Arkansas (BB 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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i : v v %J . ■ w •• fc :• ' W = te g BUJmW ULITHI s i This was Ulithi, our fleet rendezvous for both the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns. In this quiet anchorage in the western Carolines, we saw a Kamikaze hurtle through the sky and smash into flames on the flight deck of the U. S. S. RANDOLPH, four thousand yards off our bow. In the hectic days between the two campaigns, we rearmed, provisioned, and topped off on fuel, and still had time for a few hours of recreation on Mog- Mog, a tiny green island in the Ulithi atoll.

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Cocoanut palms, thatched huts, a Mela- nesian burial plot, all set against a back- ground of green sea and white coral. We swam, drank beer, and hunted for shells.