Dixie (AD 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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P ARL HARBOR - HAWAII The legendary Pearl Harbor of the island of Oahu, state of Hawaii, is the last stop for a 7th Fleet ship before the Orient. To the left of Honolulu Harbor is the entrance to Pearl Harbor. As the ship enters Pearl Harbor there is Diamond Head on the right with Waikiki Beach along the coast line and to the left is Barber's Point. All hands keep a sharp eye peeled for the Battleship Arizona Memorial off the tip of Ford Island. Just being in this historic spot brings rec- ollections ofthe fighting heritage of the Navy back home to all the old hands and gives the newest boots a new idea of what it means to be a sailor. Once liberty call is piped there are numerous opportunities for exploration of the city of Honolulu and surrounding cities and country side. Although, on this deployment, the ship stayed at Pearl Harbor only two days, everyone had an opportunity to see the view from Diamond Head or make the circuit of night clubs in the evening. It was noted the next day that many of the men had their first taste of Pacific sunburn. The area near Pearl Harbor has some of the finest beaches in the world. The morning the ship takes in all lines and leaves the pier for WestPac, every man makes a promise to himself to try to return to this easy going and scenic group of islands. The Battleship Arizona Memorial off the tip of Ford Island . . . .A ......-- -..,....-.........,-.r-X Q... .1 . .,..-.. - -, .f .-.., D... ........x,v+ .W .N A- -vc .1-sv v . . ......,.,...-v..,, ,fr 4--.11-,ew . -v S VW- I - , . . .Y - . .. fy- H., MA.. -...K Q , 0,-F .. .. .. . - -. . ...M .. .....f.A.--1 - - -'- . - - . ., .A MWA-WV.--.W-f-I--W--' -'M-U 1 fr- -: r:'M ':z:.,:: :,.-f.:. : Nr, ,.:. W' f'- 1 ,U .....g4w....f-if.-i-iw'4-A1-1 'H T -if 'ii ' '. gn., , .-,M-, f--ff.-:sr - .fzfyq-f-fe -.- : bf5f3-...Zff'i?1 .!....JL?.....R.,..,,-...,,:... .... -.., -me:-gp,-1113i .:xv.f1-A-::: .c.a:..gd..c.:. .vs--...M.i4x..-..:,c.1e i'LL f1-?1G f?z 1 1. -F f f V-1' . 1 I'

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YOKOSUKA-JAPAN A ship steaming up Tokyo Bay can put into the Western shore about 50 miles south of Tokyo and moor. or tie up at Yokosuka Naval Base, formerly the head- quarters of the Japanese Yokosuka Naval Dlstrlct and now the U S Navy s malor bose In Japan This IS the home of the Shnp Repair Faclllty In thus area, the U S Naval Hospital, which can handle about four and a half thousand men at a tlme, and numerous other Naval enterprises lncludlng speclal services recreation faculntles and dependent areas The vlew from the harbor reveals, most conspicuously, glant movable cranes runnlng on railroad tracks that are used to meet almost all heavy llftlng re qulrements In the repair of Nav vessels, the vast uantlty of U S men of war tued up to the piers and behlnd the base the tops oft e bulldlngs of the clty of Yokosuka Itself The clty IS dominated by forested hulls that convey, ln con lunctuon with the sea shore, that mood of antlqulty and delncacy that as pecullar to Japanese landscapes In 1865 the Japanese hlred a Frenchman named Verny to plan and execute the construction of thus now great base, at the slte of an out of the way flshlng vlllage By T876 It had two dry docks and a second class cruiser had been bullt there At the turn of the century the base was extended three ml les to the nelgh boring town of Taura During WWII the giant Japanese alrcraft carrier SHINANO 70 O00 tonsl was bullt here The base Itself was bombed only once, In l942 by some of Doolittle s Raiders who wlped out a dry dock and a seaplane tender After the war, with the landing of some 20 OOO Brltlsh and American sailors, the harbor and base were prepared for future use by the Occupation Forces At the outbreak of the Korean War the hospltal was renovated, the ship repalr facullty was act: vated and the Naval Supply Depot expanded nts work load and volume to approach the complexity that thus base now dlsplays The clty of Yokosuka offers much to off duty sallors such as slght seeing and souvenir huntlng and It IS also the starting polnt for trlps to the glant Dalbutsu Buddha? shrme at Kamakura, the scenic volcanlc region of Hakone Park and the ancient Feudal Castle and estate at Orakawa o 0 l , I I I I I I I I I I I ' o 0 I I . l 0 0 0 0 0 Q I I I o ' 0 o . o c , , - u o 0 g I I ' V 0 0 0 Q o I I I I I Q - I 0 ' 0 0 Q 0 o a I I - I I I I I 0 0 Q 0 I ' I I O - I I I I I I I I . I ' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I g I I I I I ' 1 I I I I o I I I I - I I I I I I I I , C q s 0 o . s o .. - ... .. -- - 1..,, ,,..-.. ,...,.,- f-.,. .,f.-.A-,-,,.,..., .-acc..-x..Z,.. ....,.. ,,..-..f..-.x.,,.,.,-, Tlcl .emu .,..,.3 J .... N-::..c.,:...,5-, vc-, .. . ..-W-... ,.,.. , Q K A Q 4w1,,eU,w,,- m,.,,,,,,,,4M,,,,..... , .c1:'., 4- K 4 W- 0 N- wxvv,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,k.,,,..,.,,,,,.., V. ,..:,..M .. ..,-., ,934 .... ,1..........-,.c.,-,.,- 1 1-A: ::5:v.s.t:rr?l -4----.-4-.':.:f4 ,xxx ' f A .:-'Jr'mf.uamrs'w:f'N'1: b -'FSM' 1' - -f33 3-f fl- - ,--4:- r f 5 '--A--W'-f-B-m-:':: --1:afz-:.':-:e.--z-- 11.1,-4.-xzzzv. pwsrs' 'za ' ..-, fn: : :::.:. :sr :ce-L.-1..r..:w. 2: -:Lis-m:-:ee