Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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The hospitality shown us by the people of Chin Hae was re- turned when we had many of them on board for visits and to attend a smoker. We enjoyed the pie eating contests, rope climb- ing contests and sports events a great deal as did the Korean guests it seemed. The demonstration of pugil stick fighting by the Marines, Judo matches among the members of the ship s team .and several boxing matches were followed by the ser ing of a picnic dinner on the fantail. Though only a brief three day stay we counted our visit in Chin Hae a very good one. (.■ ' ( ' ' .J i--:

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KOREA After tra elinc; northward for a day we entered Chin Hae, on the southeastern coast of Korea. This proved an excellent op- portunity to see yet another oriental culture. e visited the town in which the Republic of Koreas Naval . cadeniy is located and it citizens and Naval Officers and Midshipmen visited us. A demonstration of the amazing skill at Karate was given for us on the ship by a group of young enthusiasts. For those of us who had never seen Karate used before it was an amazing sight indeed — a two foot stack of ceramic tile shattered with the blow of one hand or heel.

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akata Wan on ihe northwest coast of the island of Kyushu was our stop. Because of relatively shallow waters, compared to those in ;h we normally anchored, it was about a five mile boat ride into the ling at Fukuoka. A bit of windy weather caused our boats a rather ;h time of it so in order to speed things up a bit the ship rented a large y boat to land the liberty party. Once «c got ashore there was no ranee that «e would be able to get a boat back to the ship the same day, but the overnights that we got were much appreciated. .Some of us stayed at the Air Force base at Itazuki, but some preferred to try the Japanese futons. Their are numerous temples and shrines around Fukuoka. the largest city on the Island of Kyushu and we visited many of them. Watching a Japanese wedding from a distance or maybe a Buddhist priest performing part of a daily ritual made these trips even more interesting. Resulting from a Judo Shi-. i held on nur fanlail we received quite a bit of publicity and had a number of groups of visitors aboard, including a group of press photographers, .Mr Force personnel and dignitaries from the City of Fukuoka. ■ -■■- ' f ii V .i ' it; : ■ . JV -. - ' ■- ;i5 «;;