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The Bes t F rom The We s t Coa s t West
Capt James H OBrien Commanding Officer
Cdr Robert E Gallatin Executive Officer
Lt John J Maloney Public Information Officer
Lt(j g) John A Lorton Assistant P I O
STAFF H Ray Hendley JOl bullbullbullbullbullbull Edi tor-in-Chi ef Ronn D Perry J02 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull Ed i tor Nick E Bernatz SN bull bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull Reporter Steve M EUumenthal JOSN bullbullbullbullbullbullbull Reporte r Mark E Donnelly YN 3bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull COntr1but or
PRINT SHOP Felix For tuna LIl Tony Prizina LI3 Phil A Marinaro LISN Sam 110 Latham SN Kent D Flowers SN IAilliam H Broffi SN Roger F Peterson SN
MIDAAY JEST is reproduced i n the shi p s Print Shop monthly with nonapproshypr1ated funds at no cost t o the Governshyment i n compliance with NAVEXOS P-3S
CONTENTS APl ATN SPFAKIJG_ _ ______ Page 4 F~-lA GUARD Pale 5 JATfR FfilTURE Page 6- 7 Cqmiddot~ rUIS COLUMN Page 8 1lDAy I S H R AR Page 9 )01il AN~tvFRSARY Page 10-11 c(TIcrrs Page 12 -lIDJIyen HLPLF Pare 13 IPPO~f IN A N1TSH~L PaRe l~-15 YllKOSUKA 20 YEARS ACO Page 16- 17 REC9rOTION TN YOKOSUJliI Page 1 8 ADCT ERA Page 19
ELE1V PICTURES bullbullbull are worth 11cxxgt words as Midw-ay sailors bid a reluctant nSaycnara ll to i ves r irlfriends and fari) 1es before 1eaving Alameda lar ch 6 for Pawaj i and poirts west
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CAPTAIN
SPEAKING
By Ca ptaIn J M o O Brien
We al l ge t carried away ~th the tons of r egulat shyions rules directives repor ts and orders ~hich
exist at every echelon of command at every l evel of government Many ar e necshyessary many repetiti ve many supernuous An arshyticle in the Naval Insti shytute Proceedings stated Never bef ore have (8 had so wany r eams of instructshyi ons and 80 l ittle actual communicat i on Never 90 many directives and so li~ tle sonse of direction Never so much reollired leadershi p training and Dr-ver so l i ttle effect~_ve
leadership II I believe thi s is true and feel in most cases va are printing over and directing ourselshyve s a~y from the importshya nt i s sues I ndeed many t imes i t takes a Phi l adel shyphi a l ayYs r t o in t erpret inst ructions and since our lawyer Lt Li ghtstone i s f rom Ne w York we ha ve to make our OWTl best interprs tation
Have you ever considershyed the multitude o f reshyports directi ves exershyci ses etc that attempt to define and measure combat r ead iness Well ~at is combat readines s It is simply a c~ ~ability to vit bat tles and if battles Bre 1I0n they rlust be on pri shymarily 1n t he hearts of men So I defi ne and meBshysure combat r eadines s by IIlittl e things II such as the choery lIaye aye II the smart sal ute t he pri de in sel f mil itary appea rance conduct of the sailor man on liberty the po s itive attitude and adher ence to
a personal code of hono and integrity These li1 tle thig11 are hat makl a division 8 ship a na~ and a nation
So it 1s dth almos everything and e shouldrl get carried BJBy Wi th de taUed impedimenta t o thl point here 118 l ose s i gh o f the simpl e iund8JOental All the volumes on 1eadermiddot ship thou~h VBry excell en and important - I bel i eve can be summarized by s ay
ing nBs a man knoW you stuff take care of you man II Instead of lssu1n directves e ca provid direction if we Would onl ilta1k to one another Talking to one another liscussing our probl eTl) and keepin informed 11 real l y cOlllJTlUJlicatng 11 the finest sense Anlt finally we can comply Witt Illl the rules r egulation and instructions if We U SI
discretion good COnunOI
s ense and remember it the IIlit le things II iJ l i fe that count
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SEAMEN STEP OUT
Seaman Guard l ed by makes r eady t o pass in San Francisco
Midway s Seaman Guard frcnt of tJ rlvi fii n in i ts fir~t pUhlic perfop stlno thllt j t Il rr tntt~ 3
mance took second pl ace in sIecial hvaTl (t rmiddotrlt iT San Francisco s hippest arlrliti(1n t) tr trcrv i parade of the year not e of ngtn - r ri~~ inr JS
At the annulil Chinese al~o rlaquocivr 1 r( ~ I
NeI Year s na r aoe Feb 1 1 12 th Nswl I-t-middot Mi da Is SeMHn Guar d rep shy The ~ltn lTl1(
r esen ting the 12th Naval the 1 eud1T ~ f T -
Distr ict cstured second 1ichaE] J I - middoto n nlace in co~netition 1 th ed after
oe r 100 march im un t s A rrcm IJF~ - ~~ 1middot bull re t r(--hv amp5 8Jarcled t o the u8orcl nr (4~ ~ - - rfs-rtn Guard for 1ts exce shy arduous 11) I~ _ ll~nt di~p18y of preci sion out a hi ~h j~ f ~ c 1shy
d rills Theuro tronhy 1s nov fpctiOTl bull on disnlRY in t he Crevs LookinF tc thp r t-(
LOUlIA LTJG Conror i ~ in hCfF
Th~ Chine~e Chamber of th(gt Spail~Tl fi-IT
CorJlP T Ce Jas iO lmoressed 51111801 a-middotv -shy (1gtlt lC
hv a dlsolAy of comnlic8- fOl p ipn aud iancEs duri np
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WHAT
During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
I I middotha tis more wh en the ship
visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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SKYllAWKS M C - ME shyAttack Sauadrons 22 and 23 (F1rht1n~ Red cocks ) (m ack Kni ghts)
ClA - COD (Carrier On Board Delivery
(mail and personnel )
FaD CRUSADF~ - Fighter 111 (Sundowners ) - RFS-A version by Phoshytographic Sauadron 63 (Alfaga toTs )
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I TURNS TWENTY WORLDS BIGGEST
AT LAUNCHING uss Midway vlf tho nride of the U S iavy middothen she las
launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
lmiddotidmiddot8Y has tu--ned 20 he hid h~r r ce lifted twice and has raincd a little w6ipht hen and the-e But t oday this Fi[hting Lady of the Seus thrcls a d(~dlier nun~h than ever before She is still tho prido of thr IS r~DIY
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
A N U1LsectH1ELL
the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
Hos t common of the gea s tories circ
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
Seventh Fleot Gailors ~athAr a-c a corner of t~)e Imshyperilll Pallcq flourdgt in rlomtovn Tokyo on onO of mnny tours o~fer~d by the Yoko9ukn Special Servicns Tours Offico
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ilrlgtth s shore oarty ( t PlJt biro dry docks ric ch Rre r ill ed Ii th tlgt ~-~~ -i jmiddotct sJInlrino~ and (a- L 1d mot0r bonts i n shyt flrQd to SP1O as last reshy- rt ft - ~ tlr r machinoJ of +(- Jlr1o 3 0 Illmerial NaVJ
