My sister, Pat, was born in North Carolina, and when she was a few months old, we moved to Salt Lake City. (Actually Mom, a new baby, Terry and Greg rode a train across the country. Mom told stories of a priest who was kind and helped her for a while with her kids. I remember riding the train through the Rocky Mountains.) Dad was going to Japan ahead of us and Mom had family there. We lived in a rental apartment and I started second grade and piano lessons. Then we had our pictures taken for the passport.
Then we got on a huge ship, the U.S.S. Breckenridge with a zillion other military families, sailed past Alcatraz, under the Golden Gate Bridge and went to Japan. Greg and I were pretty concerned about Santa Claus finding us, so it must've been December. Mom was seasick for the entire trip so Greg and Pat and I just roamed the ship. Learned to play checkers and saw
The Littlest Angel at the kiddie movies.
This ship served as a destroyer in the Korean War (Dad flew a lot of missions to Korea) earning four battle stars, after it dropped us off in Yokohama. The Japanese were delighted to see us.
Then we got on a huge ship, the U.S.S. Breckenridge with a zillion other military families, sailed past Alcatraz, under the Golden Gate Bridge and went to Japan. Greg and I were pretty concerned about Santa Claus finding us, so it must've been December. Mom was seasick for the entire trip so Greg and Pat and I just roamed the ship. Learned to play checkers and saw The Littlest Angel at the kiddie movies.
This ship served as a destroyer in the Korean War (Dad flew a lot of missions to Korea) earning four battle stars, after it dropped us off in Yokohama. The Japanese were delighted to see us. 
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Max on Alcatraz: I just read an article that said it was active until 1963, so it must have been active when you sailed by it!
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