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YOKOSUKA, Japan (CNFJ)—Three U.S. Pacific Fleet ships left Yokosuka, Japan and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Wednesday to assume stations for the third manned Gemini space mission.The ships, along with 16 aircraft and about 2,000 Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard personnel, make up Task Force 130, the Defense Department’s Pacific recovery force, which will stand by to pick up astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad in the event a Pacific recovery is implemented.Joining the task force from Yokosuka for the western Pacific recovery zone is the destroyer George K. MacKcnzie, commanded by Cdr. George E. Barton of Cleveland.Another Yokosuka-based destroyer, the Leonard F. Mason, is scheduled to relieve the Mackenzie during the mission. Mason is commanded by Cdr. Ralph E. Graham of Oldham, S.D.Capl. Raymond E. Davis, also of Cleveland, is aboard the Mackenzie as officer-in-charge of the western Pacific recovery group.Ships which left Pearl Harbor include the destroyer Golds bor-ough and the fleet oiler Chipola.They will assume stations in the middle Pacific secondary landing zone about 450 miles northwest of Honolulu.In addition to the Navy ships,Air Force Air-Rescue Service aircraft are deployed „at staging! ^T6! bases across the Pacific, from Hickam AFB, Hawaii to Perth, ,Australia.andTask Force 130 is commanded i is ter by Rear Adra. Henry S. Persons, • stam who is directing operations from | the Pacific recovery control cen-; stud-ter near Pearl Harbor. j ry gThe task force is part of the j with Department of Defense’s worldwide Gemini mission support force of about 10,000 military personnel,28 ships and 135 aircraft, which will stand by throughout the planned eight-day flight.Task Force 130’s counterpart in the Atlantic is Task Force 140, under command of Rear Adm.Ben. W. Sarber.The entire recovery force is commanded by Lt. Gen. Leighton I. Davis, U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department manager for manned space flight support operations.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Fri, Aug 20, 1965
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