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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CONTENTS APl ATN SPFAKIJG_ _ ______ Page 4 F~-lA GUARD Pale 5 JATfR FfilTURE Page 6- 7 Cqmiddot~ rUIS COLUMN Page 8 1lDAy I S H R AR Page 9 )01il AN~tvFRSARY Page 10-11 c(TIcrrs Page 12 -lIDJIyen HLPLF Pare 13 IPPO~f IN A N1TSH~L PaRe l~-15 YllKOSUKA 20 YEARS ACO Page 16- 17 REC9rOTION TN YOKOSUJliI Page 1 8 ADCT ERA Page 19
ELE1V PICTURES bullbullbull are worth 11cxxgt words as Midw-ay sailors bid a reluctant nSaycnara ll to i ves r irlfriends and fari) 1es before 1eaving Alameda lar ch 6 for Pawaj i and poirts west
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By Ca ptaIn J M o O Brien
We al l ge t carried away ~th the tons of r egulat shyions rules directives repor ts and orders ~hich
exist at every echelon of command at every l evel of government Many ar e necshyessary many repetiti ve many supernuous An arshyticle in the Naval Insti shytute Proceedings stated Never bef ore have (8 had so wany r eams of instructshyi ons and 80 l ittle actual communicat i on Never 90 many directives and so li~ tle sonse of direction Never so much reollired leadershi p training and Dr-ver so l i ttle effect~_ve
leadership II I believe thi s is true and feel in most cases va are printing over and directing ourselshyve s a~y from the importshya nt i s sues I ndeed many t imes i t takes a Phi l adel shyphi a l ayYs r t o in t erpret inst ructions and since our lawyer Lt Li ghtstone i s f rom Ne w York we ha ve to make our OWTl best interprs tation
Have you ever considershyed the multitude o f reshyports directi ves exershyci ses etc that attempt to define and measure combat r ead iness Well ~at is combat readines s It is simply a c~ ~ability to vit bat tles and if battles Bre 1I0n they rlust be on pri shymarily 1n t he hearts of men So I defi ne and meBshysure combat r eadines s by IIlittl e things II such as the choery lIaye aye II the smart sal ute t he pri de in sel f mil itary appea rance conduct of the sailor man on liberty the po s itive attitude and adher ence to
a personal code of hono and integrity These li1 tle thig11 are hat makl a division 8 ship a na~ and a nation
So it 1s dth almos everything and e shouldrl get carried BJBy Wi th de taUed impedimenta t o thl point here 118 l ose s i gh o f the simpl e iund8JOental All the volumes on 1eadermiddot ship thou~h VBry excell en and important - I bel i eve can be summarized by s ay
ing nBs a man knoW you stuff take care of you man II Instead of lssu1n directves e ca provid direction if we Would onl ilta1k to one another Talking to one another liscussing our probl eTl) and keepin informed 11 real l y cOlllJTlUJlicatng 11 the finest sense Anlt finally we can comply Witt Illl the rules r egulation and instructions if We U SI
discretion good COnunOI
s ense and remember it the IIlit le things II iJ l i fe that count
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SEAMEN STEP OUT
Seaman Guard l ed by makes r eady t o pass in San Francisco
Midway s Seaman Guard frcnt of tJ rlvi fii n in i ts fir~t pUhlic perfop stlno thllt j t Il rr tntt~ 3
mance took second pl ace in sIecial hvaTl (t rmiddotrlt iT San Francisco s hippest arlrliti(1n t) tr trcrv i parade of the year not e of ngtn - r ri~~ inr JS
At the annulil Chinese al~o rlaquocivr 1 r( ~ I
NeI Year s na r aoe Feb 1 1 12 th Nswl I-t-middot Mi da Is SeMHn Guar d rep shy The ~ltn lTl1(
r esen ting the 12th Naval the 1 eud1T ~ f T -
Distr ict cstured second 1ichaE] J I - middoto n nlace in co~netition 1 th ed after
oe r 100 march im un t s A rrcm IJF~ - ~~ 1middot bull re t r(--hv amp5 8Jarcled t o the u8orcl nr (4~ ~ - - rfs-rtn Guard for 1ts exce shy arduous 11) I~ _ ll~nt di~p18y of preci sion out a hi ~h j~ f ~ c 1shy
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During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
I I middotha tis more wh en the ship
visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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ClA - COD (Carrier On Board Delivery
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FaD CRUSADF~ - Fighter 111 (Sundowners ) - RFS-A version by Phoshytographic Sauadron 63 (Alfaga toTs )
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AT LAUNCHING uss Midway vlf tho nride of the U S iavy middothen she las
launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
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Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
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Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
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Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
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Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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By Ca ptaIn J M o O Brien
We al l ge t carried away ~th the tons of r egulat shyions rules directives repor ts and orders ~hich
exist at every echelon of command at every l evel of government Many ar e necshyessary many repetiti ve many supernuous An arshyticle in the Naval Insti shytute Proceedings stated Never bef ore have (8 had so wany r eams of instructshyi ons and 80 l ittle actual communicat i on Never 90 many directives and so li~ tle sonse of direction Never so much reollired leadershi p training and Dr-ver so l i ttle effect~_ve
leadership II I believe thi s is true and feel in most cases va are printing over and directing ourselshyve s a~y from the importshya nt i s sues I ndeed many t imes i t takes a Phi l adel shyphi a l ayYs r t o in t erpret inst ructions and since our lawyer Lt Li ghtstone i s f rom Ne w York we ha ve to make our OWTl best interprs tation
Have you ever considershyed the multitude o f reshyports directi ves exershyci ses etc that attempt to define and measure combat r ead iness Well ~at is combat readines s It is simply a c~ ~ability to vit bat tles and if battles Bre 1I0n they rlust be on pri shymarily 1n t he hearts of men So I defi ne and meBshysure combat r eadines s by IIlittl e things II such as the choery lIaye aye II the smart sal ute t he pri de in sel f mil itary appea rance conduct of the sailor man on liberty the po s itive attitude and adher ence to
a personal code of hono and integrity These li1 tle thig11 are hat makl a division 8 ship a na~ and a nation
So it 1s dth almos everything and e shouldrl get carried BJBy Wi th de taUed impedimenta t o thl point here 118 l ose s i gh o f the simpl e iund8JOental All the volumes on 1eadermiddot ship thou~h VBry excell en and important - I bel i eve can be summarized by s ay
