Benham (DD 796) - Naval Cruise Book

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' . -.S J f- Center of A-Bomb Explosion Nagasaki SASEBO High Dry Sasebo was a port that we looked forward to visiting very much and we were not disappointed as evidenced by its being voted the Number One Cruise Port. The Navy clubs featured fine food and drinks at extremely reasonable rates, but before many liberty hours had passed most men were out on the town discovering new haunts. Sasebo was similar to Yokosuka, but yet, it offered something dif- ferent. Perhaps it was the overnight liberty plus our newly-mastered fluency in Japanese which we had to learn in our first Japonese port. Our ten days stay was not only for liberty however, because there was a dry docking period for our rudder job and much work had to be accomplished to ready us for our return trip. It was also here that our many, veteran Kumshaw ar- tists received their basic training. It was work hard and play hard in a port which we enjoyed very much and the BENHAM steamed out of Sasebo harbor, a smart, clean ship with a happy, but somewhat reluctant crew.

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