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4 . You can vary pumping speed to suit difFerent cargoes by varying the generator speed.

Turbine-electric drive insures fast, low-cost loading and unloading.

This means fast turn arounds, giving you maximum use of investment.

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In peacetime, the high-speed tanker will have more earning power than older, slower vessels because of the saving in time per trip and the consequent reduction in the number of ships needed.

Lifting the 70-ton, synchronous propulsion motor from a truck to a tanker hull in the shipyard.

These 10,000-hp tankers are saving 25 to 40 per cent of the time in transit, compared with prewar ships.

Swijt, economical propulsion — and safety, too. Turbine-electric tankers are easy to maneuver, and that's important when docking or moving in restricted waters. General Electric Company, Schenectady, 5, N. Y.

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Small and large, simple and complex Transmitting and Receiving units. Direction Finders, Ship-to-Shore Telephones, and much confidential radio-electronic equipment, buUt and maintained by Radiomarine . . . is at work day and night on the seven seas, enabling these intrepid ships to communicate with one another and with their escort . . . to locate shoals and coastlines and other ships in stormy weather . . . and thus to deliver their precious cargoes sooner.

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P r a c t i c e first—means perfect later. T h a t ' s why the fledgling bombardiers of t h e Naval Air Corps spend h o u r s of their training time trving to "sink"' Avith practice bombs a target b'oat that twists and t u r n s as artfully as a dodging outboard. Sterling engines power many of these speedy little craft — a n o t h e r e x a m p l e of how t h e engines we a r e m a k i n g today are being tested for their post-war assignments on the toughest proving ground of all times—the fighting fronts of the world.

They are powering motor torpedo boats of the Royal British Navy% Fairmile motor launches of t h e Roval C a n a d i a n Navv. rescue boats of t h e

American Army Air Forces, crash boats of the Naval Air Corps, and m a n y Coast G u a r d craft.

T h e war has taught us to build Sterling engines that better meet the needs of a wide range of applications in the industrial as well as t h e marine fields. You can now count on these precision-built engines to ^i\e greater horsepower per pound of weight and to be more economical both to purchase and to operate.

O n e of o u r important jobs is to get more jpower to you for your immediate needs and to plan with you for future expansion. \^e have the engines, the facilities, the men, all set for you, right now.

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This trend should encourage feeder line planners and forwardlooking commimities. Less than 300 American cities enjoy direct air service today — 1,700 others of

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5,000 or more population are candidates for the air map of tomorrow. Such service is one of the next big steps toward providing the full load which is air transport's real pay load.

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

CONTENTS Our Maritime Future—

By Vice Admiral

E. S. Land. USN-Ret.

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'The Beast' Scratches a Flat-top—

By Commander

Robert A. Winston. USN

The Mighty 58

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Naval Shelling of Cherbourg—

By Lt. Comdr. Harold B. Say, USNR D-Day and the Royal Navy—

By Lieutenant D. Wilson MacArthur, RNVR

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Wardroom Stuff

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Fight Amphibious I—fij Lt. Edwin C. Thomas, USNR

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Who A r e the Chinese?—By Owen and Eleanor

Lattimore

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Miscellaneous Cargo

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T h e W a r in Pictures

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First Battle of Manila Bay—

By Lt. {jg) Laurin H. Healy, USNR Spindrift—By Lee Shores

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Navy Athletics

Through a quivering grove of aspen-like trees.

Marines h a u l ammunition to theSaipan front.

This M a r i n e Corps photo has the qualities of a portrait.

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What's the Dope

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T h e Searchlight

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We Waiting Wives

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The Last Call

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Branch Association News

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usAIRco i s p r o u d I o a n n o u n c e the completion of the newest development in blowers for marine use —the production of the complete line of standardized maritime centrifugal fans—conforming to exacting specifications as to size, performance, and construction.

The U. S. Maritime size 50 fan shown is—like all others in the line—designed to produce its rated volume of air supply with t h e least possible horsepower consumption. H e a v y steel plate construction, hot dip galvanized after fabrication, insures long life in the most severe operating conditions. Djrnamically

b a l a n c e d impellers, designed for p r o p e r air flow, guarantee quiet and vibration free performance.

T h e completion of these special d u t y marine blowers is the result of close cooperation between u s A I R c o engineers and Maritime Commission requirements.

These new blowers—designed from the ground u p for marine use—represent the smallest possible blower for the biggest possible job. u s A I R c o marine blowers —bxiilt for the Maritime Conunission and the Navy— are doing t h e i r p a r t in bringing t h e day of final victory closer.

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Every 20 Minutes Blazing the airtrails for future commerce, and setting the pace for postwar air travel, Douglas transports today maintain "commuter service" between the U. S. and Britain.

Part of a joint operation of Air Transport Command, Troop Carrier Command, Naval Air Transport Service and Airlines of the United States, these Douglas airplanes round out a flight schedule of North Atlantic crossings at the average rate of one every 20 minutes of the day.

