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ARRIVING in Guam August 25, our long speculation about forthcoming duties was answered. Rear Admiral Settle and a special staff of Russian language and Naval Intelligence experts were embarked, and we were informed we were to do liaison work in Russian Siberian ports. So we stood out for Okinawa on the Hrst ccupation THE YELLow SEA Reaching Dairen on September 11, we found that American officers of the China Theater, and a destroyer division which had arrived some days before, had laid the groundwork for the repatriation. In short time the U. S. S. Relief and trans- ports pulled in to carry home the ragged and starved prisoners. The twenty-hour af' A-. Underway for Guam, full speed. leg of our journey, and thereafter waited in Buckner Bay for further directions. Un September 5 they came. Our original assignment was cancelled, and we were ordered to proceed through the Yellow Sea to Dairen, Nlanchuria, and there to super- vise the evacuation of l,7OO Allied pris- oners of war from camps in the vicinity of Mukden. General Jonathan Waiiiwright had just been rescued by air from one of these camps, and the condition of the prisoners was reported to be extremely poor. Again showing the Hag. train trip from Mukden on Jap-operated trains terminated on the dock, berthing the beautiful, white Relief. The Russian-controlled city was a tired, desolate, pillaged and unsettled community. lt was quite evident that the ambitious Jap had made effective use of his forty- ,.2,,7.f2L.,,f7t.-C.. 5l,L':ff,iE:,:Z1,.,,7,. 7 I f - 5 .t':::ii?:t i::::: ff' ' f ' -lilumiu, . f-A,..-,L Y ts, ? F, F -i--.. ,- , 1-,- ,u.,. , '- 195
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