Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 l I E l I 5 r I s l f I i 1 Another typhoon interrupted liberty on the 9th, and we moved to the outer harbor to ride it out at anehor and spent an uncomfortable day and a half until the typhoon passed on the night of the ioth. This was the typhoon that did all the damage to Qkinawa. XVe again spent the 1 ith and 12th searehing for Admiral Sample in Company with the .Walkin Island, the .S'z'b01zey, the Smziee. the .S'z1zt'a1zew, and returned to Wakanoura for engine avail- 1. 4 ,, -.3 f' .1 lxgj ...aiu '1U,b.' Ships working party loading -lap riflw at 'Yokohaina a Souvenir for everv man on board: ffffzfrzf Same as abc,x'e1 ffffwrn Jap battleship, Xfigzztu. totally destroyed by fire and bombs rides at anchor in Tokyo Bay with .'XIUt'I'lL'L1H prize Crew aboard. I A , Mk ' V 'fa - f- ' r r return to shi ng iff lnff: I.ibe-rtx paity boaidx IAM at lolty J far , I wid and ffzffd zzfzti: Yokohama bubinews and industrial arf-gi botlomx A Buddhist Temple in lokyo.

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4 l J Q .mm Q M. , t Enlisted men who reported aboard since I4 lNIay-lhrst groupl. sightseeing around the Imperial Pzilaee, the Diet, the American .l2IHlJ2lSSY. the Zoo and other points of interest. Tokyo turned out to be the modern City we had expeeted to find: liowex'e1'. we would have about two hours from Tokyog however, ar- rangements for liberty were well organized and we had an LSM call for our liberty party eaeh morning and they were able to spend the better part of the day there, shopping along the Ginza QTokyo's Fifth Avenue or Lincoln Roadj, found more a yez11'earlier. Yokohama.whirh 51 .Eff . Q n. 41 A - KA fi 441 4 Enlisted men who reported aboard since I4 lNIay-CSCCOUCI EVO'-'Pl 235