DOUGLAS E Q U I P P E D A I R L I N E S : American A i r l i n e . - H a w a i i a n A i r l i n e s L t d . - Braniff Airways - Chicago & Southern A i r Lines - Colonial A i r l i n e s - D e l t a A i r Lines - Barternii Air Lines - Western A i r Lines - Northeast Airlines - Northwest A i r l i n e s - Pan American Airways - P e n n s y l v a n i a - C e n t r a l A i r l i n e s — T W A — United A i r Lines — China NalionaKj A i r w a y s - Pan American - Grace A i r w a y s - Avianca (Aerovias Nacionales d e Colombia) - C i a . Mexicana de Aviacion _ Panair Do B r a i l l - C i a Nacional Cubana d e Avi»cloi1(:| S. A. - Uraba, M e d e l l i n and Central A i r w a y s - Cru2eiro do Sul ( B r a z i l ) - Primeas Lineas Uruguayas de Navegacion Aerea, s . A. _ Aerovias de O u a t e m a l a S A . — Canadian PaellleJ A i r l i n e s - Australian National A i r l i n e s - Royal Dutch A i r l i n e s ( K . L . M . ) - Royal Netherlands Indies A i r w a y s ( K . N . I . L . M . ) - Sabena (Belgian Congo) - S w i s s a i r ( S w i t i e r l a o d ) - A . B .

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T N this summer of 1944 the western in-^ vasion of Europe is in full momentum. The world strategy that was planned after the United States was drawn into the war now is unfolding on batdefronts over the world. The human and material resources of this Nation are carried to our armed forces and our Allies by a tireless Merchant Marine, built up to a huge size by the pressing demands of war.

The Nation's shipyards in two years after Pearl Harbor delivered in excess of 27 million deaidweight tons of shipping.

Our yards now are capable of producing in excess of 20 million tons of shipping per year as long as the need exists. By the end of 1944 the United States will have a merchant fleet of some 4,500 vessels, aggregating about 50 million deadweight tons. When victory is won, we

shall enter the commerce of peacetime with the largest merchant fleet any nation has ever had.

The Maritime Commission still is engaged in building ships for war. But it is also looking ahead to the time when disposition and allocation of this great fleet of ships will be undertaken to restore commercial shipping in domestic an<i foreign trades. Already the emergency Liberty ship program has been curtailed. The new Liberty contracts- have been let for some time. Since about the first of this year there has been increased emphasis on the building of C-types—the finest cargo vessels afloat—fast tankers and Victory ships.

They are the ships with which we shall face our maritime future.

For the time being we shall be the leading maritime nation. We intend to remain a maritime nation. Guided by the stated objectives of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 we propose to maintain a merchant fleet that will be an efiFective auxiliary to the armed forces in war and capable of carrying all our domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of our foreign commerce in peace. There are extremes we shall try to avoid. W e have no intention of attempting to thwart the legitimate maritime needs of any nation. Neither have we any intention of letting our merchant fleet deteriorate, as we did following the last war.

How, then, shall we dispose of our toimage and ships so that, in justice to ourselves and the world, we can render the greatest service?

We look forward to a victorious peace. Yet we cannot forget the lessons learned in two wars. It is inconceivable that we could again let our merchant fleet become so decrepit that, should a national emergency arise, we would be in a precarious shipping position. The first contracts let by the Commission after its establishment in 1936 were for defense installations on tankers then building. As our security became threatened by events in Europe, construction between that time and Pearl Harbor was increased from year to year with the thought of national defense uppermost. The record of our Merchant Marine in this war speaks for itself.

We hope to maintain our merchant fleet in such a fluid state that we shall never again be caught short in an emergency for lack of cargo space.

When peacetime commerce becomes setded on a permanent basis, it is believed by the Commission that a postwar fleet of 15 to 20 million deadweight tons will be necessary to fill the objectives of the Merchant Marine A a of 1936 and the requirements of our people. Shipping on the Great Lakes and on the inland waterways should require about six million deadweight tons, coastwise and intercoastal shipping close to four million tons. The favorable aspects for

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This is the reason for sea power. To enable great convoys like this to travel the sea lanes is' the excuse for maintaining a Navy, and the movement of these merchantmen gives meaning to successful sea power.

Congested shipyards, mass producing Victory ships, are a contributing factor to our successful fighting all over the globe.

increased foreign trade should, the Commission believes^ require 7.5 million tons to carry a "substantial" portion of our imports and exports. Assuredly, this is a 50 per cent increase over our normal volume of foreign commerce in the past.

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Thus it can be seen that the whole intent of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is to have our merchant fleet perform our essential shipping services. We want to build our own ships, operate them with our own crews through our own companies. There appears no sound reason why we should delegate these services to other nations, save the one reason that they build and operate ships cheaper.

Because of this country's high standard of livingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including higher wages to shipyard labor and to ships' c r e w s ^ we can neither build ships nor operate them as cheaply as can other nations.

Therefore, we use government funds as a means of attaining parity of cost of building and operation. However, these increased costs of construction and operation are recoverable in part, by a provision of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 which allows the federal government to recapture a portion of operator's excess earnings, after allowances for depreciation in capital investment. In some (Continued on page 68)

THE BEIST'SCRMES VERYONE caUed him "The Beast," E not only because he was a hulking brute of a man, well over 200 pounds in the raw, but because of the way he flew.

He always kicked his big Avenger torpedo-bomber around like a fighter, not only in the air but on the flight deck. His plane crew worshipped him, and always predicted that if and when he ever got a crack at a Jap carrier, it would be ano t h e r c a s e of "scratch one flattop."

His real name is Lieutenant (jg) J. B. Russell, USNR, and o u t s i d e of working hours, he is a mild-mannered, good - natured guy whose main hobby is his wife and family in Portsmouth, Ohio. He is 28 years old, partly bald, and usually has a good strong cigar sticking out of the corner of his mouth from under a closecropped blacjc mustache. I got to know him well during seven months of carrier duty together in the Pacific, and learned never to call his hand in smd poker when he bet the pot limit.

