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the Stoddards efforts were concentrated on the South China
Sea-Taiwan Strait area because that was the major trouble spot for the United
States in the Western Pacific. Although in 1961, the Laotian crisis brought her
to the Southeast Asia area, where she would soon concentrate all her efforts
before the Vietnam conflict. |
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Refit in Long Beach, California August 1961.
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