Tortuga (LSD 26) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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SEOUL, THE CAPITAL OF KOREA, IUST 25 MILES NORTH OF INCHON LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT IT The capitol is burned out . . . and 116 'LY ' G r . 1' Q1 'X afe 6 Us are Meets avec The S keg n 4, The railroad station is still standing ' . 4 . and some of the shrines I 1 ,QQ-LL-iA,,q 1 f ' V f ,l, ,f., f , ., ,.,, , , 4 , '2iZiif1I'55f f I ' , ' ':'7-Mi, WfZ?f:-:S-fwfr 7f:f,'Tf 27 7'1:f7':-fzzgf, ,, f . , ,I 4 ,. ,Dwi- f, f , ff-ffyfwwzv wf,4.4f4,f.v.,,, fw-l,,,?sw,.,' , .,.. f,,..wA4..1M4,. . 1 .45 -V 142-4 f '-:.: . 'f- 41- Q , I7 up , -The-:tanks rumble . . . through the ruined city . . . ,but the little girls still smlle Page Thirty