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THE PUBLICATION OF T H E U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS, MD.

CONTENTS Football and War—By

Col. E. E. "Swede"

Larson, USMC....

What They Say About Each Other

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Why Japs Shoot Themselves—

By Commander

Walter Karig, USNR

Origin of Naval Expressions

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They Attack by Night—Bj; Lt. {jg) Basil Heatter,

USNR

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Wardroom Stuff

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Dutch Courage—By Lt. Harold van Zaandan, RNNR

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An Artist in the Marianas—By Lt. William F. Draper, as told to Lt. {jg) Robert McCord,

USNR, USNR

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Flood Tides of Victory

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Britain versus Japan

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Admiral Kirk Reports

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Spindrift—By Lee Shores

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Miscellaneous Cargo

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Navy Athletics

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What's the Dope

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T h e Searchlight

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W e Waiting Wives T h e Last Call

(Frontispiece) Guam, 1944. United States Marines return to Guam after an absence of nearly three years. This picture shows them landing on this one-time outpost's palm fringed shores.

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These midshipmen learned to win. An action picture from the 1938 Army-Navy game.

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RIGADIER General Smedley D. Buder, affectionately called "Old Gimlet Eye," was Commanding General of the Marine Base, Quantico, when I reported there for duty after graduation from the Naval Academy in 1922. The General, firm in the belief that competitive athletics, particularly football, was not only an excellent morale builder, but also an ideal medium for training officers and men for the more serious business of war, had organized and was sponsoring a Quantico Marine football team. One of the first Col. Larson needs no introduction to either the sports fan or the miUtary things he told me, in discussing the proman. He is well and favorably known gram, was this: "Swede, football is the in both fields. A star footballer during closest approach we have, in time of his undergraduate years, he graduated peace, to war, and here is where I stand from the United- States Naval Academy in 1922, and was commissioned a sec—who wants to lose a war? W e are out ond lieutenant in the United States to win!"

Marines, During the years he remained Much has been written about the art active in football and was assigned to duty at AnnapoUs as head football and science of war, with all of its ramificoach during the seasons of 1939-'40cations and far-reaching implications.

'41. He has seen active Pacific service There is land warfare, naval warfare, air in the war, and is at present assigned warfare, economic warfare, psychological to duty with Cominch headquarters in the Navy Department, When he writes warfare, all combined at the present moof the close parallel between football ment into global warfare. and war, he knows whereof he speaks.

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"The Navy, through its spokesman, the Secretary, has affirmed that it thought football ought to be played during the war. And we had a red, •and I think sound, reason why we took that position: Because we think there is a definite relationship between the spirit which makes great football players and the spirit that makes great sailors or soldiers."

"We in the Navy definitely believe in the type of physical exercise and sports which involves bodily contact with your opponent."

"The lessons young men in junior command in the Navy, Army and Marine Corps learned on their football fields are being of the highest importance to them now. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that the willingness to go through, to the finish, no matter what the odds, is one of the most important lessons that the men who are now fighting on our respective fronts have had before they became engaged in active war."—^Excerpts from a speech by the late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox before the Touchdown Club of Washington, D. C , 11 January 1944.

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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT EACH OTHER A Regular About the Reserves "It goes without saying that 1 have the full realization of the role that the officers and men of the Naval Reserve are playing in this war.

All one has to do to appreciate how thin our regular officers are spread in the Fleet these days is to look over the roster of a ship of any type.

We of the regular Navy furnish a certain amount of direction and leadership, but the bulk of the work necessarily had to be done by Reserves. Our expansion had been so great that no one in the United States can be left in any doubt that this war is being fought by the American people and not by a professional Army and Navy. The high quality of our personnel is shown by the results that they are able to obtain when given the weapons with which to fight."

—Vice Admiral Raymond' A. Spruance, '07, USN, in letter to Comdr. C. McK. Lynch,'01.

A Reserve About the Regulars ". . . The greater number of our officers and men of the Naval Reserve are new to the Service. They brought to a solution of their problems the vast wealth of courage and ingenuity which, in civilian life, enabled them to contribute to the greatness of America.

"But we bear in mind the impressive task performed by our shipmates of the regular Navy. Through years of lean appropriations and public apathy, they kept alive the spirit of the Navy—kept up to date the store of technical information so vital to the operation of a complex modern fleet. When the time came to create, almost literally overnight, the greatest sea force history has ever known, our shipmates of the regular Navy were ready—ready to stand off the enemy and to train hundreds of thousands of brand-new men needed for expanding our fleet.

"We pridefully marvel at the magnificent job being done by a Navy composed predominantly of officers and men new to the Service. But we bear in mind the fact that the leadership, inspiration and guidance of our thinly-spread nucleus of regular Navy officers constituted the one element which made this great work possible.

"Whether Regular or Reserve, we are all Navy in time of war. Together, we sail, onward to victory."

—Remarks of Commander William C. Chambliss, USNR, at conclusion of NBC's CAVALCADE OF AMERICA program that dramatized his latest book, "BOOMERANG."

A Postscript About Both "314 Grove Avenue, Albert Lea, Minnesota "Dear Commander Chambliss:

Swede Larson, above, and Jumping Joe Clifton, below.

"I had read your story 'Boomerang' in the Saturday Evening Post, so it was with interest that I heard it dramatized on the 'Cavalcade of America' program.

"But I can't help writing to tell you how touched I was with your talk afterwards. You paid such a tribute to our Navy men—Regular and Reserve, and explained their relative positions so well.

"My husband, who was killed in the Solomons, was a graduate of Annapolis, and I had followed him to many posts in sixteen years. I remember those lean years of which you spoke, when the Navy was ignored. I was in Honolulu on December 7th, and I had noticed how well the Reserves were doing on our ship, the USS N E W ORLEANS, and on others.

"Thank you for your talk. I wish I'd been able to write it down.

"Sincerely yours, Mrs. H. M. Hayter."

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rarer than Marines with an inferiority complex.

Sergeant Inoshishi hterally blows his top because he instandy becomes Saint Inoshishi, with all the appurtenances of Sure! That's why Japanese soldiers shoot themselves. It is sainthood, including the ability to work miracles, and to work them against the Marines coming up through the shattered as simple as that, and the Japanese are a simple people.

When Sergeant Inoshishi, trapped in a pill-box by the coconut grove, too. He is sure .of that—dead sure, ooe rnight advancing Marines, puts the muzzle of his rifle under his chin say—as the tortoise is sure that the automobile can't crush him if he draws his head into his shell. and squeezes the trigger with his toe, he Shinto is the explanation, but not is taking no chances. He is not commiteven the Japanese can explain shinto; it ting hara-kiri, no matter what the capis a religion, and it is more than a retion writers say. In the first place, haraligion. It is an inbred patriotic exaltakiri must be performed with a knife, as tion which identifies the Emperor as a inevitably as shooting is done with a living god—the living god—and which fire-arm and hanging with a rope, beU. S. N. R. permits the Shintoist to be an earnest, cause the word means "belly-cutting" in practicing Buddhist or Christian withWith Illustrations the first place; in the second place, haraout impairment of conscience. Buddkiri is a ritualistic suicide usually comby the Author hism or Confucianism or Christianity, in mitted to annoy an adversary. The Mathat case, is the professor's individual and rines are distinctly not annoyed by Jappersonal religion. Shintoism is his national religion, abandonanese shooting themselves, and the Nips know it.

Cornered Japanese shoot themselves, or blow themselves up ment of which woidd mean treachery to the Empire and diswith grenades or, in the water, deliberately drown themselves, loyalty to the ruler. That is no explanation, to be sure, and for what to them is a very practical and sensible reason, and there is no parallel in occidental experience to offer as an illusno more admirable than it is for an aviator to resort to his tration. Perhaps the homeliest simile is to liken the Japanese parachute. Publication of pictures from the Pacific island bat- religion to American politics. W e unhesitatingly accept the defields has given countless Americans a sneaking respect for fact that a man can be an ardent Old Guard Republican and an enemy who prefers death to dishonor, which may be offset still be a loyal and law-abiding citizen under the New Deal. by the conviction it has given others that the Jap is a coward His first loyalty is to his country, his citizenship. His politics is his personal, individual philosophy. In the same way a who bumps himself off in panic.

Shintoist can adopt any religion as his personal, spiritual Neither belief is true. Neither misconception will help philosophy although he can not be an atheist. However, the win the war. For Japanese do retreat, and they do surrender, parallel stops there; to carry it farther wovdd require you to if they have no orders to the contrary, and no compelling believe that the ardent Old Guard Republican felt himself belief in the Japanese hereafter. Of course, such Nips are HICH would you rather be: Healthy, wealthy, wise and W respected, or a jail-bird bereft of citizenship and family and salvation?

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HIS is still an explanation of why Japanese soldiers shoot themselves, as is borne out in Genchi Kato's essay: "What Is Shinto?" In the course of that distinguished Japanese theologian's discourse he states, rather than explains, that a man "laying down his life on the battlefield for his sovereign and his country is canonised as a kami or deity." The Yasukuni shrine in "Tokyo is eternally dedicated to men who die in war, and all Japan is dotted with lesser such shrines. In the grounds of Seishoji Temple, also in Tokyo, is a shrine to the "three human bombs," Sakue, Kitagawa and Eshita, privates in the Japanese army corps of engineers, who carried a huge, ignited bomb into the barbed wire defending Shanghai in 1932, blowing a thirty-foot hole in the barricade and themselves into sainthood. A statuary group of heroic size portrays the three privates in the act. The point is that throngs come to pray to Saints Sakue, Kitagawa and Eshita, devotionally, ecstatically.

To quote from another sourceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"We Japanese," by H. S. K. Yamaguchi â&#x20AC;&#x201D;"The morale and spirit of the Japanese army are established on two rigid, cardinal principles: First, that a soldier slmll never retreat; second, that he shall not be taken prisoner. Should the latter happen, no matter what the circumstances, he is courtmartialed." Japanese casualty lists contain no classification for the missing; there are no "missing." The soldier who does not show up after a batde is dead, and his nextof-kin eventually receives the man's death benefit payment and a small box of symbolic human ashes.

The Japanese soldier who surrenders is either shellshocked out of his senses or is an avowed traitor. The normal Jap shoots himself with his last bullet. In a burst of enthusiasm and military fervor he might even kiU himself, or rush headlong into enemy fire, at the outset of the battle. He is absolutely convinced in his heart and soul that he will be able to carry on for his country even more effectively after his death on the field of combat. That is no superstition engendered in the unmtored mind by canny war-lords. It is the manifestation of shinto; it is only one manifestation of that abstruse faith, to be sure, but it is the one that most concerns us Americans at the present. In all of its deeply ingrained aspects, Shintoism- is going to make incredible difficulties for us in establishing peace with a conquered Japan, and in maintaining peace thereafter.

T is in anticipation of those difficulties that the wise proIJapan. hibition has been placed on ridicule for the Emperor of In all their propaganda and psychological warfare, the United Nations have deliberately refrained from abusing Hirohito. It is figured that the Mikado, being a rational man with deep love for his country and his people (although he believes himself to be the embodiment of godhood) is our best bet for bringing order and obedience into a conquered Japan, because what he says goes with the masses, and it is calculated that he can be persuaded to say the right thing.

Shintoism, by these demonstrations, is a faith more emotional than anything in American comprehension. The ecsSEPTEMBER,

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tacies of Christianity's most demonstrative sects, the gyrations of the Whirling Dervishes, are outward manifestations which would not begin to tap the emotionalism of the Japaneseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is not, however, as exhibitionistic.

For it is another myth, somewhat older than those being created by the war correspondents, that the Jap is a dead-pan stoic devoid of sentiment. To be sure, they think it disgraceful to show sorrow, and consequently they drive Occidentals mad by excessive laughter. Give the Jap a good, heart-jerking Shintoistic reason for it, however, and he will sob himself into hiccoughs right out in public.

For example: The popular theater in Japan is the kabuki-za.

The kabuki in Tokyo, hard by the street called Ginza which is a cross between Times Square and push-cart row in Orchard Street, New York, is a magnificent theater architecturally.

And here is continuously staged the historic drama which is to the average Japanese what the horse-opera is to American movie addicts. The verisimilitude of the stage settings shame Hollywood's best, the quality of the best plays makes Hollywood's worst look and sound like an all-star production at the Metropolitan.

It was there that, new to Japan and indoctrinated by the Occidental concept of the Japanese psychology, I went to see the cream of Japan's stage present for the thousand-and-tenth time a play uninspiringly entided "The Crisis of the Lord of Sendai's Family." My seat was the second from the center aisle, about the tenth row. The person who had the aisle seat did not keep it very long, because he was presently displaced by the Foreign Office dick assigned to keep an eye on me. The Nipponese Dick Tracy was dressed in the better half of a two-pants blue serge suit too long for him in the limbs and inadequate as to girth. On my other side was a romnd, bald little Son of Heaven who must have been an extreme conservative, because he wore kimono and haori coat. The cop was a cop, but the other bloke must have been a banker.

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O Japanese play begins at the beginning. On either side of the stage, in a sort of alcove, sit a narrator and an assistant with a sort of banjo called samisen. The narrators, in high, buzzing voices which is the formal intonation of the Japanese language, spend about half an hour explaining to the audience what had happened which produced the plot about to be resolved on the stage. The banjo player whams his instrument to provide exclamation points for the uninflected Japanese conversation. Unlike the Chinese, the Japanese language is not sing-song. The voice is not dropped to indicate the end of a sentence, nor raised to denote a question.

In fact, the only way the Japanese show they are asking a question is to state a declarative sentence and add the word "question." Thus a Japanese does not ask his grocer: "Do you have any bananas?" He says: "You have bananas question."

And the grocer literally replies "Yes, we have no bananas" because it is disgracefully impolite to say no.

Anyhow, the play began. From the English libretto I thought the one-act drama should last about thirty minutes.

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ADMIRAL—^The title may be traced to the Arabic Amir-al-bahr, commander of the seas.

(See Fig. 1.)

BOATSWAIN — The Saxon word "swein" mean a boy or servant. The "boat" refers to the ships and not to her boats. Coxswain has a similar derivation. "Cock" is an old word for a type of small boat.

CHAPLAIN — St. Martin divided his coat with a beggar on a cold wintry day outside of Amiens. It is related that the coat was "miraculously pressed." It became a sacred banner for the Kings of France. This cloak, or cape (French chape) was preserved in an oratory that took the name of "chapelle." The gentleman charged with its keeping was called the "chapelain."

CLIPPER—From the old English "clip" meaning to run, fly swiftly.

FLEET — From Anglo-Saxon "floet"; old Spanish "flota"; hence flotilla.

FORECASTLE—In the 12th century castles to fight from, similar to those towers of wood used ashore were placed forward and aft on Norman ships. The word "forecastle" survived.

FRIGATE—Originally designated a class of Mediterranean vessels which used both oars and sails.

GANGWAY—From Angle-Saxon "gang," to go; make a passage in, or cut out, through.

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HAMMOCKS — Christopher Columbus, in 1498, in the Bahamas, found that the natives used as beds woven cotton nets called "hammacs."

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COMMODORE—In the Dutch wars of 1652 there were not sufficient Admirals and the Dutch desired to create others without calling them admirals. The American Navy used the rank as an honorary title in the Revolution.

Until 1861 all captains in the United States Navy, commanding or having commanded squadrons, were recognized as commodore, though never commissioned as such.

CREW—Probably from Old Norman word "acrue," meaning to increase, to accrue— closely allied to recruit.

CRUISER—^Derived from "crusal," a fast, light vessel used by pirates in the Mediterranean. (See Fig. 2.)

DERRICK—^Thomas Derrick, a well-known hangman of the time of Queen Elizabeth, devised a spar with a topping-lift and purchases for his gruesome work.

EMBARGO—From Spanish "embarger," to arrest.

HAWSE PIPES—Hawse is an old name for

throat, and since the head was forward, as well as the "eyes," (see above) the term "throatpipe" or "hawse-pipe" came into being.

MESS — From the Latin word "mensa," meaning table, Spanish word "mesa," table; also a Gothic word "mes" meaning a dish.

OAKUM — Derived from the old AngloSaxon word "oecumbe"; in the 18th century it was spelled "ackam."

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RUDDER—Derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "rother," that which guides.

SCHOONER—The type was originally built in Gloucester, Mass., in 1713, Andrew Robinson, ship builder, had not decided on a name for a new ship. As she left the ways a bystander sang out; "See how she scoons." Robinson heard this remark and said; "A schooner she shall be."

SHROUDS—^When cordage was of an inferior grade, so many stays of rope were used to support a mast athwartships that the mast was 'CHUSAU'^" practically obscured in the manner that a shroud covers a corpse.

SICK BAY—Originally called "sick berth."

After round bows were introduced, about 1811, the contour of the bulkhead eflfeaed the change to "sickbay."

SKIPPER—Derived from the Scandinavian word "schiffe," meaning ship; or the Dutch EYES OF THE SHIP—^Most of the early ships word "Schipper," meaning captain. had in the bow carved heads of mythological SON-OF-A-GUN—In the early days sailors monsters or patrons. The term "eyes of the were permitted to keep their wives on board ship" refers to the eyes of the figures placed ship. The term was actually used to refer to there. (See Fig. 3.) children born alongside the guns of the broadFATHOM — From Anglo-Saxon "faethm"; sides. The old definition of a mon-o'-warsman the act of stretching two arms wide as rough was "begotten in the galley and born under a gun." measurement for six feet. (See Fig. 4.)

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O R T H of Australia lies the huge island of N e w Guinea. It is an ugly, ominous land, a land of disease and death. O n it died the Jap dream of blasting Australia in his march to the south.

O n it also died ( a n d are dying) some few hundred thousand of the yellow Emperor's picked troops. Malaria ridden, starving, hounded by Allied bombardment the J a p smmbles on in a nightmare of retribution. Thousands of J a p dead rot in t h e jungles, i n the kunai grass, and on the white beaches. N i g h t after night the N i p has tried to bring his barges down from Rabaul and other staging areas, b u t always they are intercepted and blasted by roaring, tracer spitting PT's.

All commands agree that the blockade established by motor torpedo boats along the N e w Guinea coast has been instrumental in w i n n i n g the major victory in the Southwest Pacific.

Torpedo boat fighting has a style all its own. T h e PT's become a sort of naval guerrilla force operating hundreds of miles behind t h e enemy lines in strange waters that have in many instances.never been charted, subject t o attack from planes, surface units and shore fire, and with the added hazard of patrolling through the long, black nights in waters where the slightest wrong move means a boat with its bottom sliced out on the razor edged coral niggerheads. It is no wonder that after an all night patrol, the boat crews are haggard and unshaven, with red rimmed eyes and weary, aching' bodies.

By daybreak the patrols are over. PTS frequencies resound t o : "Let's head ioj the barn." It almost seems as though the boats themselves sense that h o m e i$ ahead. They leap forward in great sheets of sparkling spray. Engines hit wonderful speeds they could never touch on the way out. From offshore you can see the boats whipping back down along the coast like dragon flies skimming the edge of the jungle. A n d sometimes you can see the quick, orange flash of a N i p shore battery, and then you have the tense few seconds of waiting for t h e shell, and when it finally lands far astern the boys turn and give h i m a few bursts jusr for the hell of it and then the boats flirt their tails at the beach and speed on towards home.

By Lieutenant (jg) BASIL HEATTER^ USNR night to come creeping down the mountains into the jungle.

PT|s of the "Green Dragon" squadron heading into the New Guinea dusk for another fruitful patrol. These swift, small craft have frustrated Jap attempts at supply or evacuation of trapped garrisons on the world's largest island.

They come in before noon, skirting the reefs that mark the entrance to the litde harbor. They come slowly past in column and if the night has been productive they wave their clenched fists overhead in a fighter's salute, proudly semaphoring their score ahead to the men on the beach. And there are times too when they come limping in with a hull riddled with shell holes and men to be lifted over the side and carried to sick bay. It's quite a while before anybody does much talking about those patrols.

When the patrols come in the skippers go ashore to write out their reports.

At the same time the execs take the boats over to the fuel dock to gas up.

Even though all hands have been at batde stations throughout the night there is still no sleep for anyone until the boats are again in fighting shape. That means refueled, radios and engines checked, and all guns completely stripped down and cleaned. After a night spent plowing through heavy seas a .50 calibre machine guns is a mass of rusty junk, an unholy mess that has to be sweated over for SEPTEMBER,

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hours. The boys work in the blistering, noonday sun, bearded, stripped to the waist, their tired fingers doing mechanically the job they have done so many countless times before.

When the work is done the boats move over to their nests along the edge of the jungle. These dispersal points are carefully chosen with an eye to protection from air reconnaissance and attack. Each boat crew puts down palm log pilings and builds a rickety dock fondly festooned with signs such as Stork Club, Jack & Charlie's, Cocoanut Grove, etc.

Here you find such luxuries as reclining chairs made from ammunition crates, cooking stoves fashioned from oil drums, and hammocks slung in choice, shady spots.

The boats are pulled into their nests and made fast under the creepers and leaves. All hands prepare for extensive sack drill. Afternoon quiet settles down over the harbor. In the shade a bearded gunner wearing ragged shorts puffs on a cherished cigar and rereads last month's letters. He is waiting for the hot, still

T F the crews are lucky they'll have n o ' â&#x20AC;˘^ patrol that night, and if they're doubly lucky there will be a movie at the base.

Soon after darkness they arrive paddling outrigger canoes, dinghies, and even the sawed-in-half shells of belly tanks dropped by P-47's. In spite of projector breakdowns, alerts, and rain squalls the boys sit patiently for hours in the black, jungle night, battling clouds of mosquitos, waiting for the flickering screen that speaks to them of home half a world away.

Next day the boats are ready to fight again. The skippers go ashore for their briefing, chow is taken aboard, ammunition belts fed into the guns, frequencies adjusted, and by mid-afternoon the patrols are again moving out through the reefs toward the open sea. They ease slowly and carefuUy out between the swirling masses of foam that break over the coral. Far overhead a P-38 gleams for a silver instant in the sun. Off on the horizon a PBY circles lazily over a convoy of LST's bound through the straits for New Britain.

Our boats begin to bite into the heavy seas. Sheets of spray rain over the cockpit, turrets, and after lookout who huddles unhappily behind the engine room hatch. At a signal from the skipper all guns fire a few warm up bursts. Tracers whip out and ricochet off to seaward.

Throttles are moved up and the boats pound and thunder as they smash into the crests. The exec wipes the salt out of his eyes and bites grimly on a sodden pipe. Another patrol is under way.

By nightfall the boats are again in enemy waters. They prowl like huge, silent sharks through the shaUow bays and lagoons. On each boat a dozen eyes sweep the sea and shore through night glasses. In the blacked out chartroom the quartermaster half naked in the heat, plots his D R Track by the dim, reddish glow of the batde lights.

In a little while the moon comes up.

The sea gleams like mercury; the jungle is a black ribbon along its edge. OccasionaUy you get the faint scent of the land, the sweet, heady aroma of jungle (Continued on page 63) 15

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HIGH ranking Navy officer, back from New Caledonia, teUs this one on the Army—the one about the three-star general who insisted that his rank caUed for a privy for his own private use.

Hearing about it, the Navy officer caUed in the Seabees.

One of the Seabees was a former outhouse architect for the WPA and he designed the neatest two-holer ever seen in that part of the world.

When the edifice was built, Seabee artistry came to the fore. They whitewashed it, decorated it with flower boxes and potted plants, and one of them who was a former sign painter added the final touch by painting three dainty stars over one of the holes.

It served the general weU for a short time, but then he was replaced by a two-star general.

With a final touch of ingenuity, the Seabees remodeled the structure for the new tenant by changing the shape of the holes to represent two stars.

NAS New York— A young naval lieutenant, doing shore duty in New York, had become quite friendly with his yeoman, such as sending him out for coffee and sandwiches, etc., while working late nights, and relying on the eidisted man to keep his personal effects in shape.

One day the Lieutenant noticed his yeoman was looking a bit down in the mouth. " W h a t ' s troubling you?" he asked. "You seem to be pretty low."

"I am, sir," replied the yeoman. "We had bad news today.

We heard that my wife's yacht was sunk on anti-sub patrol."

Naval Aviation News MCAS Mojave—A Marine captain was slightly starded recendy when he received a mailed notice from his draft board solemidy advising him that he had been classified 1-A. The captain who is 41, married, the father of rwo children and has been a Marine officer since August 1942, didn't bat an eye. He rushed into the office of the commanding officer and gravely requested an emergency leave so he might apply for deferment in view of his employment in an essential industry.

Naval Aviation News NAS Seatde—The STETHOSCOPE, a naval hospital newspaper, offered a prize to anyone who could identify Betty Grable's leg in a layout of art pictures. The chaplain won.

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(EDITOR'S NOTE:—h ar produces great humor.

The activity makes for good stories. And people search for a smile to ease tension, assuage grief and shorten the period of separation. Here is a collection of war anecdotes to prove the point. SHIPMATE will pay $5 for each accept, able anecdote.)

AU ye who believe in numerology (which is not to be confused with the numbers racket) can prove beyond a doubt that the war wiU be over in 1944. You do it with the foUowing numbers: Commander Year born Age Years in office Took office in

Churchill 1874 70 4 1940

Roosevelt 1882 62 11 1933

Stalin 1879 65 20 1924

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3888 3888 Half of 3888 is 1944, the year of the war's end.

Of course, you can prove the same thing by taking statistics from your own Ufe. Take the year born, age, years in Navy, year entered Navy; add aU these numbers, and presto, you too wiU get 3888.

The catch is that you always get 1944 if you add together your age and the year you were born. And you always get 1944 if you add together your years in the service (or years in office) and the year you entered the service. Adding 1944 and 1944, you always get 3888.

AU of which proves that arithmetic is stiU a going concern . . . and if you are one of those super-optimists, that the war is bound to end before New Year's. Yes sir!

Navalesque Language — Rear Admiral E. L." Cochrane, chief of BuShips, was complaining to a Wave officer that someone down the line had failed to do a certain job.

"But I told him what you wanted, sir," the Wave interjected.

"He may have heard you," the Admiral replied, "but he didn't hoist the idea aboard."

It's an old Royal Navy story now being retold—about the two British sailors who met each other in HeU. "Look 'ere, 'awkins, wot are you doin' 'ere? After the life you led on earth I would have thought you would 'ave gone to the other place!"

