Wasp (CV 18) - Naval Cruise Book

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f'-N-Q if f muff X W Wx ! ff if 2' ' ' 1 L , , ft 'qw Punta Della Perma. if it El ,f l 2 f j f 3 ff N l 2 f f lf 3 tara nto I ,,, ,, T5 XX: it kwin .fff ,f M :Z -.. Q-...D mv 3. In bounds Tcuranto. N5-f ON THE MGRNING OF 29 AUGUST the YVASP busily picked her way through Ll multitude of the world's largest jelly fish. The mooring detail, after trying to board two of the larger size jelly fish, finally found our as- signed buoy. The bugler sounded the fznnilizn' long A-flat and we were in Tarunto. After reading our ship's infornizrtion pann- phlet, which is published for information. we decided that the whole city of Tzirzrnto wus out of bounds. YVe went ashore. however. and to our greztt surprise we found that it wats. except for the Strada Mztggiztre ztnd at few other streets in the innnedizite :treat which were just inside the foul line. .Xll of which added up to El ten niinute wztlk one NYLIY und at ten nrinnte wztlk hack to the landing. lint it wus relaxing to hezn' once ztgitin the fznnilizns ztnd friendly cries of Cig1n'ette. joe? CIhz1ngz1 money? and You wztntgt Chnneo? .Xnd it wus good to he in lktrznrto, for it niegnit we were leaving: it wats good to leave 'll.llilllllU. lor ll niezrnt we were heading westz it was good to he heading west for it nreztnt tlilnxiltgtr .ind at short, lint long klNX'Llll.t'll. rentlefwous with xr l,l'fY,l'lC.

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Loaded agum Puffed rice. My achmg bca a clay ashore