Nobody was much surprised when "The Beast" slammed his bombs into a Jap carrier during the sundown attack on the fleeing Nip task force near the Philippines on 20 June 1944. We would have been more surprised if he had missed it, or if he had failed to get back, for we had seen him fly through the thick of it at Truk and Palau, always laying his bombs where they would do the most good.

On this particular occasion, he and his three team-mates had to fly through heavy flak for 20 or 30 miles to get to the Jap carriers, and during the final approach, they were jumped by severa) Zero fighters, which their rear gunners effectively discouraged while the pilots concentrated on their targets. The squadron commander, Lieutenant E. E. Wood, USNR, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led the attack on a SHOKAKU class carrier, planting his bombs on its fantail. "The Beast" laid his bombs up the deck just a few yards ahead of his skipper's, leaving a beautiful fire blazing on the Jap carrier's stern, while his rear gunner took pictures of the results to show the boys back home. The other two pilots, Lieu22

By Comdr. ROBERT A. WINSTON^ USN Commander Air Group 31 tenant (jg) D. W. Smith of Denver, Colorado, and Ensign Jimmy Jones of Washington, D. C. both hit a KONGO class batdeship, just to keep the squadron's batting average at the 1,000 mark.

That was the night when many pilots went into the water, which was Smith's

misfortune late that night when he ran out of fuel just a few miles short of his base carrier. He made a nice water landing and he and his crew were picked up a couple of hours later by a destroyer.

Jones landed on another carrier, and Wood was lucky enough to find his own

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The Mighty 58 The longest such sustained sea-air assault in Naval history is the most recent record compiled by the Pacific Fleet's potent Task Force 58. Word first came that the "Task Force was attacking the enemy again when a CinCPac .communique announced that Saipan, Guam and Tinian had been struck by carrier aircraft from a "powerful Pacific Fleet Task Force" on 10 June. The latest bulletin on 58's activities arrived with the report that its planes and ships had bombed, shelled and rocket-fired enemy bases in the Bonin Islands on 3 July.

Between these rwo dates, Task Force 58 has left a tremendous wreckage of Japanese shipping, aircraft and shore installations strewn across the western Pacific. Its smooth system of seaborne supply, carried out by its carrierprotected "train" of provisioning ships, has kept it in fighting trim and battle readiness for a month, during which Task Force 58 has engaged in six major attacks.

The series commenced with the first softening-up blows against Saipan, Guam and Tinian, presaging the amphibious landings carried out by Marine and Army troops a few days later on Saipan. After a three day lapse, it suddenly appeared off the Bonin and Volcano Islands, 500 miles southeast of Japan proper, where it neutralized enemy bases from which counter blows might have been struck at the American invasion of the Marianas.

A four day silence followed, and then came news that Task Force 58 had been attacked by hundreds of Japanese aircraft just west of Guam. Four hundred and two enemy planes were destroyed that day by 58's Hellcat fighters and its flaming wall of antiaircraft fire. Late the following afternoon, 58's dive bombers and torpedo planes located a large enemy fleet fleeing towards the Philippines, and before nightfall they had sent at least two carriers and two tankers to the bottom and severely damaged over a dozen other warships and tankers.

On 22 June, just three days later, Pagan Island, in the northern Marianas, felt the hot blast of Task Force 58, and the following day the Force was back for another visit in the Bonin Islands.

Then came a 10-day lull, during which the enemy may well have begun to expect a respite of some length from the pulverizing blows by "which Task Force 58 was cancelling the last hope of relieving the beleaguered Japanese soldiers on Saipan. But on 3 July, Task Force 58 was out again, this time catching some enemy destroyers and supply ships in the Volcano and Bonin Islan(is as well as throwing further punches at harbor installations, warehouses and shore facilities. This last strike gave good evidence of the complete domination that 58 can exercise over the enemy at his doorstep.

Cruisers and destroyers from the Force were sent in to shell the bases widi their heavy rifles.

sratching a flat-top. This Jap carrier of the HOKAKU class, major Nip class, is plainly in ouble from bomb hits registered by Task Force i flyers in the Battle of the Eastern Philippines, 20 June.

ship in the dark that night. It was "The Beast" who made a mistake in recognition which he still is unable to account for, but which had a happy ending.

In all the confusion of lights that night no one could be blamed for making a (Continued on page 68)

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A recapitulation of the damage inflicted by Task Force 58 throughout this month of intensive operations, during which it exercised air control over the last eastern defenses of the Japanese Empire, shows the following score: 767 planes destroyed, 15 probably destroyed and many damaged; two carriers, four destroyers, five tankers, 13 cargo ships, six escort vessels, one sampan, one transportâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sunk; three carriers, one battleship, three cruisers, seven destroyers, three tankers, more than eight cargo ships, 12 sampansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;damaged.

Task Force 58's losses during this same time were: 157 aircraft from which at least 85 pilots and a sizable number of aircrewmen were recovered; two carriers and one battleship superficially damaged.

Thus, graphically illustrated, is the power of the Navy's new strategic air force which is softening up the eastern approach to Japan. With its staying power now definitely established, it forewarns of continued and uninterrupted attacks at the enemy's portals.

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This is how the naval bombardment of Cherbourg looked from the land, as described by Lt. Commander Harold B. Say, USNR, who was in charge of the Naval Group on SHAEP censorship through May and ]une. To Commander Say, the spectacle was not merely "brief billows of smoke and dust.. .seen ashore," as the official press release described it. He saw it as the infantryman saw it—from close and high up, and on the receiving end.