Hawkins replied: "WeU, it's a long story. Remember we was on the fore lower mess deck when the explosion took place? Well, I ended up against the Golden Gates.

"The Regulating Angel told me to get my bag and 'ammock (Continued on page 64)

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Dutch minesweepers, shown above, have done a thorough, though unspectacular, job in the English Channel.

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HE Japanese Navy, judging by its action when goaded by the great U. S. Task Force 58 in the Philippine Sea, is basing its strategy on the old axiom that he who runs away lives to fight another day.

In the Pacific, from the moment we declared war on Japan, the Dutch Navy has flaunted this old axiom. And, while we have lost heavily in ships and men, we have managed to strike back at the Jap, and at the same time "keep punching," as you Americans put it, at the Nazis.

In 1942 Admiral Helfrich could announce that in the first fifty-four days of the war with Japan, his ships and aircraft had sunk fifty-four Japanese ships. From this begiiming it was a struggle against tremendous odds both in Europe and the Pacific.

Just as we had lost Holland, so we lost the Dutch East Indies and the majority of our ships. But the fight has been continuing, even though our losses in ships and men have been heavy.

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Sometimes we have lost, sometimes we have scored, sometimes we have escaped, but always we have reorganized and tried to make the best of it.

Moreover our ships are not manned by personnel who are comforted by the thoughts of a secure home front. Their homes are occupied, their sons are working as slaves in Germany or in Japan.

Their children are hungry, and run for shelter from bombs dropped by their own Royal Dutch Airmen. Their thoughts are always clouded with these

By Lieutenant HAROLD VAN lAANDANr I^NNR unanswerable questions: What has happened to wife or daughter? How is the Hun or Jap behaving? These fighting Free Dutchmen have no homes. Oiar Allies have done everything possible to give us physical comforts, but nothing can take the place of home.

Our war in Europe began in the spring of 1940 with an attack on our borders by a supposedly friendly neighbor, but our war on Japan began with our declaration, before we had been attacked. Although its territory had not been yet attacked.

(Lieutenant Harold van Zaandam, Royal Netherlands Naval Reserve, is not the real name of the writer of this article. He writes under a pen name as he has relatives in occupied Holland, the Dutch East Indies, in France and in Italy. He was instrttmental in the escape of eight Dutch merchant ships to England from France, where they were trapped by Nazi invading forces. In England he joined the Royal Netherlands Navy and commanded a division of escaped trawlers, converted into magnetic and acoustic minesweepers. He destroyed the first magnetic mines in British waters

by Dutch Navy ships. He is now serving in the Pacific, His Dutch-born wife, who escaped with him is in the Women's Auxiliary Airforce of the Royal Air Force and works at an operational British airdrome,)

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\bove and below: A Dutch Man-o'-War camouflaged as a tropic.

Surabaya when the Japs moved in early in 1942.

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the Netherlands declared wat on Japan on 8 December 1941, hours before eidiei the United States or the United Kingdom. On 9 December, a Dutch submarine sank four Japanese transports putting in a Malayan port, and Dutch Naval aircraft bombed the Japanese as they entered the Phihppine harbor of Davao.

Remember, at this date, the Dutch Navy had been at war for over a year.

On die tenth of May 1940 the Nazi parachute criminals did not get the prizes they needed for the invasion of England â&#x20AC;&#x201D;die Dutch merchant fleet and the Royal Dutch Navy. Neither did they get our gold. Nearly three million tons of Dutch merchant shipping arrived in England and saded immediately for die United States, to get food, arms and ammunition for the British. The Royal Netherlands Navy did not capitulate, as the Nazis hoped, but fought until the last Dutch merchantman was safe in British ports.

The Dutch Navy then licked its wounds and was ready to fight againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and willing. The Germans did not like this. After the armistice with the Dutch army, the Huns decided to bomb defenseless Rotterdam, trying to prove with die murder of 30,(X)0 dviUans that no nation should oppose the "Nazi supermen." the fighting in our coastal DURING waters, the Navy suffered losses of

Picture below, presented by Queen Wilhelmina, shons cadets at the reopened Dutch Naval College, parading with colors.

ships and men, but die action was full of incidents of bravery and courage. The destroyer V A N G A L E N , just returned from the Dutch East Indies, saded up the Waterway to try to dislodge the Germans from our Rotterdam airport. She succeeded in doing this, but endured thirty attacks by Nazi dive-bombers. She suffered heavdy and had to be beached.

Officers and men went ashore to give a helping hand to our Dutch Marines, who were making a desperate stand in the streets. Most of them were kiUed. Some were captured.

One of my friends was aboard the VAN G A L E N . His story symbolizes to me the spirit of the Dutch Navy. He was captured and sent to a German prisoner-ofwar camp. He escaped, was retaken and brought back. He escaped three more times and finaUy was sent to a "bad boys'" camp in southern Poland. He did not like it there either, so managed to escape again, turning up some months later in Gibraltar.

When he arrived at Gibraltar, a Dutch submarine returned from patrol bearing survivors from the Nazi U-95 which it had torpedoed and sunk. My friend, L t Larive, was able to give these survivors news of their homeland, describing vividly the extent and residts of RAF bombing attacks.

The Dutch submarine brought Lt. Larive to England, where the Dutch Ad{Contintted on page 64)

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and Guam were my third S AIPAN and fourth amphibious operations in the Pacific I had observed and recorded the invasion of Amchitka, in the Aleutians, during January, 1943, and at the other end of the Jap line, the invasion of BougainviUe in November, 1943.

At the Saipan invasion, I was aboard a batdeship on D-minus one through Dplus two. During this time we were constandy bombarding enemy shore positions, at close range, in the first phase putting the final touches to the "softening up" process, and later on D-Day and subsequendy, supporting the ground troops.

One of the strangest things about the bombardment of the shore was the apparent immunity of the smoke stack of the sugar mill from the impact of our shells. We could see sheU after sheU hit the sugar miU and blow sections of it to bits. It was an easUy located target, since the taU smoke stack smck out like the proverbial sore thumb. W e would see a sheU go over, hit, and explode, sending clouds of rubble, smoke and flame skyward. Each time a sheU would hit the sugar miU we would think the smokestack surely woidd topple, but it didn't.

It was StiU standing when the Marines capmred the miU. Jap opposition to our landing attempt seemed to me to be completely disorganized. I know the ground fighting was tough, probably as tough as any our troops have faced in the entire Pacific campaign, but the Japs seemed to have been caught napping. They had not anticipated we would land where we did on the west of the island; they evidently expected us at Magicione Bay, on the other side of the island. It was heavily mined. I don't think there were many mines in the area where we went ashore, and I heard no submarine reports in the landing area. We had sent under-water demolition teams in ahead to blast a path for our landing craft and to clear obstacles from the beaches, but I don't think they had much work to do, although they suffered casualties. This job can be a (Continued on page 67)

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Above and below: Lt. William F. Draper. Navy Combat artist, is shown sketching indelible scenes in the Marianas.

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Coast Guard picture of Tinian invaders striking at dawn.

Below: Saipan was bloody before troops touched shore. Here two Marines are shown falling to the bullets of a Jap sniper as they head for Salpan's beaches.

Secretary Forrestal doesn't believe in running a Navy from behind a sumptuous desk. Here he walks down a gangplank to get a close-up view of Allied landings on the French Riviera.

Above: Half a world away, troops swarm ashore at Normandy from a landing craft.

Below: "The soft underbelly" is pierced. USN landing craft nuzzling France's famed resort beaches along the Mediterranean as the Nazi's are threatened from a fourth front.

I This _ Coast Guardsman ducks in^inctively as a Jap shell bursts periloiisly close to the landing craft he steers toward Saipan.

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BHITilll (EDITOR'S N O T E : The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet published by the British Information Service, which explains Britain's stake vn the Far East.)

Perhaps more than aU this is the sense of kinship and obligation the people of Britain feel for the peoples of Australia and New Zealand. It is as real and intimate as, and in fact very similar to, the sense of kinship and obligation that exists between the people of one part of the United States and those of another part.

Winston ChurchiU has said: "AcmaUy we have suffered from the Japanese in-

A b o v e : The Aussies leave the Middle East to return home to fight Japs. Right: H M S V I C T O R I O U S , famed British carrier, which helped corner the BISMARCK, will someday hurl her planes at the Nips, may possibly be in that theater now.

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"DRITAIN'S Armed Forces are already - ' - ' in the fight against Japan, although not on such a great scale as the United States Forces, nor yet on such a great scale as they will be when Germany is beaten.

It has always been clear that the British people and their Government are determined to end the Nazi menace forever, whatever the sacrifice, but it has not always been quite so clear why they feel that the war won't be over for them until the Japanese are defeated, too.

They demonstrated their determination to beat the Nazis during the Battle of Britain and the blitz, during the year when they faced the Axis aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and they have continued to demonstrate it ever since.

After all, that enemy is only twenty miles awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only a few minutes by air.

Britons have seen their homes destroyed, their families killed by Nazi bombing, and endured many other sufferings from German acts.

The menace is so close and so evident that the inhabitants of the British Isles cannot help being aware of it every day and every night.

But the Japanese are 12,000 miles away. They cannot bomb British cities and do not have much oppormnity to sink the shipping on which Britain's existence depends. So it is not always obvious why the British people and their Government are so profoundly determined to join their full power with 22

America's in the task of wiping out the Japanese menace, as completely as they intend to wipe out the German menace.

The immensity of the score which Britain has to settle with Japan and the close binding ties which Britain has, both material and emotional, in the Pacific and the Far East, have not always been fully realized. It is the purpose of this pamphlet to sum up that score and explain these ties.

It is a catalog which includes loss of prestige, loss of territories; it includes horrors inflicted by Japanese on thousands of British men and women, both civilian and military, who have anxious friends and relatives at home in Britain awaiting their rescue; it includes humiliating military defeats, loss of trade and resources, a threat to the fumre peace and prosperity of Britain, as of other nations.

juries even greater than those which have roused the armed wrath of the American Union." A knowledge of the fuU extent of Britain's stake in victory over Japan can leave no doubt that the British nation, like America, is committed to the full to destroy the power of Japan forever.

As Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, has put it: "The stake which we have in the Pacific is certainly not less than that of the United States.

It is not only "that some of our great colonial possessions and countries to which we brought order and peace are in the hands of the enemy. Without our Far Eastern possessions the links which join us to India, Australia and New Zealand are imperfect. I know that we who in our history have waged war in every quarter of the globe have the stabUity, the firmness, the foresight and the vision

(S.JAPli to avoid any slackening when the war with Germany is won."

Japan stabbed America O Ninthethe Day back by attacking Pearl Harbor, she also stabbed Britain in the back by attacking Hong Kong.

That was only eighteen months after Dunkirk, and all of Britain's strength— both produaive and military—had been strained to the utmost fighting an actual war in Europe and North Africa. Britain had little more than token forces and token arms to spare for a potenti.il war in the East.

Although • largely caught unprepared for war against Japan, the British constructed air raid shelters at Hong Kong. Here is shown the interior of one hewn from solid rock. Left: An aerial view of Singapore, whose loss was a severe blow to British pride and defenses.

When it came she was, of course, outnumbered and outequipped by the Japanese. But British, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Burman and Malayan soldiers "bought time" by fighting valiant and smbborn delaying actions.

They fought in Malaya, Singapore, Burma, and gave naval aid to their Dutch AUies in the Netherlands East Indies.

The Japanese were stopped on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The time was bought—but at fearful cost.

One by one the Japanese seized the British territories. "They had no walkover, despite their greater numbers and more plentiful arms. Every step of the way down the Malay Peninsula, every step of the way up the Burma vaUeys, they met the bloodiest fighting from the British, Australian, Indian, Burman and Malayan Forces.

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anese conquest of Burma until the monsoon came. This delay gave the breathing time necessary to prepare the defenses of India. When the Japanese tried to "Pearl Harbor" Ceylon they met their first major defeat of the war.

With the loss of these countries Britain and her Allies were cut off from land communications with China via the Burma Road, deprived of the naval base at Singapore, lost the brand new battleship H.M.S. PRINCE OF W A L E S and the battle cruiser H.M.S. REPULSE, and the vital strategic resources of tin and rubber.

Australia was placed in hourly danger of invasion. Millions living under the British flag, of many races, colors and creeds, were enslaved by the Japanese.

The advances in industry, the political development, the progress in health, agriculmre and education, stopped dead when Japan seized the countries of the

South Pacific. The life's work of British missionaries, civil servants, doctors, scientific experts, businessmen—all were destroyed. Japanese aggression set the clock back by years.

The 47,000,000 people of the British Isles depend for bread and butter on foreign trade—that is, on imports and exports, The natural resources of Britain are such that they must import a large proportion of the food they eat and the raw materials for the things they make.

They are thus among the world's—including America's—best customers.

To obtain the foreign exchange to buy things they need from other countries, they have developed a great overseas market for the goods they make. They have also developed in other countries railways, industries and other enterprises, with revenue-producing investments. This overseas trade—both import and export—and the income from the investments are vital to British prosperity. And the area where about onequarter of this business is done, the Far East, has now been seized by the Japanese.

Bitterest cost of aU, of course, ;s the knowledge the British people have of the horrors now being suffered by their relatives and friends in Japanese hands.

They can never forget or forgive the Japanese for the public degradation to which they subjected British men and women civilians in the streets and parks of the conquered cities, such as Hong (Continued on page 71) 23

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this size, we had to FORhavean ainvasion plan. You always have to

(Transcript of a statement made by Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Comhave a plan, and we had a beautiful plan. mander of the Western Task Force for It was very, very weU done. It was done the invasion of Normandy, given at in the highest levels, with a great deal Washington 18 August 1944.) of thought, care and consideration and so forth, and the top-side plan then came to per cent, and the reason it wasn't a hunme; and my job was to take the broad dred per cent was because the German plan and translate it into terms which bombers got into port one day before the the American Navy could understand batde began, knocked a few of them out. and use.

You appreciate the task—scope of this operation. There were two large task forces. The eastern was commanded by the British Admiral PhiUp Vian, and the western was mine. Over us, of course, there was Admiral Ramsey. There were 125 thousand American sailors in my task force, and the United States Navy landed the United States First Army on the designated beaches. We were covered and assisted very gready in that by the Ninth United States Army Air Force. The generals commanding those two forces are known, of course, very weU. The First United States Army was then commanded by General Bradley. He went with me to Sicily on my Flagship—the A N C O N of those days— and his staff came aboard the AUGUSTA and saded with us there. He is a fine feUow and a good friend of mine.

And Lewis Brereton of the Ninth Force—I've known him for a long time.

He went to the Academy about my date, and we have always been good friends.

So we were on the AUGUSTA—Lewis Brereton was not on the AuGUSTA but he sent his deputy—^Major General Ralph Royce—but the teamwork at the top was very close, and we are aU good friends.

I make that point because it starts at the top and filters down through and everybody down the line gets the idea that we mean business and we mean business together and understand each other's problems and got them done! No nonsense.

After you get one of these plans drawn up and get your command organized, then you have to get your material ready; and on this occasion we had a very large number of craft and ships to get in order and ready to move. Scattered aU around the bases of southern England, some of them in Northern Ireland, and some in the Clyde. Rear Admiral John Wilkes, who commanded the Adantic bases in the British Isles, did a perfectly splendid job. His percentage of readiness of the ships assigned to the operation was 99.5

Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk summarizes the Navy's part in the >^ormandy invasion for the Washington press corps.

and they couldn't be gotten ready in time; and I could not pay enough praise to that organization and to Admiral WiUces. It was splendid! Out of 2,493 ships that were supposed to sail, 2,480 acmaUy did.

You appreciate the fact there are not many harbors there anyway, so our forces were scattered aU up and down— some in Bristol, Plymouth, Fowey, Falmouth, Dartmouth and so forth, and, therefore, to get the forces together and send them to batde so they would arrive in the proper time was a pretty tough job of organization, routing, spacing, and escorting. It was good staff work on that and the commanders of those small units

who carried them towards the batde. I say "smaU"—they reaUy weren't so damn small One feUow's force alone was 350 LCTs. So that while the ships were smaU in aggregate, there were large masses and moved together and did their job very nicely.

D-Day was selected by the high command after weighing a great many considerations. Tides of the Chaimel are very swift, run three to four knots. The tidal range, which means the difference between high and low water as measured on a pUe of a dock is 25 feet. Now that is a variation which I don't think you wiU get any place in the United States, and the only place on the North American continent that I know of is the Bay of Fundy — so the problems of handling tide, what stage of the tide for the landing, giving consideration to the phase of the moon with regards to the airborne division, how they were to drop, etc., etc., made that a very compUcated decision and a hard one to make.

It was a high command decision, and we started out originaUy on Saturday, the 3rd of June, but the weather was bad and we had to postpone it one day; and some of the craft which put to sea had to turn aroimd and retrace their steps enough so that if we went the succeeding day, they would be at the proper place. That was done. Very skiUfuUy done!

Now the weather on D-Day wasn't too good but it was good enough. That's aU we wanted, and the decision on the part of the high command to go ahead and pursue it in spite of the possibiUties, as proven in the events, has been very sound.

Two areas were assigned the American Task Force—and for convenience I wiU have to name them after the Admirals who commanded the assaidt on those beaches—one. Admiral HaU on the eastern side—the eastern sector of our beach; and the late Admiral Moon who was on the western sector. As you recaU, the left flank of the Americans rested on Port Bale de la Seine, and the right flank was up on the Cherbourg Peninsula caUed the Cotentin—I think it is in French.

Now Admiral HaU and Admiral Moon are two of our best amphibious experts. They know their stuff! Admiral HaU is a veteran of the "torch" operation —Sicily, Salerno—and a most competent, resolute officer.

Admiral Moon couldn't have done a (Continued on page 74)

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At such temperatures the metal becomes so cold that, if the man in the picture were not handling the unit with gloves, the skin of his fingers would

Here's another ordeal for testing "battle announce" equipment built by RCA for the government.

This ''transmitting station" is being lifted from

freeze to the surface almost instantly.

Yet, even by long periods in this extreme cold, the unit is unharmed . . . functions perfectly.

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ITH overjoyed cries of "Yea FurW lough" echoing off of the otherwise sdent waUs of Hotel Bancroft, the final praaice cruise of the summer aboard a battleship was laid to rest after a lingering death, and the remrning salts began their long-awaited "pre-Christmas" leave.

Forgetting aU of the intricacies of mrbogenerators, range-keepers, and sextants that might have been exposed to them during the brief month of steaming, some seven hundred middies raced for the local bumble-buggy to Balti while woeful wives gazed dejectedly until the last suitcase disappeared through the main gate.

With the usual censor holding the outlet of pertinent information to a minimum, other sources (as OAO's) than this column wiU have to be relied upon to find out where the cruise ship venmred.

It can be stated, however, that the confines of the Y. P. playground area did not limit the cruising radius of '46 and '47 this summer. The stamp of approval from those who, in general, earn a larger salary than the average midshipman, permitted the trips to be made far beyond the capes that guard the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. A pecuUar simation has arisen in that the youngsters are now indoctrinated with salt in their sockc an amount equal to that of the first-class—unless one considers the salt in the Bay that the present potential graduates were exDOsed to a year ago acmaUy salty. Confusing, yes.

but an important point in the matter of seniority.

The Atlantic played its traditional havoc upon the abdominal cavities and digestive tract of many a former landlubber and vividly demonstrated that Mammy Namre stiU controls lowly man and his ways. Even some of those possessing the strongest wiU-powers and supposed control over their stomachs bowed their heads over the rail to the inevitable and mrned their faces to leeward—and not because of any devotion to Mohammed in the East. An unwelcome combination of roUing seas, driving gales and penetrating rains caused scores to swear off any fumre fault-finding back in comparatively even-keeled Bancroft.

After official word was published that unstable body systems could not be used as an excuse for missing driUs and lecmres, it was remarkable how rapidly a few crackers cured the ailing. One consolation that made some feel better mentaUy, at least, was the fact that the ship's crew and officers also added qualified members to the heaving line. And then there's the middie who got the goods aU over an innocent lieutenant while the former was descending a ladder. P. S.— Yes, your correspondent could visualize the Pearly Gates during a couple of hectic days.

Since the primary object of the cruises (other than being a questionable rest after seven months of worming in books) was to present as large an amount of gunnery training as possible, many hours were devoted to practice and actual firing of every type of gun aboard. Entire midshipman crews manned regular stations of the ship's company and on occasions acmally performed a better job of firing and spotting than did the ship's men, especially with the main battery. An almost invisible target, which ambled along the horizon for the big ones to destroy, was soon reduced to the size of a spar buoy (after having been merely nicked by richochet of projectiles sent out by the ship's crew prior to the middies' opening u p ) .

Acmal shooting was carried out under almost every possible condition known, the only thing not present being someone else firing back. Empty cases rapidly piled up about gun mounts, and smoke

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soon clogged the air as round after round was expended at both surface targets and towed sleeves during the day as well as the night. In order to put in a realistic feeling of what naval action can be like, the climax of concentrated training was reached when actual shore bombardment and firing at controlled planes was carried out. With a lone plane diving at the ship in a simulated torpedo attack, barrages of anti-aircraft sheUs were thrown out, ultimately resulting in a fatal crash into the sea.

Other practical experience was received in watch-standing (one in three).

If it wasn't trying to keep cool for four hours in the sizzling fire or engine rooms, it was trying to keep warm on gun mounts during chiUy nights. Grease-chits flowed as freely as sweat (both hot and cold) during the watches that passed along at a snail's pace. In spite of the usual physical difficulties, mental capacities were fiUed to overflowing with knowledge.

Food, besides being one of three constant thoughts inherent to midshipmen, has been proven to be a prime necessity for existence, therefore, huge supplies of unrationed cases and boxes were taken aboard at one of the first stops of each cruise. AU hands at first mrned-to rather reluctantly, for not an interesting fumre seemed to be in view as barges moored and box-cars came to a stop alongside the dock-laden with an endless number of crates. Stimuli were soon, however, injected Into many a vein when it was soon discovered that "accidentaUy" broken boxes were not taken aboard. 'Thus, tapewormlike appetites were appeased as the day staggered on and food "not fit for the table" was consumed in short order.

In spite of the fact that the Commissary Department probably ran into a little difficulty balancing books later on, perhaps, the episode can be definitely chalked-up' as a morale booster.

The eerie caU of the boatswain's whistle soon taught many to seek cover as mrn-to periods rolled around. Of course, the first class didnt worry extensively during these times except that they were in constant fear that wayward deck-wetters would arouse them from their slumber with a gush of salt water. The symbol of the power of the first class, this being merely a collar anchor on a hat hypo, was held up as a scepter and reaUy performed wonders when working parties were being organized. '46 figured that the youngsters needed the exercise anyway after a soft plebe year. Underclassmen did get their small revenge and compensation, however, when many a member of the crew's boatswain's squad was sent screaming down the deck while being thoroughly doused with a plentiful supply of salt and water from hoses (Continued on page lA)

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by Bart J. Bok and Frances W. Wright, The Riverside Press, $6.

BASIC M A R I N E NAVIGATION,

"Basic Marine Navigation" is another in that ever growing series of books on simplified navigation.

Developed from a series of Harvard University courses for officers of the Engineer Amphibian Command of the U. S. Army, and including much of the material used in the University's Navy V-12 program, the work of the two Harvard

Astronomy professors is free of the more complicated mathematics that trip so many youthful navigators.

Coastwise navigation is well handled, with special emphasis on piloting, dead reckoning and tides and currents. Treatment of celestial navigation has been kept as simple as possible, with emphasis directed to procedure, the use of explicit rules and computational forms.

It is weU illustrated, with both photographs and official U. S. Coast Guard sketches.

It is a book which an embryo navigator can use to advantage.

by Stanley Johnston, E. P, Dutton & Co., $2.75, 224 pp.

Blurbed as "a worthy sequel" to Mr. Johnston's previous war story, "Queen of the Flat-'Tops," this book is something less than that. It is a story of Fighter Squadroh VF-10, nicknamed the Grim Reapers, who were attached to the aircraft carrier, USS ENTERPRISE. Embroidered in this story is a dissertation on tactics and strategy in the Pacific— a dissertation which wiU be of greater interest to the specialist than the nontechnical reader.

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This is the simply-told account of the Pacific assignment of a Time Magazine war correspondent. Starting with goodbyes to his family, he minutely records the events he witnessed and his reactions on an itinerary which carried him to New Caledonia, the Solomons, Australia and return. He went through both the battles of Kula Gulf and Savo Island. His is not a technical dissertation on strategy and tactics, but a personalized account designed for popular consumption.

Worth reading for the writing, if nothing else.

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lishers, $1.50.

A juvenile biography on John PhUip Sousa, the military musician whose stirring marches virmaUy every American now hums or whistles—"The Stars and Stripes Forever," "Semper Fidelis,'' "The Washington Post," and others. Although this slim volume is designed for a young audience, there is enough of Sousa in all of us to interest older readers as weU. lUustrations are attractively done by Howard Simon.

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At the outbreak of war in 1939, Edgar Mclnnis, of the History Department, University of Toronto, undertook to write a running history of the war in all theatres, day by day, event by event. This record has been published in yearly volumes, of which this is the fourth. It covers the period from September, 1942 to September 1943. The volume is divided into four parts, each covering three (Continued on page 69)

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Oscar Hagberg, new head footbaU coach, started his faU practice on 10 August, preparing for a nine game schedule this faU. Capt. C. Owen Humphreys, director of athletics at the Naval Academy, said all of Navy's games, four of whidi wiU be played in Baltimore and two in AnnapoUs, wUl begin at "approximately 2 P. M. with the exact time to be announced later." Last year Navy played its Baltimore games at night.

The schedule: September 30—^North CaroUna Pre-Flight at the Naval Academy; October 7—^Peim State at the Naval Academy; October 14—Duke at the Baltimore stadium; Oaober 21—Georgia Tech at Atlanta, Ga.; Oaober 28— Pennsylvania at PhUadelphia; November 4—^Notre Dame at the Baltimore stadium; November 11—CorneU at the Baltimore stadium; November 18—Purdue at the Baltimore stadium; Dec. 2— Army.

Commander Hagberg had about 130 grid candidates, mostly from the "A" and "B" squads of last fall mrn out for the initial practice. They worked out in limbering up exercises in shorts and shoes. "The Plebes came out later in the month.

