Dortch (DD 670) - Naval Cruise Book

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It sure didn ' t look like Main Street, USA. PS ° nd »yles WerT - C 5fran 9e, too. reet shops At first it was hard to read the signs. Cone y ' s and. Portable restaurants serve the gutter trade.

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Half way around the world we had our first glimpses of Asia, Land of the Rising Sun, temples, Fuji, rikishas, chopsticks, nevah hoppen and Babysan. Our first port was Yokosuka. Here we easily got used to the strange people and their way of living. We found a people who were willing to help us to learn their ways and were equally will- ing to understand ours. From the hovels of Hoka- date to the great city of Tokyo, there were a great many things learned from the great and proud na- tion, Japan. As you gazed into all those smiling faces, you wondered. . . Through these portals pass the world ' s greatest Navy. 1 At least somebody welcomed us . . . the merchants

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Man, dig that crazy raincoat. Some subtle Jap must have lined up the horse . . Grunt and Groan, Jap style. Abanes and Stone wonder who adopted who. Temples were everywhere. Could Mr. Hurt have been here before?