To: Pecos
I was an Army Brat in those years.
We sailed from Seattle to Yokohama and back on MSTS ships.
Troops on the bow and fantail. Military dependents in tiny staterooms on five decks in the midsection.
21 posted on
03/26/2018 8:38:53 AM PDT by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Yes, and I learned to play cribbage.
25 posted on
03/26/2018 8:45:58 AM PDT by
rusureitflies?
(Not much to say, yet.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
“We sailed from Seattle to Yokohama and back on MSTS ships.”
On the Gen. Edwin D. Patrick, I presume?
;^)
49 posted on
03/26/2018 9:30:01 AM PDT by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I had the opportunity of meeting a retired Navy Commander, who was a cruiser XO in WWII. Before the war, he made the Long Beach to Pearl Harbor run as a dependent five times on a ship like that.
53 posted on
03/26/2018 9:46:05 AM PDT by
Pecos
(Better the one you have with you than the one you left at home.)
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