Tortuga (LSD 26) - Naval Cruise Book

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They' got the Wallefs - ' - and left him only the empty beer cans The Communist offensive last May made it look for awhile as if Inchon were going to get a little warm for comfort. A number of trans- ports and cargo ships came up to stand by in case of need, while the ELDORADO arrived to mastermind the operation. The Koreans started leavinig town by the junk-load, and for a week or two we didn't know what to expect. The TOLEDO anchored in the north- ern end of the harbor and started heaving 8-inch shells into the enemy lines north of Seoul, but in a few days the offensive had been broken and the danger was past. . Evacuation We'll also remember May as inspection month at Inchon. While the ELDORADO was there just about every Navy ship in the harbor got a thorough going-over. They called it an administrative inspection . . . and getting ready for one of these means taking care of all the filing that has been piling up for the last six months and catching up on reports, schedules, organization charts, orders, memorandums, etc., etc., until you wonder whether you are 'living in a ship or a newspaper office. The great day finally arrived . . . and with it a pouring rain. There we were . . . lined up in dress whites for Admiral's-inspection, with the rain soaking us to the skin and the TOLEDO firing at the enemy just a mile away. What a picture! Oh, well . . . Still and all, it's not so bad being in a port like Inchon. . . for a while, anyway. There may not be much night life, but the free and easy atmosphere when you get ashore is OK. You know, it's surprising how well they're all pretty well up toward the front and more or less in the same situation. You don't find many inter-service squabbles among the beer drinkers at the EM Club in Inchon. The 'next guy who comes in may be soldier, sailor, marine, British, Australian, Belgian, or anything at all. So what? Buy him a beer! Page Twenty-Seven

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While most of us had been saving our money at Inchon, it seemed that our anchor had been doing a little col- lecting on its own. So much, and to tell you the truth the Navy frowns on this sort of thing, that we couldn't pull the darn thing up when we tried the first time. We dragged anchor a little bit one afternoon, and that was when we got the bad news. Now what does a ship's crew do when they find anchor chain is twisted and they can't pull the anchor up? Well . . . they don't let any grass grow under their feet until they can. Oh, yes, we finally did it . . . but just take a look at the anchor when it did come out of the water. BOSN Shel- ley had to go over the side with a blow torch and cut the cable, line, and mis- cellaneous scrap iron away. We thought for a while that we might have to steam around and around in circles until the anchor chain got untwisted, but fortun- ately that wasn't necessary . . . and a good thing, too. If that had happened you could have heard the laughter from other Navy ships all the way to Tokyo. We just didn't deserve such troubles . . . after all, we'd only been minding our own business! Our two months at Inchon went by faster than most of us had expected, and there we were in early June strain- ing our eyes for the WHETSTONE' and thinking longingly of going back to Japan. Well, we thought as we final- ly got underway and watched Inchon fade away into the Korean haze, that's the last we'll see of that place. Ha! But I'm getting ahead of myself, so 1et's get on to Japan in June and I'll tell you about a strange and wonderful Far East custom . . . R 8z R! Americans take to it like ducks to water . . . and after I tell you about it I think you'll see why. Hammond, Bilan, and part of the ROK Army just look at it! The USS TOLEDO on guard' Page Twenty-Nine