Evergreens Overing Wakaura Bay, Wakayama City, Japan
Photos from an historically important, relaxed, seaside Japanese city
Evergreens appear to extend over the cliffs dropping into Wakaura Bay south of Wakayama City, Japan. Buss Kersettter, a firecontrolman on the USS Montpelier Cleveland Class Cruiser during WWII wrote about the beauty of this area white working here for a few short days following the war. As one detail, he noted the beauty of the evergreens.The USS Montpelier CL-57 was anchored here in September 1945 as part of the effort to repatriate English, Dutch, French and American prisoners of war. The story—Buss, the Emperor and Jackie—is currently in production by Village Hiker Press.