Belle Grove (LSD 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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RLTO OKINAWA ■ feis Steaming independently enroute from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to Buckner Bay, Okinawa Ryukyup Islands in accordance with COMPHIBPAC movement order 1-60 as modified by COM PHIBRON SEVEN message 22 2247Z of February 1960, on course 274°T. The ship settles into a routine that includes such activities as watch standing, boxing, loafing about the decks with a guitar or deck of cards... and watching such outstanding flicks as THE GIANT SPIDERS or THE GIANT CLAW . . . watches are relieved, chow is served, hair is cut, and the Belle steams on with only a few strav birds to break the monotony of sky and water.

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ME WORRY? ROPE YARN SUNDAY MAHAN CARVING HIS BOSS