Hale (DD 642) - Naval Cruise Book

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I got a cab to downtown Honolulu and got off at Hotel Street - that ' s a street no sailor ever misses. I had a few at the Black Cat and ended up at Don the Beachcomber ' s for chow at Waikiki. There I was in front of the Royal Hawaiian watching the surfboard riders and wondering how they did it. Well, I met this gal, and she showed me how, saying, It ' s all a matter of balance. (One way or the OTHER)....

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♦ » 1 teJR 1 HS BBSS L-.-ifoi The first thing we saw when we entered Pearl Harbor was the mast of the Arizona. One of the battlewagons sunk there way back in Forty-One. From the fuel ing docks we gotourfirst look at the island of Oahu. Liberty went and we all headed for Honolulu and Waikiki.

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Here we are almost to Japan just about ready to pull into Midway for fuel when we get held up by this Coast Guard cutter with her bow up on a reef. It musta been bad ' cause she asked us for shoring, hammers, saws, line plugs, pumps, and I don ' t know what all. We sent here everything but our Damage Control Officer, (essentials first) All in all it was — , rf U Somehow we got into the lagoon . The first thing we saw was a group of the island ' s inhabitants, two types. .as you can see by this car- toon. The one s with the feathers live here permanently.