Toledo (CA 133) - Naval Cruise Book

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Full honors for Commanding General, Sth Alr Force Even in Japan they play shuffleboard The scene is th esame in Nagoya, Long Beach or Timbucfu A bunch of the boys . . . Before anyone had much of an opportunity to accustom himself to the different ways of doing the same thing, this familiar note was seen in the plan-of-the-day: Wlhe ship expects to get underway at l000.'i This time we were to go out and help the local Air Force boys repel an attack by people wear- ing the same uniform, hut stationed on Okinawa. The next few days while we cruised slowly up and down the southern coast with our radars forever looking, the various air de- fense stations again were well inhabited, MIKI remembered and the future seen if not realized. Finally the HFEAF Test was over and the ship headed for Nagoya. With a thirty-mile, very shallow channel, the special sea details set a new record of four hours on station before the ship threaded its way alongside the pier to the 111usic of the Air Force band there to greet us. Already we were beginning to find at least one thing to the satisfaction of all-in the three ports visited since Long Beach was left far astern we had tied up all three timesg the likes of this had not been seen since the days of midshipman cruises. Nagoya was good liberty. Here was lo- cated the headquarters of the 5th Air Force and they had the place well organized with an Airmenis Club and another for the Top Three Gradersfi The latter was unusual nomenclature, but no one seemed to experi- ence any trouble translating it. The Air Force liaison people also told us that there was quite a hit to see around. Nr. lVlikimoto's pearls, so many of which were to join the already-mentioned stream of local products heading across the water. came from this area, and some went out to look over the pearl farm. Also, this was the

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Afomic bomb desfruciion in Nagasaki. Early in December, TOLEDO began the longest tour out of Yokosuka, a two-and-one- half week jaunt to Nagasaki, Sasebo, and Fukuoka in the southernmost of the main Japanese islands, Kyushu, then through the narrow and treacherous Strait of Shi- moneseki to Kure on the southern tip of Honshu on the 'Ginland sea. From Kure we returned to Yokosuka for the Christmas holidays. At Nagasaki, the ship entered a well- protected, lovely harbor, circled almost completely by high rolling hills. Here was the home of Cho-Cho-San, the famous Ma- dame Butterfly of the Puccini opera, here was the Ouri Church, one of the most im- pressive of the whole East, here for the sightseer were shops, quaint little streets, the Takarazuka dance hall, here, too,,was the site of the first atom bomb dropped on a war-mad Japan in 1945. Tours covered all these and more. A short run around the western tip of Kyushu brought us to Sasebo, and for the first time in Japan we Gdropped the hook -anchoring in the ship-filled harbor for a short weekend stay that gave us a chance to meet the Army stationed there and to see the sights of a rather out-of-the-way Japa- nese port, and the small Fleet Activities Navy unit there. Fukuoka, only part of a dayas sailing to the north, offered another chapter in the story of our Nippon wander- ings. The challenge of Shimoneseki lay ahead-we set the special sea details and bo- gan to creep through. The landing ai' Fleef Activities, Sasebo. Shimoneseki Sfraif separafnig Honshu and Kyushu