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HERR BRAUN HAD A BROTHER I N COLOGNE When the Nazis ordered Herr Braun to report for farm work in the south of Germany, he made an arrangement with his brother, who worked in the railroad yards. He was to write him from Cologne every week, no matter what happened.

For a while the letters came. Written on cheap, thin paper, they always said the same thing: "Am as well as can be. Nothing new in Cologne."

But one week the letters stopped. No explanation. No reason . . . Of course, Herr Braun did see a little item in the local Nazi paper about an ineffective British raid on Cologne. But didn't the paper say the damage was small—mostly schools and hospitals? And wasn't the Luftwaffe invincible? It would never let the enemy reach Cologne in force. . . . Still, the letters did not come. And besides, Herr Braun began to hear strange rumors .. . spread quietly behind the backs of the Nazis . . . disturbing rumors about a big raid on Cologne . . . the biggest air raid in history . . .

One night Herr Braun tuned his radio to a forbidden station—an American short-wave station. And there it was —the facts, the figures, the full grim story of the

mighty German city blown to bits from the air . . Yes, the railroad yards were destroyed.

And Herr Braun began to wonder . . . So the Nazi paper had lied. The Luftwaffe was not invincible. The British and Americans could come and bomb German cities despite Der Fuehrer's boast that it would never happen . . . And the faith of Herr Braun began to fade. The faith Goebbels and Goering and Hitler had been building up in Herr Braun for nine long years—began to crumble.

RCA equipment, used by short-wave stations WRCA and WNBI, is helping reach thousands of Herr Brauns with the truth . . . the truth to shake their faith in Fascism. But together with the destruction of that faith, these messengers from America are molding a new faith. A faith that out of the chaos and destruction, out of Nazi defeat, and out of the victory of the United Nations—will come a better and freer life . . . for Herr Braun and for all the world.

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JUSTICE months have elapsed since the attack on Pearl Harbor roused the wrath of every red-blooded American.

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Coming at a time when the Honorable Cordell Hull was conferring with the special envoys of the Mikado and was considering their proposals for peace, that treacherous attack was as dastardly an act as was ever perpetrated by a civilized nation.

We were unprepared then for offensive warfare; but today we are prepared: and we are assuming the offensive.

More than four million of our men are under arms; and from Iceland to Australia our armed forces are upholding the American tradition; while we, at home, have turned from the ways of peace to the tasks of righteous war, and are prepared to fight it out until victory is won.

Never has the torch of liberty burned more brightly for a united people; and never has a nation been more determined to destroy its enemies and to win for itself and all mankind a lasting peace and freedom from fear and want.

A better future for the world, made known by the Atlantic Charter, is the high purpose to which we are irrevocably committed.

That right shall triumph over might; that the peoples enslaved by ruthless aggression shall be freed and restored to their rights and privileges; and that justice shall be done on the powers of evil was never more certain.

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Damn the Torpedoes—by Helene Lawrensen 6 I Was an Anglophobe 8 Manpo-wer Man—Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, U.S.N 11 Wartime Carrier 12 Sixty-Day Wonders—by One of Them 14 As Others See Us IB Cheers for Captain Lo-wry 17 Navy Backs Victory Corps—by Henry Salomon, Jr., Ensign, USNR 18 Spindrift—by Lee Shores 20 Navy Athletics 21 What's the Dope .24 The Searchlight 44 We Waiting Wives 50 The Last Call 3rd Cover Branch Association News 3rd Cover War Communiques Insert

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GROUP of sailors are drinking beer at a bar called George's in Greenwich Village. The juke box is playing "Deep in the Heart of Texas," and every time it stops someone puts another nickel in and it starts up again. A little man with curly hair and bushy eyebrows turns and glares fiercely at it.

"Can't that machine play nothing else?" he roars. He looks tough enough and mad enough to eat it, record, needle, and all.

"Stop beating your gums, brother," drawls the tall sailor with the black jersey. "I like it. It's catchy."

"I just come back from Texas," adds a third whose face is a complete pink circle, illumined by twinkling blue eyes and a cherubic grin.

"How was it?"

"Oh, dandy! " says Cherub, sarcastically. "Just dandy. Fine trip for your health.

A Nazi tin fish chased us for three days.

"We was carrying fifty thousand barrels of Oklahoma crude and fifty thousand of high-test gasoline. It sure gives you a funny feeling. I thought we'd get it any minute. Man, those nights are killers!

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old engines slow down and your heart speeds up. Someone knocks on the door, and you rise right up in your bed and seem to lie there in the air. So it turns out it's only the watch. You settle down Tankers are a favorite target. Oil is being pumped overboard from the torpedoed ship at right, to help her keep an even keel. Note defiant fist of American merchant seaman. Below: A common sight early this year off the Atlantic coast.

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The camera catches the spirit of the merchant marine. Two freighters, bucking heavy seas, getting the stuff through.

and the sun's shining. The night before —with the zigzagging and the sub alarms and the lying there in your bunk, scared stiff and waiting—it can't be true. That night can't have happened to me. Impossible. This is the same sea I've always sailed, the same kind of a wagon, the same watch. Last night just didn't happen." He takes a drink of beer. "But then the darkness comes again. Yeah—night must fall."

What worried him most, he adds, was a remark made during lifeboat drill just before sailing. "We was practicing and everything goes off pretty good. Then the Inspector, he says, 'Now just in case any of you fellows have to jump—remember when you go over the side to pull down on your lifebelt as hard as you can. Cause if you don't when you hit the water it's liable to break your neck.' . . . My God, I thought. Now I got to worry about holding on to my papers and my chocolate bar and my cigarettes and at the same time I got to hold on to my lifebelt so my neck don't get broke!"

again and try to light a cigarette if your hand don't shake too much. Not that you're scared of course. Oh, nooh!"

The others laugh. "Who ain't scared?" growls the little man with the bushy brows. "A torpedo connects with one of them tankers and it's just like lighting a match to cellophane. You ain't got a chance. Boom! and you're in the hero department. Just like that. And the next thing, all the guys you used to know are going around saying, 'Well, he wasn't such a bad guy after all. Poor old Joe Bananas! He lowered the boom on me for ten bucks the last time he was in port and he never did get a chance to pay it back. Let's have a beer to his memory."

"Well, let's have a beer anyway," says Slim, in the black jersey. "Here, Cherub, it's on you. You just got paid off. How about springiiig for another round?"

"Okay," says Cherub. "Might as well spend it now. It don't do you no good "So you have your choice," says Slim, when you're floating around in a lifeboat.

No kidding, a guy's a sucker to go "burn to death, drown, be blown to bits through nights like that. You can't be- when the torpedo hits the engine room, lieve it. The next morning you come out starve to death in a lifeboat, or over the {Continued on page 40) on deck, and the sea's blue and beautiful

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So that the cargo ships can fight back! A platform and gun are lowered into place on board a merchantman.

A Navy gun crew mans its battle stations on board a merchant vessel.

I WAS an Anglophobe tke> wonld'4> yxfjtiitt^^ii " 7 ^ LITTLE knowledge is a dangerx i ous thing."

You hear a good many stories about the British these days, and quite a few of them are based on "a little knowledge," or none at all. Some of them are right down the Axis propaganda line.

When I hear some of these stories, I get an urge to put my oar in and set things straight. I think I am qualified to do it. I spent a good many months in England. I was in Egypt. I've lived with the British, and fought with them. I've been on their ships, and in their stations, and in their homes; and because of the details of my mission, usually I was in a position to see and know things that a civilian visitor to the country would never find out about, and which the average military or naval ofBcer probably would miss also, because he'd be too busy doing his own job.

When I got to England, right away I noticed a thousand things to criticize.

After I'd been there a few months, I still had things to criticize, but not nearly so many. Then when I came back to the United States I was surprised to find that we had practically everything I had originally found to criticize in the British.

Arriving in England for the first time, you immediately start noticing how lackadaisical everyone appears, and what a slow pace they're setting; and you start thinking what a heck of a way that is to fight a war. After a while you begin to realize that England has fought a lot of wars, and that she really knows how to fight one, and you don't. In England, they know that you've got to keep your wind. You can take a lot of punishment, but if you keep your wind, and keep dishing it out all the time too, as much as you can, you're a lot more likely to come out on top than if you go in swinging with everything you've got and burn youjrself out in the first round.

If you want to put it another way, it's like a crew race. You don't see them hitting it up at top speed all the way down the course. A smart cox'n knows just what pace his crew can hit and hold for

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the whole race, and he sets them at that pace. Sprint and lag and sprint and lag won't win a boat race. You've got to keep pulling all the time, and the time to raise the beat is when the finish is in sight and you know you can hold the sprint until the end. Because if you sprint too soon, you can't hold it, and then you haven't anything left for the finish.

You take a different view of life after you've ducked a bomb: and in England they've ducked plenty of bombsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;those who have ducked in time. What do I mean by a different view of life? Maybe I can put it across this way. I've been back 8 months, and in that time I haven't spoken one cross word to anybody, not even to my wife or my kids. It just isn't worth while. So many other things are so much more important that little petty things that used to irritate me don't bother me at all any more. That's why the Britishers are so nonchalant, if you want to call it that. They've learned a man can't stay tense forever; so they try not to be tense at all.

I missed the bombing in England, but I got it in Alexandria, in the first big raid the Jerries pulled there. There was an air raid alarm early in the evening, and when the bombs began to drop, it was pretty bad, at first; but they all seemed to be down by the docks, and after a while the all clear sounded, and I went to bed. They'd told me that was the thing to do, act normally, and pay

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no attention to the bombing. About the time I got in bed, there was another alarm, but I remembered about acting normally, and just pulled the covers up a little, and lay there, trying, so help me, to go to sleep. Then I heard a dive bomber overhead, and I knew what that sound was; there was the scream of a bomb, and then a "whoomf," and everything shook like the damndest earthquake you ever imagined. In about half a minute, another dive bomber came over, and another bomb screamed down, and landed closer than the first one. I crawled out of bed, and said to myself, well, if I'm going to be bombed, I've got to have some company for it; so I dressed and went down to the lobby. It was deserted. Apparently I was the only one to show the white feather; everybody else must be still in bed. I decided I'd go back upstairs myself, but my stomach was a little upset, what with one thing and another, so I decided I needed a little fortifying and went into the bar. Everybody else was there ahead of me. All the brave boys who told me to stay in bed.

So I had a drink, and then I had another, and pretty soon we were all hoisting one every time a bomb dropped. After six or eight more bombs, nobody bothered to count any more.

One day I went up to an RAF station in northern Scotland, where I was to board an aircraft carrier for some tests they were making of a new catapult.

When I got there you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The air was full of rain, and fog, and that terrible, heavy smoke that closes down around Edinburgh like dirty grey cotton matting.

A little W R E N drove me out to the field, and her driving was something to see, for it was really zero-zero, and there wasn't a signboard anywhere to tell you where you were, and you couldn't have seen it if there had been. When we got there, a Lieutenant from the carrier met me, said he had come to ferry me out to the ship. I asked him when he had come in, and he said "about an hour ago." "In this?" I asked. He looked around, and

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said, "In what?—Oh yes," as though he was accustomed to flying in stufif like that every day in his life. He probably was.

Maybe he saw how I felt, because he told me it "looked a little thick," and we'd wait a bit before starting out. We waited an hour, and by that time the fog had lifted so you could almost see across the field; so he said he was ready, and I climbed in, and my heart climbed into my mouth, and we took off in stuff

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that keeps birds on the ground. After a while we got out over the ocean, and I asked him if he knew where the carrier was, and he said "certainly not, its whereabouts is a military secret." We went on through the fog, anyhow, and pretty soon we landed on the deck of the carrier as nice as you please.

W e found that something had gone wrong with the new catapult, and a replacement part was needed. The head

of the factory that made the catapult was there—an old man about 80—and he said he could gtt the replacement part from the factory if somebody would fly him down to Edinburgh. My ferry pilot climbed back in his plane, and the old man climbed in, as calm as Sunday-go-tomeeting, and they took off again in that fearful muck. They flew to Edinburgh, dodging factory chimneys and barrage balloons on the way, and then flew back

with the part. .That's an example of what I mean when I say that the English may seem slow and lackadaisical, but when there's a job to be done, they go right ahead and do it, and they don't wait for everything to be just right before they start, either.

The British are terribly matter-of-fact about their jobs.

I had to get from Edinburgh to London to catch a plane for Egypt. They didn't have transportation handy, and decided the easiest way to get me to London was to give me a single-seater and let me fly it down.

In that same pea-soup fog that scared the living daylights out of me every time I rode in it.

And if I got off course, I'd have Spitfires on my tail or run into the balloons. I don't know what would have happened. Maybe I'd have gone through with it, though I doubt it; but my honor was saved, because at the last minute the engine wouldn't start, and I couldn't take ofiF. An hour later I went as a passenger in another plane, and the fellow took off in that mattress-stufiSng, and headed for London, with barrage ballons going past right and left, and set her down at London as nice as you please, ap<§'•* parently thinking no more about the whole thing than if it was a picnic in the country on a Sunday afternoon.

An English Skipper never worries about damage to either men or material once battle is joined. His only idea is to fight for everything he's worth, and everything his ship is worth. If he's got anything like an even chance to win, he'll be in there slugging, and probably come out on top. He won't worry about losing his ship, if he can win the battle.

But he won't waste material, either. If the odds are clearly against him, and nothing to be gained but glory by continuing the action, he'll withdraw. On the other hand, no odds will scare him ofif if he's got a job to do. With two exceptions, every ship that took part in the evacuation of Crete was hit at least once.

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But they kept going back in, time after time. There were some 12,000 men on the Island, and England could have written them off and forgotten about it; only that isn't the way the English do things.

So the Navy kept boring in, and saved a good many thousand of those men, even though they took a whale of a lot of punishment doing it.

One English cruiser took about 900 men ofif Crete. With her normal complement that made her pretty crowded. One

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of Heinie's big bombs hit her square, killed about 200 of the crew and some 300 of the men she'd taken aboard. One bomb—500 men. I went aboard two days later; went out to meet her as she came in to Alexandria. We were coming up from downwind, and she smelled like a slaughterhouse. I'm telling you, that ship was a mess. But she wasn't just limping into a safe port; she was completing a mission, and at the same time getting ready to go out and fight some more.

The conditions those boys were working under were frightful, but every man of them was digging in, doing his job and a little more. When I say it was an inspiration to see what they'd done, and what they were doing, and the way they were carrying on after what they'd been through, I'm only telling the literal truth.

For anything that requires sheer guts, you don't beat the British Navy. Maybe we're as good as they are on that score, and I think maybe we're proving we are; but certainly we're no better. And remember, England has proved time and again what her Navy can do. Up until the Battle of the Coral Sea, we'd never had a chance to find out how we'd stack up in a real naval battle.

England has been fighting wars, one or more to a generation, for generation after generation. They know what war is. They have a realistic attitude toward war that we over here can't begin to get, because we haven't been close to it and lived with it. Hardly a family in England but has lost a father, or a son, or a brother,"in this war. But you never hear them speak about the ones who are gone. It isn't just a question of reserve, or frigidity. They expect to be bereaved, and, knowing what to LIONARV OQVI expect, they can take it when it comes. And they know that talking about it doesn't do any good; that they've got to keep calm for the fighting that is still to come.

Every man in England who isn't in the armed forces is in the home guard.

Every man. All the veterans of the last war, and the old fellows, and a lot of the cripples, and even the men who have to stay home because their jobs are important to the war efiFort. They're all in the Home Guard, and each one has his specific job to do. It makes them all feel they are definitely a part of the whole show. And they are; they're in the second line right now, and will be in the first line in case of an invasion, and they all know it. More than that, each Home Guardsman has his little sector {Continued on page 41)

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Manpower Man Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, U.S.N. ""kyT EN mean more than guns in the XXL rating of ships." So said John Paul Jones who had some personal experience in the matter. The Navy has never forgotten the lesson of the man who captured a crack frigate with a rotten hulk. The Bureau of Naval Personnel today seeks to carry on the Jones' tradition. And mainspring of BuPers is Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, who himself exemplifies the advantages of fitting a round peg into a round hole. While he has had a wide variety of sea duty

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in stations all over the world, he has also had more experience in personnel matters than any other man in the U. S. Navy.

It is well that he has such a background, for his present command is one of vast responsibliity. As head of the Bureau of Personnel, he is, in a sense, personally responsible for the procurement, education, training, discipline, and assignments of every officer and enlisted man in both the Navy and the Naval Re serve. The Navy is nothing without men

—and those men constitute Rear Admiral Jacobs' job.

Born in Danville, Pennsylvania, in 1885, Jacobs was in the class of 1907 at the Academy. A slight, wiry boy of 128 pounds, he graduated just in time to go around the world on the famous cniise of the Great White Fleet. His ship for that cruise—for three years and three months, in fact—was the U.S.S. ILLINOIS, now anchored in the North River in New York where it serves as a training (Continued on page 42)

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This is the new symphony of the war at sea: the chatter of the teletype'in the Ready Room—the roar of scores of motors on the flight deck—the boom of the bull-horn—the scream of the power dive and the chatter of machine guns in the clouds.

This excellent series of pictures by Navy photographers brings to these pages a carrier in the war zone.

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Pattern of victory: torpedo bombers line up on a carrier's deck for the take-off.

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A ground crew rolls a bomber onto the huge elevator which will lower it to the hangar deck below.

The Marines below do not even take time off for lunch from their post at an anti-aircraft gun. A t bottom, one of the escorting destroyers that scurries around the larger ship.

W e a t h e r is an i m p o r t a n t element in launching an attack f r o m a carrier. H e r e aerologists loose a balloon to take r e a d i n g .

Dramatic moment in the South Pacific, as a patrol plane takes off for a late afternoon flight.

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Never does the look-out leave off scanning the horizon for any sight of enemy ships or planes.

Rations aren't low. But steak isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so a parade is held in honor of the last T-bone on" board.

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To record the work of the air squadrons with one hand and man the plane's machine gun with the other.

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The initial g r a d u a t i n g class a{ The A V ( P ) Indoctrination Schoo , Quonset, R. I., receives its d i plomas. They had worked hard, learned enough to free fighting men for fighting service.

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URE, we'll tell you about the sixtyday wonders. There were five hundred of us who streamed from the train that cloudy Wednesday afternoon eight weeks ago. Some of us were business men, some of us were lawyers, some were brokers, some had sold insurance, some were automobile men. We were twentyseven years old and we were forty-plus.

Most of us had wives, and some of us had children, and all of us had new uniforms and new shoes, but we didn't know what those uniforms meant. We were headed for the indoctrination school because we'd been told that the Navy needed men with administtative experience to take over its paper work, to release its flyers, its navigators, its gun-, ners to head for the enemy to win this

which is miles from a railroad station, showed our orders to the Marine sentry at the gate, and were taken to our barracks. Somebody barked orders to the men in front, and we followed like sheep, feeling green and inadequate. The madhouse inside horrified us. Blindly we stood in line for books, for towels, for sheets, for pillow cases, for bunk, company and platoon assignments, for chow, to have our orders checked (two copies of this, seven of that, or twelve, or four), and we wandered from one room to the next, unquestioning, obedient, and mournful, in our khaki work uniforms, stripped of shoulder boards and rank devices, and wearing a metal and celluloid name plane which indicated our name, rank, and platoon. We might have felt a little as if we were at a convention war.

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the faces, and nobody seemed very glad to see us.

We noticed very little the first two or three days. Mostly we stood in line. We did see that the station was a kind of soft brown and sandy yellow and pale green like the sleek belly of a camouflaged army bomber. And we thanked heaven for our quarters. For the station is new. It sprang out of the bay like a miracle little more than a year ago, and the buildings are a beautiful, chaste modern. We slept in double-tiered bunks, row after row of us, and we learned that our beds must be made so. Navy fashion, with neat forty-five degree folds at the head and foot, and that our lockers must be kept throughly clean for a daily inspection, and that our uniforms were always to be impeccable. In short, we learned those first two or three days

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that the United State Navy is the cleanest and neatest navy in the world.

The first night was hard on most of us. We lay in our bunks trying to go to sleep, listening to the Grumman fighters, stubby, unbelievably powerful, roaring up from the airfield beyond the barracks, practicing takeoflPs and landings, and shattering the night air with the crack of their propeller blades. We felt lonely. The other fellows looked brilliant and competent and thorough and prepared. W e were amazed that the Navy could have selected five hundred men and made so few mistakes. But we couldn't figure out what in the devil it had picked us for, and we thought of our families and the homes we had left behind until this job was finished, and we felt pretty thoroughly miserable and sad.

As we swvmg into a routine, however, broken only by trips to the dispensary for shots, we were kept too busy to be homesick. In spite of swollen arms, we learned a good many things in our first week.

We foxmd out that the other guy was a good guy. W e discovered that Navy coffee, for all its reputation, is nearly the nastiest stuff devised by mortal man. We learned that Navy chow is good, but that you've got to make some kind of an inward adjustment, however small, before your food, served on a tin plate, cafeteria style, tastes quite as delicious as it did at home. We learned that for us there were no such things as floors and walls; that mysteriously during our first hour aboard the station, they had become

decks and bulkheads. We learned pretty quickly that we were neither fish nor fowl. We couldn't mingle with the enlisted men, and we had no status as ofiEcers. We were on probation and we weren't going to have any time to loaf.

But primarily we learned that by some amazing miracle we had eight weeks to be taught all we could absorb about every phase of the Navy and naval life, that the Navy intended to see that we were crammed to the bursting point. And, inexplicably, it became fun, although we'll never admit that until ten years after the war.

Although our reveille was sounded at 0630, a typical day started at 0600. There are only so many showers and so many wash basins in a barracks, and since one could only by strong exercise of will power sleep through the O6OO bugles in the Marine barracks down the way, we gave up in the face of odds. We went to the mess hall by companies on a rotating schedule, so that we had breakfast as early as 0645, or as late as 0715. Then we made up our bunks, shined our shoes, and at 0801, immediately after the morning colors ceremony, we formed in platoons in the street and marched to classes. We had three morning class periods, then a thorough and complete inspection of bunks, lockers, and persons.

Afternoon classes were followed by an often-regretted period of drill on a concrete seaplane apron, and calisthenics finished the day's routine except for the march back to the barracks for supper and study until ten.

We stood watches, too, as a sort of breaking-in to shipboard life. Each company was duty company every fourth day, and we were mates of the deck, messengers, supernumeraries, or assistants to station ofificers, or we were appointed student duty ofificer and put, mentally kicking and screaming, in charge of the ofifice in the school. That meant fortyeight hours of work with four or five hours of sleep, too many cigarettes, too many questions. But we even lived through that.

On Wednesday and Saturday afternoons we had no drill, and received (if we weren't the duty company) precious liberty to go to Providence or Boston and relax in a sumptuous freedom from discipline, welcomed even though we had to carry our books and spend the weekend in study. If we were the duty company (and it sometimes seemed as if (Continued on page 43)

The Faculty of the A - V ( P ) Indoctrination School at Quonset. Left to right: Lt. Comdr. E. S. Plank, Capt. W . E. Glantz, U . S . M . C , Ensign R. Cox, Lt. E. K. Zitzewitz, Lt. (jg) J . J . Jordy, Lt. Comdr. F. F. Hogg, Lt. J . F. Blackiston, Lt. Comdr. J . J . Schieffelln, Lt. (jg) T. A . Celler, Lt. E. T. Thomas, Ensign R. E. Delay, all U.S.N.R.; and Major H . R. Lee, U.S.M.C.

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O U R NAVY MR. BONE. Mr. President, this year of 1942 finds the great navies of the world locked in a battle to the death.

Nineteen hundred and forty-two finds every great remaining naval power straining its resources to turn out ships of war on an unprecedented scale. Nineteen hundred and forty-two finds the United States engaged in building the mightiest armada the world has ever seen—an armada upon which we depend for preservation of ourselves and our way of life.

There is bitter irony in these things; for this year of 1942 was looked forward to by the leaders of a generation ago as a naval landmark of a far different sort.

Nineteen hundred and forty-two was to be the year in which naval armaments were finally to be stabilized on the basis of fixed ratios—ratios determined by peaceful discussion around the conference table. Under the Washington Naval Treaty this year of 1942 was set as the year when replacements would bring Great Britain and the United States to actual exact parity on capital ships.

It is a far cry back to those peaceful days. It is hard to recall those premature dreams of perpetual peace. We have learned much since then—learned in the bitter school of experience. I ask forbearance if I recall briefly something of this vanished age. Of one thing we can be sure; that today and for many years

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to come the safety of ourselves and our Allies will depend largely upon the wise development of our naval power, and in no better way can this be achieved than by bearing in mind the lessons of our recent naval history.

It is of greatest importance, therefore, that we should now pause in the midst of World War No. 2 to take stock of the vicissitudes of our Navy in the years since World War No. 1 and to survey the significance to the life of this Nation of the naval-expansion program begun in 1934.

Think back to that chilly November morning in 1921 when the representatives of all the great naval powers of the world met a few blocks from here, over in Continental Hall. Those black-coated diplomats and admirals were gathered to discuss a problem which loomed large in the minds of the American people— the problem of ending a naval armaments race which threatened eventually to destroy the peace hard won 3 years before. The years since 1918 had seen the Allies rent by dissension and suspicion over the growth of new vast fleets.

As the delegates gathered in the hall their minds must have been filled with the impressive ceremonies of the day before—Armistice Day, 1921—the day of the dedication of the grave of America's Unknown Soldier in Arlington. The memories of the tragedy of the War of 1914-18 were fresh in the hearts of everyone. Even the most belligerent dele-

gate was conscious of the deep desire of the people of the world to avoid a repetition of that tragedy.

This desire was reflected in the proposals made by Secretary of State Hughes at the opening session of the Conference. Startling in their scope, those proposals involved a sharp cut in the size of the world's great navies, with equality between those of Great Britain and the United States. Japan would stabilize her Navy at 60 percent of those of the two great powers. So broad were the proposals that they provoked violent discussion, followed by weeks of intricate negotiations. In the end, however, the Hughes proposals won.

Under the pressure of public opinion throughout the world, the basic ratios were accepted, although all three principal powers had to make sacrifices to achieve this successful conclusion. Great Britain gave up a policy of many centuries, and her traditional position as possessor of the largest navy in the world.

We, in turn, abandoned a building program which would have put us, in the course of time, in the lead among the world's great naval powers.

With Japan the situation was somewhat more complicated. She was unwilling to accept a smaller navy than those of Great Britain and the United States.

In order to induce her to do so, a provision was put in the naval treaty forbidding the fortification by the United States or Great Britain of their possessions in the general vicinity of the Japanese islands. In return for this, Japan signed the Nine Power Treaty, in which the associated nations agreed to respect the integrity of China. At the same time the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was transformed into a four-power pact by the inclusion of the United States and France.

As a result of the Washington Treaty, the United States scrapped a total of more than 842,000 tons of naval vessels built and building, a larger amount than that given up by any other power. These included 2 first-line battleships, 17 second-line battleships already built, 7 battleships, and 4 battle cruisers under construction.

Two things are noteworthy about the Washington Pact.

First, it recognized the political factors which must be present if any system of arms limitation is to work. The conference went outside the field of disarmament and took up the problems of fortifications in the far eastern area; the relation of Japan to a relatively helpless (Continued on page 45)

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Captain Lowry himself best expressed the motivation behind the action—although on the side of understatement— when, in telling his crew goodbye, he said that in the two years he had been in command of the M I N N E A P O L I S there had developed between him and the ship's company a feeling of "mutual respect and confidence."

