Rowe (DD 564) - Naval Cruise Book

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u I I i 4 f. V W , .J A . . . had El charm all its own 0 . 0 Visiting Japan was an experience that most of us will never forget . . . it was the first place we found that things were really different from the way that things were at home . . . the landscape was different, the houses were also. . . and inaway the people were also. . . but we found that we liked it . . . and not everything was too different after ipis p all.. . v .X l fix, V IHHQ l:'Cer I s

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oim FIRST DUTY KUREA PATIHIL Ten days of Korean patrol gave two memor- able moments . . . First the ROWE was called upon to escort two Japanese transports carrying Thailand troops . . . with the Thailand prime minister aboard . . . And second the ROWE took part in a search for a downed military aircraft that resulted in a rescue aircraft being towed into harbor by the ROWE . . . thought to be the only instance of a destroyer rescuing an aircraft by taking it in tow on the open seas . . . to the right and below are actual pictures of the rescued rescue plane and of a rescue boat picking up survivors . . . night prevented pictures being taken of the plane while in tow astern the ROWE . . . Following Korean operations we transited the Shimonoseki Straits to Kobe, Japan . . .