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Just six days after passing under the Golden Gate, the MIDWAY slipped up the channel into the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. Ahead were weeks of drills and training called Operational Readiness Inspection, and sandwiched in on the weekends would be the things remembered from any cruise. For most, a foreign port is adventure — a different people, different customs, habits, foods. Hundreds (always the same hundreds) take advantage of every tour. For those inclined to photography, there was a wonderland of God-made beauty — for the athletic, there was golf, tennis, and magnificent swimming. Hordes of crew members found their way to Waikiki immediately upon arrival and spent a whole weekend in luxurious lolling on the sands. For a few, Hawaii was the same as all other ports — a corner pub, cold beer, perhaps La Belle Dame and what else could a man want? The weekend went fast, (so did the dollars), and by Monday all hands returned relaxed and ready for the rugged routine to come. Rugged routine are the words for it, but it wasn ' t quite what was expected. Monday afternoon, all hands stopped their work to hear the Captain speak over the IMC — I have received an important dispatch. Due to the outbreak of Communist shelling on the Island of Quemoy, MIDWAY is to return to Pearl Harbor at once, take on last minute stores, and deploy immediately for the Formosan Area. Tuesday, August 26, MIDWAY left Hawaii and steamed eastward without the benefit of the precious training considered necessary for any ship entering the Seventh Fleet. A sericts handicap for any ship, it would appear to be doubly so for a huge aircraft carrier on her first deployment and expected to set the pace for the entire fleet as flagship for TASK FORCE 77, nucleus of the Seventh Fleet. Lest they be forgotten
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