"I learned," he told them, "that I could depend on you. I knew that when I asked you to do something you would do the best you could, and would be willing to do it."

"I've never served on a better ship in the Navy," he continued, "and now I never will for this will be my last com-, mand. I'm getting on in years and I doubt very much if I shall ever go to sea again in command of a ship."

families you'll see that sign, and 1 want you to come in.

"I may not remember you, because there are a lot of you. But all you will have to say is: "I once served on the fightingest ship in the United States Navy' and I'll know you're off the U.S.S. MINNEAPOLIS. And you will be welcome. I leave you with the greatest regret."

Nearby ships in the harbor where the was lying at the time must have thought a new war had started then. For as the Captain stepped down from the platform on which he had been standing a cheer that nearly lifted the top off the airplane hangar rang out.

It was repeated the next day—contrary to Navy Regulations—when the ExecuCaptain Frank J . Lowry: "I'm going to buy a farm . . . " tive Ofiicer, with the highest ranking offi"I'm not going to say goodbye, for cers of the ship acting as sideboys, piped him over the side for the last time.

At Sea With The Pacific Fleet {By Mail) that's too final. 1 hope to see you all again some day. I'm going to buy a farm, back Someone once said that a great instiin Iowa, or some place else, when I re- tution is but the lengthened shadow of tire from the Navy and there's going to a man. The same might well be said of a ECAUSE the crew of the U.S.S. be a sign on the gate. I don't know just man o' war. Captain Lowry can be proud M I N N E A P O L I S felt an affection for what it will say but you will know when of the command he passed on. He left Captain Frank J. Lowry it wanted to exyou see it that it's my farm. If ever any the M I N N E A P O L I S one of the finest ships press in more than words, the troubles of you come driving past there with your in the United States Navy. of other Navy men and Navy Families will be lightened for years to come.

Barred by Navy Regulations from doing what they wanted to do—"buy the The U.S.S. M I N N E A P O L I S : " H e left it one of the finest ships in the U. S. Navy . . . " best damned automobile in the country for the best damned captain in the Navy" —the men and officers of the M I N N E A P OLIS are presenting to Navy Relief, in the name of Captain Lowry, a fund of $1,200. It will be used for alleviation of distress among Navy families.

Announcement of their action was made to the Captain in a moving ceremony on the M I N N E A P O L I S ' Quarter Deck at sunset recently, the evening be-^ fore Captain Lowry turned over command of his ship and left for the University of Texas to take up his new asfcJi^nwwlrf ^,:Ji^ signment there as Professor of Naval ie-.;r ^ Science and Tactics. Nothing could have pleased him more, for Navy Relief was one of his principal philanthropic interests. He once served on its board of directors.

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Navy Backs Victory Corps

By Henry Salomon, Jr., Ensign, USNR

HE President said, "when our enemies challenged our country to stand up and fight, they challenged each and every one of us, and each and every one of us has accepted the challenge for himself and for the Nation." That does not exclude school children who, for the most part, are only too anxious to become identified with our war effort.

Hence, early in the summer of 1942, a special committee of the U. S. Office of Education Wartime Commission began a study of the genetal problem of Wartime Service Organizations in Secondary Schools. After seeing the results of this study, the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency requested that the Secretaries of War, Navy and Commerce

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The policy committee of the Victory Corps early realized that until such a time as the children were called into active participation in industry, agriculture, the Army or Navy, the best way these children could serve their country was in school—participating in an intensified intellectual and physical curriculum.

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The shocking lack of proper elementary training has seriously hampered much of our war effort. The Navy, unfortunately, is only too well aware of this fact. In November, 1941, when Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, now the Bureau of Naval Personnel, he wrote a

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letter to Professor Louis I. Bredvold at the University of Michigan in which he said: "A carefully prepared selective examination was given to 4,200 entering freshman at 27 of the leading universities and colleges of the United States. Sixtyeight per cent of the men taking this examination were unable to pass the arithmetical reasoning test. Sixty-two per cent failed the whole test, which included also arithmetical combinations, vocabulary and spatial relations. The majority of failmres were not merely borderline, but were far below passing grade. Of the 4,200 entering freshmen who wished to enter the Naval Reserve Officers" Training Corps, only ten per cent had already taken elementary trigonometry in the high schools from which they had graduated. Only twenty-three per cent of the 4,200 had taken more than one and a half years of mathematics in high school.

"This same lack of fundamental education presented and continues to presenr a major obstacle in the selection and training of midshipmen for commissioning as ensigns V-7. Of 8,000 appUcantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all college graduatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some 3,000 had to be rejected because they had no mathematics or insufficient mathematics at college nor had they ever

taken plane trigonometry. Almost forty per cent of the college graduates applying for commissioning had not, during the course of their education, taken this essential mathematics course."

It is apparent from Admiral Nimitz's letter that the Navy has been deprived of what might otherwise have been excellent officer material from the simple and wholly unnecessary fact that the candidates were not versed in one of the most elementary and fundamental sciences upon which our civilization is built.

What is true of college freshmen is, of course, even more pronounced among the men who do not go to college and upon whom the Navy must depend for its enlisted men. As an example, not so long ago a sample arithmetic test was given to incoming "boots" at our four great training centers. The average mark on this test for San Diego was 53.5%, for Norfolk 49.1%, for Great Lakes 52.3%, and for Newport 63.4%.

This lack of facility in mathematics is evident in such other sciences as physics and also in reading and writing. In other words, the tried and true three R's, reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, which are the very basis of any real education have been passed over in favor of "glamour" {Continued on page A9)

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Marksmanship is now something fo be attained with as much pride as an "A" in biology. It is symbolic of the new emphasis on skills 'Hat will help the country fight.

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ERE we sit, all wrapped up in sweaters and bathrobes, in our room in Bancroft Hall. This is one of those cold, damp fall days, of which only Maryland can boast; and there is no heat to be found in the radiators. Because of the shortage of fuel this year, the power plant is waiting as long as possible to turn on the heat. A new executive order states that all midshipmen will keep their windows closed when they are absent from their rooms in order to conserve the heat when it is turned on. We can remember having been frapped last year for leaving our windows closed while we were absent from the room, which only goes to prove that even the Naval Academy regulations are doing "about faces" these days.

Several weeks ago, the Charlie McCarthy-Edgar Bergen radio program, with its entire cast, was broadcasted from Mahan Hall. For the added benefit of the personnel at the Academy, a dress rehearsal was presented in Dahlgren Hall in the afternoon. Officers, civilian faculty, members of their families and guests, and midshipmen and their accompanied guests attended the program, which was highly entertaining.

the conversation; he came out, walked over to the mate, and said, "Uncle Beanie to you, mister." Then he "fried" him for unofficial conversation on the phone.

If the mate had used that famous nickname correctly, he might have gotten away with it. Who knows.

The first football game of the season did not turn out so well. At the half of the Navy-William and Mary game, it started raining, but all of the spectators remained to see if Navy would come out on top. Unfortunately, William and Mary beat us 3-0. However, we retaliated on the next game, and beat the University of Virginia, 35-0. The weather was much better, and the team as a whole played a good game.

Many of the Midshipmen are not counting on attending many of the outof-town football games this year because of the recent ruling of the Office of Defense Transporation; eliminating special trains for sporting events. However, Captain L. S. Perry, Navy's athletic director, announced that approximately half of the regiment would travel by Chesapeake Bay steamboat to Baltimore to the two games that we have there.

Even Bill IX, the Navy goat, cheer-leaders, and the Naval Academy's 75-piece band would make the twenty-five mile trip to Baltimore on the steamer. Although West Point has announced that the Cadets will not attend the ArmyNavy game on November 28th, the officials here have not announced any decisions affecting the attendance of midshipmen. We are all hoping that the plan of P. H. Magruder, Annapolis Yacht Club Commodore, to transport the regiment of midshipmen to Philadelphia by boat, is approved, because it would be a novelty to travel by water to the out-of-town games. Steamers can easily travel to Philadelphia by way of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal without entering the Atlantic Ocean. No matter how we travel, though, we will still have those cold box lunches which are such a big part of every football trip.

A certain O. O. W. in the Executive Department has been having a wonderful time at the expense of the midshipmen. The other night, this Officer-of-thewatch, known as "Uncle Beanie," went into the Fourth Battalion on a tour of inspection and found two Youngsters in a plebe room. He gave them a choice of being frapped or spooning on the plebes.

Not wishing to walk extra duty, they immediately knocked off rates with the fourth classmen. Uncle Beanie left with a smile and another "deed of the day" to add to his list. Feeling very happy about his little trick, he ventured into the Third Battalion to see what he cauld find there. A fourth class mate-of-the-deck ran up to him and saluted; Uncle Beanie told him to carry on. After the O. O. W. walked off, the plebe ran to the telephone, called the battalion office, and said, "Beanie's on deck." The O. O. W., havIn order to encourage midshipmen ing gone into a nearby room, overheard who are low in Academics to go to extra

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instruction, the Academic Departments have arranged for extra instruction to be given every evening from 2100 to 2150 in recitation rooms in Ward and Luce Halls, both of which adjoin Bancroft Hall by way of the colonnades. The time of evening meal formation has been changed to 1845, and evening study hour commences at 1950. Under this system, "unsat" midshipmen can obtain additional instruction and still get in two hours of recreation in the afternoons.

Bancroft Hall had some very dignified elevator boys a couple of weeks ago.

They were none other than first classmen who had been caught riding elevators here in the hall. As you probably know, midshipmen are forbidden to ride the elevators, and anyone caught doing so, immediately finds his name adorning the frap sheet for "Electrical equipment, tampering with." One O. O. W., who caught several first classmen luxuriously riding to the fourth deck instead of going there via the prescribed route, decided that he would punish them personally, rather than write out a conduct report.

His unique form of punishment consisted of having the men stand elevator watches for the entire weekend, starting on Saturday afternoon, and continuing throughout Saturday night and Sunday. They wore white service uniforms and white gloves, and their duties consisted of taking midshipmen up and down in the elevators that they were so proficient in operating. They got quite a workout too, because everyone who heard about the new elevator boys, wanted to ride up and down at least once or twice.

The ground that was reclaimed last year by filling in a part of the Severn River over by the Naval Hospital has been turned into a soccer field. Eighteen goal posts have been erected on the area, and as many as nine different soccer games can be played at one time. A new road is being built along the reclaimed area at the foot of Cemetery Hill, and we have heard that a new bridge will be constructed over Dorsey Creek, connecting this road with Sands Road. The present bridge is too old for heavy traffic, and heavy trucks have to go around through Annapolis in order to enter the Naval Academy.

At the meeting of the Naval Academy Entertainment Committee recently, the concert program for the winter season was announced. There will be four concerts this year instead of eight. Some of the artists appearing on the program are Paul Draper, the Trappe Family, Cor(Continued on page 51)

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Navy Athletics 9t'd Lee4t touifJi. <^044ij(f> OM tke KyUdVion, aut tke The Naval Academy's football squad, hard hit by two graduations, has had hard going since the season began, dropping games to William and Mary and Princeton and winning from Virginia and Yale.

Comdr. John E. Whelchel, head coach, is trying to develop the timing and general coordination of his green squad in time to meet major foes like Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania, Notre Dame and Army.

The war time regulations, forbidding the use of special trains, have curtailed the season, as gasohne rationing and the tire shortage have reduced the crowds at games. By fencing off the Thompson Stadium,the general public can be admitted to the games at the academy. But the midshipmen cannot accompany the team on trains as usual.

The football junior varsity has played one game so far, getting a 6-6 tie with

deadxi^t^d. not aae^ 4^et . . . the University of Pittsburgh jayvees, but the Plebes, out for their fourth unbeaten season have rolled over two football opponents.

The Naval Academy international dinghy sailing team won over four schools in two regattas held on the Severn. Pennsylvania, Drexel, Stevens Institute and Haverford trailed the midshipmen.

to 0, when Harvey Johnson, 210-pound Indian back, booted a field goal in the first quarter.

The Navy team marched into scoring territory seven times during the game.

There were the usual early season fumbles. Forward pass receivers dropped passes that would have been good for long gains and the passers at times tossed the ball to no one in particular.

Hit hard by the graduation of last year's veterans the Navy team had" not Football attained the finesse, precision and timing of a smooth working outfit. In this reWilliam and Mary, 3; Navy, 0. spect they did not match Coach Carl Navy, 35; Virginia, 0.

Voyles' veterans, who have been playing Princeton, 10; Navy, 0. together for three years. Last year WilNavy, 13; Yale, 6. liam and Mary lost only to Navy and North Carolina.

W I L L I A M AND MARY The middies won the statistics in losThe Naval Academy opened the foot- ing the game. They got 14 first downs ball season on Sept. 26 with William to five, had a net gain in yards rushing and Mary taking the opening game, 3 of 132 to 86, and made 71 yards on for-

NAVY VARSITY FOOTBALL SQUAD—1942 1st Row (left to right)—Comdr. J . E. Whelchel, U.S.N. ( H e a d Coach), J . L. Berry, C . W . Siegfried, R. L. M^ilcox, H . D. Hume, F. A . Schnurr, A . R. Cameron ( C a p t . ) , W . S. Nelson, J . S. Flanagan, E. M . Elliott, J . V^. Beckett, jr., W . J . McVey, J . A . S ' crist, H . W . Dawson ( M g r . ) . 2nd Row—D. A . Barksdale, J . F. Laboon, jr., J . Miller, F. C . VanFleet, jr., D. H . Collins, J . T Martin, T. M . GiUiland, W . W . Strong, W . W . Schwartz, jr., A . J . Staubitz, J . F. Sillooly, G . C . Brown, jr., A . C . Knox, W . G Montgomery, R. C . Fedon. 3rd Row—B. S. Chase, T. J . Dwyer, S. D. Cramer, jr., H . B. Fowler, E. B. Salsig, J . F. Davis, R. H Johnston, F. A . Wendt, jr., G . W . Cogswell, G . Goudie, H . A . Hamberg, J . J . Sullivan, G . P. Studer, J . E. Hansen, A . B. Chan nell. 4th R o w — W . B. Crawley, G . R. Gay, M . T. Steves, J . T. Drumm, H . J . Smith, B. S. Martin, O . J . Crepeau, J . C . Tucek, J. W . Pettit, jr., W . B. Stephenson.

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wards to 28 by the Indians. They returned kicks 56 yards to 46 by William and Mary and lost 15 yards to 10 on penalties.

Navy uncovered some good running backs. John Beckett, who also passes— one toss to Bob Wilcox being good for 15 yards; Gordon Studer, who looks good as a triple threat, his passes to Bill Strong and Gene Goudie going for 21 and 29 yard gains; Ben Martin, who turned in runs of 16 and 14 yards, and Harold Hamberg, who shone as a passer. Studer was a consistent ground gainer.

After William and Mary's initial thrust in the first six minutes of play which resulted in the placement goal and their 3 to 0 win, the Indians were on the defensive. Johnson had kicked the goal from the 20-yard line after William and Mary was stopped on the Navy 14.

After the field goal the midshipmen drove from the kickoff to the William and Mary 2 5-yard-line only to have Johnson intercept Beckett's pass to spoil the thrust.

They marched right back again, going from their own 47 to the William and Mary 25 yard marker where a penalty, some hard line play by the Indians and Nick Forkovitch's interception of Hamberg's pass blocked the attempt to score.

William and Mary tried a comeback but stopped on the Navy 20 when Goudie tossed Dave Bucher for a loss, the middies held for downs on their own 36.

Again Navy began marching down the field, going from their own 36 to the Indian 14. Then Bill Klein intercepted Studer's pass to end the drive. Navy came back again, moving 28 yards to the William and Mary 18, where Al Vandeweghe stopped the advance by intercepting Hamberg's pass.

In the third period William and Mary made its third assault upon the Navy goal, after recovering a fumble on the middie 35 yard line. They surged to the Navy nine yard stripe but sterling line play tossed them back and Navy took the ball on downs.

Navy made its fifth drive of the game, moving 50 yards to the William and Mary 25 but the Indians held for downs.

Navy's sixth attempt followed when Al Channell intercepted Jack Freeman's pass and ran 42 yards to the Indian 19Here Martin fumbled and William and Mary recovered.

Navy's seventh assault carried from the middie 39 to the William and Mary 39 where the Indians held for downs.

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The Navy football warriors—particularly the first team—showed improvement in coordination and driving power in their 35 to 0 victory over the University of Virginia on Oct. 3 but they face severe tests with teams like Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and Army to meet.

The midshipmen played some real, hard football in their five touchdown win over the Cavaliers. Yet, before they got started in the first period, the fresh Virginia team stopped two Navy advances and took the ball on downs, once on the Cavalier 42 yard line and again on their own 33 yard line. Navy had attempted to rush the ball on fourth downs on both occasions.

Studer, Hillis Hume and Ben Martin worked well in the Navy's first string backfield when the middie team finally got going on a 78-yard march that brought the first touchdown. During the drive the team clicked splendidly. Studer's 26 yard run and Martin's 12-yard sprint and the reverse play that sent Studer over for the tally were outstanding.

Hume's alertness in snagging a Virginia pass—and the Navy team was alert in this respect—paved the way for the next tally. Smder's forward pass to Gene Goudie which covered a total of 45 yards and brought the second score was a piece of fine football.

But the Navy didn't show much in the second period—when the reserve team was on the field. They failed to pass the Virginia 45-yard line during the period while the Cavaliers twice moved into scoring territory getting to the Navy's 19-yard line on Turnbull Gillette's long pass to Ed Kreick and moving to the 13 on George Grimes' 40-yard pass to Don Wanner. A Virginia penalty helped the middies turn back the first threat and a Virginia fumble ended the other.

Navy flashed more good football in the third quarter, with Studer turning in 17 yards in two successive runs. These were climaxed by Hume's run that went 53 yards for the third score.

A Virginia fumble, recovered by Fred Schnurr on the Cavalier 16, brought the fourth score. But the scoring play, a pass from Studer to Bob Wilcox who laterailed to Hume was unusually well executed.

Hardy Fowler, Navy sub end, stopped another Virginia threat, and electrified the crowds when he grabbed a Cavalier pass and ran 63 yards for Navy's final touchdown.

Virginia ended the game with a rush, Herb Munhall taking a pass and going to the Navy four as the final seconds were ticking off. There was only time for two plays and both .failed.

Navy uncovered a fine point-aftertouchdown specialist in Oreal Crepeau, who kicked five straight placements.

PRINCETON

On Oct. 10 the Navy team journeyed to the Yankee Stadium in New York City where before a crowd of 25,000 they dropped a 10 to 0 game to Princeton. The regiment remained at the academy.

The middies met a Princeton team capable of putting on a sustained offensive and of striking when the oppormnity offered. Navy, while unleasing drives from time to time, bogged down when in scoring territory.

Navy had its oppormnity at the start of the game when it marched 39.yards from its own 18-yard line to the Princeton 43, with Capt. Alan Cameron doing most of the ball carrying. But good defensive play by the Princeton secondary and a fumble slowed the drive, forcing a punt.

Smder's 22 yard runback of a Princeton punt set up another scoring oppormnity on the Princeton 23. But again the attack slipped, a four yard loss and an intercepted pass ended the threat.

Then Princeton put on its sustained march of 80 yards, moving from its own 20, with Bob Perina doing most of the work, mixing end runs with line bucks, single and double reverses, a 26-yard pass and absorbing a five-yard penalty on the one yard line to score a touchdown.

Bob Sandbach, who converted after the touchdown, also kicked a field goal in the fourth period to put the game on ice. Two years ago he was a Tiger placement specialist. Last year he was ineligible.

Navy tried hard to come back in the second period but advances to the Princeton nine yard line and the Tiger 32 were stopped when Princeton held for downs and took the ball. During this period Princeton's only advance into Navy territory was stopped when Jack Martin intercepted a Tiger pass.

Hume put the heat on Princeton in the third period with a 42 yard kickoff runback to midfield. But, again the middies bogged down after a six yard gain and were forced to kick. A 15 yard penalty put the Tigers further in a hole forcing a punt from their own one-yard

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line and a pass Studer to Hume gave Navy the ball and a first down on the Tiber 13. But again Princeton defensive play and an incompleted pass stopped the advance and the Tigers took over on their own 10.

Princeton was threatening during the fourth period but Navy held its own pretty well until they tried a forward pass from their own 20 yard line. A Princeton interception gave the Tigers the ball on the Navy 23. Sandbach's placement goal followed.

YALE

The midshipmen had cause to be proud of the Naval Academy football team which mrned in a 13 to 6 victory over Yale Oct. 17 in the Baltimore municipal stadium because the team for the first time during the season showed a sustained offensive, good defensive ability and skill in forward pass defense.

The two touchdown sweeps of the midshipmen players, one covering 80yards and the other 98-yards indicated that the team has come a long way in coordination and timing since early season.

In addition the defensive play of the linemen and backfield that mrned back four serious Yale touchdown drives in the second half spoke for itself. The work of the line in rushing one of the best passer's in the east—Hugh Knowlton—and the alertness of the secondary defense prevented additional Eli tallies.

But despite the improvement Navy has come to the point where it must play above itself to get through the next three weeks. Georgia Tech comes here Samrday with one of the best teams in the South, fresh from four straight victories.

In defeating Davidson 33 to 0 they "unloosed loads of power, a dash of razzledazzle" to quote press accounts.

Following Georgia Tech the middies travel to Cleveland on Oct. 31 to meet the onrushing Notre Dame team which Samrday broke the victory record of the Iowa Naval Seahawks—conquerors of Minnesota—by a 28 to 0 score.

Penn foUows at Philadelphia on November 7 and the 6-6 tie with Princeton Samrday is no indication of the Quaker strength. The Tigers scored early after getting a Penn fumble on Quaker seven yard line and were able to fight off the big Pennsylvania team successfully. But the Quakers pack plenty of power.

Army heralded its strength in defeating Columbia 34 to 6 and Grantland Rice reported that the team is "one of the best Army teams West Point has

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sent to the football wars in many years." 10 where they were held for downs, Navy meets Columbia in Baltimore on Hume doing splendid work in breaking Nov. 14 and Army in Annapolis on up passes. After that the middies got a Nov. 28. short breather as Yale was set back beOne outstanding feature of Saturday's hind the midfield stripe, only starting game in Baltimore was the scarcity of to advance again as the period ended. fumbles despite the unfavorable condiIn the fourth period Yale moved to tions and a slippery ball. Navy was guilty the Navy ten but Fred Schnurr broke it of two, neither of which resulted in a up when he tossed Knowlton for a seven lost ball. They were the only fumbles of yard loss and Campbell snapped a pass the game. in the end zone from Green's hand. AnUntil Navy started its touchdown other Yale advance was stopped at the march late in the first period neither Navy 45 by hard line play and a third team had threatened. During the period thrust carried to the Navy 25 t6 end when Yale had the ball five times but only once Ted Gilliand grabbed a Yale pass and got past its own 40 yard line. Hard remrned to the Navy 45. charging Navy players—including Roy Then Navy for the first time began Johnston, several times dropped the Yale pushing but the whistle ended the game backs for losses, forcing kicks. at midfield.

Navy also had been kept bottled up behind its 35 yard line until Capt. Alan Junior Varsity Cameron took a Yale punt on his own 20 yard stripe and started the victory march.

Navy junior varsity, 6; Pittsburgh Hillis Hume took up where he left off juniors, 6. on the Navy 28 and the middies with Hume and Cameron pounding the line PITTSBURGH J U N I O R VARSITY and circling ends went to the Yale 45 where Cameron unleashed a long pass to The Navy jayvee fumble in the last Johnston, who with a man on him, two minutes of play enabled an outjuggled the slippery ball several times but classed but stubborn Pittsburgh Univergathered it in for a first down on the Yale sity junior varsity team to gain a 6-6 21. Then Hume and Smder advanced to deadlock on Oct. 9. the Yale nine and Ben Martin swept left After battling through a scoreless third end for the first Navy touchdown. Oreal period, the Navy jayvees, who took the Crepeau kicked his sixth straight place- lead on a late first quarter touchdown, ment goal of the season. drove from their own 40 to the Panthers' Until late in the second period the six. Then, attempting to hand the ball to midshipmen kept Yale behind its 40 Tex Graham on a reverse at tackle, quaryard line, while the Navy team thundered terback Ed Robeson lost the ball in the down to the Eli 21 where they lost the shuffle. Pitt Lauro recovered on the Panther three. ball on downs.

Pitt killed time with three line bucks John Ferguson's 72 yard punt which stopped just barely over the Navy goal before punting out of danger. line set up the Yale touchdown, the Eli The Panthers capitalized on a Navy team moving up from its own 38 to the fumble and pass interference to stage Navy 42 on the punt exchange. Then their ownly offensive thrust. Fumbling rwo passes from Knowlton to Time deep in their own territory the Navy Hoopes brought the tally. Fred Dent were put on the defensive in the second failed to kick the placement. quarter when Pitt's Catarinella recovered Cameron's 52 yard run of the second and then took a pass from Lauro for a half kickoff set up Navy's second tally. first down on the midshipmen 10. A Cameron passing to Al Channell in the heave, Lauro to Catarinella was good on end zone after Hume and Martin had the five. Then Lauro went over on two tries. helped him advance to the Yale 26.

Robeson's 24 yard aerial to Bob Loomis Ed Town, Eli substimte back, nearly duplicated Cameron's feat when he and his subsequent one yard plunge gave brought Navy's kickoff back to the Yale the middies their touchdown.

49. From this point on the pressure was on the midshipmen.

Sailing Yale surged to the Navy 28 where Navy forced a kick and Ferguson punted Navy, 46; Pennsylvania, 36; Drexel, to the middie two and a half yard stripe, 221/4. putting the middies further in a hole.

Navy, 661/i; Stevens Institute, 38; Yale came pounding back to the Navy (Continued on page 51)

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"I realized when watching the funeral of the old Emperor Meiji and when attending the funeral of General Nogi that those two events marked a change from old Japanese chivalry and integrity to a new era of militaristic ambition and greed."

1884 RICHARD O. CRISP, '84, That we must fight for e'en a chance l o o t ^^^^^ Admiral, U. S. Coast To bask in love and friendship's glow; '78, Dean Emerims of UniGuard, Ret.), may be reached at the To have the gifts the gods bestow; versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MichiUniversity Club, Washington, D. C gan, sends in the following poem, and That only so can man advance,— By sawing wood and jousting lance. writes: 18fiA WILLIAM H. FAUST, '86, " 'Sawing Wood' is a vision seen ' " ° ° (Lt. Comdr., USN, Ret.), 605 while spending a few months with the And this has been since time began: mocking birds at the Georgia home of First peace, then war, and "ne'er the Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, sends us a clipping of great interest, and twain" former Governor Chase S. Osborn, of writes: Michigan. I loved it so much down Shall part? Alack, But why complain?

"I am enclosing a clipping from a there that I bought myself a 1,500- 'Tis God who wrote the tale of man,— Waverly, New York paper which With saw and lance he wrought its acre farm for a forest; but that's anmight be of interest to you besides givspan. other story." ing you a short history of a grand 'old SAWING WOOD sea dog.'

I know he is grand as I Nor yet would peace advance mankind.

The day is done and night is here; roomed with him at the Academy in our For peace relaxes all our strife The wood we sawed is on the fire. cadet days and again during the first Towards what is prized the most in life: Its blaze and warmth our hearts inspire World War at Charleston, South CaroA mettle, choice, by fire refined; With thoughts of friends afar and near. lina.

