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memorable cry, Get down out of them trees! ' We really felt important and useful while we were in Ulithi, though after a time we began to long for snow and ice or any contrast. So back to Seattle, and a long month of the pleasures of home. How we hated to leave — and yet we had the prospect of visiting more new places. This time we all became shellbacks after an exciting and droll ceremony. New Guinea loomed up, green and mysterious. Finschafen seemed like something out of this world, with yellow-faced WACS clustering about, and most of us also had our first sight of the fabulous Fuzzy-Wuzzies. A quiet trip to Hollandia, with the reassuring shore line mounting higher, and then we were in a mag- nificent harbor, with steep tree-covered hills leading up endlessly. It didn ' t seem possible that Hol- landia was reconquered by the United Nations just one year before we arrived. Signs of the struggle were nonexistent. Manila was a different sight. Who can forget the tremendous sight of the 300 or more ships lying twisted and broken on the floor of the bay, or the gaunt misshapen skeletons of the modern buildings which once lined the waterfront? There were colorful sights too, the gaily painted cartellas, the tiny Philippine horses, the native sec- tions, more or less untouched by the war, the girls at the Red Cross canteen, the beer and the liquor . . . And how we hove to whenever we could snag a bundle of Jap money. At San Antonia, Samar, in Leyte Gulf, we came into our own in our search for souvenirs. There was ship ' s beer, and swimming, but chief delight was to wrangle for hours with a native for a hat or a hand- ful of shells. Trade you, Joe was the battle-cry, and each thought he had the better of the bargain. And so home again, on a sort of pleasure cruise. Where do we go from here? It ' s enough that we keep moving until that final day when we sail past Yokosuka into Tokyo Bay. 50
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