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FEBRUARY 1946

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FTER reading over the proofs of the . story "Fabulous Characters" in the January issue, we were just wondering where we could get more humorous yarns of the same kind when a large brown manuscript was dumped on our desk. Idly, we opened it and found it was called "The Cat's Tale," by none other than Vadym Utgoff and Darwin Day, two of the "fabulous characters" whose adventures were described last month! Like our recent "Dirty D." series, this story runs on and on. for many issues and many laughs. Don't miss the beginning this month.

This is Utgoff, telling how the book, "The Cat's Tale," was born: "One morning while I was sitting in my room aboard the tender trying to think of some excuse for neglecting my paper work, Dar Day walked in with a sheaf of drawings in his hand. "'Captain,' he said, 'I have some sketches here you might like to see.'

While I was examining his sketches and remembering the events they depicted, he continued with low cunning, 'I thought perhaps if you'd write a sort of narrative—a story—to give them continuity we might make a book out of them.' He probably also thought, "The Skipper hasn't anything to do except issue orders anyway—^maybe this'll keep him busy.' I was taken in."

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AY LAUNER, the civilian Naval expert who totted up the final summary of "The Inglorious End of the Japanese Fleet" in our December issue, is back this month with a statistical finale to World War II for the U. S. Navy. W e recommend you keep this article for ready reference — number and type of ships at start of war, growth of the fleet, losses, composition at end of war, personnel casualties, make-up of post-war Navy, etc., etc.

P ROB ABLY the most unusual factual story we have ever run is "Submarine Off Saki" in this issue. W e actually thought it was a fiction story—and a darned gripping one, too—until we had finished the last sentence. Submariners will eat it up, and every reader should get a new and vivid picture of the human side of sub operations from its fastmoving narrative. {Continued on page 32) FEBRUARY,

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COITESTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1946 Can T h e Navy Ever Be Obsolete?

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Midshipmen Get Air Training —By Lieut. Sam D. Coleman, USNR

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Mackerel Taxies —By Lieut. Joseph P. Lyford,

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Top Secret and Urgent —By Lieut. Stephen L. Freeland, Submarine oflf Saki —By Lieut. A. B. Spurney,

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T h e Cat's Tale—By Lieut. Comdr. Vadym V. Utgoff, USN and Lieut, {jg) Darwin R Day, USNR

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Bloodhounds versus Wolfpacks

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T h e Navy, 1941-1946—By Jay Launer

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m THE m \ Ships and Men can, but never that organization called Navy T T is impossible to say that a Navy is -*• or ever can be obsolete, by the very definition of the word Navy.

Some people have a tendency to think of things in very childish terms. It is stupid, for instance, to say that a locomotive is a piece of steel of such and such a shape, using steam and pulling coaches.

A locomotive is a vehicle with a given function: whatever shape it may take in the future, it will stUl be a locomotive.

You can't say that a thing ceases to exist because it changes its form or its method of functioning.

The Navy consists of an organization with certain functions to perform and certain capacities for performing them.

The Nav)''s jobs are: to protect the coasts of the United States, to maintain lifelines for U. S. forces operating in foreign places, to transport troops, and to implement American foreign policy.

To think of Navy in terms of battleships is as absurd as to think of it in terms of wooden sailships or submarines.

The Navy is not battleships, submarines, PT boats, or airplanes: The Navy is an organization of men and women, using whatever instruments are most adaptable

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9 to the solving of airrent problems. That is all.

The Navys province is the sea—all the oceans of the world. Crossing the sea, fighting on the sea, maintaining communications across the sea—these are the Navy's jobs. N o matter what may be the methods of accomplishing these tasks in any given age, no matter what may be the shape or nature of the vehicles used, the force that uses them and performs the functions of a Navy is still a Navy.

Major de Seversky may be right in declaring that a batdeship is as dead as the dodo. Badeships do not make a Navy.

The force that defeated the Persians at Salamis did not have batdeships—^but it was the Greek Navy, and a good Navy at that. Navies existed before there were batdeships. To say that a Nav)' will be obsolete because batdeships are obsolete is as stupid as saying that an Army will be obsolete because tanks are no longer of any use.

The Navy today is not like the Navy of a thousand, or a hundred, or even fifty years ago. The Navy of tomorrow will undoubtedly have an enurely different kind of instrument. But in its functions and duties, it will be the same as the Navy that beat the Persians at Salamis.

atom scientists are afraid that THE the coming test will not tell the truth, and that there will be a big Nav^• even though batdeships are really obs lete. They seem to think thac the N.will take advantage of the lack of curate information, using it as an excuse to build more batdeships.

Nothing can be more ridiculous. The Navy knows there are to be three tests, and beUeve me, it is interested in knowing the truth. It is as interested as the Army or Major de Seversky, or any other crackpot, in knowing the truth Remember, if batdeships are going to be completely disintegrated by some future atomic attack. Navy people are no more anxious to be atomized than Army people or Severskys.

If ships are maimed. Navy people will man them. It would be the cleanest kind of idiocy for Navy people to insist upon manning a vessel that is going to be blasted to helL Even Seversky wouldn't be Ukely to have that kind of obstinacy.

Certainly people of the Navy want as much protection as they can get when they go out to fight—whether it's with atom bombs or spit-balls.

That's why it is smpid to be afraid that the Navy will go ahead and build a big fleet of obsolete batdeships when it is known that the atom bomb's potentialities have not been completely explored.

The Nav)' is seeking to know the truth: what kind of craft is necessary in the atomic age?

Certainly some kind is necessary. Small as the world may be, oceans still have to be crossed, and you can't ride on radar beams. It is conceded that the Navy's weapons of the future may be some kind of Buck Rogers conveyances; but you still have to cross an ocean if you want to be on the other side. AND OCEANS ARE THE NA'VYS BABY. Not die Army's. The functions performed by the Navy will have to be performed in any fumre wars—and these are NAVY FUNCTIONS. To say that the Navy is obsolete because batdeships are, is as idiotic as saying that the Army is obsolete because it no longer uses battering rams to capmre cities.

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Midshipmen line up for muster beside a PBN-1, in which they get flight familiarization as part of their regular four-year Annapolis education.

The old REINA MERCEDES tiu-ns "aircraft carrier" as Second and Third Classmen take a three months' course in flight training

By Lt. Sam D. Coleman, USNR stand the necessity of cooperation be- signed not to train the midshipman as tween flying and non-flying officers.

IDSHIPMEN of the U. S. Naval A three-months course in flight trainAcademy now are indoctrinated in the science of flying as well as sailing ing is conducted in July, August and in order to have an appreciation of air- September for Midshipmen of the Seccraft as naval weapons, and to under- ond and Third Class. The course is de-

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The course Js carried on under the direction of the Department of Seaman-

It's flying on the Severn instead of sailing, for these Midshipmen, manning an 0S2U Kingfisher training plane.

Checkouts in cockpit familiarization are given midshipmen in mockups of various Nav>- aircraft, simulating actual conlro1ÂŤ

shipman of the Second and Third Class cial Devices Division, Office of Research is scheduled for aviation drills for six and Inventions, play an important role days. In addition to the time devoted to in teaching the principles of free and of die training ship, USS R E I N A MER- flight instructions, each midshipman re- fixed gunnery, aircraft recognidon, airCEDES. The status of the squadron in ceives practical instructions in the han- craft maintenance, cockpit checkouts, and relation to the R E I N A MERCEDES is the dling of planes on the water and on the familiarization with aircraft. same as that of a squadron based on beach, and in the operation and servicA Mobile Aircraft Training Unit is ing of aircraft and aircraft engines. board an aircraft carrier. assigned to Naval Air Facility, Naval Synthetic trainers provided by the Spe{Continued on page 28) The course is designed so each midship and Navigation by a training squadron assigned to the Academy. The squadron is attached to and is an integral part

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Mthough on terra firma, these trainers have the "feel" of real F6F-3's.

The Dual Projector Trainer teaches gunners how to shoot down enemy fighl

e intricacies of an airplane carburetor are explained by an instructor.

The familiar Link Trainer supplements the three hours of actual flying.

Midshipmen enter the special prefabricated building provided by Special Devices Division to house mobile trainer for PBJ airplane.

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UmUi TMIO About the men who gamble their lives against enemy mines. It's not enough to have 50-50 odds, because aU ties are in favor of the mines

By Lieut. Joseph P. Lyford, USNR and public reputation, its crew makes up for in aggressiveness and pride of accomphshment. Once referred to as die "Hooligan Navy" in scornful tones by big-ship sailors, the society of smaU craft, of which the minesweepers are members in good standing, has clasped the epithet to its bosom and made it a symbol of homely virme.

Sure, the minesweeper is a "hoohgan."

It's one of the toughest ships that ever flew a U. S. Navy commission pennant Is a minesweeper a good thing to have around? Ask the battleship man who throws an occasional gibe at the pintsized craft. He admits that without a bit of timely sweeping now and then his handsome batdewagon might be reposing below sea level.

Is minesweeping a simple assignment? The disposal of mines is one of the most complex techniques in marine warfare, requiring a vessel with specialized equipment and men trained specifically for their job.

Does the minesweeper occupy an important place in the tactical blueprints over which admirals fret for months in advance of a crucial invasion ? The fleet follows in the wake of die minesweeper.

Until she has drawn the teeth of enemy minefields, no ship is safe from underwater destruction. Throughout the entire war, and up to this moment, the sweeper has spearheaded invasions and occupations of oriental soil.

Today she reaps her strange harvest from Hokkaido to Indo-China, clearing the way for allied coastal landings. She is used to heavy responsibihty. Before the invasions of the Marshalls, the Gilberts, the Marianas, the Bonins, and the Ryukyus, she moved into the areas sometimes as much as a week in advance of D-Day to pick up mines. While she worked, Japanese shore batteries used her for target practice.

The shelling from enemy guns no longer distracts her, but the mines remain to be swept. The waters of ShangMinesweeper men have plenty of time to pursue their favorite hobbies, making jewelry, etc. hai, Tokyo, Sasebo, Wakayama, Naga"CARLY in the war a small naval ves-'-' sel operating off the Maine coast in Casco Bay received a blinker message from a new arrival in the area. Translated, the flood of impatient dots and dashes read: ' W h a t kind of ship are you.-*" The sender was one of the newest and largest batdeships in the U. S. fleet. Radio and newspapers had made her name a symbol of our naval might. Her picture had been printed in hundreds of metropohtan journals. A world famous

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personahty had done the champagne honors at her laimching party.

The small vessel began to blink in remrn.

"This ship is a minesweeper," came the answer, "and, pray tell, what kind of craft are you?"

Thus was concluded, in good-natured fashion, another round in the war of mumal non-recognition between a cocky minesweeper and a towering representative of the "Batdeship Navy."

What the minesweeper lacks in size

saki, Tsingtao, and Hong-Kong were all sown with TTSIT, uncharted reefs that could blow an unlucky ship to the bottom. The sweepers are busy now locating those reefs and blasting them out.

In the Arabian Nights, AU Baba had his magic words "Open Sesame" to gain entrance to impenetrable caves. Today a task force commander can shout "Minesweeper" and the doors to China open once more after many years of Japanese occupation.

the surface. It is then either sunk or exploded by small-arms fire.

The gear which locates and cuts the cables of the moored mines is known as the "sweep wire." A complete description of its functioning would demand a technical manual. In general the rig, when let over the side, consists of approximately 300 fathoms of steel cable, at the other end of which is a device known as an "otter." The "otter" is a rectangular steel frame containing crosswise planes which give it the appearance of a HE sweeper is a true pioneer, non- Venetian blind. descript in appearance, but possessed The purpose of the contraption is to of a tenacity that is her most distinguishing charaaeristic. There isn't a sphnter of glamor in her wooden sides. No man who has ever sailed on her will claim that she is anything but a stern, demanding mistress with a penchant for taking on unpleasant tasks.

Nicknamed the "Mackerel Taxies" because many of them were originally designed as fishing trawlers, the minesweepers have carried the hardy traditions of the grand banks fishermen into Navy hfe. In all kinds of weather they comb the seas in search of their catch.

But today it isn't the cod and the halibut they're after, it's an undersea monster that fights back with a death-dealing blow.

The four general types of minesweeper have a common lack of beauty. Smallest is the 96-foot coastal type (AMC).

Next comes the "Yard" sweeper, 126 feet in length (YMS), followed by the fleet-type sweeper (AM) which comes in two sizes of 180 feet and 220 feet.

Largest is the converted destroyer type (DMS).

All varieties are covered with knobby devices that are the badge of the mine-. sweeping profession. Large reels of wire cable bulge up near the stern to break the hull line. The decks are cluttered with winches, depth charges in racks, and odd-looking cigar-shaped strucmres. The mystery of this peculiar gear can be explained by learning something of the processes by which the minesweeper tries to accomplish its task.

"Sweep" is too mild a verb to describe what this vessel does to a mine. When it goes after one, it cuts, chops, and slashes as ferociously as a butcher attacks a side of beef with a meat cleaver. Something about the idea of a deadly mechanical mine lying in wait for its prey would seem to counsel a more subtle approach, but the minesweeper proceeds along the theory of the undisguised frontal attack.

The technique of mine disposal varies according to the character of the mine.

The slashing methods are applied only to what are called "moored" mines. This type is anchored to the bottom by means of a wire cable, and stays concealed below the surface. The sweeper attempts In minesweepers you wear your to sever this cable releasing the mine to

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steer the steel cable away from the side of the minesweeper so that an angle is formed by the cable with the ship's hull.

As the vessel increases speed, the water drives against the planes of the "otter" and forces the sweeping cable out.

To keep the cable from sinking to the bottom, a cigar-shaped float called a "pig" is attached to its extremity, a few feet outboard of the "otter." This "pig" acts like the familiar cork bob that buoys the hook on a fishing line.

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/ MaU from the world around arrives in Washington by courier.

It is checked in at OMMC Sub-center, then sent to Navy Bldg.

TOP SECRET MD lIRIlEiT

By Lieut. Stephen L. Freeland, USNR

The Officer Messenger Mail Service brought new efficiency to the handling of Classified Matter destination. Every precaution, of course, was taken to insure its speedy passage, and, its security. Nonetheless, it rapidly lost its secrecy, if not its high classification. In short, it began to appear that there was something very fishy about that particular piece of Officer Messenger Mail; so fishy that personnel coming near the box had to hold their noses firmly. Well, the end is easily guessed, when the TOP SECRET box was Lt. J. K. Bremyer. 0-in-C, OMMC, Wash. opened it proved to contain some completely, utterly, very dead soft-shelled crabs.

HE large square box was marked That unhappy incident took place two "Urgent and classified TOP SE- years ago, when the Officer Messenger CRET," so, in accordance with Navy Mail Service was reaping the first reRegulations, it was transmitted by Offi- wards of its efficiency. Prior to the Sth cer Messenger Mail, from the pleasant of December, 1944, when Admiral shores of the Chesapeake to its distant Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations,

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issued the directive setting up a specific organization and method of handling highly classified communications and material, no such means of transporting a perishable freight would have occurred to anyone. A litde later, after the facility became better known, its purpose more clearly understood and its true worth appreciated, no one would think of wasting precious time and cargo space on so trivial a matter.

For the Officer Messenger Mail Service of the Navy, though a child of recent wartime necessity, is a lusty youngster doing a man's job. Some traffic figures at war's end give an idea of just how mansized that job is. For instance: The Officer Messenger Mail Center at Washington handled 25,000 pounds of highly classified material during a week; Oak-

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Before the war, any communications or material calling for an Officer Messenger were sent by specially designated courier picked for the job because he happened to be "going that way." The communications department, working with what was then the Bureau of Navigation, knew when an officer was being aansferred to Cavite, for example. If there was some important dispatch or Incoming mail, under constant armed Marine guard, is checked, logged in, and accounted for. shipment for the I6th Naval District, the officer travelling west found that his orders called for him to act as an Officer Messenger on the way. Or, again, a Naval Attache or State Department courier might find himself performing a similar errand. It was all very pleasant, informal and convenientâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in peacetime. war came, the volume of WHEN mail in the highest classifications increased tremendously at once. Almost every Bureau and Office in the Navy had messages of the utmost importance which had to be transmitted swiftly and safely and which were furthermore, by the provisions laid down in Navy Regidations, of such a nature as to require that they be accompanied by an Officer Messenger.

This meant, in effect, that frequently five or more officers, all from the Navy Department in Washington would find themselves going to Pearl Harbor, let us say, at the same time, each bearing a TOP SECRET dispatchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or, more likely, a tmnkload of them. Occasionally, of course, it was possible to do away with this needless duplication of effort and From the pouches, the classified mail is sorted for forwarding, re-routing, or delivery. waste of time on a more or less personal A courier signs for items to be delivered personally. Chain of receipts is not broken. basis. The Office of Naval Intelligence, for example, was obviously a part of the Navy which would be sending a lot of its communications out by Officer Messenger. Knowing that, it might well be that someone from one of the Bureaus would ask ONI to take care of the delivery of a particular piece of classified mail, if ONI had a man going out, if he was going at the right time, and if he was going to the right place. Similarly other Bureaus might arrange, more or less informally, to carry mail for each other.

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mumn OFFm\ B y L i e u t . A . B . S p u r n e y , U S N R by simations of sufficient promise. And our luck, granted, had been good.

Now there were but six fish forward and one, aft. That is not many, all things "YVTE had six fish left forward and considered. The way the captain put it, ' ^ one, aft. It had been a good run there were enough left for one more so far. Our time in the area had been good attack. put to good use. Probably one of the And so we looked for that last attack. best runs in these ktter days. We had Because then we could put all main entaken the requisite chances demanded gines on, and barrel back to base.

It was cold up on the bridge. I guess Tex liked the cold less than I did. And the lookouts, perched in the periscope shears, even less. But I wanted them to stay up there; dark, yes, but the visibility was good. W e were picking up navigational Hghts all the time. And there was that faint distortion of the horizon, which is land.

Tom was in the Conning Tower

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there on the deck, by the washstand.

Which collapses into the bulkhead.

Oh, baby.

Let me sleep.

Of New London, Boston, Portsmouth.

And Cleveland, which is home.

Vic: Come to me my melancholy baby Cuddle up and don't feel blue . . .

Roll over.

Di-dah dah-dah-dit di-di-dit . . . with a whish of air out the louvre.

And that is all.

Quiet, as near as it ever gets.

And sleep.

Waiting. While the search runs into "Hey, Tex, buzz that light again." another watch.

He shoves his helmet back and pulls The wash of the seas through the hull off a huge mitten. against your ear.

"Standby..."

Slashes of dim, red light as the door "Standing by ..." curtains sway in and out with the roU. Then those little buzzes, and That sinuous search which is the subGuess it's a lighthouse, all right. Or marine stalking. Against the enemy's a buoy maybe. beach. Evading his fishermen. Cringing And soon Stan comes up to relieve in the darkness. A silent sweep along his the deck. With that same smile and clap shore. of the hands and the peak of this helmet And then a rush of feet through the jutting up, jockey-like.

"Not much of a story . . ." And I tell passageway, hushed voices, cracking him the course and speed, engines, matches and quick drags. The speakers banks, battery, etc., plus the lights and whisper again their electric, ". . . battle stations..." fishermen.

"All hands man battle stations, tor"Okay, Al, I relieve you." pedo . . . man battle stations, torpedo . . . " I drop down the hatch.

I whip out of the bunk, pulling sweater Below, things are not quite normal.

Oh, everything's in commission or other- on and pushing into my shoes. Big Jim's wise under control. The report is, "Con- feet dangle out of the bunk over mine; ditions normal, Captain." But the crew's he shakes from his head the fatigue that mess has several games going and the persists, and slides to the deck, flailing vie playing way late. Lots of bunks are into clothes.

"Guess they got something." empty.

"Yeah."

I don't know, something is said, or Together we run from the compartthere is a feeling in the air, or it is that there are just so many fish left. Rader, ment into the surging passageway, Jim phones over his baseball-cap, leans over puUing on his dark-adapters, and wrigthe gyro table, sipping coffee and talk- gling into a fur-lined jacket. Torpedoing to Shatzer and Wolf. Overall there men rushing forward. Quartermasters, is the pervading, penetrating pitch of the helmsman, fire-control operators, aft.

And the speakers still whisper: radio signal coming from the Shack. ". . . man battle stations, torpedo!"

"Di-dah-dah-dit di-di-dah dah-dah dit Into the control room, milling men di-dah-dit . . ." but high and discordant, fast so only those boys can really read it. among the sterile mechanisms of gauge It careens from all bulkheads and rings and lever. I clamber to the ladder and through the ventilation system. Keeps emerge in the Conning Tower. Jim us part of the U. S. Navy, way out here, goes right on up to the bridge.

I twist by the helm, between Tom and I guess.

Tex and I break a few messages. The Salem, telephone talker, past the redly captain reads them, pulls an ash-tray glimmering surfaces of the periscope barrels and Tiraschi, who reads the capover them. tain's "Marks." Okie already at his "Nothing yet?" cranks and dials, winking sight into "Nothing yet."

He and Okie have a chess-game going. wakening eyes.

And the captain, arms akimbo, Tex picks up a magazine and heedlessly cropped head, watching this, evaluating mrns its pages. He bunks in the Wardroom. But the bunk isn't up yet, and that, listening, quietly directing.

WO white arrows of wake come cut- Jim is there, sorting over records as The rush stops. And suddenly you ting for the boat Lord what a though lining up an all-night program. hear: throb! Till they zig sharply, about fifty Bz-z-zt.

Like Milkman's Matinee. yards out, and aim to cross the bow.

"Bearing zero eight one range nine Porpoise. Someday I'm going to call a two double-oh."

GO and lie on my sack, leaving a great torpedo a porpoise. And there we'll be {Continued on page 33) pile of furred and zippered gear right with exceeding negative buoyancy.

17 FEBRUARY, 1946

Every half hour or so we'd n m into something or other and there would be diat brief excitement you feel. Until you realize he is just a fisherman, saihng vessel, or sampan. And then you run around him, trying to stay outside of visibility.

Because you never know.

And, besides, we were looking for a real target, worth a few of diose torpedoes. He'd show up. They'd been showing up. And he'd show up. So we waited.

Cruising on one engine and floatmg die diiJcy to keep the battery up. Good water here. Deep. You could dive and run silent and give them one hell of a time when tiiey came after you.

The lookouts hung over their little, girdling rails and looked hard into the night.

"Conditions normal below. All banks up." Eleven o'clock.

"Very well."

Pick the binoculars up and wipe die lenses. And search. From point to point. To point Then scan the sector with just your eyes. The phosphorescence was bad. We'd squat down into a swell and her big belly would send a hundred waves running out from the beam. Each with a gUstening glob of phosphorus.

Her wake boiled out astern. Seems you could have sported it for mdes.

But quiet except for the engines, coughing their exhaust into the swells.

No sparks from the dinky. Good.

Damned good.

"Steady white light bearing zero two zero," from Pryor, the starboard lookout.

That's towards land.

"Cut in the forward TBT!" "Cut in."

Tex akeady is craning over the fairwater. "I see it" I put the big binocs on it and press the button.

Bz-z-zt.

Tom comes to the hatch and yeUs up, "Keep an eye on it, Al." "A^ye, aye."

"Hey, Pryor, still got diat light?"

"I got it, Al," says Tex who is wresding with the big binocs and crowding his fabulous height down into them.

"Still steady and white?"

"Still steady and white. Right against the beach."

Pryor is already back looking out.

Port lookout says, "Land clear back to the beam now."

"Aye, aye."

This dramatic story of a U. S. submarine on

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authentic first-hand adventure

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By Lt. Comdr. Vadym V. UtgofiF, USN and Lt. (jg) Darwin R. Day, USNR

Part I

m m IN SM DIEGO "FN the spring of 1943 the Squadron ar-'• rived in San Diego following a long and not particularly exciting tour of duty in the Caribbean area. We had been engaged in shepherding convoys through the West Indies sea lanes; searching for subs in the Bahamas; and flying patrols from Panama, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad. Now, after fifteen days' leave in the States, we were standing-by.

"Standing-by" is the Navy's way of taking care of the second element of the

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"Duty in San Diego wasn't so bad, after all . . . "

dicmm: "War is one percent fighting and ninety-nine percent waiting around."

We stand-by to relieve the watch, go ashore, draw pay, get underway, come to anchor, marry our sweethearts, and beget our sons. Sometimes we even standby to stand-by.

In this case we were standing-by for further orders; and in the meantime were supposed to be conducting bounce drills, 18

insttument flight training, familiarization flights, and related exercises, interspersed with occasional flurries of ground insttuction in navigation and recognition. Our FHght Officer, a character of vast ambition and litde sympathy, spawned these obstacles to leisure and meditation.

He had a thankless job. Every morning he posted a Flight Schedule, fat with flights, classes, and drills; and then had to sit back and watch it waste away until only his signature and the Skipper's approval remained to testify of his labors. We thwarted his unholy schemes to make us work by every means short of sabotage, and with the aid of meteorological caprice and the hazards of peacetime operations succeeded in devoting ourselves to rest and recreation.

The hazards of peace were manifold.

One day an apprentice seaman playing tank careened a bomb-loading truck into plane No. 69, leaving the tail assembly looking like a concertina after a jam session; another day No. 73 was grounded to repair the bottom consequent to an unsuccessful encounter with a mooring buoy. For three days following morning and afternoon fogs kept all planes on the ramp; and two days after that all gunnery flights were cancelled pending an investigation of seven Holstein cows shot up the previous afternoon. And then there was the day when all bombing hops were recalled to determine who bombed the municipal beach with rotten eggs.

The Flight Officer gnashed his teeth and swore that we did it on purpose just so we wouldn't have to fly, and even tried to blame the vagaries of the weather on us, but we felt practically no pain at all.

Our only worry was to log four hours'

A u t h o r ' s N o t e : This is die story of how a U. S. Navy squadron of Catalinas went to war.

W e never expected to go to war. A Catahna—pattol seaplane, PBY-5, in the technical jargon of the Navy—is not a combat plane. It is, variously, a carrier of passengers, mail, or cargo; it is a utility plane, a training plane, or rescue plane; and it is, of course, a pattol plane. But it is not a combat plane.

Nevertheless, we went to war.

W e also learned to love and respea the old, slow, clumsy Cats.

The account of our deeds and misdeeds which follows is primarily a picture story—a collection of scenes and events as they appeared to us, who were the actors—bound together with a thin, and sometimes frayed, thread of nartarive.

flight time each month so we could draw flight pay.

Duty in San Diego—N.A.S. North Island—wasn't so bad at that course, it was slighdy crowded.

OFSixteen carrier squadrons were standing-by to go aboard their caniers —as soon as Kaiser got the "go-ahead" to build them. Three Liberator squadrons were standing-by to snatch their planes hot off the griddle from Consolidated across the bay. And a draft of WAVES was standing-by to release persotmel (male) for sea duty — but the only ones who left were one Chief Boatswain's Mate with sixteen years' service and a deep-rooted suspicion of all women; and two yeomen, third class, who requested orders ten minutes after they saw the Ensign (female) who was to be in charge of them. To avoid being trampled to death while still conscious we confined our activities for the most part to the precincts of the Officers' Qub and the Hotel del Coronado.

We knew this sort of thing couldn't last forever—not even for the "duration plus six months"—and it didn't First there was a rumour: In the Navy there are always rumors first, and the most authentic ones are always alleged to originate with the Admiral's mess boy.

Next, in order of rehabUity, are those whispered by Navy Women at cocktail parties, which supposedly emanate from the Admiral's wife. And finally, there are the multiform produas of that great rumor factory: the Secret Brotherhood of Yeomen. The "Imperial Grand Wizard" is, of course, the Admiral's yeomen; and it is from him that all other yeomen derive their just powers to put out scuttlebutt.

Our own told us we were going to inal "big dealer," and as soon as he heard Madagascar. about our orders he organized a SquadAs usual, he was wrong. One morn- ron Wine Mess, unfolding his nefarious ing the Skipper came striding in to the scheme as follows: office, beaming like a cat with fresh ca"Fellows," he said, "there's no liquor nary feathers on his whiskers, and an- where we're going and it's going to be nounced that we had orders to proceed mighty dry. Now all you have to do is to Kaneohe, Territory of Hawaii, and give me twenty dollars and I'll see to it thence out into the great unknown. We that you have all you want at the proper were to leave as soon as hull tanks could time." be installed in our planes, equipment inAs soon as the milking operation had ventoried and packed, cars sold, wives sent home, and our wills signed and witnessed.

