![]() There were other landings made by the Outagamie County in Vietnam, but they were only numbers on the map. Operating on the West Coast until departing San Diego on 1 November 1968, the veteran landing ship returned to the war zone late in the year and supported allied operations until arriving at Guam on 18 April 1969.įrom 1969 until 1971 the Outagamie County made numerous trips to Da Nang, Chu Lai, Cua Viet, An Thoi, and Ha Tien, South Vietnam. For the next four months she shuttled troops and supplies between Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, and returned to San Diego 21 December. Outagamie County departed from San Diego 9 June 1967 and steamed via Subic Bay to Vietnam, arriving at Saigon on 26 July. The rest of 1966 and the first half of 1967 was spent operating off the West Coast of the United States. ![]() The ship returned to San Diego 9 September. After an upkeep period at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, the ship returned to her coastal shuttle runs. In late January 1966 Outagamie County arrived at Da Nang, South Vietnam to begin nine weeks of intra-coastal logistic operations. ![]() During a four month tour to Adak, Alaska, in mid 1965, the ship aided a large freighter, Liberian ship Hadjitsakas, which had run aground on a small island in the Aleutians. In March 1964 Outagamie County transported troops between Oahu and training areas on Hawaii itself. In early 1963 she conducted oceanographic survey operations in mid-Pacific. ![]()
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