In all the intervening years since Damascus blades, both heart and mind.

With friends in mind the saw sings 1882 we have been close friends and cheer. kept in contact with each other either by So what's to do, this being true. correspondence or meetings of our famiBut keep on sawing, sawing wood?

The crackling logs for those near by. lies."

To do our best we can and should; For they can hear what I would say.

Excerpts from the article concerning And, too, be honest through and through.

The curling smoke for those away.

FRANCIS ADELBERT LEVIS, '86, The best of saws are tempered blue.

To read its message in the sky follow: For them the saw seems but to sigh.

"Francis Adelbert Levis, who has been So sit you down beside my fire; a resident and home owner of Waverly The day is done, and night is here.

The while I'm loving all my friends.

Let's think of those we hold most dear, for more than 40 years, was born in And wishing they could sit with me Then clash the cymbals, strum the lyre. Lowville, Lewis County, N. Y., on Beside the fire, and feel and see And put the bucksaw in the choir.

March 31, 1865, the son of Peter and My present mood in all its trends.

— M O R T I M E R E. COOLEY. Mary J. (Barrett) Levis. After attendBefore my saw is strained, and bends; ing the Lowville academy he received 1881 OVINGTON E. WELLER, an appointment to the Naval Academy Before a discord in my song '81, may be reached at The at Annapolis from Congressman C R. Of love and friendship inks my pen Skinner of Watertown, in 1882.

Tuscany, Baltimore, Maryland.

With gall, to quote from wiser men.

(Ed. Note:—Thanks for so generous "In 1886 he was graduated with credit That might makes right, and right makes a contribution. What a penalty!) from the Naval Academy as a midshipwrong; "I thought I had paid this long ago, man and started the two years of sea And makes my saw a raucous gong. and I have just found it under a pile of service necessary at that time before a One toils and moils throughout the years correspondence. I am penalizing myself graduate was given a higher commisfor the delay. Am sorry." sion. He served with the Asiatic squadTo feed and clothe the human race. ron during this two years, most of his By strife the world moves on apace,— So say these wiser men, the seers.

1882 WILLIAM B. FLETCHER, time having been spent in China and '82, leaves Orr's Island, Japan.

A saw at which the cynic sneers.

Maine, and may now be reached at 90 "In 1886 he remrned for his final exMorningside Drive, New York City.

They know it well:—that pirates bold aminations and, after passing them, was On sea, and rogues on land, await commissioned a third lieutenant in The toiler's wages, small or great.

1883 J O ^ ^ M- ELLICOTT, '83, what was then called 'The Revenue Cut""'^ (Capt. USN, Ret.)—writes ter Service,' only 10 men from his class Despoiling all, both young and old.

Despite my saw, the night grows cold. from Mare Island, California: being commissioned as line officers in "Congramlations on the September the Navy proper. He also received the SHIPMATE. It is the best yet, but I degree of Bachelor of Science. The ReveIn peace, they know, we have to fight am getting such a terrible ragging about nue Cutter Service later became known To keep what we have gained by toil washing the girl's back that I am al- as the Coast Guard.

In ofiice, shop, or from the soil; most sorry the magazine has so many To have some wood to burn at night.

"He served in all of our territorial Thus saws grow dull and fail to bite. readers. coastal waters, including those of Alaska,

1878

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until the Spanish-American war when he took part in the Cuban blockade.

"Following the Spanish-American war he continued the routine service of the Coast Guard and, rising rapidly through the lesser ranks, was commissioned captain by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, the year he took the Snohomish around the Horn.

"Following the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, when the great liner struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the International Ice Patrol was organized with the United States furnishing the ships and the personnel and other maritime countries sharing in the expense of the service. Captain Levis was placed in command of this service, his ship being the Seneca. While in this service it was Captain Levis' duty to Jocate icebergs, measure them, note their drift and keep the hydrographic office in Washington constantly informed of this data.

"In 1916 Captain Levis took his retirement. However, at the entrance of this country into the World War in 1917 he returned to the service and for the duration was on the staff of Rear Admiral Beatty at Charleston, S. C. Following the Armistice he retired again.

"On June 14, 1893, Levis and Miss Anna Dodge, of Waverly, were married.

Mrs. Levis died in the 50th year of their married life."

1887 RICHARD H. JACKSON, " " '87, (Admiral, USN, Ret.), may be reached at 432 E. Avenue, Coronado, California. ^I-OYD H. CHANDLER, '88, (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.), lives at 2811 Albemarle Street, N.W., Washington, D. C

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CHARLES B. McVAY, '90, " (Adm., USN, Ret.), 2131 Bancroft Place, N. W., Washington, D. C , sends in informative data which is greatly appreciated by SHIPMATE. 1891 WILLIAM N. McKELVY, I07 I ,^j ^^^j USMC), may well be proud of his son. Lieutenant Colonel William McKelvy, '21, who held the American left flank against a Jap counterattack in the Solomons.

HORATIO G. GILLMOR, '91, (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.), formerly of Construction Corps, has been recalled to active duty at the Navy Department. The Washington Post of September 28, carried a picture of Admiral Gillmor, as a warden of St. John's Episcopal Church,

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freshen up. Sailor!

Chew Wrigley's Spearmint Gum Yes, you fighting sailors know how much a little stick of chewing gum can mean when your nerves are tense or you need a little lift.

Chewing cools your mouth. Keeps your throat moist. Helps steady your nerves. Seems to make your tasks go faster, easier.

So chew and enjoy swell-tasting Wrigley's Spearmint Gum every day—ashore or afloat.

Millions do.

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Washington, presenting a bishop's ring to Rev. Oliver J. Hart.

WALTER W. LORSHBOUGH,-^'06, sends this along from 503 Ninth Street, So., Fargo, North Dakota: "I am so far off the beaten path that 1899 CHARLES E. MORGAN, '99, makes his home at 112 I very seldom have any contact with my Woodland Avenue, Clarksburg, West classmates and Navy friends, and am alVirginia. ways glad to find mention of them and Navy affairs in SHIPMATE, and enjoy ALFRED W. JOHNSON, '99, (R. poring over the Register.

Adm., USN, Ret.), is now on active "Wish I might be with them in the duty, Inter-American Defense Board, grand job they are doing.^ I do at least Federal Res. Building, Washington. have a headache—membership on the County War Price and Ration Board, WALTER M. HUNT, '99, (Capt., which makes me feel that I am at least USN, Ret.), leaves Bangor, Maine, for contributing in a small way."

32 Livermore Street, Portsmouth, Ne-^f Hampshire.

W. T. PEACOCK, '06, (Lt. Comdr.

USNR), with the Navy Department in 1901 J^^^N J. FITZPATRICK, Washington, gives his home address as '01, may be reached at 1518 2236 Q Stteet, N. W., Washington.

First Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

FREDERICK L. OLIVER, 01, (Capt.

USN., Ret.), Office of Inspector of Naval Material, Pittsburgh District, 401 Old P. O. Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sent in informative data for our records, which we appreciate very much.

1902 TAMES A. CAMPBELL, JR., 1\MI. ;Q2^ ( LJ Comdr., USN, Ret.), writes from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: "1 had hoped to be ordered to active duty in connection with the merchant service,, public relations, or communications. In these 1 have had some experience in and out of the Navy; but the Medicos denied me a green light.

"However, I am a member of a number of war-time civilian agencies. More recently I have been elected Commander of the Department of Delaware of the American Legion, which has many aspects of a full time job."

190*5 STANFORD C HOOPER, l7\/a ,Q5^ ^j^^^^ Admiral, USN), is in the Office of General Consultant, Radio, Radar and Underwater Sound Equipment, 50 Church Street, New York City. He lives at 72 Speir Drive, South Orange, New Jersey.

1906

ROBERT LOCKE HARTER, '06, gets his mail at 1814 E. 40th Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

WILLIAM HARRIS BOOTH, '06, (Lt. Comdr. USN, Ret.), is living in Urbanna, Virginia.

JOHN F. CONNOR, 06, (Comdr., USN), may be reached at 231 North 7th Street, Hamilton, Ohio.

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WILLIAM L. CALHOUN, 06, (Vice Admiral, USN), writes that his son, WiUiam, Jr., '34, Lt. (jg), USNR, is also on active duty, and adds: "I am proud and happy that the two "W. L C's" are back on the Navy list."

1907 ^- TOUTANT BEAURE^ GARD, '07, (R. Adm., USN), is Naval Attache and Naval Attache for air, American Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

HERMAN E. WELTE, '07, (Comdr., USN, Ret.), gives his new address as 7420 Muirfield Road, Noirfolk, Virginia.

1909 JUI-IAN S. HATCHER, '09, ' ^ ' (Brig. Gen. USA), may be reached by writing R. F. D. No. 1, Falls Church, Virginia.

THOMAS E. VAN METRE, '09, (Capt. USN), is in the Office of the Naval Inspector General, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. BENJAMIN F. TILLEY, Jr., "09, (Lt. Comdr. USN, Ret.), now on active duty, reports change of address. He is now Resident Inspector of Naval Material in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

PHILIP F. HAMBSCH, '09, (Lt. Comdr., USN, Ret.), writes from Galveston, Texas: "I have beeh moving around so much since leaving Baltimore that SHIPMATE has had a hard time trying to keep up with me. I believe that I am settled here in Galveston as Port Director, so will you please change my address.

"As a piece of news for your 1909 column—Rear Admiral Leighton, Commandant of the Eighth Naval District, is here on the West Gulf section inspecting that part of his district. He has been to Galveston to see us.

"I was certainly shocked to hear about Captain Bill's death, and I was so glad that I had stopped in to see him last spring in Delaware.

"Keep the Association going in Baltimore so that there will be something left when we get back from the war."

GEORGE H. BOWDEY, 07, (Capt., 1 9 1 0 HOWARD A. FLANIGAN, USN, Ret.), is now at the Naval War ' ' ' " '10, (Capt. USN, Ret.), is College, Newport, Rhode Island. now with the U. S. Naval forces in Europe, and should be addressed 20 Gros1 9 0 8 H^RRY ^- HIRD, 08, venor Square, London.

(Capt., USN, Ret.), may be ROBERT C MULNIX, '10, writes reached through the Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ltd., Shipbuilding Division, from 4-C-568, Pentagon Building, Arlington, Virginia: Orange, Texas.

"Tho' the Navy states that I am "an RUFUS KING, '08 (Capt., USN, over-aged Destroyer' (and won't even Ret.), informs us that since July 31st give me to the British), and tho" I am he has been stationed at the Naval Op- serving here on staff duty, there will be erating Base, Newport, R. I. no let-down of interest on my part to do anything in my power to aid Naval HENRY SMITH RICHARDSON, Service.

'08, is affiliated with Vickis Chemical "Have had both Navy and Army ReCompany, New York City, and may be serve commissions. In the Army I addressed 122 East 42nd Street. chose Tanks, as they came closer to being a ship.

CHARLES R. NORRIS, '08 (Lt. "Am Uncle to E. J. Boughton, 3rd, Comdr., USNR), has been transferred '26, who is now in Army Air Forces, and to Headquarters, Sixth Naval District, have every close relative commissioned Charleston, South Carolina. He is at the in either the Army or the Nav)'.

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1. The USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier) was sunk on June 7, 1942, as the result of enemy action during and subsequent to the Battle of Midway.

The Navy Department, having good reason to believe that the loss of the YORKTOWN was not known to the enemy, withheld this announcement pending developments which were vital to the operations which have been in progress in the South Paciflc since early August.

2. The YORKTOWN was put out of action by enemy aircraft attacks with bombs and torpedoes on the afternoon of June 4, as described in Navy Department Communique No. 97, of July 14. She was seriously damaged and heavily listed as the result of these attacks, and the crew was forced to abandon ship in view of the imminent danger of her capsizing. Tugs and other salvage vessels were sent to her assistance. A salvage party was placed aboard and she was taken in tow. Progress was slow, but it appeared that she might be saved.

3. By the morning of Jime 6 the salvage party had been able to reduce the list and the prospects of saving the ship appeared brighter. The USS HAMMANN (destroyer) was placed alongside to assist. Shortly after noon on June 6, an enemy submarine scored two torpedo hits amidships on the YORKTOWN and two torpedo hits on the HAMMANN alongside.

The HAMMANN sank shortly thereafter, and the condition of the YORKTOWN became critical. The enemy submarine was attacked by destroyers throughout the day. Results of these attacks indicated that the submarine was certainly damaged and possibly simk.

4. During the early morning of June 7, the YORKTOWN capsized and sank as the result of the cumulative damage from aircraft bombs and torpedoes on the 4th, and submarine torpedoes on the 6th.

5. Casualties in the YORKTOWN were few and were included in the total personnel losses in the Battle of Midway (92 officers and 215 enlisted men) which have been previously reported. The next of kin of those lost have been notified. The YORKTOWN and the HAMMANN were the only U. S. ships lost in the Battle of Midway.

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South Paciflc (All dates given are East Longitude) 1. The intensity of the fighting on Guadalcanal Island has decreased and the Marines are still holding their positions. Marine patrols continue active.

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2. On September 15 two heavy Army bombers (Boeing "Flying Forttresses") attacked shore installations at Rekata Bay on the northwest coast of Santa Isabel Island. Fires were observed as a result of this bombing.

3. On September 16 Navy and Marine Corps dive-bombers (Douglas "Devastators") and Navy torpedo planes (Grumman "Avengers") attacked Japanese cruisers and destroyers south of Choiseul Island. One cruiser was damaged by a torpedo and a second by bombs.

September 16, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO.

127

North Pacific 1. On September 4, two long-range Army pursuit planes (Lockheed "Lightnings") accompanied by one Army heavy-bomber (Consolidated "Liberator") made a strafing attack on enemy ships, aircraft and shore installations at Kiska Harbor, in the Western Aleutian Islands. A fourengined flying boat is believed to have been destroyed on the water and many casualties both aboard ships and ashore were reported.

2. On September 14, a large group of Army heavy bombers (Consolidated "Liberators") accompanied by Army pursuit planes (Bell "airocobras" and Lockheed "Lightnings") bombed and strafed the same objectives from low altitude. The enemy attempted to repel this attack with planes and weak anti-aircraft resistance. The attack resulted in the following damage to the enemy: (a) Two minesweepers were sunk. (b) Three large cargo ships were damaged by bombs. (c) Three submarines and several small craft were damaged by bombs and machine-gun fire. (d) Store-houses and supply dumps in the camp area were set fire by repeated attacks. (e) Four "Zero" fighters and one small plane were shot down. (f) One large patrol plane was destroyed on the water. (g) An estimated 500 troops were either killed or wounded.

3. No U. S. aircraft were lost as a result of enemy action.

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(g) One medium sized cargo ship damaged.

2. These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department Communique, and are not related to operations in the Solomon Islands.

September 19, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO. 129

(All dates given are East Longitude.)

South Pacific 1. Since the unsuccessful attempt of the Japanese to recapture the airfield at Guadalcanal during the night of September 13-14, there has been a lull in the land-flghting on the island. These hostilities have been confined to minor patrol activity, sniping, and occasional skirmishes between small enemy units and U. S. Marines.

Supplies and reinforcements have reached our forces.

2. On September 14 Army "Plying Portresses" attacked a force of enemy ships to the northeastward of Tulagi. This force included battleships and cruisers. Heavy anti-aircraft flre was encountered but possible hits on two battleships were reported. When last seen, this force was retiring to the north.

3. On September 15,16, and 17 Army long-range bombers strafed and bombed Rekata Bay and on September 16 and 17 bombed ships and shore installations at Gizo Island. Results of these attacks were undetermined although flres were observed after the attack on Rekata Bay on the 15th.

September 22, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO.

130

(All dates given are East Longitude.)

South Pacific 1. On September 19 Army heavy bombers (Boeing Flying Fortresses) bombed Gizo Island and bombed and strafed shore installations at Rekata Bay. 2. On September 20 Navy and Marine Corps Douglas dive-bombers attacked and damaged a Japanese cruiser northwest of Guadalcanal and bombed shore installations at Rekata Bay. 3. Patrol activity on Guadalcanal September 17, 1942 was minor during September 18 and, COMMUNIQUE No. 128 September 19, but increased someFar East what on September 20. Our positions 1. U. S. submarines have reported remain intact. the following results of operations against the enemy in Far Eastern waSeptember 24, 1942 tcrs' COMMUNIQUE NO. 131 (a) Two large freighters sunk. (b) One medium sized freighter South Pacific 1. The USS JARVIS (destroyer), sunk. which was damaged as a result of ene(c) One small patrol boat sunk. my air attacks off Guadalcanal, must (d) One large tanker damaged and be presumed lost at sea enroute from left afire.

Tulagi to a southern repair base. The (e) One large freighter damaged. JARVIS has been overdue for several (f) One large transport damaged.

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weeks and intensive search by ships and aircraft has failed to locate her or reveal any trace of her personnel.

It is assumed that she was sunk by enemy submarines or aircraft.

2. The USS LITTLE (small auxiliary transport) has been sunk by the enemy in recent operations in the Solomon Islands area. Approximately half of the personnel of the LITTLE were saved.

3. The next of kin of those lost have been notified.

September 25, 1942 COMMUNIQUE No.

132

(All dates given are East Longitude.)

South Pacific.

1. On September 21 Army heavy bombers (Boeing Flying Fortresses) bombed and strafed Gizo Island in the New Georgia Group of the Solomon Islands and attacked enemy installations at Rekata Bay on the northern coast of Santa Isabel Island.

2. On September 23 Army bombers again attacked Rekata Bay. Docks and buildings were damaged and one small float plane was shot down.

3. On September 24 Army bombers attacked a force of enemy transports near Shortland Island, in the western Solomons. This attack was opposed by about twenty Japanese fighters. Three hits were scored on the transports and one enemy fighter was shot down.

4. Marine patrols on Guadalcanal have been active in attacking scattered enemy units. These operations have been supported by Navy and Marine Corps Douglas dive-bombers which have bombed and strafed enemy-held villages and other points of resistance.

September 28, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO.

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North Pacific 1. On September 24 a small force of heavy Army bombers attacked enemy installations on the island of Kiska. Results were not observed.

2. On September 25 a strong force of Army bombers and pursuit planes, accompanied by planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force, attacked shore installations and ships at Kiska. Two submarines were strafed, six seaplane flghters were destroyed on the water and a seventh was shot down. Bomb hits started fires on one of the two transports (or cargo ships) which were found in the harbor and the damaged ship was last seen listed and beached. It was estimated that one hundred and fifty Japanese were killed or wounded.

stroyed and our positions have been expanded somewhat.

2. During the period September 25th to September 28th, inclusive, Army, Navy and Marine Corps flyers destroyed forty-two enemy aircraft and damaged three others without combat loss of any U. S. planes.

3. On September 25th heavy Army bombers attacked Rekata Bay, Tonolei Harbor and Japanese ships southeast of Buka Passage. At Rekata Bay an enemy seaplane was damaged on the water and several small gun emplacements were strafed. At Tonolei Harbor one bomb hit was scored on an enemy cruiser and three seaplanes were shot down. A Japanese seaplane tender was damaged by one bomb hit in the action southeast of Buka Passage.

4. On September 26th heavy Army bombers in force attacked enemy ships near Shortland Island. One cruiser was hit and left burning and a large transport (or cargo ship) was heavily bombed and also set aflre.

This ship probably sank. Six enemy seaplanes were shot down and a seventh was damaged.

5. On September 27th eighteen enemy bombers escorted by thirteen flghters attacked our positions at Guadalcanal. Intercepting Navy and Marine Corps flghters shot down four bombers and flve flghters.

6. On September 28th twenty-five enemy bombers escorted by eighteen "Zero" fighters attacked our Guadalcanal installations. Navy and Marine Corps flghters again intercepted and forced the attacking bombers to jettison their bombs into the sea. Twentythree enemy bombers and one flghter were destroyed.

September 30, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO.

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South Pacific (All dates given are East Longitude.)

1. U. S. Marines on Guadalcanal and Florida Islands in the Solomon Archipelago are continuing active patrol operations against Japanese ground forces. Navy and Marine Corps dive-bombers have supported our ground forces in both search and attack. Several small enemy detachments have been engaged and de-

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1. At about noon on August 8th a Japanese torpedo plane crashed into and set aflre the USS GEORGE F. ELLIOTT (naval transport, formerly the SS CITY OF LOS ANGELES) during the torpedo attack announced in paragraph 9 of Navy Department Communique No. 115. Burning gasoline started flres which could not be extinguished and the ELLIOTT was abandoned and destroyed. There were few casualties and the next of kin of those lost have been notified.

2. The USS GREGORY (small auxiliary transport) was recently sunk by enemy gunfire off Guadalcanal. Most of her personnel were saved and the next of kin of those lost have been notified.

November, 1942 2. These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department Communique.

October 2, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO. 137

North Pacific: 1. On September 27th Army Liberator bombers dropped bombs on enemy ships and shore installations at Kiska.

One Zero fighter was shot down. Damage to bomb objectives could not be determined. All our planes returned.

2. On the same date near the island of Attu three Army bombers attacked a transport, escorted by a destroyer.

Near misses damaged the transport which, when last seen, had stopped.

3. During the morning of September 28th a strong force of Army heavy bombers, escorted by pursuit craft, again bombed enemy ships and buildings at Kiska. Zero fighters and antiaircraft batteries on surface vessels attempted to repel this attack. A transport and a submarine were damaged and probably sunk and five Zero fighters were shot down. One of our pursuit planes was lost.

4. During the afternoon of September 28th Army bombers again attacked the ICiska area, strafing and bombing ships and shore facilities. Results of this attack are not known.

5. During this same afternoon Army planes attacked an enemy cargo ship northwest of Kiska. The ship was bombed and strafed and left in a damaged condition.

October 3, 1942 COMMUNIQUE No.

North Pacific 1. U. S. Army troops, covered and supported by units of the U. S. Navy, have recently occupied positions in the Andreanof group of the Aleutian Islands. Occupation was effected without enemy opposition. Army aircraft, including B-24 (Consolidated) and B-17 (Flying Portress) bombers, and P-38 (Lockheed Lightning), P-39 (Bell Airacobra), and P-40 (Curtiss) pursuit planes, are now operating from air fields in these islands.

2. On September 29th the enemy cargo ship which was attacked northwest of Kiska on the 28th was again bombed and strafed by Army aircraft.

No opposition was encountered and the ship appeared to have been abandoned.

3. On September 30th, in the face of considerable anti-aircraft opposition. Army Consolidated B-24's bombed ships in the harbor at Kiska.

An enemy transport was set aflre ijy two direct hits. The camp area also was bombed and several fires resulted.

All our planes returned.

October 2, 1942 COMMUNIQUE No.

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Far East 1. U. S. submarines have reported the following results of operations against the enemy in Par Eastern Waters: 1 large seaplane tender sunk.

1 large cargo passenger ship sunk.

1 large freighter sunk.

2 medium-sized cargo ships sunk.

2 medium-sized cargo ships damaged and probably sunk.

1 large tanker damaged.

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Pacific Area 1. The USS GRUNION (submarine) has been overdue in the Pacific for some time and must be presumed to be lost.

2. The next of kin of the personnel of the GRUNION have been notified.

October 5, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO. 140

North Pacific 1. Army bombers, operating from

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November, 1942 our new bases in the Andreanof Group of the Aleutian Islands, are making almost daily raids on Kiska. Weather conditions have favored these operations and the enemy has been under continual fire.

2. On October 1st and 2nd many demolition and incendiary bomb hits were scored on the camp area and the seaplane hangar. Five enemy seaplanes were shot down during the raid on October 2nd.

3. Although no hits were observed on the three cargo ships present at Kiska, subsequent photographic reconnaissance revealed that two of these ships were damaged by bombs and were beached.

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South Pacific 1. U. S. Marines are maintaining their positions on Guadalcanal while our air forces are continuing to attack the enemy over a wide area. Clashes with enemy patrols have been frequent but there has been no major change in positions. In spite of our determined air attacks it has not been possible to prevent the enemy from landing small troop reinforcements on Guadalcanal under cover of darkness.

2. On September 29: (a) A small group of Japanese heavy bombers with strong fighter escort raided our positions at Guadalcanal.

Our fighters shot down four enemy flghters and forced the bombers to jettison their bombs before reaching their objectives. (b) Navy and Marine Corps divebombers, assisted by Army pursuit planes, raided enemy small craft earn i n g supplies to troops on Guadalcanal and bombed and strafed enemy troops and equipment ashore. (c) Enemy installations at Rekata Bay were bombed and strafed by our search planes. Fires were observed ashore and two enemy seaplanes were destroyed.

3. On September 30: I"a) Rekata Bay was attacked by Navy dive-bombers. A munitions dump was set afire and two enemy aircraft were damaged. (b) Navy and Marine Corps divebombers and Army pursuit planes continued attacks on enemy troop concentrations and supply dumps on Guadalcanal.

4. On October 1: (a.) Army pursuit planes continued attacks on enemy ground forces on Guadalcanal. (b) Navy and Marine Corps dive bombers and torpedo planes attacked four Japanese destroyers to the south of the New Georgia Group. These ships are believed to have been covering a small landing which the enemy made at Viru Harbor on the night of September 30th. One destroyer was hit and damaged and when last seen was dead in the water. (c) Army Flying Fortresses set fire to a small boat off Greenwich Islands at the south eastern end of Malaita Island.

5. On October 2: (a.) The Japanese again attacked Guadalcanal with a small group of

bombers, heavily protected by fighters. Our intercepting fighters shot down four enemy fighters. No bombs were dropped. (b) Army heavy bombers attacked Rekata Bay but results were not observed.

October 6, 1942 COMMUNIQUE No.

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29 range reconnaissance aircraft observed a large number of enemy ships concentrating in the Shortland Island area, south of the island of Bougainville.

2. On October 5th, Navy carrierbased aircraft from a Task Force under the operational control of Vice Admiral R. L. Ghormley, attacked the enemy ships while long-range bombers under the command of General Douglas MacArthur coordinated in the attack plan with simultaneous raids on Japanese bases in nearby islands.

These latter raids have been announced by General MacArthur.

3. Despite unfavorable weather, our carrier-based aircraft infiicted the following damage on enemy ships and installations. (a) One heavy cruiser damaged by heavy bombs. (b) One transport damaged by heavy bombs. (c) One seaplane tender damaged by light bombs. (d) Two cargo ships damaged by light bombs. (e) One cruiser and one destroyer strafed in the harbor at Shortland Island. (f) Four 4-engined flying boats destroyed on the water at Falsi and six damaged by straflng. (g) Two seaplanes and two bombers destroyed in the Shortland Island area. (h) Airfleld at Kieta damaged by bombs.

4. Our Task Force suffered no loss of personnel or planes and no damage to any ship.

5. The necessity of preserving radio silence, in order to avoid disclosure of our ships' positions, delayed receipt of the above report of the action.

(Based on reports received up to 5:30 PM EWT. All dates given are East Longitude.)

South Pacific 1. On October 3rd: (a) A small group of Japanese bombers, preceded by about thirty Zero fighters attempted to raid U. S. installations on Guadalcanal. Antiaircraft batteries shot down two enemy fighters while nine more of the attacking Zeros were shot down by seven Navy wildcat fighters. The enemy bombers turned back and dropped no bombs. One U. S. plane was lost but the pilot was saved.

