I can remember my father's ship coming back from the European theatre in April of 1945 after 16 months overseas. My parents were friends of the port admiral so he told us when it was arrriving and my mother blabbed it to the XO's wife, but we were the only three on the dock to welcome it home other than the handling crews. Wartime secrecy was really tight, even a few weeks before VE-Day.
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