Comstock (LSD 45 LSD 19) - Naval Cruise Book

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ASSAULT BOAT PARTY

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pearl harbor kwajalein subic bav Cruise Highlights When a sailor leaves Point Loma behind, he does so with mixed emotions. There is the thought of leaving behind his family, his friends, his established way of life. Balancing this is the adventure of sailing to foreign lands, of shop- ping tours in storybook places, of facing the unknown. And so it was on April 16, 1959, aboard the Comstock when, in company with most of Trans- Ron One, she departed San Diego for a seven- month deployment as a unit of the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. This cruise book has as its purpose not only to set down in pictures a few of the highlights of the cruise, but also to jog the memory of many other pleasant experiences that might otherwise be forgotten. For instance, the scenes of heavy seas remind us of the landlubbers who earned their sea legs kaohsiung hong kong