Saint Paul (CA 73) - Naval Cruise Book

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guKA Our home away from home and frequent port for upkeep and maintenance was Yoko- suka. Known by thousands of American sailors since the end of World War II, noisy, teeming little Yokosuka with its Blackmarket Alley and taxicab horns that never stopped blowing, with its cabarets and Japanese singers American style and thousands of girls and stinking sewers, was our home. There was plenty to buy, but there were few bargains, as in Hong Kong. Shrewd Nipponese merchants were not to be taken in by the salty bargaining of a swabbie - they had known too many swabbies to be fooled. We missed Yokosuka sometimes, but we never exactly liked it. We had slowly become accustomed to it. ii V ,f-6 f' M l f ' ' W df I -,,..uslv -Q-,ing N T. sires si' ,- cw, ,X smswwsxdtsscfcilu. c 44 Q. -'ELSE 4 K4 'WMM J ,aff 'tw Af Q-el' .YT,,f sfo

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