Landing Ship, Tank
On 23 August 1958. USS "Douglas A. Munro", along with was tasked with escorting two Chinese Nationalist LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) into the beaches at Quemoy and Matsu to assist in evacuating refugees from those islands, while under Communist Chinese artillery shelling. Several years later the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was created and awarded to members of the ships involved in the action.