Examination and evaluation of the new missile systems were completed by 2 December, following successful trials at the Pacific Missile Range off southern California. Title: USS ENTERPRISE (CVAN-65) Caption: Steams in formation with USS NICHOLAS (DD-419) and USS O'BANNON (DD-450) in the Gulf of Tonkin, 6 March 1968. Chicago launched four RIM-8H Talos-ARM anti-radar homing missiles against North Vietnamese shore-based radar stations in February and March, but no hits were registered. Following an ECM exercise Chicago participated in a competitive missile firing exercise and won a gold Missilery "E" for her Tartar battery. These exercises, including helicopter pad training, simulated missile and torpedo attacks, and other similar drills, continued until 6 September, when the ship got underway for her eighth WestPac tour. Three days later, on 7 November, the cruiser got underway for San Pedro, California. USS CHICAGO served her country for 35 years, 1 month and 20 days, until decommissioned on 1 MAR 1980. By hanging one plane over the side with the crane the crew was still able to launch an SC-1 from the catapult for spotting services. Returning to San Diego on 4 March the ship underwent operational readiness, technical proficiency, boiler, electronics, and nuclear warfare acceptance inspections. Chicago remained with the carriers until 23 August when she departed for Japan. The cruiser monitored all aircraft flying over the gulf, directed friendly CAP, and, despite intense electronic jamming, coordinated fighter escorts during the mid-April B-52 Stratofortress raids against the North Vietnamese. Sailing in rough seas, the ship completed the non-stop voyage on 7 December. Toward this end, Chicago embarked several Mauritian government officials on 21 August for a two-day cruise to Rodrigues Island. Chicago escorted Kitty Hawk (CV-63) to Pearl Harbor, conducting exercises with Jouett (CG-29), Lang (FF-1060), and Wabash (AOR-5) along the way, before steaming on to Subic Bay on 13 June. Gunfire exercises, helicopter operations, unreps, and other drills, including a real man overboard rescue on 28 February, lasted until 4 March, when Chicago moored at Manila. Technical inspections and equipment modifications, interspersed with a visit by a delegation of French officials, lasted until April when the ship conducted interim refresher training in the southern California operating areas. The cruiser remained at San Diego for the remainder of the year. On 12 May 1966, Chicago got underway for her first Vietnam deployment. After arrival on 23 November Chicago received an overhaul at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, before returning to the Far East. During this refit, Chicago received new digital fire control systems, replacing the old analog computers, installed new missile launchers, and expanded her electronics equipment. After stops in Subic Bay and Guam, Chicago responded to a distress call from Knox (DE-1052) on 3 March. New equipment and combat coordination procedures were also implemented, extending the cruiser's operational readiness date to 14 December. A fourth Chicago, a nuclear-powered submarine, remains in service . Underway on 13 July Chicago and her escorts began a month long at sea period, "showing the flag" in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, before arriving at Mombassa, Kenya, on 9 August. August 28 At the _____ in Chicago, police and . USS Chicago,ww2 cruiser,sunk in 1943. Helicopter and underway replenishments were interrupted two days later, when the formation was circled by two Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 "Badgers", but exercises continued until 8 December. Chicago left Subic Bay on 11 January and resumed PIRAZ station until 18 February. Following repairs, Talos and Tartar missile tests at the Okinawa missile range, and picking up a group of midshipmen at Da Nang on 23 May, Chicago conducted another long PIRAZ/SAR tour from 23 May to 1 July. Sailing with an amphibious group the cruiser conducted multi-ship exercises, both before and after Pearl Harbor, and arrived at Yokosuka on 3 May. As the 1970s progressed, CHICAGO continued "standing watch" in the Western Pacific, at times steaming into the Indian Ocean. . With transit complete the next day the ships arrived at Pearl Harbor on 31 May. In company with Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752), the cruiser departed for the Caribbean on 7 May, enroute