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ROCHESTER encountered the fringe of a typhoon
during her transit northward to Japan.
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On 26 February ROCHESTER arrived at Yokosuka and a
setting familiar to most of her crew.
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From Yokosuka, those with a full day ashore were
able to visit such places as the Great Buddah of
Kamakura(left) and the grounds of the Imperial Palace
in Tokyo (right).
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Others preferred to stay in Yokosuka, although the
sailor on the left appears about to make a bad
decision. In reference to an encounter with the trio
on the right, he may have written home: "Dear Mom and
Dad, last Sunday we met three nice girls at the
shipyard chapel". Or, he may not have mentioned them
at all.
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With Yokosuka as home port,
ROCHESTER made several short excursions to other
destinations in the region. During mid March she
participated in "Operation Flaghoist", an amphibious
training exercise that involved an assault on Iwo Jima;
above left, ROCHESTER's main battery trains on that Island's
Mount Suribachi. In April she made a run eastward to Korea,
stopping briefly at Chinhae, above right.
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ROCHESTER's role as representative of the United States
in foreign ports required maintaining an exceptionally high
level of appearance, so inspections were frequent (left).
The pressure to keep vessel and crew shipshape increased
even more when in April COM 7th FLEET shifted from WISCONSIN
to ROCHESTER (right).
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ROCHESTER spent the rest of April and early May calling
at various ports in Japan as 7th FLEET flagship. From one of
these, Osaka, some of the crew traveled by train to the
ancient city of Kyoto (left). Other ports on the itinerary
included Yokohama and Sasebo (right). Then on 10 May,
ROCHESTER left Japan and headed south for Hong Kong.
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