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...fenders-rubber tubes and rope mats to cushion impact-and began backing toward Pueblo's bow that Bucher realized what was happening; in the bow of the PT boat stood an armed boarding party. "These guys are serious," the skipper radioed his home port, U.S. Navy headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. "They mean business...
...Pueblo radioed Yokosuka that the North Koreans were aboard. Twenty-five minutes later, she reported that she had been "requested" to steam into Wonsan, a deep-draft port used by many Soviet submariners in preference to Vladivostok, where the continental shelf forces them to cruise uncomfortably close to the surface. At 2:32 p.m., barely 2½ hours after the first Communist PT boat hove into view, came Pueblo's last message. Engines were "all stop," Bucher reported; he was "going...
From the time the boarding seemed imminent until the final message, Pueblo's communications were relayed simultaneously from Yokosuka through several command tiers to the office of the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) in Honolulu and all the way to Washington. Yet there were some unaccountable lapses. At Yokosuka, Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson got the messages quickly enough, but he knew that there were no naval aircraft available to help Pueblo. He turned at once to the Air Force's Lieut. General Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief...
...flag in the Sea of Japan. En route at the time to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin after a stop in southern Japan, the carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog, a gadget-crammed spy ship of the same genre as Pueblo...
...fighting men, is dispatching to Viet Nam 3,000 civilian plumbers, carpenters, welders and crane operators who will work for U.S. companies and earn ten times what they would have at home. As a result, 12,000 applicants turned up when the jobs were advertised. In Japan, the Yokosuka naval shipyard is jammed with U.S. Navy repair orders, and work is being let out to civilian yards. Both Taiwanese and Japanese plants are repairing U.S. and Vietnamese planes. On Okinawa, because of the supply depot, 1,000 civilian jobs have opened up, and there is a sudden demand for domestic...