Independent duty on the USS Chevalier DD-805. I was one of two corpsmen. We also had a chief pharmacist's mate.
Eight months later I was discharged in San Diego and returned to college. The China of 1946-1947 was certainly not the China of 2014. It was wracked by civil war and still reeling from years of brutal Japanese military occupation. Rampart poverty, disease, and despair. Tsingtao has been renamed Qingdao.
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