^ ^ ^ ^n.am Uie Sea This is how the naval bombardment of Cherbourg looked from the sea, as described in the official SHAEP press release issued 26 ]une 1944, the day after American and British vessels had pumped shells into the former Nazi stronghold:

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T noon on June 25 th this Force rendezvoused in the Channel off the Cherbourg peninsula and broke the silence of a calm, bright Sunday, with the first salvo from the 14-inch guns of the USS NEVADA. The other battleships quickly opened up on

their assigned targets, the heavily casemated shore batteries flanking Cherbourg. The USS QUINCY and USS TUSCALOOSA followed suit with

fire from their eight inch guns, (Continued on page 75)

By Lieuf, Comdr.

HAROLD B. SAY, USNR "VVTITH Lieutenant John Escher, ' ^ USNR, on censorship duty with the U. S. Army on its landing in Normandy, and two Army lieutenants, I had driven up the Valognes - Cherbourg road to a little route marker which read "Cherbourg, Two Kilometres." From experiences with German shelling while driving up the peninsula and from memories of 1918 which suddenly seemed very fresh, I suggested that the jeep be pulled off the road and not taken over the last rise in the hills above Cherbourg and upward from which was coming a continuous, thundering roar.

I didn't wa:nt to walk home.

From this point, one of the Army officers and I picked our way through a Frenchman's barnyard, where four fine cows of rwo days before lay stiff and swollen with feet straight out or up, victims of mines or shell fire. The barnyard ended abruptly in a sharp slope that looked down on the white buildings of Cherbourg, some still as sound and untouched as in the days of peace, others wreathed in smoke and fire.

On the edge of the crest was a concrete emplacement, still with its 88 gun, twisted and out of shape, pointed back in the direction from which the American forces had worked their way up the peninsula. Oddly, a mass of unexploded ammunition lay about it on the ground and still stacked in orderly piles in covered shelter alongside the gun. Grenades, both the potato masher and small egg type, lay around the gun and in the protected overhang of the cement emplacement. Gingerly, one of the Army oflScers and I picked our way into the gun posi(Continued on page 73)

Top: Two great Navies join fire power in pulverizing Nazi shore defenses. HMS GLASGOW (right) and USS QUINCY hurl high explosives mto German-held Cherbourg. Lower left: Accurate naval gunnery aboard the GLASGOW, QUINCY, and other Allied ships, reduced vital

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By Lieut. D. WILSON MacARTHUR, RNVR

with ships of the greatest armada in history. More than 4,000 ships and many thousands of smaller craft.

The English Channel erupts. Two crisp words from more than 600 commanding ofl&cers and ton after ton of high explosives rain down upon the Western Wall, upon German shore defenses and coastal batteries which the Allied Air Forces have already pounded for hours. In one

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salvo the nineteen-year-old battleship H. M. S. N E L S O N lets loose eight tons of shells from the sixteen-inch guns in her triple turrets. The gallant old WARSPITE, veteran of Jutland-and heroine of many engagements in this war, is there too.

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of cruisers joined in this great barrage.

Closer inshore swarms of destroyers race in to engage almost at point blank range whatever targets they can find and the sea is alive with assault craft crammed with the men who for four years have been training for this day.

On the beaches of Dunkirk was born the realization that this day must come.

Even while in May 1940 the beaten army was pouring back on to English soil, extricated from what seemed certain destruction by the tenacity and skill and courage of a host of litde ships, men of vision and faith foresaw June 6,1944.

While the world held its breath waiting for the conquest of Britain that would proclaim the downfall of freedom in Europe, the British Admiralty set to work on plans for the invasion of Hider's Europe.

The Royal Navy had its landing craft —^LCAs and LCMs — before Dunkirk, before, in fact, the war broke out in 1939.

They had been used only for the reverse of their intended function, for evacuating Allied troops from Norway and from France. Now they were the nucleus of the plans fop the return of the Allied Armies into Europe.

Other craft followed, larger craft for larger needs. The first of these landing craft (tank) ran its trials on the River Mersey near Liverpool just six months after Dunkirk. Hitler might dream of invasion; Britain planned it. The Royal Navy, which has played so many roles in this war, had yet to play its traditional role and display yet a ^ i n the axiom that naval might is the sure foundation and sine qua non of victory.

The Navy's job was to put pongoes— naval slang for soldiers — ashore in France. The Navy did that without the loss of a single soldier. How it was done history will record as the most tremendously combined operation of all time.

The Germans believed in their Western Wall. Great underwater defenses protected the foreshore, obstacles and obstruction of all kinds tipped with deadly mines. Vast concrete fortresses of gun emplacements and powerful shore batteries covered the beaches and their approaches and minefields strewed the waters offshore. It seemed that what craft might reach the shore would inevitably perish on the obstructions or be held up 25

by them and fall easy prey to coastal batteries.

Two vital faCTors were overlooked in these German calculations—the meticulous planning that preceded D-Day and the enormous fire power of the Fleet.

It was easy to discount the latter for is not a batdeship generally regarded as a strategic but not a tactical asset? And has this war not proved that seapower is desperately vulnerable?

These miscalculations were exposed in the first few hours of D-Day. Aerial bombardment softened up shore defenses and disrupted communications inland, created havoc and confusion, but the pinpointing of individual targets, the hammering of coastal batteries, the liquidating of powerful defenses designed to hurl back die invaders on the beaches was specifically the job of naval guns.

Despite bad weather and a choppy sea, those guns did their work—^so well, in fact, that the continuous bombardments carried out were lighter than planners had thought would be necessary. The ships of the bombarding fleet expended considerably less than the 16,000 tons of ammunition they had em-, barked in smothering the defenses and silencing opposition. Within two days scarcely a battery remained in action on the chosen beaches and naval guns were finding their targets far inland in support of the advancing ttoops.

