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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.
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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.