Dashiell (DD 659) - Naval Cruise Book

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.--5 could not get ashore occasionally to visit Oahu's increasingly populous centers of work and recreation. Old-timers now, they could wistfully remark to newcomers that in the old days one was able to squeeze into a Honolulu bus without the aid of a shoehorn. On 5 March the DASHIELL bid adieu to Pearl Harbor and set forth with two other destroyers and the renovated light cruiser Birming- ham. Four days later King Neptune and his Royal Party boarded the '4659 to initiate the many pollywogs who had accumulated since the iirst visit. His arrival was unannounced, despite the alertness of numerous pollywog lookouts placed at vantage points beneath the equatorial sun and providently equipped with heavy weather jackets and overalls, gloves, boots., goggles, fur hats, helmets, and binoculars. On 10 March F unafuti Atoll in the Ellice Islands, a stopping place on the westward voyage, was sighted and at 134.5 the DASHIELL anchor- ed in the lagoon. That afternoon there was swimming call for all hands, though no one was allowed to explore the beach. Schemes for clandes- tine visits to the one island where all the native females lived segregated from the troops were abandoned when the accuracy of aim and diligence of the guards became known. Funafuti was like the many atolls the men had seen and would see more of-low-lying formations of coral and sand enclosing polygonal lagoons, sometimes as much as thirty miles across, made accessible by one or more channels. These atoll fringes, broken into many islands, nourish little other vegetation than the weed-like co- conut palms. For the ship's company coconuts soon ceased to be an ex- otic delicacy. At 1630 on 11 March the 659 was again underway to escort an LSD to the Solomons Islands. On the morning of the 16th she entered the narrow body of water that runs up through the island group all the way to Bougainville and is known to all Navy men as the slot . Her men were duly impressed as they saw, most of them for the first time, the now historic islands of Guadalcanal, Savo, and Florida, scenes of some of the bitterest land and sea engagements the war has produced. Having left the LSD at Guadalcanal, the DASHIELL anchored in Gavutu Harbor, Florida Island. Twenty-one hours later she was underway from Tulagi for her first action against the enemy since Tarawa. Having picked up an officer passenger and secret mail, at Guadal- canal, the DASHIELL proceeded to a point north of the Solomons where at 1800 on the 18th she eHected a rendezvous with Task Force 37. This force, composed of four of the old hattleships and nine destroyers and 53- F y S