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- ' . o IIIP' IIFFICER EMY WATEIR No man could have predicted when the HAMLIN left the States in August of Forty-Four that just over a year later she would be steaming into the seas of Japan, into harbcrs which had given birth to the once powerful Japanese Fleet. Our first anchorage in Sagami Wan and later in Tokyo Bay, gave us a thrill with comparatively few men experience. We remember the Captain's words of' an LEFT TO RIGHT, FIRST ROW: Lt. ligl Enyart, Lt. Bray, Lt. Cigj Williams, Lt. fig, Anderson, Lt. Qgj Hayes, Lt. ligl Kultti, Ch. Mach. Dougherty, Lt. Newbauer, Lt. lnsley, Lt. Prough, Lt. Evarift, Ens. Blank, Ch.P.C Basset, Lt. ligl Riley, Ens. Newton, Lt. Cigj Sieminski. SECOND ROW: Bo's'n Morrison, Ch.Gun. Newman Ch.Carp. Waldron, Ens. Shuman, Lt. Cigj Halcrew, Ch-Mach. Young, Lt. figj Paris, Lt. Carter, A.P.C Meador, Lt. Wheeler, Lt. Cigj Southworth, Ens. Rosen, Lt. Lidfeen, Ens. LeBlanc. Pag 1 ' l earlier day, Many men would give their eye-teeth to be in your place today. . e46
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Page 47 text:
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THE lillilll T0 'Pllllllll With the surrender ot the Japanese Empire came orders to move in with the Third Fleet Occupational Forces. Cruis- ing in convoy north ot Iwo Jima, we awaited the signal from Admiral Nimitz. Though delayed by typhoons in the Tokyo area, the time at sea was not void ot excitement. Each day brought new problems of ship handling, maneuvers and station keeping. Passing mail or movies and refueling labove and at rightl while underway became routine, only a little more difficult than the same operation at anchor. Finally the dispatch came, sending our small armada into the seas ot the Nipponese homeland. This was to be our last wartime operation. Page 45
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We llilll I llllll Aerial photcgraphs of fleet anchorages and shore installations, as well as the ap- pearance of the Bay area, convinced us that the Japanese were beaten even without the Atomic bomb or the entrance of Russia into the vvar. The destruction wreaked by air and sea bombardment had impoverished The Jap war machine past the stage required to wage even defensive combat. A handful of fighting ships remained, a small task force in comparison with the Allied naval might which filled Tokyo Bay. It was fortu- nate for this yellow race that they sur- rendered in time for they faced complete annihilation. E , f W , of ff f'-.Wa-4 gf X KN Wm-. '4fbTw'Yf1 L If! i 'lf Page 47
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