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After two weeks of intensive operations where do we end up for a three day break ? Buckner Bay ! Our brief sojourn at the lower, uninhabited end of Okinawa made us feel as though we were discovering a new island, although in reality the island contained several good-sized American cities. The two most popular spots at Buckner, however, were the EM and Officers ' clubs, both of which were a two minute walk from the landing. A few hardy explorers ventured inland as far as the capital city, Naha, but most explorations of any scale were hindered by the heavy rain and high seas, which made boating dangerous and caused liberty to be cancelled during a good part of our stay. Thus none of us was particularly sorry to leave or happy at the thought that our schedule called for a return trip in early June. Wooden shoes were much in evidence O ivtaoua Naha laborers take five
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1(4ta yima NAVMARLAEX 1-56 was its official name, but to those who participated it was the largest exercise that the COLUMBUS was to enter on her ' 56 cruise. Just eleven years after the original Iwo Jima invasion marine assault troops once more landed on the rocky, ashen beach and climbed to the top of Mount Suribachi, famed symbol of World War II. The exercise, labelled by the Communists as a world threat, employed tactics that had been learned in wartime maneuvers. Mock Atom bomb goes up on Iwo ■ ■■ . ..: Suribachi, eleven years after The island, with Toledo blocking the view
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