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[Click here] for more details about this mission.

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Click on any picture to the left of the text and and you will see a larger version. On the left side of each page are links to the six photo groupings on this site. The best place to begin is with the pictures I took while we were On Station. The other sections are: Panama Canal Transits At Sea Shore Leave in the Azores San Diego Homecoming Misc. Apache Photos

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The section of this site under the At Sea link on the left side of each page, will give you a little idea of what it was like on the U.S. Navy's longest tow.

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The Shore Leave in the Azores section is a collection of photos taken during our two stops at the port of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Having the opportunity to see this beautiful land made the long cruise seem even more worth while to a sea-tired crew.

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The photo section labeled "Panama Canal Transits" via the link on the left side of each page, will give you a little idea of what it was like to be on the Apache as it towed White Sands through the Panama Canal . . . twice!

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The San Diego Homecoming section has a few shots of our arrival back home as well as some group photos of Apache's crew.

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The Misc. Apache Photos section has a couple of pictures that didn't fit anywhere else.

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Our unit "patch", although I don't think I ever saw an actual patch of this drawing.

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On the day Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon, three Trieste pilots were on the bottom of the Atlantic. I guess our motto sums it all up.

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This is as pretty an ocean-going tug as I ever expect to see.

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The USS Apache (ATF-67), namesake for the Apache class of fleet tugs.

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This old photo just showed up in my email one day. Allegedly, either the picture was taken from the Apache, or she is one of those ships in the distance.

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She was a pretty little tug, wasn't she?

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Someone (???, but thanks!) sent this picture of the Apache's ribbons. I'm not sure when this was taken.

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This is a picture I took of the ill-fated Sea Lab station floating on the surface near San Clemente Island off the coast of California. While Apache was on station for the Scorpion Phase II Operation in the Atlantic, a Sea Lab diver accidentally drowned, and the experiment was cancelled not long afterwards.

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Another view of Sea Lab on the surface near San Clamente Island in 1968.

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The Apache and Cree tied up in San Diego?

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USS Apache (ATF-67) tows the USS White Sands (ARD-20) into the Panama Canal Zone in 1969.

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Heading "downhill" on our way home to San Diego.

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Dave Haugland and Chief Allen and part of the Engineering Department. Our snipes were real magicians at keeping old machinery operating.

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Dick Hill and his Supply Division. Without these guys there would have been a mutiny for sure . . . truly the unsung heroes of the cruise.

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The "official" Apache photographers.

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Chief Homme and part of his snipe gang.

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This is Apache's Deck Division . . . "as tough a bunch of sailors as this man's navy has ever seen."

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This is the Ops Dept. Chief Houston is looking pretty good, but take a look at the body language ofLTJG Wadsworth and some of the crew. This cruise has dragged on long enough (no pun intended).

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