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Show Moab Sailor On Victorious Combat Ship May 24 Navy Petty Officer Of-ficer Second Class John J. Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Simpson of Moab, Utah, is a crewmem-ber crewmem-ber of the missile-armed frigate USS Sterett, which downed an enemy MIG-17 with a Terrier guided missile. mis-sile. The Sterett was one of four ships composing a Navy Task Force Unit supporting operations off the Coast of North Vietnam at the time the MIG downing marked the first kill by a Terrier missile fired at a hostle target tar-get missile fired at a hostile target and probably the first time a Navy Task Unit successfully suc-cessfully defended itself against enemy jet aircraft. |