Badoeng Strait (CVE 116) - Naval Cruise Book

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KONG « JLo sag we bought a few things would be tin understatement . . . who could lesist the clothes, the silks, the bicycles, the shoes, the ivoly, the watches, the linens ana the jewebiy . . . Golie and Bustamante seem real interested in some no squeak shoes. ' vIAti LTJG Faulkenberry and LCDR Miller seem anxious to get the bicycles back on the hangar deck for a real tryout. Imported silks and brocades were the downfal of many. Everyone loaded up on clothes. Daller gets the salestalk while JefFeries has surrendered and gets a fitting.