in the newsletter and have inserted them. We've
already heard from some people who are making their plans to attend,
including some "first-timers". We're looking forward to seeing
all our old friends and making new ones.
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USS Forrestal
The USS TUCKER was accompanying USS FORRESTAL on the morning
of 29 July 1967. The crew of TUCKER rendered assistance to FORRESTAL
that tragic day. The crew of FORRESTAL wishes to invite the
TUCKER crew to attend our 45th Memorial Ceremony.
The FORRESTAL Association, Inc. will have their reunion this
July 2012 and the forty-fifth Memorial Ceremony of the FORRESTAL Fire. All
are welcome to attend.
Thank you,
Ken Killmeyer, Historian
USS FORRESTAL Association
TWENTY-SECOND
FORRESTAL ASSOCIATION REUNION
24 JULY - 30 JULY
2012
And
FORTY-FIFTH MEMORIAL
CEREMONY
MEMORIAL CEREMONY
WILL BE HELD AT THE EAST KNOLL OF THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL
0900 SUNDAY 29 JULY
2012
REUNION HOTEL
Dulles Hyatt
2300 Dulles Corner Blvd.,
Herndon, Virginia, USA 20171
Tel: +1 703 713 1234 Fax: +1 703 713 3410
http://dulles.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?null
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Newsletters
The April
2012 newsletter is now on the website. Please click here to view the newsletter and all
previous newsletters.
The next newsletter will have sign-up sheets with pricing
for events at the reunion.
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Crew Information
The Crew Pages have been updated
as of April 17, 2012.
Please click on “her crew” at the top of any
page to access the crew pages.
Please contact Bob
Miller (MM3, 62-65) if you find errors in your listing. If this is your first visit to the
site and you are a crew member, please contact Bob, our Crew Locator, so
you can be added to the database and mailing list and begin receiving
newsletters. There is now a
crew page for Marcilio Dias shipmates. If you served aboard the Marcilio
Dias, please contact Bob with your name, email address, your rate or rank
and the years you were aboard.
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History
USS
Henry W. Tucker History book: Gary O’Neil has the Tucker
History books. This book is a high quality 8 ½ X 11 size. The
History is named “HACHI NANA GO, An American Fighting Ship”.
There are 234 full color images throughout the text, and it is printed on
heavy glossy coated paper. Shipping is via media mail, and is very
reasonable. For one book the price is $23, and the shipping cost is $3.75.
If you want 2 books, the total shipping cost is $4.50. Shipping 3 books
will be $5.25, and four books will be $6.00. He will fill orders upon
receipt of payment.
Contact Gary O’Neil by email at goneil@new.rr.com,
or Phone: 920-738-0634, or by regular mail at:
2519 O’Connor Way
Appleton, WI 54915
Many shipmates have contributed to the history of the ship
and Gary O’Neil (FTR3, 63-66)
has done a fantastic job compiling the information and verifying
accuracy. The history is
separated into five-year segments.
There are also segments on the Marcilio Dias, statistics of the ship,
medals the ship earned, the plankowners’ list, and the history of
Henry Warren Tucker, for whom the ship was named. Click on “History” at the top of any page to access
these documents. Please visit
often as it is updated on a regular basis. If you would like to contribute to
the history project, please email Gary. Copies of the history are available
on CD. Please contact Gary
to order a CD.
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Pictures
Tom
Byrne (RM2, 60-62) has created pages for photographs on the site. He has created an index to make them
easy to find. Please click on
“pictures” at the top of any page. If you have photos that you would
like to contribute, please contact Tom.
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Cruise Books
Bob Miller
is in the process of having cruise books reproduced on CD. If you would be interested in
getting a CD of the cruise book from your time aboard ship, please click here for Bob’s letter about the
cruise books and to see images of the cover of the books.
If you would like to order a cruise book CD, please email
Bob.
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Ship’s Store
Please check out the Ship’s Store
for baseball caps, jackets and shirts.
After the reunion (Oct. 26-31, 2010), the ship’s store will be
expanded to include the ship’s history book, “Hachi Nana
Go”, cruise book CDs and coffee mugs. Photos of most of the items will be
shown.
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Veteran Information
High Priority!!!
TRICARE and TRICARE for Life (government health insurance
for active duty and retired military personnel) will NOT be affected by the recently passed Health Care Bill. No benefits will be lost. Larry May sent this link from
Military.com which explains.
http://www.military.com/military-report/beneficiaries-vets-shielded-from-health-reform
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Please visit the Veteran Information page for
information that is of interest to all veterans.
RAO Bulletins, newsletters
full of useful veterans’ information will be linked from this
page. These are compiled by James Tichacek
USN (Ret) who does an excellent job of collecting information and
getting it out to a wide audience of veterans. We thank Jim for giving permission
to post his bulletins.
There is a link to a page of documents on Agent Orange
Exposure and other health issues which were contributed by Jim Alvarez
(GMG1, 69-70).
If you need a replacement DD 214 Form (needed to apply for VA benefits), there is a link
to the form and instruction sheet.
Please
visit this page often. If you
know of any information and/or benefits for veterans that could be included
in this section of the site, please contact Pat Siler.
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Website Information
Our webmaster is Pat Siler, wife of James W.
“Bill” Siler, Jr. (BT3, 62-64). Pat also writes the USS Henry W. Tucker
Newsletter. Please email Pat with any information for the website or
newsletter. If you receive your newsletter via US Mail and have an email
address, please send your email address to Pat Siler. With postage costs increasing every
year, we try to send as many out via email as possible to save money.
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Facebook
Page
If you are on Facebook, we
have a group page for shipmates.
Type USS Henry W. Tucker in the search box at the top of any page
and then click on the name of the ship. On the left-hand side of the page
click on Join Group and you’re in. If you’re not on Facebook, we
invite you to join. Go to http://www.facebook.com
and follow the instructions to join.
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The original website was created by Terry
Williams (SK3, 69-71). We all owe a debt of gratitude to
Terry. If he hadn't created this site in 1997, there would be no reunions
and most of us would be still wondering whatever happened to the ship and
our shipmates.
The current “second generation” of the website
was created in 2003 by Kevin B. Skislock, son of
the late John F. Skislock (SN1/c, 45-47). Thanks to Kevin for creating this
wonderful site.
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This website is neither authorized,
endorsed by, nor approved by the United States Department of the Navy. The sole purpose of this site is to
reunite former shipmates, provide reunion information and is a collection
of their memories.
This page was
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