Leyte Gulf (CG 55) - Naval Cruise Book

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Genoa for the weekend long enough to catch the flavor long enough to wish for more. The boyhood home of Christopher Co- lumbus, you can still see his house. His replica fleet, NINA, PINA, and SANTA MARIA, greeted us at pierside. It was hard to imagine anyone crossed the ocean in those tiny craft. This is a town where they built palaces in the suburbs to keep up with the Biancos - 13 palaces in 10 years on one street alone. Renaissance beauty everywhere. LEYTE GULF will best remember Genoa for soccer mania. The streets were still Sunday afternoon as the town's two pro teams played for a major championship. Those not at the game watched inside on TV. Suddenly, the streets were flooded with a victory celebration! Genoa had won! Good natured revelers jammed the piazzas, dancing and singing the team song, waving flags and blasting horns. LEYTE GULFers joined right in. We bought team colors and let the crowds sweep us up. We stopped on side streets for a last bite of Italian cuisine: then walked back to the ship through the good-natured city. Throughout, Genoa shared her greatest joy with us, her heart. Hundreds of people streamed to the pier to get a look at LEY- TE GULF and we all enjoyed the brief stay and Genovese hospitality. GENOA, ITALY 24-27 MAY Chaplain Jumper and CWG2 Zeien become one with ' V'eW of the port can You p'Ck out me Slip nature ,

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IVIARSEILLE, FRANCE 28 MAY - 10 JUNE Call it reward, call it friendly. Call it beau- ty. Marseille was all of these. It was real time -- two weeks - in a real place after all those days at sea Q84 'Ml of the deploy- mentl. The sights went from the church on the hill to the beaches below. This was your chance to see France: MWR paid three-fourths of the tour cost. You could take the bullet train to Paris tor two days, hotel included, for 2563. Over one hundred of us went for that dealg we found Paris to be everything they say, and more. Others went to the Monaco casinos where the views were free, if nothing else was. Alpine skiing was an- other choiceg so was the wine country tour. Back in Marseille it was whirlwinds of receptions and parties. Anyone could join a tour of town or seacoast. Everyone wanted to say he'd had a drink in the French Foreign Legion Club - which opened its arms. Some of us caught Sting in concert and others gloried to Aida .' Clockwise from below: Notre Dame towers over a walking tour of Marseille The resort village of Cassis. One of Marseille's many cathedrals. LCDR Dahl, LT Ftaynor, LT Patti 81 LTJG Whitis take a bird's eye view of the country.