ORIGINAL VINTAGE UNITED STATES NAVY CRUISE BOOK FOR THE GUIDED MISSLE CRUISER USS SPRINGFIELD CLG-7 MED DEPLOYMENT 1965-67. PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICER\'S & CREW AS A PERMANENT RECORD OF THE SHIPS ACTIVITIES DURING HER DEPLOYMENT 1965-67. HARD COVERED BOOK MEASURES 9\" X 11\" PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED 179 PAGES WITH PHOTOS OF THE SHIP & CREW MEMBERS. THIS BOOK FEATURES >>> SHIPS HISTORY - COMMANDING OFFICER CAPTAIN JOHN D. H. KANE - EXECUTIVE OFFICER CHARLES GUTHRIE - CREW PHOTOS. ADMINISTRATION - COMMUNICATIONS - DAMAGE CONTROL - DECK - ENGINEERING - EXECUTIVE - GUNNERY - MARINE DETACHMENT - MEDICAL - NAVIGATION - OPERATIONS - SAFETY - SUPPLY AND WEAPONS DEPARTMENTS. CHANGE OF COMMAND DECEMBER 12, 1966 NEW CAPTAIN HERBERT H. RIES - REFUELING AT SEA - CRUISE BOOK STAFF. PORTS VISITED - ITALY - SPAIN - BEIRUT - ISRAEL - TURKEY - GREECE - ENGLAND - FRANCE. THIS IS A DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE SHIPS ACTIVITIES DURING HER DEPLOYMENT 1965-67. BOOK IS IN GOOD PRE-OWNED CONDITION - PLEASE SEE SCANS.
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USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7 & CG-7), 1944-1980
USS Springfield, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in September 1944. She made her shakedown cruise along the U.S. East Coast and in the West Indies then, in late January 1945, helped to escort President Franklin D. Roosevelt part way on his voyage to the Yalta Conference. Shortly afterwards Springfield passed through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. Arriving in the Western Pacific in mid-March, she served with Task Force 58 during air strikes against the Japanese home islands and during the Okinawa campaign. In May 1945 Springfield briefly left the carrier force to use her guns to bombard the island of Minami Daito. During the war\'s final month of raids against targets on Honshu and Hokkaido, the cruiser mainly served with the carriers, but also fired another bombardment and made anti-shipping sweeps.
Following Japan\'s surrender on 2 September 1945, Springfield continued to operate in the China-Korea-Japan area. She left the Far East in early January 1946 and served off the U.S. West Coast for nearly two years, with time out from November 1946 until March 1947 for a cruise through the Central Pacific. Springfield deployed again to Asiatic waters between October 1947 and May 1949. After inactivation preparations, in January 1950 she entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco, California.
In March 1957, Springfield was towed to Quincy, Massachusetts, where she began conversion to a guided-missile cruiser. Redesignated CLG-7 in May 1957, she was recommissioned in July 1960 with her armament and appearance greatly altered. Late in the year the ship crossed the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, where she began a lengthy tour as flagship of the Sixth Fleet. Between mid-1967 and mid-1970 Springfield operated in the Atlantic, generally as Second Fleet flagship. She visited Europe in September-October 1968 for a NATO exercise and several port calls. A final cruise as Sixth Fleet flagship commenced in August 1970 and lasted until September 1973. USS Springfield was decommissioned in mid-1974 and laid up at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Redesignated CG-7 in June 1975, she had no further active service and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register at the end of July 1978. The ship was sold for scrapping in March 1980.
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