to the Pacific. In January 1972, CHICAGO fired four RIM-8H . Departing 25 August, the cruiser returned, via Subic Bay, Guam, and Pearl Harbor, to San Diego on 17 September. Knox rescued a Chicago sailor who jumped overboard on 26 February; he thought it would get him discharged. The first Chicago, in service from 1889 to 1928, was part of the Great White Fleet. On her fourth PIRAZ tour, from 25 October to 12 November, the cruiser helped improve these procedures, particularly in the area of joint Air Force-Navy cooperation. Operations with the carriers, including a diversion to the south to avoid a typhoon, continued until 9 August when Rear Admiral Shafroth's bombardment unit returned to Kamaishi. In April, the warship participated in Exercise "Gray Ghost," where the cruiser operated as tactical flagship for the anti-air warfare commander, Rear Admiral E. Zumwaldt. Arriving on station in the Gulf of Tonkin three weeks later, via Yokosuka, Okinawa, and Subic Bay, the ship relieved Belknap (DLG-26), beginning PIRAZ duties on 12 November. After the holidays the cruiser moved to Phattaya Bay, Thailand on 30 December. This PIRAZ station radio call sign was "Red Crown." The first PIRAZ ships were USS Chicago, King, Mahan, and Long Beach. On 17 April Chicago was ordered to proceed to the Sea of Japan, off Korea, for duty with Task Force 71. Sgt. After a midshipmen cruise from Yokosuka to the Philippines in early July, the cruiser began an import period lasting until 2 August. Underway that same day, with Stockham (DD-683) added for anti-submarine screen, the ships joined Rear Admiral Radford's Task Group 38.4 north of the Mariana's on 8 July. After a month long pre-deployment period the cruiser departed 30 May for the cruiser's final cruise to the Western Pacific. After a midshipmen cruise from Yokosuka to the Philippines in early July, the cruiser began an inport period lasting until 2 August. For the Navy's official account . Preliminary acceptance trials were conducted throughout the summer until 2 September, when Chicago officially joined the 1st Fleet as an active unit. After a practice Talos missile shot off Okinawa on 27 August, and a short visit to Keelung, Taiwan, the ship returned to her station on 7 September. After another fleet exercise in July, where Chicago's Talos battery scored a direct hit on a drone at a range of 96 miles, the cruiser spent August conducting official visits to Seattle, Vancouver, and Esquimalt, British Columbia. In June 1971, CAPT McNamara assumed command of guided missile cruiser USS CHICAGO (CG-11) for her fifth Vietnam deployment, serving as PIRAZ (Positive Identification Radar Advisory Zone) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although heavy smoke obscured the target from the cruiser's spotting planes, the combination of pre-plotting the target through photo reconaissance and radar positioning data allowed Chicago's guns to start fires in numerous buildings, several large warehouses, and among nearby oil tanks. Twelve days later, the ship began additional Search and Rescue (SAR) duty in the Gulf. 35) just doing my job as a Radioman working in . The day of May 10, 1972 I was stationed on the USS Chicago (code: Red Crown) that day. In both April and May, Chicago conducted experimental Talos missile tests against surface targets to demonstrate missile versatility. Arriving in Japan on 19 November, the ship visited Yokosuka before departing for home on 27 November. Arriving three days later, after avoiding the third typhoon of the deployment, the ship spent six days in that liberty port. In April and May, Chicago's air intercept controllers directed Navy and Air Force aircraft on CAP missions that were credited with 14 MiGs shot down. The following day Chicago operated as a temporary seaplane carrier when Iowa (BB-61) transferred her SC-1 Seahawk floatplanes to the cruiser. Returning to Subic Bay for two weeks of upkeep, the cruiser sailed for Hong Kong on 22 August. After a week at Apra Harbor, the ship departed on 29 November for San Diego. These responsibilities, improved over the past year, included radar surveillance, coordinating barrier CAP and rescue operations, providing MiG and border warnings, and a wide variety of communication and real-time data sharing services. [5] After a port visit to Hong Kong, where the ship had to avoid a typhoon on 17 July. Following a final PIRAZ cruise from 23 March to 17 April, Chicago departed