From that day to the end of the war, the Americans never felt entirely secure at Ulithi. Admiral Sherman recalled, “We felt that we were sitting on a powder keg which might go off at any time. Far from enjoying a rest, we felt we might be safer in the open sea.”76 Even so, fleet recreation at Ulithi was serious business. A new movie was screened on every ship in the fleet, every night. A destroyer designated as the “movie exchange ship” kept a library of hundreds of films and thousands of reels, which rotated around the fleet according to a published calendar.77 USO musical revues travelled
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