There ensued a period of uninhibited confusion. The Flight Officer made out a new Squadron Organization daily and amended it every hour on the hour. The Materiel Officer kept appearing through one door and disappearing through another, ttailed by a safari carrying huge boxes and crates, all freshly stencilled C/O FLEET POST OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. The squadron yeoman vanished in a blizzard of papers, muttering incoherendy—"Turn in beneficiary sHps . . . sign blank Fitness Re- ^r^AVC^vA ports . . . fill out personnel cards . . . give the name and address of your next-of-kin . . . certify your orders . . . ," while the "Now all you have to do is give me Skipper barked: "Original and seven twenty dollars . . . " copies of everything—including rny laundry Hst" been successfully completed he departed on an extended buying trip. Presently TN the middle of the maelsttom eleven he remrned and informed us that a cer-•- new Ensigns walked in and re|>orted tain unnamed vessel sailing to some unfor duty. The Flight Officer took one known port was fairly crammed with look and bitterly tore his latest edition tins and tins of Mexican bourbon which of the Squadron Organization into small he had managed to big deal at a rare dispieces, scattering them over his cluttered count desk with one hand and pulling out his We never learned what the "proper hair with the other; while the Navigator time" was; we never got the liquor; we never got our twenty bucks back. We did discover, much later, a large number of five gallon cans filled with a dark colored liquid which smelled of wood alcohol. The "Big Dealer" assured us that it was straight bourbon aged in charcoal —but it looked more like straight charcoal, and tasted like hell.

(To be honest about it, I'll have to confess that evenmally we drank it, after robbing the local sick bay of all the filter paper they had, and spending hours and hours watching the stuff come through in a sooty trickle.)

But finally a gleam of order began to shine through the murk of our confusion, and we realized with growing apprehension that the date of our deparmre . . . eleven new Ensigns walked in . . . " was drawing nigher and nigher. Two days before the deadline we were ordered lured the neophytes into a corner and be- to report for physical examinations. gan to explain the mysteries of great HE surgeon who looked down our circle navigation—which was something throats, tested our reflexes, and said of a mystery to him as well.

The Ensigns appeared abashed, but "Now cough" reminded us of a federal meat inspector, but when he started to managed to retain tKeir sanity.

Our Personnel/Officer, however, was give us our injections we knew him for prepared for anjdhing. He is the orig- the veterinarian that he was. We were

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vaccinated and inoculated against smallpox, cholera, tetanus, typhoid fever, yellow fever, athlete's foot, sleeping sickness, and homesickness. He smck so many needles in us that we looked like porcupines and felt like a Hindu fakir after a bout of insomnia. I made one final attempt, but he saw through my story of a strained back. He said the heat of the tropics would do it good.

So we gathered up our health records, registered our final allotments, closed out our pay accounts, and kissed the girls good-bye.

"Sure, honey, we'll be back in two months," we said. Little did we know.

The Squadron was scheduled to make the flight in three-plane sections, one section taking-off each afternoon until the entire squadron had departed. We wondered why they wanted us to fly at night, but finally agreed that it was to let us have a whole day in which to nurse the hangover of the farewell party.

And of course, we all wanted to be in the last section to leave. But the Skipper and Exec convinced us that their duties required them to remain to the bitter end. It wasn't much of a job for them to convince us, considering their rank, so we packed our bags and dried our eyes.

Some of the boys packed a lot of bags.

They felt they should be ready for anything: golf and tennis in Honolulu; surfing at Waikiki; skiing in the Aleutians; dinner with the Admiral; formal parties at Kaneohe, Suva, Noumea, Brisbane, Sydney, Fremantle, Kiska, or Tokyo. A naval officer, they had learned at indoctrination, is a gendeman (never mind by whose Act), and should be suitably attired for every occasion.

There were various other little ttinkets.

•' . . . an extra hanky and THAT'S ALL!"

too, which we considered indispensable — such as the silk dressing robe that storekeeper, second class (WAVES) thought looked so "cunning," or the electric phonograph Aunt Agatha sent (complete with sixteen carefully selected symphonies), or the expensively framed photographs all the other relatives presented. {Continued on page ^6) 19

eiOODHOPDS Recently released is the story of how HF/DF picked up the scent of U-boats from afar, and led om' task groups to the kill hstening posts which systemRADIO â&#x20AC;˘ atically searched the air waves over the Adantic Ocean played a major part in the defeat of the German U-boat menace by providing the Navy with a dayby-day account of the movement of enemy submarines.

Known technically as HF/DF, or high frequency radio direction finders, the electtonic equipment was housed in stations dotting the coastiine on both sides of the Adantic, on mid-ocean islands, such as Ascension Island, and on ships ar sea. This network of direction finder stations continually searched the air

waves for enemy submarine broadcasts, noted their bearings, and then fixed the position of the submarines by determining their bearings from sevpral widelyseparated shore stations. These fixes were correlated and radioed daily to ships in the Adantic and were supplemented by additional bearings taken by the warships in the immediate vicinity of the broadcasting submarines.

This continual plotting of submarines in the Adantic enabled the Navy to reroute convoys so they could avoid individual submarines or wolfpacks lying in wait for them across convoy lanes. More important, these fixes enabled carriers and warships of the United States, British and Canadian fleets to locate and sink enemy submarines.

High-frequency direction finding was developed by the Navy to provide a quick and accurate means of locating enemy submarines, which were disrupting lines of communications across the Atlantic in the early days of the war. It provided the intelligence from which "killer" groups of escort carriers and desttoyers were able to locate and sink the marauders.

For example, a U-boat operating

against Allied shipping in the Atlantic surfaced at night and sent a report on a high frequency to headquarters at Lorient, France. The broadcast was picked up by one of the direction finder stations. The station instandy alerted all other Allied stations, giving the submarines radio frequency.

All stations immediately tuned to this frequency and each adjusted its DF receiver for maximum volume. A device attached to the receiver indicated the direction from which the sub's broadcast came. This direction, or bearing, was sent immediately to a "net control station," which forwarded the information to the Navy's Adantic Sttategic High Frequency DF Net Plotting Center at Washington. The Center plotted such reports on a chart and determined the most probable position of the enemy from the intersecting lines.

In a matter of minutes a "killer" group of escort carriers and desttoyers was on its way to attack. These ships also attempted to get continuing fixes through their own equipment A similar high-frequency directionfinding plan was operated in the Pacific.

Japanese submarines, however, were

munm fewer than German U-boats and were primarily engaged in supplying Japanese bases.

The Atlantic operations were conducted by a network of American, British, and Canadian radio stations operating along the shores of the Atlantic.

These stations were grouped into nets for convenience in operation and efficiency in communications. Each net possessed its own internal communication system with external radio connection from the net conttol station to the main plotting centers at Washington, London, and Ottawa.

Research was carried on continuously at searching stations to determine the radio frequencies on which German submarines sent reports to each other and to their headquarters. Guarding of the various frequencies was assigned to individual stations.

All stations were able to mne immediately to any enemy transmission heard by any one station. This was accomplished by means of a "tip-off" or alerting system. The operator at a station, upon hearing an enemy transmission on a given frequency, alerted the net control station which, in turn, broadcast the

alert by powerful transmitters on four different frequencies simultaneously.

These tip-offs were received by Navy ships which had direction-finding equipment as well as by the DF stations ashore.

Alerts were completed in approximately eight seconds from the beginning of a transmission by an enemy unit.

United States Navy H F / D F stations ashore ranged from Jan Mayen, a small island between Iceland and Spitzbergen, all the way south to Bahia, Brazil. Also included were installations at Amagansett. Long Island; Belem, Brazil; Curacao, Dutch Guiana; Dupont, South Carolina; Cape Farewell, Greenland; Guantanamo, Cuba; Jupiter, Florida; Poyners' Hill, North Carolina; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Toro Point, Canal Zone; Trinidad; and Winter Harbor, Maine.

Since the war ended many of the stations have been closed. Some have been kept in operation for the ttaining of personnel.

The Navy spent approximately $2,000,000 on the program in the Atlantic, exclusive of the pay of Naval persormel.

the German U-boat U-66 near the Cape Verde Islands in May, 1944. From her survivors the Navy learned details of her last patrol. The U-66 in January, 1944, was operating off the west coast of Africa. Her captain wanted to refuel off the Cape Verde Islands and decided to notify the home base of his location.

His radiogram was very brief. It was sent in less than 15 seconds. But 26 Allied DF stations of the Atlantic net obtained bearings on it. From these the position of the U-66 was plotted near 18 degrees North and 34 degrees 30 minutes West. This was passed to the Commander in Chief, who dispatched the USS BLOCK ISLAND and her escorts

to the scene. This group cruised in the area for five days, sending up squadrons of search planes each hour of daylight Finally the surfaced submarine was picked up at night by radar and was followed by a patrol plane. The plane spotted the submarine visually and called the destroyer escort USS BUCKLEY to the scene. Then, with the plane spotting, the BUCKLEY attacked the submarine, ramming her and riding over her. The TYPICAL operation resulting from battered U-boat got clear. The BUCK{Continued on page 36) H F / D F data was the sinking of

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THE m \ , 1941-IMII A footnote to the Xavy's history in World War II. summarizing and setting down vital statistics for the permanent record

Bv Jav Launer HE Navy at die end of World War T II found itself the greatest seapower the world has ever known. Our Navy's seagoing fleet of ships exceeded in tonnage that of all the other world's navies combined. So large had the fleet grown that it required some 3,389,000 officers and enlisted men plus 484,000 in the Marine Corps and another 173,000 in the Coast Guard to man its ships. planes, ttaining stations and shore bases.

In 1941, the Navy was composed of some 244,606 officers and men in the regular Navy.

When the Japs struck at Hawaii, the fleet had 17 batdeships, 7 aircraft carriers, 1 escort carrier, 18 heavy and 19 light cruisers, 172 desttoyers and 113 submarines, a total of only 347 combatant ships. Including ships of all types, the Navy had a total of some 7,695 vessels in December, 1941. It had grown ro only 12,000 when the attack on Guadalcanal was mounted in August, 1942. It had grown to 55,229 ships by Jidy, 1944 when Guam and Saipan were invaded; was up to 73,852 ships in January, 1945 when the Philippines campaign was on, and over 100,000 ships when the beaches of Okinawa were stormed in April of 1945. Broken down.

these figures included over 1,300 combat ships, over 10,000 auxUiary types and the balance chiefly landing craft.

Total tonnage of this hugh fleet exceeded 12,00,000 of which about 5,250,000 tons were combatant ships. These figures do not include war-built ships lendleased to our Allies nor the August 11, 1945 cancellation of 56 combat ships, 39 fleet auxiharies and hundreds of minor craft.

Our Navy lost 696 vessels of all types during the war as a result of enemy action and all other causes. Losses of Nav)' ships by types are: batdeships—2; aircraft carriers—5; escort carriers—6; heavy cruisers—7; hght cruisers—3; destroyers .— 71; desttoyer escorts— 11; submarines—52; minelayers—3; minesweepers— 24; sub-chasers—18; gunboats—12; Coast Guard vessels—15; seaplane tenders—3; MTB's—69; tank landing ships—10; medium landing ships—9; tank landing craft—67; infantry landing craft—22: support landing craft—6; tugs—10; tankers—6; troop transports—21; district patrol craft—36; misc. district craft—152; cargo vessels—4; misc. auxiliaries—22.

The Navy's casualties in the war were as follows: killed 56,261; wounded 80,260; missing 8,908; prisoners 710, a total of 146,139. These figures include the Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

U. S. NAVY S COMBATANT POST WAR FLEET (As proposed Oct 30, 1945) Types Batdeships Battiecruisers Aircraft Carriers (CVB) . . . .

Aircraft Carriers (CV) Aircraft Carriers (CVL) . . . .

Aircraft Carriers (CVE) . . . .

Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Light Desttoyers Destroyer escorts Submarines Total 22

Active Duty 5 3 3 7 0 10 8 20 135 36 70 297

Ready Laid up Reserve Reserve 6 7 0 0 0 0 4 13 1 9 11 58 14 9 9 19 40 192 260 4 20 109 104

681

Total Ships 18 -> 0:> 24 10 79 31 48 367 300 199 1,082

Total Tonnage 665,000 82,500 135,000 650,000 117,000 725,000 403,000 450,000 760,000 387,000 314,000 4.688.500

During the war and including combat ships lost or still under construction late in 1945, the N a \ 7 builr 9 batdeships, 3 battiecruisers, 3 giant carriers, 24 fleet carriers, 11 Hght carriers, approximately 117 escort carriers (38 going to Britain), 22 heav)' and 42 hght cruisers, 344-odd destroyers, over 455 desttoyer escorts (of which 92 went to our AlHes), and 203 submarines, a total of over 1,233 combatant ships. This warbuilt fleet exceeded our pre-war combat fleet by over 350 per cent and our combat ships lost by approximately 800 per cent in number of ships. combatant ship sttength of the THE United States fleet late in 1945 including ships under construction was as follows: Batdeships Batdecruisers Aircraft Carriers (CVB) Aircraft Carriers (CV) Aircraft Carriers (CVL) Aircraft Carriers (CVE) Heavy Cruisers Light Cruisers Desttoyers Desttoyer escorts Submarines

24 3 3 27 10 80 33 57 445 363 263

Total Combat types

1,508

The Navy contemplates a peacetime fleet of 6,084 naval vessels and an air force of 12,000 combat planes with 8,000 planes on active duty. Combatant ships will number 1,082 with a total tonnage of 4.688,500 tons or only 222-226 ships less than the late 1945 sttength of 1,308 combat ships built and biulding.

The auxiliary fleet will number some 5,002 vessels, a cut of over half from its late 1945 strength of 10,292 vessels.

To man the peacetime fleet 500,000 enlisted men and 58,000 officers wiU be needed for the Navy and 100,000 enlisted men and some 8,000 officers will be required by the Marine Corps. The Coast Guard wiU revert back to the Treasury Department as it should be in {Continued on page 28)

WIRDROOM STUFF Friendly

Relations EDITOR'S N O T E :

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ORIS came on board first. She was the cat. Next came Bozo, the monkey. The last of the trio was Casper, the pup. All three made u p the mascots of the USS PITTSBURGH, the armored

cmiser which was once the flagship of the "U. S. Naval Forces, European Waters."

One night in the Philadelphia yard, just before the ship shoved off for the European station, the cat sauntered down the dock. She came from the USS OLYMPLA,

evidendy

because she saw that Dewey's old flagship was going to be placed out of commission and another home had to be found. Maybe the tempting aroma from the galley had drifted up near the sleeping OLYMPLA, because the cat sttolled down to w h e r e the PITTSBURGH was tied up.

She stopped at the foot of the quarterdeck brow. She gazed up at the OOD standing under the floodlight He lcx)ked down and just said, "Come on, kitty" and she came on up the brow.

That's all there was to it.

An old

"Ward-

room Stuff" contributor, who prefers to go by the pseudonym of "Lee Rayle," can spin a lot of yarns about three shipboard pets of an old armored cruiser on which he once served. So instead of printing each anecdote separately, we are devoting this column, this month only, to his story of how three animals helped carry out the cruiser's mission of promotingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;friendly relations.

days full of exercises to shake down the new crew. After an uneventful visit to Tenerife to take on coal, the armored cruiser went on to Gibraltar to receive on board the new Admiral and to await further orders. It was in Gib that Doris showed her first signs of being restless.

Being the only pet on board ship and with the rock so near and yet so far away from the ship's anchorage, the First Lieutenant decided that the cat was showing definite signs that she needed more than the attention she was getting in the form of pats on her back from the seven hundred odd members of the crew.

Pete Dickinson was the "First Luff" at the time. His orders to the OOD were to direct the next two Ensigns leaving the ship on liberty to bring back a tom-cat for Doris.

Henry Parry and Cy Olch got the orders as they dashed over the side to catch the seven o'clock steamer to the beach.

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a meow from the messroom. In the morning there was a howl from Lieutenant Dickinson. He informed Henry and Cy that their abducted feline apparendy did not care for a seafaring life judging from the incessant cries which had kept the ship's officers awake all night. And the Executive Officer was a light sleeper too. That didn't help die simation much but if the new cat met with Doris's approval, maybe the day could be saved. The First Luff and the t^'O Ensigns laid below to the steerage messroom to get a daylight look at the new kitt)'. At their appearance die cat scampered under a sideboard and defied all entteaties to come out from under.

The services of a Philippino mess-boy were impressed and his short arms could just about reach in under the sideboard and touch the howling cat "Well, is he what we want?" The First Lieutenant looked down at the crouching mess-boy.

His touch was sure. His fingers were nimble. He looked up at the officers and smiled. "Sorry but no that kind of kitty cat Lieutenant Dickinson guffawed. The two Ensigns stood mute. Now they had to get the animal ashore because they had caught the wrong kind of a cat!

Doris's indisposition soon wore off.

She soon realized that the delights of die beach were not for her. She resigned herself to a life of celibacy; that is, until the ship was to get alongside of a dock again. Out in the Near East during that first winter of the cruise when the GreekTurkish war was going on, aU sorts of foreign officials came on board to confer with the Admiral. Whenever the bugle called for the guard and band to lay aft on the double to receive some dignitary on board, Doris usually took her place about two paces inboard from the line of side-boys. There she sat and licked her paws and washed her face. When the band sounded off with the flourishes and ruffles and the guard presented arms for the arrival ceremonies, the cat just sat there and took it all in. During the reception ceremonies nothing phased her. For the deparmre, however, when the gun salutes were fired, she soon learned to beat a hasty retteat before the first gun went off. She didn't like all that noise and with the last note of the bosn's pipe trailing after a silk hat disappearing down the gangway, Doris did her own disappearing act down the hatch. She wasn't so dumb.

When the new Admiral's wife came on board one day to look the flag cabin over, Doris got her name. The Admiral's lady was very matronly. She was also very corpulent and she walked sedately with a regal air about her. The cat was sitting near the gangway when the Admirals barge came alongside.

When Mrs. Admiral trundled over the side and sauntered aft following a rather disdainful glance at the young Ensign who was Junior Officer of the Deck, the cat strolled forward with an air of mimicry. Anyway, that's the way it looked to the JOOD and, as the Admiral's wife was named Doris, the JOOD then and there named the cat. For the next four years during the cruise, she was known as Doris throughout the ship.

She was also well known in a couple of ports where the ship made fast to a dock long enough for her to get ashore, and do her part in carrying out the cruiser's mission of promoting friendly relations.

Bozo came on board over in Europe.

She had a long tail and n>ade good use of it in swinging from the stays. All the crew liked her, too. The Master-atArms didn't care much for her after he got wise to the fact that Bozo woidd climb out of the barber shop porthole; walk along the armor belt; and climb through the port of the Jimmy Legs' room. There she would reach into his desk drawer and steel packs of his cigarettes, scurrying back with them to the barber shop where the booty was mrned over to the water-tender who took care of her. That was theft but the Chief never put her on report. He knew that if she was hauled up before Captain's mast, she would get away with it because the Old Man liked her. At Samrday morning inspections she stood at the end of the front line of one of the black gang divisions. When the Skipper approached and the order was given, "Division, right hand SALUTE!" Bozo's hand went up as smardy as any coal heaver's. That always got a smile from the Captain.

During the winter when the nights were cold, the monkey used to sleep in the "cooler." That was the space down below just outside of the brig. Quiet and gentle bluejackets who couldn't navigate well enough to climb into their hammocks after a night on the beach, were deposited there to sleep under the watchful eye of the Marine brig sentry. The ship's print shop was next door to the brig and the big cutting blade used by the printer for trimming his paper was mounted on the edge of a table in the "cooler" space. One night Bozo was fast asleep on the table and about half of her long tail was hanging over the edge. And right under the cutter too. When the gangway watch brought down a sleeper that night, he stumbled up against the table and fell on top of the cutter handle. The blade came down and half of Bozo's tail came off. She recovered from the casualty but after that she never made any wild leaps to catch onto the rigging with her tail. She was still pretty lively but she soon learned to grab with her hands and feet. The stump of her tail was of no use to her except as a reminder to FEBRUARY,

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keep clear of the print shop paper cutter.

Doris never got ashore and Bozo went ashore only on very rare occasions under the careful custody of her water-tender guardian. Except for the few rock apes which lived in the cave up on top of Gibraltar, there were no monkeys roaming around in Europe. So while Bozo did get ashore once in a while, she couldn't do much in the way of promoting friendly relations on the beach. On the other hand, there were plenty of lonesome tomcats on the continent and' when Doris made one of her rare liberties, she never failed to do her part in helping to carry out the old armored cruiser's mission for the promotion of friendly relations.

Doris went ashore in France, England, Belgium, Spain, Holland, and Malta. She sure promoted a feline entente cordiale in those countries. Over two dozen countries were visited by the USS PITTSBURGH during the four year cruise and perhaps the word got around to some of the other countries because every now and then when the liberty boats went in to the beach, a lonesome looking cat would be waiting on the dock as though expecting to see Doris come ashore.

When scrubbing down in the morning, the deck gang always threw sand on the decks before starting in with the big deck-scrubbers. Doris liked the feel of sand under her feet when the boatswain's mates scattered it over the decks. Even if it wasn't deep enough to dig into, the light sprinkling of sand brought back nostalgic memories of the beach. The top of the sand locker up on deck was always kept closed. Doris would have had a real holiday if she ever got her claws into that pile. She would have "shipped-over" for life if she only had a nice soft garden to dig in.

It was almost a year before Doris hit pay dirt for the first time in her European travels. The armored cruiser went into the French arsenal at Cherbourg for drydocking the following summer and Doris was waiting for the first brow to be lowered onto the beach. She was across it like a flash and half way up the dock before the douaniers had even started up the brow. She was off to the races! If a cat has heels, that was all Doris showed below her vertical tail as she streaked away. The usual run of tourists went to France to seek the benefits of art, culmre, and the other refinements of civilization but Doris was far frorn refined when she returned to the ship.

She was AOL the full ten days of the ship's stay in the Cherbourg navy yard.

Doris had an uncanny way of knowing when .the ship would sail. She never missed the ship a single dme during the whole cruise in Europe and after her first liberty in France, she came back during the mid-watch before the ship was due

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Doris scampered up the brow. But not the other cat! Doris stopped near the head of the brow and looked back to see her pursuer sitting at the foot of the brow looking up. Evidently the other cat had never been to sea before and did not understand the formalities of coming on board. Doris scK>n took care of that minor difficulty. She walked half way back down the incline, keeping up a steady conversation in feline meows to the uncertain stranger below. The other cat made a short leap onto the foot of the brow and stood fast. The cat call conversation kept going back and forth between them. Doris mrned to head up the brow again. She looked back over her shoulder and gave a little hip-shift wiggle to her stern. Her tail thrashed from side to side as she meowed some more and the other cat crawled forward a slow step or two. Doris repeated her wiggling enticing movements and called back encouragement. Step by step; more hesitation; cat calls galore; and the pursuer was led on. Doris finally enticed the 25

other cat all the way up the brow and waited for her fehne companion to catch up with her before she scampered forward, followed in hot pursuit by the other cat. The whole performance had drawn out for several long minutes. The ship was due to sail in the morning and Doris had made a conquest She had shanghaied a French tomcat!

If Bozo envied Doris's amorous success after the Cherbourg escapade, the monkey must have been green with envy during the Baltic cruise when the first batch of kittens arrived. Prior to her accouchement Doris selected a well secured place down below the armored deck where her kittens would be safe against intruders. Bozo and the tomcat didn't know their way around any too well down below whde Doris could even back down the vertical ladders leading to the firerooms. She would lay below there during target practices when the big guns went off. Once in a while, if nobody was looking, she woidd dig a litde in the coal on the fireroom floor plates. She didn't like that, however, as the coal made her dirty and she ttied to maintain a neat shipshape appearance at all times. Anyhow Doris had her first European cruise kittens down below decks and neither Bozo or the tomcat

had much to say about it. When the kittens were old enough to play about the decks, the tomcat was kept well clear.

Bozo's maternal instincts tempted her to fondle the htde fuzzy bundles of fur but Doris would never let her get near them.

When Casper, the pup, came on board.

Bozo was pleased no end. The scrawny litde yellow pup must have been smuggled on board in some bluejacket's peacoat pocket Casper was hght tan and had big flappy ears. His litde spindly legs had white stockings and when he trotted down the deck, his forefeet came up high as though he were puhing a fancy litde carriage on parade. Bozo adopted Casper the moment she laid eyes on the playful htde pup. They became inseparable friends.

When he first arrived on board, Casper was about as big as a coal-heaver's fist. Bozo held him in her arms all the time and seldom let the pup get out of reach. She would lick and wash the pup from stem to stern.

Hours were spent while Casper nesded in her arms and she carefvJly searched his coat for any minute secretive residents. She picked at his ears; she cleaned around his eye lids; and carefully inspected every inch of his small body over and over again. Bozo was a

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He didn't appear to thrive much on Navy standard chow and for a while all hands thought that Casper was a pocketsize pup. The monkey didn't objea because she was happy as could be to hold him in her arms all day long. When die climbed into the hammock netting at night to sleep, there was Casper cuddled closely in her arms. Let the crew think what it wished. Bozo had someone to care for and Doris could keep her dd tomcat and kittens. The cats went their way and Bozo went her way with Casper in her arms.

The puppy soon snapped out of its anaemic condition and started to grow.

Casper's litde body ttied desperatdy to catch up to its rightful size in proportion to his big flappy ears. But die ears grew apace too. He soon became too big for Bozo to fondle in her arms. .In time Casper became almost as big as the monkey and although he still permitted himself to be washed and kept clean by ha:, with maturity he developed a high degree of playfulness. Bozo would go quiedy hobbhng down the deck, one hand holding on to Casper's ear when he wouJd suddenly decide to make a break

for it. The chase was on. The monkey soon entered into the spirit of the game much to the crew's amusement. Bozo and Casper would play hide-and-seek by the hour. Once in a while they would chase around on the quarter deck but as a general rule they steered clear of that holy of holy places.

They belonged to the crew and they stayed up forward. Only Doris, the cat, ventured aft or down below in the officers' country. The ship was generally open to visitors each afternoon in port and although the Bozo-Casper team did their bit in entertaining the sight-seeing civihans, Doris made a more permanent contribution. She parted with her kittens one by one to distinguished visitors who requested a hving memento of their visit on board the armored cruiser. The French tomcat, though, stayed on board.

Although Bozo and Casper kept dear of him and the French tom evidenced no special desire to sttike up a close relationship with them either, his work was cut out for him as far as Doris was concerned. He was hers for keeps, that is, so long as he couldn't get ashore. Nightly forays over the back fences must have been but a distant memory to him after aU the water he had seen |>ass astern.

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• Simplicity of design—fewer parts to need adjusting and replacing; ting leaping distance to a good sohd tertaeasier, less frequent servicing. firma dock, he must have wanted to go browsing up a back alley or scampering Write for the complete story. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Fairbanksdurough the grass after field mice. When Morse Building, Chicago 5, Illinois. the PITTSBURGH finally poked u p the BUY WAR BONDS Gironde toward the dock at PauUlac, old Tom must have felt that his hour of deliverance had arrived. La belle France was caUing. He stood up on the deck gazing over at the low rolling vineyards and fields. As the long narrow dock A name worth remembering came closer, his feet got itchier. By the Diesel Locomolives • Diesel Engines • Generators • Motors • Pumps • Scales time the first lines were over he could Magnetos • Stokers • Railroad Motor Cars and Standpipes • Farm Equipment hardly restrain himself as he paced back and forth in the waterway, looking down onto the dock. His tail swished from side to side. He was rarin' to go. Back have known what was on his mind be- was still cheerful and playful. But her from the sea was the sailor—and in his cause she didn't appear to be upset by the motherly instincts were not satisfied and native land too! At last the quarter deck tomcat's desertion. Licking her chops and so when Antwerp was visited, it was debrow was put over. Tom took a hasty with a nonchalant flick of her tail, she cided to let her stay in the zoo for a parting glance to see if Doris was anyslowly and majestically saimtered down couple of weeks to see how she would where around. She was probably u p in onto the dock a few minutes later. She get along with the monkeys out there. die galley getting well fortified before strolled leisurely on up toward the town. The Belgian zoo, right next to the railher session on the beach. The coast was way station, was one of the largest and clear and the tomcat raced down the lad- After all, this was her first liberty ashore best in Europe. The monkey cage held in over a year and she had to look the der to the quarter-deck. Without so more than a barrelfull. It was a great much as even a moment's hesitation or a simation over. She had to promote some big one and Bozo had her pick of the lot. salute to the colors as he went over the more friendly relations before the ship After a preliminary visit to the big cage side, he was gone in a flash. He streaked shoved ofi^.

After a year or so more of wandering to get acquainted all around, she was put up the dock and the last sign of him was in a small cage in the back part of the a small cloud of dust on the road head- along the shores of the continent and monkey house. Her cage was down near ing up the riverbank toward Bordeaux. through the Mediterranean, Casper the end of the narrow passageway lined He was gone. His seagoing days were shoved oflf to return to the States. Other on each side with small cages containing over. He had had enough. Doris must dogs came and went but none could take other mating monkeys and those which his place in Bozo's heart. The monkey

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were ill or too mean to keep company with those in the big main cage out front Opening rhe door leading into the long passageway and calling her name started Bozo squealing and chattering with joy. She grabbed on the bars of her cage and danced with glee upon hearing her name. She missed the ship and her impish face broke out in a toothy smile when anyone of the crew came to visit her.