Subic Bay on 1 May and arrived in San Diego on 15 May, via Guam and Pearl Harbor. Arriving on station on 3 October, Chicago conducted PIRAZ and search coordination duties with evasive maneuvering to avoid super typhoons Joan and Kate between 14 and 26 October. Local operations continued in the spring, including more missile evaluation tests through February 1966. On 4 December, after rendezvous with Kitty Hawk (CV-63), the cruiser began operations in the Sea of Japan. USS Chicago was a Northampton class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that served in the Pacific Theater in the early years of World War II. Please note that most of our records exist in paper format only, and not everything has been digitized. On 1 November 1958 Chicago was reclassified CG-11 and towed to San Francisco Naval Shipyard to begin a five-year conversion to a guided missile cruiser. In 1966 CHICAGO began a series of five WestPac-Vietnam deployments. This, and later tests, examined guidance improvements and experimented with missile replenishment at sea. At the bottom of every email sent by HullNumber is an UNSUBSCRIBE link. Triple torpedo tubes, two ASROC launchers, two 5-inch/38 guns, and two antisubmarine helicopters rounded out the cruisers modifications. The cruiser was also awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for Vietnam Service, the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy, and her seventh consecutive "E" for excellence in missilery. During this refit Chicago received new digital fire control systems, replacing the old analog computers, installed new missile launchers, and expanded her electronics equipment. After a visit to Vancouver the following week, Chicago returned to San Diego to begin overhaul preparations. The destroyer, suffering a loss of power due to a fire in engineering, was taken under tow until a fleet tug arrived at the scene from Pearl Harbor. In mid-June, the cruiser began Talos fire control developmental testing with the Naval Electronics Laboratory. On 5 March, during exercises off southern California, the cruiser also earned her eleventh consecutive Missile "E". Communications security, nuclear safety, and operational readiness inspections, as well as final engineering checks, were completed by the end of August. Another MIG was credited to Chicago's score when the cruiser's aft Talos battery scored a long-range kill on 9 May. Repainted and rewired, Chicago spent the remainder of the year conducting inspections, and the usual machinery and electronics sea trials. A PIRAZ station was established in the westernmost portion of the Gulf of Tonkin where air search radar coverage might extend over North Vietnam and the air-strike routes from Yankee station. That operation, exercise "Valiant Heritage", took place from 211 March with forces from Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States. From: Commanding Officer, USS BIDDLE (DLG-34) To: Director of Naval History (OP-09B9), Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D .C. On 14 July, in company with fast battleships South Dakota (BB-57), Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59), command ship Quincy (CA-71), and nine destroyers of Rear Admiral Shafroth's bombardment unit, Chicago closed northern Honshu to bombard the Kamaishi industrial area. In 1966 CHICAGO began a series of five WestPac-Vietnam deployments. The cruiser underwent ten days of upkeep and type training at Subic Bay before assuming duties as PIRAZ ship on 11 March. On 4 January 1965 the cruiser shifted to Long Beach to begin a series of shock tests off San Clemente Island. After Pacific war and occupation duty, she was placed in reserve in 1947. The scale of U.S. air operations increased dramatically as strike and interdiction missions, designed to restrict the movement of men and supplies, were conducted throughout North Vietnam. USS Anchorage (LSD-36) transported troops and supplies into Qui Nhon Bay during June 1970 and January 1972 USS Antelope (PG-86) [Patrol Gunboat] - vessels with this designation are associated with operating primarily or exclusively on Vietnam's inland waterways. The escort was straddled and hit by 5" shell fire, began smoking, and retired into the harbor. After arival on 23 November Chicago received an overhaul at the San Pedro Naval Shipyard, before returning to the Far East. During fleet exercise Hot Stove in August-September, Chicago practiced anti-air and