Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1962

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CONTENTS Why 4 The Life We Leave San Francisco 8 The Life We Live On Board 20 The Life We See Hawaii 60 Japan 76 Hong Kong 116 Philippines (and Okinawa) 128 The Life We Lead Personnel 138 In Memorium 306

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CONCEPT Once, long ago, some morale-conscious sea captain decided at the end of a particularly long and hard cruise that his crew deserved a record of the many things they had accomplished and the many places they had visited, and the Cruise Book was born. Then many years later, some money-conscious printer decided that Cruise Books should be illustrated in glorious living color and the modern Cruise Book was born. By 1958 the concept had grown until it was customary to take many random shots of sailors leaning happily against airplanes aboard, many random pictures of sailors strolling handsomely ashore, and many random shots of the ship steaming beautifully through the blue Pacific. These pictures were then put together, at random, and printed in compatible living color. Somewhere between our erstwhile sea captain and 1958, the conc ept of telling a story was lost. Then around 1958, the story idea came back into being. A select few enterprising editors tried to give an adequate picture of what a cruise to the Western Pacific is. Some succeeded, most did not. This is another attempt. Our goal is to convey by pictures and copy together what our life is on board and ashore in WESTPAC. To do this we have divided the book into four parts. In the first, The Life We Leave, we try to show our life at home. . . the City and people we leave behind. In the second, The Life We Live, we try to point out our general environment ... the general duties performed by the crew and how it relaxes. The third. The Life We See, is designed to give the civilian reader a picture of the countries we visit and to give the Navyman something with which to refresh his memory in later years. Finally, in The Life We Lead, we have tried to show specifically what each individual does aboard. How well we succeed can only be measured by how well you, the reader, under- stands the life aboard the Midway from April to late October 1962, whether you have been along to WESTPAC or have never seen the Pacific Ocean.



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WHY Almost before the ink was dry on the surrender documents signed aboard the USS Missouri, signifying to an anxious and hopeful world the end of World War II, the Cold War began. Now, 17 years later, the Cold War is still with us. The headlines scream Major Red Push Seen in Vietnam , ' ■ Surprise Deadline Perils Laos Pact , No Progress on Berlin, JFK Reports almost daily again and again to remind us that we are living with the phenomenon of the 20th Century Cold War, which may, at any given moment, at any number of given spots, ignite into a conflagration engulfing possibly all Mankind. The Midway, as a part of the powerful U. S. Seventh Fleet deterrent force in the Far East, has been, during her 1962 deployment, more naturally concerned with possible flare-ups in her sector of operations then with, for instance, Berlin, thousands of miles away, though it is wise to remember that the Cold War is properly seen as a world-wide struggle for the heart, mind and soul of Man. The chief sensitive area in the Western Pacific in 1962 has been that of Southeast Asia, centered in Laos and South and North Vietnam, all part of the old, pre-World War II French Empire, referred to at the time as French Indo-China. Land-locked Laos, agreed at the conference tables of Geneva to a neutrality pact between her three vying princes, and her neutrality has been termed settled by one of the princes. Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma. Laos is a very small country with 1,000 kilometers of common border with Communist countries, while also bordering with SEATO member Thailand to the west. The Laotian Prime Minister said that if Laos, situated as it is between East and West, is to avoid war she must remain non-aligned. For South and North Vietnam, with their eastern border on the South China Sea, the struggle between East and West, between North and South Vietnam, continues. At the Geneva Conference of 1954, Vietnam was divided at approximately the 17th parallel, the Communists occupying the northern half of the formerly-unified area with their capital at Hanoi, while the independent and pro-western government occupies the southern portion with its capital at Saigon. The Communists have not, however, been satisfied with this settlement, (though considered favorable to them at the time) and have, on an ever-increasing scale, sought to infiltrate, undermine and eventually take-over the pro-western Government of South Vietnam. To prevent this, as well as to prevent any Communists conquest in the vast and vitally important area of Asia, the Midway, for the greater part of 1962, was on station, ready, a friend of Freedom.

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