Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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Lunga Point men shoppini; in VVakanuura. 225

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Hotel (hntrl n( ;i thousand waves), at thr dork ;m(l ;il the cincriiciK y first aid statir n where the I ' OW ' s were (irsl l)roiiy;ht from tlie train. While llie work at Wakanotira was prtjhably tlie most genuinely satisfyini? thing we had done diiriii ' T the entire war, it was not easy, going round the rlork. We were, however, amply repaid for our eHorts if for nothing more than the look of gratitude in the eyes of those POW ' s. Immediately on arriving, we eommandeercd all the trueks, taxis, business buildings and ho- tels that we would need in our work. It cer- tainly seemed tt) us that the Japs were mighty happy to ha e the war over, and they were, consequently, ery cociperatixe. Practically all of the ci ilians seemed to be very much undernourished, and they had probably been hungry for a long time. We were, howe er. never able to forget the treachery of the Jap- anese at Pearl Harbor and since. We set up headquarters in the Mampa Ro Hotel where all ambulatory POW ' s were brought for processing. There they were de- loused, decontaminated, fed, furnished with new ( lothing, physically examined and assigned l(j various ships for passage. On the whale they were in pretty go(xI shap ' , thanks to the B-2t) ' s having dropped fo od into the prison camps for the previous few weeks; however, the stories some of them told concerning their treatment would make one ' s hair stand on end. -Nagasaki , ll PO N ' s had been a.ssigned to other ships before it became necessary to u.se the Lunga Point; so on the afternoon of 15 .September we got underway for .Nagasaki Ko, Kyu.shu, to take on a load, and we arri ed early on the morning of the 17th. W ' e were all cjuite anx- ious to see Nagasaki, because that is the city where the second atomic bomb was dropf)ed. We were greeted there by a typhoon, though, that gave us a pretty rough time our Hrst night, with some gusts of wind up to 80 knots being felt. ■ff L- ' iili ,Hi.l K,iKs.-ll. Hi.. lalkinc to P.O.W. ' s at Waka- noura landing: brlozi: Lt. Marvil and Self, MM2c, talk to litter case while awaiting boat to hotel. Top: Lt. Cdr. ' nir: i : . i i ' u - -liips at Mampa Ro Hotel, with assistance ol Ensign Ricaclinan, Partin, Yic, Chel- cmedos, Vac, and Doely, Y3C; below. Remains of Wakayama bus station.

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Lunga Point in heavy seas off Vakanoura. Japan. 226