Hamner (DD 718) - Naval Cruise Book

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During the late summer, Happy operated in all of his many professions, from shooting his Southern California waters, training for the big guns to holding damage control drills - he be- iob he was to do in "WestPac". He practiced lieved in being ready - just in case . . .

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'Me I' ' a6HA 40 ' Miles - 35,893 Paid to the crew - 515-4,433-58 Haircuts - 2640 Cigarettes - 22,362 cartons - 223,620 packages I Cokes - 65,202 Teletype paper - 225 rolls - 342,500 feet Potatoes - 28,150 lbs. Coffee - 3,350 lbs. - 50,250 cups Units of penicillin - 36,000,000 5" shells expended - 1352 3" shells expended - 931 Hedgehogs - 152 7.2 plaster load type Torpedoes - 2 mark 15 Depth charges - 2 mark 6 Cigars - 6,613 Duration of cruise - 6 mo. 6 days By late fall Happy began to tire of local OpAreas and lower Broadway He began to think remlniscently of WestPac of .lapan Hong Kong Ha- waii Kaohsiung - well maybe he didn tthink so much about Kaohsiung Anyway on exactly 22 November 1958 he sniffed the freshenlng breeze and finally made up his mind This was the perfect day to sail for Hawaii Colncldentally ComCruDesPac had precisely the same idea o n u 0 I I I as n Q 7 n I I I ' n o I I I o o o a s no u o o a 1 a I o Some of Happy's friends on the ship didn't share his enthusiasm, but they decided to be good sports about it all. There were women and chil- dren watching from the USS DIXIE IAD-141 as the HAMNER got underway who didn't share his enthusiasm either. Happy pretended not to notice. Instead he listened to the CruDesPac band play "China Night," and "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," and "Somebody Stole My Girl." Real morale builders, he thought to himself. A .5-Q.T..,,,.,-Y. .-f., -W ,, . I I I I I 1 + 15. . :WV