He has the task of building a team around about nine letter men left from last season. He has lost E. A. Sprinkle, stellar tackle last FaU, and Dave Whitmeyer, another star tackle ineligible.

defeating Hampden Sydney CoUege in a contest that was a personal triumph for Plebe pitcher Andrew Fabler.

Fabler, who aUowed oidy two hits and issued no walks until the eighth inning when he sprained his ankle and was replaced by Bob Dittmar, was instramental in scoring aU three Navy runs.

VILLANOVA The Navy basebaU team edged a fighting ViUanova nine 8-7 in an overtime game on 29 July, overcoming a seventh inning raUy in which the Peimsylvanians scored four ruiis.

With the score 6-3 against his team, ViUanova's second sacker BiU Hoot smacked a long one to left field for a home m n with the bases loaded.

Navy came back in the same inning when Pitcher WaUy Muelder, on second because of a ViUanova error, scored on Bob Armstrong's single to tie the score at 7-aU. ViUanova muffed a good scoring chance in the 10th by poor base running.

In its half of the final inning. Navy's Dick WeUons walked and scored on Bob Ellsworth's two-bagger.

SWARTHMORE

The Naval Academy basebaU nine dropped a game to the Swarthmore College V-12 team by a 7 to 1 score on 5 August.

Bob LobeU, pitching for Swarthmore, hurled a four hit game, only aUowing the midshipmen two singles in the first Baseball seven innings.

Navy, 3; Hampden Sydney, 1.

The Litde Quaker batters got to two Navy, 8; ViUanova, 7.

Navy hurlers for 12 bingles to win the Swarthmore, 7; Navy, 1. game. They started fast by getting four Navy, 13; American Legion Gaels, 1. hits and the same number of runs in the Pennsylvania, 4; Navy, 0. fiirst frame and then added three more in Navy, 3; Koppers Company, (Balti- the seventh to win the game. Navy got more), 0. its lone taUy in the eighth inning.

Walt Monscheim and Lefty Kriedler HAMPDEN SYDNEY of Swarthmore rapped out triples in the The Naval Academy basebaU team seventh to give Swarthmore three mns opened the simMner season on 22 July by in the frame.

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LEGION GAELS An aU-plebe Navy basebaU team, trying out for next year's varsity, swamped the American Legion Gaels Club of Baltimore, 9 Aug., 13-1.

The Middie freshmen, sparked by tight pitching from Ronny Burton, completely dominated the play after jumping into a 2-0 lead in the last half of the second inning. The Tars added two more counts in the third, four in the fifth, three in the sixth and two in the eighth to build up an overwhelming score.

The Gaels' oidy taUy came in the sixth frame when Legion first baseman St. Martin scored on an error by Navy's right fielder Bryan.

PENNSYLVANIA The University of Pennsylvania shut out Navy's basebaU squad, 4-0, with Penn pitcher Jack Woebse aUowing the middies only six scattered hits on 12 Aug. Tar Coach Max Bishop used most of the remrning regulars of his spring team for the first time but the long period of inaction led to poor fielding and weak batting and inconsistent pitching by Dale MueUer permitted the Permsylvanians to rack up one run each in the first and fifth innings and two runs in the ninth.

Penn opened up in the first with a single by centerfielder Lequer, two middie errors and two free passes before the frame ended.

Navy's only threat came in the last half of the ninth when plebe first baseman Alberts and right fielder Winner slammed hard line singles successively into left field. The threat was stifled when Woebse tossed in his eighth strikeout and middie pinch hitter Red Mamla grounded out, pitcher to first.

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layoff from varsitj" play, took advantage of five errors to trounce the Koppers Company of Baltimore, 3-0 on 16 Aug. Dale MueUer kept the Koppers' bats silent except for five scattered singles whde his teammates coUeaed one run in the fourth inning and two in the seventh when the visitors' fielding fell apart.

Middie pitcher Conroy Taylor relieved MueUer at the end of the seventh frame, aUowing only one double by Koppers' flinger Fred Bradbur)' in the ninth inning.

viously, the tars went down to defeat with Princeton's Ted Prior and Johnson accounting for the winning match in the third doubles against Bob Qawford and Bob Davis of Navy.

The teams spUt the singles, 3-apiece, and Na\y which had lost aU three doubles events in the earlier meeting, was able to take the lead on the first doubles, winning 6-4, 6-4. However, Princeton came back to take the second, 6-4, 6-2.

At this point with the match tied at 4-4, Prior and Johnson and Crawford and Davis were tied in sets, one apiece, and games in the third set at 2-alL The Tennis tar teamwork faltered under the strain Navy, 6; Forest Park Athletic Qub, 2. due largely to lack of conditioning since Princeton, 5; Navy, 4. they remrned recendy from cruise and FOREST PARK Prior and Johnson won out, 4-6. 6-2,6-4.

The Navy tennis team coasted to a 6 to 2 win over the netmen of the Forest Track Park Athletic Q u b on 9 Aug. Nav}-, 93; Forest Park Athletic Q u b The midshipmen players s^-ept aU but (Baltimore), 23. the first two singles matches.

Navy, 103; StonewaU Democratic PRINCETON Q u b (Baltimore), 21.

Princeton reversed Navy's spring tenFOREST PARK CLUB nis viaory score 12 Aug. by eking out a The Naval Academy field and track 5-4 win in a photo-finish court match.

The middies had beaten the tiger team opened its summer season on 22 squad during the regular season by the July by taking an easy viaory from the same count and with both teams using Forest Park Athletic Qub of Baltimore, approximately the same players as pre- 93 to 23.

Nick Smusyn, Plebe, starting his firsr track season in two years took the mde in 4 minutes, 38.6 seconds.

Qyde Scott, who was a triple threat footbaU player with BuUis Prep last season, won the 120 yard high hurdles in 15.5 seconds for the midshipmen. Dick Hall, running the half mde for the first time won in 3 minutes, 3-4 seconds.

Fred Bouwman, Navy's IC4A indoor and outdoor broad jump champion came through with a winning leap of 22 feet 21'7 inches.

Forest Parks Kicas took his team's only first place, wirming the discus with a 112 foot, 11 inch heave.

STONEWALL CLUB The Navy track team, composed almost entirely of plebes, defeated the StonewaU Demoaatic Club of Baltimore by a lopsided 103-21 29 July in the midshipmen's second win of the summer season.

StonewaU's vaunted Jimmy Wisner was beaten in two events—^by Nick Smusyn of Navy in the two imle run and by middie Dick HaU in the mde.

Smus>'n, off the track for rwo years untd this season, covered the longer distance in 10:01.8.

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1 Qn4 WILLIAM F. "BULL" HAL' ^^^ SEY, '04, (Adm., USN), has been awarded the War Department's DSM for his work in the South Pacific, a command he "worked" himself out of.

He now commands the Third Fleet.

PAUL P. BLACKBURN, '04, (Capt., USN-Ret.), is now with Northern California Sector Headquarters, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif.

MQ-jc FRANK EDMUND IO ID BEATTY, '75, (R. Adm., USN, Deceased), has had his name further perpemated with the designation of anodier D D as the USS BEATTY. This wiU be the second ship so named, the firsr having been sunk in the Mediterranean on 6 November 1943. Seaetary of the Navy Forrestal has designated Mrs. Charles H. Drayton of Charleston, South CaroUna, the late Rear Admiral Beatty's daughter, to serve as sponsor for the new DD.

By CHARLES F. CONSAUL, Washington, D. C. 1 QQ1 The monthly dass luncheon meeting of Thursday, 6 July 1944, was attended only by Christy, GiUmor and Consaul, some of the usual attendants being out of the city at present.

MRS. ARTHUR L. WILLARD, widow of Admiral WiUard, is now making her home at 131 South 39th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, after having lived for several years at the Shoreham Hotel, this city.

The U. S. Netvs of this city, in its issue of 23 June 1944, pubUshed replies from "Reddy" Leigh (former CinCUS) and "Rex" Belknap (Rear Admiral, Ret.), as to probable end of the present war.

BEATRICE HALE CHEW, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Robert Smith Chew, and granddaughter of Ed PoUock, was married 22 July, at Jamestown, R. I., to Edward Chapped Hutcheson, Lt. (jg) USNR. It is needless to say that the young folks have the felicitations of our class.

MIKE McGRANN. A letter was received from Mrs. McGrann, expressing appreciation for the posies recently sent to her at Venmor. A note has also been received from Mike's secretary. Miss Blank, in his N . Y. oflice, stating that she had visited him recently; that she found him to be improved, and that it is hoped that he may be able to leave the Nursing Home this Aummn. This is fine news. In the words of an old Bos'n's Mate, who was on the CONSTELLATION with us, in heaving on the capstan: "Heave and bust 'em; say you wiU." DOC WALLER and family are spending a vacation at his old home at Martinsburg, Virginia.

DEL ALTHOUSE and Mrs. Althouse are spending some time with his relatives SEPTEMBER,

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in lUinois.

Our President received a letter recently from Admiral S. S. Robison, Ret., Class of '88, acknowledging a copy of a recent Class BuUetin in which he was mentioned. Our Class wiU be interested in an article in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post, on Electric Boat Co., of which L. Y. Spear, of '90, is President.

Owing to the absence of some of the Class, the Class luncheons have been postponed until Thursday, 5 October 1944, usual time and place.

1QQ9 FREDERICK W. STOPI 0 7X p o R D , '92, (Col., USARet.), had his name presented for the position of junior vice president of the United States War Veterans.

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THOMAS T. CRAVEN, '96,

IW7U ( y ^^^^ USN-Ret.), and Mrs. Craven became grandparents when their daughter Olga (Mrs. F. B. Thurber) gave birth to a son, Francis Beattie Thurber, 4th, on 11 July.

IPflA J O ^ N H. TOWERS, '06, I 7UO ( y Ajj^^ USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit for his services as ComAirPac. V. Adm. Towers is now Deputy CinCPac. AUBREY W. FITCH, '06, (V. Adm., USN), has assumed his duties as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air).

1007 H A R O L D V. M c K I T I 7W/ TRICK, '07, (Capt., USN), Captain of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, lost his wife, Claudia Old, who died 12 June, at the Navy Yard Hospital. W e extend our sympathy.

AUGUSTIN T. BEAUREGARD, '07, (R. Adm., USN-Ret.), has received the Order of rhe Southern Cross, highest decoration of the United States of Brazil.

The award was made for R. Adm. Beauregard's services as a member of the United States naval mission to Brazil.

WILLIAM T. MALLISON, '07, (Capt., USN-Ret.), reports his new address as Brookfield Avenue, NashviUe 5, 1000 J O H N W. GREENSLADE, Tennessee.

I07 7 .5,9^ (Y ^ j ^ _ USN-Ret.), in charge of naval logistics on the PaEMANUEL A. LOFQUIST, ' '07, cific Coast, and Mrs. Alma R. Gunther, (Capt., USN-Ret.), reports his new adwere married in BeUevue, Ohio, late in dress as Naval R.O.T.C. Unit, Brown University, Providence, R. I. JulyWALTER M. HUNT, '99, (Capt., USN-Ret.), reports his correct address as 32 Livermore St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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lOnO HARRY A. BADT, '08, ' ' ^ " (Capt., U S N ) , Commander, USNTC, Sampson, New York, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the 119th Commencement of Hobart CoUege, 17 June.

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CLYDE GRAY WEST, '08, (Capt., USN, Deceased), died 11 July at NOB Hospital, Norfolk. He is survived by his widow, Maude Duval West, of Washington, D. C.

HAYNE ELLIS, 'OO, (R. I 7UU Adm., USN-Ret.), former Director of CivUian Defense, Kansas City, Mo., gives his address as 1905 Lombardy Road, San Marino 5, California.

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JAMES M. IRISH, '08, (R. Adm., USN), has received the Legion of Merit for services in expediting DE production while he was Supervisor of Shipbuilding in New York.

lOnO LEE P. JOHNSON, '09, ' ' " ' (Commodore, U S N ) , has 1 QH^ WALTER STRATTON AN- been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a I7UJ DERSON, '03, (R. Adm., second Legion of Merit for his preparaUSN), has been assigned as ComSeven tion for and leadership during amphiband Gulf Sea Frontier, with headquarters ious operations in the Southern European area. in Miami, Fla. 31

ISRAEL M. ALEXANDER, '09, Pa- Building, Miami, Florida.

Opnav; HINRICHS, Ex. and Ret. Bd.; cific Mutual Life Insurance Company KURFESS, Buships; MACOMB, Navinagenr in Corpus Christi, Texas, writes: From RICHARD S. FIELD, '11, Route td; MERRING, Buord; SIMONS, Tor"Commander and Mrs. D. J. FriedeU, pedo Station, Alexandria; L. P. SMITH, 3, RockviUe, Md.: Commander and Mrs. R. G. Haxton, and There are rwo babies in Southern Cali- office of Secnav; ZIMMERMAN, Buord; I enjoyed a very nice visit and dinner at fornia, aU of whose grandfathers are and BYRNES, Buord. At die Naval Antoine's in New Orleans the night of Navy 1911 graduates. Litde Miss Per- Academy are MORRIS GILMORE and 3 June." cy's gaffers are REUBEN PERLEY and JOHN MEIGS. HARRY STARK. Young BiU Mack, Jr., BUSH HOWARD'S address is. ManlOin F R E D E R I C K C. SHER- claims ALBERT ROSCOE MACK and ager, Marine Department, Standard Oil ' " ^ MAN, '10, (R. Adm., USN), GEORGE McMILLIN as his. Such dis- Co. of N. J., 30 RockefeUer Plaza, New has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of tinctive heritage commends itself to York. He is regarded as the country's a third Navy Cross in recognition of his further development. Think of a baby leading expert on the operation of leadership when, as commander of a car- twenty years or so hence, whose four tankers. rier task force, he successfuUy countered great-gizndhxheTs were aU members of From MRS. FREDERICK BALTZLY, a sharp enemy plane attack on 21 Feb- this distinguished class!

Rt. 1, Box 34, D d Mar, Calif., I learn ruary during an American raid on the NORMAN SCOTT, JR., serving in that Fred is at Headquarters MUitary Marianas. one of our new battleships, has written Prison, Camp 3, Philippine Islands. He his mother (2500 Q St., NW., Washing- and George McMiUin and rhe other prisCHARLES A. PO'WNALL, '10, (R. ton), that he wiU have a lot to teU his oners of war have a cruel part in this war; Adm., USN), has been awarded the grandchildren. MICHAEL SCOTT wiU they give so much and get nothing in reDSM by Admiral Nimitz for services as finish V-12 at New Haven this faU. mrn. commander of a task force in the Gilbert HARVEY HAISLIP, prominent in OSCAR BADGER, flying his flag far Islands campaign. R. Adm. PownaU is from home, missed the marriage of his HoUywood motion picture business benow ComAirPac. second daughter. Jape, to Lt. Frederick fore the japs interrupted him, is now a John Leary, Jr., on 29 July. His other son- captain on the staff of the Commandant MARC A. MITSCHER, '10, V. Adm., in-law, Lt. John M. Schroeder, gave the 12th N.D. Captain GEORGE LO'WRY USN), skipper of famed task force 58 bride away. writes a cheerful letter, saying he is on has been awarded the DSM for services Mrs. DANIEL J. CALLAGHAN lives staff of Western Sea Frontier. CHARLES in the MarshaU Islands and Marianas IsMcCORD is Usted as Port Director, San at 1090 61st St., Oakland, Cal. lands campaigns, and for raids on Truk, MORT DEYO writes a very interest- Francisco, and HAROLD SNOW, EDPalau and other Caroline Islands. ing letter about the effectiveness of naval DIE LAPHAM, and FRANZ MELgunfire in support of the Army in land- ENDY are reported as in the 12th N.D. 1 Ql 1 ROBERT MELVILLE GRIFI wonder if this war hasn't done away ings such as that on the Normandy coast. ' ' ' ' FIN, '11, (R. Adm., U S N ) , The Army appreciated it so much that a with the old selection system. Without has been awarded the Legion of Merit certain general is saving a case of cham- naming anyone, there are a good many for his contribution to the capture of pagne for the admiral. "'When the Army flag officers distinguishing themselves Kwajalein AtoU as commander of a fire gives the Navy a case of champagne," now who have at one time or another support task unit. R. Adm. Griffin is says Mort, "it is cause for real celebra- be«n passed over under the old peacenow Commandant of the Navy Yard, tion, and shows that the further we are time system.

Puget Sound, Washington. Mrs. Griffin from Washington, the better we get has shared in honors, having been named RALPH WOOD has an important air along together." to sponsor a new carrier. T H E CAPE command in the Puget Sound area and Mrs. ROBERT H. ENGLISH (Eloise) RALPH RISLEY, now Captain, is Chief GLOUCESTER, in honor of the Marines who spearheaded this New Britain lives at 4445 LoweU St., N. W., Washing- of Staff, 13th N.D. CARLOS BAILEY, ton. Eloise, Jr. a Lt. (jg), brings up the who had a vigorous part in the South Palanding. average of the Waves considerably. She cific in the touch-and-go days, is Chief FRANK J. LOWRY, '11, (R. Adm., and Cornelia live with their mother and of Staff, 9th N.D. DUCKY RODGERS, USN), has been awarded a Gold Star in Robert H., Jr., is an ensign of the Naval in spite of some deafness, was able to persuade his way back to active duty and lieu of a second Legion of Merit award Reserve.

Col. HARRY W. STARK, Coast Artil- I hear of him as executive of a transport. for services as task force skipper during lery, is on duty in Los Angeles—home adthe Anzio landings.

One who has transacted much business dress, 4537 Beatty Drive, Riverside, Cal. in several oceans in this war is ComJOHN WALTER REEVES, JR., '11, Eric Barr, Professor of N. S. & T., has modore WALLACE PHILLIPS, now of (R. Adm., USN), has been awarded the been at the University of Washington so Amphibious Forces, Pacific. In the I4th Legion of Merit by Admiral Nimitz for long he is Ukely to become dean of the N. D. are ROGER PAINE and FRANK services as a task group commander dur- faculty. Eric, Jr., as a submarine skip- CRAVEN. STARR KING, ELLIS per, has sunk some important jap ships ing the mid-February raid on Truk.

STONE, and HOWARD JEANS are in and has received the Silver Star and the or about the 15 th N.D. DELAVAN B. DOWNER, '11, Navy Cross. They don't hand those out Attention is especiaUy invited to the (Capt., USN-Ret.), reports his new ad- for making faces. This was the first son 1911 Memorial Fund. The project has born to a member of our dass and he is dress as 340 E. 72nd St., New York 21, the senior of our sons in the Navy. In had a wide and generous response from New York. his class, '34, was Ray McClung, Jr., but the great majority. A minimum of $25 was asked from each member, and many he resigned on graduation.

CARLOS A. BAILEY, 1 1 , reports his have given that amount and more. Many Mrs. FRANK C. McCORD lives at 27 new address as 9th Naval Distria, Quarhave by subsequent subscriptions added Quincy St., Chevy Chase, Md. ters H, Great Lakes, lUinois. to their original contributions. But the Our Washington contingent now con- story is that several members have not FREDERICK L. RIEFKOHL, 11, sists of BUTLER, Buships; CHANDLER, yet taken the trouble to sit down and (Capt., USN), is on duty with Head- Gen. Bd.; COBB, Ex. and Ret. Bd.; FOS- write a check. Do it now. Come aaoss. quarters Gulf Sea Frontier, DuPont TER, office of Cominch; HINCKLEY, Make out a check to "1911 Class Memor32

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I ask all members to write me when they get a chance. I will plug away and try to keep things stirred up and thereby be useful or a nuisance according to how individuals look at it. And when you see an old friend's name in this column it wouldn't hurt to drop him a line. Most of us, even in the heat of great affairs, like to hear from our friends.

I am trying to solve the "mystery" of SOLON ROSE, the boy who used to borrow my collar when he relieved me as officer-of-the-deck. He resigned in '19 and no one has heard of him since he gave an Albuquerque address to the department in 1920, where he is unknown now. This incites my curiosity and I hope to tell you later what became of Solon Rose.

LEWIS BRERETON, Lieut. General, Commander of the 9th Air Force, and recendy, according to the press, assigned co the command of all allied airborne troops in Europe, says that during the invasion he was associated with many old Navy friends induding ALAN KIRK and MORT DEYO. "I still diink our Navy is a great outfit," says Lewis, "even though I changed my stripes many years ago."

USN-Ret.), reports his correct address as 125 East 63rd St., New York 21, N. Y. ROBERT R. THOMPSON, '12, (Capt., U S N ) , is on duty at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

BYRON GAY, "12, gives his new address as Bldg No. 34, Officers' Club, N.A.B., Pensacola, Florida.

1913 • ' • •* awarded a services in

1915 RALPH J. MITCHELL, '15, • " • ' (Maj. Gen., USMC), has been awarded the DSM for the skillful planning and execution of coordinated air attacks against the Jap stronghold of Rabaul, New Britain.

THEODORE E. CHANDLER, '15, (R. Adm., USN), has been relieved as commander in chief of United States Forces at Curacao, and given a sea assignment.

NORMAN C. GILLETTE, "13, (Capt., U S N ) , has been FRANK D. WAGNER, '15, (R. Letter of Commendation for Adm^ U S N ) , has been given command French Morocco. of Navy aircraft in the 7th Fleet. The ARTHUR GRANVILLE ROBIN- 7th Fleet operates in the Southwest PaSON, '13, (R. Adm., USN), has assumed cific Theater. duties as President of the Board of Inspection and Survey. R. Adm. Robinson will be remembered as the Skipper of the MARBLEHEAD.

EDMUND S. McCAWLEY, '13, (Capt., USN-Ret.), after two years of duty at Cape May, New Jersey, has been ordered to a job on the Staff in Philadelphia.

TUNIS A. M. CRAVEN, '13, former member of the Federal Communications Commission, gives his new business ad1Q10 H A R O L D DODD, 12, dress as 518 Heurich Building, 1627 K *'*^ (Capt., U S N ) , has received Street, N.W., Washington, D. C nomination, confirmed by the Senate for the temporary rank of Commodore while serving as chief of the United 1 9 1 4 CARLETON FANTON States Naval Mission to Brazil.

• ' • ^ BRYANT, '14, (R. Adm., USN), has received a Letter of ComALFRED E. MONTGOMERY, 12, mendation from Admiral Royal E. In(R. Adm., USN), has been awarded the gersoll for the manner in which he conNavy Cross for extraordinary heroism ducted rescue and salvage operations of .whUe serving as Officer in Tactical Com- the fire-disabled USS W A K E F I E L D in mand of a Carrier Task Group in the raid 1942 when he was a Captain and Skipper of the USS ARKANSAS. on Saipan, 21 February 1944.

JOHN H. CAMPMAN, '15, (Capt., USN-Ret.), is BuAer general representatives to the Dominion of Canada, with offices in 905 Dominion Square Building, Montreal, P. Q. HARRY H. CHENOWITH, '15, (Lt. Comdr., USNR-Ret.), gives his new address as 1020 Lexington Avenue, Altoona, Pennsylvania.

191A CHARLES PURCELL CE' " ^ CIL, '16, (R. Adm., USN, Deceased), the hero of the Batde of Kula Gulf as Skipper of the H E L E N A , was killed in an airplane crash in the Pacific theater.

HENRY M. MULLINNIX, '16, (R. Adm., USN), reported missing in action following loss of the USS LISCOMBE BAY, 24 November 1943, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct as Commander of a Carrier Air Support Group.

MuUinnix Field on Buota Island, Tarawa, CLARENCE GULBRANSON, 12, HERMAN A. SPANAGEL, '14, was named in his honor. R. Adm. Mul(Capt., USN), lost his wife, Marie Gil- (Capt., USN), has assumed duties as linnix also has been awarded a Letter of lespie Gulbranson, who died in Fort head of the P-G school, USNA, Annap- Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy.

Pierce, Florida, 19 June. W e extend our olis, Md. deepest sympathy. Captain Gulbranson is in command of the Navy's AmphibRALPH EUGENE DAVISON, '16, ALBERT HAROLD ROOKS, '14, ious Training Base.

(R. Adm., USN), has been awarded the (Capt., USN, Deceased): Captain Rooks' name will be perpemated as the Legion of Merit for outstanding service CAMPBELL G. EDGAR, '12, (Comname of a DD. Edith R. Rooks, widow as Commander of a Carrier Air Support modore, USN), Commander Transports, of the HOUSTON'S Skipper, launched the Group engaged in operations for the Amphibious Force, Northwest African capture of the southern half of Kwajalein ROOKS at Seattle in July.

Atoll.

Waters, has been awarded the DSM by the Army, the Legion of Merit and a RICHARD L. CONNOLLY, 14, (R. Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of VAN HUBERT RAGSDALE, '16, Merit by the Navy, and a Certificate of Adm., USN), commanded amphibious (R. Adm., U S N ) , has been awarded the Appreciation from the British Govern- operations against Guam.

Legion of Merit and a Letter of Comment, all in conneaion with operations mendation. The Legion of Merit award in the Mediterranean Theater.

ALBERT G. BERRY, JR., '14, was in recognition of his work as Com(Comdr., U S N R ) , gives his mailing ad- mander of the carrier group which INGRAM C. SOWELL, '12, (R. dress as 608 Van Nuys Building, Los formed part of the attack force which capmred Roi and Namur Islands, KwaAdm., USN), looking hale and hearty Angeles 14, California. jalein Atoll, and Eniwetok Atoll. H e visited his Alma Mater during a brief EDWIN T. SHORT, 14, (Capt., was awarded the Letter of Commendaleave in the States.

U S N ) , gives his new mailing address as ' tion for a similar job in connection with the invasion of the Gilbert Islands.

LOUIS P. WENZELL, '12, (Comdr., Kingston Inn Kingston, Rhode Island.

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JOHN WILKES, '16, (R. Adm., awarded the SUver Star Medal for serUSN), is coDMiiander of United States vices as skipper of a cruiser during an air attack by the Nips in the MarshaU ports and bases in France.

Islands.

