Napa (APA 157) - Naval Cruise Book

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2 8 FEBRUARY 1945 - 1225 Moored port side to dock No. 5, APHA inner harbor, Guam, Marianas 1s- lands. Messrs. J. P. Marquand of Harpers, Frederick C. Painton, of Reader's Digest, and Norman Soong of Cen- tral News Agency of China, left the ship, having com- pleted transportation from Iwo Jima. 1323 Commenced debarking ambulatory and stretcher patients to the seemingly endless stream of ambulances lined up on the dock. Officers and men alike tried to be among the first ashore to survey the extent of the damage, and to marvel at the gaping hole in our side. Another ten feet and we would have had 30 days at home - survivor's leave. Repair authorities took one look and refused to allow 'the ship to go outside the har- bor. Decaying meat was to be flushed out of the shattered NAV. S. and A. Form No. 338 lkevlscd July ww BILL OF FARE FOR THE GENERAL MESS u,s.s. ,...,, N,:.m..m.a..ii7iD .............,.... gpg Week beginning ........ ,,,,,,.,.,,-,, ,..,-- ---.-,,. , 1 9 BRE AKFAST DINNER SUPPER Raw SPAM Powdered Eg:-gs Powdered Milk Fried SPAM Dehydrated Potatoes Dehydrated Cabbage SPAM en casserole 'alater SPAM Saute Breaded SPAM SPAM Fricasee Toast Dehydrated Cabbage Bread Chicory Water Tropical Butter Fried Pony Peter Powdered Eggs Powdered Milk SPAM ala King Dehydrated Potatoes Toast Cold cuts ' Cold coffee Stale Bread Raw SPALQ Hard-tack Tea Sliced Balogna Powdered Eggs SPAM sandwiches Hater Breaded SPAM Dehydrated Potatoes Dehydrated Carrots Chipped SPAM on toast Bread Fried SPAM Dehydrated Cabbage refrigeration spaces - We Powdered zaik Tropical butter Chifrory Ate Spam. SPAM 'n' Eggs fPowdered, Roast SPAM Southern Fried SPAM. of coursej Sage Dressing Dehydrated French Fries Dehydrated Prunes Dehvdrated Stri ' Beans Dehydrated Carrots . UB Y so , f T- 'Q' P Toast and coffee SPAM a la minute Barbecued SPAM f' K Dehydrated Cabbage Dehydrated Green Peas Q' r Q 9 Hard-Tack Dehydrated Potatoes kf' if Tropical Butter Bicarbonate of Soda Q. X E537 ' Q Tom 95'lm 'd 00 ----4-- Tutu! estimated rations ,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, P W E,,1m,,,d muon ew, pu da, ---- mg g Arrnovsnz Respectfully submitted, ' S7-as-fi. l sae?'3sg1i'a'ga E f'5f s5 5i's t' 2 O n w' 5 '----- gm--If ----'------ f U-S-ay-,IL ni ,,4,,,,-- I ,.,,,- Z ,--- lbig pply 897-pg, ?xS,,N',, - P ' 1 10-lm-H Commmldi ' Commissary SzIjQS1Q,X077icer. i 350051 ima ticking' fa A255665 ,cpe io Wore 5' o 1 owed ior cad meal Neva' gone lm . 991' 93,30 V96 39 w D-X53 Y ugh ez-3. on tb hgh-Q .Yoo NPSA-L5 SY? ,ao-.fl-an ,saab- '1-:-Lads SYNC oi 501135 iof 9' , se ,Donate 59 nga' flwnxlm . aiclifwea we ff. 'Q H9535-Q. 'Z-me C095 Walk, afg uc, X5 'nf Lkukig Q 1 52. N -- 5- .. 56 J a i L 1 l I if? , 4. 'X 5 3 X V V E x l W n S J Q

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54 ' rims '., '. K NN p G U WVWNW 7, ......,.,, ..x... .,,,,,,,.. . ,...i.-.,,.h.... , ..,,.,......4 . ,..,,......,,...A.f,. Th e vley 0 im ea SPECIAL CITY EDITION EXTRA. EXTRA. ATTACK TRANSPURT NAPA SUNK AS RUINED ENEMY FLEET PANIGS Napa Napa Destroyed at Iwo Jima Island By TOKYO ROSE Once again the persistent fools of the United States Navy have seen the error of their ways, the error that had its beginnings when this same navy of the United States attacked Imperial Forces without warning on December 7, 1941. Last night a group of American transports was hastily evacuating surviving members of the U. S. Marine Corps from Iwo ,lima when a squadron of our glorious bomber aircraft, while on a routine mission, chanced upon these helpless ships. Gasoline was low, but our Flyers of the Divine Winds cared not, they swooped in for the kill. The enemy did not fire a single shot and were pounded mercilessly by our superior men in our superior planes. As Squadron Leader Itchy Nomora says, H. . the slaughter was complete. Not a ship of the once great U. S. Navy is still afloat. Confusion seemed to be the greatest on a ship of the Victory type which bore the numbers 157 on its bow. However, once the ship was definitely on its way down, the confusion seemed to dissi- pate, and members of the bomber squadron say that they could hear, very faintly, men on this transport number 157 actually singing. And the words seemed to be these, 6' .... it was sad, it was sad when that great ship went down . . . Death to the Yankees. Death to the Dodgers. Dai Nippon!! Survivors of Napa Napa Tell Tale of Horror By BONNIE SMILEY Tales of raw heroism, raw courage, raw sea- manship, and raw SPAM were told today when the transport Napa, a gaping hole in her side, brought 2341 wounded from the Iwo Jima fight to Guam hospitals. uTraveling in the black of night off Two Jima at the height of the bloody, blaring battle, the Napa was rammed by another ship of the United Sta'tes Fleetf' 64I'didn't know what had hit us, Lt. Maitland Baldwin, Concord, Mass., in charge of hospital corpsmen, said: 44We got word from the bridge-or pinochle, if you prefer-to prepare to abandon ship, and in ten minutes our corpsmen had every case of brandy safely on deck. Our lifeboats were gone, but our spirits were up, and we prepared to drop the patients over the 'side and 'turn to' on the brandyf' A Tragedy was averted, however, by quick work of the Napa's yeomen, who mimeographed the Plan of the Day in the nick of time. The skipper of the ship that had done the ramming then pulled his vessel alongside the badly listing, happily helpless Napa, in a vain effort to salvage the few remaining bottles of Spiritus Fermentus. '4Our hospital corpsmen were just too, too divine, ' Lieutenant Baldwin said. L5They forgot all about their own pinochle games, and even gave their best Bicycle Playing Cards to the patients.