ing nBs a man knoW you stuff take care of you man II Instead of lssu1n directves e ca provid direction if we Would onl ilta1k to one another Talking to one another liscussing our probl eTl) and keepin informed 11 real l y cOlllJTlUJlicatng 11 the finest sense Anlt finally we can comply Witt Illl the rules r egulation and instructions if We U SI
discretion good COnunOI
s ense and remember it the IIlit le things II iJ l i fe that count
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SEAMEN STEP OUT
Seaman Guard l ed by makes r eady t o pass in San Francisco
Midway s Seaman Guard frcnt of tJ rlvi fii n in i ts fir~t pUhlic perfop stlno thllt j t Il rr tntt~ 3
mance took second pl ace in sIecial hvaTl (t rmiddotrlt iT San Francisco s hippest arlrliti(1n t) tr trcrv i parade of the year not e of ngtn - r ri~~ inr JS
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WHAT
During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
I I middotha tis more wh en the ship
visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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AT LAUNCHING uss Midway vlf tho nride of the U S iavy middothen she las
launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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II - tlJ r a volunteered ~ -c ashore II IllMoth -ji lI e climbed into a lrJi-l craft and carried Jt ~n asnl t Illnrlinp on middot~L ms thpn called Green AR lh T1is area is no h8 site of the r eceivinf sttion and recreatjon hrit are1
ilrlgtth s shore oarty ( t PlJt biro dry docks ric ch Rre r ill ed Ii th tlgt ~-~~ -i jmiddotct sJInlrino~ and (a- L 1d mot0r bonts i n shyt flrQd to SP1O as last reshy- rt ft - ~ tlr r machinoJ of +(- Jlr1o 3 0 Illmerial NaVJ
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~-3--middotinu nool t-middot ( ~~~tbued t o a 1 n bull ~ n r~i1~oq1- -- -= 1 ~o J ~r _ (I)middotlri for ~e Japan~~o ~rltt~e el f Defenss Fez _
At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
leo 1th either flilt~ t
~eci ~ho9s or boon nock shyergt
Thea t8 5 no main Iat e lt thlt tille The tn1nor shy
loca trd n r tre no - an~er bus stJml ct te r rilroad stitirm If lr cl 11Jcd to 0 a3hnr~ yeu me cly kicked a bOl ~ loo3ltl in t hfl fence zu omiddota lib the b1sB Jlnd 11 lo ovor to the tllrod poundh shyti nn lnd cl irr1C1 a 1(1 r n train rili nr 8nymiddotrotrltgt i J90an f r ee of chnr~9 Tris Iil nt )l~ 10 1~ ~o ( middotmiddot middot
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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By Ca ptaIn J M o O Brien
We al l ge t carried away ~th the tons of r egulat shyions rules directives repor ts and orders ~hich
exist at every echelon of command at every l evel of government Many ar e necshyessary many repetiti ve many supernuous An arshyticle in the Naval Insti shytute Proceedings stated Never bef ore have (8 had so wany r eams of instructshyi ons and 80 l ittle actual communicat i on Never 90 many directives and so li~ tle sonse of direction Never so much reollired leadershi p training and Dr-ver so l i ttle effect~_ve
leadership II I believe thi s is true and feel in most cases va are printing over and directing ourselshyve s a~y from the importshya nt i s sues I ndeed many t imes i t takes a Phi l adel shyphi a l ayYs r t o in t erpret inst ructions and since our lawyer Lt Li ghtstone i s f rom Ne w York we ha ve to make our OWTl best interprs tation
Have you ever considershyed the multitude o f reshyports directi ves exershyci ses etc that attempt to define and measure combat r ead iness Well ~at is combat readines s It is simply a c~ ~ability to vit bat tles and if battles Bre 1I0n they rlust be on pri shymarily 1n t he hearts of men So I defi ne and meBshysure combat r eadines s by IIlittl e things II such as the choery lIaye aye II the smart sal ute t he pri de in sel f mil itary appea rance conduct of the sailor man on liberty the po s itive attitude and adher ence to
a personal code of hono and integrity These li1 tle thig11 are hat makl a division 8 ship a na~ and a nation
So it 1s dth almos everything and e shouldrl get carried BJBy Wi th de taUed impedimenta t o thl point here 118 l ose s i gh o f the simpl e iund8JOental All the volumes on 1eadermiddot ship thou~h VBry excell en and important - I bel i eve can be summarized by s ay
ing nBs a man knoW you stuff take care of you man II Instead of lssu1n directves e ca provid direction if we Would onl ilta1k to one another Talking to one another liscussing our probl eTl) and keepin informed 11 real l y cOlllJTlUJlicatng 11 the finest sense Anlt finally we can comply Witt Illl the rules r egulation and instructions if We U SI
discretion good COnunOI
s ense and remember it the IIlit le things II iJ l i fe that count
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SEAMEN STEP OUT
Seaman Guard l ed by makes r eady t o pass in San Francisco
Midway s Seaman Guard frcnt of tJ rlvi fii n in i ts fir~t pUhlic perfop stlno thllt j t Il rr tntt~ 3
mance took second pl ace in sIecial hvaTl (t rmiddotrlt iT San Francisco s hippest arlrliti(1n t) tr trcrv i parade of the year not e of ngtn - r ri~~ inr JS
At the annulil Chinese al~o rlaquocivr 1 r( ~ I
NeI Year s na r aoe Feb 1 1 12 th Nswl I-t-middot Mi da Is SeMHn Guar d rep shy The ~ltn lTl1(
r esen ting the 12th Naval the 1 eud1T ~ f T -
Distr ict cstured second 1ichaE] J I - middoto n nlace in co~netition 1 th ed after
oe r 100 march im un t s A rrcm IJF~ - ~~ 1middot bull re t r(--hv amp5 8Jarcled t o the u8orcl nr (4~ ~ - - rfs-rtn Guard for 1ts exce shy arduous 11) I~ _ ll~nt di~p18y of preci sion out a hi ~h j~ f ~ c 1shy
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During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
I I middotha tis more wh en the ship
visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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AT LAUNCHING uss Midway vlf tho nride of the U S iavy middothen she las
launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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Midway s Seaman Guard frcnt of tJ rlvi fii n in i ts fir~t pUhlic perfop stlno thllt j t Il rr tntt~ 3
mance took second pl ace in sIecial hvaTl (t rmiddotrlt iT San Francisco s hippest arlrliti(1n t) tr trcrv i parade of the year not e of ngtn - r ri~~ inr JS
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During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
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visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
