Field notes, v665
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Page 7. Overseas Travel Locations - Fred G.Evenden, Jr. page 3. 1945 November 25 - Left Karachi Harbor, Sind, India and by night reached 65°E & 23½°N. (The following locations are at the close of the day).SW of Karachi. November 26 - to 59°42'E & 19°23'N (at 1645) - SE of Muscat, Oman, Arabia. November 27 - 50 53½°E & 14½°N - SE of Saihut, Aden. November 28 - to 45°E& 12½°N - due south of Aden, Aden. November 29 - to 41½°E & 16½°N - ENE of Massaua, Eritrea. November 30 - to 38½°E & 20°N - SE of Mecca and ENE of Port Sudan, Angle-Egyptian Sudan. December 1 - to 34°E & 27½°N - Off Sinai Peninsula and Gulf of Suez. December 2 - to 32½°E & 31½°N - Suez thru Suez Canal, arriving at Port Said, Egypt in the late afternoon. D ecember 3 - to 30¼°E & 33°N - Departed Port Said at 10 a.m., ended near SWof Cyprus. December 4 - to 23oE & 34½°N - passed 60 miles S of Crete, and ended SSW of it. December 5 - to 14°E & 36½°N Between Sicily and Malta. December 6 - to 5½°E & 37½°N - Passed near Cape Bon & Bizerte, Tunisia, and ended SW of Sardinia. December 7 - to ½°E & 37°N - NW o f Alger, Algeria. (40& miles offshore). D ecember 8 - to 6°W & 36°N - Passed along south coast of Spain, and the Sierra Nevada Range in Malaga was clearly visible even tho 50-70 miles inland. In late afternoon we passed the Rock of Gibraltar and as twilight approached we passed the town of Tangier on the north coast of Africa. D December 9 - to 16°W & 37½°N - 400 miles west of Straits of Gibraltar. December 10 - to 25°W & 38½°N - December 11 - to 3 5½°W & 39½° N - December 12 - to 43°W & 40½°N - December 13 - to 46½°W & 41½°N - December 14 - to 52 °W & 43°N - December 15 - to 57°W & 42½°N December 16 - to 64°29' W & 40°17' N - D ecember17 - to 74°W & 40½°N - Off Cape Cod, past Coney Island and the Statue of Liberty to New York City Harbor, Pier 43.