[October 1963]
USS Newport News (FHTNC) - Woodford A. Wilcox, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alden Wilcox of Washburn, Maine, is serving aboard the heavy cruiser USS Newport News which recently returned from a Northern European cruise and a NATO naval exercise.
The exercise combined operations of the U. S. and the United Kingdom with that of France and other NATO allies in simulated carrier striked from an aircraft carrier in the Bay of Biscay.
After completing the exercise the cruiser visited Portsmouth, England, Hamburg, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm Sweeden, and Oslo, Norway.