Toledo (CA 133) - Naval Cruise Book

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The TOLEDO left Long Beach for the Orient on the evening of 14 October 1949. The operating schedule called for a tour of duty for the cruiser in WesPac, or Western Pacific, including Japanese waters and prob- ably the Philippines. With CA-133 were the HELENA, our partner in CruDiv 3, De- stroyer Squadron 1, and several auxiliaries. The trip over was routine, with the ex- ception of Operation MIKI, a minor peace- time invasion practice about the size of the recent affair at Normandy. Almost the whole Pacific Fleet was there-carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliaries, with the Army and Air Force also operating in force. For nearly two weeks, our diet in- cluded dawn and dusk alerts, General Quar- ters, Air Defenses, and miscellaneous exer- cises and night actions . . . never more than twenty-two hours a day. Climax of MIKI was the mock invasion of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, defended by 6cAggT9SSOT,, forces supplied by our sister services. After a pre-invasion bombardment by the big guns and aircraft, waves of landing craft hit the beaches north of Barber's Point, and not long afterward we had met the enemy and they were ours. TOLEDO and HELENA then proceeded to Pearl Hwrbor for liberty -three whole days-before again heading westward. f it v ff 1 X ' 1 ' f'f' rf' f, ,' ,,wf,fy,Uki7,', ,f f