By noon on D-Day, H. M. S. W A R SPRITE alone had fired 175 roimds of 15-inch shells, each round weighing a ton. The next day the N E L S O N was engaging targets at long range. Seventeen German gims in open emplacements were reported to be harassing the advanced Allied ttoops; a few salvoes, each salvo nearly nine tons of high explosive, smodiered dieir fire. H. M. S. NELSON opened fire and a Forward Observation Officer reported that the target was covered from end to end. "Rapid fire effective. All hits."

Two houses formed a German sttong point on the coast. The cruiser H. M. S. MAXnuTiuS opened fire. Her shells crept swifdy up the beach until she had the range—and salvo after salvo reduced the target to rubble.

Allied forces were piimed down by sttong enemy concenaations at one spot several miles inland. H. M. S. RODNEY dealt with the situation, her shells pulping the German positions. Later a big German gun was set up fifteen miles away in place of the coastal battery that the ships had desttoyed. The cruisers FROBISHER and CERES steamed in and drew its fire; its position was plotted and with a single salvo of guns it was knocked out.

On June 8 die batdeships RODNEY and RAMILLIES escorted by cruisers assisted the 3rd British Division to hold the enemy counterattack. The cruisers 26

The British destroyer TARTER in port to lick wounds sustained when she passed through enemy lines, driving home an attack off Ushant against a group of Nazi DD's. One German DD was blown up. another was beached, aflame, and two were damaged.

BELFAST and FROBISHER were specially mentioned as having done considerable execution against enemy concenttation.

In twenty-four houxs, forty-six different targets were engaged by the ships.

The next day the FROBISHER neuttalized two enemy batteries and blew up an ammunition dump and on June 10 there were 27 sustained shoots. On one occasion a Sttong force of Tiger tanks was observed advancing, and the Forward Observation Officer called for the aid of the cruiser's guns. The range was 20,000 yards; the leading Tigers were within 300 yards of the British infantry but the cruiser's shells fell plumb among the Tigers, which were routed and driven back with heavy loss.

So it goes on day by day. As the beachhead deepens, as the Allies thrust their way southwards, the great ships engage targets at their maximum range, and on the flanks they continue the terrific ham-

mering of the Western Wall and its batteries at dose range. No land artillery can match this colossal firepower, for the batdeships are great floating batteries which can be brought up at a speed of 30 knots to engage their targets.

That is in the main the function of heavy ships. It is only one part of the Navy's task.

Ahead of the great armada more than 200 minesweepers had cleared and buoyed a wide swathe of safe water from the English coast right to the shores of Normandy.

That operation, necessarily carried out in pitch darkness and heavy weather, was the first of the outstanding feats of DDay. Even in broad daylight stationkeeping is a tticky business for a single flotilla of sweepers. In darkness, with a two-knot tide which half-way through the operation changed direction, it called (Continued on page 76)

mn keep a card on each man and woman in the Navy—an W Eelearic accounting punch card. The card catalogues each person's aptitudes, training assignments and other information in a readily available form. This system allows us to use . . . modern business machines that will sort thousands of cards and find precisely the one you want. W e do this so we can find the right man when we need him.

To give you an idea of how helpful this is we were asked one day to do a bit of reverse tailoring. There were some dothes — some spedal dothes — and they needed a man to fit them. W e were asked for a man five feet eight inches tall, who must weigh so much more and no more, and must in addition speak Russian. That was being pretty specific. At any rate, we put the cards through the machine and found four officers who filled every specification.

From address by Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, at Commencement Exercises, Wellesley College.

experience, a Marine private on Bougainville asked his company sergeant how deep he thought he should dig his foxhole.

"Son," replied the salty sarge, "How long do you expect to live? You can dig accordingly." Four hours later the sergeant returned to find the "boot" still digging.

The M e l a n e s i a n s , runty pipe-smoking natives of the islands in the South Pacific, may not u n d e r s t a n d the theory of flight, but they are rapidly becoming airminded, according to a recent traveler.

"I saw a group of men standing by a Mitchell one day and decided to have some fun. I went up to the oldest in the group and pointed at the ship and said, 'You likem 'Thunderbird?' He turned to me and replied, 'Ug, looks more likem B-25 to me.' " Naval Aviation News

When I was in England, as Ambassador, and any discussion came The First Marine Diup about the future of vision, of Guadalcanal the British Navy, somefame, was at an advance one would be likely to staging area just before recite a jingle which has •embarking for the asbeen handed down from "If the Captain doesn't insist on making more than one lap, our gas will saultupon Cape Gloucesthe time of King James just hold out—. . ." ter. The pre-batde tenI. It goes something sion was eased, when like this: someone noticed the titles of the three motion picmres show"God and the Navy we adore. ing in the camp area that week. They were: "Here W e Go In times of danger, not before.

Again," "Slightly Dangerous," and "You Can't Live Forever."

The danger past—all is requited, God is forgotten and the Navy slighted."

There is a story making the rounds about a new recruit who was stationed at the gate of an N.C.T.C. with instructions to admit no car unless it carried a special tag. So he stopped all of them including a high-ranking officer. The officer ordered die driver to go on, whereupon the gate guard said: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm new at this. Who do I shoot—you •or the driver?"

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From speech by Former Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy at the Maritime Day Dinner at Boston, Mass.

Add Bridgework: Claude Mahoney, the Washington radio news commentator, dashed into his studio at 5:30 the morning we invaded Saipan to prepare his script for his regular 7 a. m. broadcast. He got to pondering about the correct pronunciation of "Saipan."

