USS Kennebec (AO-36) left San Francisco, California on August 20, 1965 for Sasebo, Japan and arrived September 6. We left Yokosuka, Japan on June 6, 1966 for San Francisco and arrived on June 18.

• Where were we?
• Subic Bay 16 times totaling 78 days
• Hong Kong twice for a total of 11 days
• Kaohsiung, Taiwan twice for a total of 10 days
• Sasebo, Japan once for a total of 6-1/2 days
• Yokosuka twice for a total of 4-1/2 days
• Manila, Philippines once for a total of 3 days

• Work or liberty?
• 188 days were spent at sea
• 113 days were spent in in port
• This was an excellent ratio. Had we been on a carrier or destroyer, for example, we would have spent from 2-5 times as much time at sea.

• Here are the final results rating the liberty ports:
• Hong Kong = A
• Keelung, Taiwan = A-
• Sasebo, Japan = A-
• Kaohsiung, Taiwan = B+
• Yokosuka, Japan = B
• Manila, Philippines = B-
• Subic Bay, Philippines = C

Satchiko, the cutest barmaid in Japan! At least, that's the caption in my photo album.
We found her tending bar, but nothing else, in Sasebo.

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