2. During the night of October 3rdOctober 4th Navy and Marine Corps dive-bombers attacked an enemy heavy cruiser and several destroyers which were engaged in landing troop reinforcements on Guadalcanal. At least one hit was scored on the cruiser.

One of our planes was shot down but the crew was saved.

3. On October 4th: (a) Shortly after daybreak a group of Navy and Marine Corps torpedo bombers scored two torpedo hits on the cruiser which was still smoking as a result of the previous bomb hit. (b) Army pursuit planes and Navy and Marine Corps dive-bombers bombed and strafed Japanese troops and supply dumps on Guadalcanal.

4. During the above period there was little activity between ground forces on Guadalcanal. The enemy October 9, 1942 continued to land small detachments of troops on the island under cover COMMUNIQUE No. 145 North Pacific of darkness.

1. On October 6th, Army "Liberator" bombers, escorted by "Airacobra" October 7, 1942 and "Lightning" flghters, dropped apCOMMUNIQUE NO. 143 proximately seven tons of bombs on North Pacific the seaplane 1. (a) Reconnaissance by our air- the areaat surrounding Kiska. Eight more tons of craft has failed to detect any signs hangar were dropped on the camp area of continued enemy occupancy or ac- bombs and flres were started. tivity on Attu and Agattu in the west2.

Two cargo ships in the harbor ern Aleutians for several weeks. (b) In the latter part of September, were attacked and one was left on Army aircraft bombed Attu, destroy- flre and sinking. The radio station ing most of the buildings on the is- was damaged by straflng. One sealand. A study of photographs made plane was destroyed on the water and during the raid revealed no trace of another was damaged.

3. Reconnaissance over Attu and the enemy on Attu at that time. A similar situation has been observed at Agattu on the same date failed to reveal any enemy activity on these isAgattu.

2. Attacks by our aircraft on Kiska lands. continue. On October 5th, Army Liber- Atlantic 4. The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter ator bombers, escorted by fighters, dropped many demolition and incen- MUSKEGET, formerly the SS CORNISH diary bombs on the camp area. Hits of the Eastern Steamship Lines, has were made on the seaplane hangar, been overdue in the Atlantic for some and six enemy seaplane fighters were time and must be presumed to be lost.

5. The next of kin of the personnel shot down. Only light anti-aircraft opposition was encountered and all of of the MUSKEGET have been notifled. our aircraft returned.

October 10, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO. 146 October 8, 1942 South Pacific: COMMUNIQUE NO. 144 (All dates East Longitude.)

(All dates given are East Longi1. During the night of October 5-6, tude.)

Navy and Marine Corps dive bombers South Pacific 1. During recent weeks our long- and torpedo planes from Guadal-

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canal attacked six enemy destroyers which had been located by our search planes. These ships were attempting to assist enemy landing operations at the northwestern end of the island.

One destroyer was sunk and another damaged.

2. During the night of October 7-8, the enemy continued to reinforce his troops on Guadalcanal.

3. During the evening of October 8th, Navy and Marine Corps dive bombers and torpedo planes, assisted by flghters, attacked an enemy surface force northwest of Guadalcanal.

This force, containing one cruiser of the Kako class and five destroyers, was covering enemy landing operations on the northwestern tip of the island. The cruiser received one torpedo hit and was further damaged by bombs. Four enemy seaplanes were shot down during the air battle which followed our attack and two of our planes were lost. Airplane observers reported the cruiser still burning on the afteroon of October 9th.

4. Additional details have been received of the coordinated attacks on enemy ship concentrations and Japanese bases in the northwestern Solomon Islands, which were announced in Navy Department Communique No. 144. These attacks, on October 5th, were executed simultaneously in three phases, namely: (a) Carrier-based planes from a Pacific Task Force attacked enemy ships in the Shortland Is. area and bombed the airfield at Kieta (previously reported) . (b) Army heavy bombers from the Southwest Pacific attacked Japanese bases in nearby islands (previously reported). (c) Army, Navy and Marine Corps land-based aircraft in the South Pacific attacked enemy positions at Buka Is., Gizo Is., and Rekata Bay. At Buka the parking area was bombed and several planes were damaged. At Crizo results were not observed. At Rekata Bay beach installations were bombed and two seaplanes were shot down. One seaplane and a small launch were destroyed on the water.

October 12, 1942 COMMUNIQUE NO. 147

(All dates are East Longitude.)

1. Certain initial phases of the Solomon Islands campaign, not announced previously for military reasons, can now be reported.

2. Reconnaissance during last June and July revealed enemy activity of marked significance in the Japanese controlled Solomon Islands. An airfield was in process of construction

on Guadalcanal Island and facilities of other nearby bases were being expanded rapidly. This expansion in the Solomons, together with increased activity in Eastern New Guinea, clearly indicated that the enemy was attempting to establish and maintain control of the air and sea in the Solomon Islands area. Establishment of such control would have put the Japanese in a position to launch a sea-borne thrust at Port Darwin and Australia, and would have seriously threatened our supply lines to Australia and New Zealand as well as to our island bases in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands.

3. It was necessary, therefore, that these designs of the enemy be blocked by our capturing and utilizing his key positions in the southeastern Solomons. This was accomplished on August 7th, when U. S. forces surprised and captured Japanese positions in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area, as described in Navy Department Communiques 107 and 115 and Admiral King's statement on August 10th.

4. Vigorous opposition was offered to the consolidation of our positions.

Throughout August 7th and August 8th, enemy planes carried out raids on our shore positions, transports and fleet units. These raids did not prevent U. S. Marines from seizing most of the key positions in the Gudalcanal-Tulagi area by the afternoon of August 8th. Meanwhile, additional troops, supplies and equipment were being unloaded from transports and supply ships, and it was imperative that these operations be successfully completed. To this end, screening groups of allied cruisers and destroyers were placed on both sides of Savo Island to guard the western entrances to the transport area. An additional screening force was stationed near the transports to provide close coverage within the harbor.

5. At about 1:45 A.M. on the night of August 8-9, enemy aircraft dropped flares over our transports and supply ships. Simultaneously, a force of enemy cruisers and destroyers skirted the south coast of Savo Island at high speed, headed in the direction of the transports and supply ships which were silhouetted in the illuminated area. The rapidly moving enemy sighted our covering unit located southeast of Savo and opened flre immediately with guns and torpedoes, seriously damaging and setting flre to the Australian cruiser, HMAS CANBERRA. It later became necessary to abandon the CANBERRA and she sank the following morning, as already announced. Following a brief engagement with our southeastern screen the Japanese altered course to proceed through the passage northeast of Savo

November, 1942 Island. Here the Japanese force encountered our northeast screen of cruisers and destroyers and a battle at close range resulted. The action was fought with guns and torpedoes, with targets illuminated by searchlights and starshells. The enemy fire was heavy and accurate and the U. S. cruisers QUINCY and VINCENNES were hit repeatedly and sank during the night. A third cruiser, the U.S.S. ASTORIA, was badly damaged and burned throughout the night. She sank the following morning.

6. It was not possible to determine the extent of damage inflicted on the Japanese ships by our screening forces. The enemy withdrew to the northwest without attempting an attack on our transports and supply ships. Although a majority of the personnel was saved, there still were many casualties as a result of the sinking of the four Allied cruisers. The next of kin of those lost and wounded have been notified. The loss of these four cruisers has now been offset by the appropriate reallocation of ships which is made possible by new ship construction.

October 13, 1942 COMMUNIQUE No.

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South Pacific: (All dates are East Longitude.)

1. ON OCTOBER 9: (a) During the morning Marine Corps aircraft attacked a Japanese force of two light cruisers and four destroyers in the area north of New Georgia Island. A direct hit damaged one of the cruisers and when last seen she was down by the bow. The second cruiser was also attacked and minor damage was reported. Three of the enemy seaplanes which attempted to fight off our attack were shot down. (b) Navy and Marine Corps search planes bombed enemy anti-aircraft installations at Rekata Bay and strafed seaplanes on the water. The results of this attack are not known.

2. ON OCTOBER 11: (a) Four waves of Japanese bombers with fighter escort totaling about thirty-five bombers and thirty fighters attempted to bomb our positions at Guadalcanal. Army, Navy and Marine Corps fighters intercepted and forced the bombers to drop their loads in an open field. Eight enemy bombers and four Zero fighters were shot down. Two U. S. fighter planes were lost. (b) U. S. Marines succeeded in extending our positions to the westward on the north shore of Guadalcanal Island after two days of offensive operations. Army fighters assisted by strafing enemy troops and installations and the enemy suffered many casualties.

been President of a company bearing my LORING W. BATTEN, Jr., '11, (Lt. name, specializing in radio transmitters, Comdr., USNR, Ret.), writes from 327 public address systems and sound re- N. Encinitas Avenue, Monrovia, Calicording. fornia: "My Washington address is Ambas"It is of no great importance one way sador Hotel." or another, but as long as I do retain the rank of Lieut. Comdr. USNR, (Ret.) — THOMAS A. NICHOLSON, 10, (Lt. as I have since my physical retirement Comdr., USNR), from the office of from active work in the Naval Reserves Public Relations, Post Office Building, in 1930—I'd kind of like to be listed Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, sends in the that way in future Registers. I fear I am following: not physically qualified for active duty "The wife of Robert W. Clark, '10, in this war, and anyhow I can't get anydeceased, gave me his class ring and I body in authority here to pay any attenam today forwarding it to the Curator of tion to my pleas for consideration; but at The Museum at Annapolis to be added least I did put in 21 months in World to the collection of the class rings al- War I. ready there."

"Very much interested in SHIPMATE, and look forward to reading it regularly; JOHN E. SLOAN, 10, (Major Genone of the few ways available to keep in eral, USA), is Commander, 88th Infantouch with the Navy, from back here try Division, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. along the foothills of the Coast Range."

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U S N ) , is now an Instructor with the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

J O H N B. OKIE, '11, may be reached at 220 Madison Avenue, New York City.

be reached at 1010 Alworth Building, Duluth, Minnesota.

RALPH S. WENTWORTH, '12, (Capt., USN), dropped in the office for a few minutes, and left his new address— 27 College Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland.

STILES M. (BEN) DECKER, Sr., '12, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), Caribbean Sea Frontier, Headquarters 10th Naval District, San Juan, Puerto Rico, writes: "It is grand to be back in the Navy on active duty again after thirty years of wandering.

"I suggest that you put Senior after my name as my son Stiles Morrow Decker, Jr., '35, is a Lieutenant (jg) USNR." 1913

ROBERT D. KIRKPATRICK, '13, (Capt., USN, Ret.), has left Seattle, Washington, and 1019 THALES S. BOYD, '12, is now at Post Graduate School, U. S. (Comdr., USN, Ret.), lives Naval Academy. at 2501 N Street, S. E., Apartment 217, Washington, D. C. JOHN L. HILL, '13, (Lt. Comdr., USN, Ret.), may be reached at 252 King ROGER W. SPENCER, '12, may George Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

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bers of my class passing through here— Von Heimburg, Ansel, Fengar being the latest. Fengar is attached to the base.

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1990 WALTER T. HART, '20, ' ' ^ ^ (Lt. Comdr., USNR), is at 237 Lafayette Street VAN H. RAGSDALE, '16, (Capt., the Naval Section Base, Cristobal, Canal USN), writes: NEW YORK CITY Zone.

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(Comdr. USN, Ret.), is now or have entered civilian life. It is ac"Bill Moise and Al Julin of our gang at the U. S. Legation, Ottawa, Ontario, tually the only connection that I have Canada. came back about the same time. with the Academy at this moment, but I "We must be antiques—Bunny Semhope to have a more active interest in STEPHEN H. MATTESON, '15, gets ple's son is driving an ambulance in the School, in the person of my son, in mail at 2235 N. W. Johnson Street, PortAfrica." about a year. land, Oregon.

"I entered in 1912 from Georgia, and FREDERIC S. BARTLETT, '21, (Lt. graduated in '16, having spent what I 191A WALTER W. WEBB, '16, Comdr., USNR), is with the Office of ^ (Capt., U S N ) , is on duty still consider the four most enjoyable Procurement and Material, (Inspection at the Gulf Port Base Supply Unit, Naval years of my naval career. Have been ac- Administration), Room 2250 Navy DeSupply Depot, New Orleans, Louisiana. tive since 'l6 and am now doing a tour partment, Washington, D. C. of duty as Director personnel at BuAer. BERNARD F. JENKINS, '16, (Lt. Getting rather tired of the swivel chair BASCOM JONES, '21, (Lt. Comdr., Comdr., USN, Ret.), is also in New navy and in spite of the family's wishes, USNR), from Box 21, U S. Naval SecOrleans, and can be reached at 8th am hoping for and expecting a carrier tion Base, Cristobal, Canal Zone, sends very soon."

Naval District. this along: "My mail has been bouncing around NEWBOLD T. LAWRENCE, JR., JAMES A. SCOTT, '16, (Comdr., so much that I wonder sometimes if '16, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), is with U. S. USN, Ret.), may be reached at Headlong established records for long delivery quarters Cominch—Room 3716, Wash- Lines, Pier 60, North River, New York won't be broken some.

City. ington, D. C. "Please give my regards to those of '20 and '21 who might be around that 1 0 1 O RUSSELL S. "BUCK" BARROY C SWINK, '16, (Lt. Col., part of the world. I've had a big kick in 1 7 1 7 -g^^YV, '19, (Lt., USNR, USMC), gives his new address as 3336 seeing well remembered faces and reRet.), writes on the letterhead of ChesaElliott Street, San Diego, California. peake Ferry Company, 706 Front Street, newing pleasant contacts."

EARL M. MAJOR, '16, (Comdr., Norfolk, Virginia: "I can't express how I feel being left WILLARD R. GAINES, '21, (Comdr., USNR), gives his home address as 25 out of this war.

I've tried three times to USN), writes from the American EmDrumlin Road, Newton Centre, Mass., get over the physical hurdle, but it apbassy, Lima, Peru. and tells us that he has been on active pears as though M.D.'s don't like diabetes duty since October 1939.

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American left flank against a Jap counterattack in the Solomons.

JOHN M. McISAAC, '23, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , reports he is now sta1999 LAURENCE A. MASSE- tioned at Naval Training Station, Samp^''•'LINK, '22, (Lt. Comdr., son, New York, c/o P. M., Geneva.

USNR), sailed into the office looking HAROLD H. CONNELLEY, '23, fine and dandy. Reports for tour of duty in Department of Seamanship and Navi- (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , is a Prof, in Degation, USNA. His residence is Win- partment of Ordnance and Gunnery at the "old school." He dropped in the ofchester, Maryland. fice the other day and reports that the R. BRUCE MILLER, '22, (Lt. Comdr., publishing of the Official Navy ComUSNR), gives his new address as Down- muniques has received many favorable town Athletic Club, 19 West Street, New comments.

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WILLIAM J. SEBALD, '22, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), reports his address as 3250 Arcadia Place, N . W., Washington, D. C. HORATIO D. SMITH, '22, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , informs us that he has been living at home since remrning from Pearl Harbor last November, and gives his address as 32 Uplifters Ranch, Santa Monica, California and adds: "Any Shipmate seeking a little rest and quiet is certainly welcome—any time. Phone Santa Monica 4-3678."

PHILIP S. OMOHUNDRO, '22, is Vice President of Garrett Supply Company, 3844 South Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

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JOSEPH H. GIBBONS, '24, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), is now in the office HENRY REDMAN DUTCHER, '23, of Procurement and Material, Navy Deis an Attorney, and has his office at 315 partment, Atlanta, Georgia, and lives at Genesee Valley Trust Building, Ro- Atlanta Athletic Club. chester, New York.

ADRIAN M. HURST, '24, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , is now on duty at sea.

MARION "FARMER" DUNCAN, '23, writes: ROYAL B. STEVENS, '24, (Lt. "Saw Walt Browning, '23, the other Comdr., USNR), is Assistant Port Direcday—first time since graduation. From time to time I meet up with many old tor, stationed at 17 Battery Place, New timers and most enjoyable friends. I was York City. ordered back to active duty in March ERNEST ELLER, '25, 1940 to report to the USS , on 1 9 9 c (Comdr., USN ), on sea duty, which ship I am still serving. Present ' ' ' ^ ^ duty Exec. Was promoted to Lieutenant gives his home address as 117 Belews Street, Winston Salem, North Carolina, Commander in 1940." and adds: "I hope all is well with you and know JOSEPH B. SPANGLER, '23, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), is now on duty at Head- you all there at the Academy are doing quarters, Tenth Naval District, San Juan, a splendid job in turning out officers to win this vast struggle."

Puerto Rico.

J O H N L. (DOC) PRATT, '22, according to recent dope received, got his brass hat a couple months ago, and is leaving Delaware for Seatde to become the Exec, of a Carrier that's to soon be commissioned.

MARION H. ( H A M ) WALLACE, '22, is now back on active duty, and is Lieutenant, USNR. 1090 M. WOOLSEY BRATH' '^"^ WAITE, '23, and Miss Gladys Lloyd of "Leeway," Cambridge, Maryland, were married on Saturday, October 3, 1942, at noon, in Old St. David's Church, Radnor. They will live at "Riverview," East New Market, Maryland.

HENRY F. AGNEW, '23, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , sailed into the office sporting a healthy tan from "out there."

He reports for duty at Alma Mater, and is Prof, in Department of Seamanship and Navigation.

LAYTON A. ZIMMER, '23, (Lt. Col.,

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WARREN F. PORTER, '25, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), may be reached in care of General Engineering and Drydock Company, Alameda, California.

THOMAS M. BROWN, '25, (Lt., USN), asks that his address be changed to U. S. Naval Station, Key West, Fla. MARSH GOLLNER, '25, is connected with the Arcade Theatre, Salisbury, Maryland.

199A NATHANIEL S. PRIME, I7^0 '26, (Lt. Comdr., USN), makes his home at apartment 812 A., Westchester Apartments, 3900 Cathedral Avenue, Washington, D. C.

hour July 24. A high-flying 'Stork' bomber made a direct hit on the home of Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. J. S. Holtwick, Jr., U. S. Navy, with a 7 lb. 10 oz. blonde fuseless type projectile. Mrs. Holtwick will bfe hospitalized for about ten days as a result of the raid, according to Lt. Comdr. Withington, Medical Corps, who was called when the lone aviator was first sighted. Lt. Comdr. Holtwick and their children, Patricia, 12 and Jack 3rd, 9, were uninjured and required only mild sedatives.

"The blonde bombshell who has been named "Robin,' will be on exhibition at the Kaneohe Bay Drive home of the Holtwicks early next month."

(Hearty congramlations from SHIP-

of Cecil Caufield down town the other night. "Mate' Faigle is doing good work in Public Works here, as was Joe JeUey who I understand was ordered to southern California. Bismark Martin was around awhile before moving out to an important staff job afloat. Frank Virden was plenty pleased to take command of a new "can' here recently. Bill Ashford passed through headed for points West and South only a few days ago.

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THEODORE G. SCHIRMEYER, '27, (Lt., USNR), is stationed at the Section Base, Trinidad, B. W. I.

ROBERT R. D E WOLFE, '26, (Lt. PAUL R. DROUILHET, '27, (Lt. Comdr., USN), may be reached at El Comdr., USN), 15th Naval District, Cordova Hotel, Coronado, California.

Room 107-A, Balboa, Canal Zone, writes: "I have been very formnate in seeing CHARLES E. BRINER, '26, (Lt. many of '27 within the last nine months, Comdr., USNR), is on duty at the U. S. some of whom I had not seen for years.

Naval Ordnance Plant, Louisville, Ken- Time does not seem to be much of a mcky. factor for that bridge is quickly gapped with a hearty greeting and a sincere hand1 9 2 7 ^^^^ SHAPLEY, '27, (Lt. shake. When I receive my copy of Col., USMC), star quarter- SHIPMATE I generally turn to the 1927 back on several Navy elevens, carried column first to see how friends and his smashing football tactics into action shipmates are getting along in these at Pearl Harbor December 7, the Navy hectic days."

Department has revealed in announcing that he has been decorated with the new MARSHALL L. SMITH, '27, (Lt. Silver Star for rescuing a Corporal from Comdr., USN, Ret.), Flag Lieutenant, death during the Jap attack.

Commander , writes Alan is the first leatherneck to receive from San Francisco: the Navy star medal.

"Since the last Beacon, life for me Said the Navy Department: has been rather in a state of flux. Color "With machine gun bullets ripping blindness and fuzzy vision from too the water and bombs exploding around much P. G. school finally resulted in a as he swam at Pearl Harbor after the physical retirement in 1937. bombing and firing of his ship on December 7, Lieutenant Colonel Shapley "I was a year in the manufacmring went to the rescue of Corporal Earl business (automobile parts), followed Nightingale, USMC, whom he saw by two years in real estate in San Franstruggling in the water. cisco. In 1939 I jumped at an oppormnity "Although Lieutenant Colonel Shap- to return to active duty at Twelfth Naval ley's own strength almost gave out, he District Headquarters. A year later Adrefused to abandon Corporal Nightingale miral Hepburn was in need of an aide and succeeded in bringing him safely and I fell heir to the job, continuing ashore." with Admiral Greenslade down to the Alan's home address is 4267 Trias, present writing. There is never a dull moment in this lively and fascinating San Diego, California. job.

"Being at the principal crossroads of JACK S. HOLTWICK, JR., '27, (Lt. Comdr., USN), Box 103, Pearl Harbor, our heavy Pacific traffic, I frequently run T. H., is mentioned in a Honolulu news- across '27's bound East, West, North or South. Ernie Blake just breezed in, repaper item which we quote:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; "After several months of freedom mrning to the Mainland after several from aerial attack, the island of Oahu years as Aide to Cincpac. He will comwas hit by an air raid during the noon mand a new destroyer. Caught a glimpse

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"Best regards to you and all our lads in your vicinity."

ROBERT S. RICKABAUGH, '27, may be reached at 331â&#x20AC;&#x201D;3rd Avenue, Altoona, Pennsylvania.

TOM COBB KING, '27, (Lt., jg, USN, Ret.), resides at 1903 N Street, N. W., Washington.

SAMUEL S. JACK, '27, (Lt. Col., USMC), will receive mail addressed in care of Mrs. S. S. Jack, 1203 Coast Boulevard, Lajolla, California.

MORTON S. CRESSY, JR., '27, is connected with the Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Company, Bound Brook, New Jersey.

RAY A. MITCHELL, '27, (Lt. Comdr., USN), writes from Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia: '"I'l exercise the prerogative of a classmate and send regards from Bill Bryson, Hal Horney, Bob Speck, Eddie Eckelmeyer, Charley Bergin and myself."

(Ed. Note: Thanks and best wishes for each one.)

B. "BENNY" E. MOORE, '27, (Lt. Comdr., USN), is with VPB Operational Training Squadron, Naval Air Station, Jacksonvile, Florida.

GEORGE A. BOTTOM, '27, (Lt., USN), has left New York and is in the Navy Department, Operations, Washington, D. C. HENRY R. PAIGE, '27, (Lt. Col., USMC), is stationed at Marine Corps School, Quantico, Virginia.

JOHN F. HINES, JR., '27, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , is "out there" with "Our Seven Ocean Navy."

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HAROLD D. HANSEN, '27, (Lt. Col., USMC), informs us that his address is 4405 38th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

line pilot should have no part of—but the boys are glad to see us—and that alone makes it worthwhile."

ROBERT L. HUBBARD, '28, makes his home at 1112 East Grove Street, Bloomington, Illinois.

NATHAN CLARK BABBITT, '28, 633 Wendell Street, Union, New York, writes: "I feel a little closer to the Navy these DAVID W. TODD, JR., '28, (Lt. days inasmuch as we are doing considerComdr., USN), is with the Naval R. O. able work for the Navy at International T C Unit, University of California, Business Machines Corporation. I recently gave up my desk job and am now Berkeley, California, funning a milling machine on the night DONALD S. GORDON, '28, (Lt. shift. I was unsuccessful in an attempt Comdr., U S N ) , is now at the U. S. Naval to obtain a commission in the Naval Reserve but am proud of the fact that I am Air Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. doing what I can on the production front."

WILLIAM C. BRENNAN, '28, (Lt., USNR), sends the following informaROGER M. DAISLEY, '28, resides at tion from U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, 782 Remington Road, Bexley, Ohio, St. Mary's College, California: and sends this along:

DONALD K. "SMITTY" SMITH, '28, writes on a letterhead of The Northeastland, Presque Isle, Maine: "Have been seeing quite a few of the boys that are scattered across the North Atlantic. They all seem to be well—are doing a grand job—all they want from us is mail from home.

"Volunteered for this Army cargo work some months ago and have since been going places that a respectable air

"Thank you for your efforts on behalf of all of us. The letterhead suggests the fact that I am once again in the service.

Eighteen years of my life are summarized —Class of '28, 1924 to June 1926—research work, and law to June 1942. June 'til now V-5 instructor, Lt., USNR. Now working with a fine group of Academy men in the "faculty' and another fine group of men in the 'smdent body,' aviation cadets, at St. Mary's College. Lots of work and lots of satisfaction from it."

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^^^^ ^' MULLEN, JR., '28,

(Lt., U S N ) , reports he is now on duty at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. LINDELL H. "TINY" HEWETT, '27, is connected with the Branch Hydrographic Office, U. S. Court House, Portland, Oregon.

"Since I last saw you, I have settled down in Columbus, Ohio with CurtissWright Corporation, attempting to push out planes for the old Alma Mater. At present, I am Assistant Service Manager for this Columbus Plant, but your guess is as good as mine as to how soon I'll be answering "Aye, Aye, Sir!' The feet persist in itching and it doesn't seem that "Allen's Foot Ease' is the remedy.

"Quite often we are privileged with visits from Washington and points other-

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with me today with its tongue hanging out and much the worse for wear. I The General Alumni Society of the didn't think it could stand the remrn University of Pennsylvania, together with trip alone so am affording reinforcement. ""Sincerely hope my Register doesn't the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Varsity Club, is sponsoring a get quite so beaten up enroute, nor linger series of luncheons before the football so long on the way. Gave my last one away in anticipation of a new issue and games on Franklin Field.

On Saturday, November 7,1942, Navy have often felt the need of it." will play in ""Philly" as the guest of the JOHN R. HAILE, '30, writes: University of Pennsylvania. Luncheon ""My permanent address is 3892 Degbefore the game will be served in Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street from 12:00 nan Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. noon to 1:30 P.M., at a charge of $1.00 We are always glad to see old friends from the Service, particularly members per plate. of the Classes of '29 and '30.

Alumni and friends of the Naval ""The local Alumni Association has its Academy, before going to Franklin meetings on the first Wednesday of each Field, will have a pleasant meeting place month. About thirty attended the Sepwhere they will be greeted by their tember meeting, when we had the opfriends at Pennsylvania; renew old pormnity to see the sound picmres on friendships of Academy days; and then the battles of Midway, Marshall Islands lunch in the pleasant atmosphere of and the Coral Sea. Some of the people the campus. from the Fleet are beginning to drop in Houston Hall is only a short distance from time to time and relate their exfrom Franklin Field and there are ample periences for the benefit of the pond parking facilities in the neighborhood. lilies. This is always most interesting and For further information communicate inspiring to those of us who have no with Leonard C. Dill, Jr., Secretary, The alternative but to swing around the hook General Alumni Society of University of for the duration. Consequently, anybody Pennsylvania, 3401 Spruce Street, Phila., from the Fleet who is in the Los AnPa. geles area on the first Wednesday of any month, and who has an urge to renew old contacts, should by all means drop wise of some of the old gang. Mort Flem- in on the Blue Room session at the Los ing, '26, Ben Born, '27, "Mother' Murphy, Angeles Athletic Club, 431 West 7th '27, Don Griffin, '27, John Yoho, '29, Street, in downtown Los Angeles. and Mack Williams, '30, are some of the ""My permanent business address is: boys that have visited us.

