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KOBE - AND FIVE Someone somewhere gave us five days of rest in Kobe during October. It gave many of us our first real opportunity to see Japan. The ship was spht up into two 48-hour leave parties for those who wanted a period of R R; the rest of us returned to the ship every other day to stand the watches Kobe had none of the fishing village charm or prevailing odor of little Sasebo, nor any of the glamour attractions of the Yokohama- Yokosuka area, but was an unarranged composition rep- resenting a mixture of Wilshire Boulevard, West Madison in Chicago, and Bourbon Street, New Orleans. The general shopping area of- fered an expensively decorated silk salon next door to Haki Saki ' s trinket shop. In the streets. — ' ■ ' -ii iAssss 38
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THEN CHEJU DO pers called it Operation Big Switch. We had other names for it. At Cheju Do, acting as flagship for Commander Landing Ship Flotilla One, we anchored in an unprotected cove and bobbed like a cork for a month. Some of us saw the Communists loaded into the LCUs and LSTs beached on the island. The majority of us remained aboard during the month and turned to, pre- paring for the impending Administrative Inspection. Our only prayer when an- other LST or AKA loomed into sight was ... do they have any new movies aboard? I L i Ki -A ■■ - ' ' iifef ' ' 37
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ii ii ' long sleek Buick Dynaflows jockeyed for posi- tion with pint-sized rickshaw runners. And the roar and rattle of the electric commuter ' s train overhead mingled with the clip-clop of a thous- and wooden sandals on the pavement. A few of the crew traveled inland to Osaka, the second largest city in Japan with a popu- lation count as large as the city of Los Angeles. And some went even further to historic Kyoto by beautiful Lake Biwa. And when we finally singled up the Imes to lea ve Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto, there were nough tea sets, silks, fishpoles, binoculars, and cloisonne ' vases to represent our entire ten rrionths overseas. It had been a very productive five days. 39
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