Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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Rhoden, SCic, stirs beef stew for P.O.W. ' s in Mampa Ro Hotel Dr. 1 .a.i galley. ci Only those on official business got ashore at Nagasaki, but we are thankful that our oflicial photographers were among that group. W ' e commenced taking on POW ' s as passengers on the 1 8th and finished on the i gth when we got underway in the afternoon with 760 of them sleeping on cots on our hangar deck. We took them straight to Okinawa where we disem- Limga Point in heavy seas off Wakanoura.

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Lunga Point in heavy seas off Vakanoura. Japan. 226

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VC-33. barked them for further transportation on the 2ISt. VC 33 Reports Aboard On 25 September, while in Buckncr Bay, Composite Squadron Thirty-three (VC 33) re- ported aboard for duty, and we got underway for Wakanoura Wan again on the 26th. where we anchored at 1 100 on the 28th. First Libfrt ' i ' In Japan On our first visit to Wakanoura no liberty was allowed, partly because it was too soon after the surrender and partly bccau.se of no medium of exchange for shopping. On our arrival this time, however, we found that lib- erty parties were allowed ashore in small groups and that we could trade with soap, cigarettes and candy. Therefore, those who were for- tunate enough to get ashore this time had no little fun trading a pack of cigarettes for a doll, two cigarettes for a fan. one cigarette for a saki cup and .so on. Inflation was such that a packages of cigarettes was worth approximately S2.50 in our money. Quite a lot of interesting souvenirs were brought aboard each day, and Remains ol Mitsubislu planl — Nagasaki. Uc aslation at .Na-iasaki.