Bozo came back before the ship sailed.

Soon she was going back to the States with her water-tender custodian. Maybe she was going to go back with a little blessing from the European station.

Doris had enjoyed plent}' of blessings in her time. A couple of months before, the PITTSBURGH had visited Ireland and now some kittens on board meowed with an Irish brogue. The cat knew how to promote friendly relations but as for poor Bozo, alas, when she shoved off for die States several weeks later, she definitely was not enceinte. The cruise was ended for her but no one could say that she hadn't aied to do her bit in the promorion of friendly relations. She waved a cheerful good-bye from her perch on the water-tender s shoidder as they went over the side. Maybe there was a tear in her eye as she looked down on the deck and saw Doris sprawled lazily up against

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M E X I C O and IDAHO will be laid up in reserve. Since the Na\7 possessed 1,082 combatant ships in commission or under The Nav} 1941-1946 construction late in 1945 the chan in(Continued from page 22) dicates that some 222-226 combat ships peacetime. Compared with the Navys will be scrapped or disposed of The pre-war carrier fleet of ^ ships and 6,000 surplus ships which will be stticken naval pilots, the peacetime fleet calls for from the N a \ 7 Register in the near fua minimum need of around 18,000 pilots ture are: the batdeships ARKANSAS, and 20 aircraft carriers in commission N E W YORK, T E X A S , NEVADA, PENNwith 16 in ready reserve. Cost of the s\xvANiA and MISSISSIPPI; the combat Na\7's post war naval establishment carriers SARATOGA, RANGER and ENTERwould approximare some S.-),525,000,- PRISE; rhe damaged escott cattier 000 aimually b u t it is estimated that this S A N G A M O N ; the worn out 15-year-old figure wUl be some 10 per cent lower for heavy cruisers SALT LAKE Q T Y and the 1948 fiscal year, 15 per cent less for PENSACOLA; the 9 obsolete hght cruisthe 1949fiscalyear, and 20 per cenr less ers of the "OMAHA " class; 78 destroyers of the 1,200-ton, 1,400-1,500-ton types, for the 1950 fiscal year. and a few of the 1,850-ton class which proved somewhat unstable for their HE Na\7 contemplates maintaining hea\7 armament; 6.-) desttoyer-escorts, 40 bases in post-war years, 27 in the mostly worn out in service, and 60-64 Pacific area and I.T in the Adantic. Of submarines, 55 of the old "S," "R" and these, 18 would be in regular operation, "O" types, the 3 "B" type, the 2 "N" 11 would be in reduced maintenance, type and others worn out in service. and the rest would be on a careraker or emergency basis.

The 1,082 combat ships and 5,002 auxihary ships of the peacetime fleet Of the 18 battleships the Navy will will be organized into active (to be kept retain, 5 of the "lowA" class will be in fully maimed and ready for instant acactive service, six of the " N O R T H CARO- tion), ready reserve (reduced commission but ready for action on shon notice), and laid up reser\'e (decommissioned on a caretaker basis but available in an emergency). It is to be hoped that there will be no occasion in post war years to bring back the laid up ships for active duty, for the Navy, after having fought its grearest war in history, now desires everlasting world peace.

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Supplementing the course of insuuction in the air, an indocttination course in Link Trainers is provided to supplement actual flying with closely controlled insttuction in primary flight maneuvers.

In familiarizing midshipmen with the principles of gunnery, gunnery ttaimng devices developed by the Special Devices Division are used. Tlie Dual Projeaor Trainer, which enables sradents to shoot at simulated enemy fighter attacks projeaed on a motion pictiue screen, is used to give practice in free gunnery. Fixed gunnery for fighter pilots is taught on the Fixed Gunnery Defleaion Trainer.

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A second variety of mine, the "Acoustic" type, is handled as uncouneously as the moored mine. It rests on the bottom and there are no cables involved. It is equipped with a sensitive mechanical "ear" which hstens for ship noises. The sound of a propeller or an engine will suffice for the "ear" to register an inpulse which detonates the mine.

Instead of sneaking up on these enemy listeners like an Indian after game, the minesweeper moves toward it making the most considerable racket that ever shivered the timbers in Davy Jones locker. The violent sound effects result in .T. thoroughly cracked eardrum for the undersea monster, which prompdy blows its top. But there is no harm done to the ship, for the device that manufacmres the noise is so powerful that it has detonated the mine far in advance of the sweeper.

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it is an experience to be forgotten as quickly as possible.

But minesweeping is like fishing in unfamihar waters. You never know what's down there.. Imagine yourself aboard a 220-foot sweeper somewhere off the coast of China. I h e skipper appears on the bridge and calls out the order: "Stream gear."

A cluster of men gathers around a huge dram that forms a bulky hump near the stern. Slowly they unreel a heavy cable which looks like a fire hose. The cable is paid out into the water directly astern until several hundred feet have been unreeled. Now something else happens, only you don't know about it. A high â&#x20AC;˘ powered electrical current is released through the cable and pulsates in a wide area astern. This is obviously not the rig for cutting moored mines, nor is there any noise involved which would indicate the presence of acoustic mines.

A grinning electrician's mate finally tells you. The electrical cable is probing for a third type of mine, the much-talkedof magnetic mine devised first by the Germans. The cable sets up a magnetic field which jars the detonators of this mine and explodes it at a safe distance from the sweeper. The ship itself has no magnetism for one of two reasons. Either it is wooden-hulled, or if of steel constmction, ir has been demagnetized by a complicated process called "degaussing."

Wirh the end of the German war, the acoustic and magnetic type mines became less of a problem, as the Japanese concentrated their efforts on sowing the less complex moored mine. Sweepers in

oriental waters have had to deal mostly with the moored mine, employing the sweep wire to cut the mine cables. Although this mine is not so complicated a mechanism as the other two types, it is more dangerous to sweep. This is because the minesweeper must acmally contact the mine with its sweeping gear.

Such is the ability and judgment of the men of the minesweeper fleet that most, if not all, of the vessels remrn from their dangerous missions. Out of many hundreds of the craft operating in every war theatre, 24 were lost, a small number considering the hazardous namre of the work.

Prime requisites for a minesweeper skipper are experience, a thorough knowledge of the mechanics of the work, and, unofficially, an indestructible sense of humor. An example of this combination is Lt. Commander Richard Bassett, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., commanding officer of the USS STARLING (AM-64), and senior officer in a group of six minesweepers operating along the China coast. Lt. Commander Bassett has been a minesweeper man during his entire term in the service which began in 1941.

He has seen duty in the European, African, and Pacific waters, and has had his narrow escapes from exploding mines and enemy action. His present command, the STARLING, distinguished itself by knocking down three Japanese planes during the Okinawa campaign, in addition to performing its assigned duties in outstanding fashion.

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L t Commander Bassett's "STARLING" and five other sweepers, the COMPETENT (AM316), die TOUCAN (AM387), die SURFBIRD (AM383) and the SPEAR (AM322), were among the first vessels to penettate the heavUy mined Shanghai area. Their excellent work made it possible for fleet units to anchor and discharge in China's largest port For twenty-three days the little group hoisted anchor before daybreak, proceeded into formation, and spent 12 to 14 hours in sweeping. The T O U C A N and SURFBIRD

put in the record for the operation, working 35 consecutive days with this schedide.

Under such conditions, a few good belly-laughs can go a long way to ease tension. Frequendy the hilarity is at the expense of the sweepermen themselves.

Typical is the instance when the STARLING and her mates swept the way for a flagship going in to Shanghai. The sweeps are so chunky and unimportant looking that other more imposing Navy ships unconsciously look down upon them as no-account small fry.

On this day the sweepers maintained station perfectly as they carried out their task. When the end of the mined area was reached, the skippers were menrally congramlating themselves on their excellent maneuvering. A message blinked across from the flagship: "Get out of the way."

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man and laugh at a joke like that. No wonder the minesweeper men get a fiendish glee out of severing a moored mine and watching it pop up suddenly in view of some haughty battleship or craiser.

One such vessel was supposed to have backed down for four miles after its first look at a floating mine.

Nowhere in the Navy is there more constant danger than is experienced in the routine performance of the minesweeper. The opposition is of an inanimate kind, but more deadly in its attack than the most powerful Naval gun.

A mine will pack a wallop backed by anywhere from 500 to 2000 pounds of TNT. It is not subject to human error.

Ir operates perfecdy, according to a preconceived plan, from a hiding place that cannot be easily located. Some mines cannot be detected until they have already exploded. They fight from ambush.

added to this lack of maneuverability, die ship at times becomes almost impossible to conttol. Yet the minesweeper captains have turned in some of the best examples of station-keeping and maneuvering.

Sweepers ordinarily work in groups, mowing overlapping paths in the mined areas. Sometimes they proceed in Vformation, sometimes in the echelon fashion of a flight of geese. Whatever the formation, perfect station-keeping is essential for safe, thorough sweeping. If one vessel veers out of formation, an area has been missed which may mean disaster for a ship behind, or it may become entangled in the sweeping gear of one of its own group.

Minesweeper captains are not made in a shon course at some indocttination school. Years of sweeping experience alone will quahfy an officer for command of one of the large fleet-type sweepers. The career of Lt. Commander Harris Squibb, of Providence, R. I., skipper of die USS TOUCAN (AM387) is an illustration. His first command was a 96-foot coastal sweeper more than four years ago. Since that time he has been commanding officer of a 126-foot yard sweeper, a 180-foot fleet sweeper, and now the 220-foot TouCAN. He figures that if his commands continue to inaease on an average of 40 feet a year, it won't be long until he's in charge of a batdewagon.

Lack of appreciation for what the minesweeper has achieved is usually the resulr of the "it can't happen here" atrimde. Only a practical demonstration convinced a big ttoop nanspon in the Mediterranean that the small sweepers weren'r merely pests getting in the way of the larger ships. The transport was proceeding fretfully at high speed, astern of a sweeper, refusing to slow down, when suddenly a submerged mine was detonated. The resultant upheaval produced a complete change of attimde in the commander of the ttanspon. From The men who batde mines are shoot- then on the big ship followed at a reing against par, with ships and their own spectful distance. lives on the outcome. It is not enough Mine blasts have to be seen to be beto gain an even break, for any ties are lieved.

During the Casablanca invasion always in favor of the mine. Only cona merchantman approaching the harbor stant ttaining in the development of new sttuck a mine.

A slowly rising mountain sweeping techniques, expert seamanships of water attenuated itself into a column and caution can keep the sweeper man 300 feet high. When the geyser had subafloat at his job. sided, the merchantman lay in the water One cannot fully realize the import- with 80 feet of her stern blown away.

One of the few vessels that the Chinese ance of expert ship handling and piloting in minesweeping until one has seen today will give a wide berth is a minea sweeper underway at its task. With its sweeper underway. During the first day sweep wires swung out on either side, of operations in the Shanghai area, the the ship becomes extremely difficult to sweepers were continually hemmed in handle. Its sweeps give it the approxi- by hordes of sampans, whose owners inmate maneuverability of a vessel with a sisted on fishing in the seas being swept.

300-foot beam and a 50-foot draft All efforts to drive them off failed.

Suddenly a minesweeper severed the cable on a moored mine, and the monster erupted to the surface not more than 20 feet from a duster of pop-eyed fishermen. From that moment on the sweepers had the area completely to themselves.

Precautions against the. effects of mine blast play an important part in the working routine. As soon as sweeping begins, all hatches are closed, thus dividing the vessel into several watertight compartments. In case of blast damage only the compartment acmally "holed" will be flooded, and the ship can maintain its buoyancy. All hands are required to don lifejackets and steel helmets as further precautions. There is no time for this after the blast has taken place. The helmet is worn below decks as well as above, for the sudden displacement caused by mine blast will rocket a man upward against the overhead or ceiling with crushing force.

Life on a sweeper is complicated by a lack of living space. Quarters are so aamped that the men classify their craft in the same comfort category as a telephone booth.

The real meaning of the term "ladder" as applied to all means of ascent and descent aboard a ship, is apparent aboard a sweeper. There is nothing resembling a flight of steps. Motion up or down is entirely on the vertical. A man can't be too portiy if he is to squeeze himself through the small 'tween decks hatches as he goes below.

fine. From the hundred men, there is no trouble in finding an artist, a cobbler, a musician, a tailor, a barber, or an expert pants-presser. All hands cooperate to supply each other with services which would ordinarily have been rendered by the business community back home. Ingenuity takes the place of experience. If there is no ex-professional barber aboard, some enterprising youngster will be given scissors and a comb along with the revelation that "From now on you're the barber." Ordinarily, after a few tragic experiments, the "barber" is doing competent work.

All tonsorial treatments aboard the USS T O U C A N are administered by Hilbert Marin, Shipfitter 3/c, USNR, of Lewiston, Maine. When he sets up shop, Marin hangs our a shingle which reads: "MARIN SHIPFITTERS INC. WELDING, GUNS MOUNTED, HAIRCUTS, SHAVES, EXPERT PLUMBING, SCALP TREATMENTS" In a sense, the minesweeper might be called a "Floating Trade School." The necessity for creating their own amusements encourages hobbies. Sailors young and old, have discovered that they can do expert work with their hands. A characteristic sight aboard a sweeper is a dungaree-clad youth seated in the shade of a lifeboat carving a wooden statuette, or polishing a piece of stainless steel which will soon be a bracelet for his best girlCollectors of art objects and curios could find excellent material in the work of the U. S. sailor. Shell necklaces, wrist bands, cosmme jewelry, and rings comprise some of the most common articles manufacmred. They are often of the finest craftsmanship. Most of the work would be hard to purchase, however, for the men usually have a certain person in mind when they are making their trinketsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a sweetheart, a sister, or a close friend.

C WEEPER hfe would place an inces^ sant mental strain on a victim of claustrophobia. Everywhere in the vitals of the ship there is an economy of space that takes the form of squashing an entire compartment into the area of a clothes closet Tendency towards seasickness is another disqualifying faaor for sweeper duty. On days when battleships, transports, and cruisers proceed serenely on the high seas, the little minecraft bounces about on the sweUs in a maimer that has brought many requests to be buried at sea from green-faced "LTANDSOME products evolve from -*â&#x20AC;˘ -*- humble materials. A gleaming set sailors. of salt and pepper shakers aboard the The men like the comparative lack of T O U C A N was made from the cartridge formality aboard their ships. The small cases of a pair of 20 millimeter shells. size of the "mackerel taxi" makes for a Larger gun cases can be cut down to make comradeship amongst men and officers excellent ash trays. that is uncommon on larger Naval craft Development of the "Yankee Trader" Discipline measures up to that of any instinct is encouraged by the fact that ship. Thrown together at close quarters, the minesweeper is compelled to operate the men realize more fully to what an much of the time as a lone wolf. It is extent they rely on each other. constantly changing its base of opera"Ship's company" is a small commun- tions, and frequently its only company is ity telescoped into an area of one or two a few other sweepers. When it mns low hundred feet in length by fifteen or on supplies far from a large base or fleet twenty feet in breadth. Compress a hun- unit, it must get along on its own redred men into an area this size ashore, sources. Since the sweepers are preventand you have a problem for congressional ed by their size from carrying large housing committees. Afloat it works out amounts of stores, officers and men are FEBRUARY,

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Looking back over a period of years of duty, it is the interminable grind of working with the complex gear in minesweeping that is most exasperating to the men who captain the smrdy craft. Veteran Lt Commander Harry Squibb, of the TOUCAN, and his friend Lt. Commander Robert H. Nelson, Jr., of Shreveport, La., skipper of the SURFBIRD, have a private ambition that probably rests in the heart of every sweeper man.

When the last mine has been swept and it's time to go home, the two skippers would like to bring their vessels in company to an isolated spot in the Pacific. At that point they will put out their sweep wires, stream the electrical cable astern, start up the various air hammers, and put every bit of apparams into operation.

At this point the two sweepers will head towards each other at top speed.

With air hammers clanking, whistles blowing, flags flying, and men cheering, the vessels will cross each other's sweep wires and cables, generating a whirl of wires, "otters," "pigs," and cables that will make the Gordian knot look like a masterpiece of simplicity.

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areas far far from any estabhshed U. S. Naval Base, far far from the usual Navy lines of communication. With all this in mind, it was plain to be seen that the entire Officer Messenger Mail system, as it had existed, needed drastic revision from the ground up. There had to be a centtal control ro avoid duplication of effort; a place where every piece of mail in the top security categories from every naval activity in the particular area could be coUeaed, and from which it could be dispatched promptly to its proper address along with all the other mail of the same classification for the same destination.

These necessities formed the basis upon which on 8 December 1944, CNO through Admiral Home issued the directive ordering the creation of Officer Messenger Mail Centers and Sub-Centers in all Naval Distticts and Area Commands. In official language the directive stated: "The function of this service is the speedy and safe nansmission of classified documents or important mad by a specially designated Courier or Officer Messenger where no other channels with proper security are available.

"The Courier and Officer Messenger system consists of maintaining a chain of receipts for a communication from the time it is placed in the custody of the system until it is delivered to the office of the addressee. Where possible the features of both the postal and Courier or Officer Messenger systems should be coordinated and utihzed to expedite the transmission of communications."

Put into practice these words meant, that everywhere there was an activity of the U. S. Navy, whether on a newly-won beachhead or at 90 Church Street, New York, there was to be a properly designated and accredited officer whose sole job it would be to handle Navy mail that travelled by Officer Messenger. He would receive and distribute the incoming communications; he would collect and dispatch the outgoing.

But back in the days when he was a Lieutenant, USNR, fresh on the beach after a rugged two years in the "ambiguous forces," as he used to call them, he wrote the piece called, "Top Secret and Urgent," which appears this month. Unformnately, at the time he wrote it the tide was all too true. The officers in Operations decided they didn't want to tell the Japs just exacdy how we transported our highly classified matter—not while the war was still on. Released now, it BVIOUSLY, huge though our Navy still makes interesting reading—and is is, it could not spare officers enough as true today as it was then. to carry every piece of highly classified mail originating in even a small activity. What acmally happens is best illustrated by an example. Suppose that the Commanding Officer of a Naval Top Secret and Urgent unit on Island Y has a reporr of vital importance to get to Washington quickly.

(Continued from page 15) There is not even a sub-OMMC on his own jobs and handling Officer Messen- island, but there is one on Island X ten ger Mail, too. But this was far from sat- miles away across the Sttait at the nearisfactory, as was the other hit-or-miss ar- est Advanced Naval Base. Everyday, rangement of catching couriers on the (with no question of "wind and weather fly, so to speak. Not only was there the permitting — they've got to permit alsimple difficulty of finding officers who most without exception) the Officer could be spared to carry messages, there Messenger from Island X crosses to Iswas also the fact that suddenly naval ac- land Y, bringing any incoming top clastivities were established in places and sified mail with him. He gets a receipt

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for what he brings; gives one for what he takes. As a matter of convenience, mad from the FPOs usually navels on these nips, too, but that is not our concern at the moment. When the Officer Messenger remrns to his office, he bundles the letter from Island Y along with any others he may have for Washington, pouches the bundle with other bundles for other addresses on the route to Washington. Then, having taUied and recorded each bundle, he takes the pouch to the airfield. There he turns ir over to the NATS co-pilot who is making the flight to the nearesr full-fledged OMMC (remember there was only a sub-MC on Island Y ) . The NATS officer, receipts for the pouch and, at his next stop where there is an OMMC mrns it over to the officer in charge there along with any other pouches he's collected from other sub-MCs along his route. He gets a receipt, of course.

At the OMMC, the mail in the pouches is again sorted according ro addressee, repouched (five sub-MQ m i ^ t not have enough mail to fill one pouch) and again mrned over to a NATS copilot for further ttansmission in the same manner, always with a receipt given and a detailed record kept Suppose, however, that there is no NATS service to that particular OMMC —after all there are one or two spots in the world where NATS doesn't fly. In that case, the mail is turned over ro ATS, once again the co-pdot becomes the courier, ordy this time it's an Army officer who carries the Navy maiL Of course, the Navy remrns the favor where it has air ttansport service and Army doesn't And, in addition, the Navy carries as OMM priority communications of friendly foreign powers.

And so the mail moves from one Center to another, always in the custody of an officer, every mile of its joum^ properly and fully accoimted for. A cumbersome method? Well, it take OMM two days to reach Washington from Pearl Harbor; 5 days from Guam; 2 days from Adak; 5 days from Cairo; 3 days from Paris; 9 days from Chungking; 5 days from Manila; 5 days from Okinawa—though on one ttip it was done in 3.

The OMMC at Okinawa, incidentally, probably represents the ultimate in speed in another way; it was probably set up faster than any other similar office except the one at Iwo Jima. On those two islands, the OMMC set up in business as soon as the LST on which it was transported had moved in to the beach in one of early waves, discharged its cargo and moved back into the ttansport area, hoisting the zero pennant as she went This system has worked so well that it will undoubtedly see further use. But it is not, naturally, a long term set-up.

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The more permanent advanced base OMMC is a unit of a base component consisting of two 40 x 100 and one 20 x 48 Quonset huts with the necessary office equipment and special paraphernalia—seals, stamps, pouches, et cetera —for the job. Tlie OMMC, which is usually housed in the small hut, is manned by two officers and four enlisted men who have been trained together in their work.

The large huts house the Fleet Post Office, and it is the Disnict or Area Postal Officer who has cognizance of the OMMC. ' T ' H E present system, as outhned here, -•• would seem to do away entirely with the old-fashioned spy melodrama Officer Courier who was ready to ride to the farthest corner of the earth at a moment's notice, bearing messages of the greatest importance—fighting oflF the allurements of beautiful women spies and the machinations of bewhiskered desperadoes with ease and grace as he did so. To a large extent, unhappily for the fiction writers of the fumre, it has done just that; but there are still instances where an Officer Messenger may act as a courier for one particular communication. At the Yalta Conference, for example. Navy Officers acted as couriers beFEBRUARY,

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tween Washington and the Crimea, making the entire journey as custodians of special dispatches. And, whenever commercial transportation has to be used, either in the United States or abroad, the Officer Messenger still carries the mail himself.

Such special work, by its very namre, calls for something pretty special in the way of orders. The sample furnished by Bupers reads like an Ensign's dream; it runs in part: "L Proceed immediately to the following places and to such other places as may be necessary for temporary duty as a Courier.

Bombay, India; Calcutta, India; Chungking, China.

"2. You are authorized to revisit any of the above mentioned places or vary the above itinerary as may be deemed necessary." Oh, yes! The sample goes on to authorize per diem, too.

However, before the rush to get duty with an OMMC starts, it should be pointed out that those are just sample orders; no one has ever got them yet.

The real thing is much more likely to involve running between Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. One young officer, recently remrned stateside from just that tour of duty, was enthusiastic about it. He said: "I like getting up at

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one in the morning in Melbourne and landing at four in the morning at Brisbane; waking up when everyone else has gone to bed; going to bed when everyone else is awake." And then he added solemnly, "But some people might not go for it."

Regardless of whether people would go for the duty itself, there can be no doubt that they do go for the service OMM provides. After less than a year in operation, it boasted 98 messages centers and many times that number of subcenters. They get the mail through and they do it fast. "Anything, anytime, anywhere," is their motto. But no more softshelled crabs, please. No more boxes of crackers, personal letters, pairs of slippers, bottles of liquor, no more . . . well, in short, nothing that is not actually Officer Messenger Mail.

Submarine oflf Saki {Continued from page 17) Okie cranks. I lean, and, plot a posit No noise now, battle stations manned, all compartments. Tom goes up the bridge hatch.

"Standby!"

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ers, dots, figures...

Bz-z-zt. Okie reads, cranks. Wolf jots. and armament to Tom. "Trigonometry.

"What 'se look like, Jim? " Everette passing the dope. Brook Bz-z-zt.

"Can't see. Just a dark spot. But big. ttaining his gear. I measure, plot.

"Outer doors are open."

"Right full rudder . . . all ahead stand- No spitkit, Cap'm!"

"Very well." ard . . . get ready on all engines! " The "Cut in the forward TBT! " "Okay, Jim?" captain.

"Cut in."

The M-C rasps, "Okay, Cap'm."

"Stay on him now!"

"Rudder is right full. Answering ""Tom, m fire then swing left."

"TBTs on him, Capmn," Stan shouts. standard. Getting ready all engines," re"Aye, aye."

"All ahead flank!" ports Wolken as he grapples the helm, Bz-z-zt. ""Answering flank." twists the enunciators, addresses the "Standby One! " phone.

'Standing by."

"Fire One!" UNGE, and we shake and cut into the Thar jump, that pitch that comes with ' seas, heel with the mdder, careen, OU can feel the heel of full rudder, the launched fish. the vibration of accelerating screws, and spray dashes down the hatch.

"Fire Two!" "Cap'm, Cap'm . . . looks like a DD! " thrusting, shoving.

Bz-z-zt.

"Yeah, two stacks, good smoke, Bz-z-zt.

Watch the sweep second hand.

W e work. The problem. The func- rakish!" ""Fire Three!" A shout now, tense and Maybe a furrowed brow. We've never tioning of long drill, practice, experience hoarse. tackled a boy like this. A ship built to in solving the enemy maneuver.

Bz-z-zt. kill us. Our rarget.

Bz-z-zt.

"Capmn, second one's circhng left!"

"Rudder "midships. Steady on zero WeU, he must be, to be making this from Stan. three five!" speed.

Erratic.

"Ready ro answer beUs on all engines, How many fish?

"Fire Four! Left full radder!" captain."

What run?

"Rudder is left full."

"Answer bells all ahead full!"

One way or the other, fire and beat it Any moment now. The chck Ihen Background. You don't really hear it. for all hells, for deep water. Graceful reshuddering explosion. We waited for it, Wolf just records. And Okie grinds. tirement Graceful... braced ourselves against it.

And I plot. And Pancho, below, plots: Bz-z-zt.

But silence. Ordy moaning vibration.

Wolken grapples, Salem talks. Brooks "Flood the mbes!"

"Steady on iero nine zero!" ttains, Everette broadcasts. ""Flood the mbes," the echo. ""Steady on zero nine zero."

"Steady on zero three five."

"Mark!"

"Set-up!"

"Very well."

Bz-z-zt.

Bz-z-zt.

"Do you see him yet, Jim?" the cap"Left full rudder!"

"He's turning!" tain shouts towards the hatch. ""Rudder is left full."

Bur no chck. N o roar.

"Don't see him yet, Cap'm," comes "Steady on two six zero!"

"Cap'm, he's mrning!" down the M-C. ""Steady on two six zero," the echo.

Chug-broo-oom . . . chug-broo-oom...

"How's speed through the water?" '"Tubes are flooded." chug-broo-oom.

Wolf reads oflF our speed. A dial for Bz-z-zt.

Hits? everything that hasn't a gauge.

"Very well."

The captain hstens.

We jockey in and out, following his ""Steadied on two six zero."

No. zigs, his speed. Closing gradually, solv"Very well."

Charges, he's dropping. Or shooting. ing him.

Bz-z-zt.

"Dropping charges, caprain!" Tom The target A locus to me. An arrow "Hm-m-m." shouts down the hatch. to Okie. A bunch of figures to Wolf.

"Come left to two five zero! " "Maneuvering, give me all you've Tonnage to the captain, a vessel with "... left to two five zero." got!" such stacks, masts, superstrucmre. An "Open the outer doors!"

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'Got 'im, cap'm, got 'im! " A dark ""Open the outer doors."

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"Very well."

"Damnit, give me knots!" what a groan. The smash of GAWD seas against the hull. Climb into them. Crash down and spume a thousand breakers groping out to the swell.

"Holy Mackerel!" Stan, but a frenzied scream.

"LEFT fuU mdder! ALL STOP!" Big Jim up there.

"What the heU's the story, Jim!" the captain is at the hatch.

"TORPEDO! . . . diat godamned erratic . . . circling in!"

"RIGHT hiU rudder! All ahead FLANK!" Is that Jun? Could that be Big Jim! Chug-broo-oom . . . chug-broo-oom.

Bz-z-zt.

"It's gonna hit!" Disbelief. "Coming right in!"

What can you do? You can wait. And wonder. Our own fish, too. That hatch.

Stan is saying, "Right for the after engine room . . . right for the after engitie room . . . Holy Mackerel..."

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phones, "Burn those engines!"

"JUST . . . ABOUT . . . NOW!" I guess Tom figured those were his last words.

But they weren't.

We were still plowing ahead. I felt the engines. And all that rudder. Clutching the periscope rods, I was, like mad.