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First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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During the last WestPac c ruise MidYSy had water hours only ~ du o to oVeruS8r8 by the crew
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visited Hong Kong she could easily afford to CORshyt r ibute fresh water to the thirs ty people of this pap chad city Unfortunately t he vater picture doesn t
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SALT TEST - Leroy E Pelshyler BT2 San Antoni o To as takes sample of f r esh ~ter just made to test for sali ni ty Fresh vater on MIDWAY is purer t han water made anywhere ashore
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ABOUT WATER HOURS
look as r osy and abundant for Midway during this upshycoming cruise
An increased t empo in Our operati ng schedule plus certain weather conshyditions not encountered on the last cruise will r equire every man aboard to double his water-conse~ vation efforts to keep the showers running
I think e can expect longer at-eea peri ods and a greater number of f l ight operations on this cruise than we had on the last one said Cmdr RE Gal_ latin executive officer II This will requi re mo re fre sh water than was needshyed on the l ast cruise
Since Mid~y is amp ship with a military mission her boilers and catapul ts ge t first prior i ty at ashyvailable fresh water It takes an aver age of 250 gallons of wat er just t o launch one pl ane That s a lot of H2O when you conshysider that on some days as many aa 125 launches are made
Wind conditions also play a bi g part in the ashymount of water these II first priori t yU users reshyquire There may be days i n the China or Philippine Sea s when there is little vind The boi lers mus t
step up the ships spee t o supply the 32 knots re quired t o launch aircr aft This t akes more vater
Two otner el6Jlent whi ch will require thl crew to buckle down on COl
servation are cl imate anI sea t emperatures in Wes~ ern Pacific at6Ts ht last cruise was f rom Novmiddot ember 1963 t o May 1964
comparatively cool seasor for tll e a r ea This e ru lill be warmer Mor e sho) ers dll be taken
Too t he warmer thf sea t emperature t he s loolshyer our evaporators will produce fresh water n said Lt (j g) Bill M Armonmiddot trout one of the ships boiler offi cers and a m~ who knows hi s water
The reason for this was explained in layman terms by boilerman first clas9 Gene Barham Mr Armonshyt r outs right- hand man on the evapa
uSea wa ter is taken 1n and heated in a vacuum t o form a vapor leaving the sal t behind II he explai ned II After this vapor is reshyheated three times to puP ify it and remove all traces of salt it is ran through a system of coils mere it is cooled to fom water II
Water taken directly
from the sea is us ed as the cooling agent II he co~ tinued So t he warmer the sea water is the slo~ er the vapor condenses and the l onge r i t takes t o accumulate f resh w te r I
The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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AT LAUNCHING uss Midway vlf tho nride of the U S iavy middothen she las
launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
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loca trd n r tre no - an~er bus stJml ct te r rilroad stitirm If lr cl 11Jcd to 0 a3hnr~ yeu me cly kicked a bOl ~ loo3ltl in t hfl fence zu omiddota lib the b1sB Jlnd 11 lo ovor to the tllrod poundh shyti nn lnd cl irr1C1 a 1(1 r n train rili nr 8nymiddotrotrltgt i J90an f r ee of chnr~9 Tris Iil nt )l~ 10 1~ ~o ( middotmiddot middot
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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The newer aircraft carshyr iers dont have the vater problem which Mid ay has According t o Mr Armonshy
trout Miday s four evapshyor~tors are of 1920 vinshyt age and were ins talled vhen the ship was construamp ted in t he 1940 s Our evaps can make 20AOOO g~ Ions of fresh wate r dai l y while the ne ar carriers can produce at leas t 100 000 gallons more during the same peri od
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WATEID~ - Gene T Barham BTl of Hot Springs Ark checks the water level on the l1 t hird ef reet of one of MIf1~AY s evaporators IoIhUe Jack H Anns trong FN ofmiddot DurfUr Ore takes t emperature of condensation
Our evapor ator s wer e not designed to handle highspeed jet l aunchings and a crew of 370011 he said This is another reason e have to COnsershyve 1I
On Mi dvay 21 gallons of water are allotted per man per day and no more can be used i f the ship is to operate efficiently IJithout wa t er hours From
21 gallons mus t ccme all t he vater used for showers drinki ng and ate r used i n the gal l ey l aundry photo l ab etc On t he ne~r carri ers Conshystellation and Kitty Halolk for instance each man Is allotted some 40 gallons per day
Dur i ng the February atshysea period crelJmembers had their firs t bad taste of hat wa te r hours lJOuld be like in JestPac Al shythough the weather was cool i ntensive flight opshyerati ons were hel d ni ght and day during t his perioq requir ing a gr eat amount of water At t he same time the Crew was us i ng 30-J5 gallons per day per man Thus the showers were secured
The water pi cture i9 not all gloo~ for t his cruise Water hours ar e not inevitable Every man aboard Midway has a say i n t he matter
II I f eve ryone will make an hones t and determined ef f ort t o conserve water I know we can avoid wa te r hours comple tel y during t his cruise1I Lt(j bull bull ) Arshymantrout said
Otherwise he added Im certain there Jill be many days of wa ter hours in WestPac II
That s the fo re cast I t s that s i mpl e
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J By Chaplain F W McGovern
It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
Seventh Fleot Gailors ~athAr a-c a corner of t~)e Imshyperilll Pallcq flourdgt in rlomtovn Tokyo on onO of mnny tours o~fer~d by the Yoko9ukn Special Servicns Tours Offico
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
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First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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It is a rather hot day in the I9stern pacifi c to write about Chrlst~9 pap tlcularly in the month of April I do not intend to warn you that there are only about 200 shopping days till Chrlst~as but rather to point out that it 1s a tradition in milishytary life that all who can do so RO home for Christshymas The obSArvance of Christmas has becomo cen tared about the home yet the first Christmas vas brought about because all the participants in that mystery left home The Christ-child left his heashyvenly home to come and live amonr men Mary and Joseph left the comfort of familiar places and pershysons to journey to Bethleshyhem On the road for many
