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......,,,,, W, - through York Spit Channel. A rough sea outside the buoyed channel initiated many to the throes of mal-de-mer but the journey south cleared the storm area, allowing daily flight operations. Crossing the Tropic of Cancer, the Shangrz'-La entered the tropics on the 24th. The first casualty was suffered a few hours later when a bomber crashed after taking a wave-off. The pilot was rescued by destroyers acting as plane guard but W. D. Reed, ARM 3,!c, went down with the plane. Memorial serv- ices for the missing airman were held on the flight deck at 1000, November 25, 1944. Transiting Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico after sunset on the 25th, she steamed on a southerly course across the Caribbean Sea toward the Gulf of Paria. Making a landfall at sunrise on the 26th, she steamed through Dragon's Mouth Channel into the broad Gulf of Paria, between Trinidad and the Venezuela mainland of South America. Captain Barnet buys 530,000 War Bond from Chaplain Mitchell. H 1 2 fl fi ,l , 3 I ,I V6 5 Q x- ,L
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which had never before been landed aboard a carrier. At 1220 Lt. R. M. Elder QNavyj successfully landed a P-51 fighter aboard, repeating the performance three times without incident. The new P7P Tigercat, twin-engined Navy fighter, made its first landing aboard ship at 1626 with Lt. C. S. Lane at the controls. Prom off the port quarter a big North American B-25 fNavy PBJD circled slowly into the wind, wavered breath-takingly over the stern ramp, and settled down on the Shangri-La's flight deck for the third first in a single day. The pilot, Lt. Comdr, H. S, Bottomly, taxied forward to be catapulted into the air once more. So the plane that first took off from the old Hornet made its first carrier landing aboard the Shangrz'-La. Her schedule completed, the carrier returned to Norfolk to fuel and pro- vision for her shakedown to Trinidad, British West Indies. Escorted by the destroyers Rhind and Trippe, the Shangrz'-La got under way on November 2lst, landing its full complement of 91 planes as it proceeded Captain's Inspection - November 7, 1944.
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