And hanging on for dear life, what I had thought left of it.

But there we were, still plowing and heeling and all of us looking God right square in the face.

Chug-broo-oom...

"Rudder 'midships!"

"Rudder is amidships."

"Set-up!"

Bz-z-zt.

Back again. The enemy. That destroyer stiU out there and turning, not away, but toward.

Good Lord, we never hit him!

"No hits," the captain muses.

"Captain, maneuvering reports the engines overheating." They probably never knew.

"Well, fan them!"

"Left full rudder! Steady on ninety!" " . . . on ninety."

And suddeidy there is Tom, helmet in hand, sitting there on the soundman's

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seat and saying, "Must have gone right under us." ". . . right under us, the engine room . . . you could see it, the wake boiling up from the warhead."

And the captain nodding, his jaw ofiFset, a cigarette, sopped with spray, dead in his mouth.

"Set-up!"

"Must have gone deep, all of them . . . the whole salvo."

Bz-z-zt.

Okie still there, cranking, with the captain over his shoulder. ""Don't think he's got us!"

"No, but he saw 'em go under him.

Count your blessings, I guess."

Oh, I was counting, all right.

Chug-broo-oom...

But no gun flashes.

"Captain, Maneuvering requests permission to slow to flank." ""Granted. Slow to flank!"

You don't realize it, but that is a classic statement, ""Granted. Slow to flank!"

"Steadied on ninety. Captain."

"Very well."

Ninety. Zero nine zero. That is east East is home.

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Story Captain Tom Big Jim Al Pancho Okie Stan Tex Brook Everette Miotke Pryor Rader Salem Shatzer Wolf Wolken Tiraschi

Name and Rank or Rate Baskett, Thos. S., Comdr., USN Turner, Thos., Lieut., USN Wright, James E., Lieut., USN Spurney, Alan B., Lieut., USNR D'Angelo, Frank M., Lieut., USNR O'ConneU, Robt. Fay, Lt. (jg), USNR Martauz, Stanley, Lt. (jg), USN Cross, Malcohn E. Lt. (jg), USNR Brook, Roger F., RT 1/c, USNR Everette, Jas. H., Jr., RT 1/c, USNR Miotke, George C , RM 3/c, USNR Pryor, Harold F., GM 2/c, USNR Radar, Lloyd E., CMoMM, USN Salem, Louis T., SM 2/c, USN Shatzer, Philip H., EM 3/c, USN Wolf, Carl J., QM 1/c, USNR Wolken, Arthur J., QM 2/c, USN Tiraschi, Raymond A., SM 1/c, USN

rhe boar, echoing.

Pancho goes up to take the deck.

Bundled from head ro foot, as chough Boston never gor cold ar all.

And Jim, Big Jim, drops down the hatch into the Conning Tower. ""Hiyah!" he says.

The Cat's Tale

Relationship and Name of Next-Kin Lois R. Baskett, wife Carolina E. Turner, wife Jinunie Dora Wright, mother Dr. Anton B. Spurney, father Annonette Marie D'Angelo. wife Martha Agnes O'ConneU, mother Katherine Eva Martauz, wife Ewell Cross, father Jeffrey J. Brook, father Jas. H. Everette, father Pearl F. Miotke, mother Leona M. Pryor, mother Ethel Ruth Rader, mother Sophie Salem, mother Leola Stumbo, mother Elsie Wolf, sister Marcella J. Wolken, mother Constant Tiraschi, wife

assembled us in his office and gave us our instructions. He told us that of eight hundred sixry-three flighrs he had controlled only one had any trouble—two planes of a section exploded in mid air — and he expected no such nonsense from us. He gave us a brief explanation of the ""how-goes-it" curve (a graphic analysis of fuel consumed and distance remaining) and added that if we didn'r understand it we could learn the hard way by getting out and pushing when our tanks ran dry. Then he wished us luck and mrned us over to the Aerologist, who also wished us luck and mrned us over to God. W e were ready to go. {To Be Continued)

Address of Next-Kin The Inn, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

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rrol, collided wirh rhe sank 10 minutes later.

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The Germans attempted to elude the H F / D F system by transmirting while submerged, but the Navy's DF experts broke rhat up, too.

• For example, on Chrisrmas Day, 1944, a group of destroyer escorts under Commander J. F. Bowling, USN, of 4808 Nebraska Avenue, Norrhwest, Washington, D. C, was ordered to hunt down and destroy a U-boar which was periodically broadcasring reports about 500 miles west of the Azores. Two weeks later the U-boat was picked up by HF/DF bearing ar an estimated distance of 40 miles from rhe desrroyer escorr group. The nexr day rwo of rhe ships, the USS OT-

{Continued from page 19) But the Plane Commanders had other ideas. ""Just what the hell do you think a Catalina is—a freight car?" one of them roared. "You can bring two small grips and an extra hanky—and THAT'S ALL! And be sure to bring enough cigarettes for both of us," he added.

Bloodhounds vs. Wolfpacks TER and the USS HUBBARD, got bearings Finally we were briefed for rhe flight (Continued from page 21) The Officer - Conrrolling - rhe - Flight, a which placed the submarine within 20 Commander possessed of great experi- LEY pursued and shot away the conning miles. Unformnately, on January 9 the ence and a perverted sense of humour. tower. The submarine, now out of con- group was forced ro depart for the Azores to refuel. For three days die task group had kepr close ro rhis U-boat by HF/T)F.

On January 13 the hunt was resumed.

Commander Bowling in rhe next few days outsmarted the U-boat skipper, relying on HF,/DF bearings to track the movements of the U-boat. The U-boat was pursued South, North and West as the bearings on his transmissions indicared changes of course. The reliance on H F / D F and the task group's persisrence were rewarded on the morning of January 16, 1945, when die U-boat's radio transmission was intercepted by three H F / D F ships which fixed the enemy at 6 miles from the nearest ship. The task group closed in fasr. Two hours after the H F / D F intercept, the sonarman had picked up the U-boat. Exacdy five hours after the intercept a violent underwater explosion indicated the death of another U-boat German submarines at the start of the war made liberal use of radio to call ""wolfpacks" together.

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"When one of their submarines made a contact that looked profitable they had to call the other boys in some way, and our fellows were listening all the time on all their frequencies," recalls Captain A. B. Vosseller, USN, of Jacksonville, Illinois, and 3654 Gunston Road, Alexandria, "Virginia, who was captain of the sub-hunting escort carrier, the USS

Guard cutters CAMPBELL, SPENCER, enemy submarines in May 1943, the USS

BIBB and D U A N E made invaluable use of rhe new equipment in the spring of 1943 against "wolfpacks" operating in the convoy lanes of the North Adantic.

BoGUE made successful use of HF/DF. With the aid of H F / D F the BOGUE contacted 10 U-boats on one trip. On May 22, 1943, an H F / D F contact on a U-boat The USS BIBB reported in one opera- 23 miles oflF the convoy was followed by attack 40 minutes after the U-boat's tion of January 1943: "Over 40 German transmissions were transmission, with the U-boat being inrercepted and their bearings ascer- caught by surprise on the surface.

BOGUE. tained during two days of operation in On March 16 and 17, 1944, a "killer" By the end of the war the U-boats convoy escort. Through HF/DF, subgroup working with the USS BLOCK ISweren't so talkative. The Germans ap- marines were caught on the surface. ReLAND worked on U-801 and finally sank parendy had learned the costly price of peated radar and sound contacts have it, aided by HF/DF. Sighted and atopening up while on patrol. been made possible from these high fre- tacked on March 16, the U-801 got away.

As D-Day of the Normandy invasion quency bearings."

But at 3:00 A.M. on March 17 the USS approached, the Germans stationed subOn another occasion the USS BIBB BOSTWICK and the USS BLOCK ISLAND marines in increasing numbers in the reporred: took H F / D F bearings on a high freEnglish Channel. One such submarine "A distress message from a torpedoed quency transmission of rhe U-boar which was "fixed" by the Atlantic net The ship gave her position. A high frequency was estimated to be 45 miles away. Forty USS CROATAN, an escort carrier, and bearing (on a U-boat) crossed this posi- minutes later a plane from the BLOCK escorts were senr ro rhe scene. Direcrion tion. The captain on the USS BIBB was ISLAND following the bearings made finders aboard four of the ships picked forewarned that an enemy submarine radar contact with the U-boat. This conup the submarine's Transmissions, lowas standing by, waiting for a perfect tact was not lost, but it was not until cated her and sank her.

1:00 P. M. on March 17 that the USS shot at any one making the rescue."

CORRY and the USS BRONSTEIN finShipboard H F / D F was first used by the U. S. Navy in January 1943. Prior to N another night an H F / D F op- ished off the U-801. that rime it was considered impossible eraror aboard rhe BiBB determined On June 11 and 12, 1944, a "kiUer" to obtain H F / D F bearings by shipboard by H F / D F bearings taken by him that group of rhe USS CROATAN, USS FROST, equipment because re-radiation of ob- 14 U-boats were shadowing his convoy. USS HusE, and USS I N C H sank U-490 jeas on board caused unpredictable varIn the first major engagement of the after a 17-hour chase. Contact was made iarions. The H A M I L T O N class Coast war between carrier-based aircraft and at 1:00 A.M. on June 12, when three

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ALUMNI HOUSE NEWS

We know that everyone will be pleased to hear that the Tap Room of the Alumni House will be operating by April the fifteenth. The furniture has been ordered from The Virginia Craftsmen of Harrisonburg, Va. —the Company which made most of the colonial reproduction furniture for the Williamsburg restoration.

IIBIITED STATES MVAL ACADEMY ALimnil ASSOCIATIOIt

Mr. Hubert Burnham has been eleaed a trustee to the Naval Academy Alumni Association to serve the unfinished term of Col. Emery Larson.

Mr. Burnham is a member of the class of 1905. He should prove to be a great help in the selection of furniture for the Alumni House since he comes from a long line of notable architects.

Visitors to the Alumni House this month include: Claude Bailey, '90 Francis J. Comerford, '08 Archer M. R. Allen, '08 Bernhard H. Bieri, '11 William H. P. Blandy, '13 Harry A. Rochester, '19 Edward E. Roth, '21 John F. Hines, '27 John W. Seager, Jr., '32 Roland O. Lucier, '32 Lloyd H. McAlpine, '32 William F. Morrison, '35 Gage L. Baker, '44 Robert L. Kays, '45 Lawrence R. Crum, '45

Alumni News Something Old. . .At the U. S. Naval Academy Museum —By Captain

Since SHIPMATE is a magazine primarily for Navy families—^the majority of which are constantly on the move — SHIPJMTE'S circulation depanment has quite a job keeping up with its subscribers. If you are missing your SHIPMATE, perhaps it is going to an old address. W e ask you to let us know when you make a change of duty.

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Spindrift—By Lee Shores

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''SOMETHING O L D . . .

SOMETHING M W . . . " At the U. S. Naval Academy CAPTAIN H .

A. BALDRIDGE, U. S. Navy {Retired)

Portraits of World War U v. S. Naval Leaders Shotvn Through the cooperation of the Combat Art Section, of the Office of Public Information, the Museum recendy borrowed fifty-five striking portraits of U. S. Naval leaders and personages of World War II. The exhibit, the third naval art show sponsored by the Museimi in as many months, was on display in the foyer from 17 December through 31 December 1945.

The portraits represented work by three of the six combat artists of the Navy Department—Lt. Comdr. Dwight Shepler, USNR, Lt. Comdr. Wilham F. Draper, USNR, and Lt. Comdr. Albert K. Murray, USNR. The Museimi's showing marks the first time that such a group of contemporary naval portraits has been collected and displayed. Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, superintendent of the Naval Academy, opened the exhibit.

While it was in no sense a comprehensive collection of all the important naval leaders and heroes of World War II, the exhibit did give a good cross section of those who, by chance or otherwise, were available and willing to pose when one of the six combat artists was at hand, either while at sea or on shore stations.

Elsewhere in this issue of SHIPMATE will be found a list of the portrait subjects, and a brief article describing the development of this important activity.

Model of Brig That Found Bounty Mutineers Received An early ship model that has both historic and nautical interest has been added to the Museum's world famous colleaion, which includes the Rogers ship models.

The latest acquisition is a 3/8th scale model of the brig TOPAZ, an American trader which discovered the BOUNTY mutineers on Pitcairn island and brought the first report of the mutiny back to the world. It was presented by 40

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Mr. George K Kirkham, of East Orange, N.J. The T O P A Z is of interest to sea-faring

folk, and particularly to model makers (amateur and professional) for its unique snow rig — a small secondary mast, attached to the mainmast, to carry the spanker gaff. This is the only example of this rig now at the Academy, and should be of particular interest to midshipmen studying seamanship and navigation.

The original T O P A Z was built in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1807, and saw much service in the Pacific. A merchant ship, she carried four guns to re-

pel pirates. Captain H. Percey Ashky construaed the scale model in 1920. In craftsmanship and material it compates favorably with many other fine scale models on display in the Museum, Mahan and Bancroft Halls, and other places within the Academy Yard.

Kendo Fencing Equipment, Relics of a Vanished Age Captain Robert S. Bertschy, USN, commanding officer of the USS SAUGUS (LSV-4), has forwarded to the Academy a collection of Japanese physical training equipment, and a letter that is so interesting that it is quoted in its entirety: "1. Through the cooperation of Qptain T. D. Wilson, in charge of CUB 18 ar Sasebo, Kyushu, Japan, I was able to procure four Kendo fencing outfits from the Japanese Naval Station at Sasebo, Japan. They are being shipped by Pared Post in five separate packages, four of them containing one uniform each; the fifth containing three fencing swords.

"2.1 presimie that the Academy is the recipient of numerous gifts, and it seems to me that this equipment would also be of interest. Time did not permit investigation on my part to find instructions or to make inquiries through our liaison officer ashore as to the maimer in which this gear is used, but at some future date

Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN (left). Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy, "i^^",^^^ ^ ^ ^ «'*;*»"'»" "f Paval portraits at the Naval Academv Museum, December V ' J » ; Others, left to right are: Captain E. John Long, USNR, assistant curator of the Museum; Mr. Harry R. England, secretary of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; and Lt. Comdr. William F. Draper. USNR, one of the combat artists of the 9 j ""^ , r- t / I"f»™'»'Jp"' Navy Department. Mr. Draper painted the portrait of Admiral Fitch (center, background) and that of Admir.il Halsev (right). The portrait of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher (left) was painted by Lt. Comdr. Albert K. Murray, USNR.

I hope to return to Japan and will attempt to locate instructions, or at least the history of this training device. From the appearance of the equipment I would judge that it is fashioned after the armor of the Samurai warrior of ancient times.

The sword very closely resembles the present weapon carried by Japanese officers.

"3. All of the equipment has been thoroughly sprayed with DDT. Unformnately one of the wooden fencing swords is missing, but it appears to me that it could be easily dupUcated if there were any call for use of the equipment.

It is also unformnate that the size of the gear is all small. I selected the largest of the gear, but fear that it still will not fit the average midshipman. Coach Tom Taylor would serve as a proper model for the gear.

"4. In sending this equipment I merely desire to give the opportunity to the midshipmen to see equipment that very likely will not be sanctioned in the future.

I shall attempt to gather other equipment of interest to the midshipmen on my return to Japan.

R. S. BERTSCHY" In the 31 December 1945 issue of Life magazine is a picture of two Japanese youngsters using this equipment. The caption reads: The use of this equipment in the Japanese Navy in the physical training of its enlisted force and midshipmen was similar to the use of the "cane exercises" of Swordmaster Corbeisin at the Naval Academy at the turn of the cenmry.

Recent Art Accessions Include Fine Paintings Among recent art accessions of note are the following: "George Washington." White marble bust by Hiram Powers.

"Forcing The Hudson River Passage."

Oil painting on canvas by Dominique Serres of the Royal Academy, 1779.

(These two gifts were acquired through die efforts of Commander Walter Karig, USNR, Lieutenant Welbourn Kelley, USNR, and Capt. E. John Long, U S N R ) . '"The Constimtion." Oil painting on canvas by James Hamilton. Gift of Charles L. Laurance.

'Xieutenant Isaac McKeever" (Hero of the Batde of Lake Borgne, 1815). Oil on canvas by Thomas Birch.

"Batde of Lake Borgne" (1815). Oil on canvas by T. L. Hornbrook.

"Theodore Roosevelt." Oil on canvas.

Copy by F. W. Wright, after John S. Sargent in die White House Collection.

"Decamr at Tripoli." Oil on canvas

by W. A. K. Martin. (The preceding four gifts acquired through the efforts of Commander Walter Karig, USNR).

"James Laurence." Oil on canvas. By FEBRUARY,

1946

Gilbert Stuart. Presented by George M. Moffett.

"United States and Macedonian." Oil on canvas by Thomas Whitcombe. Presented by Mrs. David C. Hanrahan.

Manuscripts and Rare Books Recently Acquired Manuscript and book accessions in recent weeks have been numerous and extremely valuable. Worthy of mention are: WELLES, GIDEON. Autograph manuscript, 7V^ pages quarto on the history and exploits of Lieutenant WiUiam B. Gushing, USN, by Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's Cabinet. Cushing's destruction of the Confederate ram "Albemarle" and his other exploits caused both Welles and Farragut to call him the outstanding hero of the Civil War. JONES, J O H N PAUL. Autograph letter signed to Thomas Jefferson, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, Paris, 14 August 1786, transmitting muster rolls of his squadron for prize money (In French). Together with a beautiful miniamre on ivory of Jones. (This is the miniamre A. C. Buell alleged was in the "Hermitage," St. Petersburg, Russia).

JONES, J O H N PAUL. Autograph document. This is the famous (infamous?) document in French script placed before Jones by the French authorities for Jones to sign—that he had been operating under French Colours and with a French Commission as Captain of Privateers. Jones in his own autograph states that the above statement was placed before him on board the "Alliance" at the Texel, 13 December 1779, to sign. A falsehood, Jones called it.

SMITH, CAPTAEN JOHN. A description of New England, or the Observations, and discoveries, of Captain John Smith (Admiral of that Country) in the North of America, in the year of our Lord I 6 l 4 : with the success of sixe Ships that went the next yeare 1615, London: Humphrey Lownes for Robert Gierke, 1616, 4to, crushed red Morocco, gilt, gie by F. Bedford. First Edition with a brilliant impression of the Map in the Fourth State. The first edition of the first book to bear on its Title the name of "New England." The map ( I 6 l 4 ) is the earliest thoroughly reliable map of Massachusetts Bay, according to Windsor. This book printed four years before the landing of the Pilgrims,

gives a detailed account of Smith's voyage to the coast of New England. The names of Plymouth and Boston appear on the map at this early date. Smith tells how Cape Henry and Cape Charles were named by him—in honour of his "Soueraignes heires"—the Princes of James I, Henry and Charles. (This Hemy was known as "The Black Prince" and Prince Charles became Charles I—beheaded in 1649—the same year the first settlement was made in Annapolis—he who gave the first Lord Baltimore the first Charter.). Captain John Smith cruising up the Chesapeake Bay (1608) the year following the landing at Jamestown was the first white man to see the present site of the Naval Academy. In this cruise he is credited with having named Tangier Island and Tangier Sound.

DESBOROW, CHARLES. The Humble Address of the Lords Spirimal and Temporal to His Majesty. In Relation to the Petition of Charles Desborow, Late Captain of His Majesty's Ship Mary Gaily, Employ'd in the Expedition to Newfoundland, in the year 1697, under the command of Captain John Morris.

And, His Majesty's Most gracious Answer thereto. Small 4to, full calf (new). (N.P.) Printed for Charles Desborow, 1699.

The above tract is very rare. The Petition and Testimony give many interesting details of the Naval simation on the American Coast at the close of the seventeenth cenmry. Believed to be the first printed account of naval operations on the North American Continent. The Huntington Library, California, has a copy.

FANNING, NATHANIEL. Fanning's NARRATIVE, rwo copies, originals, with the 1806 and 1808 title pages.

It is believed that the Naval Academy Museum is the only instimtion owning both editions. The Museum also owns another copy with the 1808 title page.

"THE MISSOURIAN." Vol. 2. 10 September 1945. Number 12. Headline across the first page "JAPAN SURRENDERS ABOARD THE USS MISSOURI." This newspaper printed onboard the MISSOURI is going to become a very important historical item. Presented by Captain (now Rear Admiral) Smart S. ("Sunshine") Murray, USN, Commanding Officer.

JAPANESE OCCUPATION ITEMS. Edition of "The Stars and Stripes" newspaper, TIME Magazine and NEWSWEEK Magazines (poney editions) all printed in Tokyo immediately after the "surrender ceremonies" together with numerous orders, circulars, instructions, etc., etc., governing the U. S. Naval personnel in Japanese waters and on shore issued contemporaneously. Gift of Commander Johnson, USN, Commanding CVE. 41

Spindrift

By Lee Shores

'TpHANKS to the new system which requites but rwo sets of exams per year, more midshipmen were able to go home on Christmas leave and not even the terrible travel conditions dampened their enthusiasm. Stories of the rigors of travelling over the holidays are legion, but none of them can be topped by that of one first classman who went to Texas.

He started Friday noon and did not arrive until late Christmas night, being a total of some fifty-six hours late. Gayest portion of his trip was a seven hundred and fifty mile ride in a baggage car. When he finally made it home he was so sick that he had to go to bed for two days. Anticipating the same sort of trouble on his return trip, he left two days early. The train pulled into Union Station right on time which left him with two days to kill in Washington, and from all reports he killed all there was in the city except himself.

One first classman had a gay experience on his return from leave. It appears that before going on leave he had contracted with a local tailor for a new whipcord uniform which he intended to wear on leave. The Friday morning that leave started he directed the tailor to have the uniform sent to the main gate where he would pick it up. Unfortunately, in the rush of packing and getting away, he wasn't able to pick it up and, so left word that the uniform be sent back to the tailor. Something miscarried, however, for the uniform was sent to the Main Office and thence to his own Batt.

Office. The day after he returned from leave he was called down to claim his uniform and possibly more. Opening the box he found only two Form 2s and both inscribed with "Merry Christmas."

AT least one elaborately conceived scheme • ^ has backfired this past month. A rather damp, but undaunted NOOW was recently overheard bragging about his latest roundup of Form 2 subscriptions. It was during a third period study hour, a few days ago, when at least six second and third classmen were enjoying a midmorning snack of crackers, cheese, onions, and other assorted delicacies.

One of that ingenious number devised the neat trick of placing a cup of water on the transom in such a way that any intruder would get quite a shower bath.

After a few trial runs on some neighboring plebes the efficiency of this method was raised to nearly 100 per cent. One of the youngsters was sent out to intimidate the outstanding company slash into the trap. It worked perfectly, the door opened, the string was tripped, and—splash!—a full cup of H2O greeted the incoming guest. The roar of laughter which arose from all hands was quickly stifled, however, when instead of the expeaed youngster, four gold stripes and a

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tassled sword appeared—the NOOW in all his splendor followed by a grinning messenger. His spirits were not as damp as his uniform, though, for the mate of that deck was soon busy delivering many little slips which read: Gish, J. J., 2/c "Initial Conduct Report at the Battalion Office."

Far be it from Lee, who is as broadminded a tar as ever existed, to question the morals of the Academic departments, but we think the Dago Dept. would bear a little investigation. Our attention has been called to the following sentences which the youngster French classes have had in their homework gouge for translation: (1) She told me to give her a coin.

(2) At first I did not like her.

(3) Carmen was expecting something quite diflFerent.

(4) Don't be surprised at anything when you go in.

(5) Don't be stupid! It is easy to make a living this way.

(6) She turned out the light and went to sleep. / ^ N E of our lads has become quite soured ^-^ on women, due to a perfidious female who seems to be about as fouled up as they come. While on leave he went to see a certain lady whom he had been going to see for some time, and was greeted with a flow of drivel about how much he had been missed, how good sweetie-pie had been—she hadn't gone out with anyone else for months, etc., etc. Our hero was duly impressed, and went to get her coat in preparation of sallying forth to do the town. Imagine his surprise to find her lapel covered with those little blue shields the Kaydets use for an insignia. He returned to the living room with arched eyebrows, and was greeted by what may be described as a rather sticky silence.

Sweety-pie giggled rather hollowly and launched into a rather vague and complex series of alibis. Now our hero was a good middle, as middies go, and as middies go he went, having first replaced the shields with regulation collar anchors and telling her there would be trouble if they weren't there when he returned next week.

Three days later a Kaydet friend of his called: "Some woman I've got! When I called for her last night I went to get her coat and she had some damn midshipman's collar anchors on. I got so mad I could spit. And the minute I opened my mouth she hit the ceiling.

Kept talking about fate, and told me to scram; from now on she's only going with Harvard men. I wish I knew what makes her tick."

The subject of the grease system can never be broached without evoking wry smiles from

its detractors, but here is a little tidbit which should bring a broad grin. A 3rd Batt first classman on watch one day noted that the composite aptimde folders were lying exposed. Waiting for an opportune moment the first classman hurriedly thumbed though the folders until he came to his own. Quickly he tried to read through it. The comments and character appraisals were all that seemed of interest so he began to read them through.

One of the first comments was definitely exhilarating for it said quite pithily "Very colorful personality." His elation was short lived, however, for the very next comment read simply "Very colorless." A horse of a different color, eh?

Not long ago a second Batt second classman was caught by the OD for sleeping in after reveille. His plea that he did not hear die bell went unheeded. Our culprit then went down to sick bay to determine the nature of his affliction. "Doctor," he said, "ever since my ear was treated several weeks ago I haven't been able to hear anything." The doctor said he'd look into the matter and commenced his investigations. Only a few minutes suflSced to determine the cause of his deafness. From his patient's right ear, the doctor extracted a piece of cotton as long as his thumb.

Frap of the Week. A plebe (you might know it) was put down for "Ranks, Blowing Bubbles in." That's the Academy for you; always repressing those happy impulses.

Lee has been noticing with growing wonder some of the specimens floating around in '49. Such as: 1/c: Mister, you've been here six months, and that is the sloppiest tie you've ever worn.

Can't you tie a Windsor knot yet?

4/c: Er, I got here late, Sir. I missed the jack-stay drills.

Then there was the plebe who said the "Reina" was an aircraft carrier we captured from Spain!

Or, 1/c: Mister, why aren't you chopping in 'Sunshine Alley'?

4/c: No sunshine today, Sir! Also in this class is a plebe who was bound for the mail chute with the latest report to his O. A. O.—on how tough it was at Navy.

Passing a 1/c bound on a similar errand, the plebe asked him if he'd mind posting the letters for him. The resulting explosion would have done the black heart of a 10th Co. '46 midshipman good. Later that night, the plebe told his wife the story of the great injusrice done to him. The wife merely laughed and asked him precisely what the hell he expected.

"Well, after all," said the injured one, "there is such a thing as human decency."

Lee thinks he's heard the height of something or other. Seems that one of the better known members of the Executive Department is related by marriage to one of the plebes.

Not so long ago, his relative was the recipient of a juicy frap. Yep, you guessed it—'twas his brother-in-law that did the deed. My gosh, don't tell us we have in-law trouble even here!

"The quality of mercy is not strained."

Speaking of plebes, Lee thinks he's run across a beaut of an example of conscientiousness. One MCBO recently told a messenger to make out a "Watch Standing" grease chit for him to give to the Batt. Officer. When the MCBO went to view the finished product, he gasped in amazement—the chit was all filled out with glowing phrases, extolling the virtues of "this on the ball MCBO."

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took p)art in the invasion of the Gilberts, in in his real form within a couple of weeks. the raid on Kwajalein, the invasion of the Cy Waldrop, who substimted for him at Marshalls, and in the batde for Leyte Gulf. center, played a fine game and scored 9 points.

Following detachment from the Enterprise Carroll and Nelson were the high scorers in December, 1944, Captain Hamilton was for Navy and Haas and Wilson for the visassigned to duty on the Staff of the Command- itors were high men. er Air Force, Pacific Fleet. In September, 1945, he was ordered detached from this duty to return to the United States and report to the LINEUP Commander, Training Command, Pacific Fleet, for training as a prospective Commander of a NAVY carrier escort.

6 18-1 13 In December, 1945, he assumed command Carroll, f of the escort carrier, Savo Island, from which Nelson, f 3 7-4 10 dury he is now being detached.

Robbins, f 2 4-0 4 Captain Hamilton was graduated from the Barrow, f 2 2-1 5 Naval Academy in the class of 1927. He won House, f 1 2-0 2 varsity letters in Fcx>tball, Basketball, and 1 2-0 2 Baseball as a midshipman at the Academy. He Searle, f Waldrop, c 4 7-1 9 was awarded the Navy Athletic AsscK:iation 2 5-0 4 Sword in 1927 for general excellence in ath- Duden, c 2 2-1 5 letics, and also the Thompson Trophy Cup Burton, c Commander W. R. "Killer" Kane, former- the same year for the promotion of athletics Young, g 2 3-0 4 ly Head of the Naval Aviation Physical and at rhe Naval Academy.

