Roark (FF 1053) - Naval Cruise Book

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7 an-drift ABOVE: Unlike many major cities, the streets of Tokyo AFP filled on Sundays. A street is blocked off and mercbandisers set up stands to display their goods, top. Center, the most famous burlesque house in the Orient, the Nichigeki. The busiest McDonald's in the world, bottom, satisfied mam Big Mac attacks. LEFT: LTJG Tom Stanley and ENS Civ? Neighbors stand where Admiral Yamamoto did in this vintage battleship at Yokosuka.

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. mn--,ff F.-.ae , ATHLETICS Many of our shipmates found good clean sport was a way to keep in shape between at-sea periods . Some of the sports ROARK men participated in were fast and slow pitch softball, volleyball, basketball, touch foot- ball, and bowling. LTJG Rick Hoffman, as Athletics Officer, coordinated most of the activities. Pictured here is an action packed softball game , - X LEFT: GMG3 Mike Wilson is astonished to find out that there's a rule against stealing second with a Dr. Pepper. GMG3 Andy Sirofchuck fields the ball, above, and the players pose for a team picture, above right. You can tell the Third Division PO1's by the can of Bud. LTJG Rick Hoffman, far right, and QMSA Wild Bill Thompson slug one and, below right, dives for the extra base. Below, LTJG Hoffman, LT Wally Berriman and QMSA Thompson congratulate each other on a hard-fought victory. .Ln 44 2 mn, I fl L 2 ' 'ni - '51-.' 4 li li It l i i I l l l i l l l i l l l I l i 1 l l l l l . 1 1 l is -.........1...... l l l 1 l ,i.- ll

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ROARK pulled iht0 the Ship Repair Facili- the world, Yokosuka provided many familiar ty here for a well deserved and much needed western sights and comforts The drivers mid deDl0Ymelif UDRGED Pe '0d' for the Ship were not fatalistists, the stores slick and and for the Crew - AS this WGS to be OUI' modern and like always the people were longest period inport, eighteen days, we friendly , Tokyo was notfar away and the spent the time readlusting to a halfway normal modern rail system was fast and chea There daily routine. Aside from the obvious benefits was always something to see here in the land of one of the largest military exchanges in of the rising sun . 1 r tT i ?f wan- Q . slr I CLOCKWISE FROIVI ABOVE: The importance of art in Japanese culture is exemplified by this stained glass ata Tokyo train station. Tokyo shows it is a twenty-four hour city in this night view of one of the worId's largest cities. The beautiful Heian Shrine, Kyoto. At anchor with the Seventh Fleet in Buckner Bay, Ukinavva, prior to participation in Exercise Fortress Lightning. 43 1 .