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7 Few of us have forgotten the day our orders came to New Construction. GENERAL STURGIS? Who was he, anyhow? And what does she look like? A transport — eh? and visions of the West Point and the Wakefield arose. And so our first sight of our new home was a little disappointing, for she looked more like an empty tanker than a transport. But when we swarmed over her, and she grew bigger by the minute, we realized that we had a real, fast, new ship, and that we were destined to go places. It wasn ' t long before we sailed down the beautiful Columbia and Willamette Rivers and landed in Portland. Who among us can forget Mt. Hood, Broadway, the Rathskellar, the Multnomal or Jant- zen ' s Beach? The consensus of opinion was, and still is, that Portland was the best port we ' ve hit. Then on to San Pedro, where they made us go through our paces, but also gave us a chance to go ashore once in awhile. And were the sights and sounds of San Pedro delightful, in fact, the attrac- tions were so ready at hand that few of us got to Los Angeles. Seattle ' s chilly reception was next, and we all froze without special clothing. Still, it was our introduc- tion to the rough virtues of that town and of the surrounding hamlets, of First Avenue, and our first souvenirs, this time of Indian manufacture. It was a beautiful sight when we saw Oahu rising from the sea, and put in at the Aloha tower. Re- member the band playing Aloha Oe, and the smell of land after our first real sea trip? Then we wandered over to see Pearl Harbor, and hunted souvenirs along Waikiki Beach and at the Sub-base. But Honolulu came to be a familiar sight after a few more visits, and we began to long for action, or at least a sight of the West Pacific. Then came orders, and the long trip to Ulithi. What a sight those atolls were, strewn, as some travelogue might have it, like a necklace of emeralds on the deep blue sea! Mogmog claimed our earnest footsteps, and it was there that we heard the 49 ■S r- : y
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