Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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Hotel thotel of a thousand wavesl, at the dock and at the emergency first aid station where the POl'V,S were first brought from the train. While the work at Wakanoura was probably the most genuinely satisfying thing we had done during the entire war, it was not easy, going round the clock. We were, however, amply repaid for our efforts if for nothing more than the look of gratitude in the eyes of those PQVV's. Immediately on arriving, we eommandeered all the trucks, taxis, business buildings and ho- tels that we would need in our work. lt eer- tainly seemed to us that the Japs were mighty happy to have the war over, and they were, consequently, very cooperative. Practically all of the civilians seemed to be very much undernourished, and they had probably been hungry for a long time. We were, however, 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- lonsed, deeontannnated, fed, furnished 'h . . ' W1' nt-w Q-lotlnngq pliysn-ally examined and assigntd ' e to various ships for passage, On the Whl L the , . prison camps for the previous few weeksg however th 9 C they were in pretty good shape, thanks to iB-Lztfs having dropped food into thg stories some of them told concerning their treatment would make onels hair stand on end NAt:AsAK1 All .li'UlN's had been assigned to other shi before it became necessary to use the Lunga Poinlg so on the afternoon of 1 5 September we gOt l111Clt-fwzly for N21g21S21ki KO, Kyushu, to take on a load, and we arrived early on the morning of the 17th. We were all quite anx. ious to see Nagasaki, because that is the city where the second atomic bomb was dropped, We were greeted there by a typhoon, though, that gave us a pretty rough time our first night, with some gusts of wind up to 80 knots being felt. ps 'Q .4171 7tJfJ.' Lt. Senft and Russell Bic talk' - 1 ' t P. , ' 1 , .. 1 V noura L2EHd1Hss!1f!0w.' Lt.,Marvi1 andngelfi Ml?f1?2l.51lclillVliflk'fi Inf'-' lil. Cdr. Smith assigning l'.O.l'V.'s to ships at Mflmpahlgf case w 1le awaiting boat to hotel. ' ' 0 WU Hotel, with assistance of Ensign Riegelman, Partin, Y lc, C a s . ,', . . V - 8 tmtdosg X gt, ,md l3,,,.l,,' X Isl.: ,,,,,0U., Rmnains of Wakay bus station.

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