Santa Fe (CL 60) - Naval Cruise Book

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Senile Kanaka, gaunt, toothless and wrinkled, in eoarre lainclotlz, Jquats in Hindu fashion, grinning a friendLv welcome to Majuro. Upon a table Qf white coral benealh eoeonul palm, a Kanakafamib prepares, in HOLLYWOOD IDEA OE TROPICAL IS- LANDS IS ONLY 180 DEGREES OUT AJURO, a true atoll of the Marshalls, is typical of I , the low lying Micronesian islands that became I forward bases for assaults against Japan. Formerly German colonies, purchased from Spain in 1899, the spacious anchorages and potential airbases have had great strategic importance since acquired by Japan under the 1921 League mandate. Of Micronesian stock, the natives, a mixture of the superior, sturdier Polynesian to the east and of the Melanesian to the south, have ine bronzed physiques, dark hair and broad negroid faces with large expressive eyes. The Kanakas are good agriculturalists, outrigger canoeists, fishermen and divers. In their thatched huts of palm fronds and driftwood, they live a simple, lazy life on fish, domestic animals and fowl, coconuts and tropical plants. .Tattooing is still practiced on their almost naked bodies, but paganism has given Way with the introduction of Christianity and Buddhism. On all the Marshall Islands that the U.S. was forced to occupy, the native population displayed great satisfaction that their Japanese rulers had been ousted. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Spherel' was evidently a selfish, cruel program ofjap exploitation far removed from what Nip propaganda promised. primitive manner, a poi-lz'e meal ax :1zip'.v Boatrwain watches. f ' ' f- ' nt. ,, H A , A s X sPN,SXxNmsXf. XXAXR u.

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Oi! refervoirs, bufldingf and many q'1'.ffflnd'5 permanent de enses were buf!! during lhe twenly odd yearr ezpun held Mzzrxlzaflf mandate transports were in the lagoon and the boatloads of Marines were circling them. As H-Hour approached the support ships opened fire on the inner beach the landlng craft llned up and headed 1n The nearer theV came to the beach, the more lntense became the barrage Then when the boats were nearly beached a spottlng plane that had been c1rcl1ng overhead dropped a cluster of Hares Im med1ately the shells were llfted to a point 1 few yards up from the water s edge, then the troops landed beh1nd the curta1n of Ere, and advanced up the 1sland So perfect was the coord1nat1on between land, a1r and sea forces, the lnvadlng troops found onlV one small pocket of aps, halfcrazed by the shell fire, on a corner of ROI and this was llquldated bw the 7nd of February At dusk on 6 Februal V the SANTA P14 negotrated the narrow channel 1nto lVIa1uro Atoll and dropped anchor br1ng1ng her part Ill the second step of the Centr1l Pacrlic Cillhpilgll to 1 close , 3 V c 7 T f ' 1 r -ww - A J c J - 2 LA L c . .

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