Joseph Kennedy (DD 850) - Naval Cruise Book

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From Chicago we proceeded to Michigan City and the unhappy concatenation of events already mentioned. I-lad the storm not disrupted our routine we might have remembered this vacation spot more fondly for its yacht club, its sail boats, and its beaches. Even as it was, we were able, through the efforts of one crash-boat and its tireless crew, to meet a good portion of the populace and to sample some of their hospitality. And Michigan City was, despite sudden high winds, undeniably lovely . . . 17

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Milwaukee A fs 37' f f' . l I iflfpthrx i X E Qs' t -v-. ' s Q 4,6 . , 1 V 52 l.V,.' N '-.XX E x Though we went to Milwaukee primarily for repair work, we realized also that -we had-a lot of city to see and we rapidly set about accomplishing this. While the Preserver CARS 83 performed the difficult task of changing our screws smoothly and efficiently, we welcomed such visitors as found their way to our mooring place and did the rest of the job of bringing the Navy to the people ourselves, inland. - Any school child knows what Milwaukee--at least in pre-Braves days--was famous for and we numbered, it seemed, many keen students of historyand economics among our crew. At any rate we were not slow to take ad- vantage of the tours offered by the' various huge breweries in the arena, and the descriptions offered by participants, if just a trifle incoherent, indicated at least that such tours fulfilled their public relations function admirably. Therein, perhaps, lay the keynote to the whole Milwaukee sojourn. Duringithe days we worked steadily, - attempting to keep pace with, and render maximum aid to, the Preserver as she brought off her arduous underwater feat. And at nightwe went ashore and just plain had fun. It was that kind of city.