leeks tho Three lise Men vare rolleving the star to the stAble The shepherds left their sheepfolds to go over to Be t hlehem and see what has come to pass
In the narrow sense of t he term you and I are far from home this morninlJ Yet in the vider sense of the term home ve are closer to our loved ones than ever before Though in many cases they are not physical l y present thoy should be enshrined in our memories and hearts In this wider senSe of the term none of us has eve r really left home This thought should strengthen us not only during the Christmas season but evshyery day of the year even on a hot morn i ng in Anril
Five years ago during a cruise lith the Marine Ready Force in the Meditshyerranean it was the cusshytom to offer this prayer aboard shi p the night beshyfore en~er1ng port May I now pass it along to you to stren~then the ties that bind you to those you
lovs Far from hOr)e a
those I love I find r thoughts turning to the ~th affectionate longing o thou who art wi th my di tant loved ones even mil Thou art here wi th me wi listens t o their prayer even as you listen to Jir bi e9S us and keep us un ted in spirit until meet again Let my mam cry hold them in such 101
in g embrace that I be ch~ ered by t he i r imagined pr sence Ke ep me under th influence of the ties th~ bind me to them so t ha even 1n strange surround ings I may conduct mysel in ways t hat do them hono Keep me gratefully m1ndN of the blessings of thei love and let me not giyen vay to loneliness or desmiddot pondency Help me t bring cheer to my comrade mo like me are separatec from their dear ones Fo Thou 0 God art tbe Famiddot ther of all Thou art tb s ource of all 10e ~loru who puts his faith in Th~ noed ever feel friendles or for cl1kAn 11
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launched on March 20 1945 ht 15 000 tos sho tltaS the firGt of her class and the rest ship the orld had ever seen Hid way middota~ launcheJ (~t the lSTlOrt News Shiphuildirg and Drydock Co only )7 months afteuror her keel was laid
Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
Seventh Fleot Gailors ~athAr a-c a corner of t~)e Imshyperilll Pallcq flourdgt in rlomtovn Tokyo on onO of mnny tours o~fer~d by the Yoko9ukn Special Servicns Tours Offico
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
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Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
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Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
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Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
A N U1LsectH1ELL
the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
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Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
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Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
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Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
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Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
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Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
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Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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Thourh built too llte to f i rht i n ~middotorld middotjar II tho ship bear s the nano of one of the rrH3+ hut-tIes of the Pacific lar The Battle of f1i(hIlY fOUl t JU11P 3-6 1742 proveurod the turning point in the racine ar ard delcnstratcd the Iltrfare potential of carrier idion
After conIIiss10ni nr in Serl 1945 gt1 rha1 ooora ted for ashybout nine yoars in t1c ftllntic noct A ye-r aftrr she las launched the shir led a t9~_ rOrf6 t o the icy Jlters of Greenland for IOperation rosl J it) I 11 co~d weathEr experishyment which tested currier oper~ticns under ext r eme eather conditions
During these early yeDrs 1id~y made her mark on higttory by becoMing tho first US Jhi from middothich a rocket WCiS 1 8111+ ched The V- 2 ro(ket was fired fr eM her fli~ht dad in the Caribhean in Sept 1947
In January 1949 she was admjtted to tho l Royal Order of the Blue Nosel whon she crmed the ~ct1cCirc] e cr t~orth At lantic operations In the ~lcd1torranean she hricp took part in internat i onal maneUV6r~ with forces o f t l lo ~ort- Atshyl antic Treaty Or~anization
Nidway firt joined the US Paciflc Fleet i n early ]955 Af ter completinr her first 14ostF-ac erusc in Sept 1955 sho was decommissioned at BreMerton Ib~h ro oytensivQ overshyhaul and modernization
The ship as recor1lnisficned Sept 30 1957 She cmerfed f rom the shipyarrl 1S a f2COn t on 1rpound~el 1nd displayed a hunicane bO anr~led de8k he r firt steam catapuJ ts and nemiddot - t y pe arrGstiri~ ca
Since cominG ol(r to tho adfic Hidway has had five tours of juty wilh the uS Seventh Floet on which her crew has work Ed hard ~nd lonr hGurs to carry o~t the ship s mis shysion prcservinp the frlpdor and detfrrirg Bprre5sion in Southeast Asia and t ho fre nations in the Pacific COfTIJland This upccltinr cru-se will be middotild y s s ixth tou r in lledPac
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The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
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Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
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the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
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time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
A N U1LsectH1ELL
the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
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At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
leo 1th either flilt~ t
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I
he added nAlI Japanese at that
time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
18
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rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
19
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HOW DO 1 THINK cr THIN6S UKE THAT
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NIPPON
