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USS Phoebe and Operation Market Time

What the surviving official record can establish about the ship’s place in a larger coastal surveillance operation.

USS Phoebe and Operation Market Time: What the surviving official record can establish about the ship’s place in a larger coastal surveillance operation.

A locally produced interpretive image for this research route. It is not presented as a documentary photograph of USS Phoebe.

The operation was a system

Operation Market Time is best understood as a coordinated coastal surveillance effort, not a single kind of patrol. Different platforms occupied different roles and distances. The operation-wide framework supplies context, while the ship-specific record must carry the claim about Phoebe itself.

A ship presence needs a source

The July 1966 highlights provide a contemporary operational reference for Phoebe among Market Time forces. That is stronger than an undated caption, but it still does not prove every movement or action later associated with the ship.

Read the page beside the study

The official study explains organization, phases and the underlying source trail. Placing it beside the contemporary highlights lets a reader move between the operation as a system and the ship as one documented participant.

Source note. This page separates documented history, archival observation and editorial explanation. Where a source does not establish a detail, the detail is left open.

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