Greenwich Bay (AVP 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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Midnight Stores At Last...Fresh Food Up all idln-rs! All hands not actually on watch lay back to thc fanlail for a work- ing party. XX'hat'sthisjazz'? lt'5 2 A.M.! ll Wcll, wc had to cat - and, in thc Persian Gull, supplies camc few and far bctwccn. When itcame in hugn-quantity all hands were rc-quired to bc-ar a hand bringing itaboard. . . it was cooler work in thc wcc small hours. . . cool by Bahrain Island standards that isl Uh wcll, what'sa couplc hours sleep among Navymc-n'? Yet which of us will forgot the lash of thc IXi,.1.,.'X,'s voicc that A, M, as hc roared in each car - Feet on thc deck sailor. . . this ain't no hotel! Man, all we got is room! I 3' 'ff

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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

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Karachi, Pakistan In late August we got our first trip away from Bahrain. . . to Kara- chi, Pakistan . . . a city most of us had only heard of and never dreamed of seeing. The city wasn't the best liberty port we encountered but by August we weren't hard to please. In Karachi, we received a real education concerning the teeming masses of people that inhabit the lands of the Middle East. livery- where, the great contrast of wealth and poverty that is characteristic of these strugglingnations was evi- dent. The busy streets . . .the shops . . . the bazaars . . . the oxen vying with the automobile for the right of way - it was a far cry from Fifth Avenue but the compari- son was something to be valued for the rest of our lives. Those of the ship's company who took moonlit gari thorse and buggyy rides brought back a lasting memory of the city at night- with its poor sleeping in thatched huts near luxurious hotels, in door-steps, or in the very streets upon which we rode. After the rain. ..u-'als -- ---v -f-.- Milking a bull? E J-I Before the rain, Open air fruit stand. fi? My wa it in! iii