Walke (DD 723) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1953

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Cn 22 December 1952, DesDiv l32 received its detachment orders from Task Force 77, and with happy thoughts of an early departure for home we arrived in Yokasuka on Christmas Eye . . . On Christmas Day the ship was host to forty-three Japanese children from a school for under-privileged children. Kids wait on fantail Santa lCrossl waits in Plot l ,J S' , ff ' 5 l 1 They get together in the mess compartment - - '

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Several tunes dunno thc vruisv thc Cfgzpmm held Comm d atory Nlast to rccognizc thusc who had dum- oulstf I1 1 kan 1 Qing wot E. J. Donoher, MMC E. E. Hager' - U' Q V..-1' D. R. ScoH, BM1 ...gfgg . Na. X N, i , fi OTHERS D. D. Brown, EM2 B. R. Davis, QM2 R. F. DeTorre, TMT1 W. Gorski, GMC C. E. Jackson, GM1 B. E. Green, MMT C. V. Griggs, RMT R. Hoffman, ET2 A. J. Lomberf, MM2 F. Lipgens, C53 P. J. McGee, RD2 D. P. Wafkins, SHSN J. C. Websfer, FCSC L. G. Wrighf. QM1



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At 0700 on 27 December 1952, ai good ship and a happy grew said Good-bye once again to the Fai' East. We believed we had fulfilled our mission well and hoped that we haci been good ambassadors to the friendly ports we had visited, but now our thoughts were only of home and loved ones as DesDiv 132 re- Ceived her WELL DGNE from ComNavFe and set its Courgg for Midway, Pearl Harbor, and Long Beach, California . . , our new home port. ei . A eoi. , JS wi- Enrout . - 0 X. , , , ., , - . wg, is Q . . N rr -, S X ,.. .. r ,. 0 au. - , K 'war A D .4 , nga? Tayafgs-, At M' idway we refuel and cheek on the goony birds. 6 fo MidWaY We make smoke . . . and a full power run.

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