Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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2 i Karachi taxi. Children are the same everywhere Cadillacs and camels, snake charmer's pipes and bebop, and is it a tent that walks? Little more than a hundred years ago, Karachi was a quiet fishing village Today, Karachi is the main port, commercial metropolis, and capital city of mod ern Pakistan, one of the newest nations of the world. . .one of the oldest civilizations known to man. ' Karachi vividly represents this strange mixture of new and old of old world and new, of East and West. Traffic is a frightening hodge podge of mod ern flashy cars, bicycles, camels, ancient horse-drawn victorias IIFIQIIDQ donkey carts. Her streets are filled with snake charmers, dancing bears street vendors selling everything imaginable, beggars. To add to the confusion millions of people throng busily through the streets. Karachi is women in purdah and girls dressed like those at home It IS hovels and slums and brilliantly modern new buildings. It is a series of contrasts and a wonderland of dazzling sight to western eyes. During the past ten years its population has quadrupled and a huge influx of Moslem refugees from Hindu India add to the intensely crowded city. ESSEX was in the city of Karachi, though, for more than sightseeing Be tween October 25th and November IOth, ESSEX participated in her second maior exercise of the cruise, operating with the British, Pakistanis and Iranians in the CENTO exercise MIDLINK. A total of thirty-five ships was Involved In the operation under the direction of both Rear Admiral A. R. Kahn of the Pakistan Navy, and Rear Admiral Ashworth of the ESSEX. During the exercises, which included in-port communications drills a warm up phase at sea and training in the protection of fast and slow convoys ESSEX her air group and Destroyer Squadron Twenty provided anti-submarine defense for the five days of operation. To do this, the ship was at Flight Quarters with around the clock air operations. MIDLINK saw the closest possible cooperation among the Allied nations perhaps best symbolized by cross deck operations, in which ALBION sent four jets to ESSEX, and ESSEX sent two S2F Trackers to ALBION Because of the spirit of cooperation which developed among the participating groups the en tire exercise was a tremendous success, both operationally, and from the stand point of a furtherance of our People to People program. Karachi, Pakistan

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236 Z jf , 'V ' .a- Lrkl f Local birds and beasts pose for the camera. CDR Saljuki, Pakistani Navy, observes dental work on patient aboard ESSEX. People to People-ESSEX sailors meet the door- man at the Hotel Metropole. 1 FR .sg Ns X S X -a