The document available for download below is a draft of the historical details of the USS Calvert and crew for the period 1955 to 1959. The 34-page document (a .pdf file) may be viewed or downloaded here:
USS Calvert Historical Research Notes for the period January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1959.
It includes details on the following events and activities:
- 1955 Far East Cruise – March 1955 to September 1955
- 1956 Far East Cruise – August 1956 to April 1957
- Including details on Operation Tradewinds, Hawaii, and filming of sequences for the movie South Pacific
- 1958 Far East Cruse – June 1958 to December 1958
- A series of combined Navy-Marine beach landings and helicopter landing exercises during 1959 in Southern California and Hawaii, used to develop and test new techniques for joint Navy and Marine amphibious assaults.
Please leave comments below or email me directly if you have any corrections, questions, or details you would like to share.
This document represents a “working draft” and as such there may be formatting issues, grammatical errors, as well as historical inaccuracies, incomplete or conflicting details.
Document version history as follows:
- v2020.05.22 – Rough draft, first published.
- v2023.10.01 – Several updates, including photographs and maps. Daily history added for November and December, 1959.