The attraction Japan holds for SeV8Boshyth Fleet ~1avymen 1s a ell known fact to l1ny Midway people ho have
speculated on this current cruise This pooularity is not without foundation
Corrparatlvely Japan 1s smalJ ar in 51zo than the state of California Its ponclation is close to 96 mill i on people -- n] mMt ei~ht tirl8S that of Californill Al thcugh srrampll and croJderl compared to the I~ritpr States Jan8n boasts tho higAshyest standFrC of livln~ in the Far East a nd Southe~rt Asia
SUrlOI~nc (lc by watt r on all sides Jashynan turns to the sea f or its livelihood I t le~ds the world in fishinr and shipshyhui 1ding T~ o Jaranese mercrent fleet is V3St ard c9rri es mill ions of tons of j~~orts anc experts to and fr0m every m~ jor searort on t he I cbe Its publi c transp0rtation and COtn1ulJ1 ea tion facili shyt ies are aron~ the f1r~st ard rr st r eli shyahle to be fOlnd any ore
Plectronic and o~tical e~uipment and acCesscries manufactured in Japan a re hirrhl y repirded by professional men and hllve ITet i th a great deal of Success in
Ronn D Perry 102 new rfiitor o f Hdfay e ~t repor teti 8~o rd lfter ser shyving three y ears in Japan For tva y~l r s and four mrm t hs he ~9 ~t ltlti(med
at Yokosuka on t he stll ft of C01I fFOR HPW Perry soent his la~t pirrht mor _ ths in Japan at the U S Forces Janan Press Liaison Ofice in donton -okyo He has t r aveleri Jlnan 9xteni vely and ~on~lde rs hL~self spmi-fl uen t in the Tapanese languape
A N U1LsectH1ELL
the O rld market Tape recorders t ran shysi s tor r adios and cameras pr cve t o be the most popular 1tRms to Navy Excranve bar~ain hunters hile in Japan
Japan i9 also a photogr aphers dream It features thousands of shrines and te~ ples along ~ith miles of scep-ie coastal l and dotted t hroughout wi t h auaint fishshying villages and r ice padd ies
Like other countri es Japan can best be j ud~ed Qy its people Japanese are courteous an d friendly by nature In mos t cases the fore igner must take the lead in conversation as most Japenpse have doubts a bout thei r English sp6llkinp ability Fn~l1sh is taupmiddotht in all Japa ese high schools and movy of the younfer Japanese read and write English very wel l but speak only a l i ttle because they s eldom have an ooortunlty to use anything but their native tongue
When speaking to a Japan ese person for th e f irst time a good s t-rt would bo Eng-goo tI8-ka--ltee-mush-ta 1I In the Enshygl ish verna cula r it means Do you unshyderstand English
Hos t common of the gea s tories circ
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
Seventh Fleot Gailors ~athAr a-c a corner of t~)e Imshyperilll Pallcq flourdgt in rlomtovn Tokyo on onO of mnny tours o~fer~d by the Yoko9ukn Special Servicns Tours Offico
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II - tlJ r a volunteered ~ -c ashore II IllMoth -ji lI e climbed into a lrJi-l craft and carried Jt ~n asnl t Illnrlinp on middot~L ms thpn called Green AR lh T1is area is no h8 site of the r eceivinf sttion and recreatjon hrit are1
ilrlgtth s shore oarty ( t PlJt biro dry docks ric ch Rre r ill ed Ii th tlgt ~-~~ -i jmiddotct sJInlrino~ and (a- L 1d mot0r bonts i n shyt flrQd to SP1O as last reshy- rt ft - ~ tlr r machinoJ of +(- Jlr1o 3 0 Illmerial NaVJ
qrv-- t~Llt hnd b(gtf11 ~ - jd du~ hy hrrl
HIr ~middotT in to llTlo-t i ~ ~1 slht ne - ftnr ~e
r 1) _ ~e area I bull f C- o f these
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1-1 t~rj ~ Jock~ 1 t he r) shnr o shy
f- jJ S -1 middot1 bull t ~~irtfl-tAg
~-3--middotinu nool t-middot ( ~~~tbued t o a 1 n bull ~ n r~i1~oq1- -- -= 1 ~o J ~r _ (I)middotlri for ~e Japan~~o ~rltt~e el f Defenss Fez _
At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
leo 1th either flilt~ t
~eci ~ho9s or boon nock shyergt
Thea t8 5 no main Iat e lt thlt tille The tn1nor shy
loca trd n r tre no - an~er bus stJml ct te r rilroad stitirm If lr cl 11Jcd to 0 a3hnr~ yeu me cly kicked a bOl ~ loo3ltl in t hfl fence zu omiddota lib the b1sB Jlnd 11 lo ovor to the tllrod poundh shyti nn lnd cl irr1C1 a 1(1 r n train rili nr 8nymiddotrotrltgt i J90an f r ee of chnr~9 Tris Iil nt )l~ 10 1~ ~o ( middotmiddot middot
I
he added nAlI Japanese at that
time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
18
i
rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
r--------------------------shy
BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
19
THERE~ A BUG Ctlt THI S RU6
HOW DO 1 THINK cr THIN6S UKE THAT
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lat1nv about tho decks of middotmiddotIidway are those being t old about Yokosuka and Sasebo The~e seaoort cishytien are sites of two of tho U S Navys lar~est in~tallations in the Far FAst
Reyond the gates of these bases lip thous8Ilds of souveni r shops camera stores and ennuph bars and cabarets to quench the thirst of the entire U S Seventh Fleet In Yokoshysu~a alone there are SOMe 1037 of t hese colorful and uniQue in5titutions They are there for and serve tuneri Clln otr ~lc03J11cn
cxciullvcrly in-most cases Restaurants bars and cabshyareti IoIh1ch are on l1mshyitsl1 to US Forces parso nol are markAd nth a rTAdo An sign at the enshytrance
Gi ant Navy Exchanges clubs and recreational fashycilities are the bi~ atshytractions aboard each of these bases The clubs at Yokosuka are ranked among the Navy s finest Club Alliance the Enlisted fens Club outside the ~~in Gate at Yokosuka 1s the lar~est EM club in the world
rhen 1n Yokoouka sirht ~ seeinr triJs to nearby Kashymakura Yokohama and Tokshyyo should be taken if pos shysible At Kamakura is the Gr eat Buddha along with smaller Buddhis t temples Rnd Shinto shrines Beshytween Kamakura and Tokyo lies Yokohama KnOlTl 89 tho Gatesy to the Orlshyentl this ei rhth larpest city 1n Japan has an into national atmosphere all its avo The only US Navy Housin~ Activity 1n the oIQrld is located in Y9shykohama
Thirty mile~ north of YokosuYa 1s To~yo--vorldfs larpest city scd cap1t~l of Japan The hu~tla Rnd boominr netivi ty of To~yd 11 million pnople i s evishydent on every avenue And s ide street Tokyo is still receiving ~lovinr comments on its role a~
host of tho lQh4 OlYTpic Games Tokyo Tower a shopping srree on thA nGiltshyzan and a look a t the Imshyperial Palace and Palace Grounds are the top three tourist attractions 1n To~ yo Tokyo s Ginzll i~_ 1nshy
pan ~ ~wlr to flflh AveJl ufI Broadway and MarkAt Street all rolled into ona Tho blaze of the most fanshytastic array of neon
liehts i n the ~~rlrl can be seen on Tnkyos skyline nipoundhUy