John R. Haile, Assistant Dean of Men "It helps somewhat also to have T. B. and Director of Employment, UniverClark's ('27,) brother, "Gerry' Clark, and sity of Southern California, Los Angeles, B. T. "Red' Hulse (both reserve aviators California, from which I am now on leave now) here in the plant with us. of absence for the duration. Presendy I "It is rather hard not to hear about am Director of Training for the Los Ansome of our friends who are out "in the geles Shipbuilding and Drydock Cormiddle of it all,' and I miss not being poration, San Pedro, California, and if able to read Navy orders in the papers. any of the gang hit the harbor area, I The one consolation is that sooner or will be glad to have them look me up— later we shall hear of the things they are for lunch or dinner." doing for all of us who are not yet in it."

NELS D'ARCY DRAKE, '30, of 47 1999 RICHARD G. VISSER, '29, Avondale Road, Crestwood, New York, ' ''^' (Lt. Comdr., USN), is on writes: duty in Washington. "I hope the ink in ""As usual, very best wishes to you and the ledger may now change from red to the boys and "Bottoms up' to the Japs." at least a light pink."

CALVERT S. WILSON, '30, 1807 SAMUEL A. LINCOLN, '29, is Sec- Lobdell Place, Los Angeles, California, retary of the F. M. Slagle and Company, writes: ""Well, I guess if I'm not "Anchor Alton, Iowa. man' amongst those reporting with 19^n THOMAS J. THORNHILL, checks for SHIPMATE I must at least be ' '^^ JR., '30, (Lt. Comdr., USN), in the "five fathom shot'—a rating for which I have not been intentionally strikwrites: "Your enclosed bill finally caught up ing. However better late than never.

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""I must be a long way in arrears because I know you carried an announcement of the birth of my daughter and she is almost 16 months old now. My tardiness is most certainly not any indication of my appreciation of SHIPMATE, and I want to add my compliments to the multimde I know you already have, for the splendid work you are doing in making possible the vicarious fulfillment of "but still when two or three shall meet and old tales be retold, from low to highest in the Fleet shall toast the Blue and Gold!'

"I am the Townsend Party nominee for Congress from the 13th California Congressional District. Will drop in to see you on my way to Washington ( ? ) .

Chances look pretty good as it will be a three way contest in the November elections with myself in the runoff!"

(Ed. Note: Three cheers from SHIPMATE, and may you win!)

GEORGE E. GARGIA, '30, (Lt., USN, Ret.), writes that he is now with the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. E. JOSEPH ""JOE" BLANNING, '30, 131 E. Marlin Drive, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writes: — "'For those who may be interested, while I have not as yet changed uniforms and put on the blue and gold, I am engaged in the vital work of expediting and scheduling armor and protecting special steels for our great Naval Building Program, with Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh. One hundred per cent of my time is spent helping the Navy program. ""Perhaps some day I'll be behind some of that steel."

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CARSON HAWKINS, '31,

(Lt. Comdr., USN), is now stationed at the Naval Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska. He writes, ""Millionaires would pay millions to be here."

WILLIAM W. HOLLISTER, '31, (Lt. Comdr., USN), may be reached at the Fleet Air Detachment, Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

JACK B. STOUFFER, '31, (Lt., jg, USNR), was sworn in May 29, and has changed his address from 219 Dunkirk Road, Baltimore, Maryland, to 921 East Jefferson Street, Iowa City, Iowa.

WILLIAM H. FITZGERALD, '31, (Lt., USN, Ret.), gives his address as the Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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ously when teaching leadership and Comdr., USN), writes that tradition."

"No Naval Academy man can look EARL P. FINNEY, JR., '32, (Lt. through the pages of SHIPMATE without Comdr., USN), writes that his address taking deep pride in the accomplishments is Headquarters Eastern Sea Frontier, 90 of others, in and out of the Navy—all Church Street, New York. to the same purpose: Service to our country and the things for which it stands."

Lt. Comdr. Spiers is now on active sea CHAUNCEY S. WILLARD, 3d, '32, duty.

(Lt. Comdr., USN), writes from the U. S. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville: HORACE PETERS BUSH, JR., '32, ""I'm still fighting the battle of the "yelmay be reached at 174 Fernbrook Ave- low perils' in Squadron 11, at Jacksonnue, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. ville, having been in that Squadron quite a while. Thirty-two is still well repreJOHN T. WEST, '32, (Lt., jg, US- sented here, but not as well as it used to N R ) , writes from the Athens Navy Pre- be. Harry Sosnoski is "Staff stuff' under Flight School, ""We find the articles deal- Admiral Cook as Aircraft Materiel Offiing with the engagements of our Navy cer, having arrived about three months in this war of great interest and use them ago. "Pete' Bunce has been kicked upextensively in our class work instructing stairs to Assistant Superintendent of the cadets in essentials of Naval Service. Aviation Training to relieve two other They really go for anything dealing with officers. Keeps him so busy that he has aviation but also Navy in general. to earn his flight pay during his athletic ""The story of Patwing 10 has been periods. "Snuffy' McDonald is the O. in used on nearly every cadet class, as has C of the Gunnery Division of Ground the Red, White and Blue of Midway. School, and really keeps the Cadets hopWe read the entire article whenever we ping. Jack Lamade recently arrived from can get ahead on the week's work to the wars and is now Exec, of the Interfit it in. They work in most advantage- mediate Squadron, while "Nelly' Head,

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1931, is getting himself repaired in the Hospital, New York. 'Nemo' Howe is now temporarily Skipper of the new twin - engine landplane Instructors' School. "Izzie' Schwartz moved from Maintenance Officer to Flight Chief of Squadron 15, and tales are already coming back about his hard-hearted reputation amongst the recent graduates in Pboats. ""Within the last few months, Francis Foley and Jack Counihan have left for sea duty and to keep up the good work "somewhere in the Pacific' Word received that "Dick' Best is in the hospital at Mare Island after doing more than his share from an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. ""Recent visitors to our fair city included Ed Konrady, who is working in Norfolk, coaching the bOys in landings, and "Muddy' Waters, who remrned recently from across the Atlantic to pursue a new line of work, the namre of which I am not authorized to disclose. Also, Lloyd McAlpine was here in P-boats for a month.

"Being out in the sticks, I get to see very few of the class who do pass through. Thought some would like to know that after all this time, the stork

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visited the Willard mansion and left a Art is now at BuOrd, Washington, "little bundle of joy' named Barbara, on D.C. February 20th."

By mere coincidence we bumped into (Congramlations from S H I P M A T E ! ) him at a gasoline filling station in Norfolk on September 10th. Art then was LLOYD W. PARRISH, '32, (Lt. on his way to spend a few days with Comdr., USN), may be reached at Naval Bud Slack, to watch and supervise some experiment.

Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia.

Lewis "Benny" Freedman is a shipmate THOMAS G. WARDER, '32, (Lt., of mine. Nice having some one around USNR), writes that his address is c/o that you know. The class is so widely Supervisor of Shipbuilding, USN, New- scattered. port, News, Virginia. He reports: "In Recently spent a Samrday night with April, I submitted by application via Gordon Griffin, bent the elbow a few Richmond. "Yank* Meader and Owen times.

Fang gave me some good advice and Griffin and Brock are shipmates on a help from Washington, and I was orsister-ship, carrier. Wigfall is on the dered here in July. 'Red' Powell, '25, was same ship—in a squadron. in the Pittsburgh Office of the Director Had occasion to visit with Hugh of Naval Officer Procurement when I Maples—on a carrier. Also saw C. C. went there for an interview in June.

Coley who is on the same ship. George ""Among those present, or "passing Artz who had been aboard had left a through' here have been Wigelius, Van few months ago for duty at a new Naval Slyke, "D.D.' Scott, "Bill' Raymond, and Training Station in Idaho.

Tagg. Hank Kretz lives just around the "Butch" Harbold is a daddy for the corner and last Samrday we helped him 2nd time—this time a son. Butch's celebrate the arrival of Charles Henry daughter was the first child born to a III. member of '34, married after graduation. ""After nine years helping build glass Were there others born to members who faaories, I'm finding that building ships married before graduation? You answer is just a little bit different. There have that one. been a lot of changes in that time, and * * * * * I have a lot to learn. The work is interRecipient of the Navy Cross is Fredesting and the officers here are doing their erick W. ""Fritz" Hawes, and we are best to help us get back in the groove. mighty happy to hear that news.

"Temporarily, we have a house here From three different sources we had in "Smart Gardens*—where every family heard of "Freddy's" deeds aboard the has two kids and every kid imagines him- LEXINGTON, just before she went down. self to be a Commando. There's never Time and again Fred drove himself a dull moment!" into a smoke filled compartment and pulled out enlisted personnel. Although 1 9 3 3 HORACE S. MILLER, '33, overcome by smoke himself, which renwrites, "At present am a dered him unconscious, when he was remember of the Pittsburgh Branch, U. S. vived he continued with the rescue work Naval Academy Alumni Association and until all hands had been cleared from the also a member of the Pennsylvania Motor compartment.

Police. I am applying for a Warrant Recently, when we spoke with him, Officer rating. and expressed our admiration for his "'Although I have been away from the bravery, his was the reply we might have Academy for several years I still have the expected from every wearer of the Navy old NAVY spirit and will not feel satis- Blue and Gold. fied until I reenter."

"I only did what I should have done; anyone else would have done the same thing!"

Congratulations, Fred! Good luck with your new duty as skipper of a 17 3-foot B Y SAMMY BRADBARD sub-chaser.

"Art" Gralla, ""Bud" Slack and Frank Heard that Tommy South is now on Pinney have completed their ordnance duty in Washington; Radio Section of Post-Graduate courses at M. I. T. Since September 1st, Bud has been as- the Bureau of Aeronautics, if we've heard signed to an Ordnance Experimental Sta- correctly.

He's gone and done it again! "Dicky" tion near Norfolk, Virginia.

Dickinson has received his third Navy Sorry, don't know where Frank is.

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Cross! Any room left on your chest for more, Dicky?

A daughter, Ann Louise was born to Lt. R. E. Nichols, U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Nichols, in Los Angeles, Calif., St. Vincent's Hospital, on April 21, 1942. Lieutenant Nichols is on submarine duty and Mrs. Nichols is making her home in Los Angeles.

Lt. John Joseph Hyland, USN, received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Wednesday noon in the Secretary's office.

Lieutenant Hyland was cited for his flying achievements while in command of a PBY airplane between December 20, 1941, and March 3, 1942.

The citation accompanying the award detailed the achievements of Lieutenant Hyland as follows: "'For extraordinary flying achievement in conmiand of a PBY airplane, December 20, 1941 to March 3, 1942. During that time Lieutenant Hyland participated in the bombing attack on enemy Japanese naval forces at Jolo Harbor, Philippine Islands; he also successfully landed his PBY airplane in rough seas to effect the rescue of the one surviving crew member of a RAAF Hudson airplane, which had crashed in the Molukka Sea on January 1, 1942. Furthermore, on numerous reconnaissance flights in the Netherlands East Indies, he displayed outstanding courage and devotion to duty by continuous hazardous flying achievement in the face of heavy enemy opposition."

(Ed. Note: Thanks for everything, Sammy, SHIPMATE bets on you everytime. ) # * * * # ALBERT E. SWEENEY, JR., '34, (Major, USA), writes: ""I certainly enjoyed reading about where all of the boys are and what they are doing. It brings one back a little closer to the School. As a matter of fact I have seen only two of my class of '34 since graduation, but I have had a large number of chances to see them, if I had known they were in the locality where I was at the time."

"DAVE" EDWARDS, •34, (Lt., USN), aboard the USS , sends this along: "The Dope in the July issue was particularly appreciated—you don't get much of a chance to compare notes with classmates at sea these days—and as for '34, Sam Bradbard is doing a swell job as class Winchell.

"Don't have a helluva lot to contribute besides the enclosed sap to my con-

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science—which has been growling too much lately.

"Let's see . . .

"Walt 'Demijohn' Deragon is one of the boys contributing to the setting of the Rising Sun—in a sub. He's had some pretty hair-raising experiences.

"Jim Baird and I had a good "gripe session' not long ago. After all, '34 has been stagnating in the grade for all of a year, now.

"A very attractive nurse in a hospital I visited had lots to say about Andy Hill —who was not a patient, either.

"The latest dope is that Kendall Casey is soiling the wheels of progress at NYMI. Remember the time you blew the whistle. Ken? "I know I'm speaking for '34—and a lot more—in mentioning our loss in Royal Ingersoll. He had a happy combination of brains and common sense— and the personal characteristics that mean a good shipmate. W e miss him badly."

MATE. And (if my head's above the old

HoO a year from now), another is in the offing.

"Congrats to my old friend and classmate, Sammy, for a swell column on '34 —it sure makes a guy homesick!

"There aren't many of the boys around this burg, but I can give you a little dope on one or two. John Frailey (Firpo) Anderson—ex '32, is at home with ye wife—ex O. A. O. of his home town of Youngstown, Ohio, at 955 Valley Avenue, S. E. He's currently chief of the American Car Cleaning Corporation— your car (and you) cleaned in best of style! 'Firpo' hasn't lost any of his old bargaining powers and he takes no sass.

But he is cussing the M.D. who wouldn't let him into Ye Scrap. Firp weighs 260 now—what you might call 'comfortably upholstered.'

"There are a couple more lads around here but I'll need to get more dope on 'em.

"Me? Well, I'm an Engineer, Washington Navy Yard. My job is anti-airROBERT F. HALLOCK, '34, writes craft design, and doctoring sick guns. At from 2001—37th Street, S. E., Washing- present I'm torn between a wish to get into the scrap—and the formal notice ton, D. C : "I've been procrastinating long enough that I'm considered 'too valuable to be —so here's a buck for a year of SHIP- spared.' Huh! Valuable! With my pals

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"Sure would like to hear from my old pals and include in that my ex "wife," Tex Hailey. Where the hell are you, Tex? "Oh, yes. Last I heard from F. W . "Admiral' Wright, Jr., '32, he was still holding out at his old village of New York.

Chief Engineer, or Grand Potentate of the American Chicle Company. His eyes keep him out of the fuss, but I hear he's moving mountains to get in.

"Stiles Morrow Decker, Jr., ex '35, is in PY boats. Ensign, last I heard, USNR, but probably a (jg) by now.

"And so to bed. Best of luck to SHIPMATE and if you need Washington representation, call on me."

DONALD W. ERASER, '34, (Lt., jg, USNR), reports that he is back on active duty at the Naval Training School, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

LESLIE M. SLACK, '34, is now at Dam Neck, Virginia.

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EUGENE S. PULK, '35, (Ens., USN, Ret.), writes from 420 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass., "'I was retired for physical in 1937 as an Ensign and have now effected a "cure' with the aid of Fitzsimons. At present, I am at M.I.T. workink on a Master's Degree, which I hope to get this fall, and then if I can get by the medicos, I hope to return to duty. ""Joe Plichta had the right idea about the class of '35 giving '34 a run for their money as to the letters sent in. Perhaps some of the boys at P.G. School would be interested in running a '35 gossip column such as Sammy Bradbard writes.

I know some of the boys 'out there' are rather busy, but might be interested in how the rest are making out. Keep up the good work, boys, and let's give '34 a friendly letter battle!"

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JOHN H. GOTTEN, '35, (Lt., USN), writes, ""During slightly less than a year I have been in eighteen ships, for one M E N — a r e buying them—as a compliment reason or another, and at this stage —and presenting them to the ladies. nothing will surprise me. Since leaving L A D I E S — a r e buying them to honor their " h e a r t " in the Navy. four-stackers last September I have been on the same staff, which has appeared HERFF-JONES-CHICAGO, Inc. under a series of aliases and accounts 32 W . Randotph St. Chicage, III. for the frequent shifts. Even a semi-perDept. S manent address has been practically imSend for Navy Jewelry Circular. possible. Congratulations on your increasingly interesting magazine. May it ERVIN R. JETER, '34, 6104 Wood- continue to hunt me down for a long lawn Avenue, Chicago, is connected with time to come." the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen's JOHN L. JAY, '35, is now stationed School, Abbott Hall, Northwestern Uniat the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, versity, Chicago.

Athens, Georgia, as a J.G., USNR. FRANKLIN P. GREENMAN, '34, 3501 Russell Place, Alexandria, Virginia, GEORGE L. POWELL, '35, writes, "I is now an architect in the Bureau of am now in Washington with the Alien Property Custodian as an attorney in the Ships.

Licensing Section of the Division of WILLIAM L. CALHOUN, JR., '34, Patent Administration." His address is (Lt., USNR), may be reached at 130 1400 Newton Street, Northeast, Washington, D. C. Camino Sobrante, Orinda, California.

' ''^*' from Carlsbad, New Mexico, that he would like to get the addresses of D. A. Scherer, '34, S. D. Cutter, '35, J. M. Wilson, '34, C. A. Neyman, Jr., '35, and D. W. Taylor, '35. He reports: "I lost my commission because of a lung condition so I guess Uncle Sam wouldn't have me back.

"Have enjoyed Sammy Bradbard's long dissertations, he really gives us all some information. Made a cruise with Sam but I doubt if he remembers me. ""Enough for now, but keep up the good work. We like to hear even if we can't take part in this 'affair.'"

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JOHN W. McCORMICK, '35, (Lt., USN), and JESSE B. GAY, '35, (Lt., USN), are both in the P.G. School at the Academy now.

CHARLES V. McQUARY, '35, writes that his new address is 14424 S. Clark St., Riverdale, Illinois. ""It is with pride that I read of the doings of the Class of 1935- They don't talk much, but fight a helluva lot."

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^"^^^ ^ ' BJARNASON, ,^g^ ^j^^^ USN), is on active writes: ""Where we are now "nuthin' about "nobody," but

it is very interesting to read what is going on."

FRANK H. S. LASH, '36, (Ens., USCGR), writes that his address is Headquarters, Company C, First Regiment, Coast Patrol, San Clemente, California.

1937 FI^-AJ^JK L. SMART, JR., '37, ''"^' (Lt., USNR), writes from Presidential Gardens, Alexandria, Virginia, '"Like a good many other SHIPMATE readers it is a monthly ritual to take off my hat to Sammy Bradbard for his handling of '34 news. Probably my classmates and I are particularly interested in these writeups since we were '34 plebes, but many of us also realize that Sammy's contribution is unique and wish that our own class could be as well posted on the doings of its members.

"A few evenings ago three of us and our wives did get together over succulent plates of Rose Pearsall's spaghetti and swapped tales of experiences since graduation. Before the evening was over we had exchanged quite a bit of news which may be welcomed by others in the class who enjoy SHIPMATE as much as we do.

"First, 'Bob' Northwood, one of those present on the occasion mentioned, is now a Lieutenant in the Supply Corps on duty in Washington.

"Tommy Pearsall, our host for that evening, has become a capable engineer.

Last winter he left a research lab in the General Motors plant in Detroit to become an associate engineer at the Navy Department. He now writes "specs' for the Bureau of Ships. ""Frank Smart spent the first year after graduation in the employ of an old Navy man, Gerald A. Eubank, in his Wall Street broker's ofiice. Then a radical change of purpose found him at the Episcopal Church's Seminary near Alexandria, Va., from which he graduated in June, 1941. Now an ordained Priest of the Episcopal Church, he is serving as a Lieutenant in the Reserve and awaiting an appointment to the Chaplains' Corps. '"Charley Nash, who vowed never to ride a horse again after that inaugural parade in 1936, has been flying for PanAir in Africa. There is some uncertainty as to whether Chuck is ferrying planes, building advance bases, or learning the latest in tribal rhumbas.

"George Armijo has shaken the moths out of his youngster year blues and has taken them to Gruskin for conversion— two stripes in the Reserve. He has been on duty in Washington.

"The last we heard of Warner Ely he had been doing electrical engineering for

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a West Coast aircraft concern. After leaving Crabtown, 'Water Qoset' got his decree at Carnegie Tech. He has done some very interesting work on experimental PT boats since leaving college. Warner is married and has one child.

"R. C. Smart is back in the Service and has seen fireworks on more than one occasion. Keep those FW's crashing, Dick!

"Another handshake for Bill Snyder, who is also back in harness. The news is that he is going to sea aboard a new minesweeper which has been fitting out on an inland lake—or was it a Texas waterhole? They are building them everywhere these days.

"Tom Davies decided last winter to join the boys who hand it out from the air. Perhaps a vision of the Florida beaches during one of those mid-watches in the Denmark Straits or the North Atlantic hastened Tom's decision. Our flying classmates are setting you a high mark to shoot at, Tom. "In this connection we should mention a number of those who have distinguished themselves in aerial combat: "Ed O'Hare, the Navy's first ace in this war.

"Rivers Morrell, one Jap bomber in the Solomons.

"Harvey Lanham, Air Medal for some clever bombing. ""F. A. Patriarca, ditto.

"Bob Farrington, the Navy Cross. "'Roger Mehle, Distinguished Flying Cross.

"Scoop Vorse, ditto.

"R. A. Moore, a member of Torpedo Sqdn. 6 who didn't come back.

"Slick Shrider, also lost during the attack on the Marshalls. "'This list is incomplete and it will grow. These men have won the gratitude of our class, the Navy, and the Nation, by their skill, and devotion to duty.

Every member of '37 is proud of these classmates of ours! "'States Mead, whose civilian experience as a ground executive with PanAir is valuable to Uncle Sam, is now a Lieutenant in the Reserve on duty with the Marines. ""Bill Porter is a cheerful BeUy-robber' on duty in the Department.

"H. M. S. Swift has been down to sea in PT boats for over a year now. Steel goes for Bulkeley's no-instrument navigation in a big way.

"The oil refineries at Aruba, N. W. I., have been running smoothly since the winter of 1938 when J. H. 'Tiger' Watkins reported for work as a petroleum engineer with the Largo Fuel and Trans-

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port Co. Old non-reg 'Tiger' joined the local militia when the war broke out, adding his trusty squirrel gun to the defenses of that valuable little island.

"Rear Admiral R. A. Spruance is setting a pace for classmate Eddie Spruance.

We all share your pride in the Admiral's brilliant leadership, Ed, and we do not expect him to do all the work for the Spruances, by a long shot.

"Bob Tate was retired owing to a hand injury, but is now instructing Reserve Officers at Dartmouth College. We have heard fine reports from some of his first smdents.

"F. G. Blasdel was mentioned last spring for some courageous work aboard the MARBLEHEAD while she was under fire. She is a grand old ship and will pay the bill with interest!

"A. C. Robertson is sporting the insignia of a Major in the Marines. Congratulations, Robbie, and all you other '37 Majors.

"Our thoughts are constantly with those men who are listed as missing in action and whose last known duty makes us feel that they are prisoners of war: Lt. Jimmy O'Rourke, formerly engineer of the Guam, Delong who distinguished himself at Cubic Bay as a member of Bulkeley's Squadron; J. R. Bromeyer, a Marine Captain on Bataan; Bill Kessler, of Wake Island; and those of whom we have not yet learned. May they be given courage and strength, as prisoners of war, to resist the enemy until the day comes when we shall set them free and return them with joyful thanksgiving to their loved ones. We do not forget you and we shall not rest until the enemy is destroyed and you are free."

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also been selected for the Army and Navy "E." We are ahead of schedule now and will continue to produce to meet any schedule given us. Our main desire is to serve and I can assure you that everyone in our entire organization is doing his best.

"I believe that most of my friends know that Becky and I were married in March of '38. There's a third now, another Bill, who is almost sixteen months old, and a happier little fellow you've never seen—or maybe I'm prejudiced!

"Paul Schultze and his wife have been in New York this summer. Paul's been at the Navy Yard and is dropping by, here tomorrow for some golf before he returns to M.I.T. ""I've also heard from "Windy' Syndham. He's on active duty. ""I would like to take this means of extending an open invitation to everyone in '38 and everyone I know to drop in anytime. We would really like to see you."

WILTON G. BOURLAND, '38, (Lieut., jg., USN), is now stationed at Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, T. H. He writes, "You fellows are doing a real service, and 'tho few of uS get around to telling you about it, we feel it."

HENRY E. BOWES, '38, (1st Lieut., Air Corps, USA), writes from 1515 Sheaff Road, Springfield, Ohio: ""It's great to read of old friends and what they're doing now. I am in the Army Air Corps. I was commissioned as a 2d Lieut, last winter, and promoted to

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He is now a J. G., on active duty with the Fleet.

WILLIAM JOHN MYERS, '38, of 357 Wynsum Avenue, Merrick, Long Island, New York, writes, "Since leaving the Academy in June of '37 I've been with Babcock and Wilcox. My first two years with them were spent supervising the erection of boilers in Naval vessels and cargo ships. After that I spent a year in drafting, and since then I've been in Marine Contract, coordinating the sale, design, erection and service of our boiler for Naval and Maritime Commission ships.

"We have, by the way, been awarded the Navy 'E,' the Maritime 'M,' and have

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1st Lieut, in July. 1 find the Air Corps very interesting. 1 am in communications (I tried the Navy first but while they were great and wanted me to file application for an Ensign's commission, my marriage meant not flying!) ""I sure would like to hear from "Bus' Borries, "Dusty' Dornin and Joel Davis, out of '35. 'Sid' Bottomley from '37 (I understand he is a dive bomber section leader on a carrier). Bill Yarnall, and O. B. Parker (my wife) from '38.

"Please tell anyone who is in Springfield or at Wright Field from U.S.N.A. to look me up. The latch string is al, ways out."

1939 ROBERT "BUD" W. GAV''â&#x20AC;˘^^ IN, '39, (Lieut., USN), writes: "Last January 1 married Barbara (Deedie) Dunbar at Bremerton, Washington, and now after eight months, I'm more than ever convinced that she is the 'most wonderful girl in the world.' Gents, you can quote me as saying, "When a single man is convinced that he's found the right gal, marry her quickly, for it's good duty.'

"My address has changed a bit since last year. There was a short stay at N.A.S., Miami, then temporary duty in the USS , followed by shore duty at Camden, New Jersey, and now sea duty again that should prove quite eventful. I hope to run across a lot of classmates soon and if T. W. (Black) Murphy is still kicking around and sees this, I hope he'll drop me a line."

(Wedding congramlations from SHIPMATE.)

FRANKLIN E. COOK, JR., '39, (Lt. USN), sailed into the ofiice on his way to Virginia and reported his new addressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A. C. T. G., Naval Air Station, Norfolk.

WILLIAM S. DAWSON, '39, (Lt., USN), receives mail at 3 Dana Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JAMES M. IRVINE, '39, (Lt., USNR), now at U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, writes: "I have seen only two of the boys from '39 since being on the Station.

Blackwell was here on duty but has now gone to sea, and Mike Johnson dropped in for a bit of a visit. Since I will be leaving here myself next week for school and ultimate assignment to sea (which I have long hoped for), I suggest that you send magazines via Mrs. J. M. Irvine, care

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Mrs. William McCurdy, 98 Carroll Avenue, C. H., Petersburg, Virginia.

