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Dcvaitation at Nagasaki. Rig it, nfxt to bottom: These midget submarines were never completed; right, bottom: Ei I Shinto Shrine at Nagasaki Wz 230
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e -eryonc enjoyed this little glimpse of Japan. It might be explained that Wakanoura is ac- tually a beach resort suburb of VVakayama, a city of over 200.000 people. As compared to Wakayama, Wakanoura is just a small ' illage and the shops are almost primitive. Waka- yama is, or rather was, quite an industrial city, but now that it has been destroyed by bombing we were not allowed there by our own authori- ties, probably because there was nowhere to shop. Some of the officers and men did get to the railroad station in Wakayama in connection with evacuating POW ' s and can testify to the fact that one raid of 100 B-29S levelled the busi- ness and industrial area almost 100 per cent. We remained anchored in Wakanoura Wan until 2 October, giving all hands ample oppor- tunity to learn the Japanese sign language. Consequently, on that day we set sail for Tokyo for bigger game in the way of souvenirs. Tokyo? Many of us had predicted on 16 October 1944, that we were on our way to Toyko; so many of us, despite our desire to get home, had an intense feeling of satisfaction in the knowl- edge that we were about to cross the goal line Devasuiion at Nagasaki. as we steamed North with the Makin Island, the Tennessee and the California — Tokyo bound ! But were we? We were due in Tokyo Bay the morning of the 3rd and were almost at the en- trance to the Bay when we received orders to change our course for the area South of Waka- yama to conduct an air search for Rear Ad- miral W. D. Sample who had been reported lost in a routine PBM flight since morning. The Admiral simply had not been heard from ■ deck en route Okinawa from Nagasaki. ' ' ' L ' 1ii ' v.!-., ' ' .?7. ' i!fiBPf ' '
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Top: P.O.W.s . Nagasaki : m flight deck just bctoie getting underway from Inp: Outi.kiiii ot Ijuinljcii dua. . d l3akl. btluit: ! ) ; below: First load of P.O.W. ' s reaches ship. Jap ferry boat sunk at Nagasaki two miles from point where atomic boml:) was dropped
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