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Show Sailor returns from Far East Aviation Ordanceman Airman Air-man Peter B. Wilcox, USN, son of Mr. Henry Wilcox, Jr., of 385 No. Fourth East, Spring-ville, Spring-ville, returned to Long Beach, California, December 16, aboard the anti-submarine warfare aircraft air-craft carrier USS Kearsarge, after completing a six month development in the Far East While with the Seventh Fleet the Kearsage had the mission of providing ant i-submarine protection for units of the fleet following the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Operating as the hub of the anti-submarine "Hunter-Killer" group the Kearsage controlled the movements of other surface units in addition to those of sub-surface and air units in the groups mission of finding and destroying enemy submarines. |