EDWIN F. COCHRANE, '16, JOHN J. BALLENTINE, 18, (R. (Comdr., USN-Ret.), and Mrs. Cochrane are proud these days. Edwin, Jr., has Adm., USN), has been awarded the SUwon his commission as an aerial navi- ver Star Medal for services while skipper in operations which led to the occupagator in the Army Air Forces. tion of the GUberts and during an attack C. JULIAN WHEELER, '16, (Opt., on Rabaul. At the time covered by the USN), gives his new mailing address as citation, R. Adm. BaUentine was a Captain.

P. O. Box 2423, Carmel, California.

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CLIFTON A. F. SPRAGUE, 18, (R. CARROLL W. H A M I L L , '16, Adm., USN), got his flag rank via a re(Comdr., USN-Ret.), is on duty with the R.O.T.C., Holy Cross, Worcester, cess appointment this Summer.

Massachusetts.

VICTOR CAMERON BARRINGER, '18, (Capt., USN), and his wife were ROBERT J. WALKER, '16, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his mading address as both injured in the wreck of the Santa 2630 Chester Avenue, Qeveland 14, Fe Chief near Flagstaff, Arizona, early Ohio. He is with the consulting engi- in July. Captain Barringer suffered a twisted left knee and ankle and Mrs. neer firm of J. Gordon TurnbuU, Inc Barringer received leg and stomach JOHN H. CARSON, '16, (Capt., bruises.

USN), has returned from sea duty to asJOHN D. H. KANE, 18, (Capt, sume command of the Torpedo Station, USN), died at sea in the Pacific, 13 June Newport, Rhode Island.

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1917 NORBORNE L. RAWLJOHN W. ROGERS, 18, (Comdr., '^'' INGS, 17, ( a p t . , USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit USN-Ret.), has been ordered to duty for services in plarming the shipyards with the Industrial Manager, 9di Naval and building projeas for the speedy District, Chicago, IU. production of DE's during 1943EDWARD D. WALBRIDGE, 18, (Capt., USN-Ret.), is on duty at HeadRANDALL E. DEES, 17, (Capt., • quarters, 8th Naval District, Federal USN), has been awarded the SUver Star Medal for services as skipper of a cruiser Budding, New Orleans 12, La. which successfuUy bombarded enemy CARLOS W. WIEBER, '18, (Opt, held shore positions.

USN), gives his new mailing address as 2829 Albatross Street, San Diego 3, FRANK G. FAHRION, '17 (Capt., CaUfornia.

USN), has been relieved as commander of the Torpedo Station, Newport, and ^ 9 1 9 PAUL F. LEE, 19, (Capt, given an assigmnent at sea.

USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit for services in procureFIELD HARRIS, *17, (Brig. Gen., ment of materials and machinery for the USMC), new dir6aor of Marine Corps speedy DE program in 1943. aviation, has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a third Legion of Merit for CHARLES H. CUSHMAN, 19, services in commanding AUied aircraft (Capt,.

USN), is on duty with the PadiMring the occupation of Green Island cific Coast Coordinator of Naval Logislast February. tics.

WILLLAM S. HEATH, '17, (Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret.), writes from 5970 Indian Creek Drive, Apt. 6A, Miami Beach, Florida: "I have been here with the Industrial Manager, 7th Naval District, at Miami, for over two years. See RoUo FaiUng and Paul Tevis occasionaUy. Am not in the DuPont Building with them and they both Uve across the Bay from me so don't see them often."

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ALBERT F. FRANCE, JR., '18, (Capt., USN), has been

HOWARD W. FITCH, 19, (Qpt, USN), is on duty with the CNO, Washington, D. C. RODMAN D. DE KAY, 19, (Comdr., USNR), reports he is "skipper of a DE ten thousand miles from home."

RALPH A. OFSTIE, '19, and WILLIAM D. SAMPLE, '19, bodi were raised from four stripers to R. Adms. via recess appointments this summer.

JOHN W. ROPER, '19, (Capt,

USN), has been named Naval Aide to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.

1 Q 9 n HERBERT G. HOPWOOD, ITZW -20, (Capt, USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit for services as Direaor of Planning and Control, BuPers, as which he initiated the program of maiming the expanded Fleet HORATIO G. SICKEL '20, (Capt., USN), was kiUed in the same Pacific air aash which cost the life of R. Adm. Charles P. CecU. NORMAN S. rVES, '20, (Capt, USN), Port Direaor at Cherbourg, France, was kiUed in aaion when his party, enroute to inspea instaUations at St Malo, Breton Peninsula, France, was ambushed by Germans.

FRANCIS TAYLOR, '20, (Comdr., USN), has been identified as Skipper of the USS MELVILLE, repair ship during the Normandy invasion. The USS MELVILLE is a veteran of World War I. FREDERICK O. REPPLIER, '20, (Ens., USN-Ret), gives his correa address as 1302 Base Line Road, Boulder, Colorado.

CHARLES C. HARTMAN, '20, (Capt, USN), is on duty with BuPers in Washington, D. C BENJAMIN N. WARD, '20, (Capt, USN-Ret), writes: "I have been, since January, 1942, on duty in Baltimore as Assistant Industrial Manager in charge of the Norfolk Navy Yard Repair and Conversion Branch, and would appreciate a caU from any one passing through the city, particularly where I can be of any assistance to them."

PAUL B. WATSON, '20, (Lt CoL, USMC), reports his correct maiUng address as 2938 First Avenue, San Diego 3, California.

ROBERT P. ERDMAN, '20, (Comdr., USN-Ret), on duty with the U. S. MiUtary Mission to Moscow, gives his home address as Sparkleberry Hall, Wilmington Street, Savannah, Georgia.

1951 '^^ ^° Washington. JOE '^' BOLGER, who was aide to Mr. Gates, has gone to sea with his carrier. Shortly before he left his son martied the daughter of Captain Shea, 1923.

CHARLEY MAGUIRE, who was here in lighter-than-air, has a staff job now in a combat zone.

WILLIE REESE has left his CVE and is in Washington in CNO. SEPTEMBER,

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FREDERIC S. BARTLETT, '21, (Lt Comdr., USNR), is on duty with the V-12 unit. Western Michigan CoUege, Kalamazoo 450, Mich.

CASPER H. EICKS, '21, (Lt Comdr., USN-Ret.), was placed on the retired Ust (physical disabiUty) on 1 May 1944.His present address is 100 Groton Street, Forest HiUs, Long Island, New York.

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BILL JACKSON, has come in from the Pacific and is at BuPers.

HOG MURRAY, the widely known attorney from Jackson, Tenn., was in town not long ago but didn't see many classmates. At last reports he had mysteriously disappeared in company with Rip MiUer. If Hog would only give some advance notice of his arrival it would be possible to call some of the class together and hear his experiences as a barrister."

BUNNY WRAY, NAS, San Diego, was in town and saw some of his classmates.

SLATS MOORE, PHIL WOMBLE, and NICK VAN BERGEN, aU of BuPers, have gone to sea.

ELLS ROTH, head of the Administrative Division of BuShips, gives forth these items from his Bureau: CHARLEY WHEELOCK has been transferred to Navy Yard, Mare Island, as production officer. Present in BuShips are RAY YEAGER, as Naval Personnel Ofiicer; L. W. MORROW, his assistant. JIMMY HAMILTON heads the scheduling unit. ABY CARLYLE is production assistant. MORGAN W A T T heads the landing craft section.

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machinery assistant in the Design Branch. COUNT MORRELL was a recent visitor.

KEN NOBLE, head of fire control production at BuOrd, gives us these items from BuOrd. JACK SNACKENBERG has left for sea duty. JERRY LINKS heads armor, projectiles and bomb production. CARL BUSHNELL heads torpedo production. PROF. R. M. KELLY is training liaison ofiicer for BuOrd. HOD GORRY is ordnance type assistant for underwater ordnance in the planning division. WINDY SWITZER is aviation ordnance type assistant.

LOUIE ENTWISTLE is in BuOrd for duty. He came in from the land of the Aleuts.

PIGGY SCHWEIN, of the Board of Inspection and Survey, has gone to sea.

MIKE CURLEY, San Diego, and JIMMY FREEMAN, Great Lakes, were at BuPers recently for a meeting.

GORDY PARKS is back from the South Pacific. He is in Logistic Plants, Naval Operations.—Best Wishes—Duncan, '21.

DELWYN "DEEK" HYATT, '21, (Comdr., USN-Ret), writes from die USN Training and Distribution Center, Camp WaUace Texas: "I was suddenly detached from the Merchant Marine Academy on the 11th of April and given untU the 15th to get down here to Camp WaUace, Texas, and take this property over from the Army.

The acmal transfer took place on Sunday afternoon, 30 April. The Army hauled down the colors as usual at 1700 and the Army Colonel commanding the post then read his orders. I read my orders, ran the colors up again thereby putting the station in conunission as TJ. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center, Camp WaUace, Texas.' Within two weeks we were taking in recruits for basic training at the rate of 3,000 per week and this program is now in fuU swing with over 9,000 recruits on board.

"On the way down, I had the pleasure of stopping off en route at Palestine, Texas, to meet BiU HamUton's father.

On a recent visit to Washington, found the large number of twenty-one Captains in the Bureau of Personnel including: Nick Van Bergen, Ken Noble, BiU McHugh, Bill Hamilton, Tommy Darden, Charlie WeUborn, Johnny Waters, Jinuny Freeman (down from Great Lakes), Mike Curley (in from San Diego), and BiU Jackson. I caUed on but missed seeing Mike Barter.

"On arrival at Camp WaUace, found Charlie Roland in command of the Blimp Base just across the street, which in Texas is about four miles away. Charlie has since moved on to a larger station at Glynco, Georgia. Hoppe (now caUed Chuck) BeU, is in this vicinity as Commanding Officer of the Naval Seaion Base in Galveston. Have also seen BiU KeUog in this vicinity."

CARL A. SUNDBERG, '21, gives his new address as 109 Mill Road, Park Ridge, New Jersey.

EDWARD I. McQUISTON, '21, (Comdr., USN), writes: "I have been 'logisticing' in the I4th District for the last 8 months but I am ELMER D. SNARE, '21, (Comdr., happy to say that I am now going back USN), was the Skipper of the USS to sea duty. I have orders to a new APA

and expect to put her in commission soon."

USN), has come ashore from commanding a DD squadron for duty with BuPers.

CLARK L. GREEN, '21, (Capt, JOHN S. HARPER, '22, (Capt, USN), has moved from ONI to BuPers, USN), has also come ashore. His office Navy Department, Washington 25, address is Room 1044 Tempo. L. Bldg., D.C. Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Captain Harper has been awarded a LetIQOO VERNON HUBER, '22, ter of Commendation for his staff work ' ' ^ ^ (Capt, U S N ) , has been with the Fourth Fleet. awarded the Legion of Merit for D D service in the Adantic, including escort JOHN HENRY LEPPERT, '22, and in the assault on North Africa.

(Capt, USN), gives his mailing address as 8302 Gygax Road, Oakdale Farms, EDWARD R. DURGIN, '22, (Capt, Norfolk 5, Virginia.

USN), and Mrs. Durgin have announced the engagement of their daughter, SuROBERT B. HIGGINS, '22, ( L t sanna Shaw Durgin, to Warring CarComdr., USN-Ret.), is on duty at the rington Hopkins of Merion, PennsylIssuing Office, Charleston Navy Yard 2, vania. Miss Durgin is a smdent at Bryn S. C. Mawr.

HOWARD E. OREM, USN): Capt Orem's wife leaed to christen the new SHENANDOAH, now under at Tampa, Florida.

'22, (Capt., has been seD D Tender, construction

LEONARD KAPLAN, '22, (Capt., USN), is on duty with the Industrial Command, U. S. Naval Repair Base, San Diego 36, CaUf.

BLACKWELL NEWHALL, '23, (Comdr., USNR), is with Beach Battalion "F," USNATB, Oceanside, Calif.

HENRY D. WOLLESON, '23, (Comdr., USN), gives his mailing address as 5958 Corbin Avenue, Canoga Park, California.

STANHOPE C. RING, '23, (Capt, USN), gives his correct home address as 68 E. Tioga Street, Tunkhannock, Pa. ROBERT A. M A C K E R R A C H E R , '23, (Comdr., U S N ) , from an AO reports his correct shore address as 8251 Gygax Road, Oakdale Farms, Norfolk 5, Virginia.

VICTOR B. TATE, '23, (Comdr., USN), between ships, reports his shore address as 5139 Village Green, Los AnTHOMAS M. STOKES, '22, (Capt, geles 16, California.

USN), is among the recent arrivals in "Ye Ancient City" reporting for duty 1 0 9 4 CHARLES W. WILKLNS, at Alma Mater. Captain Stokes is head l ^ ^ t '24, (Capt, U S N ) , who is of Department of Marine Engineering. doing things with submarines, gives his Occupies Quarters 5 Porter Road, U. S. shore address as 609 E. Columbia Street, N. A., Annapolis, Md. Falls Church, Virginia.

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1995 GELZER L. SIMS, '25, Washington, D. C , where Commander " ^ (Comdr., USN), skippered Nevins is on duty with BuPers. the USS MAURY during a part of the time for which she was given a Presi199A GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, dential Unit Citation.

I 7XO -2^^ (Comdt, USN), has been named deputy director of the OfWILLIAM G O R D O N " S L I M " BEECHER, JR., '25, (Comdr., USN), fice of Public Relations, relieving Slim has been relieved as Deputy Direaor, Beecher, '25, who was ordered to sea.

Office of Public Relations, to take a long George has been on duty in Public Relahoped for sea command. It's somewhat tions as Communique and Security Officer. on the hush-hush side.

RAYMOND F. HEATH, '27, stopped with his charming wife to see USNA enroute from Houston to WiUiamsport.

Ray looked weU and apparently is doing a bang up job as a civilian. He promises to seU one of his sons the idea of going to USNA, and his home address is 229 SheU Building, Houston, Texas.

J O H N E. CLARK, '27, (Comdr., USN), from NAS, Pamxent River, Md., writes: "Thurston Clark, Paul Ramsay and I solemidy agree during the early part of, every month to run up to Annapolis for one of our 27th of the month meetings.

We have been making these agreements ever since you started and haven't the faintest idea how many agreements it takes to add up to positive action. At any event, at your next meeting give aU the boys up there our best regards."

CHESTER B. GRAHAM, '26, (Lt. LYNN C. PETROSS, '25, (Comdr., Col., USMC), recently assumed comUSN), home from the sea, writes from mand of a newly organized Fifth Marine 5933 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Division combat unit at Camp PendleIndiana. ton. The unit is made up of veterans of every important Pacific campaign from SHANE H. KING, '25, ( L t Comdr., Guadalcanal to the Marshalls.

USNR), writes from sea: "The war is getting along out here, LUTHER K. REYNOLDS, '26, rhough it seems as if it would last forever when we want to get back so badly. (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the There will be plenty of sea stories for Bronze Star.

LAWRENCE M. GRIFFIN, '27, (Lt., SHIPMATE when the lid is off on censorUSNR), writes: JOHN F. GALLAHER, '26, (Comdr., ship."

"I have been at sea most of the time USN), on duty in Washington, gives his since the war started. First on a cmiser HAROLD O. "SWEDE" LARSON, home address as 3352 Valley Drive, Alex- as assistant first lieutenant, then to this '25, (Comdr., USN), on a "little blow andria, Virginia. duty as exec, of a DE." ashore, pleasant indeed," is living at 3276 WILLIAM R. SMEDBURG, III, '26, Mardia Custis Drive, Park Fairfax, AlexALVIN R O B I N S O N , '27, (Lt (Comdr., U S N ) , home from the sea to andria, Virginia. duty in Washington, gives his mailing Comdr., USNR), from the skipper's cabin of a DE, writes: ALAN A. LUKE, "25, (Lt, USNR), address as 1035 South 26th Street, "I was transferred to command of this Arlington, Virginia. on duty at the NAS, Miami, Florida, bateaux about four months ago (Febgives his address as 100 N. W. 89th St, ETHERIDGE GRANT, '26, (Capt., ruary). 1927 is weU represented in this that city.

USN), is on duty at USNAS, Jackson- Division as besides myself Don Johnson and Croft Jennings have command of FREDERICK BELL, JR., '25, from ville, Florida.

DE's, which makes it the top Division in 142 E. Ontario Street, Chicago 11, IU., GEORGE E. SCHADE, '26, (Lt. ye Fleet. Bumped into Turk PoweU who writes: Comdr., USN-Ret), from the Ports- has a DE engaged in dodging practice "When I was out in California I had torpedoes dropped by our British friends, mouth Navy Yard, writes: quite a time with Commander Alex Mcand also into Bus Gordon, George "Have a new job, training sub crews lntyre, '25, who at that time was in comKneupfer, Johnnie Zahm and Bob mand of Airship Squadron at 'on shore.' Enjoy any job with subma- Braddy who have brand new cans of the rines. Commander Chappell, '27, is my He is now in Washington and boss. He leaves soon and Tommy Dykers latest design." as I understand it, on the Commander takes over. Tommy is here now. This is in Chief's Staff. grand duty and very enjoyable."

EDGAR B. HANDS, JR., '27, (Lt, ."Since moving to Chicago from DeUSNR), has left the Washington Navy troit I haven't as yet had a chance to get Yard for duty afloat. around to see some of the boys in the 1 Q 9 7 HENRY H. CALDWELL, Chicago Association, but I plan to get in ' ' ^ ' '21, (Comdr., USN), was touch with them at the first oppormnity. commander of Air Group Twelve for a JOSEPH F. JELLEY, JR., '27, (Comdr., I understand they have some pretty good spell when that bunch of hard hitting fly- (CEC), USN), is on duty with the Admeetings here." ers roUed up an impressive score. Once vance Base Division, Yards and Docks, on a photographic mission in his torpedo Chicago, 111.

"ANDY" WILLIAM HATCH, '25, plane immediately after the Rabaul atfrom Dexter, Maine, in care of Fay and tack. Commander Caldwell had the flaps M. GARDNER PATRICK, '27, (Lt., Scott, writes us: of his plane shot away and his landing USNR), is on duty with NAPTC, NAS, "I'm located in a cottage on the lake gear so badly damaged that only one Glenview, Illinois. hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;four miles from work. Good fish- wheel would lower. ing (bass, perch, trout, and pickerel).

ROLAND W. RICKERTTS, '27, Haven't had time to wet a fly or cast LAWRENCE R. DASPIT, '27, (Comdr., USN), from somewhere in the a plug yet Want to soon, lliat's aU (Comdt, USN), now on duty in the from the blue waters of Wassookeag, the Submarine Section, Constmction Branch, Pacific writes: "From the heading of this letter you home of Senator Owen Brewster."

Shipbuilding Division, Bureau of Ships, can readily see that I am now with the has been awarded the Navy Cross for his Army. Can only add that I'm serving on JOSEPH H. NEVINS, '25, (Comdr., exploits as a sub skipper on patrols in a General's staff and that this decided USN), was married in USNA chapel on enemy waters, during which his vessel 'change of life' has the aspect of being 17 July to Ruth Clevinger of Perth Am- sank and damaged many thousands of very interesring to put it mildly, before boy, New Jersey. The couple reside in tons of Jap shipping.

I'm remrned to the Navy again."

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EUGENE C. CARUSI, '28, and am existing only for a visit with my Legion of Merit, for the aaion which ' '^^ (Comdr., USN), was wound- family which indudes daughter Betsy cost him his life. He was killed as his ed in the invasion of Normandy, accord- (14 years) and a son 'Cappy' Jr., (8 DD rammed a Nazi sub. ing to press reports. years)."

EDDIE REUEL SANDERS, '30, EDWIN B. DEXTER, '28, (Comdr., LEE E. McINTYRE, '29, has been (Comdr., USN), has been awarded a USN), has been detached from USNA transferred by Union Oil Company to DFC and a Gold Star in lieu of a second as assistant commandant of midshipmen Spokane, Washington, where his address DFC. He won the DFC for services as and ordered to duty in Jacksonville, Fla., is E. 1105 Overbluff Road. skipper of a bombing squadron in the where he is in charge of the Class of Gilbert and Marshall Islands on 18 De1945, taking its air indoctrination.

ROBERT S. CLARK, '29, (Comdr., cember and the Gold Star for leading an U S N ) , has come ashore from a cruiser attack against Naum on 23 December.

GUY W. STRINGER, '28, (Comdr., and is now living at 1708 Twenty-first CHARLES H. ANDREWS, '30, USN), is in the Department of Seaman- Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the ship and Navigation, here at Alma JAMES FOLEY, '29, (Lt. Comdr., Silver Star for services as a sub skipper.

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USN), writes: JAMES M. DALY, '30, (CoL, "Turned my last ship over to the HARRY EDWARD SEARS, '28, (Comdr., U S N ) , now on duty at Glen- Exec, and after a false start in Philadel- USMC), is skipper of an aviation unit phia am down in Orange, Texas, putting with the Fourth Marine Air Wing which view, IlHnois, writes: made a quick transformation of a bomb"I ha^e recently returned from the a new DE in commission." pocked atoll in the Marshalls into a firstSouth Pacific. The recent tour in the SoloCARROLL M. BLANCHARD, '29, rate airfield. mons commanding a Liberator group was most interesting. The big planes are (Lt., USNR), from USNATB Coronado, ROYAL A. WOLVERTON, '30, proving their worth for Navy search re- San Diego 55, California, writes: "Orders brought me here a couple of (Comdr., USN), is the skipper of a ship connaissance and on many occasions have taken the oflFensive to knock down Jap weeks ago to this fast growing base. The with a strange recordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a split-personality bombers on similar missions or to sink large number now here is to be aug- record. His ship, the USS M U R P H Y , is merchant vessels and barges by single- mented in another week by about 600 a DD. Veteran of the invasions of North plane attacks. They have developed into trainee officers, for whom quarters are Africa and Sicily, the M U R P H Y was split being rushed to completion. Ran across in half in a collision. A new bow was a very potent weapon indeed.

"While on leave in Pittsburgh I had Jacobs, '28, retired a year ago, and with fitted on in time for the M U R P H Y to take part in the Normandy invasion. It was the pleasure of meering Commander Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp." the first time the M U R P H Y bow to be in Lynch, the Association's President. He J O H N H. MCELROY, '29, (Comdr., action against the enemy, but for the is a very able and charming person, and U S N ) , on dury with BuAer has been stern it was the third. very well liked.

"Clyde King visited us recentlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at awarded the DFC for service as a reconHARMON V. BRINER, '30, (Comdr., the Naval Air Primary Training Com- naissance pilot in the Solomons area.

USN), aboard a new flat-top, writes: mand, to which I am now attached."

"Have seen 'Doc' Strohbelm and Tom JOHN J. SHAFFER, III, '30, Harry didn't mention it, but he is 1 Q ^ n (Comdr., USN, Deceased), Webb in more recent times. They are wearing a Gold Star on his DFC for that no\J has been awarded, posthumously, the both in there bearing down hard." tour of duty in the Solomons!^ C H A R L E S P O P P , '28, (Maj., USMC), gives his mailing address as Room 510, Griswold Building, 1214 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich.

MAURICE L. OTIS, '28, (Lt., USNR), is on duty at the Civil Affairs Training School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

JAMES S. BIERER, '28, (Comdr., (SC), USN), gives his new mailing address as 2127 Earl Avenue, Long Beach, California. l O O Q ALBERT C. PERKINS, '29, '^' (Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Perkins are the proud parents of a son, Timothy Howard, born in the Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 23 July 1944.

DOMINIC L. MATTIE, '29, (Comdr., USN), writes: "Have a division of APD's and a lot of headaches. Have been next door neighbor to the Nips for sixteen months now SEPTEMBER,

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STANLEY J. WARKOCZEWSKL '30, 1416 E. 65th St., Kansas Q t y 5, Missouri, writes: "Since 1929 Tve been a sound engineer, first with Ae Western Electric Company, and during die past six years with Altec Service Corporation, New York City. Most of that time I've been a resident engineer in Kansas Qty, watching two boys, Joe, thirteen, and Michael, seven, inake an old man of me and their mother quite proud. ' "For the past year I've been working widi the Navy supervising the instaUations of the Mark I Machine Gim Trainer, popularly known as the Polaroid Trainer. Been everywhere from Portland, Me., ro Miami, Fla., and usually have the pleasure of meeting some member of '30 at each station."

U S N ) , has been awarded a Geld Star in lieu of a second Navy Cross for his services in conomand of a sob during a J O H N C MANTERNACH, JR., '31, war patrol on which it attacked two esfrom the University Qub, Pittsburgji, corted enemy convoys to sink five vessels and damage two. In withdrawing, he wrires: "Some of the members of the dass of sank a converted minelayer and an '31 may be interested to know that prior armed trawler. The awards ate probably to my present active duty I had been posthumous, since John is missing in acChief Process Engineer for the Amer- tion. The GRAYBACK, of which he was ican Welding and Manufacturing Com- the skipper, has been repotted lost pany, Warren, Ohio, for several years.

Since I have been on duty I have been in CLIFFORD A. JOHNSON, '32, touch with a couple of the boys from '31. (Comdr., U S N ) , was a survivor of the Our skipper is Capt. F. L Oliver. A few Normandy invasion. His ship, die DD others here are graduates: Commander G L E N N O N , was one of three lost in the Dawson, Lr. Comdr. McKinley, and L t operation.

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J O H N S. FAHY, '32, writes from die Pacific: "See Butch Pressey qoite often, being in the same division. Bill Vanoos, Freddie WolsieflFer, Bud Leeds, Eari Finney, Sam McCormack, all of '32, Bill Pratt, '33 and Doug Fuller, '34, are all in this league and we see each odier occasim19^1 ROBERT D . KING, '31, CHARLES F. BRINDUPKE, '32, ally." ' ' ^ * (Comdr, U S N ) , has re-(Comdr., USN), is carried on official ceived the Silver Star Medal for gal- rolls as missing in action. He was die GEORGE R. FINK, '32, from Manoa, lantry during the first war patrol of a skipper of the submarine USS TROUT, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, writes: submarine. reported as overdue and presumed to be "In the past six months I have met or lost have contacted several men of the rla«K WILLIAM R. LEFAVOUR, '31, of 1932. On one recent occasion in (Comdr_ U S N ) , gives his correct mailJ O H N A. MOORE, '32, (Comdr., traveling from Philadelphia to C h i c a ^ IQ^O RICHARD H O L L A N D • '^'' LAMBERT, '32, (Comdr., USN ), and Mrs. Lambert are the parents WALTER C MOSES, '30, (Lt. (jg), of a daughter, Ethelyn Whitaker, who (SC), USNR), is Assistant Supply Offi- "was christened at USNA chapel 18 July cer, USMC Air Station, Mojave, Calif. 1944.