"I am certainly looking forward to getting to sea and seeing many of my friends. I certainly have appreciated the opportunity that SHIPMATE has given me to keep in touch with them."

Tom was recently married to Miss Helen Mcllvaine, of Jacksonville, Florida. ( S H I P M A T E extends congratulations. ) WALTER L. SHAFFER, '40, asks that he be addressed at 934 N. 2nd Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.

HAROLD "HAL" GEHMAN, '39, (Lr., USN), reports: "Just a note to say I am as well as ever. I was married at the Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia, November 22, 1941.

(SHIPMATE extends congratulations).

"I appreciate reading about all the grades from '76 on. Good luck to all."

WILLARD M. GRIMES, JR., '40, writes: "I have been on active duty in the United States Naval Reserve since June 1941, and was commissioned Ensign D-VG September 16, 1941, after completing the V-7 course aboard the "Prairie State."

"I graduated from Wagner College, KENNETH S. BARKER, Esquire, Staten Island, New York, in June, 1940, '39, is American Vice Consul, Punta Areand went to work with the U. S. Weather nas, Chile.

Bureau and was given military leave by the Weather Bureau to go on active WILLIAM J. LEAHR, '39, (Lt., jg., duty."

USNR), is with the Public Relations Ofiice, Headquarters Fifth Naval DisJAMES H. DEAN, '40, writes from trict, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, the Naval Training School, St. Louis, Virginia.

Missouri: "After leaving the class of '40 with GUY BALDWIN, Jr., '39, (Cpl., poor eyes in 1938, I received my degree USA), Co. A, 2nd Inf., A. P. O., No. 5, in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue care Postmaster, New York City, writes: in 1940. I attended Harvard Business "Thanking you for your past considera- School until this March, when I went to tions and wishing that I was now saying the Supply School at Harvard.' I am now 'aye aye' instead of 'yes.' on duty as the supply, disbursing, and commissary officer of this training "BUD" SCHUMANN, '39, from Na- school. val Air Station, Pensacola, informs us: "I would like to hear from my class"I saw Comdr. Gilmore on my way mates and hope that they will look me down here and subsequently made SHIP- up whenever they are through St. Louis."

MATE a report on my moustache. For further note, said adornment now is missEDWIN D. MORRISON, '40, is with ing as I figured it wouldn't do too well Squadron V N l 6 , Lee Field, Naval Air in hot weather.

Station, Jacksonville, Florida.

"At present 1 am just finishing the flight course at Pensacola, and I expect ARTHUR M. VARNUM, '40, (Ens., to move on to Miami for advanced train- USN, Ret.), gives his address as 24 Clining in carrier planes. Based on my own ton Street, Brooklyn, New York. unofficial figures, 135 of the class of '39 have gone into the course and to date 1 ^ 4 1 PAUL BACKUS, '41, now only 4 have been dropped. What '39's on sea duty, sends this news: aviators are doing in the war is some"As perhaps some of you know, Bill thing we will have to learn at a later Williamson has passed on, having been date!" killed in action while fighting for the traditions we all hold so dear. Bill was class WARREN J. HOLMES, '39, has left chairman, as you know, and at the time Trinidad, B. W. I., and now may be he was killed he was right in the midst reached care Wyatt C. Hedrick, Archi- of trying to straighten out our financial tect-Engineer, Fairmont, Nebraska. situation at the bank. Bailey Pride, you see, has been killed too and his signa1940 THOMAS P. McCANN, '40, ture was the only one acceptable at the bank on our class checks. Since Decem' '^^ (Ens., USNR), writes: "I am now in a squadron in Cuba and ber 7th, when Bailey was killed, Bill and everything is fine with me. Have seen I have written many letters trying to connumerous members of '40 around va- vince the bank that Bill was class chairman and that it was perfectly legitimate rious places."

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for him to take over the custody of our bank account. Bill finally had gotten the situation in hand and had the bank straightened out when he was called to his Maker.

"Willie had planned on designating Joe Taussig as treasurer, Joe incidentally, is recovering nicely from a bad shrapnel wound received on the 7th, and as I understand it he is more or less convalescing at the Naval Academy as a Prof.

There Joe will be in a fine position to deal with the bank and any other affairs that might arise. If it meets with your approval, and I hope it will, I shall write Joe and the bank informing them that Joe has become treasurer which will automatically cause him to become a member of the class committee.

"Incidentally, at this point the class committee consists of Paul Backus, Russ Willson. Dick Foster, Sandy Landreth, Charlie Styer, and if approved, Joe Taussig. In case of the death of the chairman it was decided on graduating that the succession to the job would be as above until the committee could have some semblance of a meeting and appoint a new one.

"In view of the above discussion you will probably be interested to know that we have $2,600 deposited in a savings account and $163.01 in a checking account. The bank has placed both accounts in a dormant stams until a new class treasurer is appointed and an indemnity bond signed. When the treasurer situation is straightened out I believe it would be to the class' best interest to withdraw the money from the savings account and place it in U. S. war savings bonds.

"With this war on we all have a big job ahead of us, so let's get to it and beat hell out of 'em. After we march through Tokyo we can throw a big one and reminisce on how we used to beat

Uncle Beanie and Snuffy Chustie to the present address as Castle Hill, Newport, draw at the good old Naval School for Rhode Island.

Boys.

"Good huntin' lads."

THOMAS M. GARRETTSON, '42, reports his address as 448 Pine Acres HORACE B. WEST, '41, (Ens., US- Boulevard, Brightwaters, Long Island, N R ) , stopped in the office to say good- New York. bye prior to his departure for the Isthmus.

He sailed September 19 for duty at W. H. VON ALVEN, '42, has left Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, Canal Vallejo, California, and is now at 3224 Zone.

16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. MICHAEL C. D E S T E F A N O , '41, lives FRANK M. MORELLI, '42, may be at 314 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New reached at Hotel Faust, Rockford, IlliYork. nois.

JOHN M. BURNHAM, '41, reports GERALD J. SCOTT, '42, now on sea his latest address is, Supships, Electric duty, writes: Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut.

"Now that marriage restrictions are off, have been anxiously awaiting a day JOHN J. LINDGREN, '41, unit su- to marry my O. A. O. of Academy days pervisor for the Sun Life Assurance but can't say when that will be."

Company of Canada, Hilo, T. H., writes: • "Certainly enjoy reading about the felARTHUR T. BURKE, '42, writes: lows. They are doing a great job, and "You might be interested to know that we're all proud of them.

Grif Scarborough, '42, left the shrinking "Lt. (jg) G. "Elmer" Hearn has taken ranks of the bachelors recently and by the fatal step in Charleston, S. C , so I've the time you receive this "Fearless" Jack heard. But other than that I hear very Frazier, '42, will have followed suit. little of '41.

"Incidentally, those war communiques "Greeted our second arrival in March are a great idea." and are now waiting for some of the fellows to drop in and hear us rave about ^^N^E^ G- BAILEY, '43, her. Its an open invitation to any of the 1 9 4 3 writes: fellows who happen this way.

"Tell 'Socs' to really start absorbing "Aloha." everything the "Instimtion' puts out the 1942

CORNELIUS D. O'SULLIVAN, '42, receives his mail at Box 7, Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut.

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JAMES D. SMALL, '42, is at quarters 13, USNTS, Great Lakes, Illinois.

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5 o'clock in Calvary Methodist Churcli, Annapolis. (Congratulations from SHIPMATE. ) H. A. SCOTT, '43, up from Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, en route to Connecticut, dropped in the ofiice to say hello, and later attended the football game between William and Mary and Navy. Until January, he can be located at Submarine Base, New London, where he will teach "Essentials of Naval Service."

J. M. REIGHER, '43, writes:—"I finished my training here in Pensacola in April and was designated Naval Aviator then. At present I am stationed as an instructor at Chevaher Field here on the station.

"My present address is BOQ Bldg., 663RM, No. 278 NAS, Pensacola, Fla." JOHN W. GANZER, '43, may be reached at Unit A, Prime Division 5, N. O. B., Norfolk, Virginia.

JAMES W. LOYNDY, '43, (Ens., USNR), lives at the Phi Chi Medical Fraternity House, Virginia Avenue, CharlottsviUe, Virginia. He writes: "I received my commission in the medical corps as Ensign H-V ( P ) , USNR, on June 13, and I feel quite proud to be once more in the Navy. My only regret is that I still have two more years of medical school before I can be in active service.

"I was at the Academy for a few days when my class was graduating in June."

SHIPMATE has received and wants to acknowledge subscriptions, contributions, or other communications from the following ofiicers, whose address for obvious reasons cannot be published: ARIE A. CORNIN, '07 VAN LEER KIRKMAN, '11 CARLOS BAILEY, '11 HERMAN A. SPANAGEL, '14 ALBERT E. SCHRADER, '16 GUIDO F. FORSTER, '17 JAY G. HUNTOON, '18 RALPH S. RIGGS, '18 FRANCIS S. GIBSON, '18 ROBERT P. BRISCO, '19 LUNSFORD Y. MASON, JR., '20 STUART S. PURVES, '21 CAMPBELL D. EMORY, '21 GEORGE R. COOPER, '22 EHRWALD F. BECK, '22 VINCENT E. McGUINNESS, '22 MURVALE T. FARRAR, '23 MAXWELL H. MIZELL, '23 VIRGIL F. GORDINIER, '25

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"Damn the Torpedoes" {Continued from page 7) side. Any way you look at it, you're a gone sucker. Only a lame-brained sailor would go for that. You gotta be musclebound between the ears to do that for a living. And what for?"

"I'll tell you what for," says BushyBrows. "If the rising sun and the swastika and that bundle of wheat ain't gonna be flying over the White House we gotta keep 'em sailing. They gotta have oil and ore and smff to fight this war, ain't they?

And how we gonna get it to 'em if guys like us don't keep on sailing the ships?

So that's what for!"

II This scene is typical of those being enacted every night in the waterfront bars of ports all over the land. Every few days you pick up the papers and there is the same gruesome picture painted over and over again of sudden death that strikes in the night, of seas brilliant with burning oil, of men screaming in agony, dying in the flaming water under the dark, implacable skies. And every night, in some bar in every port, there will be a group of seamen talking it over, naming the

names of those who were once their shipmates, cursing the Axis—what some of them refer to as "Hitler, and his saddlelights, Mussolini and Hirohito" and drinking toasts to one another's good luck.

"I was asleep when the torpedoes hit us—" said John Walsh, wiper, survivor of the Cities Service tanker, Empire, torpedoes off Fort Pierce, Florida"—three of them. "I rushed up on deck and helped get one of the lifeboats over the side. I saw our Captain on a life raft. He and some of the other men were on it. The current was sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the Captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. His eyes were burned.

He was screaming that he was going blind. The last time I saw him he jumped into the fiery water. That was his finish, I guess."

It is a hideous way to die. I knew two men who were lost when the Pan-Massachusetts was sunk. One was a little thin man with spectacles, who had been a newspaperman. His name was Fred Fitzgerald. The other was Paddy Flynn, an oiler, whose two sons had already lost their lives in the war. I don't know how Fitz and Paddy died. The Pan-Mass carried 100,000 barrels of gasoline, oil, and kerosene. (A barrel is 53 gallons.) Many of the men burned to death as they stood on the deck of the ship; others died struggling in the blazing sea which was on fire for a mile around the tanker.

"The bo'sum was in charge," said George Lamb, survivor of the Pan-Mass.

"He did everything possible to save the lives of all the men. He cut a raft loose after the men said they were ready. It burst into flames sa soon as it hit the water . . . Although I couldn't swim I decided to go overboard. I figured it was better to drown than to be burned alive.

I said, 'Let's go, Ingraham.' He was the steward. He was standing there beside me in his shorts, the skin peeling off his back from the flames. We shook hands.

He said, 'Remember me. Red!' I said, 'OK. If I make it, I'll remember y o u . . . . ' He was burned to death. . . ."

On his final trip Fitz wrote a letter to a man I know. In it he said: "No fooling though, it's a queasy feeling to be shadowed by those bastards. One of them tried to decoy us off St. Augustine by flashing 'P,' which means show your lights. The Old Man zigzagged to helland-gone, and most of us were kidding each other about the false alarm when the Pan Amoco reported sighting a sub

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at 6 a jn. off Jupiter. (Our incident had occurred at 11:30 the previous night, 60 miles away.) W e quit kidding then."

He went on to report an incident on his previous trip: "Just as the moon was going down the second mate happened to make the big circle with his binoculars and spotted a sub in perfect silhouette.

The first thing I knew about it was the Ordinary on watch giving me the shake.

"There's a Jerry on our tail,' he said. 'All hands get dressed with lifebelts and stand by.' I got up all right but nothing happened. Later that day the same sub got the India Arrow and the China Arrow, just a few miles from where we were.

What burns you up is no guns. You can't fight the bastards back. Luckily this crate is fast, so we can get going; but on some of them there isn't a damn thing you can do except call the U-boat Commander an old meanie—or something!

Later it comes as something of a jolt to discover that fellows you once knew and were shipmates with are gone for good.

Worse yet, without a fighting chance."

Hundreds of other American seamen have had to stand by and watch enemy subs sink their ships from under them without guns to fight back. "You can't fight submarines with potatoes," as Bo'sun Walter Bruce said when rescued from the tanker Malay, torpedoed off the North Carolina coast.

The law to arm the merchant marine was signed by President Roosevelt on November 18,- 1941, but most of the ships which have been sunk have been unarmed. A few which were armed have fought off submarines and either damaged them or frightened them away.

Guns are being put on the ships now as fast as possible, but some of the ships are so old and broken down that a gun is almost more of a liability than an asset.

As one sailor says, "That rust-pot I just come off, they must of got her out of the Smithsonian Institute! Sure, we had a gun on her. But Holy Mackerel! if we'd ever of had to fire it the whole ship would have fallen apart."

At the insistence of the National Maritime Union, special fireproof lifesaving suits have been approved by the Maritime Commission and are being purchased by all tanker companies. On many of the ships new types of life rafts are being installed, and lifeboats are now being stocked with medical kits, food concentrates, and blankets.

When the Lahaina was sunk, 34 survivors spent ten days in a lifeboat with a capacity of 17. Two of them became half-crazed with hunger and thirst, jumped overboard, and were drowned.

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A third lost his mind completely, had to be lashed to the bottom of the boat, and died the next day. A fourth died from exposure. Dan James, nineteen-year-old wiper, describes the death of the last man: "It was cold the last night out. I was sleeping under a blanket with Herman. He'd been feeling low for some time. I kept saying to him, 'Give me some of that blanket.' But he wouldn't let loose.

Finally I grabbed it from him. He just lay still. I touched his hand . . . it was quite cold . . . he was dead the whole time."

The patrol system is still not adequate, although vastly improved. There is no doubt about it, the merchant seamen took it on the chin during the first half of this year—^with no guns, no patrols, antiquated lifebelts, and practically no safety precautions. They were sent out as helpless targets for the subs; but their morale was as magnificent as it was unheralded.

That precautions are now being taken to protect them doesn't detract from their courage.

All the seamen know what they are facing when they ship out. Yet they keep on sailing. Remember, they don't have to. They are in the private merchant marine, and they can quit any time they want to. Most of them could get good shore jobs, working in shipyards as riggers and welders and mechanics and what-not, where the chief worry would be the danger of someone dropping a wrench on their feet. It isn't the money that keeps them sailing. On the coastwise run, from New York to Texas, they get a war bonus which works out to around $2.33 a day, hardly worth risking your life for. Also the bonus doesn't apply to the Gulf.

As a matter of faCT, former seamen who have been working in shoreside jobs are going back to sea. A few months ago the National Maritime Union issued a call to former seamen. Since then over 2,000 ex-sailors have mrned up to ship out again, hundreds of them at the union hall in the port of New York alone, among them men who have been working as furriers, truck drivers, electricians, office workers, actors, construction workers, miners, painters, and bakers.

Those who have been torpedoed and rescued ship right out again as soon as they can get out of the hospital. That takes plenty of nerve, but the merchant seamen have it. They don't get much publicity, and you seldom hear anyone making speeches about them. They don't get free passes to the theater or the movies, and no one gives dances foi;

them, with pretty young actresses and debutantes to entertain them. No one ever thinks much about their "morale" or how to keep it up. It was only recently that a bill was passed to give them medals.

And because they wear no uniforms they don't even have the satisfaction of having people in the streets and subways look at them with respect when they go by.

It is not that the seamen, themselves, are asking for any special credit or honors. When you mention words like heroism or patriotism to them they look embarrassed. '-Listen, brother, there's a war on!" they say. Ashore, they frequently pretend that they are not brave at all.

Not long ago I was talking to a man called Windy, who had just come off the Texas run and had been chased by a submarine for three days. "No more of that for me!" he said. "I tell you, any guy who keeps on shipping these days has got bubbles in his think-tank. The only safe run is from St. Louis to Cincinnati. I'm going to get me a shore job. Why commit suicide at my age?" We believed him; and not one of us could blame him. . . . The next day we heard he had shipped out again. He is now on the high seas, en route to India..

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I Was An Anglophobe {Continued from page 10) to defend—a tree, or a fence corner, or a barn, maybe—and he has his orders not to retire. You don't have to whip up any war spirit in England. Every Englishman is fighting in this war right now, and knows exactly what he's up against.

One of the fine things about the English is their ability to take adversity in stride. I've seen squadrons come back with three or four missing—everybody knew they'd been shot down—and pass it off philosophically; saying they'd probably been taken prisoner, or else had been forced down in the Channel, and would be picked up, of course; so let's have a glass of beer and forget about it. Not kidding themselves, you understand, not trying to kid anybody else. Just making the best of a bad simation. They knew that if you take everything hard, you'll crack up sooner or later, probably sooner. By not letting themselves get upset, and worked up, they were making it possible to go on doing their jobs. They weren't cold-blooded, either. It's just that in the war they're fighting over there, if you are going to break down and cry

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every time one of your mates is lost, you'll spend all your time crying, and have none left for fighting, and they understand that.

Suppose New England, from the Hudson River north, was fighting all the rest of the country. That's about the situation England is up against. Suppose you were in Washington, and over in Baltimore was an enemy air force as big as Hitler's air force in Europe. That's what England is facing.

The so-called "ruling class" in England is essentially the same kind of a "ruling class" we have; they're holding down their jobs because of what they have on the ball. It isn't chance that the sons of England's big families have some mighty important jobs over there; but it isn't favoritism either. They've been trained for those jobs all their lifetimes.

It would be queer if they couldn't hold them down.

Our Navy has a lot of top men who are Naval Academy graduates. That isn't because you can't get to the top any other way, of course. It's because the U. S. N. A. gets high-grade men to start with, and gives them specialized training for the job they're going to do. In England, the son of a good family is pretty likely to be high-grade material, and he certainly gets the training for the responsibilities of empire.

You can't say enough for the British women. In the first place, you've got to understand they have female conscription over there. Every able-bodied woman is just as liable to be called up, for one of the services, or for war work, as an ablebodied man is in this country; and she has just about the same exemptions.

When you see them man-handling those barrage balloons, and driving trucks in blackouts, and doing man-sized jobs in war factories, you have to take your hat off to them. One woman I knew in England, with a four-year-old child, was trying to find another woman too old for war work, who would act as nursemaid for the child, so she could go into the factory. And that wasn't an unusual case; it was typical of the attitude of British women generally.

In England, you get to understand what the little things of life mean. One day a friend called up to invite me out for dinner; said it was quite an occasion.

I wondered on the way out what had happened, or what he was celebrating.

When I got there, I found the party was built around a big piece of cheese that had just arrived from Canada. We sat out on the lawn, and ate that cheese, with bread, and drank beer. That was the

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party. And everybody just as thrilled over it as a kid with his first jacknife, and feeling just as fine. If it had been during my first week in England, I might have thought they were queer people, or else putting on an act. But I'd been there long enough to know how important a big piece of cheese can be. There's nothing like a stay in England to make you appreciate the little things.

At Lisbon, on the plane going down to Egypt, there were some Britishers who were out of London for the first time since the war started. It was the first time in two years they'd been out of a blackout. They just walked around the streets, looking at the lights. They'd forgotten what it was like to see a city all lighted up, and traffic moving normally, and things in store windows. (A threeyear-old child in London has never seen a lighted street.)

People in London can't go away for a rest, to build up reserve strength and vitality. There's no place to go, and anyway, they haven't time. So they have to rest when they can, and pack a little bit of forgetfulness into one lull, and a little comic relief into another, so their wheels will stay in balance and they can keep on keeping up.

Of course they have fun in London at night. They've learned that you can't keep keyed up to fighting pitch all the time.

You've got to relax part of the time, or you can't keep going. When they've got a job to do, they go all out to do it.

When the job is done, and they're off duty, they know how to relax.

Another thing that impressed me a lot is the way the kids 14 to 16 years old are going into aviation training schools; not only ground-school work, but preflight training, you might say, so they'll be ready for air force training at 16.

England is in this war all the way, and she isn't overlooking the kids who may have to be doing the fighting before it's all over.

One of the things there isn't any question about, no room for argument at all, is the respect and esteem which British naval officers have for our Navy and its ofiicers, and which officers of the United States Navy, who have been with the British, have for the British Navy and its officers.

Maybe the British Navy is a little obsolete in some ways, for this present war; but no more so than we are. And ton for ton and gun for gun, they're tough monkeys. I'd hate to have to fight 'em. Thank God they're fighting on our side.

Get this straight.

We're not pulling any British chestnuts out of the fire. We're in this thing as deep as they are, and we have just as much at stake, only some of us don't realize it. And we need their help, plenty.

Take this argument about the relative merits of British planes and our own.

Suppose I ask you which is the best means of transportation, a Mack truck or a kiddie car? Of course, it depends on what you're going to transport. If you're hauling coal, you want a truck; but for a kid to run around the neighborhood in, a kiddie car beats a Mack truck all hollow. For the kind of war England is fighting, English planes are best. For the kind of war we expected to fight, our planes are best.

England's Army and Navy were designed to protect England and her colonies, to fight England's battles. Our Army and Navy were designed to protect the United States and her possessions, to fight our battles. Naturally, with different aims, there are differences in organization and equipment. Trying to put the two forces together as a team namrally has raised a lot of problems, and they aren't all solved. But they are being solved, and the two forces are working together now, and will be working together more efficiently and more effectively as time goes on.

Of course, there are little differences of opinion, but none on important points. They think our ships are too fancy; we think their ships haven't got enough smff on 'em. But the British have the same ideas we do about what makes an officer, and what makes a sailor, and what makes a man.

"The opinions or assertions contained loerein are the private ones of the Officers' concerned and are not to he construed as official or rejecting the views of the Navy Department or the naval service at large."

Manpower Man (Continued from page 11) ship for V-7 classes. Thus Jacobs' first ship, on which he served as Ensign, is now technically under his command. "I was sure proud of her in the old days," he recalls, "but she looks like a watch charm compared with modern ships."

Jacobs served aboard several other battleships until 1913, when he became Aide and Flag Secretary on the Staff of the Commander in Chief, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Two years later he received his

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first experience in the Bureau of Personnel, then the Bureau of Navigation, in the Officer Detail Section.

He received his first command in 1916, the destroyer D U N C A N , and since that day (with the single exception of one year as Chief of Staff, Commander, Cruisers) has never had anything but commands. During the first World War, he was Commander of a subchaser force with the Atlantic Fleet, and later in command of the U.S.S. H E N L E Y and several other ships.

Nineteen twenty-three found Jacobs again on duty in the Bureau of Navigation—a duty that was to last three years.

This time he was in charge of all enlisted men's discipline, embracing such matters as courts martial and discharges.

Rear Admiral Jacobs has an especially keen personal interest in the news from the Pacific theater of the present war because of his knowledge of the area gained between 1926 and 1929, when he was on duty with the Asiatic Fleet. As commander of the river gunboat U.S.S. MONOCACY. he was in charge of the evacuation of nearly 1,000 Americans and Europeans from the Upper Yangtze Valley when internal uprisings made that area dangerous. Shortly afterward, he was the commanding officer of one ship in the first group to reach Japan after her great earthquake. The Americans later attended the Imperial Cherry Blossom Festival there. More interesting to Jacobs, however, was the witnessing of the launching of the Japanese heavy cruiser AsiGARA. That occasion was probably the first and last time Americans ever viewed the launching of a Japanese warship.

During his tour of duty in the Pacific, Jacobs saw at first hand the China Sea, Singapore, Batavia, Surabaya, the Straits of Macassar, Lingian Gulf—all the names that every American has cause to remember so well today. "Even in those days," Jacobs recalls, "our destroyers were patrolling and shadowing suspicious Japanese "fishermen' in Philippine waters."

Again Jacobs remrned to the Bureau of Navigation, in the Enlisted Personnel Division, for two years, before assuming command of the UTAH, the Navy's first radio-controlled target ship. This post, which Jacobs considers his most interesting, he held for two years. It was a highly significant two years for the American Navy, for it was then that successful bombing of ships from the air was tried and perfected. The UTAH, of course, was the target. She came to a singularly symbolic end on December 7 of last year, when she was the first U. S. warship to be sunk by bombs from the

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Japanese planes.

After another term in the Bureau of Navigation, followed by command of the U.S.S. TUSCALOOSA, Rear Admiral Jacobs became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. There he remained until 1941 when he was ordered to sea with the Atlantic Fleet. His specific duty: to establish the train for the fleet.

Beginning with only 12 ships, he had 158 in less than a year. He also conducted amphibious landing exercises for 15,000 Army and Marine troops.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Jacobs was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. His title was changed to Chief of Naval Personnel only a few months ago. He now has not one, but two offices —one in the Navy Department; the other in Federal Building No. 2 across the river in Arlington. Which only shows that fast as the Navy is growing, the Bureau of Personnel—and Rear Admiral Jacobs' job—is growing still faster.

physics, the ahrcraft engine and aircraft strucmres, types and uses of aircraft, ammunition and aerial bombs, aircraft guns and cannon, attack aviation, aircraft carriers, squadron organization, fires and fire-fighting equipment. Naval law. Naval courts, and on and on and on.

So we smdied, and we worked, and we griped, and when we had to study on weekends we said if this is liberty give us death, and we dropped to sleep in our chairs because we were a little far, and some of us were a long way our of college and we began to have mental indigestion. You see it took us awhile to realize that the Navy didn't expect us to absorb everything, nor to go out and reorganize the fieet, but figured if it threw a lot at us, we were bound to get hit with something. Meantime we were learning, although we weren't going to realize it until we got away from the base, that the Navy takes its job seriously and is hard at work on the job of v/inning this war, and we were being taught that our uniforms were a responsibility and not a privilege.

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So what we were really finding out in those eight weeks was that we don't know much of anything. We learned to be humble. We're fresh from our desks our businesses, our homes, headed for the fleet, for squadrons, for duty somewhere in the world to release some guy who does know this business of war. We'd kind of like, before we're finished, to earn the respect of men like that sergeant we saw in Chicago. We were on' our way to school, our first day in uniform.

He was a Marine, his chest salted with sharpshooter's medals, his dress uniform bright in the morning sun, beautifully clean and pressed. He gave us a salute.

It was a smart salute, one we'll never forget, a salute that told us he was a Marine and a damn good one, and that he felt he was in the best outfit in the Service of the best country in the world. We thought then with seriousness of the shoulderboards that Congress had bestowed on us making us officers and gentlemen. And we first felt then an awful hollow inadequacy, a feeling we've learned now is the right one because it drives you to work and study and work some more like hell.

