Wallace L Lind (DDE 703) - Naval Cruise Book

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ATHENS Li-l'x,G -l,-. And so from Green Pivot we proceeded to the southern entrance of the Dardanelles, there to conduct ASW patrol for aRed sub. Sonar contacts were numerous but those rocks and pinacles could not fool our alert sonar gang. Our first realliberty since leaving Norfolk thirty-four days earlier began on 15 May when we anchored in Phale ron Bay, the port of Athens. The four day excursion to the Dardanelles turned up no Soviet subs but off of Greece, on our way to Phaleron Bay we picked up 19 Russian contacts. These were all part of the curious looking whaling fleet we passed. All hands remarked on their female crews. Except for some unfriendly shore patrol parties, Athens was 4.0 liberty town. The awe inspiring ruins of the glory that was Greece 3500 years ago were adelight to the shutter bugs and to the tour enthusiasts With little imagination we could see the ancient Greek genius for architectured proportions and their combix ation with beautiful nat ural settings When darkness drove us out of the A cropolis there were many hours of lively entertain ment waiting at John Bul1's th Flamingo Club the Chicago Bar or any of th other gay night spots

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