I was on a tin can, sailed from Pearl Harbor, we had to stop at Midway to top off fuel bunkers prior to sailing for Japan. Midway sucked as a liberty port.
It sucked as a stopover.
My old man served on a tin can in WW2. Parked my Mom in Frisco while he was off killing Japs.
I was born there in 1945.
It was a good country back then