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Welcome Aboard!
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Reunion 2008
October 1-5, 2008
Holiday Inn Seattle-Renton
Renton, Washington
For information click here.
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If you ever served
aboard the USS enry WHenry W. Tucker DD/DDR 875,
this is your website. We hope
you will find the information in the site interesting and useful. More importantly, we hope that the
site will help you reconnect with your shipmates and bring you to a
reunion.
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 and the U-2 flights. To read about these and other
activities of the ship, click “history”
at the top of any page. In
1973, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy and became the Marcilio Dias D25. She was in commission 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.
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Crew Information
The Crew Pages have been updated
as of April 19, 2008.
Please click on “her
crew” at the top of any page to access the crew pages.
If this is your first
visit to the site and you are a crew member, please contact Bob Miller (MM3, 62-65),
our Crew Locator, so you can be added to the database and mailing list and
begin receiving newsletters.
Bob has worked tirelessly since 1999 to find “missing”
shipmates. Without Bob,
I’m sure we would have just a handful of shipmates on our crew
list. If you know the
whereabouts of anyone on the “Missing” Crew List, or hear of
the passing of a shipmate, please contact Bob with that information.
We have created a crew
page for Marcilio Dias shipmates. If you served aboard the Marcilio
Dias, please contact Pat Siler with your name, email
address, your rate or rank and the years you were aboard. All crew members of Marcilio Dias
are part of this organization and you are welcome to participate fully,
including attending reunions.
Bob is also looking for
historical information and “diaries”. If you have information, please
contact Bob. Also, if you have
a cruise book, he is looking for copies to be scanned to include on the
website. Please contact him if
you can help with that.
If your address or email address has changed,
please email Pat Siler as soon
as possible so you won’t miss any newsletters.
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Newsletters
The January 2008 newsletter is now on the website. Please click on “Newsletters” at the top of any page to view the
newsletter and all previous newsletters.
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History
On January 22, 2008, updated history files were posted on the
website. 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.
There is a document
regarding radiation received by naval personnel who took part in Operation
Sandstone.
If you would like to
contribute to the history project, please email Gary O’Neil.
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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 Miller.
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Baseball
Caps
We
have baseball caps available for sale.
They are navy blue with a ship profile in white and the ship’s
name and hull number in gold.
The price is $12.00, which includes postage. If you would like to purchase a cap,
please contact Bill Siler for ordering
information.
We have solid cloth caps
and caps with mesh backs. When
ordering please specify which you prefer.
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Pictures
Tom Byrne (RM2, 60-62) is working on uploading photographs to the
site. He has created an index
to make them easy to find.
Please click on “pictures”
at the top of any page. And be
sure to check often to see new photos.
If you have photos that
you would like to contribute, please send them to Tom Byrne.
Tom is temporarily away,
so if you want to contribute photos, you may send them to Pat
Siler.
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Veterans
Information
We have created a Veterans’ Information page. It includes information of interest
and useful to veterans.
RAO Bulletins, which are 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 Web site is maintained by Pat Siler, wife of James W. “Bill” Siler, Jr.
(BT3, 62-64). Pat also
compiles the USS Henry W. Tucker
Newsletter. Please email Pat with any information for the website or
newsletter.
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.
Due to business obligations, Terry had to step down from his position as
webmaster in 2002.
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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Please understand that 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 and is a collection of
their memories.
This
page was updated: 19-Apr-08
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