Cony (DDE 508) - Naval Cruise Book

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. ...ah v- J: ,Xiu A M , . 'Golife-Juanxwas 'selected as our Christmas port and liberty was given from the 19th-28-ith Dec. Besides offering a variety of entertainment all its own Golfe Juan jgvats accessible to Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo and the Maritime Alps. , Tours were also arranged to Paris, Lourdes and Switzerland. One of the Wal-meet events was ai Christmas Party for a group of French orphan children, who looked with delight to their nautical playland. On 28th Dec. , CONY steamed the short distance to Leghorn, Italy and there spent a quiet New Years. Highlight of the stay was a tour to Rome and a papal audience with the Pope. Standing out ina hail storm, CONY departed Leghorn on 4th Jan. for its last week of exercises with the 6th Fleet. The familiar training in air defense, refueling, freight transfers and flight operations predominated. Upon being detached, CONY proceeded to Cartagena, Spain arriving on 9 Jan. Swarms of Spanish senors, senoras, senoritas and ninos visited and viewed withiwon- der the Americano Destructidiero. Advantage was taken of the local cabarets, and tours were made to Murcia and Madrid. CONY sailed for Free Territory of Trieste onthe 19th and after four days of peace- ful steaming arrived in a dense ground haze. Trieste provedacolorfulcity, and the U. S. Army's generous offer of their sports and post exchange facilities was greatly appreciated. The westward voyage began 24th Jan. down through the Adriatic and across the Western Mediterranean. A short fueling stop' at Gibraltar on the 29th, and the wintry Atlantic in a too-slow ten days. Finally the sand flats of the Virginian Coast, and we were home, H-Day, 8th February, 1954.

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