Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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cporu-d aboard : ,4 Ma ability on the 1 3th where wc remained until the 1 6th when we again resumed the search. ToK •o On the 1 7th the search for Admiral Sample was finally abandoned and wc set our course for Tokyo Bay where wc anchored at 1847 that day. VVe anchored nearer Yokosuka than Yoko- hama and Tokyo, Yokosuka being the site of one of the main Jap Naval bases. That base, incidentally, now Hies our Ensign. VV ' e were -Shopping on the Ginza. A Yokohama family in front of tht-ir home 234

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Another typhoon interrupted liberty on the gth, and we moved to the outer harbor to ride it out at anchor and spent an uncomfortable day and a half until the typhoon passed on the night of the loth. This was the typhoon that did all the damage to Okinawa. We again spent the i ith and r2th searching for Admiral Sample in company with the Makin Island, the Siboney, the Sanlee, the Suwanee, and returned to Wakanoura for engine aval party loading Jap , ian on board; ci-iiln: Samt- as abcve; hrluw: Jap battleship, S ' agalo, totally destroyed by fire and bombs rides at anchor in Tokyo Bay with American prize crew aboard. ibnty party boards LSM al i«f Ifnrf iirws: ' okohama bottom: Buddhist Temple in Tokyo. 233

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who rcportfd aboard 14 May — (first group). aljoiit two hours from Tokyo; however, ar- rangements for liberty were well organized and we had an LSM call for our liberty party each morning and they were able to spend the better part of the day there, shopping along the Ginza (Tokyo ' s Fifth Avenue or Lincoln Road), sightseeing around the Imperial Palace, the Diet, the American Embassy, the Zoo and other points of interest. Tokyo turned out to be the modern city we had expected to find; however, we would have found more a year earlier. Yokohama, vhich fl5 t Enlisted men who reported aboard since 14 Ma — (second group). 235