Hale (DD 642) - Naval Cruise Book

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1500 bus to Tijuana I tripped and my camera went off. I still got the picture. Here it is. ...Tijuana was quite the joint, full of sou- venir shops, night clubs, Jai-Alia games, and even dog races. Boy those night clubs ! Cold beer, hot bands, and hotter gals doin what comes naturally.

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r Well we arrived at Panama after a fueling stop at Cuba. Went through the first three locks and into Gatun Lake that hot morning feeling like that guy Balboa, who discovered the Pacific. Had a fresh water washdown from stem to stern, but a Bos ' n ' s mate first class we had on board then found out there wasn ' t any salt in the water and went completely ape... That afternoon we got through the other three locks and pulled into Panama City. There wasn ' t much for the sightseers, but the night owls had a ball. There must have been some kind of an art show in town cause I remember a buddy of mine saying something about an exhibition....

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♦ » 1 teJR 1 HS BBSS L-.-ifoi The first thing we saw when we entered Pearl Harbor was the mast of the Arizona. One of the battlewagons sunk there way back in Forty-One. From the fuel ing docks we gotourfirst look at the island of Oahu. Liberty went and we all headed for Honolulu and Waikiki.