File talk:USS Cape Esperance CVE-88 1950s.jpg
In Feb of 1954 I was one of 354 USAF personnel who sailed on this ship to Yokusuka to be transferred to Korea after a day at tachikawa. We were hit by typhoon winds between San Francisco and Hawaii, and were forced to put into port for bulkhead repairs at Pearl.
When we arrived at Tokyo Bay at sunset, we arrived after the submarine nets were deployed and had to spend the night at sea. Our screws (or our anchor?) were tangled in the sub netting and all night long we had to listen to the anchor being raised and dropped to untangle the ship. It was a great trip. I volunteered for KP to be near food because the rougher the seas got, the hungrier I became. On a beautiful sunny morning while cleaning up after 1st mess, I opened a porthole and the sea came in giving us another hour to mop the water out of the mess hal. We'd mop it into the gutters and the ship would list and pour it out again onto the deck.
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