Macon (CA 132) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1957

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One of many small park areas. Downtown Valencia with colorful police and trolleys. Colorful Spanish park.

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VALENCIA, SPAIN JAN. 11-16



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Homeward Bound As liberty expired for the last time in Valen- cia, Spain, our five month tour of duty with the Sixth Fleet came to an informal end. Relieved by the USS IOWA (BB-61) on January 15th, we cast off our lines for the last time and slowly eased through the Spanish harbor to- ward home. It was not without memories that we left. The months of tension and training had left a mark that will never be forgotten: hours of drill call and G.Q.; the glow of harbor lights in a new port; the hours of refueling and replenish- ing and the ache of tired bones when we hit the sack; Paris, Rome, Monte Carlo, Athens, Tripoli; the Bazaar; tension off Haifa, Jaffa and the Gaza Strip; Messina; Tony ' s, the U.N and the Black Cat — so many things that will always come back to us as the bittersweet memories of our maturing age. It is our eternal wish that some day man will put war behind him and devote himself to nobler pursuits. And if by this cruise, we have hastened that day across the face of time by the space of a second, the high hope to which we made our journey will not have been

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