Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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T E 5 i E I xd 2 U 02-04 November 27-28 November The peculiar facT abouT visiTing Aden is ThaT many Essex personnel were never There. The Town which clusTers around EleeT landing is STeamer I3oinT. Aden proper, someTimes called CraTer , is a fifTeen minuTe auTomobile ride from EleeT Landing. Some Took all Their liberTy in STeamer l3oinT, Thinking iT was Aden. Erom our anchorage in The harbor all looked quiTe Tranquil. We may never have suspecTed ThaT Aden is one of The busiesT -harbours in The world wiTh some five Thousand six hundred ships calling for refueling every year and abouT Two hundred Thousand visiTors. Eor Essex and her Small Boys,Aden's principal aTTracTion was The scores of small s.hops which sell everyThing in The luxury goods line from waTches To cake mixers, aT among The world's lowesT prices. Also we encounTered several of The world's lowesT Tricks, buying cameras wiThouT insides, binoculars wiThouT lenses, waTches wiThouT works, gold Thar was brass and brass ThaT was gilT. Once biTTen, our people were much more criTical during The remainder of The cruise. One novelTy, To which iT was difficulT To become accusTomed, was The common occurrence of being followed inTo shops by goaTs. Gne Essex man losT such an over affecTionaTe admirer buT earned a friend for life by feeding his goaT-escorT a sheeT of airmail sTaTionery which cerTainly proves ThaT we can cope wiTh The inTernaTional siT- uaTion. Lawrence of Arabia meanr only a good movie when we saw iT in The U,S, before our cruise buT now people living amidsT endless sand and unrelenTing heaT are a realiTy for us ThaT has made our world wider by giving us a glimpse of life in The Middle EasT. ni, ? -P 5 E E T-'T z A i iii I i ii

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