{Continued from page 15) we always were), we stayed aboard the station and drilled.

In the evenings, we smdied and smdied and studied, and tried frantically to get a letter written or a paper read. We felt a little as if we were carrying a stiff twenty-hour college course, trying to cover it in eight weeks instead of fifteen, and maybe selling life insurance on the side to support a family of eight.

Our five subject headings (Fundamentals of Naval Service, Introduction to Naval Aviation, Naval Courts and Boards, Seamanship, Naval Regulations, and World War II) covered a thousand facts which we juggled mentally in a futile effort at absorption. . . . Naval traditions, customs and usages. Naval etiquette, the organization of the Navy, the history of the American flag. Naval expressions and slang, forces afloat, history of the Navy ship constmction and organization, ship identification, ratings and ranks, marlinspike seamanship, rules of the road, small boat handling, use of the compass, charts and chart construction, bearing problems, the sailings, celestial navigation, ground tackle, ships' watches, signalling and signal flags, ordnance and gunnery, paravanes, fueling at sea, marine boilers and marine engine installations, ship handling. Naval regulations, history and background of World War II, airfoil aerodynamics, aircraft nomenclature, history of Naval aviation, basic aerodynamic

We learned some other things in that sixty days, too. We learned a little bit of what a Naval officer's uniform stands for. We saw it on guys we respected, and we guess that most of us got so that we were thinking about Jones and Preble and Decamr and Rodman and Sims and Farragut every once in a while (Continued on page 45)

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The Searchlight

The Searchlight, address file for wives of Navy and Marine officers has been working at top speed in recent weeks with 2,000 addresses now in the files and inquiries arriving at a rate of five a day.

More and more word of this service is spreading among the wives who have hastened to use Searchlight facilities and file their own addresses. In letters received by Searchlight the question is often asked, ""Is there a charge for this service?" There is no charge for filing any address of a Navy or Marine officer's wife, and no charge for obtaining an address except that return postage for each inquiry should be enclosed or a self-addressed envelope. By sending remrn postage Searchlight remains self supporting, which at present with money needed for so many other purposes, is most desirable.

On the wanted lists where names not available in the files are placed for publication in various Service journals each week until sent in by the persons sought or friends, the mrnover, that is, the receipt of addresses, is running about 3 3 % clearance each week. Many wives are obviously watching the columns and taking a great interest in forwarding any addresses they have. Other names however, persistently evade our scouts and remain on the list for weeks with no clew forthcoming as to that wife's whereabouts, two of these are Mrs. H. R. Demarest, wife of Comdr. USN, '24 and Mrs. Herman Page, wife of Lt. Comdr. USN, also '24.

Information on the addresses of those or any of the following should be sent to The Searchlight, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Among the names on the wanted list of The Searchlight, address fiile for Navy and Marine officer's wives are the following. Information should be telephoned or written to The Searchlight, Naval Academy.

Anderson, Mrs. W. W., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN (CC).

Armstrong, Mrs. Jno. Hord, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '30.

Atkins, Mrs. Layden E.

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Bailey, Mrs. Watson O., wife of Capt., USN. Bernstein, Mrs. Henry E., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Beyerly, Mrs. Irwin F. Bitler, Mrs. Worthington S., wife of Comdr., USN. Blackstone, Mrs., wife of Lt., U S N ( D C ) .

Brainard, Mrs. George W. Briggs, Mrs. J. A., wife of Comdr., USN. Burger, Mrs. Joseph C, wife of officer, USMC. Cheever, Mrs. S. C , wife of Comdr., USN. Clarkson, Mrs. James, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '30.

Clarkson, Mrs. Arthur A., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Clifford, Mrs. Lloyd E., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '20.

Coffin, Mrs. H. N , wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Coffman, Mrs. Raymond P., wife of Major, USMC. Creighton, Mrs. Jno., wife of Capt., USMC. Crommelin, Mrs. Henry, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '25.

Crowley, Mrs. J. D., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Demarest, Mrs. H. R., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '24.

Dickenson, Mrs. G. W., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN ( D C ) .

Eckert, Mrs. G. A., wife of Comdr., USN. Eggers, Mrs. F. B., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Field, Mrs. Francis F., wife of officer, USMC. Graham, Mrs. Wm. Walter, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Garrison, Mrs. C. H., wife of Lt., USN, '34.

George, Mrs. Jack, wife of Lt., USN(MC).

Herbst, Mrs. H. R., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret., '15.

Hillenkeeter, Mrs. R. H., wife of Comdr., USN. Holloway, Mrs. James L., wife of Comdr., USN, '19.

Johns, Mrs. L. C, wife of Comdr., USN. Juvenal, Mrs. W. W., wife of Comdr., USN. Kane, Mrs. J. L., wife of Comdr., USN. Largess, Mrs. G. J., wife of Lt., USN, '39.

Lindsay, Mrs. Hugh, wife of Lt. Comdr.,

USN, '22.

Lee, Mrs. J. M., wife of Lt., USN, '35.

Mackey, Mrs. Roger, wife of Capt., USN(MC).

Massey, Mrs. Lance E., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Mauro, Mrs. Charles T., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Mayer, Mrs. Walter S., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '25.

Miller, Mrs. Benj. deMier, wife of officer, USMC. Money, Mrs. Peter M., wife of Comdr., USN. Montague, Mrs. Robert Lame, wife of Col., USMC. Moon, Mrs. Don P., wife of Capt., USN. Morrison, Mrs. O. B., wife of Comdr., USN(MC).

McCauley, Mrs. James, Jr., wife of Lt., USN. McDowell, Mrs. Ralph Samuel, wife of Comdr., USN, '17.

McGillis, Mrs. J. F., wife of Lt., USN, '34.

McHenry, Miss Jean, daughter Capt., USN. McGregor, Mrs. E. J., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '30.

Nefflen, Mrs. Edgar L., wife of Lt. Comdr., U S N ( M C ) .

Nimitz, Mrs. C. W., Jr., wife of Lt., USN, '35.

Osborn, Mrs. D. R., wife of Comdr., USN, '20.

Page, Mrs. Herman, wife of Comdr., USN. Peters, Mrs. T. V., wife of Lt. Peters, USN, '33.

Phillips, Mrs. Wm. K., wife of Comdr., USN. Pollock, Mrs. Edwin A., wife of Col., USMC. Rait, Mrs. J. C, wife of Lt. (jg), USN, '40.

Richards, Mrs. Wm. P., wife of Maj., USMC. Robertson, Mrs. Edward L., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '30.

Rodimon, Mrs. W. S., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '29.

Ross, Mrs. J. G., wife of Lt., USN. Shapley, Mrs. Alan, wife of Major., USMC. Spofford, Mrs. Richard Tenney, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Smith, Mrs. Rodman D., wife of Lt. Comdr., USN, '25.

Sullivan, Mrs. W. E., wife of Comdr., USN. Webb, Mrs. Richard C, wife of Lt. Comdr., USN. Wyatt, Mrs. Ben H., wife of Comdr., USN.

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( Continued from page 43) when we happened to glance down and notice our gold braid. You see, the Navy kind of got to us when we weren't looking.

And we learned a little discipline. It seemed ridiculous at first when we diilled; we were administrative officers (and, incidentally, we had new shoes).

But we know why now. Partially, it's true, we did it to get rid of those fat places, but essentially we drilled because that was the easiest way for the Navy to teach us what discipline is. Discipline is ? funny word. It has a nasty taste in civilian life, a connotation that's a little unpleasant. There's an association, maybe, with wrongdoing and punishment.

Discipline doesn't mean that in the Navy.

Navy discipline is cheerful, unquestioning obedience to an order, and it's going to have a lot to do with winning this war for us.

No, we don't know much about the Nav}', but we've learned a respect for it.

We've found out that, in spite of its red tape and tradition, it's hard working, and modem, and tectinical, and flexible. And it makes us feel like trying, too, because we figure the harder the Navy works and the better it is, the quicker we'll come through on top and go back to those homes that seem so far away right now.

As Others See Us {Continued from page 16) China; and the political relations between the great naval powers themselves as developed in the transformation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance into the fourpower pact. In remrn for the non-fortification which prevented us from building adequate bases in the Philippines and Guam, Japan gave up her claims to equality in capital ship strength and piously declared her lack of any aggressive infentions toward China.

But at the same time the conference failed to set a limit to the construction of anything except capital ships, because of the unwillingness of France to limit herself in so-called defensive types— cmisers, destroyers, and submarines. So we ttied again.

In 1927 another conference was held at Geneva. There an attempt was made to seek a formula for the restriction of the number of cruisers, destroyers, and submarines of the principal naval powers. Once again no agreement could be reached, and the conference failed.

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were finally limited by the London naval treaty of 1930, initiated following conversations between Prime Minister MacDonald and President Hoover. Tonnage of all three smaller classes was limited on a 5-5-3 ratio. The treaty retained the Washington treaty figures for aircraft carriers—135,000 tons for the United States and Great Britain and 81,000 tons for Japan. Somewhat similar ratios were achieved with reference to cruisers, while destroyer tonnage was limited to 150,000 tons each for the United States and Great Britain, and 105,000 tons for Japan.

With reference to submarines, the three powers agreed upon equality at 52,700 tons apiece.

Thus, with the tonnage of every class of warship possessed by every great naval power strictly limited by common agreement, the world believed that the specter of naval war had been banished indefinitely. In truth this was the climax of the era of disarmament. If all signers of the treaty had carried out its provisions with equal sincerity, as did the United States, Great Britain, and France, and had the problem of world peace been susceptible to solution by disarmament alone, the London Treaty might indeed have been a milestone in man'is struggle for a better world. Unformnately, Japan did not keep her pledged word; and the time for disarmament had not yet come.

Instead of a milestone in the forward progress of civilization, this treaty was to be a gravestone of all our hopes.

The United States, at least, had done far more than observe her treaty obligations. Not only had we led in pressing for low limits for our own and other navies, but between 1922 and 1932 we did not even avail ourselves of the right to build the classes which were not limited. In the decade following 1922 we laid down the keels for only 31 vessels. In this same period Great Britain was building 112. More significantly, Japan was constructing no less than 142 vessels in this same era.

The motives for this neglect to build even up to treaty strength were of the highest—the desire to give the world an example of a great nation willing to put her trust in good will rather than the sword. But regardless of the high character of our motives, the results were disastrous for our naval power. In the vital categories of cruisers, submarines, and destroyers, we lagged far behind in the constmction of modern vessels. At the end of this period, despite the maintenance of the 5-5-3 ratio for capital ships, the United States Navy had dropped to a poor third place among

the maritime powers of the world.

The folly of this course was not long in becoming evident. The economic collapse of the post-war era was loosing new and terrible forces, forces which were to sweep the world into the present conflict. The forces began to work both in Europe and in Asia. Japan began secret fortification of her mandated possessions in the Pacific, as well as clandestine expansion of her Navy. These acts not only assured Japan domination of her own territorial waters, but gave her the necessary stepping stones for offensive action against American and British possessions m the Pacific.

A year and a half later, in September 1931, Japan embarked upon a military advenmre which opened a new chapter of violence in world history. At the Washington Conference the Japanese had given sworn oaths to respect China's integrity in the open door. In 1931 Japan began the conquest of Manchuria.

Her invasion was successful—and that success foretold the end of disarmament.

The United States began slowly to awaken to the terrible possibilities implicit in this rebirth of aggression.

The advancing flag of Japan in Manchuria was reflected in the immediate introduction of bills in both Chambers of Congress to bring the Navy to full treaty strength; but we were still not fully aroused.

The bills did not go through.

From 1928 to 1932 not a single new ship was authorized for the United States Navy.

It is true that Congress voted funds for the modernization of several battleships and the completion of eight cruisers laid down under the provisions of the Geneva and London Naval Conference; but it was not until President Roosevelt assumed office in 1933 that a definite program was formulated to increase our Navy to treaty strength. This is indeed a tragic commentary, in the light of later events, upon the foresight of preceding administrations.

Nineteen hundred and thirty-three marked the mrning point in our naval policy. In Germany a fanatical Hitler seized power. In Asia, Japan continued her absorption of Manchuria, unperturbed by the futile criticism of the rest of the world—criticism futile because unsupported by action. Obviously the clouds of war were gathering. The United States must act and act swiftly if we were not to be caught completely unprepared.

We acted. On June 16, 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act authorized the President to allot money for the con-

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struction of vessels within the terms and limits of the London Naval Treaty. Moving swiftly, the President apportioned $238,000,000 for the construction of 23 ships, including 4 10,000-ton cruisers, 2 aircraft carriers, 20 destroyers, and 4 submarines.

In the next year steps were taken to increase the Navy to complete treaty strength. The Vinson-Trammell Act of March 1934 provided for the immediate constmction of one 8-inch-gun cruiser and three 6-inch-g:im cmisers. More important, this act gave the President power to undertake, prior to December 31, 1936, constmction of tonnage and auxiliary ships adequate to bring the Navy to the limits prescribed in the Washington and London Treaties, a program involving the construaion of 102 ships.

The Vinson-Trammell Act was one of the most significant acts in American naval history, for it gave legal sanction to a Presidential policy that the United States Navy be brought to full treaty strength in all categories—providing, moreover, a continuing authorization for the replacement of over-age ships.

But we could not rest content with what we had done. Our rearmament was again spurred by events abroad. Germany had already begun constmction of pocket battleships of the Deutschland class. In June 1934 the Italian Government announced the constmction of two 35,000-ton battleships. In December came the crowning blow to the limitation system. Japan gave the formal 2-year notice that she would not be bound by the Washington and London agreements after December 31, 1936. Finally, in March 1935, Germany openly repudiated the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. The next month she served notice upon the world of the construction of 12 submarines.

From this small beginning were to flow the great fleets of undersea raiders which at this very moment are ravaging the water-borne commerce of the United Nations.

Our concern with these events was strongly reflected in our naval building program. The naval supply bill of June 24, 1935, carried the Vinson plan forward with 24 vessels—2 light cmisers, 1 aircraft carrier, 15 destroyers, and 6 submarines. At the same time, the Army was authorized to establish air bases on the Aleutian Islands.

Looking back we can only thank God for this legislation. Today those ships and those bases are absolutely vital to the safety of our country.

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Washington Treaty was to expire in 1936. Late in 1935, therefore, a new naval conference was called in London to attempt to salvage something from the ruins. It met on December 7, a day which 6 years later finally, irrevocably brought to a close the era of peace by disarmament. By 1935 German rearmament had already swung into high gear. Italy had joined the ranks of the aggressors by her conquest of Ethiopia. The people of Germany, Italy, and Japan had placed their destiny in the hands of men dmnk with lust for power. Concentration camps and propaganda wars were appearing as portents of the stmggle to come.

In this atmosphere it is not surprising that the London meeting found it impossible to accomplish anything of importance. Japan withdrew from the conference because of the refusal of Great Britain and the United States to grant her complete naval parity. In this simation it was not feasible to set qualitative limits upon naval constmction. However, the delegates did agree upon limiting the size of capital ships to 35,000 tons and armaments to l6-inch guns, and certain qualitative limits were established for other types. Except for these small points the conference was a failure, for the whole stmcmre of limitation of the size of the world navies was being swept aside by the expiration of the Washington Treaty.

All this time the war clouds were gathering. Germany reoccupied the Rhineland. Germany and Italy intervened in Spain. The so-called anticomintern pact was signed, giving monstrous birth to the Axis. Japan waged war upon China proper. In March 1938 Japanese fliers sank the United States gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River.

Japan apologized. A year later German militarism swept over Austria.

Again Congress took action upon these new threats. In May 1938 the second Vinson Act authorized an increased total tonnage for the United States by 20 percent, and further increased the naval air force by 3,000 planes.

Munich came and went.

Czechoslovakia fell.

Finally, on September 1, 1939, all Europe burst into flames.

The preparedness program of the 1939 Congress on land, sea, and in the air, swept forward at tremendously accelerated pace. No dissenting voice was raised against the President's forceful declaration committing the Nation to defend at any cost territory and institutions of the New World.

The Naval Appropriation Act of May

1939 had earlier provided funds for the continuation of ships under constmction and for the commencement of two battleships, two cruisers, eight desttoyers, and many auxiliaries. Congress further appropriated $65,000,000 for development of naval aviation facilities at various continental ,and overseas bases of the United States as a result of the Hepburn report of 1938, which had clearly demonstrated the need for increased fortification of our outlying and continental bases.

After war broke out in Europe, Congress passed the 11-percent expansion act and the 70-percent expansion act. In mrn, these were followed significantly by 5 other authorizations, providing for a 2-ocean navy and an under-age fleet of a maximum tonnage of 3,750,000 tons.

Supplementing this vast increase. Congress has passed bills authorizing constmction of more than 3,000,000 additional tons. Of the 60,000-plane program for 1942 and 25,000 for 1943, the Navy is receiving a substantial allotment.

Pending legislation provides an additional sum of almost $4,000,000,000 for naval aviation.

These acts insure us a Navy of almost 7,000,000 tons—a four-ocean Navy—a Navy that will have adequate ships and planes of every type to secure the overwhelming naval and air superiority which is needed to accomplish the final and utter downfall of our enemies.

Three elements play equally important roles in a modern navy. They are ships—and I include both surface vessels and airplanes—men, and bases.

Bases are the very crux of the Navy's operations. From them are dispatched ships and planes for their every task. It is their facilities that repair battered ships, rebuild riddled aircraft, heal broken men. It is the bases that fuel the ships, feed the men, and fill the magazines with shells so that the fight can be carried unceasingly to the enemy. So important are they that under certain circumstances a single base can be worth a hundred ships.

Of world-shaking importance in the building of American sea power was the trade to Great Britain in 1940 of 50 over-age, flush-deck World War destroyers for a ring of mighty bases stretching from Newfoundland in the north to British Guiana in the south.

It was in September 1940 that President Roosevelt transmitted "for the information of Congress" an exchange of notes between the British Ambassador and the Secretary of State—

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under which this government has acquired the right to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland and in the islands of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and Antigua, and in British Guiana.

In the words of the President, it was an— epochal and far-reaching act of preparation for continental defense in the face of grave danger.

The chain of bases, he said, would give the United States command of a vast portion of the approaches to North and Central America, the Panama Canal, and the northern part of South America.

Those bases may well prove to be the saviors of the Panama Canal, and they will assuredly play a large part in eliminating the submarine menace which threatens our coastal life lines.

So much for the battles for American sea supremacy fought and won in the Halls of Congress. But what of our Navy in action? What of our ships and men on the high seas, facing murderous salvos from below the horizon, streaking torpedoes from hidden submarines, and screaming bombs from the death-laden skies overhead? What of this Navy, maintained as an instrument of national policy, when it finally came within gun range or plane range of German or Japanese warships?

The first fact to realize is that the United States Navy is fighting this war —^fighting it with guns, bombs, and blood.

We should be far behind in this eleventh month of war had not the Navy had calm foresight and well-laid plans for the protection of this Nation in the event of war.

For the American Navy, war began on September 4, 1941, when the United States destroyer Greer, carrying mail and supplies to Iceland, spotted with its supersonic equipment a German submarine lurking some 10 miles ahead in waters which had been declared vital to American defense. The Greer immediately took up the challenge. The German sub launched two torpedoes which the Greer skillfully avoided. Following this, she counterattacked with depth charges.

From that incident forward, the order to all Navy craft was ""shoot on sight."

Eleven men lost their lives in the explosion, and the entire ship would doubtless have been lost had she not been one of the newest design—with hard-steel plates twice the thickness of those used in the World War, and vastly superior compartmentation, which kept her afloat until she reached American shores.

Two weeks later, to the day, the most savage blow of all was struck. Steaming alone south and west of Iceland, the 21year-old destroyer Reuben James was struck without warning by an enemy torpedo. Tragically, she had none of the advantages in design that were built into the Kearny. Her entire forward half exploded and sank at once, taking 100 officers and men with it.

An American warship had now been sunk by the Axis, but our Navy was valiantly fighting back against the unseen raiders of the deep. On December 21, Secretary Knox announced: "After careful weighing of the evidence, I can now state that in the Atlantic Ocean United States naval forces have, up to the present time, probably sunk or damaged at least 14 enemy submarines."

Thus, by the time the Japanese stabbed us viciously in the back in the Pacific Ocean, the United States Navy was already winning the first phase of the Battle of the Atlantic.

But let us not fool ourselves. Up to December of last year the true namre of this war had come home to no one. We were all numb to the incredible portents of the new order of naval warfare. Up to this time it was 1917 all over again.

Some destroyers were lost in the stormy Atlantic, bringing goods to England.

That was all. This was a little backyard squabble which we could win with our left hand.

Then it came.

December 7. On that day the United States of America was hurled by the terrible force of treachery into the greatest naval war in the history of the world— a naval war not on one ocean or on two but on the seven seas of the earth; a naval war which was to cost the United On the inky night of October 16, the States Navy in the first 7 months more war was suddenly brought home in lives than all the previous naval wars in earnest to the Navy. The destroyer its history.

Kearny, answering a call from a convoy attacked by a pack of U-boats, was torAfter that first stunning blow, through pedoed without warning at close range. the bleak and dragging weeks of Decem-

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ber and January, and even into February and March, the Navy was the target for endless storms of the most acrimonious criticism. But let us look back now.

Were we not perhaps too unaccustorried to the bitter gall of defeat, too unnerved by the steady succession of bad news, to see the whole picture clearly?

There had been naval wars ever since the battle of Salamis saved ancient Greece; but there was no precedent for naval war on the scale we faced after Pearl Harbor. The average American was incapable of understanding the tremendous job which the Navy faced. This was global war—a new concept. To win complete control of every foot of every sea the world around, and to control as well every foot of skies above those seas— this was the Navy's responsibility. At the same time, of course, it was the Army's job to fight the war on every continent of the world; but it was the Navy's responsibility to see that every man and every scrap of material destined to all the continents landed safely, and to maintain huge and constant streams of supplies to American outposts the world around; to build up new bases from trackless jungle to full operating efficiency; to design and rush the construction of new ships by the hundreds; to supervise the manufacmre of all the guns and equipment that go on them; to recruit and train 30,000 pilots and hundreds of thousands of officers and seamen each year; and to protect every foot of the 16,000 miles of coastline of the United States and her possessions— these, too, were the Navy's responsibilities.

It was indeed a task without precedent in the history of war. All this incredible mass of world-straddling strategy and hectic detail had to be directed from that rambling, crumbling, white strucmre down on Constitution Avenue. No wonder the Navy leaders accepted the Nation's criticisms in grim silence. They were busy.

In a war only one thing counts—results. Let us see how well the Navy has done its gigantic, hydra-headed job.

The acid test of any Navy is in acmal combatant engagements. W e have seen plenty of them in this war. Count them off. Mark them up on the scoreboard of history.

Pearl Harbor: A smnning, crushing blow which failed in its prime purpose, which was to cripple forever our Pacific sea power, but which nevertheless must be classed as a tragic defeat.

Macassar Straits: A surprise sortie in

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which a daring force of United States desttoyers cut into a huge Japanese convoy, sinking five transports and throwing the escorting warships into complete confusion before they dashed away unscathed.

The Gilbert and Marshall Islands raids: Surprise blows of reprisal for Pearl Harbor, brilliantly conceived and executed.

The Java Sea: Hopelessly outnumbered at sea and devoid of air protection, we fought gallantly to an evenmal defeat.

The Coral Sea: Although we lost the Lexington, this 5-day battle was the first major set-back of the Japanese in their march of aggression in the South Pacific.

W e sank or crippled no less than 20 Japanese ships. A victory that set the Japs back 2 months in their anticipated assault against Austtalia.

Midway: The most significent, the most glorious triumph of the war in the Pacific. Four Japanese carriers sunk, with at least 275 planes destroyed, together with their crews. Two or 3 battleships damaged, 1 severely. Two cmisers sunk, and 4 more damaged.

Three, and possibly 4, desttoyers sunk.

A blow from which Japan will never fully recover.

The Solomons: The battle for the Solomons marks the beginning of the offensive in the Pacific. The initial cost to us was three cruisers, but the way was decisively opened to regaining all that has been lost since December 7. The loss of the Astoria, Vincennes, and Quincy was avenged on October 10 when the Japs lost one heavy cruiser, four destroyers, and one transport in this area.

These have been the major fighting engagements, not counting individual sinkings by our submarines and motor torpedo boats. The score is five spectacular successes to two set-backs; five great victories, three of them crippling to the enemy, as against two defeats. This in an ocean in which we are supposedly outclassed by the enemy, and after the enemy had "destroyed" our Pacific Fleet!

What was the secret? It lies not alone in the bravery and fighting skill of our officers and men, inspiring though that bravery and skill undoubtedly were, but also in the foresightedness of our Navy planners in building a balanced Navy.

The Navy always knew it might have to fight any kind of naval war, and probably every kind of naval war at once. As a consequence, the Navy never concentrated on one type of ship at the expense of another. We built up all phases of our fleet at once—battleships, aircraft car-

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riers, planes, light and heavy cruisers, and destroyers—and at the same time we did not forget the submarine chasers and the patrol craft for home waters.

True, the naval planners were preparing for a war of fleets, which had been the pattern before December 7; but the balanced Navy which they built has made it possible to organize the tight, fast, hard-hitting task forces which staged the Gilbert and Marshall raids, and met the Japs in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island, and in the Solomons.

We were quick to learn; and are today prepared to employ the new tactics to their fullest and most deadly effectiveness against our enemies. Eleven carriers were building when Pearl Harbor was attacked; and the recent naval appropriations bills initiated more of them, in numbers never conceived by Germany and Japan. Yes, we are watching our Nation's fumre, now being decided upon the high seas, and can be reverently thankful for the foresightedness which made our Navy a balanced weapon.

But what of the Navy's other jobs?

What of her convoys, for example?

American troops stand poised in Ireland and England ready to lunge at the European continent as soon as guns and planes enough are massed. American troops hold the bleak mndras of Iceland.

American troops tramp the streets of Melbourne, man the antiaircraft guns at Suez, fly planes in China, and patrol the icy coasts of the Aleutians. They are in tanks and planes in North Africa, and South Africa is becoming familiar with the Yanks. To all these fighting men, wherever they may be, must go an uninterrupted stream of materials for war —^guns, tanks, and planes, warm clothing, medical supplies, and good red meat, mail, mortars, and motor tmcks. These and all the other multimdinous military supplies, together with reinforcements and replacements of the men themselves, must get through.

To see that they do get through is the Navy's least spectacular but perhaps its most important single task. Its immensity is staggering. The distance from New York to Iceland is 3,000 storm-swept miles, plus 3,000 more for the remrn trip. Between here and Ireland, where the largest convoys in American history have already landed, are 3,300 miles of periscope-pocked ocean. The tormous route to Russia covers more than 5,000 stormy miles. Australia is 7,700 miles from San Francisco, and at least 11,000 from New York. India, where enormous United States forces have arrived, is well over 10,000 miles away via the Cape of

Good Hope.

Add to these distances the trips to Hawaii, to Samoa, and the Aleutians, and we get some idea of the tens of thousands of miles of supply lines which must be kept open at all times if we are to win this war. In the last war the supply lines which were the Navy's responsibility were only about 3,300 miles long.

Today they are nearly 80,000 miles in length. This is global war.

Are the supply lines being kept open?