Knovn liS the Lard of Uo Ridn Sun n Jann is a delirhtfUl minplinrr of Fast and lest middotlll1d a trllshydition and cui ture that is nea~]y as old as mankind Japans tromondous indu~shytricl and economic Dmiddot1Ce
since cl1mhlnr ott of tho ruins of the afterrath of World far II is a trihl1tltl to its peor]~ ltl ]a~ and th~ F~~ ~ IIni(~-mTiOampsfadors of 1tIilerican poodwill in TaraT HirhSy Navymfln Jill finn tIis island natinn a IJA1 shycorro stop for Mid ay WAst 1965
Seventh Fleot Gailors ~athAr a-c a corner of t~)e Imshyperilll Pallcq flourdgt in rlomtovn Tokyo on onO of mnny tours o~fer~d by the Yoko9ukn Special Servicns Tours Offico
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II - tlJ r a volunteered ~ -c ashore II IllMoth -ji lI e climbed into a lrJi-l craft and carried Jt ~n asnl t Illnrlinp on middot~L ms thpn called Green AR lh T1is area is no h8 site of the r eceivinf sttion and recreatjon hrit are1
ilrlgtth s shore oarty ( t PlJt biro dry docks ric ch Rre r ill ed Ii th tlgt ~-~~ -i jmiddotct sJInlrino~ and (a- L 1d mot0r bonts i n shyt flrQd to SP1O as last reshy- rt ft - ~ tlr r machinoJ of +(- Jlr1o 3 0 Illmerial NaVJ
qrv-- t~Llt hnd b(gtf11 ~ - jd du~ hy hrrl
HIr ~middotT in to llTlo-t i ~ ~1 slht ne - ftnr ~e
r 1) _ ~e area I bull f C- o f these
- C ~ --rmiddoth Clrtip 11
1-1 t~rj ~ Jock~ 1 t he r) shnr o shy
f- jJ S -1 middot1 bull t ~~irtfl-tAg
~-3--middotinu nool t-middot ( ~~~tbued t o a 1 n bull ~ n r~i1~oq1- -- -= 1 ~o J ~r _ (I)middotlri for ~e Japan~~o ~rltt~e el f Defenss Fez _
At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
leo 1th either flilt~ t
~eci ~ho9s or boon nock shyergt
Thea t8 5 no main Iat e lt thlt tille The tn1nor shy
loca trd n r tre no - an~er bus stJml ct te r rilroad stitirm If lr cl 11Jcd to 0 a3hnr~ yeu me cly kicked a bOl ~ loo3ltl in t hfl fence zu omiddota lib the b1sB Jlnd 11 lo ovor to the tllrod poundh shyti nn lnd cl irr1C1 a 1(1 r n train rili nr 8nymiddotrotrltgt i J90an f r ee of chnr~9 Tris Iil nt )l~ 10 1~ ~o ( middotmiddot middot
I
he added nAlI Japanese at that
time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
18
i
rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
r--------------------------shy
BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
19
THERE~ A BUG Ctlt THI S RU6
HOW DO 1 THINK cr THIN6S UKE THAT
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II - tlJ r a volunteered ~ -c ashore II IllMoth -ji lI e climbed into a lrJi-l craft and carried Jt ~n asnl t Illnrlinp on middot~L ms thpn called Green AR lh T1is area is no h8 site of the r eceivinf sttion and recreatjon hrit are1
ilrlgtth s shore oarty ( t PlJt biro dry docks ric ch Rre r ill ed Ii th tlgt ~-~~ -i jmiddotct sJInlrino~ and (a- L 1d mot0r bonts i n shyt flrQd to SP1O as last reshy- rt ft - ~ tlr r machinoJ of +(- Jlr1o 3 0 Illmerial NaVJ
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r 1) _ ~e area I bull f C- o f these
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~-3--middotinu nool t-middot ( ~~~tbued t o a 1 n bull ~ n r~i1~oq1- -- -= 1 ~o J ~r _ (I)middotlri for ~e Japan~~o ~rltt~e el f Defenss Fez _
At the tine there as a lRrge h i te fraTIa builltj ing IIhich IJaS the port di shyrector s buildinga Thera were no dndomiddots just fraTA es After r eoaated bomb shyings tho Japanese gave up tryinp to r enalr anythin so to froze Ou r shomiddoter~ had on v cold vate r and you hJld to be mighty fast or you turned blue burore you vero dresged again he gt9id bull
I WClr9 a uniforrl that ould to-lny confuse tho shere Dlltrol It consis shyted ofa sCR-bee ~all can lrTY pants -elhprlt green -) ir t and Ike jacket COi shy
leo 1th either flilt~ t
~eci ~ho9s or boon nock shyergt
Thea t8 5 no main Iat e lt thlt tille The tn1nor shy
loca trd n r tre no - an~er bus stJml ct te r rilroad stitirm If lr cl 11Jcd to 0 a3hnr~ yeu me cly kicked a bOl ~ loo3ltl in t hfl fence zu omiddota lib the b1sB Jlnd 11 lo ovor to the tllrod poundh shyti nn lnd cl irr1C1 a 1(1 r n train rili nr 8nymiddotrotrltgt i J90an f r ee of chnr~9 Tris Iil nt )l~ 10 1~ ~o ( middotmiddot middot
I
he added nAlI Japanese at that
time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
18
i
rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
r--------------------------shy
BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
19
THERE~ A BUG Ctlt THI S RU6
HOW DO 1 THINK cr THIN6S UKE THAT
== ~
Iii-shy
USS MIDWAY CVA-41 FPO Son Fr ancis co Calif 96601
TO It) Ri tltu u1r-r
Sltwa__
I Ie II ~lortQvl [j shyi vv A ~- b J ( t ~Vt l cH 1-amp104shy
he added nAlI Japanese at that
time vere dressed in the style of old Japan the Kimono and obie (sash) Everyone even the smal shylest chi ldren bowed to you on the street and trishyed to be f r i endly I
III l8S assigned t o a small yard craf t vith a t hird class gunners mate We took a barge out throushygh the fleet every day and oi cked up the refuse of the ships a t anchor Some of the ships t here at the time are still in s er vi ce Those present were two highspeed transports or APD s the Di achenco and the Begor t he USS Ajax and USS Prairie USS Vickshysburg and Pasadena Misshy~ouri and others
The only Japanese batshytle snip still afloat t he H r t-iS Nagata was off Non l Poi nt The Nagato l8S latar Bunk at the a shytomi c bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1946
When my ship was r eady to return to the Stampte~ I got a swap with a quartershymaster stationedmiddot a board an LCS and stayed on f or t va more months This ship had no name just a numbe LCS 722 These craft were about 150 feet long and t he armament consisted of a couple of 40 millimeter guns and ten 20 millimeter guns scattered around the ship The cre consi sted of approximately for tyshyfive men This same ship had been hit by two Kemashyka zi a t Okinawa shot down
three Zeroes and picked u~ 108 survivors of a torshypedoed destroyer Little i n size big 1n dutyn
Today many sailors think a lot of the Club ~ liance II he continued li lt 1s the largest Enl i sted I-fan s Club i n the world I t may be t hat way now but it once YSS a junk-fi~ l ed building used Qy the Japanese Imperial ~ and Navy We cleaned it out and started it on the r oad to ~hat it is today At that time in Club Allianshyce 32 bear vas the only beverale so19 ~ This vas its humble beginning
Wilmoth paused t o say that he had visited Yokoshysuka many times since those days 1n 1945 ~en he va s i8 years ol d Each time he went to Yokosuka he always met a friend f rom the lold days His last visit to Yokosuka vas aboar d Midway last year He vi sited the adminis trashytion building which ~~s built on the s i te of the original Port Director building
