Into the sunny bays at San Pedro and San Diego last week stood 24 ships of the U. S. Fleet, back from Honolulu to give officers and men shore leave in California. At the docks their women waitedwives with babies their husbands had not yet seen, wives whose honeymoons had been cut short when the Fleet sailed to Pearl Harbor six months ago, sailors' girls, sailors' mothers. The air jangled with the familiar sounds of "the Fleet's in"the rattle of anchor chains, the shrill of boatswains' pipesfinally the lilting bugle notes of liberty...
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