Witness that as I speak here today, an incredibly small number of men and a very small amount of material have been lost on troop convoy. Maintaining a ceaseless, monotonous, nerve-wracking vigil on the sea and over it, in all kinds of weather and at all seasons of the year, the Navy gets them through.

What is going on at home? It is no secret to the American public that the U-boats scavenging along our coasts are the Navy's most pressing problem. Until now it has been a question of pushing through the arms and supplies going to our boys overseas or pulling our ships home to convoy intercoastal shipping. In the minds of the men who run this war, our boys on the battle fronts of the globe come first. Who could challenge their decision?

At this very moment the Navy is rushing to completion a vast fleet of submarine chasers and other patrol craft, numbering not scores but many hundreds —a mighty armada of sleek, speedy, deadly little vessels which will make the Axis wary of sending their abhorrent raiders within a thousand miles of our American shores.

On land the Navy is keeping pace with its jobs at sea. In every availableshipyard of the land—not only along the coasts but even on the lakes and rivers inland—^fighting ships are taking shape as fast as human ingenuity and energy can complete them. Naval inspectors keep a watchful eye over every critical engine part, gun barrel, and bag of powder which finds its way aboard any fighting ship. Plane plants are spewing forth planes—60,000 of them before the end of this year, 125,000 next year—to blast the minions of Hitler and Hirohito from the face of the earth. From one end of the country to the other naval training stations, naval air schools, and naval officer schools are mrning out the besttrained fighting men in the world to make this equipment into weapons which will strike mighty blows for victory.

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gaged. The battle is hard and treacherous always, but certain it is that final victory will be won. We can be sure that in these difficult days our Navy, wherever its operations extend, will carry out these operations with the galantry and fighting spirit which are its traditions.

We can be sure also that, however long and difficult the course to ultimate victory may be, our Navy will pursue it with vigor and intensity to the very end.

It may seem premamre at the present time to look ahead to what our naval policy will be after the conclusion of this war. W e can be sure, however, that the responsibilities of building a peaceful and stable world will rest most heavily upon the United States. In assuming those responsibilities our Navy will play a role of great importance as the guardian of a stable international system.

Under these circumstances it is well that we consider now the lessons to be learned from the recent history of our naval development, for when the time comes to apply these lessons after the war we shall be subjected to pressure from all sorts of interested groups, and in the resulting confusion we may lose sight of principles which today are clearly evident.

What are these lessons? Let me sum them up briefly as they appear to me: Firstâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I assume no one will dispute thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we must recognize, once and for all, that unilateral disarmament is doomed to failure from the very start.

The dream that if the peace-loving nations of the earth will discard their weapons the war-worshipping nations will automatically follow their example is a beautiful vision, but it is a false one.

It holds within it the germs of disaster. Think of the tragic simation in which our Navy would be if we alone had continued beyond 1932 the policy of disarming, which had by that time already wrought irretrievable damage to our naval forces. If we disarm in the fumre, let us be sure that everybody else disarms at the same time, and that we are not left out on the end of a limb by ourselves. The time may come when the human race will have reached such a point of perfection that the mere example of good intentions is enough to drive evil from the hearts of men. That day may some time come, but certainly it is a long way ahead of us now.

By the same token, let us remember that it is cheaper and better to replace our old ships at regular intervals as we go along, rather than have to do so hurriedly in time of crisis. The maintenance

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of building facilities and a skilled labor force is best done by spreading our peacetime building programs over a period of years.

Second, let us never again be deluded into believing that limitation of armaments alone is enough to insure peace.

This is the error of mistaking the symptom for the disease. Armaments are but the symptom of international suspicion and jealousy, of the greed and selfish ambition of mankind. Jealousy, greed and lust for power are the tme breeding grounds of war. If we can solve the problem of correcting the passions of men, the question of armaments will settle itself.

Third, if we should engage in international limitation of armaments on a large scale, let us avoid the errors of previous pacts. Let us remember that disarmament, to be valid, must include all nations which are acmal or potential naval powers. Let us avoid the error of limiting armaments on the basis of quality and class. Let us remember that it is useless to give power A and power B equality in destroyers in the belief that we are giving them equality in sea power.

If power B build up a large submarine force and power A has long trade routes to protect, it is obvious that mere numerical equality acmally results in considerable inferiority for power A. Let us also avoid the error of trying to divide up the various branches of the armed forces and attempting to limit one without the other. There was a day when we could separate naval power, land power, and air power, but that day is gone forever. Today the three are inextricably entwined.

Finally, let us never again make the mistake of believing that any peaceful system can be set up without some basis of force behind it. There must be found some method of translating the will of peace-loving nations of the world into action to maintain that peace which they hold dear. Our Navy and those of the other democracies will inevitably play a considerable part in providing that necessary element of force. Let us keep our Navy well, healthy, and strong. Let us remember this difficult time and how it came to be. Let us make sure that the hard sacrifices of today are not frustrated by the blunderers of tomorrow.

Navy Backs Victory Corps {Continued from page 19) courses. These so-called "glamour" courses are perfectly fine and, no doubt, have their place in times of peace, but we cannot afford them in time of war.

It is now a matter of crying necessity that we once more look to the "old fashioned" three R's as the best possible preparation for wartime service no matter what that service might be.

With this in mind, the Victory Corps is bending every effort and using its entire energy in seeing to it that a year from now, as an example, 3,000 men out of every 8,000 men applying for V-7 will not be turned down because of a lack of mathematics. The Victory Corps is interested in developing well prepared children who will be able to emerge from these schools and find their places in wartime services with the minimum of difficulty and the maximum of preparation.

The Victory Corps is not limiting itself to this worthy educational cause alone. It is also going to advise the smdents on entrance into critical services and occupations, develop wartime citizenship, stress physical fitness and military drill, give preflight training in aeronautics and preinduction training for critical occupations, and develop community services. For this purpose, the Victory Corps is divided into six divisions: General Membership, Production Service Division, Community Service Division, Land Service Division, Air Service Division and Sea Service Division.

Each of these divisions will give special added instmction to the boys and girls in these services.

Any such constructive program is essential to a nation fighting a modern war. However, there is another excellent raison d'etre for the Victory Corpsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^to help alleviate the social problem that exists among the youth of the country today. The Information Division of the United States Office of Education states that juvenile delinquency has increased greatly since our entry into the war. This is attributable to a number of causes, the most important of which are the general feeling of insecurity in the world, the breaking up of the accustomed manner of living and the absence of so many parents from home due to their wartime activities. It is sincerely hoped that the activities of the Victory Corps, both within and outside the class room, will absorb any excess energy that the chil-' dren might have and will direct this en(Continued on page 51)

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We Waiting Wives —Satisfaction— I sat in the theater the other evening and between films listened to a War Bond appeal, and it occured to me that War Bonds and Stamps could have the name of Navy ships lost in battle superimposed on them so that we could feel a personal satisfaction in buying a bond or stamp of the Houston, Yorktown or Jarvis issue. These are the ships I happened to think of, there are 48 others already announced by the Navy Department. I believe such surcharged stamps would be bought by the Navy alone in amazing amounts.

This country conttibuted $3,000,000 for the relief of the Tokyo earthquake sufferers in 1923, remember? Display stamps marked U S S in postoffices, particularly postoffices on Navy ships and stations and give us a chance to equal our Tokyo contribution in a way that would give us all deep personal interest and relieve our feelings.

—Rent— From the Rent Administrator's office nearest your home you will or have received a copy of the statement your home owner or his agent signed in connection with the rent you pay. In the lower right half of the page is a list of the facilities and services he has stated he is furnishing the tenant. If there is any difference between what he has stated and what you are getting, mrn the paper to the reverse side and you will find a space to write your statement to the Administrator's office. Fifteen day limit on this, but it's a good idea to file your version if it's necessary.

—Books— "So Your Husband's Gone to War" is a quietly amusing new book by Ethel Gorham whose husband is with the Canadian Air Force. She lists personal and household problems, from leaky faucets and the furnace water gauge to the wolf, and not in a fur coat, at the door.

—Sugar, Unrationed— This item concerns one of our better known skippers who tied up at a dock in the city of X after months at sea

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and hurried ashore to long distance his wife. He stepped into the first office he came to, asked to use the phone and placed his call with the operator who replied : "I'll call you. Sugar." He was most impressed with the new telephone service until he happened to notice the name on the office door; A and Y Sugar Refinery, warehouse #1.

—Six Hour Jobs— A suggestion has been made to the Civil Service, now vitally interested with obtaining women workers to replace men in jobs, that many former secretaries, stenographers, clerks, and other trained women, now married and keeping house, could and would work a five or six hour day where home duties keep them from giving full time. I understand several bureaus in Washington have this idea under consideration, a five or six hour day and commensurate pay, and I know many Navy wives who could take and hold jobs from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., and still run their homes. With husbands away and children of school age, marketing and other duties have to be done but are much simplified. I also know from experience that it's 10:00 A.M. in most offices before the morning mail is sorted and the rush work begins.

Two or three extra workers coming in for six hours work would keep many an office from insanity these days. Not all of us are satisfied with the amount or quality of volunteer work we can find to do and would prefer a steady daily job if we could report in at 10:00 A.M. with our house in order and necessary marketing and errands done.

—The Censor— I am very self-conscious when writing letters which I know are going to be censored, and the harder I try to be innocent and uninformative without sounding like a kindergarten smdent, the more suspicious the sentences look. My feelings were confirmed in this recently, that the censor regards all things with a hard eye, when I heard of the welfare officer who wrote a check for a magazine subscription and included the name of the organization on the check.

The censor carefully clipped it out, leaving a space two and one-half inches

by one-half inch, and then sent the check on to the publisher who was able toidentify the subscribers, and will send the magazine if his banker, will honor the check.

—Foreign Exchange— Up around the Post Office the other morning I met a Navy wife reading a letter from her "husband, now in the Solomons. In the letter he had enclosed three pieces of Japanese paper money. Real or occupation bills, it was nice to see them and know that the Marine Corps had cashed them with interest for the original owner.

—Meetings for Morale— Some sixty Navy and Marine wives living in San Francisco are getting together for luncheon about once a month, and for those without relatives in that section the meetings mean a good deal, and out of these meetings many pleasant foursomes for movies and knitting groups have grown up. Getting help or some one to stay with the children in that city is a problem these days and often the only way wives can get any relaxation or recreation at all is to meet in one another's homes and bring the children.

—Conscientious— Before he left for sea, he sat down and had a serious talk with her about keeping the car in good condition; lubricated, tires checked, water in the battery, and all the other details of caring for the car that will have to last for the duration, and evidently she kept it all in mind and was determined to do her part, because in the last mail he received a letter containing a careful sketch of the dashboard, and the words: "This is an exact picmre of the way the gauges and meters look now, do you think we need oil?"

—The Press— In every section of the country telephones are ringing in homes from which some officer has gone to war, and been decorated for some act of bravery or valor. The newspapers call for information concerning that man's boyhood, interests, children, etc., to add color to the story they wish to print. It's always wiser to cooperate, they'll get the story straighter from members of the family.

Don't be like the father who recently refused to say what school his*son attended, on the grounds that it was a military secret.

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ergy into construaive channels. It is also hoped that the work of the Victory Corps will develop in the youngsters a feeling of responsibility and usefulness. Their rightful place in our wartime society must be recognized, understood and dealt with accordingly.

To give the Victory Corps the unity and cohesion any such program must have, if it is to be successful, a radio broadcast will be given over the Blue Network every Tuesday from 2:30 to 3:00 E.W.T., commencing October 20th.

This broadcast, which will be piped into all the schools that have the proper facilities, is intended both to coordinate the Viaory Corps program and serve as a means of disseminating knowledge.

Perhaps the best justification for the Victory Corps is to be found in the words of former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who spoke as follows of his early training: "As I look back upon my own experience, I find that the best lessons of life were the hardest. My mother's insistence upon daily exercises in mental arithmetic has been worth more to me than all the delightful dallyings with intellecmal pleasures I have ever had. Life is not a pastime, and democracy is not a holiday excursion."

Spindrift {Continued from page 20) nelia Otis Skiimer, and a Brazilian songstress and pianist. The concert series has been very popular in past years, and a large attendance is anticipated.

Incidentally, the morning exercises which are held at reveille each morning are still going strong. The First Battalion, reputed to be the most "reg" battalion of the regiment, has a system whereby any man who falls to mrn out for the exercises must exercise publicly in the romnda for ten minutes.

A new aimual prize has been established by the American Bureau of Shipping. It consists of a War Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars to be awarded to the graduating midshipman who stands highest for the mechanical drawing and descriptive geometry courses in the Department of Marine Engineering.

Well, folks, we'll leave you now until next month; there's a formation coming up in a few minutes at which our presence is required.

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PENNSYLVANIA-DREXEL

The Navy sailing team on Oct. 3 opened their season by defeating the University of Pennsylvania and the Drexel Institute sailors in a triangular race on the Severn river.

The score was. Navy, 46; Pennsylvania, 36; Drexel, 2214.

Two 14-foot international dinghies, representing each school, sailed five races over a triangular course in variable wind.

Midshipmen T. W. Budd skippered his boat to four firsts, winning 25 of the 36 points for Navy.

Drexel took one first place under the skippering of George Darby.

The teams consisted of Navy; R. E. Fontaine and R. S. Kirby; Budd and J. E. Victor; Pennsylvania, J. McCambridge and W. Converse; H. Hepburn and J. Earl; Drexel, Darby and R. Way; C. L. Richards and A. Glass.

tacular tally on the ball off Cliff Lowe's chest to give the middies their final goal in the last quarter.

Navy's goalie, Bon Strassie, turned in some dazzling stops to prevent Gettysburg tallies.

Cross Country Navy, 23; Georgetown, 40.

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Although Georgetown's Dave Williams led 18 harriers to the finish line.

Navy's cross country squad captured its first test of the season on Oct. 16 by a score of 23 to 40.

Williams, who had placed first in the freshman IC 4*A championships at New York last fall, covered the four mile distance in 21:35 minutes, excellent time for the bad course, but honors went to Georgetown's Tony Passarelli, who finished fourth despite the fact he ran 3i^ miles with only one shoe.

Passarelli reported dropping a shoe between the quarter and half-mile posts, but didn't want to quit. Limping slightly at the end he finished up only 21 seconds HAVERFORD behind Williams and only two behind Navy's captain. Jack Creamer and a Navy's fleet of dinghies won on Oct. Plebe, Vic Barry, who ran a deadheat for 10 in a three school regatta on the Sev- second. ern river with the Stevens Instimte of Navy also took fifth, sixth and seventh Technology and Haverford College. The places before the Hoyas tallied another score was: runner. Gene McElroy.

Navy, 661/2; Stevens, 38 and Haverford, 20.

PLEBES The race was the last of the fall season.

Trying for their fourth consecutive undefeated season the Plebes rolled over the Soccer Temple University football team, 27 to 0, on Oct. 3 in the opening game for Navy, 4; Gettysburg, 0. both schools.

The entire record breaking Plebe class GETTYSBURG filled the practice field to root for their Navy's soccer squad was off to a good team.

Vic Finos scored the first Plebe tally on start on its 1942 season on Oct. 14 after shutting out Gettysburg College, 4 to 0 a center buck from the two yard line in in the opening contest of an eight game the opening minutes of play. Eight plays schedule. later, the young middies scored again, The game was less than two minutes Monty Johnson breaking over left guard old when Capt. Gordy Ochenrider, a for an 85-yard scoring run. The third Navy lacrosse star, dribbled down the came after an 80-yard march down the field and dumped the ball into the net field. Don Maxson, brother of William for the initial score.

Maxson last year's five-striper, made the With nine minutes of the second pe- score.

In the final quarter. Bill Walton inriod passed, he booted a pass to Johnny Swank and the Navy outside right put tercepted a Temple pass and ran 90 yards it away for the first of two goals he scored for the Plebes' final score. during the game.

The Plebes took the Massanutten MiliSwank's second goal came in the third tary Academy team, 41 to 12 on Oct. 10 period on an assist by Bill Chaires, in- when the visitors were unable to work side right. Then Chaires made a spec- their aerial game.

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Only one of the Plebes' touchdowns was scored on a pass while both of the Woodstock (Va.) school goals were completed through the air. The Plebes, putting nearly five teams on the field ran five times over the goal line.

The Plebe first team scored twice in the early minutes of the game. A second team was sent in and counted another before the quarter ended.

On Oct. 14 the Plebe soccer team defeated the Georgetown freshmen, 3 to 0 to open their season.

London Blackout . . .

ROBERT C. CONRAD, LIEUT. USNR—'25

The sun fled toward the waiting west As the blessed fog set in; A short lived twilight left the streets Where laughter should have been.

With piercing shrieks the hacks swung round.

Their keen nocmrnal sight Were two dim eyes that probed the dark With dull and sickly light.

Two glowing cigarettes stteaked past.

Like sparks on a comet's tail, When cyclists fled on recklessly From an angry Bobbie's hail.

Green flashlights swept parabolas Along the gleaming walks.

And Big Ben tolled the passing hours Where ancient history stalks.

The carnal scars of Blitzkrieg stared At black and starless skies Like Vacanteyes remembering A halocaust of lies.

The newer fires were gleaming red With smolderings of War, Yet men fought on in silence as So many times before.

One single dome with blackened cross Rose, like a silhouette Of Calvary one other night Which Time can not forget.

Then as the crimson rays of dawn Crept into the wakening streets A people rose courageously With a vow that still repeats: "No law save one shall stay our hand.

No voice but one, our cry.

We shall not bend to take the yoke Of slaves although we die.

There can be but one peace for us: The peace all Freemen ask.

And this shall be our sacred pledge However great the task."

29 September 1942.

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Commandant At Pearl Harbor Urges Correct Addressing of Mail Rear Admiral David Bagley, U.S.N., Commandant of the Fourteenth Naval District, is making every effort to expedite the delivery of personal mail.

Additional facilities are being provided as rapidly as possible.

The public can assist by taking care to address mail correctly to all men of the Naval services.

Because thousands of letters are received in San Francisco and in Hawaii for individuals with only Pearl Harbor as the address, much of this mail is delayed. Some of it cannot be delivered. This misaddressed mail not only takes manpower from other needed places in the postal service, but causes concern to both the sender and addressee due to the delay.

Therefore: Please furnish Shipmate with your correct address.

WHEN ARMY CAVALRY WENT NAVY

BY COL. TOODLE, U.S. CAVALRY, ( RET. )

Commanding Troop A, 4th Regular Cavalry, as a then 2nd Lieutenant, in the Philippines, I received orders from General J. Franklin Bell to make a scouting trip through Zambales Province, to chase one noted Insurrector leader. Colonel Alva and, if possible, round him and his bunch up. That was back in 1899, when our troops and our Navy were busy m that way.

W e proceeded to march, full packs, mounted. Southward from Dagupan on Linguyan Gulf, as pretty and picturesque place as I'd ever seen. When we reached the tiny native village of San Antonio, in the Southernmost part of the province, I found that Colonel Alva and his band were supposed to be in the big and ter-

rifically hot mountains some miles South of that town. So we proceeded there> climbing mountains that seemed about to mrn into fire, and through soggy jungle. Our only rations were hardtack and bacon carried inside our shirts. Most of the time we were forced to lead our horses because of the rocky steepness of the mountains, which ran Westward to the China Sea and so had to be crossed and crossed, time after time, as we were heading South—and swimming many rivers every day. The tropical heat was terrific and, one day, half way up a mountain, one of our troopers shot himself to death due to exhaustion.

Finally, we reached a cove known as Talisayan Bay, a remote spot. From the crest of a mountain we looked down on a small native village said to be Colonel Alva's headquarters. So, come dawn, down we scrambled, horses and men, reached the village only to find it deserted but with natives running away into the bosque. We kept on to another cove on what was called Anawagin Bay, a few miles farther to the South, and found it, also, deserted. We were about all in, tired, hungry, in rags, by then.

From the top of another high mountain we saw an American gunboat patroling the coast and waved everything we had—hats, towels, shirts, arms, and fired repeated shots. Lucky! Soon the gunboat hoved to and a small boat came in, carrying half a dozen armed sailors and two officers. They were Lieut. Worlick (if I spell his name right after all these years), a young Ensign whose name I do not now recall, but a very fine chap indeed, and their men, all armed, but with fresh, distilled water in small kegs and real sandwiches! Boy, did we all eat!

Leaving our cavalry horses there with a guard, Worlick took our whole troop aboard and we proceeded searching the many coves along the Zambales and Bataan Coast line for two days, landing here and there. But no Colonel Alva or Insurrectoes, though we found many tiny villages in the jungle.

But that wonderful time aboard Worlick's gunboat, the Oeste! Cool breezes, dandy water and food and, oh! those icy

Correction In the article "Women join the Navy," last month, ue said: '' . . . daughter of Rear Admiral James Y. Leighton, Commandant of the Third Naval District." The sentence should of course, have read: " . . . daughter of Rear Admiral Frank T. Leighton, Commandant of the Eighth Naval District."

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drinks and the cigarettes! And that cool, shaded deck!

The third day, Worlick took our troop back ashore to where we had left our horses, and we waved many a cheery goodbye as he and his sailors rowed back to their ship. W e mounted and marched back to little San Antonio through more muck and jungle, without seeing a native soul or anybody else.

Upon our reaching San Antonio, where some of our American Infantry was stationed, we found that Colonel Alva had, in the meantime, sent in a note to the Commanding officer, saying: "We've seen Lieutenant Toodle's troop, and when we want a fight we'll let you know."

aCljE l a s t CaU '94, Captain, U.S.N. (Ret.). Died 6 Sept., 1942, at Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.

ERNEST LINWOOD B E N N E T T ,

'42, Ensign, U.S.N. Died 9 August, 1942 (In accordance with directive of Secretary of the Navy, officially held in stams of missing from 9 August, '42 to 12 Sept., '42, date of notification). Solomon Islands, enemy action.

ALEXANDER J O H N BUTSKO,

HERBERT FULLER CARROLL, JR., '34,

Lieut., U.S.N. Died 9 August, 1942, (In accordance with directive of Secretary of the Navy, officially held in stams of missing from 9 August, '42, to 2 Sept., '42, date of notification).

Solomon Islands, enemy action.

MALCOLM ARNOLD DEANS, '18, Comdr.,

U.S.N. (Ret.), Died 8 October, 1942, in Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N . Y. WILLLAM G U Y EATON, '21, Lt. Comdr.,

'39, Lieut., U.S.N. Died October 11, 1942 near Oahu, T. H. (Pacific Area). Midair collision of three planes.

ANDREW JACKSON GARDNER,

GEORGE GIBBS,

(In accordance with directive of Secretary of the Navy, officially held in status of missing from 9 August, '42, to 2 Sept., '42, date of notification).

Solomon Islands, enemy action.

'90, died 10 October,

1942, at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Phila- W I L L I A M CORKIN W I L L I A M S O N , JR., delphia, Pennsylvania.

'41, Lt. (jg), U.S.N. Died 24 August, 1942. (In accordance with directive ARTHUR SYLVANUS K E M M A N , '08. Died of Secretary of the Navy, officially held 31 October, 1939, at Los Angeles, Caliin status of missing from 24 August, fornia.

'42 to 18 Sept., '42, date of notification ). Solomon Islands, enemy action.

CLEAVELAND D A L E MILLER, '29, Lieut.

Comdr., U.S.N. Died 9 August, 1942.

(In accordance with directive of Secretary of the Navy, officially held in This space allotted by Shipmate each month for the news of status of missing from 9 August, 1942 Branch .Associations of U. S. to 12 Sept., '42, date of notification).

Naval Acadenjy.

Solomon Islands, enemy action.

SAMUEL NOBRE' MOORE, '13, Captain,

U.S.N. Died 9 August, 1942. (In accordance with directive of Secretary of the Navy, officially held in stams of missing from 9 Aug., '42 to 11 Sept., '42, date of notification). Solomon Islands, enemy action.

MILWAUKEE

BRANCH

At a meeting Wednesday night (Oct. 7, 1942) at Cudworth Memorial building, Kavanaugh C. Downey, '17, was elected President of the Milwaukee Chapter. Lieut. Downey, now retired, was formerly Executive officer of the 12th Battalion, U. S. Naval Reserve, Milwaukee, Wis. He is a member of the QueensW A L T E R PURNELL NOCK, JR., '43, Entown Association having served in destroyers sign, U.S.N. Died 9 Aug., 1942. (In Duncan and Conyngham, during World War accordance with directive of Secretary I. of the Navy, officially held in stams Other officers chosen include:—John Avery, of missing from 9 Aug., '42 to 2 Sept., '23, Vice President. Clyde R. Braun, '39, Sec.'42, date of notification). Solomon Is- Treas. Members of the Executive committee— Donald A. Cameron, '24; Robert Anderson, lands, enemy action.

'33; Charles W. Givan, '22.

Meetings are held in the Cudworth MeJ O H N MADISON ORCHARD, '77, Commo- morial building the first Wednesday of each dore, U.S.N., (Ret.). Died September month.

20, 1942, at Long Beach, California.

Recent Naval activities in the Milwaukee area include: (1) The visit of Captain T. D. Ruddock, '14, USN, who awarded the Army WILLLAM ROBERT SHAW, '26, Lt. and Navy "E" pennant to the Universal Unit Comdr.., U.S.N. Died October 11, Power Shovel Co., Milwaukee. Lt. Comdr. H. 1942, at Sydney, Australia.

H. Fox, '09, USNR, made the award to the employees of the company. (2) The award REYNOLDS C. SMITH, '32, Lt. Comdr., of the Army and Navy to the Chain Belt Co., and to the Milwaukee Saddlery Co., both U.S.N. Died 5 September, 1942. Sol- of Milwaukee, in which Captain D. D. Dupre, omon Islands, enemy action.

•15, USN, took part.

J O H N RANDALL SPIERS, '32, Lt. Comdr.,

U.S.N. Died October 11, 1942, at U.SJNT. Died 9 August, 1942. (In acNarragansett Bay, R. I. (Atlantic cordance with directive of Secretary Area). Airplane crash. of the Navy, officially held in status of missing from 9 Aug., '42 to 2 Sept., '42, date of notification). Solomon Is- ALBERT W I L L I A M STAHL, '80, Commodore ( C C ) , U.S.N. (Ret.). Died 19 lands, enemy action.

September, 1942.

JAMES HEDGES EVERSOLE, '43, Ensign, U.S.N. Died 24 August, 1942. (In ROBERT LAWRENCE STRICKLER, '32, Lt. Comdr., U.S.N. Died 9 October, 1942, accordance with directive of Secretary in Pacific Area, plane crash. of the Navy, officially held in stams of missing from 24 August, 1942, to 16 Sept., '42, date of notification). H E N R Y PUREFOY W H I T E H U R S T , JR., '42, Ensign, U.S.N. Died 9 August, 1942.

Solomon Islands, enemy action.

For information concerning the Milwaukee Branch please communicate with Kavanaugh C. Downey, '17, President, 3328 No. Bartlett Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

NEW YORK

BRANCH

The Naval Academy Association of New York held their monthly meeting at 12.30 P.M., Wednesday, October 14, 1942, at the Midday Club, 25 Broad Street, N. Y. C. Lt. Comdr. Lewis S. Parks, '25, U.S.N., spoke on War Time Operations of U. S. Submarines.

For information concerning the New York Branch please communicate with Calvert Carey, '14, Secretary, 405 Lexington Ave., N. Y. C.

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