Leyte (CVA 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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Front Row: J. Rooney, AM2g C. Del Carpine AN ENS R Owens LT Cleveland V Ciarrone BTS J Fein AN W Cottle BT3 Back Row: L. Rider, ADCg ENS. E McLane R Wentworth YNSN E W'ackrow AOAN R Pace FN ENS R Westerfield H Land, YN3g LTJG. R. Chewg E. Anderson AE3 H McDan1els BT3 S r1'lz LL Tl: M BALL TEAM concluded a very successful season in the Mediter- ranean area by winning the coveted Sixth Eleet Softball Championship. The champion- ship was wrapped up only after the Leyte team defeated the U.S.S. Macon team for the sec- ond consecutive time in a play- off game at Izmir, Turkey. The Sixth Fleet Champions displayed a high degree of team- work and training in all their games. They were under the su- perb management of LT. S. Cleveland of Fighter Squadron 34.

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' . k Row: LTJG G F nt Row C Murray SN J Conti AN D Battistella AA L Cimino AA R Voltz FA H:ATV1dSOH, SN l3ac l l Dleclnng R Green SD3 R Johnson RD2 W Fresch AT2 K Goss EMFN J Allman PFC3 Truax, Cpl, G. Hill, Jr., AN, C IZIZSTLINC Tum UNQUESTIONABLY the strongest wrestling team in the Sixth Fleet, the Leyte wrestlers were always ready to meet and beat all comers. During the cruise the members of the team won approximately 9075 of all their bouts, mostly by falls. Initially coached by LT W. Champion, MG, USN, former University of Pennsylvania wrestler, the team was more re- cently under the able leadership of LTJG G. E. DeLong, ex-Uni- versity of Illinois and U. S. Naval Academy wrestler. The Leyte team has learned fast and has developed into a good team which shows promise of becoming a power in All-At- lantic-Fleet competition.

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L IERS f ALGIERS STANDS on the slope of a hill facing the Bay of Algiers, from which its array of white - houses, rising in the form of an amphitheater, presents an imposing appearance. The old town, which is higher, has an Oriental aspect. Its crowning point is the Casbah, or an- cient fortress, known throughout the world for its eerie habitude. Its streets are narrow, crooked, and dirty. The houses are strong, prison-like edifices, with iron-grated slits for windows, look- ing into central quaclrangles entered by a low doorway. Themodern town, which occupies the lower slope and spreads along the shore, is handsomely built, having broad streets adorned with arcades V and elegant squares. It contains the government building, the barracks, the commercial ware- houses, the residence of the governor general, and the superior courts of justice. 9 Algiers provided the only opportunity of the cruise for a glimpse at quasi-Oriental life and peoples. The turban and fez were quite common here, as were the long, flowing robes worn by the men. Veiled women were a common site as they made their way, in gregarious fashion, through the streets and market-places. Contributing to the mysteriousness that is Algiers are the ghoulish forms of its veiled women. They seldom travel unaccompanied. The Casbah, native quarter of Algiers, tor- tuous alleys, shades of Charles Boyer. The Mule is still the most popular beast of Christian Tourists may enter model Moslem burden- Thel' Serve many Vafled purposes. house but never a Moslem's private home. 200 i