Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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everyone enjoyed this little glimpse of japan. It might be explained that XN'akanoura is ae- tually a beach resort suburb of lN'akayama. a city of over Qoo,ooo people. As compared to Wakayama, Wfakanoura is just a small village and the shops are almost primitive. Maka- 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 ofthe officers and men did get to the railroad station in XYakayama in eonnet-tion with evacuating PQXYR and can testify to the fact that one raid of too B-Qgs levelled the busi- ness and industrial area almost too per et-nt. X'Ve remained anehored in XN'al4anottra XYan until 2 October. giving all hands ample oppor- tunity to learn the -japanese sign language. Consequently, on that day we set sail lor 'lloltyo for bigger game in the way ol' souvenirs. YlltJKYtJi.i ivlany of tts had predieted on tb Oetober I944, that we were on ottr way to loylto: so many of us, despite ottr desire to get home, had an intense feeling ol' satisliaetion in the knowl- edge that we were about to eross the goal line ' .Q i i ll--.isC.t11tt11,tKfN.tgtts.tStt. ' ' V' : 1 - . ,tt tt' ts wt'stt'gt111f'tlXottliwttlitht .ll..'..'.ftft1m1.lltt lttfm,tt,, and tht- loltyo lltllllltl littt wt-re wt-,' XM- were due in loltyo Bax tht tnortittitt ot tht- grtl mtl were .thnost .tt the Ull- N t ttttntt' to tht- litx when we t't-eeixetl Ul'tlt'l'N to 4 t tltttt'-1t'tittt'totttst'tottht'.tt't'.tNtitttlit1lWaltgt 4 - yattta to ttttttlttt' tttt .iii st.tith lot Rtat .Xtl lllll'tll XX ll, Nttttpltt who h.ttl bt-en t't'pot'tetl lost tit ,t ttattittt- l'l3Xl tht,-ht Nllitt' tttortiiiig ' i . ' , lht' Xthttital sttttptx h.ttl tttit bt-t-it ht-.ntl hom l' O YV OillllIl 'll'lll'1'lxt'lllAtlllfl'ijxlIIl'kl -' t N tit t-.: , , ,s r gt