Korean War 1950-1953 and Peacetime Operations 1953-1959
Annually from 1950 through 1959, Floyds Bay had tours of duty in the Far East. She servied as a seaplane tender at Iwakuni, Japan, during the Korean War (1950–1953), and often as station ship at Hong Kong. With these cruises she alternated dury on the United States West Coast, which took her from Mexico to Alaska.
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Famous quotes containing the words war, peacetime and/or operations:
“Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn’t going to be any war.”
—Sidney Howard (1891–1939)
“The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)