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-sometimes six times in a morning. And we went to Shimoda. Here we were on a diplomatic mission. We were a flag ship steaming into the little har- bor to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Admiral Perry's first visit. We were also a flagship that dragged anchor and missed most of the cere- monies that were scheduled for the oc- casion. ln July we went to Halcodate. But most of us couldn't remember much about it but the smell-of drying squid -and how at night it filled the ship. The last day we were there we had fish for dinner, but we weren't very hungry -for fish. By August we had a new squadron aboard, the pollca-dots-Ma- rines from the millpond of the Yellow Sea. They landed with a bang and we took off for Sasebo. From Sasebo un- til the end we anchored out-never quite getting used to the long boat
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. . . We knew something of Japan be- fore we saw her: the odors. Carried with the fog and mist that hid the hills from our first view came smells: wet unpainted wood, open gutters and sew- ers, a touch of incense, habatchi pot charcoal, old clothes and new, a tree in bloom, a vase of flowers on a low table-n-ot each alone, but one, faint single odor, impregnating the mist with the strange scent of the orient. Then we were there. Yokosukag with Kama- kura, Tokyo, Yokohama, close by. And we were -amazed with the hills and greenness of the land and the fantastic shaped terrain. Lots of us took trips to see the temples and old cities. Some of us to-ok trips to see Tokyo-and saw some bars. And from Yokosuka we op- erated. We went to Okinawa again, sinking our enemy subs all the way, and occasionally getting sunk ourselves
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rides to the beach And a lot ot us didn t want to get used to Sasebo wanted to keep trying to find out more and more about it each time we took liberty there A few braver ones took the smoke burner to Nagasaki and after going through some thirty tunnels ar rived with dirty faces and dlrtler whites to 'Find the evidence of the second atomic bomb and the tremendous des- truction it had caused. But each inport period seemed too short, and we oper- ated out too much: to lnchon and the Yellw Sea and back in again, until we had good luck and took our second trip to Hongkong ....
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