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Aga This was Annie's third trip out of Frisco. It was-scheduled to be a short one, transporting 2,000rsailors to the Philippines: then a quick trip to Manus Island below the Equator and back to Frisco! Our first interruption came at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. Since no facilities to house 2,000 sailors were available we remained, by request, thirty days 'until relieved by another vessel. Then our hopes rose. lt was the first week in August when loaded with 1,500 soldiers and sailors-and 5 Navy nurses-bound for the States we pointed our bow toward Manus to unload a cargo of supplies and precious mail. lt was a beautiful trip spiced with the hilarious ceremony of King Neptune-dousing, electrifying, oiling, immersing and whacking the poor Pollywogs, among whom most of us were one. We arrived at Manus the second week of August and the air was filled with the ex- citing news of surrender negotiations. We hoped it would be true but kept the cautious reserve of military folk. But then it broke full' upon our tired souls! The war in the Pacific was at an end! The next day saw us walk humbly and grate- fully into the large white chapel of the Admiralties and join our prayers with more than a thousand men-Catholics and Protestants and Jews, black and white, American and British. It was good to be at peace once more with God and man! ' We returned to our ship different men than the day before. Every outlook was somehow altered. Now we could release our cramped spirits from the hidden fear of death and disease, and air once again the anticipation of home, loved ones and civilian plans and pleasures. One could feel the change. Everyone was talking rapidly: stepping ,a little more brightly, waiting a little more eagerly to turn the ship toward Frisco! Toward home! , , Two days later we cast off our lines to sail. We were clear of the pier and everyone was on the weatherdecks, eyes forward-straining as if to see the welcome sights beyond the horizon. Then the storm broke! It jarred the entire ship hitting the Captain first and then flew with the speed of an atomic charge from amidships to bow to stern-from the bridge to the deepest engineroom spaces. 0 Redock at once! ' I Just three little words. But it was to mean a tremendous change in the plans and attitudes of all aboard. Rumors flew with the speed of light as the great ship turned almost lugubrously in a large slow circle back to the pier and came to rest again. Then the second blow! til
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