Canopies: A Memoir

In August, 1946, I found myself on a luxury liner on my way to Yokohama, Japan. The cabins of the SS Monterey were filled with over 400 women and children of US Servicemen who had been deployed to serve in the Occupation forces following the surrender of Japan in World War II. This is an account of that voyage and the nearly two and a half years I spent there with my husband and two small daughters. In flashback, memories of childhood in the late 20's and early 30's on a wheat farm on the w...