Quincy (CA 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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ENTERING THE GOLDEN GATE l SILVER STRAND K i

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DIAY 1952 Sun. lHon. Tue YVed. Thur Fd. SaL 5. Inn -X' E. lil 6 - 7 1 8 2 9 3 10 11 18 25 12 19 26 13 20 27 14 21 28 15 22 29 16 23 30 17 24 31 FROM PUGET TO if X RE xiii 'N BREMERTONTNJSAN'DIEGO Our first stop was in Bangor, Washington, a small but heavily guarded landing on the edge of Puget Sound where, in the booming words of the Gun Boss, we would take the bullets aboardsli' If we had hoped for a town we were sadly disappointed, but if we had expected bullets we were not. Boxcar after boxcar, loaded with deadly missiles, was rolled onto the dock. Streams of men swarmed up both gangways, bowed under the shells they carried, Other hun- dreds carried the ammunition to its final storage spaces. The ship settled deeper and deeper into thc water, We loaded on through the afternoon. Night fell, and we rigged lights, Still the bullets came aboards. Sweat streamed from our faces. Our backs and our arms ached, and every step was more difficult than the last. But we stuck at it, and before collapsing into sleep we had gotten it loaded, Late reveille was held in the morning, but when we woke, we were ready to learn to be a fighting ship. We steamed South from Bangor, through the blue calm of the coastal Pacific, until the mighty Golden Gate Bridge loomed up through the haze and the mist, We passed be- nsath it into San Francisco Bay and tied up to the dock at Oakland Newspapers streamed banner headlines Historic Ship Quincy Greeted Here' We meie loadin boats and stores for the coming trip and had only a brief weehend among the cable cars and hills the waterfront Chinatown among all the rushin conglomerate contrasts of a growing world metropolis Then we rushed back to the ship and low sxdewise glances at the formidable face of Alcatraz We were on our way to San Diego TURN TO THE SEA CALM PACIFIC 5. l E V 3 L I r l 5 l 1 l P i i E l f E I D . . Q 9 ' . :ff '. ' . .,, 'I 9 g 1 . 9 5 . M- X . gv i . , Q . cast off, and on the way back out through the Bay we cast g , 1 . ' . . 7,7 , ' ' ' C ' r V .

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