Washington (BB 56) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1946

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CHAPTER THREE ENE! E S0 WESE PAC f-fy

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Mme .azvswmaf M-'U - , Change of Command, Benson to Davis. skyline of New York City hove in sight on a July morning in 1942. However, the stay there was not longg there was urgent need of a fast battleship in the Pacific. Captain Benson was relieved by Captain C. B. Davis and inAugust the new skipper took the Wfashington t.hrough the Panama Canal and headed her west, steaming into 'three years of the greatest sea and air battles of history C



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Pacific Convoy. The Washington arrived at Tonga Tabu, Friendly Islands, 011 Sep- tember llfth, but only after several hundred lowly polywogs had been properly and thoroughly initiated into the secrets of King Neptune's reign and emerged as tried and true sbellbacks. This time-honored cross- ing-the-Line ceremony was to be repeated four times, once each year, before the Wasliington finished it's Second World War career i11 the Pacific. The stay in Tonga was short and all hands left with regret, for, of all the islands in the Pacific, the people of Tonga were the friendliest and the island itself closest to a touristvs conception of a South Sea Island. For the next five weeks the Washington the only fast battleship in the South Pacific, covered the approaches to the Solomon Islands a11d our tenuous hold on Guadalcanal. Cruisers, destroyers, and even supply ships bore the brunt of forward action, but the WHShi11gt0l1 was there, backing the line, a great potential threat to Jap expangign yvavesn From October, 1942, to May, 194143, operating from Noumea in New

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