Dick, g 2 5-0 4 Military Training Program, recendy reported Shugart, g 3 5-2 8 to the U. S. Naval Academy as the new AsMcMurray, g 0 2-0 0 sistant Director of Athledcs.

Mr. Edward Erdelatz has been appointed as 0 0-1 1 Commander Kane was a "three letter" man end coach of the Naval Academy football Welsh, g as a midshipman at the Naval Academy, win- team.

Totals 30 64-11 71 ning the varsity insignia in Football, WrestRecendy separated from the Navy, Erdelatz ling, and Track, and was awarded the Navy will remrn to the Naval Academy to tutor the Athletic Association Sword in 1933. The Navy ends as he did during the 1945 season as a BUCKNELL Athletic Association Sword is presented at the Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. end of each academic year by the Navy Mr. Erdelatz was graduated from St. Mary's Athletic Association to the midshipman who is College (California) in 1935 after being an Haas, f 3 23-3 9 considered to have personally excelled in gen- outstanding end on the St. Mary's team for Wilson, f 2 9-0 4 eral athletics. three seasons. He was a member of the Col- Frazier, f 1 3-0 2 Commander Kane was graduated from the lege All-Star squad which met the Detroit Joest, f 0 1-1 1 Lions in Chicago in 1935. Ed served as as- McGinn, c Naval Academy in the class of 1933.

0 0-1 0 sistant football coach and head boxing coach 1 3-3 5 at his alma mater in 1936, 1937, 1940, and Edmonds, c 0 2-0 0 Captain T. J. Hamilton, U.S.N., has been 1941 and held a similar posidon at the Uni- Edgecomb, c 0 9-2 2 appointed the new head coach of football, suc- versity of San Francisco in 1938 and 1939. Steel, g ceeding Commander O. E. Hagberg.

Fleuhaus, g 1 6-0 2 His home town is San Francisco, Calif.

Captain Hamilton first came into promiTrainor, g 1 0-0 2 nence as the quarterback of Navy's undefeated Katselas, g 1 3-1 3 football team in 1926. It was at Soldier's Field, Chicago that year when he stood unBASKETBALL Totals 10 64-10 30 perturbed near the close of the game and Navy vs. Bucknell kicked the all important drop kick that tied SCORE BY HALVES the score at 21-21.

The Naval Academy opened its 1946 bas- Navy 33 38—71 In 1934 Tom Hamilton was called back to 13 17—30 the Academy to re-install the so-called gradu- ketball season with Bucknell College at An- Bucknell ate coaching system. His teams of 1934, 1935, napolis on 5 January, and defeated them by and 1936 were well coached and met with the score of 71 to 30. Although the Middies Plebe looked like a pretty good scoring outfit, it was outstanding success.

The Navy plebe basketball team defeated In December, 1941 he played the leading evident that they need more polish which will role in installing and successfully operating come from game experience.

Haverford School of Haverford, Pa., on 5 the Aviation Physical Training Program, betDuden only played part of the game due January by the score of 35 to 26, in a closely ter known as the Pre-Flight Program. to not being in condition. He suffered minor contested game from start to finish. Thornton In June, 1943, he was ordered to the famous of the visitors was the highest scorer of the carrier, Enterprise, as Air Officer, from which injuries in the Army-Navy football game and game with 14 points. Midshipman Paul was was unable to practice a great deal prior to )ob he "fleeted up" to Executive Officer.

During his service aboard, the Enterprise going on Christmas leave. He should be back high man for the plebes with 6 points.

AFTER three years of acting in a dual J\ capacity at the Naval Academy as As•'' sistant Direaor of Athletics and Secretary-Treasurer of the Navy Athletic Association, Captain Morris D. Gilmore, USN (Ret), has returned to the inaaive list.

Shortly after the beginning of the war Captain Gilmore was ordered to active duty and was assigned to duty at the U. S. Naval Academy as Assistant Direaor of Athletics, the duties of which office he performed in addition to his regular duties as Seaetary-Treasurer of the Navy Athletic Association.

Captain Gilmore was recendy relieved as Assistant Direaor of Athletics by Commander W. R. Kane, U.SJN., but he will continue his regular duties as Seaetary-Treasurer of the Navy Athletic Association, which organization he has served for the past thirteen years.

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Navy vs. Villanova The Naval Academy won its second basketball game of the season on 12 January by defeating Villanova by the score of 50 to 31, but the midshipmen did not look too impressive in winning the game.

Jack Carroll, the captain, was out of the game due to injuries and the team did not function with the same smoothness as in the Bucknell game the previous week.

Perry Nelson, getting back to his usual good form, turned in the high score of the day with 20 points.

The Villanova boys did not have their eyes on the basket on Saturday as they only sank 11 goals in 83 tries.

The lineups: NAVY Shugart, f .'.

Nelson, f Robbins, f Waldrop, c Barrow, c Dick, g Duden, g Young, g

G 1-13 9-23 0-4 5-4 0-1 4-10 2-7 0-3

F 2 2 0 1 0 1 1 1

T 4 20 0 11 0 9 5 1

The shooting of both teams was very poor during the enure game. In the first half Navy made only nine of thirty-rwo shots at the basket, and Maryland converted six out of thirty-one attempts.

Shugart and Carroll were high men for Navy with 11 points each, and Pinocci was .high man for Maryland with 9 points.

LINEUP NAVY (44) Shugart, If Nelson, If Carroll, rf Barrow, rf Waldrop, c Dick, Ig Duden, rg Total

:

G 5 2 5 0 1 3 1

F I 2 1 0 1 3 2

P 11 6 11 0 3 9 4

17

10

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MARYLAND (35) G F P Thuryn, If 0 1 1 Brown, rf 3 1 7 Clark, rf 0 0 0 Flynn, rf 1 2 0 Gleasner, c 3 2 8 Hughes, c 0 0 0 2 0 4 Totals 21-75 8 50 Poling, Ig Pinocci, rg 3 3 9 Loomis, rg 2 0 4 VILLANOVA Baumann, rg 0 0 0 Behr, rg 0 0 0 F G T 2 4 Honnan, f 1-19 Total 14 35 Burr, f 0 0-1 0 2 6 Reybitz, f 2-9 Kline, f 0 0 0-3 Navy vs. George Washington Robinson, f 2 10 4-13 Lord, c Navy defeated George Washington Uni3-23 3 9 Gongeski, c 0-0 0 0 versity 53-42 in a closely contested game at 1-4 0 2 Annapolis on 19 January to remain in the Doherty, g 0-6 McDonnall, g 0 0 undefeated column.

0-1 0 0 Fugelsed, g Navy went out in front at the beginning of the game, but did not succeed in moving out Totals 11-83 9 31 in front by more than four points until the last minutes of play. The half-time score was 22-21.

SCORE BY HALVES Dick was the high scorer for Navy with Navy 30 20—50 18 points, and Robertson for George WashVillanova 17 14—31 ington with 14 points.

Several times during the game the score Plebe was tied, and twice George Washington led The plebe basketball team lost its game by one basket. with Bullis School on Saturday, 12 January NAVY after a thriller from start to finish. The game G E T ended up 40-40 by a spectacular long shot by Nelson, f 2 2 6 Bullis from the center of the court to tie the Carroll, f 5 2 12 game up. A five minute extra period was 3 1 7 played and Bullis finally won the game 47-46. Waldrop, c Dick, g 8 2 18 Duden, g 0 0 0 Plebe Shugart, g 5 0 10 The Navy plebe basketball team weathered Total 23 7 53 a late rally to defeat Hill School 47-42 as praaically the entire plebe team saw action.

GEORGE WASHINGTON Bill Killinger, of Hill School, scored 21 G E T points to lead the visitors in a late rally Giovacci, f 2 0 4 against the plebes.

4 0 8 Jim Durham was the high scorer for the O'Brien, f Richman, f 3 0 6 plebes with 20 points.

Reichwein, c 2 0 4 2 2 6 Navy VS. Maryland—Basketball Tickleberg, g Robertson, g 6 2 14 0 0 0 Navy won its third straight basketball game McCall, g on 16 January by defeating the University Total 19 4 42 of Maryland 44 to 35.

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SCORE BY HALVES

Navy George Washington . . .

22 21

31-53 21-42

WRESTLING University of Pennsylvania The Naval Academy's Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling champions defeated the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Pa., by the one-sided score of 29 to 3.

Penn's outstanding heavyweight, Ed Grain, had to retire from his match with Navy's football tackle, Newbold Smith, due to a torn cartillage of the ribs.

Captain Oscar Green, the Eastern lightweight champion, retained his undefeated record by outscoring Penn's Jerry Asch, 10-1.

SUMMARIES

121 Pounds—Bivin, Navy, threw Levy, Penn, with a half nelson and crotch hold in 58s.

128 Pounds—DeLong, Navy, defeated Hetherston, Penn, decision, 6-2.

136 Pounds—Green, Navy, defeated Asch, Penn, decision, 10-1.

145 Pounds—Henry, Navy, threw Robt.

Montgomery, Penn, with half Nelson and crotch hold in 7m.6s.

155 Pounds—Fletcher, Navy, defeated Welling, Penn, decision, 11-4.

165 Pounds — Tardiff, Navy, threw Hershey, Penn, with half nelson and ctotch hold in 7m.55s.

175 Pounds—^Kassak, Penn, defeated Flanagan, Navy, decision, 7-1.

Unlimited—Smith, Navy, won by default over Grain, Penn. (Grain unable to continue after one minute of second period.

Penn State The Navy grapplers continued on their undefeated path by defeating a fairly strong Penn State team 23 to 13.

Oscar Greene, Navy's captain and Eastern champion, tossed Joe Steel to take the 136 pound class. Chuck Hathaway won for Navy by pinning Wallace Chambers in the 165 pound class, while Newbold Smith, heavyweight, won by fall from Fred France.

Penn State's 1942 Eastern champion, Sam Harry, threw George DeLong in the 128 pound class. Don McKeevy, Penn State, won the 175 pound class when he pinned Navy's Joe Flanagan in 8 minutes, 57 seconds.

SUMMARIES

121 Pounds — Bivin, Navy, defeated Faloon, decision 11-3.

128 Pounds—Harry, Penn State, defeated DeLong by fall in four minutes, 10 seconds.

136 Pounds—Greene, Navy, defeated Steel, by a fall in 8 minutes, 8 seconds.

145 Pounds—Greene, Penn State, defeated Henry, decision 6-2.

155 Pounds—Fletcher, Navy, defeated Dixon, by default.

165 Pounds — Hathaway, Navy, defeated Chambers by a fall in 1 minute, 16 seconds.

175 Pounds—McKeevy, Penn State, defeated Flanagan by a fall in 8 mins., 57 sees.

Heavyweight — Smith, Navy, defeated France by a fall in 6 mins., 21 sees.

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spector for the New York District.

What's the Dope Marine and Naval Orders from January to February 1946 1QQA FRANK K. HILL, '84, (Capt., I 00*r USN-Ret.). died suddenly on 18 December at his home, the Anchorage Apartments in Washington, D. C. 1 QQO CHESTER WELLS, '93, (Capt., 1070 U S N - R e t . ) : Miss Christian Leigh Wells, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Wells, was married on 15 December to Mr. Joseph Edward Ralph. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents in Chevy Chase, Md.

1895 Mallory, Charles K., Capt., Ret. Examiaation by Naval Retiring Board and release from active duty.

1fi07 ARTHUR J. HEPBURN, '97, lOlt (Adm., USN-Ret.), who was called out of retirement during the war, was relieved from active duty on 12 December.

1898 Smith, George L., Capt, Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Williams, Henry, R. Adm., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

RICHARD S. EDWARDS, '07, (Adm., USN), who has been vice chief of naval operations, succeeds Admiral R. E. Ingersoll as commander of the western sea frontier.

PATRICK N. L. BELLINGER, '07, (V. Adm., USN), has been detached from duty as commander of the Atlantic Fleet Air Force and is serving as a member of the Navy General Board in Washington.

NEWTON L. NICHOLS, '07, (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his address as 176 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

was returned to inactive duty on 12 December.

•1QAQ WILLIAM R. PURNELL, '08, IVUO (R. Adm., USN), deputy chief ^Q(\A WILLIAM F. HALSEY, '04, of naval operations for material has been asl / U t (Fit. Adm., USN). Congratula- signed to the Atom Planning Board. tions to Admiral "Bull" Halsey on his beWALTER L. HEIBERG, '08, (Capt., coming a member of the ranks of the five-star admirals. It isn't often that a naval officer USN-Ret.), and Mrs. Heiberg became grandplays best man to a pair of film celebrities, parents on 3 December, 1945, when a son but that happened on 4 January when Ad- was born to Capt. and Mrs. J. H. Whitehead. miral Halsey stood at the altar with Myrna IQAQ JAMES B. GLENNON, '09, Loy and Commodore Gene Markey.

• 'V7 (Capt., USN-Ret.), and Mrs. Glennon announce the engagement of their IQAC HAROLD G. BOWEN, '05, daughter Ensign Jeanne Lejeune Glennon to I 7\JD (R. Adm., USN), director of the Capt. William Frederick Harris, (USNA, Navy's research and inventions office has been '39).

The wedding will take place in the assigned to the Atom Planning Board, the spring. purpose of which is to determine the future role of the atomic bomb as a war weapon and l O i n FREDERICK C. SHERMAN, to direct joint planning for the 1946 bomb I T I U '10, (V. Adm., USN), was tests on ships. ordered to command the 5th Fleet on 28 December, 1945.

ROYAL E. INGERSOLL, '05, (Adm., CLARKSON J. BRIGHT, '10, (Capt., USN) : Miss Alice Jean Ingersoll, daughter of Adm. and Mrs. Ingersoll was married to USN), reports that his job since 8 October, has been Commander, San Diego Lt. Arthur Corydon Nagle, US AAF, on 19 1945, Group Reserve Fleet, and gives his present December at San Francisco. address as 600 2nd Street, Coronado, Calif.

Stewart, George V., Capt., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1QA# ARCHIBALD G. STIRLING, ITUO -06, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), and 1QAA JOHN A. SPILMAN, '00, Mrs. Stirling have announced the marriage of tfyj^' (Capt., USN, Deceased): Miss their daughter, Mrs. Edith Bull Day, to Mr. Marie Elizabeth Schenuit was married on 3 F. Bartholomay Jelke.

January to Mr. Edgar Hinton Spilman, son of Mrs. Spilman and the late Capt. Spilman.

LESLEY B. ANDERSON, '06, (Capt., USN, Deceased): Miss Lesley Carroll Ander1QA1 ERNEST J. KING, '01, (Fit. son, daughter of Mrs. S. C. Stengel and the ' ' ^ " Adm., USN-Ret.), retiring as late Capt. Anderson, was married to Lt. Boyd commander in chief of the United States W. Lucas, Jr., USMCR, on 7 December, 1945 Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, was at Oakland, Calif. honored for his service on 15 December when ROBERT L. GHORMLEY, '06, (V. Adm., President Truman decorated him with a Gold has returned from sea duty to make Star in lieu of a third DSM. Admiral King USN), is also to be the recipient of an honorary his home at 3305 Macomb Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. degree from Oxford University next June.

JOHN H. TOWERS, '06, (Adm., USN), 1 O n O JAMES O. RICHARDSON, '02, ' 'WZ (Adm., USN-Ret.), who has re- replaced Admiral Spruance as conmiander in cently been appearing as a witness at the chief of the Pacific Fleet on 29 December Congressional hearing on Pearl Harbor, was 1945. relieved on 12 December from active duty.

'06 SHIPMATE extends sympathy to Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd, widow of Rear Admiral Kidd, EMORY S. LAND, '02, (V. Adm., USN- whose mother, Mrs. Quarius A. Gillmore, Ret.), since his retirement from his position died at her home in Cleveland, Ohio, 1 Deas chairman of the Maritime Commission and cember, 1945.

War Shipping Administrator on 15 January, has become president of the Air Transport l O n T CLAUDE A. JONES, '07, (R. Association. t7\Jt Adm., USN), gives his new address as 15 Grosscup Drive, Charleston, 4, IQA^ LAMAR R. LEAHY, '03, (R. W. Va. I lyjO Adm., USN-Ret.), who has been CHARLES A. DUNN, '07, (R. Adm., serving as president of the general court marhas been made naval material intial of the 3rd Naval District at New York, USN),

FEBRUARY, 1 9 4 6

THIRD COMPANY COMMANDER 1911 1Q11 RICHARD S. FIELD, '11, I ' « ' (Capt. USN Ret.): Commodore Elliott B. Nixon, COS 10th

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ND writes from San Juan that on 30 Dec. 1945, Col. John D. von Holtzendorff died at nearby Ft. Buchanan where he was in command. The "Baron" started out with us in 1907 and after a year he joined the class of '12 but did not graduate. In 1910 he enlisted in the cavalry and was commissioned in the field artillery in 1912. In the first world war he was shot through the chest and reported dead. He was pleased on occasions to show to his friends his obituary clipping which he carried in his pocket. Fortunately this devoted oflBcer lived to go through another war and to know of viaory on all fronts.

Mose Brown sends a greeting card from his steel plant showing on its Navy E Pennant more stars than are worn by Chester Nimitz. We might as well give Mose and Midvale a little plug.

From Dick Callaway's brother, P. P. Callaway, of 919 E. Armour Blvd., Kansas City 3, Mo., and from Rear Adm. Mahlon S. (Tip) Tisdale, '12, I learn that the former Mrs. William F. Callaway was married to Tip Tisdale in 1933. Lt. William F. Callaway, USNR, is now in the process of transferring to the regular Navy. He is a graduate of Caltech.

Our classmate William F. (Dick) Callaway was lost in Dec. 1927 with the USS S-4.

Glenn Howell says, "With respect to Bill O'Brien, Mrs. O'Brien is still probably in Lawrenceberg, Indiana. . . . I played the pipe organ there at their wedding in 1922."

I learn that the late Lt. Col. Montgomery C Meigs, son of Comdr. and Mrs. John F. Meigs, was married to the daughter of Capt.

John B. Griggs, '19. The young colonel was killed in action in France on 11 Dec. 1944, and his son Montgomery was born exacdy one month later.

CoL Reuben N. Perley and Col. Harry W. Stark have done it again. That is to say they are once more joint grand dads of a daughter bom to Lt. Comdr. Reuben N . Perley, Jr., and Mrs. Perley, who is the daughter of CoL Stark Another child of exclusively 1911 grand dads is BLU Mack, Jr., grandson of A. R. Mack and of George McMillin.

Glenn A. Smith finally broke the silence to send in a very &ne story on the late Byron Gay which I trust will appear in the Jan. 5taPAfATE. Glenn lives at 621 S. Bundy Drive, West Los Angeles, which must mean somewhere near Santa Barbara! His daughter Mary is a Wave in the office of the CNO. Frances who went to UCLA and the U. of Chicago is doing sodal work. Rosalie, 17, is an accomplished cellist. I wonder if Glenn can stiU be persuaded to tickle that old guitar?

Two more old friends have been in to see me lately窶認ritz Riefkohl and Mike Cheek.

Today I am missing the first luncheon conducted under the auspices of Harry Hill. He announced the unusual attraction to be the presence of Frank Lowry and John Magruder.

Newly announced as vice admirals are Griffin, Bieri and Badger. Kingman was promoted to that rank a while back.

In the December SHIPMATE in an illustrated article relative to the recent Centennial there is a snapshot which really took my eye. "Carroll the oldest employee shaking hands with Sen. Tydings." There is something utterly charming and graceful in the bearing of this old man. I think the senator might have "met" him slighdy on that wonderful bow.

(Ed's, note: At the time of writing, Capt.

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THE NAVAL ACADEMY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK

INVITES ALL

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TO ITS

ANNUAL DINNER MEETING 8 MARCH, 1946 WALDORF-ASTORIA 7:00 P. M.

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Field did not know of Carroll's death which ber, 1945, by General Brehon Somervell of occurred 10 Dec., 1945.) the Army.

And right under the wire as I am about to mail this piece comes a very welcome letFRANK D. WAGNER, '15, (R. Adm., ter from Mrs. Sherwood Picking (Elizabeth USN), who has been newly appointed to Warner), Falmouth Foreside, RFD No. 4, direct training activities at converted Naval Portland, Maine. Mrs. Picking tells me of Air Stations has been awarded a Gold Star in their children, Frances Goodwin Picking 17; lieu of a second DSM. Heiu-y Forry Picking 15; and Elizabeth Sherwood Picking, 13. "We live in the house," LYNDE D. MCCORMICK, '15, (R. Adm., she says, "on the shores of Casco Bay which USN), gives his new duty address as CincSherwood and I built on our return from Pac, Staflf, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, China in 1936, and where we enjoy all the California. pleasures of Vacationland Maine in summer and the rigors of New England in winter!" Maher, James E., Commo. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

The Picking family is properly proud of the record of USS PICKING (DD 685). Final 1 9 1 A WEBSTER M. THOMPSON, score for the war—7 invasions, 7 bombard- ' ' ' " '16, has been made a Commoments, 6 Jap planes, one man wounded, none dore. He is on duty as commander of the killed, ship undamaged! Well Done PICKING, Puget Sound Navy Yard. say we.

GEORGE F. HUSSEY, JR., '16, has been 1Q19 DANIEL E. BARBEY, 12, (V. made a temporary vice admiral to continue I ' ' •^ Adm., USN), who has been com- while serving as Chief of the Bureau of Ordmander of amphibious forces of the 7th Fleet, nance. He is assigned to the Atom Planning was ordered to duty as commander of am- Board. phibious forces in the Adantic.

ARTHUR W. RADFORD, '16, (R. Adm., ALLEN H. GUTHRIE, '12, (Comdr., USN), succeeds V. Admiral Marc A. USN-Ret.), has been doing a fine job as skip- Mirscher as deputy chief of Naval Operations per of the USS BLATCHFORD since 26 Jan- for air. uary, 1945. He plans to return to his ranch in WILLIAM M. FECHTELER, '16, (R. the Colorado Desert at Garnet, Calif., as soon Adm., USN), will become commander of as the Navy releases him. battleships and cruisers, Adantic Fleet, with Wentworth, Ralph S.. Capt. Superintendent, Naval the rank of vice-admiral.

Observatory, Navy Dept.

Whiting. Francis E. M., R. Adm. Officer, Navy D e p t

Administrative

Durgin, Calvin T., R. Adm. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Kitts. Willard A., Ill, R. Adm. Commander in Chief.

Pacific Fleet for duty.

1Q10 J. DOUGLAS JONES, '13, ' ' • ^ (Capt., USN-Ret.): Miss Patricia Jones, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Jones 1 9 1 7 CLARENCE O. WARD, 17, became the bride of Major John Oliver ' ' ' ' (Capt., USNR), writes from the Frazier, AUS on 29 December, 1945.

Navy Yard in Washington: "I have just remrned from the wedding of my older son.

WILLIAM H. P. BLANDY, '13, (V. Bill. The bride is Kathleen Livingston of Adm., USN), deputy chief of naval opera- Waccabus, Westchester County, N. Y. Bill rions for special weapons, is one of the ten started with the Marines—then, to use his Army and Navy officers assigned to the Atom Cornell Engineering degree, became a SeaPlanning Board.

Bee. "John, rhe younger son is in the Coast Doyle. Walter E., Capt., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Guard in the South Pacific. To make it Gray, Lloyd R., C a p t , Ret. Naval Operations, Navy unanimous, Connie, Mrs. Ward, has finished Dept. temporary duty.

Hoard, Carl E., Comdr., Ret. Proceed home; re- a cruise as Lieut., AUS. A 100 per cent famlieved all active duty. ily for World War 11" That's something to be proud of!

1Q14 CARLETON F. BRYANT, '14, • ' • ^ (R. Adm., USN), reports his ANDREW I. McKEE, '17, has been proaddress as Searsport, Me. moted to Commodore.

RICHARD L. CONOLLY, '14, has been made a Vice Admiral.

THEODORE W. STERLING, '14, (Comdr., USNR), has returned to civilian status and is living at Lookaway Farm, Buckingham Valley, Penn.

ADRIAN R. MARRON, '14, has been promoted to Conmiodore.

Palmer, Edward C . Capt., ( D ) , NR. Officer. USS

Commanding

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DUTCH SCHUMACHER, '17, (Capt., USN), who is at present on duty with the Martime Commission in Washington, writes that his oldest son, Lt. T. C. Schumacher, AUS, recendy visited his parents on his honeymoon. His bride is the former Miss Marguerite Hennsler of Spokane, Washington.

ROBERT N. S. BAKER, '15, has Commodore. been promoted to Commodore.

HOWARD VICKERY, '15, (V. Adm., USN), was presented the DSM on 18 Decem-

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Mack, Andrew R.. Capt. Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration, 3rd Naval District, N e w York, N . Y. Murphy, John V., Commo. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Price, Allen I., Capt., Deputy Commander Fleet Air Wing 4.

Spellman, Francis T., Capt. Commander, Service Division 102.

l O l Q THOMAS L SPRAGUE, '18, 1710 (R. Adm., USN), has taken over his new assignment as assistant chief of naval personnel.

HAROLD BIESEMEIER, '18, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Biesemeier joined the crowd of grandparents on 25 November, 1945.

ROBERT B. PARKER, '18, gives his address as 71 Broadway, N. Y. C. He is secretary of the New York Association.

Bannerman, Graeme, Capt. Administrative Officer, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va. Malone, William J., Capt. Planning Officer, Naval Shipyard Norfolk, Va. Stone, Earl E., R. Adm. Chief of Naval Conmiunications. Navy Dept.

Tomiinson, Daniel W., Capt., ( A 3 ) , N R . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

1 0 1 0 GRAYSON B. CARTER, '19, I /I 7 (Capt., USN), skipper of the Batdeship NEW YORK, was awarded the Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit.

FRED W. BELTZ, '19, (Comdr., USNRet. ) , has returned to inactive duty and is now spending a little time at his home in Schwenksville, Penn., before gypsying South for a litde rest in the sunshine.

Wynkoop, Thomas P., Jr., Capt. Production Officer, Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va.

10On WILLIAM G. TOMLINSON, I /ZU '20, (R. Adm., USN), has been named as commander of Fleet Air Wing 2, now in Hawaii.

PAUL R. HEINEMAN, '20, (Capt., USN), chief of stafi of the I6th Fleet and former skipper of the cruiser BiLOXI, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He is now living at 200 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis, Md. ALLAN D. BLACKLEDGE, '20, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Blackledge announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Barbara Blackledge to Lt. William J. Tipton, Army Air Corps.

HAROLD B. SALLADA, '17, (R. Adm., JOHN F. CROWE, JR., '20, (Capt., USN), chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, USN), finished the war in command of the has been assigned to the Atom Planning U S S MISSISSIPPI. Board.

LISLE F. SMALL, '17, has been made a

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INGOLF N. KILAND, '17, (R. Adm., USN), has left his post with Amphibious Group Seven, Pacific Fleet and gives his home

HAROLD C. FITZ, '20, (Capt., USN), has been named Aide and Chief of Staff to R. Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, USN, Commander Cruisers, Destroyers Pacific. He was recently awarded the Navy Cross.

Curts. Maurice E., R. Adm. Commander, Cruiser Division 10.

Donaldson, Augusms H., Comdr., ( S ) , NR. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Forrestel, Emmet P., R. Adm. Commander, Cruiser Division 5.

Goode, Jess B , Capt. Nearest Naval District temporary dury pending further assignment.

Helmkamp, Elmer F., Capt. U. S. Naval Forces, Germany.

Hepburn, William P., Capt. Office of the Judge Advocate General, Navy Dept.

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Mason, Lunsford Y., Jr., Capt. Inactive Fleet, Pacific, San Francisco, Calif.

Padgett, Lemuel P., Jr.. Conmio. Petroleum Attache, with diplomatic status in Egypt, Ethiopia.

Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Transjordan, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Arabian Peninsula including Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms.

Stevens, Ernest E., Cape, Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Whelchel, John E., Capt. Chief of Staff and AideService Force.

Wtxildridge, Edmund T., R. Adm. Cotmnander, Cruiser Division 13.

WILLLAM S. PARSONS, '22, has been nominated for R. Adm. for his help in developing the Atom bomb. In the January issue of SHIPMATE, Adm. Parsons' orders to Assstant Chief of Naval (Special Weapons) appeared by mistake under the class of 1928.

Huckins. Thomas A., Capt 11th Naval Disnio.

San Diego, Calif, temporary duty pending fiutbof assignment Johnson, Richard F. J., Jr., Capt Boreaa of N » i l Personnel, Navy D e p t McFadden, Archibald G.. Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t temporary duty pending further assignment Oden, Solomon F., Capt Commanding Officer USS

Akers, Frank. Capt. Chief of Staff and Aide-Carrier Division 5. _ .

