Valley Forge (CV 45) - Naval Cruise Book

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The experience the Arabs had aboard eating American food was just as much a change for them as it was that night for the Americans who ate Arabian food at the Prince's banquet at Damam.

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Whenever the opportunity presented itself we met and talked with the Arabs who conversed in English. lt was interesting to compare ideas on varied subjects and amusing to try on their costumes. The Prince personally presented gifts to some of us including: swords daggersp camel hair burnoosesg and gold pocket watches fllffwfy Wwamy Wfww Wf!f1y MW! of 'V WWW Vi' nx C7 x X 1 I view 4 xvqlgxx .- .g s. 1 1 . 5 WM? ww' 'wa

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lr 5 'U ii.liyf ff We regretted that the shamal continued. However, the Arabs seemed to enjoy ex- ceedingly our limited operations and appre- ciated the tour of the ship. We hoped that they got as much outof their trip with us as we did from our attendance at their banquet. Our guests watched the flight operations intently, the activity on the flight deck as well as in the air. They were intrigued by their tour of the ship.