ASW operations, including firing ASROC and tube-launched torpedoes against submerged "enemy" submarines. Added to the anti-aircraft screen, Chicago guarded the Task Group's carriers as they conducted air strikes against the Tokyo Plains area, Honshu, Japan, on 10 July. To avoid exposing F . Known as PIRAZ, for "positive identification and radar advisory zone,"[4] the initial duties of tracking friendly aircraft was expanded to include Air Force planes, controlling barrier combat air patrols, advising support aircraft, and coordinating strike information with the Air Force reporting center at Da Nang, South Vietnam. On her fourth PIRAZ tour, from 25 October to 12 November, the cruiser helped improve these procedures, particularly in the area of joint Air Force-Navy cooperation. Technical inspections and equipment modifications, interspersed with a visit by a delegation of French officials, lasted until April when the ship conducted interim refresher training in the southern California operating areas. The cruiser also directed friendly fighters against North Vietnamese aircraft. USS Chicago,ww2 cruiser,sunk in 1943. Vietnam war was 1965-1975. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. Stopping at Guam on 1 October, to refuel, and Pearl Harbor on 9 October, for a dependents cruise, the ship finally returned to San Diego on 16 October. Chicago then departed the area for San Francisco for alterations, receiving upgraded Tartar missile systems and improved electronics. Launched on 20 August 1944 she was sponsored by Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, wife of the Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 10 January 1945, Captain Richard R. Hartung, USN, in command. All Rights Reserved. USS Chicago (CG-11) [Guided Missile Cruiser] while anchored in Da Nang Harbor on May 22, 1969, deck logs show a utility boat went ashore for one hour with 8 . Towed to the Inactive Ship Facility at Bremerton, Washington, the ship was held in reserve until 8 February 1989. After departing Pearl Harbor on 18 October, the warship assisted in vectoring aircraft to the site of a Navy F-8 Crusader crash site, successfully rescuing the pilot. After returning to San Diego on 7 April the ship remained in upkeep status until 24 July 1978 when the cruiser moved to Long Beach to start a regular overhaul. USS Chicago (CA-136/ CG-11) was a Baltimore class heavy cruiser that entered service just in time to take part in the final bombardment of Japan during the Second World War, and that was later converted into a guided-missile cruiser. On her second PIRAZ tour, from 29 July to 11 August, Chicago assumed the duties of anti-air warfare commander for short periods of time and demonstrated the ability of a CG to track complex air operations. Following two other line periods, the second ending on 18 February 1971, the ship began the return voyage to San Diego. Escort duties for Kitty Hawk continued through September when, on 6 October, she sailed for Australia. Underway that same day, with the destroyer Stockham, added for anti-submarine screen, the ships joined Rear Admiral Radford's Task Group 38.4 north of the Mariana Islands on 8 July. Chicago, still serving as flagship for Commander First Fleet, began the new year quietly, with team training at the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare school in San Diego. U.S. Navy. Picking up her helicopter detachment the cruiser departed the next day for duty with Task Force 77 on . Home Join Now About Hullnumber Before You Register Tell A Shipmate FAQs Related Links Contact Us. Following a visit to Hong Kong in early October, the cruiser spent the next month conducting training and fleet exercises in the Philippines area until getting underway for Guam on 17 November. I'm far from a hero, and I was very distant from any of the radio relays to those fighting aircraft on that day. Chicago's forward Talos battery downed a MiG at long-range during the mining of Hai Phong harbor on 9 May. Rejoining the Task Group five hours later Chicago once again screened the carriers as they launched air strikes against the Tokyo-Nagoya area. The second Chicago, in service from 1931 to 1945, was sunk in Guadalcanal. Chicago departed Yokosuka on 17 November and resumed PIRAZ station from 20 November to 19 December. Chicago remained with the carriers until 23 August, when she departed for Japan. 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