Task group entered the swept channel leading to Alexandria, Egypt Harbor.

D. Bingham (local pilot) came on board to pilot the USS Quincy into the Alexandria inner harbor.

The USS Quincy passed through the submarine net-gate and entered Alexandria, Egypt Harbor.

The USS Quincy moored to Buoy B-2, Alexandria, Egypt. The light cruiser USS Savannah and destroyer USS Laub were moored at Alexandria, Egypt waiting to rejoin the task group. Alexandria, Egypt is the chief seaport of Egypt. In 1937 it had a population of 638,736.The harbor at time of visit was teeming with shipping, both naval and commercial.

Sec. of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., accompanied by John G. Winant, Min. Tuck, H. Freeman Matthews and Charles E. Bohlen, came on board to call on FDR. Sec. of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. was enroute from Moscow, USSR to the Conference at Mexico City, Mexico. John G. Winant had been invited by FDR to join the party here and had come by air from London, UK. Rear Adm. Allan Poland, RN, Rear Adm. Alexandria came on board and called on FDR.

Gen. Giles came on board to call on Adm. Wilson Brown. Mr. Doolittle (American Consul General, Alexandria, Egypt) and Mr. Lyon (Secretary of the American Legation, Cairo, Egypt) came on board. They were later presented to FDR by Sec. of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr..

Sec. of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., together with Min. Tuck, H. Freeman Matthews, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Lyon, and Gen. Giles, left the ship. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. had reported to FDR on meetings held in Moscow, USSR with Foreign Commissar Molotov after the Crimea Conference.

Vice Adm. Fennart, RN, Comdr. Levant, Naval Command, came on board and called on FDR.

Col. W. A. Eddy, USMC (Ret.), US Minister to Saudi Arabia, came on board and called on FDR.

Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Comdr. Thompson (his Naval Aide) and his daughter, Section Officer Oliver, WAAF, came on board. Winston S. Churchill had come to Alexandria, Egypt by air from the Crimea by way of Athens, Greece. He remained on board for approxiamately 3 1/2 hrs while conferring with FDR.

(lunch) Maj. Randolph Chuchill came on board to join his father with FDR.

Col. Eddy left the ship to rejoin King Ibn Saud who was in the USS Murphy at Great Bitter Lake. Col. Eddy called on FDR to present the King's request that the USS Murphy be made available so that the King might proceed to Port Said, Egypt for a conference with Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill before he returned to his capital city. FDR informed the King that he was glad to grant his request. The King, however, later decided to disembark from the USS Murphy at Ismalia, Egypt. He released the USS Murphy, and she rejoined the task group on 2/19.

Lt. Col's. Henry Myers and Otis F. Bryan (pilot and co-pilot, respectively of the aircraft in which FDR had traveled to and from the Crimea, USSR) came on board and were presented to FDR.

FDR was host at lunch to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Mrs. Oliver, Maj. Churchill, Adm. William D. Leahy, Mrs. John Boettiger, John G. Winant and Harry L. Hopkins. After lunch, FDR and Winston S. Churchill continued their discussions.

Lt. (j.g.) A. L. Conrad, USNR, White House courier, left the ship with official mail for Washington, DC.

Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Maj. Churchill, Section Officer Oliver, and Comdr. Thompson left the USS Quincy, to return to the HMS Aurora. Winston S. Churchill and his party made this vessel their headquarters during his visit to Alexandria, Egypt. Before Winston S. Churchill left the ship, FDR presented him with a handsome album of photographs taken during the 1944 Quebec Conference.

The USS Quincy and remainder of the task group, consisting of the USS Savannah, Laub and Baldwin, got underway from Alexandria, Egypt for Algiers, Tunisia. The USS Frankford had been experiencing engineering trouble and had been dispatched earlier to proceed independently to Oran, Tunisia to effect necessary repairs. The task group steered various courses and steamed at various speeds while clearing the harbor and swept channel out. John G. Winant sailed with the party to Algiers, Algeria.

The task group set cruising speed at 21.5 knots.

Task group completed passage of the swept channel leading out of Alexandria, Egypt Harbor and set course 288.

FDR, John G. Winant and other members of FDR's mess attended movies in the Flag Cabin. The picture shown was "The Climax". Dwight D. Eisenhower had been invited by FDR to come to Alexandria, Egypt for a conference but due to urgent need for his presence at his headquarters had to decline the invitation. Text of his message to FDR and FDR's reply included in log.

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