Greenwich Bay (AVP 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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'E' V Q 5 m. P . -, u ki 2 - I I I, If xi' , ' x .1 JI f r'. 1 Na at V ,,. J -Y, ,- .,A Here S we 'Pura Combat Kelly and friends. is., Y I i FJ ' f , u ' r l '- I - '? in the Marines. -hub. st v-'Q D I I r' Q ,. A-, f A1 I i I I7 my ' v rl li' 6: r , ul Liberty call, N ,,,!,5,,, .. . ., Q, i ' 'saff- -31. K I ,, QT. ,w l Landing Part ???? We arrived at Bahrain Island in the Persian Gulf on July 1-1th...:1 date none of us will ever forget. Minutes after receiving thenews of the Baghdad coup which over- threw the pro-Western Iraqi government and that the U, S, Marines had landed in Lebanon, we were underway to the seene of this new world-crisis. By July 15th, as wc-cruised off the coast of Iraq, every drill in our ship- board organizationhadbec-n practiced four or five times andthe landing party was ready to hit the beaeh at Basra , Iraq, if we had been sent in to evacuate the British and Americans. Fortunately things blew over after a couple of days . . . but the tight spot we were in was no joking '- matter at the time. J' i. gs -X r' X I