U.S. Warships To Leave
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, October 19 The United States Sixth Fleet, including units today riding at anchor in the Turkish port of Izmir, will return t> normal operations in the western Mediterranean within a few weeks.
A United Slates Navy announcement last night said that the fleet’s major warships, now visiting several eastern Mediterranean ports after exercises in the area, would head west for Italy within a month.
The statement was made following Soviet claims that the United States was massing military forces in the troubled area around Turkey and Syria.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 11
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