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HIHT aunehing aircraft MA ll1lY 1944 and... rw YEAR nn 1945 FFICERS AND MEN of the Missouri were getting the breaks. The fieet operations schedule brought the ship into Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1944. Thousands of bluejackets at the Hawaii base hailed the arrival of the Missouri, not only as a new, powerful addition to naval strength in the Pacific but, more gratefully, they hailed the Missouri as Santa Claus. By way of demonstrating that the Navy at war does everything possible to rush mail tobluejackets away from home, the Missouri and the Fleet Postofiice at San Francisco collaborated as the big battlewagon was about to lift
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rr. , nf ,f V. ,V-, , ,V f 3i.l:- : ft- QW ' + f fr a fs' f gli.: , 1 V-ah sf Q . -.M ' 'Sw ' SJ' I, ,V L. fit 2 3 1 99 lt -a V1 ,, , srrlng aircrafl aklng plane aboard anchor. Some 1,600 sacks of late holiday mail, destined for men at Hawaii, was piled in the postoffice at San Francisco. All cargo vessels were over- loaded, so the Fleet Postoffice asked the Missouri to lend a hand. The 1,600 sacks were loaded aboard the battleship in short order and delivered at their destination early Christmas morning. For the Missourfs officers and men, Christmas dinner from soup to nuts, with a special Christmas souvenir menu printed in holiday colors, wound up a formal celebration, which had started with the distribution of gifts and then merged into solemn religious services. As the New Year dawned, the Missouri was less than a year old, com- puting its age from the launching date, less than seven months old, com putlnff from the date of its commissioning She had taken her place with the greatest fleet 1n American naval his tory, fittmff comfortably and confidently into a group of vessels that bore proud battle records The ship was new but old, experienced heads operated her Her brave and skilled men, in the words of Admiral lN1m1tz, could look forward to the new year, assured that lt will see new and more powerful blows dealt the enemy and that lt will brlng us closer to victory and peace
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