Robert C. Huber
FTG3 1966 - 1968

1965-Early November: Gemini VII surface recovery ship near Hawaii
1965-Dec 1: Left Pearl Harbor for WestPac
1966-February: Bataan
1966-February: Manila
1966- Sasebo, Japan - Kaoshsiung, Taiwan - Da Nang, Vietnam
We moored in Da Nang bay alongside the Hospital Ship Repose, they wouldn't let us go ashore. - and of course, Subic Bay, PI

View Roberts Memorium to his fathers friend: http://www.desausa.org/u_505_capture.htm
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Gemini Recovery Program
We were posted outside the target area in case they missed. Iwas a volunteer swimmer and got some training in a Pearl Harbor swimming pool to learn how to attach the flotation collar around the craft just in case. We also had a doctor put on board for the mission. The ship rehearsed picking a dummy capsule out of the water. There are some pictures in the cruise album of this. I'm sure it was a carrier that got the capsule. The Cochrane and Renshaw were the two destroyers who along with us formed our recovery group.

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