Finally, he picked up the phone and called a high-ranking Naval officer at his home. The officer was routed out of bed so fast that he hadn't had time to insert his new false teeth for the day.

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By Lieut. EDWIN C. THOMAS^ USNR dad is a commercial fisherman on Chesapeake and I had been handling MYsmall boats since boyhood. It was only namral, therefore, that I was assigned to the amphibious forces when I enlisted in the Navy in December 1942. I'U have to admit I was a bit disappointed. My idea of the Navy was something big.

I wanted duty on a battleship, aircraft carrier, or at least a cruiser or destroyer. But after seeing the show the amphibious forces put on in the Marshalls, 1 wouldn't down and then we were off (Jan. 1944) swap amphibious duty for any other as-' for the 4,500 mile run to the MarshaUs. signment in the Navy.

As soon as we headed out toward Hawaii From indoctrination at Princeton, I and lost sight of land, my LCI seemed to was transferred to the Solomons Am- shrivel in size. Back home on the Chesaphibious Training Base on the Chesa- peake Bay, I thought the LCI was a pretty peake Bay in southern Maryland. Every fair sized ship. It was three times the type of landing craft was to be seen length of my dad's 50-foot fishing boat. around there. Accustomed as I was to But out there on the Pacific, the winds the sea, never had I seen the likes of these and the waves and the sweUs seemed to , ugly ducklings. After five months train- dwarf it. The Pacific can make anything ing. I was tentatively slated to become look insignificant. executive officer on an LST, but I ended An LCI is not smooth sailing in a up evenmaUy as an LCI man. I was rough sea. One night the waves kicked placed in command of an LCI, my crew up and began slapping the huU. One of was assigned and we had our shakedown the men sleeping below complained that â&#x20AC;&#x201D;when suddenly I was yanked out of it woke him up: "But it wasn't so bad," Solomons and rushed to the West Coast. he continued. "After each wave hit her The Marshalls invasion was being made she just stayed up there and shookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; ready, though I did not know it at the and shook me back to sleep again." time, of course.

It took a 65-mile gale to prove her seaOn the West Coast I was assigned to worthiness. The gale lasted for a couple another LCI. Six hours before we were of days. I had never seen such mounto sail, the orders were countermanded, tainous waves in the Chesapeake Bay; and, instead, 100 workmen swarmed there isn't enough water there. Many of aboard. They instaUed rockets and addi- the men got seasick, but not so sick that tional guns, converting our infantry-bear- they couldn't stand their watches even if ing vessel into a small battleship. She they had to prop up their heads to do so. was no longer a plain LCI, but an LCI Our flotilla was in formation, spaced sevSupport Boat. Thus a new type of land- eral hundred yards apart. The waves ing craft was born. were so tremendous that I stood on the No longer was our ship intended to conning tower and couldn't see the masts carry infantry up to the beach. With this of the ships on either side. Going from additional firepower, our job was to sup- the trough to the crest of those waves port other landing craft that were carry- was like roUer-coasting over our Virginia ing troops or equipment. The need for foothills. After that I never doubted the supporr boats had been noted at Tarawa, abiUty of the LCI to take it! and the need was being fulfilled in such We had a brief stopover at one of the short order. The speed with which all islands of the Hawaiian group. W e this was done impressed me. It typified pushed on and as we neared the enemy, the rapid development of amphibious we began to get frequent alerts. It was warfare and made me feel as if I were good drill for the green crew. They got in a new and alert and growing branch their training under the stars and moons of the service. and learned to train on a target. We exMy green crew had a two-day shake- pected the enemy to show up, and the 28

men were disappointed that nothing really happened.

Our course took us through the eastern chain of the enemy-held MarshaUs on the route to our objective, the northern end of Kwajalein atoU. As we neared Kwajalein, we began to pick up reports of the progress of our air bombardment. It was like listening to a footbaU game. Every time we heard that a target had been knocked out, we felt like cheering; we

LCI's, one of the many types of landing craft necessary to amphibious warfare, scurry shoreward against Japanese artillery fire at Saipan.

stopped.

Our landing craft formed up for the When daybreak came, we found our- assault. Our objective was two smaU isknew it would be that much easier for us selves surrounded by ships as far as the lands guarding the northern entrance of to make a touchdown.

We arrived off the northern end of eye could see. There were battleships, the lagoon. We had to take these islands Kwajalein atoll at 0300 on 30 January. aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and before we could get at the main defenses Our big ships were plastering the place landing craftâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all flying the Stars and on the islands of Roi and Namur. When with sheUs. The skies were streaked with Stripes. Now I know how Francis Scott the destroyers to our rear ceased fire at light and the horizon was afire with ex- Key felt at Fort McHenry "in the dawn's 0900, LCI support boats, including mine, plosions and burning targets. It was a early light." With this concentration of took up the bombardment. Half of us seapower, we knew we couldn't be (Continued on page 78) beautiful sight there in the darkness.

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WHO ARE

By OWEN and EUANOR LATTIMORE F every five persons in the world, one is Chinese. What are these people like

who form so large a portion of the human race? Many writers and travelers O from China have ttied to make us believe diat the Chinese are just about as different from us as human beings could be. Missionaries have emphasized their headieness so as to convince us that missions are a fine idea. Writers have described them as backward, exotic, mysterious and unfathomable, even sinister, because quaint picturesque people make ttavel books less dulL The Chinese language is difficult for westerners, and the faa that few of us have been able to talk fredy with Chinese or read their Uterature has helped to make • them seem difficult to understand.

