Henrico (APA 45) - Naval Cruise Book

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KOREA During our cruise wc spent little time in Korea. The two trips we made were for OPERATION FLAGPOLE and OPERATION BAYONET BEACH, the two major exercises during our deployment, and were both staged off Pohang, Korea. Team work again paid off in these mock assaults and pleasing results were obtained. Little time was spent in Inchon, a city of 450,000, but we witnessed one of the world ' s true phenomena, a 30 foot tide. Some of us traveled the road to Seoul, an 18 mile stretch which greatly enhances the importance of this port. It is eas ' to imderstand why — it seemed that the entire populations of the t vo cities were constantly on foot, bicycle, automobile, motor cycle, truck, or pushing a cart down this road. The short trip averaged between 2 and 2 1 2 hours. ' O -T i ' CHON POST OFFftE CENTRAL PARK OF KOREA STILL WAITING FOR K4AIL CALL? MUD FLATS AT LOW TIDE. LOST AGAIN? FOUR BLOCKS AND TO YOUR WHICH? COULD THIS BE PARADISE? THE OLD AND THE NEW

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so WHO CARES IF I NEVER LOOK AT 100 SLIDES OF HONG KONG, THEY ' RE CHEAP! Rrti min«; to Sawbo, we tii htcd fcveral itrandcd ly bo. wh )oun c ' , . I we were in ' JiL-m 111 lov. an. •1 Uit AND NOW IT IS OUR TURN LADIES. turn; Uuiini; out cruise lhj

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PHILIPPINES NEW GATEWAY TO NAVAL BASE. SUBIC w 1 riitirm.- ;vi! ' ii: Bay, Philippiii ' (. tin- i.-Miiili lihiTtv port Pac, w. h to p. illip ii; •■« • much Slate hair colored J. , . .1$, the smell ihc air, the mynad lighu arid always wcver, we found . .■,. The weather .. our 5 banery w; turned . . I . jiul -. 1 v. ' ii 1 white E ' $ aii ' ■■ ' ' ' ' ' sun- shine. ' ' ' ' ' stack, was alK ' •-■ ' ' l seconds- .rtment had pulled together a team pcriormancc. TYPICAL VIEW OF THE STREETS OF SUBIC GATEWAY TO THE ORIGINAL NAVAL BASE W ' ONE ' ' YOU SURE LOOK STRANGE