Barbour County (LST 1195) - Naval Cruise Book

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ETH I The three week non-stop retum transit to San Diego found the ship much cleaner and a little less disorderly without the Ma- rines aboard. And to make the ship even MORE presentable upon our return, we did some repainting. All 2nd deck pass- ageways, and other areas of the ship that hadn't been touched since the commissioning were given a long-needed face lift. The ship's paint-out was completed in nine days ialtogether a pretty good speed for non-professionalsll. ,. ' f -fx 2 M 1' ,I X f f I 1 zcpgi ,V 6 ffff ,f . K , ,WW t ,ff , 7 . L vw to ,, k f M 7 X M 1

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