George MacKenzie (DD 836) - Naval Cruise Book

Page 33 text:

IL - ' Mif.h its X nil 6 The Flying Tiger Troupe, Fantail Per- formers Extraordinare. One oi Hong Kong ' s better bargains. Harbor scenes, including Mary Soo and her side cleaning lovices

Page 32 text:

The flags of all nations honored Elizabeth Regina - 5 They ' re off and running. The fabulous Tiger Balm Garden built by the maker of Oriental Hadacol Street Scene. Tiger Pagoda, Hong Kong landmark. The Bank of Hong Kong wearing its Coronation crown

Page 34 text:

. . . 1325 changed course to 252 degrees pgc. 1326 passed buoy 11 to port. Proceeding on various courses to Navy Pier. Changed speed to 8 knots (067 rpm). 1401 Line number one secured to Navy Pier. 1415 Moored to Navy Pier, San Diego, California with six six-inch standard mooring lines. . . Thus, on 20 July, 1953 the deck log of the U.S.S. George K. MacKenzie chronicled the end of her third Korean war cruise. Exactly eight months and some 53,000 miles and 1500 fired- in-anger rounds of five inch ammuni- tion after her departure, the Mac was home. One week after her return the long awaited truce was signed in Korea. So it was that the Mac, one of the first destroyers to see Korean action was one of the first to return. From the beginning to the end, the Mac had been there. And she, together with her division mates, had been THERE longer than any other destroyers in the fleet.