UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET and PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS |
(For Immediate Release to Press and Radio, Sunday, 14 October 1945.) |
Press Release No. 821
One-thousand high point Army officers and enlisted men embarked Sunday afternoon, 14 October, on the U.S.S. Takanis for San Pedro, California, homeward-bound via the Navy's "Magic Carpet" transport program.
There were also 101 Navy and Marine corps officer-passengers aboard. The Takanis Bay is on its third stateside run from the Pacific since the war's end.
The Army troops, including 928 enlisted men and 72 officers, filed up the gangway to the hangar deck of the carrier, which was jammed with tiers of bunks five high. Four hours after the troops reached the Hickam Docks from Fort Kam, the Takanis Bay was on the high seas again en route to the mainland. She reached Pearl Harbor only 24-hours earlier from the West Coast.
The carrier is expected to reach San Pedro October 20, take on supplies and fuel, and sail four days later to pick up another load of Army and Navy men.
28 Nov 2006