Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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Mawr if , ,V - Welcome Home sign, as we entered San Diego Harbor. many interesting and trying moments during the strenuous campaigns of Leyte, Luzon, Iwo, Okinawa and the East China Sea. We have learned from the Officers and men of your gallant ship that, when the need arises, there is no limit to the endurance, the will-to-do, the , fighting spirit and the courage of our sailor men. I speak not only for my staff but for all the Escort Carriers when I say the LUNGA POINT is an outstanding ship and we are happy to have had the with take Ship more privilege of serving have every reason to achievements of your part, which was much it. All of you pride in the and for your than most of you realize, in our overwhelming victory. I am proud to have been one of you and will miss the LUNGA-We all felt safer by our side. Goodbye and good luck other ship more deserves LSD C. T. Rear Admiral, Commander Escort good old when she was to you all. No a nWell Done.n Durgin U. S. Nav Carrier Force Y n 3 Finally, we managed to get our passenger capacity aboard and we set sail for Pearl Harbor on 28 October at 0749, flying a Home- ward Bound pennant 604 feet long and with 38 stars, a foot for every enlisted man and a star for every officer on board who has been away from the States a year or more. To say that we were happy to see that pennant streaming out over our fantail assisted by the buoyancy of several aerological balloons is not only putting it mildly but is absolutely superfluous. What would otherwise have been such 21 pleasant cruise, however, was fraught with many things to make it almost unpleasant. We had rough weather all the way to PC2111 Harbor, the longest stretch of rough weathcf we have had in our history .It was so rough that not too much sleep was gotten en route? it was almost impossible to stay in one's bunk at night. Add to that the matter of low 1'3- tions, most of them dehydrated, and then add a serious water shortage that made it necessary for us to institute water hours and the SUIT! total wasnat too pleasant. If it had not bCCT1 8

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