Bauernschmidt, George W.. Capt. (SCK Service Force, Pacific temporary duty then Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

Bibby, Lowe H.. Capt. Commanding Officer, USS

Ramsey, Donald J., Capt Commanding Officer USS

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FRANCIS E. FAIRMAN, JR., ' '21, and Mrs. Faitman have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Sarah Lawrence Fairman to Ensign Wilson F. Engel, '46, on 15 December, 1945, at Annapolis.

THEODORE R. WIRTH, '21, (Capt., USN), chief of staff at the Naval Academy has been awarded the Purple Heart and the Navy Unit Commendation for service on the cruiser PORTLAND.

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Chandler, Herbert G., Capt.. ( S ) , NR. Assistant U. S. Naval Attache, American Embassy, London.

England—additional duty.

Dugan, Thomas B., Capt. Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Barracks. Washington, D. C, Gist, Walter E., Comdr., ( S C ) . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Higgins, John M., Commo. Na\-al Operations, Navy Dept.

Homaon, Alfred J., Comdr. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Mee, Francis J., Capt. Commanding Officer. Navy Mine Counter-measures Station. Panama City. Fla. Suits, Willard J.. Capt Bureau of Na\-al Personnel, Navy Dept. temporary duty pending further assignmeaL Thompson, Carlisle H.. Comdr.. Ret. Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

JAMES R. DUDLEY, '21, (Capt., USN), 1 0 9 ^ LOUIS M. FABIAN, '23, and Mrs. Dudley have announced the engage- ' ' ^ J (Comdr., USNR), may be numment of their daughter, Margelie Marion, to bered among those who have given up busiJames A. Dougan, Jr., Lt Comdr., USNR. ness careers to render outstanding service as Capt. Dudley's address is U. S. Naval Air a member of the Naval Reserve during the Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H. war. After serving in the office of Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel Co., TerDAN O. ROOT, '21, (Comdr., USNR), minal Island, he joined the Amphibious writes that his son, Daniel III, who is an Forces and for fiis performance in the Pacific Ensign, USNR, is serving on board the USS was awarded the Navy Cross and the British TRIPOLI in the Pacific.

Distinguished Service Cross.

Bushnell. Carl H., Capt. Commanding Officer, USS PEN>fSYLVANIA, BB 38.

Lewis, Robert P., Comdr., ( D E ) , NR. Pre-Commissi<)ning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif., temporary duty pending further assignmenc Roland. Charles W.. Capt. Commanding Officer USS W A S A T C H , A G C 9.

Ryan. Thomas J., Jr., Capt. Commanding Officer.

USS PROVTOENCE, CL 82.

Womble. John P., Jr., Commo. Commanding Officer, USS SPRnSTGFlELD, CL 66.

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' '*-^ (Capt., USN-Ret.), has recendy been awarded the Legion of Merit. He is living at 1701 Foxhall Rd., N. W., Washington, D. C. ALAN R. NASH, '22, (Comdr., USN), is serving in die USS SHELKOF, C/O Fleet Post Office, N. Y. C. MARION E. MURPHY, '22, (Capt., USN), is back in Washington for about six months on a special job in OpNav, and gives his address as 3389 S. Stafford St., Arlington, Va.

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Randolph, Alfred P., Capt, Ret Proceed home; lelievM all active duty.

Shanklin, Elliott W., Capt Bureau of Naval Ptisonnel. Navy D e p t Waller, Raymond R., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept

1QQC FRED C BILLING, •25, I 1*^ (Comdr., USN), has left his post on the staff of the Ordnance and Gunnery Dept., U. S. Naval Academy and will return to civilian employment with J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., in New York.

WILUAM G. BEECHER, JR., '25, (Capt, USN), was awarded the Legion of Merit ALVIN E. MOORE, '25, (Lt. Comdr, USNR), gives his address as P. O. Box 114, Merryville, Louisiana and writes: 'Trfy last duty during the war period was and is Bateau of Aeronautics Representative, Atlanta, Ga., for the Adanta area and the Southeast I was promoted to the rank of Lt Comdr. in July. I go on inactive duty status in January, and probably shall return to my profession as U. S. Patent examiner in March.

After more than three years of working under pressure, with 26 days of leave, I'm looking forward to a rest."

WILLL\M C LEMLY, '23, (Col., USMC), has just remrned from Okinawa reALAN A. LUKE, '25, (Lt Comdr.. cendy and gives his address as 822 Guada- USNR), has returned to civilian life and gives lupe Ave., Coronado, Calif. his mailing address as 1505 Keyes Avenue, Schenectady, N. Y.

Ambrose, Homer, Capt. Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept Bell. Robert C . Jr., Capt. Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept temporary duty pending further assignment.

BoTce, Thomas E , Capt Bureau of Ships. Navy Dept temporary duty pending further assignment Harshman. Alberton C , Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS M A Q U O K E T A , A O G 5 1 .

Hederman. Thomas H., Capt Naval Operations.

Navy Eteot Kingsley, Marvin P.. Capt Bureau of Ships. Navy Dept temporary duty pending further assignment.

McDowell, Percival E., Capt Naval Research Laboratory. Anacostia Station. Washineton. D. C. Morris, Roberr M., Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel. Navy D e p t temporary duty pending further assignment Reynolds. Philip S., Capt Commanding Officer, USS CALVERT, APA

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Ring, Stanhope C , Capt Nearest Fleet Air Command, temporary duty pending farther assignment Ringle. Kenneth D . , C?pt Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assienment Robbins. Francis L.. Capt Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assignment

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(Capt., USN), is now serving in R. BRUCE MILLER, '22, (Comdr., ' ' ^ ' the USS AMPHION, C/O Fleet Post Office, New USNR), returned to inactive duty on 1 November, 1945, and gives his address as 200 York, N. Y. Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore, Penn.

ARTIE L. WILLIAMS, JR.. '24, (Comdr., USNR), writes from 1102 W. Louisiana St., HAROLD F. PULLEN, '22, (Capt., McKinney, Texas: "After four and a half USN), gives his new address as U. S. Naval years in service I have remrned to my business.

Operating Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

I had a most enjoyable visit with Capt. Charlie Smart, '24, and his family in Evanston after STREUBY L. DRUMM, '22, (Capt., separation at Great Lakes."

USN-Ret.), writes from 1514 Henry Clay Harold R., Capt. Officer in Charge, Joint Ave., New Orleans: "I have been detached Demarest, Communication Activities, Guam Island, Marianas Islands with additional duty as Commanding Offifrom aaive duty. Bureau of Naval Personnel, cer, Naval Communication Personnel, Guam Isand have returned to my civilian stams as land, Marianas Island.

General Sales Manager of New Orleans Pub- Ganahl. Richard G.. Capt, Commanding Officer. Naval Training School (Material Preservation), Nalic Service, Inc." val Base, Philadelphia. Pa.

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Qeland. John B.. Capt. D - V ( G ) , NR. Honda Group, 16th Fleet Green Cove Springs, Fla. Melgaard, John L., Capt Post Graduate School, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Parks, Lewis S.. Capt Commander, Suhinaiioe Division 21—^additional duty.

Thomas. Francis J.. Capt.. ( D E ) . NR. Nearest Nival Distria temporary duty in connection with separation processitig.

Wanglin. Byron C , Jr., Comdr., ( S ) NR. Naval Operations, Navy D e p t

109A ROBERT G. ARMSTRONG, • '-^O -26, (Capt, USN), gives his new mailing address as Eastern Sea Frontier, 9" Church St., N. Y. C. MALCOLM

A. HUFTY,

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USN), has left the USS LEXINGTON, and is

now at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va. Evenson, Marvin P.. Capt Commanding Officer. USS HoGGATT BAY. CVE 75.

Forest Francis X., Capt Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept. temporary duty pending further assignment Glick, John A., Capt 1st Naval Distria, Boston, Mass. temporary duty pending further assignment Howe, Hamilton W., Capt Chief of Staff and Aide —Commander, Cruiser Division 1.

Hutchinson, Edward S., Capt Commander, Submarine Division 4 1 .

OBeirne, Frank, Capt. Na>'al Operations, Navy Dept „sRodee, Walter F.. Capt Commanding Officer, USS S A L E R N O B A Y . CVE

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1 9 9 7 MONROE B. DUFFIU, '27, * l ^ l (Capt, U S N ) , gives his duty address as Bureau of Naval Personnel, Rm1056, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. ROBERT S. FORD, '27, (Comdr., USN), is now attached to the USS NASHVILLE.

THOMAS J. HAMILTON, 27, (Capt., USN), who has been on temporary duty at the Naval Academy has been ordered to sea and is to command the carrier, SAVO ISLAND.

GEORGE W. WILLCOX, '27, (Capt., USN), gives his new duty address as Comdr., Inaaive Fleet Staff, Atlantic, c/o FPO, N. O. B., Norfolk, Va. JOSEPH F. HELLAUER, '27, (Lt., USNR-Ret), writes that he has just purchased a very lovely home in Newtown, Conn., and finds permanent settlement rather pleasant Caldwell, Henry H., Capt. Commanding Officer, USS PINE ISLAND, A V I 2 .

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Davies, William N . , Comdr., ( D ) , NR. Naval Persotmel Separation Center (Officer), N e w York, N. Y., for separation processing.

Evans, Myron T., Comdr. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Crows Landing, Calif.

Fauntz, Theodore C , Comdr., ( S C ) . Naval Supply Depot Bayonne Annex, U. S. Naval Base, N. Y. Ford, Roben S., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS NASHVILLE, CL 4 3 , and additional duty Execurive Officer.

Hansen, George L., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS

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Harrison, Charles E., Capt Commander, Fleet Training Group. Philadelphia. Pa. Heald, Wilton S., Capt. Fleet Activities, Yokosuka.

JapaiL Hooper, Selden G., Capt Direaor of Naval Reserves, Ilth Naval Distria, San Diego, Calif.

Powell, Elmer C , Comdr., ( D E ) , NR. 8th Naval District New Orleans, La. temporary duty pending further assignment Purdy, Howard E., Comdr.. ( D E ) , NR. Commanding Officer, USS YANCEY. AKA 9 3 .

(Juackenbush. Robert S., Capt Naval Operations.

Navy Dept Riley, Herbert D . , Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Wev, Bosquet N . , Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Navy Dept temporary duty pending further assignment Young, David B., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept

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NORMAN F. GARTON, '28,

' '^O (Capt, USN), gives his new address as Box No. 1, ComNATS Staff, NAS, Oakland, Calif.

MAURICE L. OTIS, '28, (Lt Comdr., USNR), whose address is 414 McCall St, Waukesha, Wise, reports that after 18 months in one of the branches of the service—Army, Navy, or Marine Corps—he is on his way home for good.

Anderson, Paul R., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Nichols, Frank M., Comdr. Bureau of Aeronautics Representative, Columbus, Ohio.

Underbill, Jesse J., Comdr. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Wagner, Daniel J., Capt Commanding Officer, USS CHARA, AKA

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"^^U^^ ^- HARRISON, JR., '29,

^i*-i ( C o m d r . , U S N R ) , reports h i s new address as A p t . 1 0 2 , 6 3 2 3 L u z o n A v e . , N . W . , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C. W I L L I A M B. E P P S , a n d R O B E R T D . M c G I N N I S , ( b o d i ' 2 9 ) , h a v e b e e n m a d e Captains.

JLll Alumni are Cordially Invited

R I C H A R D R. B A L L I N G E R , ' 2 9 , ( C o m d r . , U S N ) , gives h i s n e w duty address as N a v a l Air Test Center, Patuxent, M d .

Dennett, Erie V., Capt. Commanding Officer, USS SAN FRANCISCO, C A - 3 8 and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Ff*"!;. Nicholas J., Jr., Capt Commanding Officer, USSLIBRA, AKA 12.

Kabler, William L , Capt Commanding Officer, Air Support Control Unit.

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19^n ARTHUR E. OWEN, '30, • TOU (Comdr., USN), former damage control oflScer of the batdeship TENNESSEE, was awarded the Legion of Merit THE following members of the class of 1930 have been made Captains: WALTER G. EBERT, JOHN E. EDWARDS, WILLLAM S. ESTABROOK, HAROLD M. HEMING, EPHRAIM P. HOLMES, LEO G. MAY, JOSEPHUS A. ROBBINS, THOMAS J. THORNHILL, JR., BRUCE E. S. TRIPPENSEE, CHARLES L. WESTOFEN, and FRANCIS E. WILSON.

and additional duty on Staff of Fleet Air, Quonset. as Aerological Officer.

Ford, Joel C . Jr., Comdr. Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assignment.

Hull, Harry, Comdr. Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept Hydeman, Earl T., Comdr. Office of the Director of Public Information, Navy Dept temporary duty.

Lamade, John D., Comdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Seely, Harry W., Comdr. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t Snowden, Ernest M., Comdr. Operations Officer, Sth Fleet Wellings, Albert A., Comdr. Commandmg Officer.

USS FECHTELER, D D 870.

address as Central Sta. Dept, General Electric Co., Scheneaady, N. Y.

1 OQQ HAROLD G. BOWEN, JR., '33, I TOO (Comdr., USN), has recendy asROBERT R. CRAIGHILL, '30, (Comdr., sumed command of the 2,200-ton destroyer USS SAMUEL N. MOORE, relieving Comdr.

USN), has been awarded the Navy Cross.

Horado A. Lincoln, '30.

EDMUND S. L. MARSHALL, '30, (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the "KILLER" KANE, '33, (Comdr., USN), Bronze Star Medal. will take over as Assistant Direaor of Athletics at the Naval Academy.

Andrews, Charles H., Capt. Commander, Submarine Division 22.

Blackburn. Paul P., Jr., Comdr. Naval Operations.

Navy Dept Burden, Harvey P., Comdr. Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept Buder, William C . Jr.. Capt Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assignment Chappie. Wreford G., Capt Commander, Submarine Division 102.

Earle, Otis J., Capt Commanding Officer, USS C O R T L A N D , APA

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Johnson, Frank L., Capt Naval Air Station. Quonset Point R. I. MacGregor, Edgar J., m , Capt. Commander. Submarine Division 12.

Marshall, Edmund S., Capt Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept Martell. Charles B.. Capt Commanding Officer USS U N I O N , AKA

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1931 Black. Joseph D., Comdr. Executive Officer, Naval Air Station, Quonset Point R- I. Brush. Frederick J., Comdr. Commanding Officer USS C O W P E N S , CVL 25 and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Ellsworth. Ernest B., Jr., Comdr. Type Assistant— San Diego Group, 19th Fleet San Diego, Calif.

Grant James D., Comdr. Commander, Submarine Division 4 2 .

Peterson, Richard W., Comdr. Duty on Staff— Commander, Submarine Sq. 1.

Reese, John S., Comdr. Executive Officer. USS D U L U T H . CL

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1 QOO GILBERT H. MITCHELL, '32, * ' ^ ^ (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Mitchell are now the proud parents of a son, Coiddron Phillips, born on 4 December, 1945. Comdr. Mitchell is on duty at the Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, D. C. JOEL C. FORD, JR., '32, (Comdr., USN), has recendy received the Legion of Merit.

JOSEPH F. WITHEROW, JR., '32, (Comdr., USN), writes from the Navy Department: "Hawe been in Washington a month now, taking over a desk in the Division of Pan-American Affairs and U. S. Naval Missions. I was formnate to have found a place to live in the Northeast section and will probably setde down for a quiet tour of shore duty here—though I do get a litde resdess seeing the boys come through on the way to missions in far places. Have hopes that way myself— sometime!"

JAMES G. SMITH, '32, (Lt Col., USMC), has been decorated with a Legion of Merit Adams, Allen B., Jr., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS ATLANTA, CL 104.

Corry, John, Comdr. Staff—Commander, Naval Air Bases, 1st Naval District, Quonset Point, R. I..

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REUBEN E. STANLEY, '33, (Lt. Comdr., USN), is no longer aboard the USS SHELIKOF. His new address is 2 Grijalva Drive, Park Merced, San Francisco, Calif.

PORTER F. BEDELL, '33, (Comdr., USN), reports his new duty address as Navy 121, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. BENJAMIN F. THORN, '33, (Comdr., USNR), gives his address as Hdqtrs. Personnel! Office, Navy No. 116, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. Drake, Francis R.. Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS SUISON, AVP 53.

Jurika, Stephen, Jr., Comdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Kibbe, Richard L , Comdr. Oi>erations Officer, Carrier Division 1.

Shannon, John, Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS CONE. DD

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Smrr, Henry D., Comdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Styles. Ralph E., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS EVERGLADES. AD

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Zimmerman. Raymond P., Comdr. Nearest Fleet Air Command, temporary duty pending further assign-

DONALD HOLMAN AYER, '34 1QOJ[ WILUAM I. MAR'nN, '34, Don Ayer wasn't very widely known out' ' ^ " (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the DSM for his work while com- side of the Second Batt. He was one of those manding officer of Night Air Group 90 at- who wasn't sure about the Navy in those uncertain days in 1934 and decided to try it on tached to the carrier, ENTERPRISE. the outside. Those who stayed in and many JOSEPH J. STALEY, JR., '34, (Comdr., of those who didn't probably lost track of USN), is now on duty at the War College Don after graduation. They did not know that in July of 1940, when the people of the U. in Newport, R. I. S. hadn't made up their minds yet about fighting, Don joined the Canadian Aaive Service RUSSELL B. ALLEN, '34, (Comdr., Force in order to get in the light CharacUSN), reports his new duty address as teristic of his unassuming nature Don did not NROTC, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ask for a commission but joined as a Trooper.

Later on he was promoted to Sergeant and, LEHMAN H. KLEPPINGER, '34, (Capt, after being sent overseas he was graduated USMC-Ret.), is on terminal leave before go- from Sandhurst and was commissioned a Lieuing on the inactive list 12 February, 1946. tenant.

His home address is 427 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. When the invasion came, Don got his wish to get in the thick of i t In the accompanying JAMES T. BINGHAM, '34, (Comdr., piaure he is shown receiving the Mihtary USNR), gives his new address as c/o Coun- Cross from Marshal Montgomery for gallantly try Gentleman, Independence Square, Phila- in aaion, with the following citation: delphia, Penn., and writes: "I assumed new "On 14 August, 1944, during the attack duties as Associate Editor of the COUNTRY across the River Liaison, under direa enemy GENTLEMAN on 7 January, 1945, after hav- fire, recaptured a crossing of the river near ing been released at Great Lakes on 25 Novem- Montboint for his entire squadron and then ber, 1945." pushed forward with his seaion of 6 Carriers to the high ground at point 160 (1444) and STEPHEN ZYSK, '34, (Lt, USNR), has although by this time severely wounded by left the USS RANDOLPH and gives his new MG fire through the chest, refused to leave the

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ground until his small force was organized to hold this vital point. This action relieved the entire aossing from observed fire and directly influenced the successful crossing of the entire R e g i m e n t " After convalescing from his wounds Don again returned to his regiment in the front lines. In Match of 1945 his luck ran out.

Quoting from a letter from his commanding (^cer: ". . . B squadron was ordered to pattol to a little town a J l e d Sonsheck near the western bank of the Rhine in Germany. Donald's tHKip was chosen to do it and, as was typical of him, he led the patrol himself. As they approached the objeaive the patrol came under enemy mortar fire. They took to the ground. W h e n the mortar fire lifted Donald saw that one of his men was sorely wounded and told the rest of the patrol that he was going to get him. As he proceeded to do so a German sniper fired at him. H e died instandy . . . Donald H o l m a n Ayer, a fine gendeman and a gallant soldier, will hold a high and honored place in t h e annals of the history of this R e g i m e n t " Those of us who were shipmates with him from 1930 to 1934 knew him to be generous, unassuming, straightforward, a good companion and one whose name we hope will not soon be forgotten.

Ashley, James H., Jr., Comdr. Submarine Base, Balboa, C Z. Bertholf, Charles M., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS FRANK KNOX, DD742.

Brown, Samuel R., Jr., Comdr. Oi>erations Officer, Carrier Division 3.

Nichols, John C , Comdr. Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif, temporary duty pending further assignment Nielsen, Homer H., Comdr. Commanding Officer.

USS PORTLAND, CA 33 and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Pittard, George F., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS SAN DIEGO, CL 53 additional duty as Executive Officer.

White, Marshall W., Comdr. Navigator, USS BOXER, CV 21.

I Q O r AMOS T. H A T H A W A Y , ' 3 5 , I T J 3 (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

CHARLES L. H A R R I S , JR., ' 3 5 , (Comdr., USN, S C ) , gives his new duty address as Com N A B 9 (Staff), N A S , Grosse He, Michigan.

PHILIP F. H A U C K , ' 3 5 , (Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Hauck are the parents of a daughter, born on 4 December, 1945, at Annapolis.

HARVEY S. W A L S E T H , ' 3 5 , ( L t Col., USMC), gives his address as H . & S. Co., 9th Military Police B., Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif., and writes: 'TJntil now I have been in the Hawaiian Islands, but I soon will be with my new organization on Okinawa."

GERALD L. CHRISTIE, ' 3 5 , (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Christie announce the birth of Donna Jeanne on 26 October, 1945.

Hatcher Martin T., Comdr. Operations Officer, Carrier Division 5. lee. George R., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS SALT LAKE CITY, CA 25.

Oliver, Warren E., Comdr., (SC). Nearest Naval District temporary duty pending further assignment Sweeney, Vincent A., Comdr. Naval Air Advanced 1 raining. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., and additional duty as Aerological Officer, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. Thompson William C , Jr., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS COBBLER.

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I 7 J O (Comdr., U S N ) , gives his duty address as Staff Com-NATS, N A S , Oakland Calif.

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W I L L I A M H . W E N D E L , '36, (Comdr., U S N R ) , is returning to inactive duty and plans to establish a permanent address at 42 Cambon Ave., Park Merced, San Frandsco, Calif.

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R I C H A R D R. P R A T T , '36, (Comdr., U S N ) , recendy received the Navy Cross.

J O H N F. R Y D E R , '36 ( L t Comdr., U S N ) , has recently become engaged to Ens. Kathleen Bourne Easterling, USCGR.

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Christmas Eve we managed to stop for a few moments and say "hello" to Dick and Nancy Hansen. Dick seemed to be quite thrilled about being able to play Santa for a change to litde Nancy and Sue w h o were being p u t to bed when we arrived and were anticipating a wonderful awakening on the morrow. H o p e you'll all have many more Christmases together!

Christmas Day found us in Baltimore for a while and we stopped briefly to visit Ruth Nicholson. Little Ross had just been mcked in for his nap after a big dinner so again we missed seeing him. But his latest picmre shows him to be a husky and handsome youngster. Ruth is fine.

I made a few hurried visits on the day after Christmas before heading for Trenton again and although time did not permit my making the rounds fully or staying long enough at each stop to allow m e to pick u p all the scutdebutt, I did learn of many items of interest.

Stopped to see Jim and Peg Gray. Jim was out handballing with Burpo Pratt but came in shortly before I left so I did get to see him anyway. Jim was enjoying a fine vacation while his boss was in Florida. H a d the very great pleasure of meeting Jim's dad and mother, who had braved the wild storms of winter to drive out from Milwaukee so that they might spend the holidays with Jim and Peg and the grandchildren. W h o said that the sons and daughters of Wisconsin don't still have the pioneering spirit? Litde Doug Gray, who did such a fine job of stealing the show on the occasion of Jim being decorated while at Pensacola several years ago, is growing up to be quite a young lady.

Also saw several fine picmres of Al Fleming and his family. Al is married to Jim's sister.

T h e family consists of two boys who have every appearance of being able to take care of themselves under any circumstances. Al looks quite a bit heftier than when I last saw him. T h e remodeling boys did such a fine job on him that I wouldn't have been able to detect his injuries without having previous knowledge. Incidentally, Mrs. Gray was planning to go to Sea Isle, Ga., to visit the Flemings after leaving Annapolis.

Jim told us that he had served as an usher at the wedding of Dayton Seller to the former Miss Dorothy Rankin which took place at

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W e welcome the bride to the ever-growing '36 family.

From the Grays I went to visit the Pratts, who are living on Bowyer Road. H a d n ' t seen Burpo since graduation but he looks great, even after a round of handball. Also had the pleasure of meeting his charming wife and fine son. T h e other member of the family, a baby daughter, was enjoying a nap. T h e Pratts on the previous evening had enjoyed a family reunion in Washington. It was the first oppormnity for all the brothers and sisters to get together with their parents for many years and they took full advantage of it.

Burpo is on duty as an O and G prof at the Academy. H e passed on the news that Bruce W a r e succumbed and took the final steps after going steady for all of two weeks!

Congramlations, Bruce and bride! And the same also goes for Clint McKellar and his bride, who were also reported by Dick to have walked down the aisle recently. Dick also brought the good news that George W h i t ing has been reported safe after having been a Jap prisoner. H e also put us straight about Otis Cole, who has been skippering a sub.

In our recent summary I had him listed improperly. Dick also told us about several nicknames that have been tacked on a member of '35, now on dury down there, that far outstrips any that we were able to coin in our

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day. Guess the midshipmen are getting more original. Anyway, we can't pass them on because we've forgonen what they were. But they were pips, we assure you.

Dick being the only class oflScer now in the Annapolis area, we suggested that he take the initiative in organizing a class reunion of all in the Washington-AnnapoUs area to coincide with the 10th anniversary of our graduation. Hope that the idea clicks because we have so many members ashore or coming ashore and it would be a shame if the opportunity to reunite went unchallenged.

Dick also told us that Pug Southerland was expected on board to help organize the new Aviation Dept. Also expected on board was Jamie Senmies. Carl and Fran Fellows were recently in Severna Park. Carl is back in civilian life and is General Manager for some paper concern in Massachusetts.

Finally, also, we learned that Jim Shaw and Betsy Perkins, Van's widow, have been married. Our heartiest congramlations to both! Unformnately the Shaws were not permitted to spend too much time together before Jim was ordered to Japan (the Yokasuka Navy Base, we believe).

Before leaving Crabtown we made a stop at the Laizure's only to find them busy packing for a departure that was to be made in a few days. Buzz has been ordered to Admiral Cassidy's staff. The Laizures were planning to make their home in Norfolk. We wish you much success in your new billet. Buzz, and we hope that Louise and the children find Norfolk as pleasant a place to make a home as Annapolis was.

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Sheas or Jimmy Rutters before leaving but Buzz did tell me that Punchy is an instructor in Tactics at the P. G. School, an item heretofore unreported, we believe.

Also saw Phyllis Keim, wife of Bill Keim, '39, who was my plebe. Bill was out hunting with his dad so I missed him this trip. But I did meet his mother and we three had a nice chat.

"Oats" and "Mickie" Wesche, '38, were in the mid-west for the holidays. Also learned that "Dutch" Schulz, '44, and his wife, Barbara, are now living in St. Louis, Mo. at 4477 Beck Ave., Zone 16. "Dutch" left Du Pont to go with Minneapolis-Honeywell as an airconditioning engineer. Our best wishes on your new job and in your new home. Incidentally, St. Louis is "home" for "Dutch."

On New Year's Day we had the rare privilege of helping the Harlan Kirkpatricks to begin a year together. It was something that they must have anticipated with aching hearts during the long years, which must have seemed like centuries, that Harlan languished in a Jap prison camp. And the fidfillment of their hopes was a most joyous occasion, not only for them, but also for all of us.

Kirk looks grand. He acmally seems to me to be heavier than when I last saw him at graduation. As is to be exjjeaed, Betty was looking finer than ever. And Gail, their daughter, is a charming young lady of something over four years now.

Kirk brought the good news that Jack Ryder was with him in the same prison camp and that he also was liberated and is in good health. (Let's hear from you. Jack.) He also agreed that Dick Pratt was correct regarding the liberation of George Whiting but was unable to positively confirm it as a faa. He regretted to report that as far as he knew, no other missing members of '36 have been turned up.

Al and Francie Purer were expected at the Kirkpatricks but I had to leave early and as a result was disappointed in not being able to see them again. Al is at the Philly Navy Yard on the Ranger which is being decommissioned there.

To Kirk and Betty and Gail we wish many fumre happy New Years and we hope that many of them will find you together to make up for the agonizing years that we have left behind us. Incidentally, Kirk is enjoying a well-deserved 90-day leave before reassignment The Kirkpatricks are now living at 201 Elm Avenue in Swarthmore, Pa. A note from Eleanor Dodge at Christmas informed us that Woody has been on Giiam since March as a member of Admiral Gunther's staff. Before he left they bought a house at 17 Woodbine Ave. in Narberth, Pa., and Eleanor and the three littie Dodgers have been living there. So on my way down I stopped to say "hello" but was disappointed to find that Eleanor and Johnny were out. Rickey and the baby, Lucy, were taking their naps but the lovely old lady that was tending them graciously permitted me to take a peek at the baby. We want to send you an unprejudiced opinion. Woody, that you have a charming little daughter. We assure you that, were we back at that happy age, we'd certainly be saying "goo-goo" to her. We're sorry to hear that you don't expect to be able to see her again before next summer but we know that Eleanor is keeping you well posted on her progress.