(EDITOR'S NOTE:—Admiral The truth is, however, that they are Nimitz and others have prommuch more like us than we have been led ised landings on the coast of to suppose, certainly much more like us China, and it may well be that than the Japanese, or even the average the backbone of Japanese miliLatin. The Chinese are creatures of their tary resistance will he broken environment, of course, just as we are, finally on the Chinese mainland. but with a litde acquaintance and smdy Because Americans will soon be both the environment and the people are seeing more of the Chinese peonot difficult to understand. ple, this article is presented. It It is as hard to describe a typical is a chapter from the book, Chinese as it is a typical EngUshman.

"The Making of Modem Would you choose a London Cockney, an China," written by Owen and Oxford scholar, a country squire, or a Eleanor Lattimore cmd pub"man about town?" There are as many lished by W. W. Norton Comtypical Chinese as there are typical Britpany. Mr. Lattimore, Johns ishers. But one thing it is safe to say— Hopkins University professor the exotic and inscrutable Chinese deand former advisor to Genpicted in American fiction is no more eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, actrue to hfe than the la-di-da Englishman companied Vice President Walwith an exaggerated Oxford accent so lace on his recent mission to popular in our plays and stories. the Par East.)

There are few characteristics, however, which most people who know the Chinese wiU agree are typicaL W H A T ARE CHINESE LIKE?

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HE typical Chinese is honest. Foreigners coming to China for a short time sometimes question this and fret about the Chinese practice of "squeeze," which seems dishonest according to American custom. This judgment, however, is based on lack of understanding of this Chinese custom. Chinese who buy groceries, coUect taxes, and do many other forms of business for others, large and small, are by common consent entided to keep for themselves a smaU percentage of the money passing through their hands. This is a recognized practice, like brokerage, and therefore not actuaUy dishonest. It is only when the percentage becomes imduly large that

squeeze can be classed as corruption.

Foreigners, on the other hand, are often amazed to discover that in China a man's word is re.iUy as good as his bond. Many large deals are made and conttacts let without any written document, and it is just as much the custom in China to live up to these verbal agreements as it is the custom in America to live up to a written contract—^thougji, of course, in China as in America, diere are men who wiU wriggle out of any conttact.

Men who laugh at the same things arc not apt to misunderstand each other. The typical Chinese has a very keen sense of humor and are much nearer to the American sense of humor than that of many other peoples.

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Chinese, like Americans, relish mother-in-law jokes. They also have "Scotch" jokes, which are told about the people of Shansi province. Nor is China lacking in stories which are the equivalent of the one about the uaveUng man and the farmer's daughter. Not only is Chinese humor a good deal like American humor, but Chinese good-humoredness is also much like American good-humoredness.

The joUy, perspiring, jostling crowd that gathers at a Chinese country fair is in many ways the Chinese equivalent of a Coney Island crowd. At a big fair, the crowd is apt to be especiaUy thick around the jugglers, acrobats, and tight-rope walkers, and these spectators of the physical exertions of others are the Chinese counterpart of the bleachers crowd at a basebaU game. The fair indeed gives opportunities for shopping, but it is also a hoUday occasion for the people from aU around.

The typical Chinese is in many ways more "civilized" than we are. He does not admire directness and frankness the way we do. In fact, he thinks these characteristics are rather barbarian and unsubtle.

He is more tactful, his chief concern being to make the other feUow feel comfortable, to give him "face" rather than to teU the truth. This comes from thousands of years of having to get along with each other, often in crowded and uncomfortable surroundings. And this is one reason why we like the Chinese. They know better than any people on earth how to make the awkward foreigner feel comfortable and happy. For subtle flattery is often more pleasant than the truth.

Foreigners, however, occasionaUy find this tactfulness exaggerated and the emphasis on face irritating and uncomprehensible.

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Mr. Parker, whose headquarters were in Budapest, ttaveled through Czechoslovakia as the war began. A young citizen then, said to him prophetically: "England and France and America abandoned us at Munich. Now aU the htde people must pay. But they wiU pay later. 'They wiU pay more than we wiU pay. You shall see."

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His great ambition was to sail around the Horn, and in his preface he brands as libd the remark made by a hometown wit who said: 'The real reason them guys went aroun" the Horn was because they couldn't find the Sttait of Magellan." The men aboard the MULLIGAN STEW, which the author rails a great crew in a moment of seriousness, are described and some of their old sea stories retold. OReiUy was purser on a

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By means of first person action accounts, "Into the Jaws of Death" tries to show what war is like when you look it in the eye. A communique from Europe is expanded into the perscmal stories of men who made the raid in one bomber, which looked more like "Buck Rogers' adventure on Mars than actual warfare on Earth." The "Flying Cop"— Major Gerald Crosson—tells his experiences in the South Pacific L t Sidney Rabekoff gives a man's-eye view of PT Boat action in die South Padfic. Hugh E. Moffett, engineering (Continued on page 88)

(Below) Preview: Two Marines stalk snipers in a Japanese shrine. Two former enemy machi; gunners lie in foreground. This picture, although taken on Saipan, has a typical Jap fiavoThe scene will be repeated on Honshu.

THE WAR IN PICTURES

(Above and below left) Marines making initial assault on Saipan. The grim expressions of these hardened fighters reflect the oÂŁBcial communique statements that the Marianas capital was strongly defended.

Now let's see . . . we had some serious Naval cut-lines for thi picture, shown below, of WAVES climbing a cargo net, but can seem to locate them . . . Oh, well, what's the difference? . .

