Peacetime Operations
Following this war Calvert remained on active service with the fleet, alternating west coast operations with cruises to the western Pacific, continuing through 1960.
During this service she took part in the Passage to Freedom operation in the summer of 1954 when she lifted over 6,000 Indochinese civilians from Communist-surrounded Haiphong to southern Vietnam.
Between 1954 and 1957 she served as the flagship for Comphibron 5, and made two cruises to the far east, including troop training landings on Iwo Jima and in the Philippines. Ports of call included Yokosuka, Nagoya, Shimoda, Kobe, Nagasaki, Sasebo, and Kure, Japan, Okinawa, Subic Bay, Manila, Hong Kong and Pearl Harbor.
In 1958 during the Middle East crisis and Lebanon landings by the 6th Fleet, Calvert, combat-loaded, stood ready with the 7th Fleet, alert for any extension of trouble in the Pacific.
In 1961 Calvert underwent major overhaul at the Naval Shipyards in Bremmerton Washington. She received upgrades to her Sonar and Radar as well as diesel generators and boiler replacement. Her hull was blasted and repainted making Calvert battle ready for assignment with Conphibron 5, and 7th Fleet assignment in the Pacific Vietnam conflict.
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