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I found that the adjacent berth on the train was occupied by Comdr. J. H. Morse, '32. He has been stationed in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, but will soon be moved to Washington. Strangely enough, we had been living within a couple of miles of each other for over a year without ever knowing it."

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IQ^O ALBERT H. CLARK, '33, '^^^ ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , is carried as missing in aaion. H e was the skipper of the submarine, USS TROUT, reported by the Navy Department as overdue and presumed to be lost.

R I C H A R D C. GAZLAY, '33, (Comdr., U S N ) , is now on duty with BuShips in Washington, D. C.

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LEWIS M. DAVIS, JR., '33, ( L t Comdr., (CEC), U S N ) , is Officer-inCharge of the Advance Base Depot, Gulfport, Mississippi.

By SAMMY BRADBARD The pickin's are mighty slim this month, with very litde of extreme interest occurring, but here goes anyhow. Congratulations are in order to die following: Comdr. HARRY E. COOK, J t , USN, and L t Comdr. R. T. WHITAKER, USN. HARRY COOK was promoted to the rank of commander as of 1 July, but to rank as of 15 March 1944. Harry resigned upon graduation, then took up aviation, came back in as a reserve officer, and last year transferred back to the regular Navy. Nice going. Cookie!

As a result of a war patrol—^submarine —RUBE WHITAKER won himself a Navy Cross — the hunting was mighty good. Red is, if we remember correctly, now commanding a sub in the Pacific area.

VERNE SKJONSBY has been awarded the Silver Star for duty performed on a submarine war patrol.—Ski is listed as missing due to his sub having failed to remrn from patroL BILL DEAN is another of 1934's aviators who is making a name for himself.

Bill is squadron commander of a fighter squadron known as "Rippers," who recendy downed 187 planes during the Saipan invasion, without a single loss to themselves.

Seen in a San Francisco area newspaper, during early Jvdy, was a picmre of Dr. Margaret Chung, known as "Mom" Ohung, "mother" to more than 659 adopted birdmen holding a picture of Comdr. W. A. DEAN, USN, and containing the statement that Bill had promised her 200 victories for a Christmas present GEORGE HOFFMAN is also hitting the headlines. George commanded the 109^

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MAURICE T. IRELAND, '34, ( L t Col., USMC), is with Marine Fleet Air, West Coast, M.C.A.D., Miramar, San Diego, Calif.

WILLIAM R. PEELER, '34, in Blimps on the Pacific, gives his correct address as Box 1, USNAS, Tillamook, Oregon.

WILLIAM W . STARK, JR., '34, for the past six months has been skipper of a new DD. "Have seen Doug Fuller and Rittenhouse lately," he writes. "Also saw USS CORRY—1700 ton destroyer—sunk our own John Foster. All are skippers during the invasion of France. George, of destroyers."

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LESLIE "BUD" SLACK, '34, (Lt Comdr., USN), writes from a BB wardroom: "I suppose the reports of '34 class reunions to celebrate the tenth anniversary have come in from various sources, and I'd like to add this one. It's the report of the Pacific Fleet gang that were lucky enough to be in the same area 'round the end of May. "It all started one Sunday afternoon when FRANK PINNEY and I wandered into the club and found HAP HALLIGAN and W A R D BROCK there. The subject was broached and plans were made for a warming-up aflFair to get a line on just how many from the class were around. An all-ships dispatch was originated during the week and at 1400 on Samrday 19 May the fun began. Twentyone showed up, as I remember, and for my money there was not a better reunion held anywhere that was sans femme. Everything and everybody was given a thorough working over and the meeting broke up shortly after sundown. Lucky LEO FLYNN, the Demon Domino Director, displayed his usual prowess and divested certain outsiders of sufficient funds for the next party.

"And there is to be a next one. That had been decided upon and the date set, 31 May 1944, just ten years to a day since '34 lashed out in all directions for the first time and started gathering laurels. But plans "gang aft a-gley' again.

Some of the ships found that more training was necessary and were scheduled to be out, so the date was delayed until 3 June. Apparently the word didn't get around in time with the result that the 'grand' reunion was considerable of a flop insofar as numbers are concerned. Only about ten made their appearance but of that number there were three that we hadn't seen at the previous one. All hands enjoyed themselves immensely and the final verdict was that the tenth anniversary had been properly celebrated.

"Vignettes of the two aflFairs include: CHARLIE BREWER'S masterful coxswaing of a 5-footer, Lucky LEO and his loot, the same putting the seven-seven sign on his own classmates, the incident of the stolen bottle, to mention a few that I remember.

"A list of those who celebrated the tenth year follows: MARSHALL, BREWER, GUTHRIE, BROCK, HALLIGAN, FLETCHER, MOORE, PINNEY, PARKER, BRUCHEZ, GRALLA, ROSENBERG, WELLER, MARTIN, SMITH, W. R., LEE, BROCKETT, F L Y N N , McCLEOD, McKENZIE, MILLER, D. C, and JONES, E. K. I may have missed one or two but that's all of them, I believe.

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THEODORE H. WINTERS, JR., '35, (Lt Comdr., U S N ) , has been credited personally with the destruction of fourteen Nazi or Vichy planes. He has been awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart medals. He is attached to one of the carrier groups temporarily shore-based at a Mid-Pacific base.

SLADE D. CUTTER, '35, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has broken a record for sinking of enemy ships, having sunk more than 103,600 tons of Japanese shipping. Slade will be remembered as former all-American football star and intercollegiate boxing champion at Annapolis, was awarded the Navy Cross and two gold stars in lieu of his second and third crosses, for his feat. He is said to be the first Navy man ever to receive the equivalent of three crosses at one ceremony.

ROBERT BOLLING KELLY, '35, (Lt Comdr., U S N ) , hero of the best seller ""They Were Expendable," and Mrs. Hazel Babcock Watts, of Maiden, hostess on the Merchant's Limited, were married in Dedham, Massachusetts, on 28 May 1944.

Commander Kelly had just remrned on leave from duty as area commander of the motor torpedo boat stafiF of the Pacific Fleet Kelly is one of four survivors of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 based in the Philippines at the outbreak of the Pacific war. He was injured in that campaign and nursed back to health at Corregidor before the fall of that fortress, later escaping to Australia.

NORVELL G. WARD, '35, ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , has received two Silver Stars for blasting Jap shipping. He was chosen by Wheller B. Lipes, 23-year-old pharmacist's mate to act as "assistant surgeon" in that memorable first appendectomy ever to be performed aboard an American submarine. Lipes said he chose his superior officer for his "coolness and dependability."

ROBERT E. M. WARD, '35, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has been awarded the Silver Star, for service performed in the submarine war.

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By G E N E RIEWE, '36 fine jobs. It is grand the way you have 1 Q 3 A Business down at the Naval built up the association and its publica/JW Aircraft Factory in Philly tions." again gave me the opportunity to lunch with JIM TERRY and do a bit of gassing EARL A. SNEERINGER, '35, (Lt about '36. From Jim came the welcome news that a number of '36 aviators have Coi., USMC), writes: "After 30 months in the Pacific I am been upped ro the rank of Commander. finally getting a taste of good old State- Congramlations to you fellows who side duty. Please change my address to made it! We're pulling, for the rest of Marine Corps Schools, M. B. Quantico, the class to follow pronto. It'll be "nice to see you with three stripes and scrambled Virginia. eggs on your cap visors. " 'Buddy' Shellburne and Johnny MilWith '36 spread so thin, Jim hasn't ler also out of '35 and Tommy Dorsey had the opportunity to contact any of too, are all at Quantico. We'll be more the rest of the class—nor have I—since than glad to welcome any classmates in we were together the last time. However, that area." we learn that ABIE FURER is due to report for duty at the Philly Navy Yard shortly. In addition I expect to be in New FREDERIC W. KINSLEY, '35, (Lt York on business in a few days and have Comdr., USN), asks that mail be sent to hopes of seeing or calling HANK HEMhim at 3 Fort Sewall, Marblehead, Mass. ENWAY and CAL LAWRENCE. A most welcome letter from JACK ROBERT B. KELLY, '35, (Lt Comdr., NOEL received today carries the followUSN), reports his new address as "PT ing which is of interest to us all: "Just a Shakedown Staff," U. S. Naval Training few lines to give my new address: USS Center, Miami, Florida, and adds: ""I have seen a few of our classmates "I have just remrned from eighteen months in the Pacific, and expect to be as follows: AL FLEMING, now senior down there for the next four or five aviator, Lt. Comdr., in the Navy, who is Fighter Director Officer; JIM GRAY months." who has a new night fighter squadron; Mouse LINK, who is air group comCHARLES T. TINGLE,' '35, (Lt mander on a CVL, his boys were in the Col., USMC), reports that he is stationed thick of the big air battle off Saipan; Doc at Base Artillery Battalion, Training DOCKUM is going back for a destroyer; Center, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

BARNEY BARNARD has a big Steam DE, t h e . . . . . . . . ; and the following in CLEMENT E. "CLEM" LANGLOIS, our class have destroyers in the Pacific; '35, gives his address as U. S. N. T. & DC, DICK PRATT, BOBBY MORTON, JIM RUTTER, JOHNNY MILLETT, Treasure Island, California.

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MAC McELRATH, D A N WILSON and PUNCHY SHEA. "We had a large addition to the family last November in the person of J. V. NOEL, III, who is fat, happy and carefree at this point WTien I was on the Mainland for a couple of months we bought a home in Oakland. The address is 9735 Empire Road, Oakland 3, California.

"How many of us are left in '36? I've heard many guessesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have you figured it out?

"SHIPMATE is one of the bits of mail that is eagerly looked for each month.

"My best to any of the boys you may see."

Thanks much for all the dope. Jack.

And our most hearty congratulations on our newest '36 Junior! We'll do our best to get together that suimmary on '36 you were promised so long ago, for the next issue. And we're sorry that you didn't tell us more about yourself. Are you skippering the . . . . - â&#x20AC;˘ ? W e hope that you're one of the boys with a command. But thanks again for keeping us posted. Jack.

A subsequent visit to NAF brought me together with three former '35 classmates who have recendy reported for duty on the station there. Needless to say, our miniature reunion was most enjoyable and in spite of the fact that none of die diree boys, namely, SHERWOOD DODGE, FRANK SEASON and ALTON PADDOCK have seen me since '35's graduation nine years ago, we recognized each other inmiediately. All three are among the aviators who have been upped to Comdr. so it was very nice to see the boys with their silver oak leaves.

SHERWOOD is married and proudly boasts two sons. Frank is married but we failed to get the dope on any possible '35 juniors in the family. Alton is still playing hard to get I'll pass along a few of the items that we batted back and forth among us.

Nobody seems to know where JACK MUSICK is.

CHUCK BEAMAN hasn't been heard from since he was at SCTC at Miami.

ARNOLD NEWCOMB was last reported as being on some job down at Washington.

We mourned the loss of CLYDE McCROSKEY and D. W. TAYLOR. BUCKET BARANOWSKI has finished up at Cal Tech and has reported or is due to report at Lakehurst FRED BROOKS is on a cruiser, which is at the Phila. Navy Yard at present JACK PAYNE, JIM McCALLUM, and NORM MEYERS are present but unaccounted for at the moment LOU DETWEILER is in the Supply Corns somewhere.

FRITZ HARLFINGER is on a sub somewhere in the Pacific. He was in the Philippines when the war broke out and now is on his way back..

We're planning future get-togethers,

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so as long as the boys stay around we ought to be able to get a good line on '35.

Hope you boys in '36 won't get mad at me and kick me out if I take a litde interest in my original class.

I also had the pleasure of seeing, IRV FIKE, '38, at the yard. Was able only to say "hello" but he's one of the constructors down there so maybe we'll get to see him again in the near future and go over some of those company softball batdes we had when he and I were the twirlers on our respective teams.

Another constructor down there, MONTY BALLINGER, '37, was recently married and is fresh oflF his honeymoon, not too happy to go back to work in this hot weather. Congratidations, Monty!

See you again next month, boys. Remember that I owe you that simimary of '36.

the period from 12 August 1943 to 20 February 1944, while in command of a Bombing Squadron.

"By your genius for organization, planning and training of the crews, and inspiring leadership, your Bombing Squadron was outstanding in its performance of duty; and as a result three enemy submarines were sunk and one enemy blockade rurmer was found and tracked down, making possible its final destruction by svu-face forces.

"Your loyal devotion to the task assigned you reflects great credit on the United States Naval Service."

19^7 WILLL\M R. SMITH, JR., 17J/ .37^ ( L J Comdr., USN), writes: "My home address is The Inn, Batde Creek, Michigan, where my wife and young daughter reside while I am at sea OVID M. BUTLER, '36, (Comdr., in submarines."

USN), may be reached at Submarine MACDONALD THOMPSON, '37, Maintenance Aaivity, Manitowoc, Wise ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , gives his mailing DANIEL ALLEN MARTIN, '36, (Lt, address as 3708 Dolphin Street, San USNR), reports that he has been de- Pedro, California, and adds: "As with so many of us, I've been tached from NAS, New York, but mail will be forwarded to him if addressed moving about so much that mail is just 410 Cuder Street, Raleigh, North Caro- beginning to catch up, and now I'm imder way again with another Torpedo Una, c/o C D. Farmer. plane squadron."

RICHARD R. BRADLEY, '36, ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , has completed his course ALBERT SEDNEY FREEDMAN, in Radio Engineering at the USNA Post JR., '37, ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Graduate School, Armapolis, and has left Freedman, announce the birth of a son, for sea duty.

Albert Sidney, III, on 5 June 1944, at AnnapoUs, Md. CHESTER W. NIMITZ, JR., '36, ( L t Comdr., USN), has received the J O H N S. SCHMIDT, '37, (Lt Gold Star in Ueu of a second Silver Star Comdr., U S N ) , who is in submarines medal for "conspicuous heroism" and has been awarded the Silver Star. navigarion skiU during patrols in enemy waters, the Navy announced recendy.

DONALD M. WHITE, '37, (Lt Comdr., U S N ) , whose home is Ruxton, SHIPMATE extends congratidarions to Maryland, has been awarded his second the foUowing members of the class of '36 Distinguished Flying Cross; his citation on their advancement of rank to Comwas for his actions in scoring bomb hits mander: on enemy shipping in the first assaidt on RICHARD A. TEEL, RAYMOND Truk in the CaroUnes.

W. VOGEL, JR., who is now stationed at the Naval Air Station across the SevEMERY A. GRANTHAM, '37, (Lt ern; and DAYTON A. SEELER. Comdr., U S N ) , who is with the Planning WARFIELD CLAY BENNETT, '36, Section at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, (Lt. Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Beimett, has been conunended by the Commandannounce the birth of a daughter. Arm ing General of the Fifth Amphibious Burnam, 17 July 1944, at the Naval Corps for the exceUent cooperation the unit received from the officer and civilAcademy Hospital, AnnapoUs, Md. ian employees at the Navy Yard.

RENFRO T U R N E R , '36, ( L t Comdr.. USN), 5510 Alston Drive, NorJ O H N B. GARVIN, '37, 159 East folk, Virginia, has been awarded the Avenue, Hampton, Virginia, writes: Legion of Merit for his achievements "I have not had much touch with my while in command of a bombing squad- class since graduation, therefore, I wiU ron from 12 August 1943 to 20 February inclose an abbreviated thumbnail sketch 1944. of my actions since that June, 1937.

The citation accompanying the award After graduation and my resignation befoUows: came effective I entered M. I. T. to smdy "For meritorious achievement during aeronautical engineering. I married Jo

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Logan in September 1937 and then put in a real year of smdy to get a degree from M. I. T., in 1938. FoUowing graduation from that institution I went to work for the Seversky Aircraft Corporation of Farmingdale, Long Island; while there I became the proud father of a baby boy. In December of 1938 I transferred to a Civil Service job which I stiU hold, with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Virginia, near Hampton, Virginia. In this job I am a member of the research staff of the Laboratory dealing with the smdy of the loads applied to an airplane in the various flight maneuvers as weU as in landing and taking off. The work is very interesting and is usuaUy done at the request of the Army or the Navy. I believe I've done just about as much work for one outfit as the other. I was a member of the Naval Reserve until June 1942 when the Navy Department decided that 1 should not go into active duty but should continue working for the N. A. C. A. This fact does not make me parricularly happy but try as I wiU I cannot make the powers that be change their minds, in the meantime I am trying my damndest to help make flying machines that wiU be far superior to any they'U have to face.

"During the past five years my family has grown to include three children— two boys and a girL So much for me. Just in case any of the feUows from '37, or anyone else who stiU remembers me, happen into this neck of the woods (I live right on Hampton Roads) I'd sure like to see them. The phone number is in the book and the door is always open at 159 East Avenue, Hampton."

JOHN I. "JACK" MINGAY, '37, (Lt., USN), writes from the USS " '37 seems to be sadly lacking in the "dope' column or aren't they interested any more? We aren't many but we did have some class spirit once. How about it '37? How about putting out the dope to SHIPMATE SO we can keep track of each other? The meager dope I have is old but here goes.

"I came back in in '40 and after a tour on the Sacramento went to S. C. T. C. and shordy thereafter got command of a Canadian buUt corvette and after some good "New York every 3 weeks' duty in her went back to Miami and came out with command of this nice DE—since then I have done some traveling and seen some sights and how—am way out 'yonder' homesick as hell but quite wiUing to stay untU it's over. Have a son 'Towning' who is 5 and a daughter Susan' who is almost 3 months whom I would like very much to see for the first time." ""Saw BILL' BRINKLOE and "MAC SEPTEMBER,

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LAUSDOWNE in Charleston Navy Yard when we were building—we all attended the launching of the USS OTTER named for our 'Red.' "Skeeter' Gardes came in with his DE before we left and had Bill Brinkloe and me for dinner on board (a bull prof would like that sentence—it sounds Uke he ate us). Had a very pleasant dinner and not few enough drinks with exwife "Bud' Watkins, Tom Henry, '35, Louis Gage, '35, Puss Faust, '35, Jasper MacDonald, '36, etc. While on shakedown in Bermuda—same old 'Bud' as big and hilarious as ever—he was all excited about 10 days' leave to meet the Gripsholm and see his wife EUie for the first time since leaving her in Manila and a baby daughter he had never seen, who wouldn't be excited? How about dropping me a line, "Bud'?

"On the way out here I saw "Bunny' Shupper and we ran into "Rex' Wheeler, 'Cliff' Messenheimer and "Charlie' Cohen aU in the same club! That's the most of '37 I have seen together since June 3, 1937. Bunny is Exec of a 2,100-toner, "Cliff' is supply officer on a cruiser, "Rex' is skipper of a DMS and 'Charlie' was disgruntled over a shore biUet on an Amphib staff. About a month ago I saw "Stumpy' Baker and 'Herbie' Glennon in the " Bay' Club. "Stumpy' is exec of a 2,100-tonner and 'Herbie', who came back in '40, is on a cruiser. My other exwife "Jinamy' Cannes came back in '41 and is in this area as exec of a PT squadron—just missed you last time, Jimmy; hope we make connections next time. I was reaUy surprised the other day when "Red' (Tiger) Grey walked in—he is skipper of a sister DE. ""That just about winds up aU the dope I have—this has mrned into a 'one-man' buU session—sure wish the rest of '37 would unwind and start fiUing the dope column under '37. How about it?"

JAMES R. HOLDEN, '37 (Lt. Comdr.

USNR), reports: "I have been on duty aboard the USS for the past 19 months and at present am gunnery officer."

1 O^ft THURLOW W. REED, JR., I7JO -33 (2nd Lt, USAAF), Foster Field, Victoria, Texas, writes: "Started Cadet training December, 1942, and finished October, 1943, here at Foster Field, Central Instmctors' School at Randolph Field in November, 1943, and have been instructing (flying) back here at Foster since then. Foster Field is the Gulf Coast Training Command's finest single engine advanced school.

"Would have liked to make the Navy Air Corps, but I am on my sixth year of married life, so that fixed that"

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USN), and Mrs. Leydon, had their baby son, Edward Rivinus, baptized 30 July at St. Mary's Church, Annapolis, Md. WILLIAM NICHOLAS LEONARD, '38, (Lt Comdr. USN), and Mrs. Leonard, announce the birth of a son, William Nicholas, Jr., on 20 July, 1944, in San Diego, California.

WILLAM JAMES TATE, JR., '38, (Lt. USN), who lost his Ufe on 13 April while test-diving a bomb-loaded navy fighter plane, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously.

His citation follows: "Without thought for his own personal safety. Lieutenant Tate carried out the extremely dangerous work of functional testing of mines and bombs and through his intelligent analysis of test data made important contributions to the effectiveness of naval aviation and to the future safety of naval aviators."

JOHN B. FERRITER, '38, (LtComdr.

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JOHN A. SAXTEN, '38, (Maj. USMC), reports that he is now at the Command and Staff School, M. C S., M. B., Quantico, Virginia.

THOMAS "TOM" SUDDATH, '38, (Lt C d t USN), lists his new address as Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, D. C. 1 <9'^Q WILLIAM A. CLOMAN, JR., I 7J 7 .jc)^ j^aj USMC), commanding officer of the ""HeU Raiders" squadron of Marine dive bombers, 950 Woodycrest Avenue, Bronx, New York, has recently returned from the South Pacific combat zones.

Although Zeros frequently attacked his plane formation and anti-aircraft fire was extremely heavy, Bill's aircraft never was hit in 22 combat missions. The "HeU Raiders" claim credit for being the first land-based light bombers to attack Rabaul, which was then heavily defended, making nine raids there.

will receive mail sent to 2650 BaUentine Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia.

ROBERT R. START2ELL, '39, (Lt Comdt U S N ) , wiU receive mail sent to 3662 Olympia Drive, Houston, Texas, and writes: ""At present, I am enjoying a stay in the States; how long this will last, however, it is hard to say. My squadron, of course, is anxious to get out and help terminate this Jap war, so you can see I have very little trouble getting them to follow.

"Before this squadron commander's job was given me a very pleasant cruise was spent on the as senior aviator. It's a far cry from O. S. 2 US on floats to FM-2s. The latter seems to get a kick out of leaving me sitting on the ranway during takeoff."

STEPHEN N . WHITE, '39, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), reports that he has been assigned flight control officer, and should be addressed Naval Air Transport Squadron VR-9, Naval Air Station, Pamxent River, Maryland.

1 QAf\ CONLEY CLARK LASTER, ' ^^^ JR., '40, ( L t USN), and Miss Ruth Anne Stewart were married 12 WILLIAM Y. HOWELL, '39, ( L t June, 1944, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Comdr. U S N ) , and Miss Barbara Hill were married 28 May, 1944.

ROBERT W . McINTOSH, '40, (Lt. USN), and Mrs. Mcintosh, announce the EDWIN DAVIES HARRISON, '39, birth of a daughter, Patricia Anne, 17 (Lt. USN), and Mrs. Harrison announce July, 1944, at Lawrence Memorial Hosthe birth of a son Robert WiUiam Har- pital, New London, Connecticut rison, 7 June, 1944, at Parrish Memorial Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia.

NORMAN K. FAERBER, '40, (Lt USN), and Mrs. Faerber, announce the THOMAS M. BENNETT, '39, (Lt. birth of a son, at the South County, Rhode USN), 2 Murray Avenue, Annapolis, has Island Hospital, 11 July, 1944. Norman recently remrned home for rest and reas- is a survivor of the USS HELENA. signment after eight months of Jap-hunting in the Pacific.

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GEORGE S. SIMMONS, III, '39, (Lt. has been reported safe. Calvert holds the USN), has been awarded the Navy and American Defense Service Medal and the Marine Corps Medal.

European-African Campaign Medal. Previously he had served two years on the ROBERT G. MERRITT, '39, (Lt. aircraft carrier YORKTOWN. Comdr. U S N ) , and Mrs. Merritt, announce the birth of a daughter Carol WILLIAM DANIEL ROSEBORAnne, at Naval Academy Hospital, An- OUGH, JR., '40, ( L t U S N ) , and Mrs. napolis, Md., 17 June, 1944.

Roseborough, announce the birth of a daughter, Florence Kathleen, on 14 July, EUGENE B. HENRY, JR., 39, (Lt. at Richardson House in Boston, MassaComdr. USN), and Miss Elizabeth Rhea chusetts. Their home address is 30 Gould Davies have announced their engage- Road, Arlington, Massachusetts. ment.

HENRY P. ROBERTSON, '40, (Lt. HARRY M. EULER, '39, ( L t USN), should be addressed c/o Mail SecUSNR), gives his address as Operations tion, Military InteUigence Division, Office, 9th Naval District Headquarters, Room lC-774, The Pentagon, WashingGreat Lakes, Illinois. ton 25, D. C. HAROLD W. GEHMAN, '39, ( L t C d t USN), who is aboard the USS

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LEANDER G. HADDOCK, JR., '40, ( L t jg USNR), gives his address as U.

S. Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, California, and adds: '"Please say hello to any of those fresh Lt. Comdrs. you might run into."

JAMES S. MILLIKEN, '40, ( L t USN), writes from the USS "For those of you who can find a spare minute or two to write some letters, all correspondence wiU be welcome and taken care of post haste. IncidentaUy, I've found that an astounding number of '40 are not only married but are adding thirds and fourths with great diligence.

Far be it from me to be left at the barrier, I was married 15 May, a year ago."

HELL-BENT tot VICTORY!

EDWIN I. DONLEY, '40, (Maj. USA), shoidd be addressed Division Ordnance Office, Headquarters, 76th Infantry Division, A. P. O. #76, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.

HAROLD W. BIESEMEIER, '40, (Lt USN), sends along best wishes and gives his address as #502 Broadmoor Apartments, 3601 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 1041 CHARLES W. SMITH, '41, ' '^ ' ( L t U S N ) , and Miss Jeanne Coleman, were recendy married in Dallas, Texas.

