Navigation Bridge and CO Chair
The helmsman was in the pilothouse to the right of the photo. The officer of the deack ran the ship from this space. In the background is the chair reserved for the Comanding Officer.
USS Turner Joy, a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington. This Forrest Sherman class destroyer was commissioned in 1959, saw war service in Vietnam, and has been at this location as a museum ship since 1991. Her claim to fame is her participation, with the USS Maddox (DD 731), in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which the President Johnson administration staged in 1964 to justify a greatly expanded US participation in the ongoing war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
Navigation Bridge and CO Chair
The helmsman was in the pilothouse to the right of the photo. The officer of the deack ran the ship from this space. In the background is the chair reserved for the Comanding Officer.
USS Turner Joy, a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington. This Forrest Sherman class destroyer was commissioned in 1959, saw war service in Vietnam, and has been at this location as a museum ship since 1991. Her claim to fame is her participation, with the USS Maddox (DD 731), in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which the President Johnson administration staged in 1964 to justify a greatly expanded US participation in the ongoing war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.