liThe Japanese guard esshycorted me t o tbe adminis shytration building I talkshyed and dr ank green tea with a brigh t young Japanshyese sailor who spoke much English He introducea me to his senior of ficer and I was shown around the small base Th i s IJ8 S my old duty station New buildi ngs had replaced the ones I had lived i n and the caves wee all sealed off or were blocked by land slides I felt thRt time had slowly crept up vn me How could 19 years have passed so oui ckly U
A kimono clad Japanese girl carrying a bamboo tilt seems like only yesshyunbre1la gazes at a Torii a figure that has beshy terday II he said I mll] t como synonymous vith Japan and the Shinto reli glo~ be getting old n
SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
18
i
rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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SPORTS RECREATION IN YOKOSUKA
The sprawling US Navy base at Yokosuka offers a complete and diversified recreational program to crewembers of Seventh Fl st ships visit i ng there
Maintained and operated by the Special Services department r ecr eational outlets aboard the base are fully equipped and are s taffed by Japanese emplo~ Bes under the supervision of US Navy personnel
Adjacent to the pier i s a Fleet Gymnasium a Fleet Bowling Alley and a l arge roller skating rink Furshyther i nland on the bass Is Thew Gymnasium t he Hap racks nc Recreation Builci ing Berkey Field and Bershykey Field House
neat Gym Is fully e shyquipped witb athletic gear from socks t o towel s which ~ay be checked out on a daily basis free of charge A full length basketball court wei~ht lifting r oom and i ndividual locker and shower facilitie s are a shyvailable Boxing gear vrestling mats and a numshyber of other i ndoor athle shytic equipment may also be used
Heat Dowling Al l ey Ieshycated behind the Flee t Gym has eight hardwood l anes and an anple selection of bowlinp balls of various hand sizes and weights Shoes can be chocked out at no cost Cost per game is 20 cents Pins are set
manually althougb construamp tion of a new bowling alshyley with automatic pin ee~ ters i s under considerashytion
Behind the Fleet Bovlshylng Alley i s the Rolle r Skating Rink Shoe skates or clamp~n skates are ofshyfered at no cost Musio and local Roller Skating Clubs make the Roller Rink a popular pastime
Thew Gym located at the extraTll8 end of the par king lot next to the Main Navy Exchange has t wo full-lenshygth basketball cour ts a handball court and comshyplete athletic f acil i ties Judo and ~arat8 training is conduc ted qy Japanese instructors a t Thew Gym for a small fee
Next t o Thew Gym is Berkey Field and Berkey Field athletic compl ex i s a giant area made up of two baseball diamonds three softball fiel ds a Soccer field a football It ta d i u m shufneboards horseshoe pit s and a skeshyet range Each of these areas are open daily and all types of athletic eshyQuipment may be checked out at Berkey Field House or at Thew Gym for the use of these fine facili ties
The Barracks C Recreshyation Building i s behind the st ation mess hall and is open daily from 10 am to 10 p fI
The followinf is a lls~
ing of activities avail shyabl e i n the three level Recreation Building
First Fl oor
Tro ehufneboards Fourteen pool tables Two table tennis sets Special Services t ours Office Branch Office Japan Trashyvel Bureau (JTB) Station library Individual record listenshying rooms Photo Hobby Shop
Second Floor
Woodvorking Shop Hobby Shop Special Services Office Three conference rooms Japanese Language Classes Hi-Pi and Stereo Workshop (equipment provided)
Thi rd Floor
Sixteen Bowling Alleys Navy Exchange and Snack Bar Annex
Presented here was a broad overview of the e)f tenslve athletic and reshycreational ngoings-on at US Fleet Activities Yoshykosuka Other f acilities such as tho Green Beach Pool Yacht Club and Boat B~sln are al so available ~nd intended for fleet us shylge
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RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
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BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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rzgAnCETEnA ~ CHATTER FOR THE CiEI
RED CROSS CAM PAI GN
CINCPACF1T has a nnounshyced thut the 1965 Red Cross campaign will be co~ ducted throurhou t t he f1 eet froil Harch 1 5 to Ashypril 6 Last year over )8 1il1 ion dol] a1S vas emenshyded for services t o t he Anned Forcos a nd ve te rans and their families Give e~nerously t o t he Ame r ican Red Cros s
APRIL FOOLS DAY
The origin of April Fool3 Day hns never been authenticated al though it is practiced by many counshy
NAVY FLEET C HANG ES TOLL
wbullbull h ltngton (AFPS ) - The ~avy has sent 12 s hips from the US Second Fleet on routine deployment to the Mediterranean t o reshylieve units of the Sixth Fl eet
The Navy also announced depl oyment of the aircraft carrier USS Independence from the Atlanti c t o the Seventh Fleet i n the Far East i n May
The carr i er US$ Bon HOmM e Richard nou 1n the Pacific will joi n the Sixth Fleet in the Med tap rane8n
tries One source for t he r-----~ ~~~N~E~------1O~NMCE~A7N D OcOlical celebrati on of the first day i n April i s at shytributed to the Fr ench I t is said that it al l mi pht have st9rted with pranks played by the French in 1564 during confusion over the adopt i on of a nev cashylendar
A very tal l sailor wi t h lar~e feet stopped for a shoes hine
The shoeshine boy t ook one look at the expanse and yelled Han P ve got mn a Na vy contract
EQUALS TWO
An anonymous s e8man from the ships Engineershying Of fice has been chargshyi ng about the pas~agevays of Mid~y shouting the reshysults of a r ecent t abula shyt ion he made on an a ccounshyting machine This i nnocshyuous sailor reports If you vere t o start the first day of a 31 day month by saving a penny and doubl e t he a~ount dai shyly you would have saved $23147483 79721 at the end of t he month One and one is two two and t vo is four bullbullbullbullbullgot a n addi ng mashychine
50 SSS TALENT AWARD
A 50 dollar cash awara will be presented t o the best entry in Midway s t ashylent show scheduled for March 23 ENS L G Hanshynis h at ext 689 is ha ndshyl i ng the show ls oroduction and can be contacted f or det ail s
r--------------------------shy
BOND BEAUTY Eva Hari mann 21 -year-old actress from Los Angeles is a top candidate to be one of the four actresses to co- star in an up- cominE James Bond movie Thunderball II
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