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p0I ff5l'i'L0lfl, A Early on the morning of 5 May we were off Southern England. Approaching Ports- mouth, the historic base of the British Home Fleet, we fired a Zl-gun salute to the flag of the United Kingdom. lt was a sunny Spring day and the countryside was a brilliant green. The ancient harbor was a beehive of activity, ferries and small boats by the score darted between the men-o'-war lying at anchor. We passed imposing HMS DUKE OF YORK and the tugs began to assist us in mooring to the pier ahead of her. We could see the entire Navy Yard from a vantage point on the flight deck. There were a few ships in the yard being dismantled and there was considerable work in progress in this Norfolk of the British Navy. Nearby, in the world's oldest drydock, HMS VICTORY, ADMIRAL NELSON'S flagship, could be seen. V Portsmouth had been heavily bombed during the recent War and we could see numerous gutted buildings and devastated homes, scars of a valiant people. This was our introduction to the land of our cultural background. M
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X .fi x , ,,V.,A T .. ,..,.,..,, ,l,14,. ,.A. .T gb- og it 5.5 'Q- C mana V If g 5 T -JW is 6 Approaching historic PORTSMOUTH, we remembered that this was the birth- place of Dickens and the mooring of HMS VICTORY, the Flagship of ADMI- RAL NELSON. We could see the his- toric man-o'-war as we pulled into our . berth.
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