USS Diodon (SS-349) History
1959

Hi Jim,

Two more pictures for you. Charles E. Quimby EM-3, "A" "L" Mclane EM-2 and James W. Barnes EN-3 left Diodon early one morning for a trip to Tokyo, Japan. We were in Yokosuka, Japan at the time. We stopped in a town I won't even try to spell, to see the Great Buddha. We spent some time there taking pictures and looking around the grounds. It was like a park that was landscaped nice and very clean. I think we rode a train part of the way and I remember riding in a "pedicar", sort of like a rickshaw on a bicycle. It had three wheels the passengers rode in a covered are at the back and the driver was riding the bicycle part of it. Some of them had a small gasoline engine attached to the front wheel so the driver didn't have to peddle all time.

All I remember about Tokyo is we were hungry so we went into this restaurant, sat in a booth and waited for the waitress. She could speak no English and we could speak no Japanese. After a while we had all the employees gathered around trying to figure out what we wanted. Finally someone said Coke and we all agreed that is what we wanted to drink. The food was a different story, one of the cooks finally said "ham" and we all jumped at that, at least we had something we knew what was. They brought us ham sandwiches loaded with horseradish and cut like finger sandwiches. We were grateful for anything but the horseradish was a lot hotter than we wanted. We had a good time and an experience we will never forget. In this picture Quimby is on the left, McLane in the center and Barnes on the right.........

Greenboard & DBF

Jim Barnes