Richmond (CL 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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2 . , , ' 5, V! . , .1 . r, l N E-,Sf 'E J' 5 I n, 'Wig JAPANESE PILOTS POINT WAY Sour-faced Japs enroute to r RiclJm01zd's bridge. i What's over there? Cap- tain Leppert, With hand up- raised, questions Japs on navigational landmark. Rumpled and un- happy Jap pilot, L i e u t . C m d r . Kawai, Watches his assistants board. At 0600 on the morning of September 8, 1945, three stumpy Japs, dressed in rumpled green, climbed up the ship's sea ladder and over the rail. Under-slung and buck-toothed souls, they were the pilot, interpreter, and signalman supplied by the senior Japanese commander in the Northern Honshu-Hok- kaido area. Less than a month before they were actively fighting. But this day, their nation hopelessly beaten, they were aiding the occupation of the Ominato Naval Reserva- tion.

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' ' K t 'f9 :l 1 'J l - 3 31. + 2 l TO NCRTHERN NAVAL BASE s Q America is big and so are Americans. Lieut. Cmdr. Rule consults with Japanese I I 1 IE X lX 4 517 5. iN l x 0 1 if l23 5 3 pilot While boatswain mates Burbage and r, Worley look on. ,AQ L i as Bandy-legged Jap chief signalman gives Word to the home folks that the Americans are coming. 4 My i 575 ,, Unhappy and sullen-faced, they bowed gs to the officer sent to escort them to the Rich- 5 11'l01'ld,S bridge. And then, closely guarded, , the three little men, whose leaders' big ideas fl had blown up in their faces, trotted off to the 53 pilot house. ls 5 i 9 l i 5 Yes, it's too late. Three unhappy 3, Nips consult KaWai's Watch dur- ing the trip into Ominato. v -F I3 5 '54 4 S. 3 'S V Y-Y ,V , ...N 7, ,, MJ Z, , ,, -A-K-Mw3:ailf,e. 1 V gg . ,, ,v----mx ,. ., , -iuvwlrf