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erty it was a welcome treat to be able to walk off the gangway directly onto a dock. Christmas and New Year ' s away from the States was not exactly what any of us wanted, but in WESTPAC spending the holidays in Yokosuka was about as good as we could ex- pect. We bought china, Japanese records, suits and sport clothes, almost everything imaginable while we were in Yokosuka. When we left Yokosuka about the middle of January it was with much sadness in our hearts for the friends and good times we had left behind. And we looked forward in antici- pation to our next visit there. The next few weeks we spent in operations in and around Camp McGili, finally ending up in Nogoya, Japan. In Nagoya we found a thoroughly modern city, rivaling even some of the bigger cities in America. From Nogoya we went bock to our old standby port, Sasebo. Sasebo had none of the glamor of the bigger Japanese cities, it does not have the recreational facilities of Yokosuka, it did
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not have the big fancy cabarets and dance halls of other big Japanese ports, but it was invariably the last stop before Korea. To us that meant the lost chance for a little fun, a few cool beers, and the usually warm and friendly companionship of the Japanese peo- ple. In addition, Sasebo was usually our first stop after our tours of minesweeping in Korea. Yokosuka might hove held the hearts of the majority of the Epping Forest sailors, but Sasebo ran a close second. We stayed in Sasebo just about long enough to drop the hook and we were off on our way to Kobe. Kobe is one f the principal industrial cities of Japan. After seeing the tall smoke stacks outlined against the sky and all the commercial shipping facilities we were con- vinced of that. From Kobe we went to Wonsan, Korea, stop Iping in Sasebo just long enough to pick up MSB Division ONE and COMINRON THREE. A week of minesweeping and tender duties in Wonsan and we steamed to Pusan to pick up some Korean junks to take to Sasebo. After
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