Hunt Co., TX - Joseph C. Burns Aboard Ocean Minesweeper
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Joseph C. Burns Aboard Ocean Minesweeper Pluck
    Joseph C. Burns, ship fitter second class, USN, of Celeste, serving aboard
the ocean minesweeper USS Pluck, took part in an amphibious exercise on the
beaches of Camp Pendleton, California, May 4-13, 1960.
    The exercise, nicknamed "Operation Big Top," involved over 15,000 Marine
and Navy personnel, and was designed to test new equipment and tactics, as well
as to train personnel in the many facets of amphibious warfare.
    Highlight of the operation was a night amphibious assault by the twenty
Navy ships and sixty Marine helicopters of "Big Top" task force.  (May 20,
1960, The Celeste Courier)