EUGENE M. WILMARTH, '41, (Ens. USNR), gives his new address as 2039 Larkin Street, San Francisco, and writes: "I am happy to say that you may now disregard my letter of February, this year, concerning my probable continued civiUan stams. My employer (Bethlehem Steel Company) has finaUy granted me a release, so it is now Ensign U. S. N . R. reporting for active duty 15 August" OMAR C. KELLER, '41, lists his address as B 1/c, U S N ) , 1854 W . 38di Street, Norfolk 8, Virginia, and adds: '"I was at the Naval Academy in the class of 1941, resigned voluntarily on 17 January, 1939, re-entered service as F 2/c on 3 AprU, 1941. Am at Fleet Welding School at present, and hope to change my rate to Mo M M and go to submarine duty upon graduation."

1049 FORREST E. HOUSTON, 1-tI. ,^2, ( L t U S N ) , and Miss Frances Louise Goebel, were married 21 July in the main chapel of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. LEWIS J. STECHER, JR., '42, (Lt. USN), and Miss Carolyn Carver, W-V (S), USNR, were married 3 June at the Monastery of St Mary and St John, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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GRISWOLD L. MOELLER, '42, (Lt 42, ( L t USN), and Miss Anne Ashford USN), and Miss Carolyn Louise Moffett Wattles, were married 7 July, 1944, at have announced their engagement the Bmton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.

JOHN H. CRAWFORD, '42, (Lt USN), should be addressed Senior Naval LESLIE RICHARD OLSEN, '42, (Lt. Officer, Massachusetts Instimte of TechUSN), and Mrs. Olsen, aimounce the nology, Cambridge. Mass.. birth of a daughter, Leslie Ann, at the PAUL D. RICHMOND, 42, (Lt U. S. Naval HospitaL Mare Island, California, 8 June, 1944. Lieutenant Olsen USNR), gives his address as U. S. N. T is in the South Pacific.

C , Comdr. Twelfth Regiment, Great Lakes, Illinois.

DANIEL EDWARD BERGESF, JR., EDWIN E. KINTNER, '42 (Lt '42 ( L t USN), and Miss Mary Margaret USN), and Miss Ahce Ruth, were marHart, were married in the church of St. ried 29 July, ar Fon Benning, Georgia.

John the Evangelist, Baltimore, Mar}'land, 28 May, 1944.

JOHN C. "JACK" HILL, U, '42, (Lt USN), writes from die USS JOHN EDWARD WILLIAMS, '42, "I'd like to announce the birth of a (Capt. USMC), is now in Klamath Falls, daughter, Marcia Rodman, to my wife Oregon, after having visited his parents. and myself. The big event took place on Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Qar- 6 May, in Washington, North Carolina, ence E. WiUiams, in Aimapolis, Md. at my wife's home.

"We're both pretty happy about it— THOMAS M. COGGINS, '42, (Capt. our only regret being that the Pacific had USMC), and Miss Kathleen Lowell An- to be so far from the East coast! derson, were married at the Chapel of "For those who are interested, "BUCK' the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., on BACKUS, '42, left recendy, and is now 25 June, 1944. undergoing flight training at Dallas, DA-VID CHARLES PETO, '42, ( L t Texas, 'LOLT JULLIEN, COLONEL' USN), and Miss Elizabeth LeflSngwell, HOUSE, and myself are the remaining were married in the Episcopal Church of plank, owners of '42 aboard. Saw HUGO St James the Less, Scarsdale, New York, SCHMIDT, "JEFF HESTER, DUTCH' LIEBHAUSER, PAT PATERSON, 27 June, 1944.

HARRY ALLENDORFER, and GREG JOHNS out of '42 recendy. They seem to be doing fine—^Hugo is going back for flight training while GREG JOHNS either has gone or is going to sub sdiooL Also saw WILLIE ENGDAHL recendy —^he is on a new cruiser. For those who are interested—and there are probably many—^JOE TAUSSIG, '41, was operated on again for the would he received ar Pearl Harbor. After two years he still isn't fixed up, but they hope this will do the trick. Let's hope so! J. R. MASON, '42, got back and got married a few months back and when last heard of was assigned to a new carrier.

"Guess that's about alL Thanks for listening, and have a short one for me."

J O H N EDWARD WILLIAMS, '42, (Capt USMC), and Miss Patricia Louise Barnes, were married 9 July in San Diego, California.

CHARLES C. SENN, '42, ( L t USN), may be reached at Cooper Apartments, Maryland Avenue, Annapwhs, Maryland.

ERNEST J. EDMANDS, '42, (Lt USN), reports that he is the proud father of a baby girl, Carla Howard Edmands, and the mother and daughter are both doing nicely.

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Base Artillery Battalion, Camp Lejeune, North Carohna, writes: "I have just finished 30 days' leave after 26 months in the Pacific and back to duty with the Base Artillery Battalion at Camp Lejeune. While on leave I visited N. A. S. Dallas, and saw about 70 or 80 out of '42 and lots of '41 and '43. Two in particular I saw were 'DOC GULLEDGE and BILL EHREKE, two of my N. A. roommates. Seems like all of '42 are sprouting wings.

"Best of luck to my old classmates of '42."

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'42, Assistant General Superintendent, Keystone Tankship Corporation, 260 S. Broad Street, Room 506, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania, writes: "For we of the 'Lost Battalion' who ardently follow the heroic activities of our classmates, the monthly receipt of SHIPMATE is a boon to our existence. Heartiest congramlations are in line for you and your staff for your work in making SHIPMATE the heart and soul of the United States Navy."

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SPOTTISWOODE W E L L F O R D RANDOLPH, JR., '43, (Lt jg USN), and Miss Elise Mary Smith were married 15 July in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JAMES F. HEGENWALD, JR., '43, gives his address as Apt. 401—848 South Oxford, Los Angeles 5, California.

WILLIAM W. CRADDOCK, '43, 10^*5 THOMAS L.RANDALL,'43, (1st Lt USA), from 'Somewhere in ly^J (Capt USMC), and Miss Italy', writes: EMERY M. NICKERSON, '42, (Lt. Barbara Richards, plan to be married "Have been receiving SHIPMATE each USN), gives his address as 21 M t View soon in San Francisco. and every month since June of 1941, Road, Cape Elizabeth 7, Maine. when 1 left the Academy. It has followed HAROLD F. LANG, '43, (Lt jg me over here and I can hardly tell you JACK B. RITTMAYER, '42, (Maj. A. C.), sends best wishes to ail, and reports USN), and Miss Virginia Marie Kiernan, how much each issue is enjoyed by mythat mail will reach him if sent to 2390 were married in the Chapel of the U. S. self and the other members of my crew.

"Am in the good old and curCedar Avenue, #206, Long Beach 6, Cal- Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, 15 June, 1944. rently am seeing quite a bit of action ifornia. over Europe.

HAL G. WYNNE, '42, (Lt U S N ) , WILLIAM CABELL MOORE, '43, "The news looks good these days and from 'out there,' writes: (Lt USN), and Miss Maggie Belle Wilt- we are all hoping for a speedy end to "I have seen very few of my classmates shire were married 29 June, in the Chapel this European war, at least." since leaving Annapolis but manage to of Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal keep up with the whereabouts of some Church, Richmond, Virginia.

HENRY B. BOTTOMS, '43, (Lt. of them from rare conversations with AAC), Box 1527, A/C Det, Selman classmates and through the 'What's the DANIEL HUNT, JR., '43, (Lt. jg Field, Monroe, Louisiana, writes: Dope' column."

USN), and Miss Patricia Ann Hunt were "At Selman Field there are a number GLENN H. (DUKE) EASTON, JR., married in St. John's Church on Lafay- of men who were 'for years together by SEPTEMBER,

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J O H N GORHAM WARD, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , and Mrs. Ward armounce the birth of a son, John Gorham, Jr., on 25 ApriL RICHARD LEE WARREN, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , may be reached at 87 N. Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, N. J. Dick and Mrs. Warren annoimce diat a baby girl was bom to them in June.

ALBERT MICHAEL NUEMANN, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , and Miss Margaret Arme Coote will be married as soon as he remrns from acrive duty.

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the Bay.' The newest arrival is Molano, '45. This is his first post He expects to leave for pilot training soon. Ed Karnis, Salty' Boyes, '44, and Hal Cummings, '44, Plebe and I are in the same dass here.

We expect our second pair of silver wings about 4 September. I was really surprised a couple of days ago. A new instructor came in and gave his very first lecture; it was Garceau, '44. He spent some 60 hours flying for the Navy Air Corps before I arrived—Captain (now Major) Skinner, '40, and Lieutenant Branham, •43.

"About a month ago we sent you a prospective alumnus from our flight— Tsiknas. W e wish him the very best of good luck.

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"I guess we have that old Blue and Gold spirit more today than when we, too, wore the Navy Blue. Help us keep that spirit strong by sending SHIPMATE to us."

RICHARD DEMING LAZENBY, '43, ( L t USN), recendy spent three weeks' leave with his parents in Annapolis, and is now taking flight training at Dallas, Texas.

RUSSELL S. EATON, JR., '44, (Ens. USN), writes: "We out here in the Pacific certainly appreciate the dope telling us what our old classmates and friends are doing.

Through SHIPMATE is about the oidy way we can get i t "As you all know, things are proceeding very nicely out here. W e have die Japs pretty well on their last legs."

ROBERT GRAY BAGBY, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , and Mrs. Bagby aimoimce the birth of a daughter, Susan Marguerite, on 29 June, at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.

JOHN G. KELLER, '44, (Ens. USN), and Mrs. Keller, aimounce the birth of a son, John Michael, on 10 June, at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.

JOHN C. KANE, JR., '44, (Ens. USN), and Miss Dorothy Madeleine Browne, were married 5 Jidy, 1944, in Our Lady of All Souls' Church, East Orange, N. J. OTHO C. SAPPENFIELD, '44, (Lt USA), and Miss Ann Hexamer were married 19 August, 1944. The ceremony was performed at 5.30 P. M., in Knox Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.

L t Sappenfield is now starioned at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Address is 383 Ordnance M., Auto. Maint Co. (0533002).

10^.^ CHARLES KEMMELL, '44, l y t t (£^3 USN), and Mrs. KemW I L L L ^ ^ BRINKER STANARD, mell, armounce the birth of a son, on 25 June, at the Bethesda Suburban Hospital, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , and Miss Sarah Frances Bethesda, Maryland.

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Chapel of the Naval Academy. Annap- USN), aboard the USS sends this along: olis, Md. "It certainly is a pleasure to receive T. KEITH HILL, '44, (Ens. U S N ) , your most welcome magazine out here on writes: the other side of the world. After a tour "For my friends and classmates, I am of duty in the fairly rough waters of the on the submarine , and have seen Adantic, I came around to the other side Mat Cullen, D. P. Brooks, Jack Peat and where the heat is terrific and the South several of the other '44 submariners out Sea Islands aren't what they are cracked here. Also saw Bill Wright and Dupey up to be. But I have seen a lot of dassMcCormick, who are in the surface Navy mates from destroyers and have enjoyed and both are convinced that submarines a few bottles of beer with them while are strickly O. K. Almost converted talking over old times. them."

"For those who didn't get the word, I DWIGHT E. KLEIST, JR., '44, gives was married to Miss Catherine Mcllvaine his address as 64 South 5 th Street, Sou- last December in New York City just before coming around. Bob Selmer, '43, derton, Pennsylvania. a shipmate, was best man."

PEMBERTON B. WALL, '44, (Ens. RAGNWALD "RAGS' MULLER, '44, USNR),vn:ites: "Met N. C. Smith, '42, just prior to (Ens. U S N ) , writes: "I hear the mighty "T's" fame is leaving Norfolk for New Orleans and have been here since early May. My LCT spreading, so I won't brag here, but needis now aboard and LST, whose skipper less to say we're all proud to be on her.

AL SOUTHWORTH, HILLY SHERis Jack Kaufman, out of '39.

"Married Winell Harwood, PhM 3/c MAN, CHUCK WASSON, BAT USCG, on 10 June and hate to shove off BURNHAM, and BILL LEAHY are with me in the J. O. mess. so soon.

"We fueled George Peery's can oflF the "Saw my brodier, L. S. Wall, '39, in French coast one morning and he told Jax a month ago and he sends his best me he had met MIKE McGRAW in Rio, to all.

"Would like to hear from Sadler, and cut me in on the dope.

H A N K GORMAN and I. A. ROBINChapman, Shields, or Kennedy."

SON were over the other day. They had JOHN H.. M C D O N A L D , '44, (Ens. temporary duty on ex-Norfolk-Balti-

more ferries taking troops to France after their ship, the was donated to Russia.

"TOM WALSH, on the . . . . . . . is the envy of '44's battleship boys, being the first to my knowledge to have a main battery mrret.

"We've also seen DEL AMES III, K. H. HAUSMAN and A. T. McKINNEY around here lately—all tin-can sailors.

"I am looking forward to my next New York liberty and maybe even a quick trip to Annapolis."

ELMER E. BLACKBURN, '44, (Ens. USN), from the USS , writes: "My address is changing soon to N . S. Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut" HQAC ALVIN L. MEINTS, '45, IVflJ (Ens. USN), can be addressed c/o Mrs. Louis Meints, 701 King Street Road, Alexandria, Virginia.

SHIPMATE has received and wants to acknowledge subscriptions, contributions or other communications from the following officers, whose addresses for the usual reason cannot be published: CLIFFORD E. VAN HOOK, '09.

HARRY W. HILL, '11.

H O W A R D F. KINGMAN, '11.

J. CARY JONES, '13.

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THEODORE E. CHANDLER, '15.

LYNDE D. McCORMICK, 15.

MAURICE G. HOLMES, 16.

BERTRAM J. RODGERS, '16.

BOYD R. ALEXANDER, 16.

CHRISTOPHER C. MILLER, 18.

JOHN W. ROGERS, '18.

HENRY Y. McCOWN, 18.

CAROLL H. FLEMMING, '20.

OSCAR A. WELLER, '20.

JULIUS A. BURGESS, '20.

REINHARD C. MOUREAU, '20.

SANFORD H. CASTEEL, '20.

EDWARD H. McMENEMY, •20.

HEBER B. BRUMBAUGH, '21.

HAROLD A. HOUSER, '21.

ERNEST H. WEBB, '21.

WAKEMAN B. THORP, '21.

CHARLES F. ERCK, '21.

THOMAS A. ESLING, '21.

VALVIN R. SINCLAIR, '22.

ELLWOOD E. BURGESS, '22.

HORATIO RIDOUT, '23.

DAVID T. BASKETT, '23.

CHARLES W. OEXLE, '24.

JAMES SCOTT LAIDLAW, '24.

FRANCIS H. GARDNER, '24.

WILLIAM V. DAVIS, JR., '24.

LOUIS D. SHARP, '24.

ETHELBERT WATTS, '24.

JEANE R. CLARK, '25.

OLIVER F. NAGUIN, '25.

ROYCE N. "FLIP" FLIPPIN, '26.

ROBERT G. ARMSTRONG, '26.

WILLIAM A. GERTH, '26..

JOSEPH R. RUBINS, '27.

ALDEN D. SCHWARZ, '27.

LEONARD B. SOUTHERLAND,'27.

CLIFFORD L. WICKMAN, '27.

JULIUS F. "FRED" WAY, '27.

RALPH LAMPMAN, '27.

GLYNN R. DONAHO, '27.

WILLIAM H. BROCKMAN, JR., '27.

ALBERT E. FITZWILLIAM, '27.

GEORGE FRITSCHMANN, '28.

ROLLO NORGAARD, '28.

DONALD S. GORDON, '28.

ALBERT O. MOMM, '28.

ROY S. BENSON, '29.

ELLIOTT EARL, '29.

FRANK B. MILLER, '30.

EDWARD S. CARMICK, '30.

ROBERTD. KING,'31.

JOSEPH B. SWAIN, '31.

WILLIAM B. SIEGLAFF, '31.

BRUCE McCANDLESS, '32.

OTTO A. SCHERINI, '32.

JACK I. BANDY, '32.

ALEXANDER B. COXE, JR., EGUEN B. MEADER, '32. '32.

GEORGE P. ROGERS, '32.

HAROLD E. BAKER, '32.

WILFORD T. STANNARD, '32.

DAVID H. M C D O N A L D , '32.

ROBERT O. BEER, '32.

JOSEPH F. WITHEROW, '32.

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JOHN D. BULKELEY, '33.

JOHN A. GAMON, JR., '33.

GEORGE WENDELBURG, '33.

PHILIP YARNELL, '33.

JAMES T. BINGHAM, '34.

JUNE P. HOBBS, '34.

WILLIAM R. SMITH, '34.

HERSCHEL J. GOLDBERG, '35.

ALAN M. NIBBS, '35.

EDWARD B. SCHUTT, '35.

JOHN J. FLACHSENHAR, '35.

WILLIAM V. MORRISON, '35.

WILLIAM E. PARKER, '35.

WILLIAM A. SHEA, JR., '36.

JASPER N. M C D O N A L D , '36.

ALEXANDER K. TYREE, '36.

HARRISON BRENT, JR., '36.

LEONCE A. LAJAUNIE, JR., '37.

FAY E. WILSIE, '37.

MAURICE FERRARA, '37.

IRVING J. SUPERFINE, '38.

FRANK H. RILE, '38.

WILLIAM GEORGE BROWN, '38.

CHARLES E. POND, '38.

JOHN R. CARLSON, '38.

EVERETT A. TRICKEY, '38.

GEORGE F. NEEL, JR., '38.

LOREN H. KISER, '39.

NOBLE C HARRIS, JR., '39.

JOHN A. FIDEL, '39.

HAROLD C. LANK, '39.

WILLIAM J. VALENTINE, '39.

ALFRED F. ROBERTSHAW, '39.

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Football and War (Continued from page 11) peas of global war are complicated and difficult for the average civilian to fully appreciate. Those trained in the various services who are professionals realize full v;ell that it takes time and experience to plan for, induct, train, and place coordinated combat teams or task forces into positions where they can eflFectively strike the enemy.

All of us might understand the present conflict more realistically and comprehensively if we could look at it as General Butler pointed out to me in 1922.

There is no part of warfare that does not have an exact paraUel in football. Let us look at the war picmre through the eyes of a football coach.

In 1938 one of my classmates, remrning from two years of duty in Germany and France described the picmre in these words: "Germany is just like a pro-football team—the New York Giants or Chicago Bears;—France and Poland are like first rate high school teams." All of these nations had equipment, infantry, artillery, planes, tanks, naval forces, and all the combatant arms, but only Germany was fully prepared in their use and highly trained for the inevitable conflict. As a result, as far as France and Poland are concerned, the professional team made short work of the high school teams.

In comparing footbaU to war, it is reasonable to consider each week's game as SEPTEMBER,

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a pitched battle, and the entire season a campaign. War diflfers in one very important aspect, however. War has no set mies and there are no officials to blow the whisde. The game continues 24 hours a day, is not confined to a circumscribed field, is generally played away from home, and doesn't stop until a decision is reached.

Just as it's more important to most teams to win the "Homecoming Game," so it is in a military campaign more important to win the strategic battles. In the case of the Military and Naval Academies the winning of the classic ArmyNavy game means success or failure for that year's campaign, no matter what the record had been previously.

In war the same principle is true. Reverses may come in battles here or there but that does not mean the war is lost, if the service and the nation, refuse to accept defeat and believes in the mot?to "It can, it shaU be done." The final battle can and shaU be won.

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win the championship. In war, particularly the kind of war in which we now find ourselves, it requires more than one campaign to win final complete victory.

Individual battles have been lost but the more important battles were won and wiU continue to be won.

In war and in footbaU there are the foUowing musts: 1. Training.

2. Logistics (Supply).

3. Tactical considerations.

4. Strategic considerations.

5. Morale and spirit 6. Teamwork and coordination.

There is no substimte in footbaU or in war for training. Untrained athletes don't win football games from seasoned opponents, and green troops don't win battles from an enemy of trained veterans. True, there may be lettermen or veterans in both cases, but they would not be coiiditioned, there would be no real organization and utter chaos would result in both instances.

The football training period is just like recmit training, but on a minor scale, of course. Trials and difficulties experienced in forming and training a football squad, difficult as they are, are dwarfed by the herculean task of procuring and training officers and men for combat teams or task forces and groups.

In football training, individual players are trained in the fundamentals, then trained to work as a team with ten mates, and then further trained in the intricacies of particular formations for ofifense and defense. The teamwork training represents the real work, for the team must mesh as precisely as the intricate wheels and gears of a watch. During the earlier days of training tackling dummies, block-

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ing dummies, driving sleds, and the like are used, but later acmal scrimmage, simulating game conditions, are used to perfect plays and teamwork.

The same pattern is foUowed for war.

Recruits are given basic training—conditioning and the fundamentals of soldiering or seamanship. Later they receive more advanced training, and finaUy they are selected for combat teams, or ship crews, as the case may be. The training is continued as teams or crews. In the case of the Army field maneuvers are conducted using live ammunition. The Naval counterpart are the maneuvers and driUs after the crew is assigned aboard ship.

This is not only training for the ship's crew itself, but training for the ship, since it operates in conjunction with other ships in a task force or task group. players and soldiers and FOOTBALL sailors—whether officers or men—are trained to be alert. Eternal vigilance both on ofifense and defense must be exercised.

The football player is ever alert to profit by a mistake made by his opponent. Fumble recoveries, surprise plays which go through a man playing out of position, and similar football simations where alertness has paid oflF, have their counterpart in war. All of this caUs for perfect teamwork.

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course more important in war than in footbaU because more is at stake and it is a far bigger job. The paraUel is there, however. In football, logistics takes into consideration practice fields, equipment of aU sorts, supervision of food, dose watch over the health of the players, arrangemenr for transportation to and from games, details concerning officials, spectators, and many other items.

In war it means much the same thing, in different terms, and on a far greater scale. It means transport of personnel by land, sea and air, and supplying them with every conceivable item from fuel oU to ammunition. This phase of warfare is the one part which affects everyone, wherever he may be; in the factory, the office, the mine, on the farm, or in the service. It is the heart of the war effort.

Tactics is the art of employment of forces engaged with an enemy. FoUowers of footbaU are famUiar with the sight of seeing teams jockeying for position, building up for the scoring punch, by using a sequence of plays, taking advantage of the wind, speeding the play when the going is good, slowing the tempo if bad breaks come. AU this happens in war60

fare. So dosely related are the offensive tactics of footbaU and war that correspondents in Normandy borrowed the footbaU writing terminology to describe the great break-through of General Patton's tank men. The wide end run, the tackle smash, the reverse play, the trick or surprise play, the forward pass and the punt are famUiar to us alL In warfare the same thing goes on under the name of flank movement, carrier strike, frontal assault, and other tactical moves.

There is even the sneak play. The thriUing footbaU goal-Une stand has its counterpart in war. Probably the grearest goal line stand in war was made by the Russians at Stalingrad.

Strategy as applied to footbaU and warfare is that part of the efforr carried on prior to acmal engagement Plans and preparations to use certain plays, players or formations against cerrain opponents and under certain circumstances, looking ahead roward the ultimate goal, preparing for final victory, come under the heading of strategy. In warfare the same thing goes on under the name of deploying forces. In both footbaU and warfare these plans are shrouded in the utmost secrecy. " ^ T T EATHER affects operations in both »» footbaU and war. UsuaUy poor weather forces a footbaU team to confine itself to use of straighr power, with frequent punting, hoping to wear the opposition down and be able to capitalize on a break. The early 1944 campaign in Italy provides an exceUent coimterpart of this condition in warfare. Rain, constant rain, with low douds, cut air operations. The thick slimy mud made tank operations almost impossible. The 5 th and 8th Armies had to be content to slog along on foot, inching ground from the enemy and wait for a break.

AU the Usted musts are important, but where footbaU and warfare are mosr closely aUgned are in items five and six; morale and spirit and teamwork and coordination. "Without fuU development of these two items great goal Une stands such as Stalingrad and Bataan, or upsets where a relatively smaU group defeats a numericaUy superior force, such as at Coral Sea and Midway, would not be possible.

After the fine 1940 Stanford footbaU team had risen to gridiron heights and emerged Rose Bowl Champions, Coach Clarke Shaughnessy was asked how he accounted for this performance by a group of boys who had wound up in the ceUar the year previously.

acmaUy engaged in the play—beUeving in them and making them feel physicaUy that there was no answer but viaory. A team and its substimtes or an army or navy, down to the lowest combatant uni^ knowing that the home front is 100 per cent behind it, can and wiU rise to unexplored heights if necessary to win. Any wavering or doubt, any determination other than to put everything into the fight, caimot but be reflected by the team, or in war, by the armed services.

Athletics (Continued from page 30) Midshipman Fred Bouwman, IC4A indoor and ourdoor broad jimip champion, jumped 22 feet six inches to take that event

Cross Country and Soccer Schedules Eight soccer games and five cross country meets are induded on the Naval Academy's faU sports schedule.

The soccer team, opening 11 Oct against Didce University, wiU play only two out-of-town games—Penn State at State CoUege, Pa., 21 Oct and the windup with Army at West Point 25 Nov. The Harriers wiU meet North CaroUna Pre-FUght 30 Sept in the first of four home events, ending their schedide with participarion in the IC4A championships in New York.

The plebe soccer team was scheduled for six games and the plebe cross country squad for four meets.

The complete schedules:

Varsity Soccer Oct.—11, Duke; 21, Penn State (Away); 28, Pennsylvania; Nov.—4, Muhlenberg; 8, Bainbridge; 15, BuckneU; 18, Swardunore; 25 Nov., Army (Away).

Varsity Cross Country Sept.—30, North CaroUna Pre-FUght; Oct.—21, StonewaU A. C of Baltimore; Nov.—1, Duke; 11, North CaroUna University; 18, IntercoUegiates (Away).

Plebe Soccer

Oct.—11, Baltimore City CoUege; 21, CatonsviUe High; 28, Baltimore Polytechnic; Nov.—8, Forest Park High of Baltimore; 15, M t St Joseph High of ^EAMWORK. cooperation and the Baltimore; 25, Sparrows Point High of -•- n most wonderful spirit and backing Baltimore. on the part of the entire smdent body that Plebe Cross Country anyone could ask for," he answered.

Oa.—7, StonewaU of Baltimore; 21, Here then, is one of the real answers to wiiming a war—everyone at Stanford Mercersburg Academy; 28, Passaic stood shoulder to shoulder behind the 11 (N. J.) High; Nov.—8, Baltimore Polybovs who were on the field at the moment technic.

