Colahan (DD 658) - Naval Cruise Book

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Tepatti, the Bull and the Exec pose for a shot all bundled up. 1- -111 i Until we started operating oft Songjin our luck with the cold weather had been pretty good. But now, not a day went by that we didn't have to break out the brooms and salt water hoses at least once to clean ott a 'layer ot snow and slush. The ther- mometer, which had been hov- ering around the low 305, drop- ped, and started hovering in its teens. As a result, during lunch time, you could always see a tew fellows having their pictures taken as they leaned on the ice caked litelines. Even the snipes were jokingly com- plaining. lt seems the tem- perature in their nice, warm A lot of times we woke up to find . . . Page Forty-four engine room had dropped all the way down to 75. Every now and then we managed to have -a snowball fight.

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Page ln the chow hall-relieving the watch-in the .chow line, the first question everyone asked was, We got anything yet? And the answer came back, Yep, they've got radio con- tact. Good! Even tho you couldn't see them, at least you knew they were in the neigh- borhood. On the bridge, after chow, we learned we were headed for Songjin to receive some mail from our reliefs before shoving off. Not bad-getting mail, and relieved, all at the same time. About twenty minutes later, what had been a dark blob in the distance had grown into a full sized can coming along- side to transfer our mail. After the transfer, as we headed toward Wonsan, we dis- covered our mail was in reality, mail our reliefs wanted us to take back to Japan. But, that wasn't too important. What really counted was'the fact that we were thru . . . that, there would be no more Songjin, or Korea, or Task Force 77. Not where we were going-HOME! Forty-Six The gang waiting to receive the Shelton alongside. The Shelton makes her approach. Making the last high line transfer of the trip.