Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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CORRECTIONS AND ADDENDA CHARTS AND COURSE

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All year long visitors swim and tan at Waikiki Beach. The coconut hats the girls are wearing are about the only kind worn in Hawaii, where tropical flowers are considered fashionable headgear any time of the year.

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LA. HOSTS CNO 1 ON BOARD USS LOS ANGELES (CA135). 22 Oct. 1957 (At Sea) ADM Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, visited this warship of the U. S. Seventh Fleet today. From the moment he arrived, via a swinging, swaying high-line suspended from a U. S. Navy tanker, he displayed the directness and surety of purpose for which he became famous during World War II. It was with such a pace as he displayed today that he earned his nickname, Thirty- one Knot Burke, during the Bougainville campaign of 1943. After conferring with RADM Frank Fenno, Commander, Cruiser Division Five, and Captain Harold Payson Jr., Commanding Officer of the LOS ANGELES, he met the ship ' s officers in the wardroom. A few moments later he was drinking coffee in the Chief Petty Officer ' s Mess, recalling with ease the names of other CPO ' s he had known six years earlier during his tour as Commander, Cruiser Division Five, on board this same man-of-war. After addressing a few words to the crew he swung out onto the high line again and returned to the tanker. 86