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W^e ^^aiting waives —

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VERY smaU and brief reference to A the matter of voting started me ofif on a long train of thought just as I had to begin the monthly struggle with this page. It seems that one of the South American repubUcs which has enjoyed an unusuaUy stable and permanent goverrmient longer than most of its neighbors has enacted laws which make it compulsory for its citizens to vote.

There is a rising scale of penalties, which get quite serious with the third detected omission of dvic duty. There was no explanation as to how the non voters were recognized, and fines appUed and this led me to consider how voting could be made compulsorj' in this country'. With reflections on the mandatory income tax etc, it soon became evident that the success of rationing of various commodities could produce another sj'Stem which would deny certain privUeges or even purchases to citizens who have ignored their obUgation to state their preferences, and take the blame if the

resultant poUcies and laws didn't work.

There are verj" few fence siners among poUtical candidates, they are either for something or against it, and in elections, with compulsor)- voting, it would be necessary for those voting to at least give some smaU consideration to the aims and platform of the candidate.

The majority of us know who heads the rwo major poUtical parties in this country' during national elections, but we know very Utde about our city, county or state candidates.

Under the present sj'Stem of baUots it is impossible to vote only for one man heading the party, and in any case the composition of the cit)- or count)' slate wields the greatest influence on the national set up after the baUoting is done and counted.

This preliminarj- explanation brings me down to where I was heading for in the firsr place, the usual and common artimde of the Naxy and their wives roward voting, which is, we dont. Constant change of residence prevents us

from taking a sustained interest in local poUtics and candidates, we feel diat we are apart from local dvic affairs, in most instances, but we do have quite a stake in national and international affairs, and' those who have been in or connected with the service during this war would like to have something to say about never again.

If it is to be never again, it is up m everyone over voting age in this country to express themselves to that end, and this indudes service famiUes. Now the main reason that prevents members of service famiUes from voting is ignorance of the local and state laws relaring to residence and registration.

Each state has different laws concerning registration for voting and some have poU taxes. The majority of service famiUes refrain from registering for voting because they fear that such registration exposed them to extra property taxes that they would excape if they refrain from reveaUng their presence in the state by regisrering. There is too the misapprehension that we must be property owners before we can vore, but there are very few Service families that don't own an automobUe, which is tangible and valuable propert}-, and there are very few states that don't get plenty from us

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The main consideration which keeps service famUies from voting is however, that there has never been coUected and pubUshed as far as I know, any condensed, brief and concise explanation of the registration and voting requirements in eadh and every one of the forty-eight states as applicable to men in the armed services and their relatives who may establish residence therein. Perhaps it's impossible to publish such an explanation of the Service man's rights and privileges, but inasmuch as we have seen and read directives on every other subject under the sun, we could reasonably expect that there be made available to us something definite and positive on when, how and where we can vote, without the necessity of our digging it out of available local, and often confusing sources.

Perhaps the time wiU come when through compulsory voting, or preferably a definite stigma of adverse public opinion, we wiU aU go to the poUs with the same enthusiasm we go to footbaU or Usten to our favorite radio program, meanwhUe to those of us to whom it means most to have elected representatives who wiU reaUy help with "Never Again," it would reaUy be a help to know how, when and where we can vote. It seems safe to say that every Service man and his relatives have been pricked by consciences that said we could have voted oftener and sooner and better.

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There is a very definite trend noticeable in aU popular magazines, newspapers and stories, based on the premise rhat the war is almost over, and that most of the returning men who have experienced overseas combat duty wiU be neurotic to some degree. There are careful explanations of how to treat and sooth frayed psychosis, and evidence of war nerves. If we are to be treated to a deluge of advice on how to handle war nerves, it seems only fair that we should be told too, that only about one man in one hundred wiU need any special consideration or care, and the rest would prefer that the buttermiUc be fed to the pigs.

Most of our men seem to want relaxation in a comfortable chair, and a chance to take it easy and relax while they look around and listen and figure out the easiest and quickest way of rejoining us in a normal everyday life. Let's not get too imaginative.

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They Attack by Night (Continued from page 15) flowers, and sometimes there is another odor on the soft, night breeze, the never to be forgotten smell of rotting flesh. In that country dead men are very dead.

At mid-night the radio hums: "Dog Fox to Easy Oboe—Over."

"This is Easy Oboe—Over."

"I think we've got something. Bill.

Bearing zero four five, range about ten miles, moving fast. Probably a float Zero.

Better get set for him—Over."

"Roger. We'll give the bastard a warm welcome. Over and out."

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HE broad, phosphorescent wake of the boats points like a silver arrow in the moonlight. The Nip has sighted them. He mrns and comes in fast and low. The boats wheel hard over and a thousand orange tracers split the night searching for him. The Jap doesn't like tracers. He shys away and hurriedly drops his two small bombs astern of the second boat. Now he's coming in for a strafing run but it's a half hearted attempt. He has no beUy for lead. He mrns, climbs into the night, and is gone.

The patrol goes on. At three in the morning the lookout picks up four low, black objects creeping into the beach.

Barges! Again the radio hums: "Close up. Close up. Port run." The gunners wait hunched in their mrrets. The gun muzzles swing in hungry, tentative arcs.

Suddenly a Jap twenty millimetre licks out into the night. To heU with silence now. Our boats go roaring in for the kiU. Nip smaU calibre rifle and machine gun fire whines over the cockpit like a swarm of bees. Our boats are alongside, in position now. They pound and shake under the impact of the guns. The night is lit by hundreds of lines of criss cross tracer. The lagoon shimmers in the red flashes. Billows of gun smoke float through the nightmare scene. Somewhere in the darkness there is the deep pounding of shore batteries. Heavy shells whoosh by like express trains.

Scarlet balls of fire come arching up out of the night at us.

But now the barges have almost stopped firing. This is the crucial moment. Our boys keep pouring it in. The four dark shapes are lower now, going down. And suddenly they're gone. The surface of the lagoon is smooth. Somewhere in the darkness Japs are in the water. They're screaming, high, thin screams. The batteries are still firing.

Crashing explosions boom over and around us. W e mrn and run out at high speed.

Once outside we lie to in order to count noses. The lead boat has taken hits along the water line but no one is hurt. Far behind us the Jap tracers are

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StiU looping out into the night. Ahead the sky shows the faintest, rosy tinge.

Dawn is coming. Another patrol is-over.

Our boats mrn and head for home.

Why Japs Shoot Themselves (Continued from page 13) When I left at the end of two hours it had not yet warmed up to the climax, so I had some supper—with the gumshoe man at the next table in the theater restaurant—and came back for the finish.

Now the whole point of this diversion from why Japanese soldiers shoot themselves is that the play was such incredible hokum that it reminded me of the Gay Nineties burlesquing that Morley and Throckmorton once put on in Hoboken. On top of that, the play was nearly a cenmry old, and the story was as familiar to everybody in the audience as his own name. It appears that the Lord of Sendai was in a bad fix, being at war with a neighboring daimio and getting the worst of it. He had left his only son and heir at home with a wetnurse, the prince's mamma having died.

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WeU, up comes the enemy, kiUing everybody loyal to the Lord of Sendai, and the nurse flees the castle with the little prince and her own son, to seek refuge. With the enemy hot on her heels, she has to jettison half her load, so she deserts her own baby in the wilderness so she can escape with the Lord of Sendai's heir.

To make sure that the audience would get the fullest appreciation of this fine morsel of dramamrgical garbage, aU the action on the stage would cease periodicaUy, and rhe narrators would lecmre the customers from their niches. . soon there was a mstling in PRETTY the house which sounded to me like unconscionably rude whispering. It was accompanied by an undulation of black poUs which made me fear that the Japanese audience was going to violate all the traditions of Nipponese politeness, and acmally walk out in justified disgust.

But then my banker seat-mate started to make noises, too, and I saw with amazement that he was weeping. Then I realized that the whole house was in tears, and that the ushers who were slithering up and down the aisles were not queUing a riot but passing out towels— crying towels in truth. And when the 64

(Continued from page 16) inside, gives me a card and teUs me to report to the Mobilizing Office.

"So I reports to the Mobilizing Office.

They sends me away to draw me 'arp— which I signs for, pass the Doctor, and report to the Dooty Saint of the mess.

"E tells me to fall in on the parade at OH-eight-double-OH in the mornin' and along comes the Dooty Archangel, who starts detail' the 'and for work from the left— "Saints' Mess!

Angels' Mess!

Paradise Lane Sweeper!

Bible Class!

Remainder—'arpin'."

"So I goes away on me cloud and I 'arps from eight tiU four and the foUowin' morning when I faUs in on parade I faUs in on the left and along comes the Dooty Archangel and 'e starts detailin' the 'ands for work from the right.

"Saints' Mess!

Angels' Mess!

Paradise Lane Sweeper!

Bible Class!

Remainder—"arpin'."

"So again I goes away on me cloud and I 'arps from eight tiU four and I thinks tomorrow mornin' when I faUs in I'U faU-in in the center. Which I did.

"Along comes the Dooty Archangel and 'e starts detailin' the 'ands for work.

"Saints' Mess!

Angels' Mess!

Paradise Lane Sweeper!

Bible Class!

Remainder—'arpin," and 'e stops just when he gets to me.

So I throws down me 'arp.

He says: "You're for 'arpin!" " 'Arpin?" sez I. " 'Arpin!" sez 'e.

I sez: "111 see Saint Peter and ask whether there ain't no justice in 'eaven!"

"All right," sez he. "You'll see Saint

Peter." Which I did. So Saint Peter 'e sez, "Captains Report!" and the Regulatin' Angel sez "Right mrn, double March. FaU-in outside the Captain's cabin at OH-nine-double-OH in the mornin'! " So I falls in outside the Captain's cabin at OH-nine-double-OH in the mornin'—and waits for me name to be called.

Then the Jaunty calls me name and I doubles in smartly. The Jaunty caUs out "Ordinary Angel 'Awkins—OFF 'ALO!" So I doffs me 'alo and comes to attention and 'e reads out the charge.

"Ordinary Angel 'Awkins, Sir, did commit an act to the prejudice of good order and 'eavenly discipline in that 'e did refuse to 'arp when called upon to do so. Sir." So the Captain sez "WeU, 'Awkins, what 'ave you to say?" So I explains my case. Then 'e sez, "No excuse. You comes up 'ere to do a course in 'arpin'. We've all got to do these things—^you've got to do these things—Seven days 'EU!" And that's why I'm 'ere!'

Dutch Courage (Continued from page 18) miralty gave him command of a motor torpedo boat. On his first patrol in the Channel he sighted and saiik a German tanker. He is now a lieutenant commander, commanding a flotiUa of P-T boats. He probably is very busy off the Normandy coast as I write this.

Larive has an interesting outfit in his command. One of his officers, the very taU Lieutenant Jorissen, was in command of a Dutch P-T boat in Netherlands East Indies. He sank a Japanese light craiser carrying the Jap general who was going to take command of the island of Java.

Jorissen was elated—until he learned that the Jap general was an excellent swimmer and reached the Java coast safe and sound. Jorissen's spirits didn't begin to recover until he sank a German supply ship in the English Channel.

After Holland fell, we had a shortage of officers and men in the Navy, and this shortage became acute when the Japs invaded and conquered Netherlands East Indies. Luckily in 1940 part of our Naval Cadets escaped to Britain. Some of them came in groups, others individually. Not aU came with empty hands. Four of them brought the Colors of the Corps. Fifteen of them brought a gift to the British.

Headed by a Marine officer, these fifteen lads delivered 950 capmred German paratroopers, whom they had managed to load onto a Dutch cargo ship leaving Ymuiden!

Our Admiralty immediately arranged to open a Naval College so these cadets could finish their training. First classes

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were conducted aboard a famous passenger Uner (The SS W E S T E R N L A N D ) , and later the Admiralty managed to secure a country house in Cornwall. The Cadets, with some grumbling, settled down to book work again after an exciting interlude of advenmre.

Meanwhile in Sourabaya another Naval CoUege was started. Later these boys had to leave and were evacuated just before the Battle of the Java Sea. They too made their way to England, where they joined the older cadets in CornwaU. Most of them are now at sea, except one. This particular young man had always dreamed of joining the Navy.

When HoUand fell he was studying for admission to the Dutch Naval College.

He completed his smdies even though his country was occupied. Surreptitiously Ustening to the BBC, he learned of the Naval CoUege at CornwaU. He bought a pair of extra heavy shoes, walked to the Spanish border, leapfrogged from Spanish jail to Spanish jail, and finaUy reached Lisbon. 'There a K. L. M. plane picked him up. He is our youngest cadet, and is not quite ready for sea duty.

Battle of the Java Sea, where we lost everything in a desperate fight, we lost our supply of manpower from that area.

Even though the Dutch Navy had lost two-thirds of its ships and men, it was in 1943 among the largest of the navies of the occupied countries. However we can no longer make good our losses in men.

Allied shipbuilding would permit us to replace our ship losses, but we can't man them. Of course men escaping from Netherlands or Netherlands East Indies join the Navy, but this is but a trickle.

Still we have at aU times naval units operating around the coast of England, in the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic.

We also have units in the Caribbean around the Dutch West Indies. In the Far East we operate in Australia under American command and from Ceylon under British command. But the number of ships in aU these theaters of war is strictly limited to the number of available free Dutchmen.

When "Fesmng Europa" was attacked for the first time in Sicily, our gunboats (H.N.M.S. SOEMBA and FLORES) eagerly joined in. On the SOEMBA more than one-third of the ratings was Indonesian.

They had never been to HoUand, but HEN HoUand feU, we depended were stiU fighting Hitler. When D-Day heavily for manpower on the arrived these same boats were sheUing Netherlands East Indies. But after rhe German positions in Normandy. The na-

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tive gun crews were hard at it. They knew that one day, when the Netherlands was free again, that their white brothers, now imprisoned, would take the Dutch troopships to the Far East to help in the liberation of the Dutch East Indies.

Our minesweepers have done a magnificent job. The Dutch fishing fleet was peacefully fishing in the North Sea when war broke out. The fishermen could have gone back to Holland, to their homes, to their wives and children living in clean little villages on the coast. Tliey chose another course. When they heard that their Queen was in England, they went to British ports. They sold their fish and joined the Dutch Navy. Later they sailed again on their old ships, which had been converted into minesweepers.

W e were building new submarines in HoUand when war came. Some of rhem had to be blown up as the Nazis approached. One was nearly ready at Rotterdam, but had never dived. 'The commanding officer decided to sail anyway with half a crew and some civilian shipyard workers. There was no time to lose.

The ropes were inboard already when the chief officer arrived with the charts.

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had to dive and stayed on the bottom, her crew wondering if she would ever see the sun again. She was of course leaking like a sieve. The C. O. made a round through the ship and found a civilian worker in a forward compartment, welding under an mnbrella against the drip.

This submarine was completed in a British yard and operated successfuUy first in Norwegian warers against the Germans, and later in Mare Nostrum againsr Fascist Italy. Then she went to the Far East where she sank Japanese shipping in the Malacca Straits.

Most of our cruisers and destroyers were of course in the Far Easr in 1940.

Bur in HoUand we were building more when the Nazi invasion came. A half completed destroyer was towed by a mg to England under the very noses of the Germans. It was HJSTJM.S. ISAAC SWEERS. The ISAAC SWEERS was later cormnissioned and hunted with British flotiUas in the Mediterranean.

In the Battle of Cape Bon, the ISAAC SWEERS became weU known. She was sunk twice by Rome Radio, but always turned up ar Malra again. Then, covering the North Africa invasion, she got two torpedoes, burned and sank. The conmaanding officer and the officer of the watch and some men escaped. The C. O. was given command of a Ught cmiser, whUe the balance of her complement was

just enough to help man a former British the Battle of Macassar Straits, reorganized in Colombo and two weeks later frigare. were in fuU operation with AmericanANOTHER of our ships, the gunboat buUt CataUnas.

Losses within these new squadrons X*. V A N KINSBERGEN, made a "tonper-mile-trip." On a voyage totaling were replaced by personnel which was 60,000 miles, she sank 66,000 tons of trained in Jackson, Mississippi. Due to the lack of new young pUots, however, enemy shipping!

It remained for H.N.M.S. SRYNSSEN, the training program at Jackson has been a minesweeper, to perform the most re- discontinued.

Meanwhile we have managed to buUd markable escape from the enemy. She was trapped in Sourabaya when the Japs up a Marine Corps. From every ship we gor too close for comfort or safety. Her got volimteers for a smaU nudeus, which skipper recmited about fifty survivors is being trained in amphibious warfare from ships sunk in or near the great na- with the United States Marines for the val base. These men were inunediately liberation of the Dutch East Indies. Reordered ro cut palm trees and foUage. cruiting for additional members will With these cuttings, the whole ship was start as soon as HoUand is free again.

Specialists in amphibious warfare decorated with enormous green branches and whole trees, which were secured by who have been trained in the United chains and wires. She crept along the States have been sent to the Dutch Army coast, from time to time replacing with- in England, undoubtedly to be used as a ered boughs and leaves for fresh ones. spearhead for the Uberarion of Holland.

Except for a few fires in trees too close HE response of our people, from aU to the funnel, she made a quiet trip to over the world, to die caU of duty AustraUa. The Naval Air Service also has con- carmot be too Ughtly emphasized. When tinued in the fight against HoUand's I escaped from France to England and enemies. Those who escaped from Hol- joined the Navy, I met again friends of land after the 10th of May, 1940, formed my school days whom I had not seen nor a new squadron on the first of June and heard from for many years. They had helped the British. They are now flying come from Vancouver and Buenos Aires, American buUr MitcheUs. Those who es- from Shanghai and Capetown, from Melcaped from Java after their field day in bourne and Denver. They came from all

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In the unequal Battle of the Java Sea, Admiral Karel Doorman signaUed his AlUed war fleet: "I attack, foUow me."

After this final signal, and the battle which ensued, the world did not hear much of the Dutch Navy. One day again, however, a coUeague of Admiral Doorman wiU give a similar signal to the Dutch ships in a strong aUied Fleet. Only then, and then only, wiU the lonely and hungry Dutch wives in HoUand and the Indies expect their saUor husbands to come home. But not to rest. They wiU go home to buUd up the dikes and the city of Rotterdam which the Huns destroyed and the oU fields in the Dutch East Indies which we oiurselves destroyed.

An Artist in the Marianas (Continued from page 19) very tough one and requires great courage. It is caUed hazardous duty.

Despite the apparent lack of defense faciUties, we had great losses in the landing. The first three or four waves went in with Uttle opposition from the enemy but some landing craft overmrned on reefs. It was the fifth and later waves which met with mortar fire and real resistance. This started the bloody battle for Saipan.

"VVTHEN on D-plus-2 day I was being ' ^ transferred from the battleship to a transport in a smaU boat in preparation to going ashore, an air attack came at dusk. Our ship zig-zagged to sea for the night, leaving me in a smaU landing boat with four enlisted men. Suddenly the sky was ablaze with anti-aircraft fire as enemy planes swooped down. As senior officer present I took charge and about six landing boats tied up together.

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into Jap territory. The air attack was over soon, but sheUs suddenly feU around us, some as close as 40 feet away. Evidently the Japs were firing from shore. The amazing thing to me was that they had not done this before when the transports were in, for we were in the same spot they had vacated.

Saipan had seemed from the bombarding battleship to be more Japanese in character than any of the other Pacific Islands I had seen. From the BB, I could see great'clumps of flame trees, and near the shore line were what appeared to be smnted pine trees, their long needles like Spanish moss. The fields of green cane also added to the Nippon appearance.

When we got ashore this paraUel with Japan itself was emphasized. The houses were Japanese in style, with their floors several feet above the ground.

One morning three Japs, two of them women, were discovered under the house next to where General Smith and some of his StaflF were biUeted. They had sneaked in at night. I think they must have remrned to save some of their household articles. AU over Saipan fine China cups and ornaments had been swept out of the houses and were half buried in the sand. One officer remarked that he was the first man to sleep with a Jap womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his bed was just a few feet above where one of the women had been crouching under the house.

By the time I reached shore, the beachhead was fairly secure, but snipers were StiU active near this area. A Marine Captain and I went forward to look around.

We were stopped by an MP and told to get back. Both the Captain and I were in jungle coveraUs, with absolutely no insignia of rank. My companion, however, endeavored to explain to the MP that he was an officer and that it was okay for us to be there. This apparently sounded like an old familiar refrain to the MP, who replied that he too was an officer, and suggested that we "scram to heU out of there." We did.

T r \ UST on Saipan was terrific. Great â&#x20AC;˘*--' clouds of it had been raised by the churning tanks and LVT's and breathing was very difficult. The men looked as if they had been sprinkled with talcum powder and their faces were caked.

Where they had sweated the dust was a dark brown color. After a while the dust was so thick on their faces that the perspiration dried before it reached the surface.

While on Saipan I visited an internment camp for Japanese civUians. There the women and children were bathing, in the nude, while the Marine guards stood at attention. One woman was crying and moaning. I was told that when the Marines came she had choked her baby to death, thinking it would be tormred. Then she was in despair because other mothers had not done so, and she was watching their children playing and

I was biUeted in one of the Japanese houses, and given what probably was the kitchen. It was a tiny room, and not too comfortable. In order to stretch out full length I had to sleep eater-cornered. The whole place was a mess when I took over, but I finaUy got it cleared away by just sweeping everything outside.

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Jap air resistance on Saipan was weak, because of the powerful blows against the Bonins, Guam, Tinian and Rota, and mosdy, I suppose, because of our grear victory over their fleet on July 18th.

There were arracks, however, almosr every day at dusk made by three to six planes and there were nuisance raids at night.

After rwelve days, I left Saipan to return to Eniwetok. Although by that time we had secured AsUto airfield, snipers were stiU around. We drove to the field in a truck As we walked out to where the plane was waiung, we heard the ping-g-g-g of a sniper's buUet and hit the dirt. A few minutes later it happened again. We dropped ro the ground several times more before we reached the plane.

One chap was hit not twenty feet away.

When I reached Eniwerok, I was supposed ro return to Washington to work up my sketches, but the Guam expedition was setting out, so I wanted to go along. This time I was on a transport.

On W-day (so designated in the plans to avoid confusing ir with Saipan's Dday) I changed over before H-hour to a Sub Chaser. H-hour was at 0830, and I went in at 1030. In our wave rhere were three SC's, one in each flank and one in

the middle to guide the landing craft and tanks in. We went in on the southern beachhead at the foot of Orote peninsula. The pre-invasion bombardmenr and the rockets from the LCI's had complerely devastated the beachhead area. The Japs apparendy had retired to the hills, leaving only a few piUboxes marmed.

As at Saipan an underwater demoUtion squad had gone in prior to the landing. One of the LCI's had gone aground on a reef and the men had to get out and push it oflF. They were aground for some rime, bur at no time did they draw enemy fire, although they were perfecr targets.

As we went in, the SC on the left flank was hit by Jap shellfire. Four men were kiUed and 17 wounded. A war correspondenr who was aboard was spattered with blood and his helmet was fuU of shrapnel. Lucidly he was unhurt. was quire different from SaiGUAM pan. As we approached it, it looked more like BougainviUe than any other Pacific island, for the shore in this area was fringed with palm trees. There was complete devastation ashore, bur the absence of dust, was amazing to me after Saipan. The trees were sharrered aU ro heU. At Guam the pre-invasion aerial and surface bombardmenr was even more

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The natives here were different from rhose on Saipan as I discovered after going ashore. The inhabitants of both are chamarros and the Guam natives physicaUy resembled those on Saipan. Iliere the resemblance ended, however. The Saipan natives were stem and stoical looking but the Guam people were happy and pleased to see the Americans rerum, and Guam boys seemed much like American boys.

Eleven Guam natives, three of them USN, had a hair raising tale to teU after escaping by canoe to one of our destroyers. They said that when the Japs first captured the island in 1941, women were raped and rhat the entire populace was treared abominably. Later, however, schools were opened and Jap treatment was fairly decenr. When we started our air and surface bombardment there was a change for rhe worse. Most of the natives were interned in the southern part of the island and raping and killing began agairL Some of these escaped boys had been put in a pit with 24 others, induding four women and an old man, the father of one. The guards got drunk and, after teUing the prisoners they would soon be happy with their ancesters, threw in hand grenades. Some of the prisoners managed to ger out, kiU the guards and

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escape. Before leaving they set free about 200 others who took to the hiUs. Evidendy the Japs told them that before the United States tpok the islands aU the natives would be kiUed. The Unes at the beachhead were fluid, because the Japs infiltrated at night and had to be deaned out. On the southern beachhead the Japs sheUed Agar from Orote peninsula on the third day. They did a lot of damage for our troops by then had occupied the town.

The Japs apparendy had Guam honeycombed with caves and mimels, where they holed up. W e deaned them out with grenades, flame throwers, or sealed the caves. At one cave near the approach to Orote Peninsula a detail of Marines had kiUed 20 Japs during one day. That night the Marines were bivouacked nearby.

One of them noticed a Ught in the mouth of a cave. He picked up his gun and shot at it. This was a mistake. The Jap opened fire, kiUing several members of the detaU. W-pIus-two I left the southern ONbeachhead and went by sea to the northern beachhead. At that time the two forces had not yet made contact. As we came into the area we could see the fighting on a ridge near Point Adelup.

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I left Guam after five days and returned to Eniwetok and evenmaUy to Washington where I finaUy get around wave of Marines would be momentarily to working up my picmres. silhouetted at the top and then drop back as the Japs knocked them off. But a wave finaUy got over.

Miscellaneous Cargo When I reached the shore in the north(Continued from page 28) ern sector (after losing a sketch book containing Saipan notes) the medical months, from October to December, stations were busy with the wounded, 1942, January to March, April to June, giving them plasma on the beach and and July to September, 1943. transferring them to boats for evacuaIt is a handy reference book for editors, tion. They were coming back from the commentators, teachers, historians, and front in streams. Dead were stacked high members of the Armed Forces who must and the stench was nauseating. The doc- frequently check their memories against tors were urging that the dead be buried a facmal and documentary source. Each immediately but the field commanders of the books of the series carries an introhad the grave diggers working for them duction by some outstanding commentabecause they felt that supplies for living tor or author. The introduction for the fighters were more important. present volume was written by Viscount The accuracy of the preinvasion WaveU, Viceroy of India. bombardment at both Guam and Saipan This volume recounts events that impressed me. It was terrific. Gun em- marked the high tide of Axis aggression placements were shot to pieces. Very and the mrning point in the global strugfew were left serviceable. Even so, it was gle that today sees our enemies striving, StiU a tough job for the flame throwers no longer for victory, but to stave off certain defeat. to take care of them.

