accompaniment.
It was a touching gesture.
While ve do mot reel the
vords, the song ende on the theme of “We will be waiting to mest you
again, sometine, somewhere. *
Shortly thereafter, ve said our formal good-byes. The group acAt this time they presented to each meaber of our
companied us to the ship's ladder vhere the entire crev appeared te be
assembled om deck.
team 6 paper-vrapped, oblong package with their personal good vishes.
(Cur assumption ag te the liquid contents was later confirmed to be
"Fine, Old, Sare".)
In response
Our actual departure was accompanied -by hanishakes, formal ealutes
and repeated good wishes and expressicas of personal regard.
te the continuous waving of all theJapanese, ve returned the gesture
from the deck af the launch and all contigued to wave until ve were out
Even from the dock, we exchanged hand-waving.
The afternoon was very pleasantly spent with the Hasslers cn
JTF-7 (eee Tab L, Appendix I),
Wrote and dispatched final message from Rabaul to Commander
of sight of each other.
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1330
a moter tour of the Gaselle Peninsula, travelling the high
ridge surrounding the harbor ef Rabaul. ‘merous native
ds explained te us by Dr. and Mre. Hassler, the
villages vere pointed out te us and ve actually visited one
rative but.
family groupe sitting at the roadside ani the moticsable foot
traffie on the roads ig the agual Sanday routine for the natives.
Wherever ve went, children end edalta alike vaved te us fron
Py
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the roadeide. During thie tour, ve weat through o recently
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