Eldorado (AGC 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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And then, we pull away from the dock and are underway. The 'free mail' and 'no income tax' ....Pusan Harbor, the streets, the dirt, the 'papasan' with his tall hat and url? 5, S .Sa 9.-7 5 - - f,,143?E?r:?P -,,, 292, as X, FQSA Wi' 4' v, , WVV4' N xf' ' 33565. K x f 'L I 4 H ,mf H0 7 I v ,z D f fgf f :W fi J ,fyqi if l ff A A, 55 R f , long pipe -- all part of this chosen-land. Vice Admiral Sohn Won l Il comes aboard to visit the Admiral and we get a look at the only Admiral in the Korean Navy. sa V ,.: X-

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Our first call at Inchon.... NF1ight Quarters, Standby to Receive Helicopterln ....and Nerine generals come aboard from the front lines. later we are granted daylight liberty and we ventu e into this bombed-out ghost of a city .... to the red brick beer hall, walk the littered streets and gaze into the near empty shop windows, and some of us end up at a hill-top orphanage .... Star of the Sea. Leaving Inchon we venture down the coast to a rock-strewn island with sand-spent beaches, Tokchok-To, where we observe an amphibious landing exercise, the days are full now for there are war-time regulations to comply with, such things as 'darken ship' ...Condition III watches....and the ever present fact that not so far away the Com unists talk icily of peace. Watching the Marine landing exercises, even though it is only a faint, we get a feeling of what H-hour would be likeo