Support for the Fleet: U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy Service Force Ships That Served in Vietnam, 1965-1973 - Paperbackby David Bruhn (Author) During the Vietnam War, 136 U. S. Navy and three Royal Australian Navy Service Force ships served in Vietnam. It was not glamorous duty, and the men who toiled aboard the ships received little recognition. It wouldn't make good reading in Des Moines that the warships on the gunline could not fire their guns, or that carriers on Yankee and Dixie stations could not fly airstrikes against the enemy. Were it not for the sweat,