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.1 inf!' A QP! the excitement of new N ' . land 0 orzie lures to leave home,. . . and loved ones. There are compensatlons... 5 - . . . lim e 0711. cu tuzes. .. but always there IS that deep, fervent yearning for what was left behund. . .tama- m - . . . I . 0 Ions o tamlllar tnmes...the wistful feeling of emptiness at sunset...the damp blackness of ni he 1 . 9 a sea...the lonely wall of the fog horn. . . sounds and feels we'll never target. This is the 5f0 Y of almost two hundred men who shared those feelings...who breathed life into a h l'f ftheir choos PE d hi ll ' . ou 5 'P -Who served wlth the duty of defending the right ot nations to llve t e I e o - ing. No - I no One lllces to leave home...but there was an important iob to be done...these are the men who did than job,
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The U. S. .S , Greenwich Bay Built by the Lake Washington Ship' Yards, Houghton, Wfashington, The U. S. 'A A XM S, GREENWICH BAY was the 23rd ofa II lF! '1'llPT l ll IEEMs..zig:!?...a- as class of small seaplane tenders when she slid down the ways and received her com- f missionin May of 1945. The ship, which was named for abay off the coast of Rhode 2' Island, gave as its statistics an overall length of 31.1 feet, width- 41 feet at the beam, maximum speed- 18 knots, and a full load displacement of 2,670 tons. Early surrender of Japan found the tender enroute to join the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific on the road to Tokyo. Her first assignments found her tending patrol and rescue squadrons of Fleet Air Wing ONE in Chinese, Japanese, and Philippine waters. It was during these operations that she earned dual eligibility for the China Service Medal and the Navy Occupation Service Medal. Subsequent duty followed in the Far East until, in 1946, she received orders to return to the United States via the Suez Canal for duty with the Atlantic Fleet. For a while she served as escortvessel to the Presidential Yacht, U. S. S. WILLIAMSBURG, In 1948 she was ordered to make a world cruise, duringwhich time she visited many ports in the Middle East which she was to see time and again in the future: Port Said, Aden, Bahrain, Ras Tanura, Kuwait, Sharja, Trincomalee, and Colombo. In 1949, having been outfitted with air conditioning and painted white to help reflect the intense heat prevalent in the Middle East, the U. S. S. GREENWICH BAY began her fiI'Sf f0111' Of duty as Flagship for the Commander, Middle East Force. Each Succeediflgyear has seen her backin the area as one of an elite trio of small seaplane t d ' . . en GTS Wh1Ch rotate between the United States and Bahrain Island in the Perian Gulf. With wide- l 1 - . , y popu ar nicknames ranging from The Green Witch to The Galloping Ghost of the Arabian Coast , h , , s e has become one of the most well-known vessels in the U. S. Fleet and a familiar fx ' .7 , .rj 1. - ,A x I 2'-f 3 A L fr 1 r I- r .J i'Ql',,' A ini- A - 5 -- q ,aa xf 1 in .A Q : f - .---L4.5.-: : . ,- f - E ---ai: 'I -' V' ' '.
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