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Known as NOIC's, a British-originated abbreviation for "Naval-Officer-inCharge," these new organizations have been functioning since shortly after the first American troops landed in Normandy 6 June. Every American invasion beach on the far shore now has a NOIC. NOIC's and their staffs of trained and SpeciaUzed personnel operate the receiving end of the convoy system of transport. In charge of aU ships and Naval establishments on the far shore, they run

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After the Army has decided when, where and what supplies or personnel are needed and has determined priorities, NOIC's begin to operate, receiving the convoys of ships as they arrive with the goods destined for fighting forces in the front lines.

Through this system of cooperation and assistance to the Army, these Navy shore organizations have contributed greatly to the success of the Normandy campaign.

Similar to the average city council, NOIC organizations are broken into numerous divisions, sub-divisions and units each under the direction of trained officers.

There are port directors responsible for the expeditious mrn-around of all cargo and troop carrying vessels. In addition to berthing ships, it is their responsibility to keep safe channels marked and provide other aids to navigation.

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of small craft which ply between the beach and larger ships anchored off shore. Through the use of these small ferry craft, unloading of big cargo ships is accomplished in comparatively few hours.

Other divisions include salvage units charged with clearing beaches and their approaches of damaged or sunken ships and other debris; repair units which keep ships, craft and beach instaUations in tip-top condition; civil affairs units which deal with the local populace; firefighting, police and military defense units that provide protection against enemy attack or accident; medical units that cooperate in the evacuation and treatment of aU service personnel and fuel organizations that keep the hundreds of craft, ships and vehicles under NOIC supervision moving.

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The NOIC on this beach, with several Kong. Nor for the brutality of the conmembers of his staff, went ashore the day centration camps where British people after the invasion to establish headquar- are incarcerated. ters and work out plans with the Army Besides many thousands of British for the vital system of supply. Before civilians there are already some 40,000 the Army had cleared roads from the British Servicemen—sailors, soldiers and beach to the front lines, this NOIC and airmen—recorded as Japanese prisoners his staff" were receiving and delivering of war. AU of them have anxious famisupplies arriving from the United lies and friends in the British Isles. So Kingdom. the number of people of Britain with a direct personal interest in getting their Shortly after NOIC moved ashore, he ordered the Navy's Seabees, and Beach friends and relatives out of Japan's Battalions to help Army units in the clutches mns into hundreds of thousands.

Anthony Eden reported to the House work of dearing debris and erecting faof Commons on 28 January 1944, the ciUties for delivery of supplies. These faciUties were constructed in record savagery and tormre that British victims of the Japanese have been enduring—a time. tale of starvation, exposure, medical Utilizing the ship-to-shore ferry sys- neglect of the wounded, bayonetings and tem this organization, almost from the aU the rest of the only too familiar horoutset, was capable of handling the rors. His report was made on the same largesr freighters, transports and tankers. day as the United States War and Navy Working under the NOIC are more Departments reported on the maltreatthan 4,000 officers and enlisted men in ment of the Americans and Filipinos. the U S. Navy, of which some 1,400 The British people were angered as proare Seabees. Many of these are either di- foundly as the American people. recdy or indirecdy engaged in operating the ferry craft that range from LCT's to Rhino barges and DUKW's (amphib- ' T ' H O U G H the outcome of the Bat-*- tie of Egypt was touch-and-go, the ious tmcks.)

British Military Conunand namraUy During the firsr three weeks of the in- raised no objections to the remrn of Ausvasion, this NOIC received and delivered tralian soldiers to defend their home thousands of tons of supplies daily, as country as soon as Japan struck. weU as hundreds of vehicles fuU of supAU the equipment that could be pUes loaded at their point of deparmre. spared was scraped together and sent to In addition, thousands upon thousands of India, so that the Indian Army could American and AUied troops were put start building up to its present 2,000,000 ashore, with practicaUy no mishap. volunteers.

With the cmcial Battle of the Atlantic When this NOIC moved ashore the condition of his beach was described as StiU in the balance and the Italian Fleet a "saUor's nightmare." Debris was StiU a menace in the Mediterranean, ships strewn everywhere and few portions of of the British Navy were, nevertheless, the beach were safe from mines and switched to service in Eastern waters.

After the Japanese advance came to a booby traps. With the help of the Seabees and Beach Battalions who arrived halt on the shores of the Indian Ocean, with cranes, buUdozers, trucks and other aggressive action by British Forces did gear, the beach was cleared and placed not cease.

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Soon after the 1942 monsoon let up, British and Indian Forces started the first limited offensive in the difficult Arakan country. During the four months of the campaign the Japanese were kept under constant pressure and suffered 4,000 casualties.

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Then, in the winter of 1943 and the spring of 1944, operations in Burma began to develop on a much bigger scale.

The lessons of the Wingate expedition were appUed, and Wingate's raiders, now in greater numbers, penetrated into central Burma; another campaign was launched in Arakan; the Japanese were driven off from the key point of Imphal and from the Manipur Road.

Since the Mediterranean was opened after the victories of Tunisia and SicUy, aU the Brirish naval vessels that could be spared from those seas were switched to service againsr Japan. Every victory of the Brirish Navy—the sinking of the SCHABNHORST, the defeat of the Uboats, etc.—^has meant more British ships avaUable for the Far East. _ Mr. ChurchiU in his broadcast on 26 March 1944, was able to say: "We have placed a powerful batdefleet under Admiral SomerviUe in Indian warers in order to face the main Japanese Fleet, should it turn westward after having dedined barde against the Americans."

Admiral SomerviUe did not wait for

the Japanese to turn westward. He took the iniriative himself. He smashed the key Japanese bases, Sabang and Surabaya.

At die same time the transfers of more British submarines to those waters stepped up Japanese shipping losses.

Even before this increase in Brirish naval strength in the East, the great British aircraft carrier, HMS "VICTORIOUS, complete with crew and aircraft, served in the Pacific with the American Fleet.

While aU this has been going on the British Navy and the R.A.F. have been helping to strangle Japanese war economy by cutting her off from her Nazi parmer, sinking the blockade-rurmers trying to carry to her valuable cargoes— baUbearings, blueprints and prototypes of weapons, and machine tools.

Brirain depends on internarional trade and investment for a decent standard of Uving. When the war ends she wiU have substantial problems even to restore her pre-war level of prosperity.

She has restricred her output of export goods severely, so that her facrories could concentrate on producing airplanes, warships and guns; she wiU have quite a job getting some of her former customers back.

But the Brirish people wiU not be content to go back to its pre-war level of prosperity, any more than the American people.

How are they going to maintain ana improve their standard of Uving? Experience shows that the best customers for exports are the more devdoped and industriaUzed countries with high standards of Uving; the United States and Britain, for example, are each other's most important customer.

Obviously if American. Britain and the Commonwealth, and the other United Nations, want to expand dieir foreign trade, they must create new customers by developing and modernizing more parrs of the world. And the countries crying out for this devdopment are the countries now occupied by the Japanese—countries which, though economicaUy backward, already have advanced civiUzations and highly devdoped ctdtures and tradirions.

The market for trade and investment these countries represent cannot be opened up for the AUies, now fighting together in the common cause, untd the Japanese menace is ended forever.

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Apart from the fact that these sovereign nations of their own free wiU sent armies to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, many young Australian and Canadian airmen helped to win the Batde of Britain, and thousands of Canadian soldiers have been stationed in Britain.

Everyone in Britain knows some of these young men personaUy. They have been wdcomed into Brirish homes. They are aU a part of the family in a very human sense.

These Dominions border the Pacific.

No Brirish Government which showed the faintest sign of quaUfying ChurchiU's and Eden's pledges of Britain's determination to fight Japan to a finish would survive. for aU these reasons, when Brirish S O,statesmen repeatedly pledge aU of Britain's power and effort to beating the Japanese when Germany is beaten, they are not just talking for the record.

America has had acmal experience with British pledges. Before Pearl Har-

bor Winston ChurchiU pledged Britain to join America "within the hour" if America should be at war with Japan— and that pledge was fulfiUed. Mr. ChurchiU made this promise when Britain already had her hands full with the war against the Nazis. There was no demand for a reciprocal pledge from America to join Britain "within the hour" if the Japanese should choose to attack British territory first.

Britain is now much stronger than when she made and kept that pledge.

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(Continued from page 24) better job. He landed, as I wiU teU you a Utde later, in a very difficult position.

He landed the Seventh Corps of Major General Joe ColUns and did a fine job.

He left towards the end of June with praises of everyone ringing in his ears.— Admiral Ramsey, messages from me. Admiral Stark, General CoUins and General Bradley. I couldn't wish for a better oppormniry to pay a very high ttibute to Admiral Moon's character and his abUity as a saUor; as a grand fighter. And what has happened since, I have no explanation for.

marmed by youngsters during the last swabbing session on the morning of debarkarion.

In spite of numerous fraps turned in on the less alert ones and any other unpleasantries that might have been encoimtered, the three cruises proved themsdves to be very worthy of their purpose.

Very few of those who went along wiU honesdy say that on the whole they did not enjoy and benefit from the month's training. With the cruise batdeship puUing out and saiUng for other ports, your correspondent is now going also to upanchor and head northward for Michigan. Yep, it's at last time for leave. Be seeing you next month.

N discussing these beaches there were Isions. two very distinct geographical diviAdiniral HaU had to land in an area where the beach at low water was about four thousand feet wide, fuU of mimels, fuU of gulUes, but largely of sand. When you came up the shoreline, there was a steep incUne of smaU rocks and stones. The Brirish caU it "shingle."

There was a far shore of about 100 to 150 yards wide, and behind that, bluflFs. The bluffs were about as high as the PaUsades in New York—about 125 feet.

These bluffs were indented by guUies or ravines where the smaU stteams or paths came to the shore which the Germans,

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Admiral Moon's place, which was around the corner across the Utde estuary caUed Rancon, was very flat, very sandy, with marshy land behind it where the Germans had flooded it, and with sandbars in front. In the dose geography is a Utde island caUed St. Marcouf, and there are some banks nmning generaUy north and south of that island—^Utde islets. His people, when they got ashore after crossing the sand-bars and so on— the soldiers—had no high land to be worried about.

To help the soldiers ger ashore on each of these two beaches, we had in the American Naval Forces three batdeships —the ARKANSAS, TEXAS and NEVADA; we had three cruisers; we had some thirty-odd destroyers; a large number of smaU craft; and four or five Brirish cruisers; rwo French cruisers with a French rear admiral; and a Dutch gtm-

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boat. They were divided so as to give approximately equal strength and firepower to the beaches. Admiral Deyo, who commanded the whole establishment, was assigned to Admiral Moon under whom he served — although Moon was junior—served gladly and admirably.

The shorelines and enemy positions were very carefully studied and a most comprehensive and complicated scheme of gun-power was put out. It is necessary to appreciate, under these continental assaults, not to give the alarm in advance because if you do all the German reserves and all the German tanks would be laying in the brush, so we have to go in and make a preparatory period of gunfire and then having sailors carry the soldiers in the boats and they rush the shore. I think the results of gunfire were amazingly good. They were splendid. Couldn't have been better. They were spotted by spotters supplied by rhe RAF and Canadian Air Force, our own Army and our own Naval pilots.

Of course, you understand how the Army gets ashore. We send what we call a fire<ontrol party with the Army, and they go along with the front lines and transmit the calls for fire as necessary to the battleships.

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couldn't have been better. I never saw a German plane in daylight the whole time we were there. I saw some at night but I never saw one in the daytime. After about two days, we soon arrived at a state where airplanes were heard overhead, people would look up and say, "What are those—P-39's? Spits?" or whatever they were, but never "Jerries?" The mastery we had in the air contributed very largely to the surprise of the landing because the German never found out, at least as far as I knew, we were under way and where we were headed. The Air also did some very efiFective bombing, particularly of certain most important batteries which we feared were going to interrupt our unloading of the transports, and took out some of those in fine style.

There was a very large airborne operation, as you know, and that passed off very successfully. There were two ways of doing that. One was to come in the west side of Cherbourg, and the other was to come in on the east side. If we went on the west side, we could not go in with the assault ships. If they went in on the east side, they would be in danger of being shot at by our ships. Now you can easily realize how the airborne aviation got into difficulty in Sicily—^got shot at and some of them got shot down. We were very conscious of that and we decided we would make certain that we

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I might say their work in seizing the exits across the marshlands helped the Seventh Corps a great deal. thing we had to worry A^NOTHER ' about were mines in the Channel— sea-mines. There were a good many mine-fields laid in the Channel at various times in the war, and we had to cut our way through them. There were also mine-fields off the Coast. The minesweepers were about fifty-fifty British and American, in my sector. "To sweep for mines in a strong tide-way is a pretty difficult problem. You may have many technical matters which make it hard, and the speed of the mine-sweepers, of course, isn't very fast. We had to get underway and push ourselves across through those mine-fields, behind the mine-sweepers, right up against the land. When I say "up against the land" I mean within three thousand yards. I supported the mine-sweepers and destroyers with battleships so that if Jerry 75

opened the party on the mine-sweepers, we'd be ready to hand it back. They did an, excellent job! W e did have some casualties later—some mines—but that's the nature of the game.

Mine-sweeping for the assault was— and I will give you a mental sketch of what it was going to do—looked like the bloodstream in an artery in the inside of a dog—and it worked. They did what they were supposed to do, and they did it on time.

After the Army was properly ashore on Hall's and Moon's beaches, as you know, they later on advanced the attack of Cherbourg. That was the Seventh Corps job. "Riey did it very well. The situation was such as to want us to get an early victory there and open that port because of its deep-water facilities, to increase the volume of supplies to go ashore; and General Bradley asked me to support the Army's attack with gunfire from the sea. That job I was very glad

to accede to and turned the task over to Deyo. He brought the ships out from the English Coast and undertook the task.

What he actually did was this: He fired deep into the hills against German batteries that were, say, bothering the Army's rapid advance; and, of course, when he did that, the forts of Cherbourg, designed to beat off a Naval attack, opened up on his ships, so part of his ships had to return the fires of the forts —^like blocking with your left while striking with the right, and that was the battle that developed and lasted for part of a day. There was some damage to our ships, and there was a lot of damage to the Germans, and the Army seemed to be pretty well satisfied with our assistance, and the next day Cherbourg fell.

That saved a lot of time. That saved a lot of lives.

A broad observation on these amphibious assaults that we have been having in this war all around the world and from

the nature of the war—it has been necessary to cross the sea to get at the enemy wherever we have gone. Pacific, Adantic, Mediterranean, and so forth. When you set up an amphibious assault, you have to make a time-table—a program of how you are going to land, that is, to meet the Army's requirements, and they want certain things in first, certain other things later, and so on. If everything goes weU, you can keep to a time-table like that, as happened on Admiral Moon's beaches where everything had gone very well, they got forward and utilized their advantage at once and they never got behind in their time-table. On Admiral Hall's beach, however, due to the obstacles, the enemy fire, etc., there was delay, l i i e opposition was difficult. They did not get ashore as fast. The result of that is it slows down the whole program; just a sort of vast juggernaut begins to roll, has rolled, and everything is there but you've got to shoot it out and land it as, if and when you can, rather than as on a regular time-table set-up.

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plan isn't precisely being carried out; and due to very excellent briefing by the captains of ships to these coxswains of boats and boat officers in the landing craft, they did a fine job—picked their boats and got the soldiers ashore.

I was in close against the beach myself in the AUGUSTA and it was the most inspiring sight to see them doing this and see the destroyers right in against the land, almost had their bows against the bottom. And the German defense system was set up to fire not to the sea but to fire down the beach. A fellow over here would fire down that way; similarly over there they would fire this way, but the destroyers did not see this gun, coidd not see this gun because they had big aprons of concrete around them. They could see the flashes. What happened is they looked down from one destroyer and saw a flash down there, would tell the other destroyer "There's the guy, shoot at him, catch him" and they did shoot at him, and they had such very dose control they used open sights, no fire control.

But when it comes to the showdown, what really gets them ashore is the soldier with the bayonet. The First Division and the Twenty-Ninth Division, which landed over there, were the boys with those bayonets who put it across.

They did a fine job!

Now a technique in the amphibious

warfare has been developed, as you have seen, across the world and it is getting better all the time, I think. You've got to vary it to suit your particular job and have one flat rule that fits every case. It is different when you are working in islands, landing masses of complements, but the differences are always adjustable.

Amphibious operations practically never fail. Xerxes, William, William of Orange, the Japs in Malaya, ourselves wherever we hit. One of the reasons is you start with these things, you have always the initiative. You can move faster than they can move divisions of an army along the shoreline. If you have the proper planes, you can always get ashore.

If you have the power, you can choose your own time and place of landing, arrive superior to the defense at the local points of contaa—and when you turn on the power, it works.

I think the resources of the United Nations and the experiences we have had of how to apply this power means that amphibious operations now are not easy but they're certainly not any bugbear.

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I hope that USS CANBERRA may serve as valiantly as did HMAS CANBERRA and I know that she will wear the first Canberra badge proudly."

Australian Navy Minister Norman Makin said yesterday in Australia that the presentation was a token of the link between Australia and the United States and a symbol of the appreciation of the Goverrmient and people of Australia of the action of the United States Government in naming the new cruiser after HMAS CANBERRA. Makin said: "No surer proof of the close co-o|>eration and friendship between our two countries exists than the

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CLYDE GRAY W E S T , '08, Capt., USN. Died attendance at the August dinner-meeting of 11 July 1944, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Impromptu talks were given by Capt. G. the Maryland Branch Association, held TuesW. Meade, USN, '20 (Enroute through L. A. ERNEST W E T H E R I L L W O O D , J R . , '38, Lt. to a command at sea), Lt. Comdr. E. W. Man- day, 15 Aug. at 7 P.M., in the StaflFord Hotel, Comdr. USN. Died—19 June 1944. Pacific tel, USN-Ret., '20 (C. O. Naval Unit Cal. Baltimore, Maryland. The usual business was transaaed after the dinner, and then was held Area—enemy action.

Tech.), Lt. Comdr. J. A. Marsh, '24, USN-Ret., an interesting Bull Session! Among those (NROTC Unit UCLA), and Lt. C. L Blankpresent were Comdr. Morris D. Gilmore, '11, enship, USNR, '37, all of whom told about USN-Ret., President of the Maryland Branch, their present work on aaive duty in the Navy. and Harry R. England, '27, Secretary-TreasThe speaker for the evening was Mr. Al- urer of the Parent Association, who came over This space allotted by Shipmate fred D. Brick, Pacific Coast Supervisor for from Annapolis; John T. Waldhauser, Jr., each month for the news of Fox Movietone News whose topic was "Action •23; Lt. Comdr. W. D. Sullivan, USNR; Lt. Branch Associations of U. S. Naval in the South Pacific." Mr. Brick was the only Comdr. Charles S. Silsbee, '25, USNR; ClifAcademv. newsreel cameraman to cover the attack on ford R. Wise, '41; Comdr. John D. Biglow, Pearl Harbor and was present in seven major USN; Major L. Miller, USA; Lt. John B. battles of the Pacific War theatre. He photo- Poore, '25, USN-Ret.; Maj. J. Alex Lane, '25, graphed action from the decks of the aircraft JAGD; and W. Beverly Bristor, '27. P. S.: carriers WASP, ENTERPRISE, YORKTOWN and And 'Andy' Anderson was missing! For furLOS ANGELES BRANCH HORNET and participated in aaual flights ther information concerning the Maryland The meeting was held as customary in a over enemy ships, joining in the aaion as a Branch please communicate with W. Beverly private dining room at the Los Angeles Ath- dive-bomber gunner as occasion permitted. Bristor, '27, Secretary, Aintree and Hastings letic Qub on Wednesday evening 2 August. Besides having two carriers sink under him Road, Towson, Md. A good turn-out was again experienced for he was in one forced landing in the water this meeting, there being some 28 members while riding in an airplane. His story was and their guests present. Members attending one of thrilling adventure prabably not MILWAUKEE BRANCH equalled by the experiences of any other civilwere: The Milwaukee Branch of the Alimini AsC. N. Perkins, '17 (President); A. W. Buf- ian correspondent. His talk was immensely fington, '22 (Vice President); W. C. Ennis, enjoyed by everyone present. For funher in- sociation continues to meet regularly at the •30 (Sec.-Treas.); P. W. Warren, '17; G. W. formation concerning Los Angeles Branch Cudworth Post Memorial Building on the first ARTHUR REAMY JOYCE, '06. Died 7 April

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The Class of 1916, a great group of men, are carrying a heavy responsibility in this war.

Names that will live include Cassin Young, Henry Mullinix, Swenson of the Juneau, Cecil of the Helena, Kitts of the Northampton, Hussey of the Bureau of Ordnance, Keliher of Nimitz's staflF and Robert Carney of Halsey's staflf and many others. I cruised with many of them and they were a great gang of men.

For further information concerning the Milwaukee Branch please communicate with Kavanaugh C. Downey, President, 3328 North Bardett Avenue, Milwaukee 11, Wisconsin.

NEW YORK BRANCH The Naval Academy Association of New York, Inc., held its luncheon meeting, Wednesday, September 13, 1944, at 12.30 P. M., at The Midday Club, 25 Broad Street, N. Y. C. The speaker was Rear Admiral George F. Hussey, Jr., '16, USN., Chief-Bureau of Ordnance.

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Among our distinguished guests of the evening were three officers of the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve;—Lt. Commander J. R. Whitaker, Lt. C. W. Melrose, and Lt. Rupert Byron.

Too, we enjoyed having with us as guests, a couple of graduates of the Point;—Col. O. R. Wolfe (1893) and Lt. Col. W. R. Wilson ( I 9 I 6 ) ; we enjoyed needling them quite a bit.

Our guest speaker, Maj. L. R. Hall (AC), USA, was accompanied by Maj. E. G. Morrison (AC), USAR, and 1st Lt. J. H. Peterson (AC), USA, all of the Fourth Air Force.

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servations; he operated with the RAF night fighters in England, at the time of the London Blitz, and was then initiated into the intricacies of this aspect of air operations.

Our second guest speaker, Lt. J. R. Whitaker, RANVR, was not scheduled on our program, but having come as a guest of British Consul Hillyer, he very kindly consented to tell us something of the liaison work between the British and American Navies in the North Atlantic. Also, he had only of recent date left London, and gave us some very interesting remarks on the "robot bombs."

Possibly owing to the vacation period and to the slight change in transportation arrangements, our attendance was rather disappointing. With our various guests, a total of fortyeight attended, and of these, the following regular members were present: Stanford E. Moses, 1892; L. S. Shapley, 1899; H. M. Gleason, 1899; H. W. Osterhaus, 1900; Roland Riggs, 1904; R. McC. Beanfield, 1908; Haller Belt, 1908; John H. Falge, 1912; T. D. Ross, 1917; G. E. Ross, I9I8; F. A. MacGurn, 1921; J. C Reisinger, I92I; Elmer E. Myers, 1922; Arnold R. Kline, 1924; R. S. Kimbell, 1926; F. U. Weir, 1931; McDonald Moses, 1931; W. J. Bain, 1934; "Sammy" Bradbard, 1934; C. E. Langlois, 1935; John T. Taylor, 1939.

Our San Francisco dinner meetings are held regularly on the first Wednesday evening of every month; for information, please communicate with Haller Belt (1908), Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Francisco.

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On the Beam T T. (jg) Basil Heatter, USNR, who writes "TTiey -'-' Attack at Night," participated in the PT war against Jap barges in the Soudiwest Pacific N o man who wrote the eloquent line, "in that country, dead men are very dead," could have done so by remote control You have to be on the spot to describe the scents, the scenes and sounds that are described in this artide. A former advertising man^ Lt Heatter was invalided out of the Southwest Pacific; is now on duty in the Office of Public Relations, Navy Department Walter Karig, USNR, author of "Why COMMANDER Japs Shoot Themselves" may be classified variously as newspaperman, artist, author, globe-trotter, soldier and scholar.

Served in the French and Polish armies in the last war, advancing from private infantry to captain motor transport Has seen most of the world, induding Japan, and thus the information that has been packed into this serious and htmiorous piece. Author of numerous books, induding "Asia's Good Neighbor", 1937. (Asia's good neighbor was the United States, ler us explain.) Commander Karig is officer-in-charge Magazine and Book Section, Office of Public Relations, Navy Department

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T T. William F. Draper, USNR, Navy combat artist, wan-'-* dered into the office after his Marianas experience, looking thinned and taimed and doubting that he had a SHIPMATE I artide in his soul Then he began to unwind what impressed I us as a corking good eye-witness account of the Guam and Saipan actions, with the emphasis on things visual as one ' would expect of an artist He protested he couldn't write, . so we assigned L t (jg) Robert McCord, USNR, to interview him and put the story in shape. The result: "An Artist in the Marianas." Lt Draper is hard at work on his Marianas I sketches, which you will soon see in books and national ' magazines.

6 C / ^ R I G I N of Naval Expressions," is a compilation of the ^ ^ Office of War Information, collected from Navy sources, of course.

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O coin a phrase, Colond E. E. Larson, USMQ needs no introduction to SHIPMATE readers, except to say that his nickname is "Swede," and that he is the "Swede" Larson of Naval Academy football fame.

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HE Coast Guard supplied us with a number of the excellent photographs in this issue, induding the prizewinning shots of the Tinian and Normandy landings on pages 20 and 21. The Normandy photo was by Coast Guard Combat Photographer Robert F. Sargent; the 'Tinian photographer remains nameless, unfortunatdy. W e say these shots are "prize-winning." If they are not hteraUy prize-winners, they should be.

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HE October Navy Day issue of SHIPMATE will feature a galaxy of noted writers induding Major George Fidding Eliot, military analyst and coluirmist, who wUl write on our future defense semp. Also an artide by L t William Hessler, USNR, on "Our Stake in the Islands of the Pacific," and anodier by Lt. Welbourn Kelley, USNR, tided "Those Were the Lean Days," and recalling how litde we had and how much we had to do in the early days of the war.

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