See pictures at the US Embassy during Suez war and after. 1956-57
Pictures below are from the evacuation itself, a beginning of a study.
We were evacuated first on the USS Chilton.

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![]() We were told during evacuation that US Navy aimed guns at Israelis who were shelling Egyptians, indicating we would fire on them if our ships were hit.
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This picture is from the official annual book of our evacuation ship, showing my mother and a Greek friend. My back is to the camera. My mother noted on it the strafing of our bus in Alexandria by Israel |
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![]() Kay Malcow in a landing craft, which is how we moved from the port to the ships. |
![]() My mother and I arrive on board. In background is one of the landing craft that took us to the ship. On the right are Egyptian sailers.
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This picture is from annual boat of our evacuation ship, USS Chilton. We were very close to anti aircraft batteries going off on the invasion planes. A little hard to see everything in pic, so I plan to go to naval archives for a better shot.
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