Making it rain during Market Time

Some 60 years ago today, just some Market Time surface action. The Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Mansfield (DD-728) fires her 5″/38 guns at waterborne craft off North Vietnam, north of the DMZ, 25 October 66. Photographed by PH1 V.O. McColley, November 25, 1966. USN photo 428-GX-K-35025. From the report of her 1966 Vietnam Westpac cruise. She would revisit Vietnam for two additional tours, chalking up an amazing 1,727 NGFS missions according to CONGA, while taking a hit by a North Vietnamese shore battery off Tiger Island, north of the DMZ, in 1967, suffering 20 casualties. USS Mansfield (DD-728) Underway at sea, circa 1960-1963, after her FRAM II modernization. Taken by USS Ranger (CVA-61), this photograph was received in July 1963. NH 107137 Decommissioned 4 February 1971 after a 28-year career, she was sold to Argentina in 1974 to keep that country’s surplus Navy tin cans in service for another decade. Mansfield earned five battle stars for World War II service, three for…