World War II
Houston departed Norfolk on 1 February 1944 for her shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, and after a period of training out of Boston, she steamed for the Pacific on 16 April.
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“We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”
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