Celebrating The End of The War With Germany
After the end of the war with Germany, Baker operated out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island, as plane guard for escort carriers Card and Croatan (CVE-25) as they qualified pilots, carrying out that duty through September. She participated in the big Navy Day observances at New York City on 27 October; anchored in the Hudson River above the George Washington Bridge, she fired a 21 gun salute to President Harry S. Truman, who was embarked in Renshaw (DD-499) to review the assembled fleet.
Going into the New York Naval Shipyard the next day for repairs, Baker cleared the yard for Quonset Point on the 31st, to resume her plane guard occupation, but soon received orders re-routing her to New London, Connecticut. There, she joined U-977, which after the surrender of Germany, had made a 10-week submerged voyage to Argentina where she was turned over to the Argentines on 17 August 1945. Over the next few weeks, Baker and U-977 visited Albany, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh, New York; Wilmington and Lewes, Delaware; Richmond, Virginia; and Washington, D.C., affording the American public in those places an opportunity to see a German U-boat and a destroyer escort to stimulate interest in the Victory Loan fund raising drive, winding up the tour at the nation’s capital on 8 December 1945.
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Famous quotes containing the words celebrating, the, war and/or germany:
“The era of long parades past an official podium filled with cold faces is gone. Celebrating is now a right, not a duty.”
—Lothar De Maizière (b. 1940)
“The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“... near a war it is always not very near.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)