Also managed to stop by for a few minutes to visit Frank and Virginia Slason. Fnnk was assigned to the Bureau last spring but then went to Europe as a member of the Nsval Technical Mission and since his return has been on temporary duty at A. E. L, where he was before being assigned to the Bureau.

Both Virginia and Frank are looking swell.

They had quite a bit of fine dope to pass on, too. The Sid Sherbys and Bill Holmans were their guests for the Army game week-end.

The Sherbys are srill at Patuxent and die Holmans were with the Slasons while Bill's sub was in for repairs, I believe. We also made a mistake in the summary in not pegging Bill as a Submariner. Our apologies.

Bill is now enjoying some sick leave while he's getting an ailing back patched up. As we remember it, the Holmans are now at New London. We're told that they are the prond parents of quite a big boy.

Also learned that 'T)ucky" Paddock is srill at the Naval Aircraft Factory and srill living at the Walnut Park Plaza. Sorry we didn't see you, Al. For the record, the Slasons are living at Montgomery and Airdale in Rosemont, Pa. The Christmas mail also brought quite a bit of news. We acknowledge with thanks the appreciation expressed by many of you for my humble efforts to keep up with you all.

From Ken Musick comes the good news, "We are at last headed for home If all works out I'll be with my family for Christmas."

Hope that it worked out, KeiL Ken is still skipper of CA.G. 92 which can be reached through the F.P.O. at Frisco.

From Frances Williams, "Bob is head d the Weather Central at Guam and we miss him terribly. Perhaps we shall be able to join him by next summer, though.

Alec Tyree, Paul Stimson and families had a reunion here a couple of months ago. We had such fun with our seven children. (Lest this be misinterpreted, let me hasten to add that three were Williams, two were Tyrees and two were Stimsons—Gene.) Alec, widi Sue and the girls, Nancy and Rosie are at Staten Island now. Alec is skipper of his same boat Their address is 630 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, N. Y. They won't be there long.

Stimmy is in New London until the first of the year, I think.

Thanks for the dope, Frances, and we join with you in the hope that you'll be able to join Bob soon. Since the Williams left Lakehurst, Frances and the children have been living at their home in Danville, Va., at 306 Linden Drive.

From Bob Morton, skipper of the USS WADLEIGH (DD 6 8 9 ) , "I hear from Joe Patterson's folks from time to time and try to keep them informed. Betty (Joe's wife) married again. I have been in command of two 2100 ton DD's

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LEIGH) during the last twenty-four montte.

I am very grateful to a benevolent government for permitting me to have riiese two ships. We have had a wonderful time and I have enjoyed every minute of the duty Haven't seen very much of the rest of the class—^John Millett, Vince Combs, and Ed King are about the only ones that I have seen much of. 'Uncle John' Newman (Ae D. O.) was my skipper part of the war and to him I owe a great deal for a pleasant and instruaive time as a DD exec. Oh, yes, John

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Millett is now ashore with the Reserve Fleet at San Diego."

Thanks, Bob. It sure was great to hear from you. Bob can be reached through the Frisco F. P.O. From Henry Hemenway, "Completed my mission in Europe in about six weeks and was back by the middle of June. Understand Hank Arnold is back but that Frank Springer is still there. Dayton Seller was over also in the Aeronautics seaion. Sorry you missed the A-N game. The gang was there in force.

Say "hello' to the boys."

Hope to get together with you soon. Hank, so we can compare notes more extensively.

Thanks for the dope!

From Bob Bonin's dad, "Last June I had a letter from the Navy staring that Bob was still held "Missing and may be an unreported prisoner of war.' But since then no other news has come." If any of you ever get to Milwaukee, I'm sure Mr. Bonin would be very pleased to have you call him at Orchard 5637W. Some of you might find rime to drop him a note, too. His address is Michael J. Bonin, 1229 S. 24th St, Milwaukee, Wis. Harry Brent writes from M. C. A. S., El Centro, Calif., "Really enjoy SHIPMATE." Thanks, Harry, and we're glad that you keep in touch with us.

From Vineland, N. J., came the most welcome news from Ray and Lucile Mayhew that they are back from the wars and that we'll be able to take up where we left off, seemingly many years ago. Ray writes, "I happened to be in Bremerton on V-J Day and was out in 16 days. Came back to Kimble Glass the middle of October to my old job in charge of the development department. I had more or less platmed on some PG work at M.I.T., but couldn't afford to pass up this oppormnity.

We bought a house in November (had to!) and are just now getting straightened out You know how it is. We are very comfortable, thoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and certainly thankful to be here and that the past years are gone."

To which we must add our yea and amen.

We're hoping to get together with the Mayhews again as soon as possible. They are now living on Grandview Ave. in Vineland.

Also heard from Cal and Winnie Lawrence and from Charlie and Genesta Raymond who are srill located in Chatham, N. J., and Glen Head, N. Y., respecrively. A post-Christmas announcement from the Raymonds brings the good news that the arrival of Laurie Genesta at the Raymond household on 30 December had gladdened the hearts of the happy parents. Congramlarions! We welcome warmly the new '36 junior. Laurie is the Raymond's first child.

John and Felicia Baranowski report from 2606 Terret Avenue in Alexandria, Va., indicating that John has joined the "bureaucrats."

From Maurie Fitzgerald's mother comes the news that Maurie's younger brother Jim is a research physicist at the Naval Research Lab. and that she was permitted to recall many pleasant memories last June when she was in Annapolis on the 10th anniversary of '35's graduation. Maurie's folks live at 449 Jackson Drive at Oshkosh, Wis. The Buck Weavers were also heard from in Houston, Texas. How about a note sometime. Buck?

Jim Allen, '44, writes from 1137 Belfield

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Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa., "The naval career is now behind me as I'm doing things the JohnsManville way now, down here in Philly," Our best wishes for success in your new endeavors,

Jim. From Midshipman Don Morris of the class of '48 comes a fine letter which adds to our store of information. Don writes, "I noticed in your report on the class of '36 in the November SHIPMATE that you had no word from Lt (jg) Pananides. Perhaps I can be of some help.

"In September of 1942, Lt. Pananides was an Ensign, USNR, in the NROTC staff at the University of Michigan. He made Lt. around Christmas and was still there when I left in Oa. '43. I believe he was wearing a National Defense Ribbon. He was serving as a Communications instructor.

"During plebe year I had at watch in the 6th wing, (nearest Dahlgren Hall), 2nd deck, and came across an old muster list pasted on the inside of the mate's desk. There, under 2/c, was "Pananides, N. A.!'

"Lt Pananides was married and became the father of a daughter while I was at Michigan."

Our many thanks to you, Don, for your interest in '36 and for getting us up to date on Nick. It flatters us to know that we have readers outside our own circles.

Incidentally, latest Register gives Nick's address as North State St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

It also lists Dave Lindsay's address as 215 Ridge Avenue, Winnetka, 111., although we have no further information regarding either him or Ray Walsh, whose address has been listed as 2915 Foxhall Road, Washington, D. C. Red Higginson srill remains unreponed in any way.

We note with deep regret that in the last SHIPMATE Jack Janney is listed as having answered the Last Call. Jack was navigator

on the INDIANAPOLIS. We also note with the same regret that in the latest Register that both Jack Moore and Bob Moore are listed as dead. We will appreciate someone supplying any possible details. We also note that Raymond Foose died in 1936 according to the Register.

Other news on which we would like amplification is the retirement of Tiny Small, Jack Hewitt srill being listed on acrive stams (we believe he's been placed on the retired list), and the stams of Jim Crary, who is still listed as missing. Gould Hunter ought to be able to unsnarl the last item. And we'd like to know the dates of the deaths of Roy Krogh and Phil Wild and more of the circumstances regarding these tragedies. And we wonder if anyone can provide the exact date of the heroic death of Mark Corley. And who can supply information regarding those still listed as missing, namely, Gus Weinel, Otto Kolb, Dave Connole, Bob Bonin, Porter Maxwell, George Whiting, Dave Zabriskie, Jud Yoho, Jack Hays, Louis Gulliver, Ralph Embree, and Dick Meyers. Also wonder if any of you, Daisy Richardson in particular, can enlighten us regarding Hugo Culpepper, who, we believe, was caught in the Philippines when the Japs came in.

We also salute Alec Cramer, Wellborn Kiker and Tom McNerney, whom the last Register reveals as having remrned to service, the firsr rwo to the Navy and the latter to the Army. We also salute Algie Carr who was remrned to active duty from the retired list.

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Another item in the Centennial Log which has come to light is that our own Jack Blitch is listed along with Slade Cutter- and Ed Michel of '35, Hank Miller of '34 and "Moon" Chappie of '30 as "the Academy boxing greats whose names will live forever in the records of intercollegiate boxing." '36 was signally honored by the present day historians by having remembered and praised both Joe Patterson and Jack so highly. And '35, represented by Slade and Mike, is also in a position to feel justifiably proud of these, their sons. To have been a member of both classes and to be able to count each one of them as a close friend is indeed a great honor to me.

Two last items which slipped by us previously: Gus Garver is reported as being one of the top men at the Air Forces Research Laboratories at Langley Field, Va. How do you find working with the Army, Gus? Daisy Richardson has been ordered to duty in England. As yet he has been unable to take his family along. But he hopes to have them with him again soon.

We're still at the same address so if you don't send your dope direct to SHIPMATE, let's hear from you. And if you're in Trenton or the vicinity, we'd be glad to have you look us up. The address is: 1936 Upper Ferry Rd., R. 1, Ewingville, Trenton, N. J. We're easy to find, being off U. S. highway No. 1 only about 4 miles and about one-quarter mile off N. J. State highway No. 30.

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1 QAf\ ROBERT J. WUEST, '40, (Lt. l 7 t U Comdr., USNR), and Mrs. Wuest announce the birth of a son, Robert John, Jr., on 20 November, 1945, at die Newport, R. I. Hospital.

USN), and Mrs. Qancy became parents of a daughter, Kathleen Loiuse, on 11 December, 1945.

L t Comdr. Clancy is instructing at the P G School.

FRANK H. MCDONALD, '41, (L,, Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. McDonald also had a daughter, Jean Kemp, on 11 December, 1945 at the Naval Hospital in Annapolis.

ALFRED B. HEBEISEN, '40, (Lt. Col., 1Q0Q WILLIAM O. SPEARS, JR., USMC), reports his new address as Marine I lOO -38, (Lt Comdr., USN), has be- Barracks, Puget Sound Nav^- Yard, Bremercome engaged to Mrs. Marie O'Hara Hamil- ton, Wash.

ROBERT E. THOMAS, J R , '41, (Lt. ton and the wedding will take place in February.

BUCK. BUCKANAN, '40, and Dr. Esther Comdr., USN, CEC), is now a manber of C. Montgomery were married on 23 Decem- CincPac Staff, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

JOSEPH R. TUCKER, '38, (Lt. Comdr., ber, 1945.

USN), is serving in the USS FULTON, C/O JOSEPH D. MARKS, '41, (Lt Comdr, FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

HARRY W. BIESEMEIER, '40, (Lt. USN), and Mrs. Marks had a son, Frankhn Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Biesemeier, are the David, on 1 November, 1945.

ROBERT G. HALL, III, '38, and Mrs. Hall parents of a daughter, Sherryl, who was born atmounce the birth of Matthew Warren Hall, in San Antonio, Texas, on 25 November, 1949 ^^^^ ®- ^^'™' •'^2. (Lt, V, on 24 October, 1945.

1945. ' ' "•^ USN), has been awarded the Silver Star Medal.

RANDOLPH C BERKELEY, JR., '38, ARTHUR H. BERNDTSON, '40, (Lt. (Lt Col., USMC), gives his new address as Comdr., USN), reports his duty address as JERRY SCOTT, '42, (Lt Comdr., USN), Air Warning Group-!, Marine Corps Air Sta- USS MASSEY, C/O FPO, San Frandsco, Calif. writes from the FALL RJVER, ""This is just a tion, Cherry Point, N. C. note to let you know along with my friends and classmates, that I have now tossed my IQAI CHARLES W. STYER, JR., VICTOR A. DYBDAL, '38, (Lt. Comdr., '41, (Lt Comdr., USN), gives hat in the pateriuty ring. On 16 November, USN), and Mrs. Dybdal atmounce the birth I ' " I 1945 at Philadelphia, my wife gave birth of James Richard on 16 August, 1945, in his address as 29 Crest St, New London, to a SON." Jerry extends an invitation to Conn.

Hawaii. the 42-ers to drop around for a agar.

ROBERT HAILEY, '41, (Lt. Comdr., JOHN E. HOLLIS, '38, (Lt Comdr., ROBERT L. HUMPHREYS, '42, (Lt. USNR), gives his new address as 1100 Mar- USN), writes: "My present station is the new construaion submarine SARDA in Ports- Comdr., USN), and the former Mary Louise ion St., Denver 6, Colorado. mouth, N. H. FRANK PENNY, RAMON Isemann were married on the 20th of DecemMARION H. BUAAS, '38, (Lt. Comdr., PEREZ, and FRED RUDER are here in ber, 1945 at the Naval Acadany Chapel.

USN), is senting aboard the USS HARRY E. Portsmouth now."

HUBBARD, C/O FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

HARRY J. KELLEY, '42, (Lt Comdr., W. GEORGE MATTON, JR., '41, (Lt. USN), writes'us from the USS METCALF: Baaer, John F., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS SAN- Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Matton atmounce "My wife and I wold like to inform various BORN, APA 193. the birth of Michael Nevett, their second son naval oflBcers and their next of kin that a son, Denekas, Willis R., Comdr. Executive Officer, USS PENSACOLA, CA 24 and additional duty as Navi- on 21 December, 1945.

James Bryant, was born to us in Bradbury gating Officer.

Memorial Hospital, Belfast, Me., on 4 SepGanyard, Bricker M., Comdr. Commanding Officer, JERRY E. CLANCY, "41, (Lt Comdr., tember, 1945. Although I have not seen him USS T U N N Y , SS 282.

Ingham, Thomas R., Comdr. Naval Aviation Observer (Radar), Fleet Air, West Coast.

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IQ^Q CHARLES B. SWAYNE, '39, I / J ' (Lt Comdr., USNR), gives his new address as Production Dept., Charleston Naval Shipyard, Navy Yard, S. C. ROBERT G. MERRITT, '39, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has left Washington and is serving in the USS MISSOURI. JOHN C. LAWRENCE, '39, (Lt Comdr., USN), and Miss Margaret Douglas Handy were married on 8 December, 1945, at St. Anne's Church in Annapolis.

OUVER H. PAYNE, '39, (Lt Comdr., USN), reports his mailing address as 2120 Parnell, West Los Angeles, Calif.

GEORGE W. NETTS, '39, (Lt. Comdr., USN, SC), is serving in the USS MASSACHUSETTS, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

KENAN C. CHILDERS, JR., '39, (Lt. Comdr., USN), reports his new duty address as c/o Navy School of Aeronautical Engineering, California School of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

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yet, information gleaned from usually reliable sources leads to the conclusion that our addition to the next generation is really a lusty, healthy individual. Betty tells me that he will play lacrosse, but as yet he has not stated whether he will play for Navy or not "In Pearl Harbor recently I saw several '42 submariners, among them: WALT ESWORTHY, DAVE PETO, "PAPPY" SIMS, BOB FROUDE, GEORGE BENNETT, and BILL RICHARDSON (the latter dashing around trying to get released under the point system). TED SWAIN, '43—3 well fed submariner—was also there. ART EMERSON, '43, and his wife have a small place at Waikiki and were very hospitable. I saw the following '42 destroyer men either ashore or afloat there: R. G. BROWN, HUBER, J. J. MITCHELL, C. E. OLSON, HUMPHREYS, HERB GRAVELY, BUCK SHAW, also BILL BUSIK and GEORGE DAVIS, '43* and PETE BOYD, WIEMER, and my brodier, E. L. KELLEY, '44. On Guam I saw JACK JAMES, "42, trying to get his division of fighter pilots to Pearl for a new assignment "This Ship (USS METCALF) is engaged in operations along the Chinese Coast, and though it is quite interesting duty, we are all looking forward to getting these destroyers stateside."

CHARLES L. JOSLIN, JR., '44, (Lt (jg), USN), became engaged to Miss Anne Bevan Strauff in December. The wedding will follow in June.

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LYNDE DUPUY MCCORMICK, JR., '44, (Lt (jg), USN), and Miss Edith Reid Lazenby were married on 8 December, 1945 at the Naval Academy Chapel, WILLIAM M. PITCHER, '44, (Lt (jg), USN), and Miss Audrew Joanne Thompson of South Orange, N. J. became engaged in December.

RICHARD A. RYZOW, '44, (Lt (jg), USN), and Miss Eleonora Ruth Buchanan are engaged.

JOHN E. CARR, '44, (Lt (jg), USN), and Mrs. Carr are the parents of a son, John Ellsworth Carr, II, on 7 November, 1945.

1 Q4(\ ROBERT J. LAUER, '45, (Lt jg, I 7T3 USN), and Miss Phyllis Grothjam were married on 3 November, 1945 in San Francisco.

RICHARD E. JORTBERG, '45, (Lt. jg, USN), is serving in the new light cruiser, HUNTINGTON. He was awarded the Bronze WILLLAM F. VOSE, '42, (Lt Comdr., Star Medal and Purple Heart during the war.

USN), was presented the Navy CommendaCLYDE O. MORRISON, '45, (Lt jg, tion Ribbon recendy.

USN), and Miss Shirley Mignon Severin were married in San Francisco, on 4 December, ARTHUR G. HAMILTON, JR., '42, (Lt 1945. (jg), USN), is serving in the USS NICHOLAS, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

JOHN D. MURCHISON, JR., '45, (Ens., USNR), gives his latest change of ad1040 JOHN T. SHEPHERD, '43, dress as Box 30, JOQ, USNAS, Fort Lauderl7tO (Lt, USN), and Lt (jg) Mil- dale, Fla. and reports: "I am still struggling dred Frances Roof were married on January through operarional traitung in TBM's. first at Stanford Memorial Chapel.

There are several here from '44 and even a few of the recent Lt Comdr.'s from '42.

ARTHUR M. CARTER, '43, (Lt, USN), "My old roommate, Dick Duckett, who left and Mrs. Carter announce the birth of a son, '45 about a year before I did, is now married Arthur McDowell Carter, III, on 24 Decem- and a full Lieutenant serving as a landing ber, at York, Pa. signal officer under CQTU, Quonset, R. I. He had his sea duty in SB2C's.

DONALD W. SENCENBAUGH, '43, (Lt., USN), recendy received the Bronze Star WILMER E. HANSEN, '45, (Lt. jg, Medal.

USN), and Miss Ruth Ann Aldridge were married on 29 November, 1945.

RAYMOND J. CLARE, JR., '43, (Lt., USN), and Miss Jean Cross Rodriquez were ROBERT M. WATERS, '45, (Lt jg, married on 22 December, 1945 at Brooklyn, USN), has reported to the Air Station at N. Y. Dallas, Texas.

WILLIAM F. DOEHLER, '45, (Lt, 1944 FRANK W. CLIFT, III, '44, • ' T ^ (Lt (jg), USN), has been de- USMC), has been awarded the Bronze Star tached from Gunnery Officer's Ordnance Medal for heroic achievement with the Fifth School in Washington and has been sent to Marines on Okinawa.

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Jane Smartz of Sheldon, 111., on 25 December, 1945. He writes, "There are several members of 1946 here at mine school; among them: COOKE, FENTON, BLAKE, GARDNER, CHASE, GILLIAM, GREENWOOD, MOUTON, and CASEY. All of us will be sweeping mines in a month or so off Japan."

JACK G. GORDON, '46, (Ens., USN), and Miss Elizabeth E. Chance were married on 15 December, 1945.

WILLIAM KILLEFER, JR., '46, (Ens., USN), and Miss Constance Dean have become engaged.

WILSON F. ENGEL, '46, (Ens., USN), and Miss Sarah Lawrence Fairman were married on 15 December, 1945, at the Naval Academy Chapel.

SHIPMATE has received and wants to acknowledge subscriptions, contributions or the USS LITTLE ROCK. other communications from the following ofIQAL WILLIAM S. GRAHAM, '46, ficers : JOHN L MCGEHEE, JR., '44, (Lt. (jg), WILLIAM L. CALHOUN '06 I /"O (Ens., USN), and Miss Anne USN), and Miss Elizabeth Dodge Speer were Franklin Hopper have become engaged.

WILFRED J. HOLMES '22 married on 29 December, 1945.

WILLIAM A. COFFEY '33 HARLIE L. MIZE, '46, (Ens., USN), and NEAL ALMGREN '39 WILLIAM H. OLSEN, '44, (Lt (jg), Miss Doris J. Young were married on 14 RICHARD F. BARRY, JR. '39 USN), and Miss Augusta Anne Morgan, were July, 1945 at Jacksonville.

FRANK L. FULLER '39 married on 15 December, 1945 in WashingWILLIAM J. FEAHR '39 ton, D. C. CHESTER J. KURZAWA '39 JACK G. GULETTE, '46, (Ens., USN), ARTHUR TARANTINO N. '35 and Miss Martha Virginia Brown are enOVID M. BUTLER '36 DOUGLAS Y. MUNNIKHUYSEN, '44, gaged.

JOHN PAUL CAMPBELL N. '39 (I-t- (jg), USN), and Mrs. Munnikhuysen HERBERT I. MANDEL '38 announce the birth of a son Douglas Jay, on ROBERT LEE LEDBETTER, JR., '46, LUCIEN B. MCDONALD '38 April 18di, 1945.

(Ens., USN), became engaged to Miss Mary

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CECIL R. WELTE '38 WYNDHAM S. CLARK '22 ARTHUR D. BATES '22 HENRY N. PAUL, JR. '22 EARLE F. HEIGHT '22 ROSS F. COLUNS '17 MAYS L. LEWIS'18 HOWARD T. BIERER '33 H. M. SHANAHAN '26 ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER 19 BRIAN B.KANE'21 VICTOR G. MATUSEK '40 GEORGE E. MUMMA '34 ROBERT D. DUNDEE '35 JOHN N. FERGUSON, JR. '35 WALTER H. KEEN, JR. '37 JOHN R MADISON '37 FRANCIS W. INGLING '37 HENRY M. EASTERLING '41 GEORGE F. MARTIN 16 MARK H. HARRINGTON '20 C. WILUAM DUNCAN '21 ERNEST W. MCKINLEY '21 LAWRENCE F. CONNOLLY '21 WILUAM S. PRICE '21 WILUAM V. HAMILTON '21 BERN ANDERSON '21 CARL A. L. SUNBERG '21 ALLAN D. BLACKLEDGE '20 ALBERT FREDERICK SHAW N. '39 THOMAS C. GURLEY '40 GORMAN C. MERRICK '34 JOHN A. CROGHAN N. '33 WALTER E. BARANOWSKI '34 E.M.JEFFCOTTN.'25 ROBERT MCMURRAY '23 GEORGE H. MILLS '19 GEORGE R. KALBFUS '18 THOMAS V. COOPER '16 JOSEPH W. LUDEWIG '25 ANDREW P. LAWTON '21 HOWARD F. KUEHL '33 RICHARD J. DEPREZ '44 J. S. PITTMAN, JR. N. '48 ROY N. HAMRICK '26 CUNTON W. BLOUNT '22 WILLIAM R. BULLOCH '44 DAVID H. BAGLEY '44 LORENZO W. BALDWIN, JR. '44 CHARLES B. HART '25 GORDON F. DUVALL '29 OREAL J. CREPEAU '44 PAT BUCHANAN'11 WILLIAM H. KNULL, JR. '44 MARTIN M. CASEY, JR. '44 PAUL L. ZESBAUGH N. '14 LLOYDJ. WILTSE'14 JAMES E. BOAK '14 ERICL. B A R R ' l l EARL R. MORRISSEY 12 GRADY B. WHITEHEAD '12 INGRAM C. SOWELL '12 ROBERT S. HAGGART '12 EDMUND A. CRENSHAW '12 FRANCIS J. COMERFORD '08 BRADLEY T. JOHNSON N. '07 CORTLAND C. BAUGHMAN '07 CHARLES H. STOER '08 RUFUS KING '08 WILLIAM H. HALL N. '08 JOHN W. QUILLIAN '09 CHAUNCEY A. LUCAS '09 FREDERICK S. HATCH '11 HOWARD H. J. BENSON '09 PAUL C. MAYFIELD '11 ALFRED S. THOMPSON '89 OLIVER S. HORD N. '98 EVERIT J. SADLER '99

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RALPH C. PARKER 07 WILSON E. MADEN '06 FRANK B. GODLEY N. '06 CHARLES GORDON DAVY '07 FRANCIS T. CHEW '08 ALLAN B. ROBY '30 HAROLD E. DURYEA '30 ALFRED E. SHARP, JR. '31 SAMUEL NELSON'31 KIRBY B. CRITTENDEN '02 R C. D. HUNT, JR.'30 , EDWIN N. DODSON '29 WILLIAM C. "i^AGER N. '28 KENNETH GRINAGER N. '26 CUFFORD S. COOPER '27 JAMES R. CUTTING N. '23 WARREN W. JOHNSON '25 JAMES B. MORRISON '23 WILLIAM G. FISHER '24 JOHN T. WALDHAUSER, J R '23 GEORGE M. BEAL N. '22 LAWRENCE M. JENSEN '27 STREUBY L. DRUMM '22 AUSTIN S. WILGUS N. '27 HARRY J. LOBERG N. '27 GEORGE B. H. STALUNGS '27 EDWARD S. BURNS '31 PAUL W. PFINGSTAG '32 ALBERT S. MAJOR, JR. '32 WALTER S. MA-V^R '25 JERBERT P. SHELDON '24 KARL F. POEHLMANN '26 A. J. GREENACRE '26 EDWARD L. B. WEIMER '26 ALFRED S. DROLL N. '26 JAMES P. JAMISON '41 BENJAMIN C. BYRNSIDE, JR. '41 ALVA D. BERNHARD '09 WILLIAM M. YEAGER '42 JAMES M. WERTH '41 ROBERT B. POAGE '42 HORACE D. CLARKE '15 GEORGE P. LAMONT '15 ROBERT E. ADAMSON, J R '44 LAWRENCE LITCHFIELD, JR. '21 ALLEN HOBBS '20 JOHN G.M.STONE'17 HARRY B. JARRETT '22 JACK I. BANDY '32 EDWIN R. SWINBURNE '25 RUFUS C. YOUNG, JR. '24 RICHARD W. SMITH, '27 THOMAS H. DYER '24 FREDERICK A. L. DARTSCH '24 JAMES G. KASTEIN '33 FRANCIS M. MCALISTER '27 MYRON W. GRAYBILL '27 CHARLES W. FREY '34 MERTON D. HA WORTH '34 GEORGE B. CUNNINGHAM '20 GEORGE E. GYONGYOS '44 JAMES F. BYRNE '26 CHARLES D. COOPER '38 GEORGE S. BUTTARS N. '36 PAUL C. STIMSON '36 FRANK G. LAW '36 WILLARD R. GAINES '21 PERRY CATRON '22 ROLAND O. LUCIER '32 GEORGE D. CASEY '44 ALLAN WRIGHT '44 JOHN L VAIDEN '14 RICHARD H. JACKSON '87 RUDOLPH C. BAUER '30 DAVID E. WARD '45 WILLIAM J. MORROW, JR. '31 CHAUNCEY S. WILLARD '32 NELSON W. PICKERING '08

THE SEARCHUGHT 'T'HE Searchlight already has a large list of •^ addresses and is obtaining and filing more as rapidly as possible. All Navy and Marine wives are urged to send their permanent addresses to the Searchlight, and in due time the address of any officer's wife will be available to her friends. We publish a wanted list each month in hopes that the addresses requested which are missing from Searchlight files will be sent in. A self-addressed postcard or stamped envelope should be sent with each inquiry for an address. This month the location of the following women is desired: Boone, Mrs. Walter F., wife Comdr., '21.

Bunner, Mrs. James J., wife Comdr., (SC).

Cass, Mrs. William F.. wife Lt, USCG. Cook, Mrs. A. B., wife Comdr., '15.

Davis, Mrs. Robert, wife (MC).

Griswold, Mrs. W. A., wife Comdr., '21.

Harenburger, Mrs. C. H., wife Lieut Hawes, Mrs. R. R , wife Lieut (SC).

Hegge, Mrs. R., widow Capt (MC).

Henry, Mrs. G. R., widow Comdr., (MC).

