Hull (DD 945) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Army pulled out of Sasebo in October, 1955, and turned their hospital, exchange, clubs, commissary store, school and 150 sets of quarters over to Fleet Activities. Fleet Activities then assumed the responsibility for 1,500 dependents. The number was so large because of the large number of ships homeported here Qnine frigatesy. The Vietnam Conflict producedplenty of work for the Navy in Sasebo. The Ordnance Facility handled over one million tons of ammunition. However, the end of the Vietnam era also signaled the end of another era in Sasebo. Since Vietnam, Fleet Activities continually reduced and consolidated until thirty years from her founding she was swallowed up by CLS. Naval Ordnance Facility. Sasebo, on 30 June 1976. Sasebo is situated on the west coast of Kyushu lsland and has a population of over one quarter million. lt's the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture. The distance from Shinagawa Sta- tion in Tokyo to Sasebo Station is 870 miles, and Sasebo is about 120 miles southeast of Korea. Sasebo has one of the finest harbors in the world and was a key port of the Japanese Imperial Navy for 60 years. lt is still famed for its ship building and port facilities. Y ,,,. 1.

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Glover House 1 Nagasaki was originally called Fukaenoura or Tamanoura before the district was given as a fief to Kotaro Nagasaki by Yoritomo Mlnamoto. founder of the Kamakura shogunate government in the latter part of the twelfth century. lt did not develop until 1571, when it became an important center for foreign trade. . Many trading ships from Portugal, Spain and Holland constantly visited the port, while Japanese traders made it their home port for trade with China, Philippines and Thailand. The feudal lord of the area,.Sumitada Omura, expanded the city by developing new sections. These areas grew and prospered. Many streets were improved and harbor facilities were expanded as a result of international trade. ln order to exert authority over the Nagasaki area, Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Prime Minister, put Nagawaki directly under the control of the Edo QTokyoj government in 1588. ln 1639 the Tokugawa Shogun- 5 ate government closed all of Japan to any trade or communication with the rest of the world to pre- vent foreign powers from estab- lishing colonies. Only the Dutch and the Chinese were allowed to trade at Nagasaki, the former be- ing confimed to the small island of Denjima in the Bay of Nagasaki. All through the Policy of Seclu- sion, however, foreign learning fil- tered into Japan through Nagasaki particularly in the fields of medi- cine, botany and the military arts. When the country was opened in 1859, Nagasaki attained a major but only temporary importance: many ambitious youths flocked there to acquire Western learning. With the rise of other seats of learning, Nagasaki gradually lost is intellectual primacy and popu- larity. From. 1889 and up to the time of World War ll, Nagasaki experienced prosperity in both trade and communication as the most vital point to China. Nt 1102 on 9 August 1945, the second dropping of an atomic bomb, after Hiroshima, burst in the air 16,000 feet high above the Llrakami