Summerhill Gallery

— Courtesy of Rob Summerhill

1200 rounds in one long day.
5"/54 EP2 Control Panel.
And the band played on...
Around the World card.
Arrive in Newport, Rhode Island.
As we come into Cuba.
Back in homeport.
Base at Subic Bay - R&R from Vietnam.
Basic Point Defense Missile System (BPDMS)
Beating the USS Dewey.
Bird Away!
Captain Klee on the gun line off Vietnam.
Captain Robert E. Klee watches the ship being towed.
Chasing a Russion sub in rough seas.
Club Pin.
DIW Again! Bad spring bearing before a Force 5 gale.
Drag racing the USS Dewey.
Drydock after hitting the whale.
Drydock in Boston Naval Shipyard - 1971.
Easy does it!
GMG1 Douglas S. Goeters (Gaters).
Finally warm enough for the new type whites.
First ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) fired in Cuba.
Failed spring bearing.
Failed spring bearing - Mayday!
Failed spring bearing - towed home.
FTG2 Rod "The Man" Knuth in the NEW CSI68 Gun Fire Director.
Family members onboard before Vietnam.
GMG1 Smitty Smith at the EP2 Panel Mt51 after the tank.
GMG2 Benisch at the EP2 on the gun line.
Group attacks Quang Tri, Vietnam.
GMG3 Summerhill - Ammo UNREP - CVA63.
GMG3 Summerhill lounges in OLD weps berthing.
GMG3 Summerhill readies an M60.
GMGC Morris.
GMGSN Hiciler - Ammo UNREP - CVA63.
Go fly a kite - They did too!
GMG2 George Benisch catching some rays.
Head on view - Newport, 1971.
Home with Honor - New York, NY.
LAMPS goes to war.
Inport at Subic Bay, Phillipines.
International Dateline Card.
I think I can!
Key fob view #1.
Key fob view #2.
Inport in Newport, Rhode Island.
Last sunset in Newport.
Letter to GMG3 Summerhill.
Letter to GMG3 Summerhill.
Letter to GMG3 Summerhill's mother.
Letter to GMG3 Summerhill's mother.
Loaded at last.
Loading the BPDMS Launcher.
Looks calm. It wasn't.
Medal given by New Yorkers.
Mine exercise with M60's.
Mount 51 logo - Vietnam '72.
Mount 51 - New paint job.
Mount 51 tracking a high flyer.
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Mount 51 lets one loose.
Swabbing out the 5-inch powder burns.
Plank Owner's Card - Front.
Plank Owner's Card - Back.
Required Reading - PQS - for Weps Div.
Rough seas in the North Atlantic.
Stand By to Stand By.
Summerhill & Benisch waiting for UNREP.
The book Captain Buell wrote.
Tug alongside.
Underway!
Under the bridge, Newport, 1971.
UNREP-Mail!.
UNREP-Oops!.
UNREP-Trickie Dickie.
UNREP-On the way to Vietnam.
U.S Naval Ship Repair Facility - Subic Bay, Philippines.
VERTREP - Vertical Replenishment.
VERTREP - Vertical Replenishment.
VERTREP - Vertical Replenishment.
Waiting to refuel - Dewey - Davis - to Vietnam.
We chased the sub for days.
We get our first bird.
We got hit hard.
Which is it, in or out?
Wrong end of the Mark 42, Mod 9 RFG.
XO and CO on the signal bridge.
Zippo lighter from the ship.