Bataan (CVL 29) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Third Far East Cruise Goodbye San Diego After a short two-month period In the States, the BATAAN was recalled to duty in the For East. On the 28th of October 1952, her lines left the docks of NAS, San Diego, California, bound for the island of Okinawa, by way of Pearl Harbor. After resting for two days at Pearl Harbor and sweating out a tidal wave, she got underway again, pointing her nose toward Okinawa. She arrived there on 16 Novem- ber and relieved ' the USS SICILY. Embarked in BATAAN were ComCarDiv 15 and VS-871. As Rear Admiral M. E. ARNOLD ' S flagship she began anti-submarine warfare exercises between Okinawa and Yokosuka, Japan. A large variety of exer- cises were conducted during this operating period. Work- ing under a vigorous train- ing program, personnel. Hello Yokosuka

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Our Home for Three Months equipment, planes, and ships attained a high degree of coordination in the im- portant phases of AWS op- erations. The ships worked with a screen, sometimes as many as eight destroyers, against two submarines em- ploying all the recent tricks of non-detection. The BATAAN operated in this manner for approximately three months and then transferred ComCarDiv 15 to the BAIROKO in Buckner Bay. She then proceeded to Yokosuka, Japan, where she disembarked VS-871 and embarked the famed Marine Checkerboard Squadron, VMA-312, on 9 February. A brief visit to her favorite buoy (18) in Sasebo and she was headed once again to a job that needed her, the war against Communism. The BATAAN relieved the HMS GLORY as CTU 95,1 on 1 5 February. The true symbol of the United Nations was again brought to light as the The Gateway to a Good Time