MacKay, Mrs. Roger, wife Capt, (MC).

Morton, Mrs. Dudley, widow Comdt.

Overand, Miss Barbara, daughter Lt Comdr., (SO. Quinn, Mis. Lawrence A., widow Lt CoL, USMC. Rogozienski, Mrs. Frank, wife Ensign, USNACR. Smith, Mrs. Holland, wife General, USMC Stocker, Mrs. Louis J., wife Comdr., '26.

Taffinder, Mrs. S. A., wife R. Adm., USN, '06.

Troxell, Mrs. Charles E., wife Ensign.

Wilson, Mrs. O. O., wife of Col., USA. Wilson, Mrs. John M., widow Lieut, '31.

Wilson, Mrs. Ronald L , wife Comdr., '32.

Athletics (Continued from page 44) Navy continued in an undefeated way in wresding this week by shutting out Muhlenberg College 36-0. Summaries as follows: 121 Pounds—Mclver, Navy, threw Getz, reverse chancery, 5 mins., 58 sees.

128 Pounds—DeLong, Navy, threw Walters, keylock, 4 mins., 11 sees.

136 Pounds—Green, Navy, threw Gernett, chancery and crotch, 2 mins., 32 sees.

145 Pounds—Henry, Navy, dedsioned Braverman, 6-0.

155 Pounds—Fletcher, Navy, threw Klotz, bar and chancery, 4 mins., 41 sees.

165 Pounds—Hathaway, Navy, threw Delp, bar and chancery, 2 mins., 45 sees.

175 Pounds—French, Navy, dedsioned Summerville, 11-0.

Unlimited—Smith, Navy, threw Johnson, crotch and chancery, 43 sees.

SWIMMING The Naval Academy swimming team opened its season by trouncing Duke 61 to 7

on 12 January. The following is a summary of the meet: 330-Yard Medley Relay — 1, Navy, (Cowell, Ordand, Hallett); 2, Duke, (Brazes, Sutton, Klause). Time 3 minutes, 1.3 seconds.

220-Yard Freestyle—1, Clifford, Navy; 2, Hall, Navy; 3, Bruno, Duke. Time 2:28.5.

50-Yard Freestyle—1, Kanakanui, Navy; 2, Crosby, Navy; 3, McKee, Duke. Time 24 sees.

100-Yard Freestyle—1, Hallett, Navy; 2, Carrington, Navy; 3, McKee, Duke. Time 55.7.

150-Yard Backstroke—1, Cowell, Navy; 2, Fallon, Navy; 3, Thompson, Duke. Time 1:38.2.

200-Yard Breaststroke — 1, Reynolds, Navy; 2, McCallum, Navy; 3, Dutton, Duke.

Time 2:35.7.

440-Yard Freestyle—1, Mayer, Navy; 2, Thompson, Navy; 3, Bruno, Duke. Time 5:36.4.

440-Yard Relay—1, Navy (Ivers, Dwight, Qosby, Hallett); 2, Duke (Burgoyne, Klause, McKee, Ocken). Time 3 minutes, 44 seconds.

Low Board Diving—1, Barker, Navy; 83.4 points; 2, Joy, Navy, 77.9 points; 3, Klause, Duke, 69.96 points.

The Navy plebe swimming team defeated Baltimore City College on 12 January 36 to 30. The plebes placed first in five of the eight events.

The Navy varsity swimming team was victorious in a triangular meet at the Academy on 19 January with Franklin and Marshall College and Lehigh Uiuversity. Navy made 77 points, Franklin and Marshall 27, and Lehigh 25.

The middies took first place in every event but the 300-yard medley relay. Acmally, the Tars won that one, too, but a disqualification on a bad turn gave the race to Lehigh. The summary: 300-Yard Medley—Won by Lehigh (Pariseau. Palmer, O'Brien); Franklin and Marshall, second. Time 3:48.

220-Yard Free Style — Won by Clifford, Navy, ITiompson, Navy, second, Cassidy, F. &M., third. Time 28.2.

50-Yard Free Style—^Won by Kanakanui, Navy, Dwight, Navy, second, Landstreet, Lehigh, third. Time 24.2.

Low Board diving — Won by Gomperts, Navy; O'Callahan, Navy, second; Rand, Lehigh, third.

100-Yard Free Style—Won by Kanakanui, Navy; Crosby, Navy, second, Landstreet, Lehigh, third. Time .56.

150-Yard Backstroke — Won by Cowell, • Navy; Lechner, Navy, second, Stark, F. & M. diird. Time 1:37.8.

200-Yard Breast Stroke — Won by Reynolds, Navy; Eyler, Navy, second; Palmer, Lehigh, third. Time 2:35.

440-Yard Free Style—Won by Mayer, Navy; Miller, Navy, second; Mesirov, Lehigh, third. Time 5:27.3.

440-Yard Relay—^Won by Navy (Corse, Ivers, Dunwody, Clifford), Lehigh, second, and Franklin & Marshall, third. Time 3:49The Navy plebe swimming team defeated Staunton Military Academy by the close score of 35-31. Plebe divers Hoope and Morrison, outscored Staunton's interscholastic champion, G. Jeumer. Navy placed first in five out of eight events.

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FENCING

SMALL BORE RIFLE

The Navy fencing team opened its 1946 The Navy small bore rifle team defeated season with an 18-9 victory over Brooklyn the M.I.T. rifle team 1381 to 1324. Hollis College. It was Brooklyn's third loss of the and Hancock led the midshipmen to victory season. in the short range, shoulder to shoulder Herb Whyte won all three of his matches match. Hollis was the high gun with 280 for Navy in the epee and Midshipman A. J. points, followed by Hancock with 279.

Frankel and W. H. Barton swept theirs in Stewart led the M.I.T. sharpshooters with 275 the sabre. Navy's weakness was in the foil points. event which Brooklyn took, 6 to 3.

The midshipman rifle team defeated the The Navy fencers defeated the Baltimore Fencing Club 19-8 in a three weapon meet on Brooklyn Poly rifle team 1393 to 1255. The 19 January. The Middies swept all nine Middies excelled in all three firing positions bouts with the sabre and won the foil and —prone, kijpeling, and standing. Carl Ott led epee matches by scores of 5-4 each. Midship- the midshipmen with a score, of 285, and Hillowitz led Brooklyn with 264. man Oiler won all three of his epee bouts.

We WaUin<f, Wined, — T I M E FOR W O M E N —

written for me, with English interpretations carefully beside the different items, and I carried that menu to every meal for two weeks and with its help was able to know in advance approximately what I was ordering.

I have often thought of the courtesy I received, and wondered if, the situarion reversed, a non-English speaking tourist in this country would ever receive the same amount of assistance. These war brides will assimilate very fast, but there will be some puzzling problems for them, things that we wouldn't even consider a problem maybe, but all different ways of doing things are strange at first.

TVrO women that I know will admit to ever •'•^ listening to the soap opera programs on the radio, and few of us turn on the radio during the day because the usual daily sobbing drama is so boring. There is one new program coming in daily though, at 4:30 EST that is worthwhile mning in on. It's Shelly Mydans commentating on a news program for women.

Shelly Mydans has been all over this world before and during the war and her sponsors feel that she has earned the right to comment on the news. After listening to the program I think she knows what she is talking about, — T H E SHIVERS— and her presentation is cool and capable,-without the positive know-it-all tone that has With the possible exception of penguins earned some of our other news-casters and at the South Pole and remote tribes of Esforecasters positive dislike for themselves and kimos, we have all heard of the atom bomb. their methods.

There has been so much talk that we are all bewildered. There has also been criricism be—FOREIGN L A N D — cause the attendance was poor at the Congressional comnuttee meetings held to decide on Undoubtedly we will meet a good number the bomb's secrecy. Rows and rows of chairs of the war wives who were girls from other for expected listeners were vacant. Instead of countries, who married our service men overlack of interest, it is possible that this small seas and who have been arriving in this counattendance displayed our awful huddling fear try by the thousands, as fast as transponaof what we produced, and our reluaance to tion can be managed. These girls are usually get even as close as a Congressional committee heading for their husbands' homes and neighmeeting to "the thing." borhoods where they will have to sift and Nearly as effective as the atom bomb on a settle down in strange customs and traditions.

There is an enormous desire among them to certain class of eighth graders, was the arrival make good in this country, to like it and to of a new home room teacher, ex-paratrooper be liked themselves. If, when we meet them, from the China-India-Burma theater.

The cynical boredom of the boys with the we can extend our normal friendliness a little, help them get acquainted, offer to show necessary English, history and reading evapthem around, or explain some of our foreign orated and it's the new fashion to have lesways, perhaps we can overcome some of the sons prepared and answers ready rather than first queer impressions they are bound to have. be scorned by the young man who is surLooking back to the trip I made through rwo rounded by a mythical halo of parachute countries whose languages I could not speak, shrouds. The veteran wisely allowed a period with a little note that read "This is an Amer- of questioning and a small discussion of his ican lady who cannot speak Spanish, etc." exp>eriences the first few days. At last reports that I carried for emergency, I remember the no member of the class was grounded. utmost courtesy and kindness, the special ef—DECISION— forts to obtain an interpreter in the little . plaza of a town in Cuba where 1 had missed One of the things that will have to be deconnecrions between two bus lines. With anxiety friendly faces grouped around me un- cided this year is whether or not to bring til matters were straightened out. In another home the bodies of our war dead from the small town, in a hotel whose dining room isolated cemeteries where they were interred menus were as Greek, a "master menu" was in every war area. Already the poor dead are

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being pulled apart in deciding if they should be brought home, and if so where they shall be buried. An increase in the total area of our national cemeteries has been arranged as the Army has always planned to move all dead to our own soil, but it appears now that certain of the brotherhood of undertakers are objecting to burial in national cemeteries, and if it were generally known how many of those funeral gentlemen owned all or part of the elaborate "Mausoleums" and "Sanctuaries" the reasons would be obvious. Before any plans are made for a mass movement of the dead it would be humane to poll the next of kin and ascertain the wishes of the majority.

Perhaps it could be arranged that those who wish could leave loved ones where they fell, many would have so wished i t Unfortunately

few specified, before the battle where they J O H N FRANCIS FAIRBANKS, JR., '32, Lt Officially determined to be missing in action might wish to be buried, but grief is no less as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving lasting whether burial is at home or overaboard the USS EDSALL when that ship was seas. So far as the question of foreign soil is lost due to enemy action in the vidnity of concerned, where the battle was fought beJava. In compliance with Section 5 of Pubcame American soil, and the cemeteries Amerlic Law 490, as amended, death is presumed ican National cemeteries. to have occurred on 25 November, 1945. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P O O R FIDOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

JOHN W Y T H E HAYS, '36, Lt (jg). Officially

About the only relieving fact of the recent showing of mink coats for dogs is that the purchasers will have to pay the 20% luxury tax to clothe Fido in a style that will disgust him. We can only hope too, that the adverrisements displaying such finery will not reach our Allied friends in the places where clothing is still severely rationed.

determined to be missing in action as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS ASHEVILLE when that ship was lost due to enemy action while enroute from Java to Australia. In compliance with Secrion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 25 November, 1945.

ADOLPH HEDE, '25, Lt. Comdr.

(Posthu-

mously promoted to Comdr.) Prisoner of war to determined dead.

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TED ADAIR HILGER, '35, Lt Offidally deter-

mined to be missing in aaion as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS PILLSBURY when that ship was lost due to enemy action while enroute from Java to Australia. In compliance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 25 November, 1945.

November, 1945 near NAS, Chincoteague, to be missing in aaion as of 13 November, .Va. 1944, having been serving aboard the USS ESCOLAR when that submarine failed to re- HARRY LERCH BRINSER, '99, R. Adm. Died ham from a war patrol in the Yellow Sea. In of a cerebral hemorrhage on 9 December, compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 1945, in New York.

490 as amended, death is presumed to haye JOHN CHRISTIE HOLLINGSWORTH, '31, occurred on 14 November, 1945.

Comdr. Offidally determined to be missFRANKLIN EUGENE COOK, '39, Lt. Comdr. ing in acrion as of 5 December, 1944, havOfficially reported to be missing in aaion Cj-ARENCE WILLIAM BECKER, '39, Lt. Comdr. ing been serving aboard the USS SCAMP as of 12 October, 1944, when the plane in Determined dead after having been reported when.-that submarine failed to remrn from which he was flying a unit of Fighting a war patrol in the vicinity of the Bonin missing in action. Evidence establishing Squadron nineteen, crashed during a strafIslands. In compliance with Section 5 of death under Public Law 408. ing run on Taichu Airfield, Formosa. In Public Law 490, as amended, death is precompliance with Section 5, as amended, sumed to have occurred on the 6th day of death is presumed to have occurred on 13 FRANK BLAHA, '39, Lt- Comdr. Officially deDecember, 1945.

Oaober, 1945. termined to be missing in action as of 13 November, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS ESCOLAR when that subDONALD VICKERS DANIELS, '31, Lt Died in J O H N AMBROSE HOLLOWELL, '22, Comdr. marine failed to return from a war patrol Officially determined to be missing in acScarsdale, N . Y., on 7 November 1945. in the Yellow Sea. In compliance with Section as of 1 March, 1942, having been tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, serving aboard the USS HOUSTON when death is presumed to have occurred on the LEWIS OLCOTT DAVIS, '37, Lt (jg). Offithat ship was sunk during an engagement cially reported to be missing in action as 14th day of November, 1945. with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In comof 1 March, 1942, having been serving pliance with Secrion 5 of Public Law 490, aboard the USS PECOS when that ship was as amended, death is presumed to have ocEDWARD N O E BLAKELY, '34, Comdr. Officialbombed by enemy planes and sank in the curred on 15 December, 1945. ly determined to be missing in action as of open sea south of Java. In compliance 7 November, 1944, having been serving with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as aboard the USS SHARK when that submaamended, death is presumed to have oc- THOMAS LEE JOHNSON, '98, Capt. Died in rine failed to remrn trom a war patrol in Pass Christian, Miss, on 1 December, 1945. curred on 15 December, 1945. the China Sea. In compliance with said Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on the SAMUEL DAVID DEALEY, '30, Comdr. Offi- K E N N E T H LEON KOLLMYER, '39, Lt (jg). cially determined to be missing in action Officially determined to be missing in ac8th day of November, 1945. as of 1 October, 1944, having been servtion as of 1 March, 1942, having been ing aboard the USS HARDER when that serving aboard the USS HOUSTON when J O H N KISKADDEN BOAL, '37, Lt. Officially submarine failed to return from a war pathat ship was sunk during an engagement reported to be missing in aaion as of 5 trol in the Pacific Ocean. In compliance with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In comAugust, 1942, when the plane in which he with said Section 5 of Public Law 490, as pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, was flying, a unit of Cruiser Scouting amended, death is presumed to have ocas amended, death is presumed to have occurred on the 2nd day of October, 1945.

Squadron nine, attached to the USS BoiSE, curred on 15 December, 1945. was forced to make a water landing while returning from a reconnaissance flight RUSSELL CLARK D E L L , '39, Lt (jg). Offi- RICHARD JEROME KROTH, '44, Lt (jg). Ofinitiated 750 miles due East of Tokyo. In cially determined to be missing in action ficially determined to be missing in action compliance with said Section 5 of Public as of 1 March 1942, having been serving as of 25 October, 1944, having been servLaw 490, as amended, death is presumed aboard the USS EDSALL when that ship. ing aboard the USS TANG when that subto have occurred on the 4th day of Decemwas lost due to enemy action in the vicinity marine sank during an engagement with ber, 1945. of Java. In compliance with Secrion 5 of enemy in Formosa Strait. In compliance Public Law 490, as amended, death is prewith Section 5 of Public Law 490, as RICHARD W A D E BOND, '42, Lt. Comdr. sumed to have occurred on 25 November, amended, death is presumed to have oc1945.

Killed in a midair plane collision on 20 curred on 7 December, 1945.

THOMAS BABB, '42, Lt. Officially determined

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JOSEPH LEER LA COMBE, '33, Lt. Offidally

H A N S SETH RASMUSSEN, '44, Lt. (jg). Killed

reported to be missing in aaion as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS PECOS when that ship was bombed by enemy planes and sank in the open sea south of Java. In compliance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 December, 1945.

in a plane crash at NAS, Jacksonville, Florida on 16 November, 1945.

FORT ELMO LAND, "42, Lt. Comdr.

Killed

in a plane crash on 23 November, 1945 near Los Coronados Islands.

FRANQS XAVIER MAKER, JR., '35, Lt. Offi-

cially reported to be missing in action as of 1 February, 1942, when the plane of which he was pilot, a unit of Torpedo Squadron 5, failed to return from an attack against Japanese mandated islands. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on the 26th day of November, 1945.

COLEMAN SELLERS,

IV, '40, Ens. Officially

determined to be missing in aaion as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship was sunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 December, 1945.

WALTER LEVIS SHAFFER, '40, Lt. Comdr.

J O H N FORD W O O D R U F F , '38, Lt (jg). Offi-

cially determined to be missing in aaion as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship was sunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 December, 1945.

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 5 December, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS SCAMP when that submarine failed to return from a war pa- MARYLAND trol in the vicinity of the Bonin Islands. In The January meeting of the Naval Acadcompliance with Secrion 5 of Public Law emy Alumni Association of Maryland was 490, as amended, death is presumed to have held on Tuesday, 15 January, 1946, at the occurred on the 6th day of December, 1945. Stafford Hotel in Baltimore.

Captain W. G. Ebert, USN, was the guest speaker for the evening. The topic was "SubLAWRENCE J O H N MCPEAKE, '24, Lt. Comdr. BRUCE DELBERT SKIDMORE, '37, Lt Officially determined to be missing in aaion as marine and SACO." Captain Ebert enumOfficially reported to be missing in aaion of 1 March, 1942, having been serving erated various first hand experiences encounas of 1 March, 1942, having been serving aboard the USS HOUSTON, when that ship tered as a Submarine Commander and as a aboard the USS PECOS when that ship was was sunk during an engagement with Naval Representative in China. After the bombed by enemy planes and sank in the enemy ships in the Java Sea. In compli- talk the non-submariners of the meeting had open sea south of Java. In compliance with ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, a greater appreciation of the sub surface navy.

Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, as amended, death is presumed to have The members were very pleased that Captain death is presumed to. have occurred on 15 Ebert accepted the invitation to speak and occurred on 15 December, 1945.

December, 1945. hope that he will favor them again with such an interesting talk.

JOSEPH AUGUSTINE MURPHY, '09, Capt. Of- RAY ARVEL SNODGRASS, '37, Lt (jg). OffiMembers and guests present were: V. P. cially determined to be missing in action fidally reported to be missing in aaion as Brett; Capt. G. P. Brewster, '16; W. B. Brisas of 1 March, 1942, having been serving of 1 March, 1942, while on duty as Naval aboard the USS EDSALL when that ship was tor, '27; C. Demarest, Jr., '19; H. R. England, Observer, British North Borneo, when the lost due to enemy action in the vicinity of '27; D. J. Fitzgerald, '26; O. N . Fowler, '33; Dutch Knilm Civil Ferry Plane in which Java. In compliance with Section 5 of Capt M. D. Gilmore, '11; Comdr. P. F. Hamhe had secured passage was believed shot Public Law 490, as amended, death is pre- bsch, '09; Capt D. W. Hardin, '22; Col. T down enroute to Australia. In compliance B. Harper; P. L. Holland, '08; J. L. Power: with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as sumed to have occurred on 25 November, Don Riley; W . T. Saunders, '90; Comdr. J 1945. amended, death is presumed to have ocW. Seager, '32; Lt Col. F. G. Wagner, '30 curred on the 4th day of December, 1945.

J. T. Waldhauser, '23; O. R. Warner, Jr., '39: ARCHIBALD STONE, JR., '34. Lt. Officially F. A. Weiss, Jr., '30; O. B. Wight; Lt W. E reported to be missing in action as of 1 ALVA FREEMAN N E T H K E N , '40, Ens. OffiMedford; Ralph J. Fleming (guest); G. C. March, 1942, having been serving aboard dally determined to be missing in aaion Nicholas; C. S. Silsbee, Dr. M. D. Whitethe USS PECOS when that ship was bombed hurst; Capt W. G. Ebert, USN, '30 (guest as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving by enemy planes and sank in the open sea speaker). aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship south of Java. In compliance with Section was sunk during an engagement with 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is enemy ships in the Java Sea. In complipresumed to have occurred on 15 Decem- NEW YORK ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as ber, 1945. amended, death is presumed to have ocThe New York Association had its lunchcurred on 15 December, 1945. eon meeting on 15 January, 1946, at Oscar's T O M SLAUGHTER SUTHERLAND, '39, Lt. Oldemonico Restaurant. Admiral Marc A. Comdr. Offidally determined to be missing Mitscher was the honored guest who enterHENRY NELSON GATES, '45, Ens. Killed on 24 November, 1945 in a crash on flight in aaion as of 5 December, 1944, having tained the 184 members present by speaking as of primary training syllabus, Dallas, been serving aboard the USS SCAMP when on the Evolution of the Carrier Task Force.

Texas. that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the vicinity of the Bonin Islands. PHILADELPHIA In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law JOHN COCKRELL PATTY, '37, Lt. ( j g ) , OffiThe Philadelphia Association held a din490, as amended, death is presumed to have cially determined to be missing in action ner meeting at the Bellevue on 22 January, occurred on the 6th day of December, as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving 1946 and the following were present: 1945. aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship B. Bruce, '07; L. M. Stevens, '01; C. S. was sunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In compli- ELMER WAYNE TOD, '07, Capt. Died on 8 Roberts, '09; M. L. Brown, '11; G. Fulton, â&#x20AC;˘12; S. H. Ziegler, '12; J. H. Hoffman, '13; ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as December, 1945 of a heart attack at the G. B. Junkin, '13; T. M. Searles, '13; S. H. amended, death is presumed to have ocNaval Hospital in Aiea, T. H. King, '25; J. P. Raugh, '26. curred on 15 December, 1945.

Bruce and Junkin were appointed as the THOMAS HAROLD W I L K I N S O N , '43, Lt. Oftwo national members. It was decided that FRANK LUCIUS PINNEY, '98, Capt. Died at ficially determined to be missing in action a dinner meeting be held on Friday, 15 FebBethesda Naval Hospital on 5 December, as of 5 December, 1944, having been servruary, 1946 at which time a new slate of offi1945. ing aboard the USS SCAMP when that subcers will be nominated. marine failed to return from a war patrol JOHN GUTHRIE FOSTER PRESCOTT, '31, in the vicinity of the Bonin Islands. In FRANCISCO Comdr. Killed by a self-inflicted gunshot compliance with Section 5 of Public Law SAN wound in the head on 28 October, 1945, 490, as amended, death is presumed to have Our regular monthly dinner meeting was Washington, D. C. occurred on the 6th day of December, 1945. held on 9 January at the Batchelor Officers'

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Mess, Treasure Island, with an attendance of 90—the largest ever present Haller Belt, '08, President, San Francisco Branch, and West Coast Vice President, USNA Alumni Association, presided.

Our first treat of the evening was a talk

by Dr. Claude A. Buss, formerly Director of the Pacific Bureau of the Office of War Information, who had just rettirned from Japan, which he had visited as a member of a War Department board which went there to survey the oil and chemical resources of that nation.

He visited both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dr. Buss told us that ranking Japanese military and naval officers had stated that Japan was so short of fuel that ships bound for the Marianas, for example, followed a direa route through submarine infested waters to conserve fuel, rather than taking a circuitous route. He said, also, that 90 octane gasoline was about top quality in Japan when the war ended. Another statement: when the war ended Japanese faaories were turning out sabers as their top priority weapon.

In eloquent and vivid style, he described some of the atomic bomb results, and briefly compared the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the air bombing restdts in Tokyo and Berlin. Dr. Buss wound up a brilliant

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talk by paying glowing tribute to the superb leadership of General MacArthur in his postwar labor of administering Japan.

Our second treat of the evening was the showing of the motion picmres of the last Army-Navy football game, which were taken for the USNA Athletic Association for offidal use in the analysis of the various plays. These movies were furnished to us through the kindness and joint efforts of Captain Clyde W. King, USNR, '22, prominent member of our branch who was recendy released to inactive duty, and Captain C. O. Humphreys, USN, Athletic Director, USNA Athletic Assn.

As the picmres were exhibited, Qyde made running comment, which enhanced not only our understanding of the various plays, but, also, the enjoyment of these splendid piaures by the many Army officers present, as well as by the goodly attendance of Navy and Marine Corps officers and civilian guests.

Guests present, many of them distinguished, and all of whom we were delighted to have with us, included the following: Dr. Claude Buss, Guest Speaker T. N. Arnett, Georgetown, '39 Burton Baldwin, USMA, '22 General David P. Barrows, former President, Univ. of Calif., just returned from Tokyo William L Bush, California, '34

Ralph E. Cain, Major, QMC, Presidio of San Francisco O. V. Calhoun, Comdr., MC, USNR Bernard F. Canavan, Lafayette, "46 W. L. Chambers W. W. Chapin, Penn, '34, Editor— Argonaut H. B. Clark, Comdr., USNR M. C. Conkey Porter Dunlap, Stanford, '16 Henry Gibbons, Lt. Comdr., MC, USNR H. H. Galliett, CoL, Inf., U. S. Army, Comdg. Officer, Presidio of San Francisco Maj. Goodwin, USMC L M. Grace, MC, USNR Fred Harrington Franklin Hauvood Wm. J. Hine, Capt, SC, USN R. B. Huff, Capt, SC, USN Talbert Josselyn W. M. Kays Wallace M. Kelly, Centre College, '96 Earl F. Knobb, USMA, '17 A. D. Macrae, Lt Comdr., USNR John Manners Herbert Marsh Rodney McQave, Lt, USNR, Princeton, '36 Harry F. McFarland, Comdr., MC, USNR Wm. J. Milliken, Comdr., USNR H.F.Nichols, USMA,'11 Dr. Chas. E. O'Brien, California, '25 Jan Oostermeyer, President, Shell Chemical Philip H. Pierson, MJ)., Yale, '08 George Smallman, Capt, SC, USN, Ret Russell E. Smith, father of C. R. Smith, '28, and E. B. Smith, '30 Douglas G. Todd, Lt Comdr., USNR, son of D. W. Todd, '95 Daiuel W. Tomiinson Herbert D. Walter, Stanford, "00 Randolph Washburn, Lt, USNR, son of E. D. Washburn, '06 Kent Weaver W. H. Wilbur, USMA, '12 Alumni attending were the following: Stanford E. Moses, '92; Powers Symington, '92; David W. Todd, '95; A. F. Huntington.

'98; H. W. Osterhous, '00; W. H Shea, 'GO, and C. G., '02; A. B. Court, '05; H. E Kays, '05; E. D. Washburn, '06; J. B. Howell, '07; Ralph C. Parker, '07; HaUer Belt, '08; John Falge, '12; Benjamin Perlman, '12; C H. Wright, '12; Bob Gary, '14; Ned Matbourg, '17; E. H. McMenemy, '20; Dimcan Curry, '21; G. C. Miller, '21; F. A. MacGurn, '21; Wm. S. Price, '21; J. C. Reisinger, '21; Qyde King, '22; Elmer E. Meyers, '22; R. A. Casson, '23; E. R. Duncan, '23; J. S. Fitzgerald, '23; R. D. Woods, '23; Roben S. Clark, '25; E. M. Eller, "25; Hugh French, '25; H. N. Lyon, '25; E. P. Burton, '28; C R. Smith, '28; E. B. Smith, '30; Geo. J. Gundlfinger, '31; F. U. Weir, '31; Sinclair B. Wright, '31; Sammy Bradbard, '34; W. M. Dickey, '34; W. N. McGill, '35; John M. Court, '36, son of A. B. Court; J. O. Phillips, '36; D. W. WUson, '36; R. W. HarreU, '39; John D. Taylor, '39.

Our San Frandsco dinner meetings are held monthly at the Batchelor Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every month. All Naval Academy alumni and their friends are welcome and are cordially invited to attend. For information, please communicate with Haller Belt, '08, Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Frandsco 4, California. Telephone—GArfield 0695.

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Fairness is basic to peace in the family. Favoritism destroys confidence and upsets the balance of home life. Fairness to all regardless of size and importance builds confidence and strengthens home ties.

As it is in the family so it is in all human relations. Standards of conduct and courtesy express fairness in social life. T h e lines of the playing field and the rules of the game are based on what is fair or foul in sports. Fairness is the foundation of law and the primary condition of justice. Contracts, agreements and treaties freely arrived at express fairness in business enterprise.

Fair trading policies which permit the free flow of needed goods to the people of the world are necessary to peace. Fairness is opposed to exploitation of the weak and to isolation practices. World peace through world trade is possible when men practice fairness.

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