FIRST BATTLE OF

By Lieutenant Laurin H. Healy,

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AT four o'clock the Commodore walked to the Olympia's -^*-bridge and scanned the shadows of the hiUs. He had lost his white naval officer's headgear and wore a gray tweed ttavehng cap instead. Mess attendants circulated among the men lying at their guns. With sleepy murmurs the gunners rose, stretched, and reached for the mugs of steaming coffee handed around.

The battle squadron headed for Manila at a four-knot speed, while the supply ships, escorted by the McCulloch. left the squadron and sailed to the outer reaches of the bay. The six fighting ships reached the outer limits of the Manila anchorage at a few minutes before five o'clock. Behind the hiUs the darkness thinned. Black mrned to deep blue, and, with the suddenness peculiar to tropical climates, the dawn broke fast over the sea. Berween the squadron and the town of Manila a large fleet of merchant ships rode ar anchor. Accepting a pair of binoculars from Lieutenant Brumby, the Commodore searched for the Spanish ships, which he had expected to take .1 stand before Manila. None was in sight.

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He gave orders to swing the squadron paraUel to the Manila shore and head for Cavite. As die gray ships passedthedty, 400 yards apart, shore guns at Manila broke the early morning silence.

It was 5:05 A_M., Sunday morning, May 1, 1898.

Headed by the flagship, die United States batde hne, in order of position, induded the Baltimore, 400 yards behind, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, and the Boston. The Spanish guns were aimed at the center of the squadron. One heavy shell, striking only ten or fifteen yards astern of the cruiser Baltimore, if successful, would have hit her square on the water line and done serious damage even before the batde was joined. Formnately, most of the sheUs from the thirtynine heavy guns of the Manila and Luneta batteries passed far above the American ships, ricocheting in the bay two miles beyond. DisdainfuUy the flagship ignored the fire.

Commodore Dewey stood with Captain Lambenon on the bridge. Just behind them Lieutenant Calkins, the ship's navigating officer, and Lieutenant Rees, the executive officer of the Olympia. stationed themselves, to watch the helmsman and the chart and to repeat to the Commodore the reports of the leadsmen as they heaved their lines to measure the depth of water beneath the ship. Captain Gridley was stationed high in the conning tower to direct firing.

While the land sheUs splashed harmlessly beyond the American ships, two great surges of water leaped high in the air almost two miles ahead of the squadron. These were submarine mines exploding. The duU roar reached the flagship.

Turning to Lamberton, the Commodore said: "Evidendy the Spaniards are already ratded."

Only the Boston and the Concord rephed to the shore guns, each dropping a pair of sheUs on the forts. At 5:10 lookouts in the Olympia's tops saw the Spanish squadron forming an irregular crescent in front of Cavite. The batde line swimg to starboard to head sttaight for the enemy.

Admiral Montojo's seven ships rode at anchor across the mile-long entrance of Bacoor Bay. The batteries of Cavite and Sangley Point guarded them at the western end, and the shallow beaches of Las Pinas prevented attack from the east. Two 5.9-inch rifles were installed at Sangley Point, whUe immediately behind the point another 4.7-inch cannon was instaUed at Caiiacao. Montojo, fearing damage to Manila, had foresworn the aid the capital city's thirty-nine shore gims might have given him.

The American ships moved toward Cavite. Then the Olympia signaled, "Prepare to engage the enemy." Flags on every ship verified the command. Gun crews slammed shells into their guns, and the click of breech locks closing broke the sriUness. Then came the signal aU were waiting for: "Engage the enemy." Simultaneously, aU over the squadron, mastheads burst into briUiant fields of red, white and blue. Bands struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." Officers and men stood at awed attention, saluting "as if on parade," and at the final sustained tone a mighty cheer echoed above the ships.

"Remember the Maine" was shouted from a hundred throats. It was 5:40 AJVl. The Olyfnpia. about 5,000 yards from the Spanish ships, followed a converging

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course, which kept the Spanish ships on her starboard bow. The American squadron headed toward them at a speed of eight knots, as the Spanish ships, unable to find the range, fired widdy. Geysers splashed in the water near and far.

At 5:4l, Dewey looked up at the- conning tower. In a calm voice of assurance, heard throughout the ship, he said: " Y o u m a y fire w h e n you a r e ready, G r i d l e y . " The Commodore seized hold of a stanchion on the bridge. An eight-inch rifle in the Olympia's forward turret roared as black powder belched from the muzzle. The Olympia lurched and roUed with the recoil of the big gun. It was the signal for a general outburst. SheUs from the five other American ships plunged through the air. The first volleys missed their mark, but the smoke and the noise upset the Spanish gunners. Their answering salvos landed far out of range.

As the first shot rent the air, the Olympia mrned to starboard, and with the sqadron following astern now at distances of 200 yards, kept the Spanish ships on the port side. The port batteries of every American ship blazed destruction. When the Olympia reached a point about 1,500 yards north of the tip of Sangley Point, she made a complete circle to starboard and headed back to rake the Spanish ships from her starboard side. Five runs were carried out berween 5:40 and 7:35 that morning.

The American fleet coursed past the Spanish vessels at distances ranging from 3,000 to 2,000 yards, the length of each run being about two miles. After the fourth trip, which ended at the eastern end of the course. Lieutenant Calkins notified the Commodore that the water was deeper than was indicated on the chart.

Since Dewey wished to approach as close to the enemy as possible without running aground, the fifth run was carried out at less than 2,000 yards from the ships and shore batteries of Admiral Montojo.

Smoke blackened the white uniform of the commander-in-chief, and clung to the sweat on the gunners, bared to the waist, as they rushed to load and fire, load and fire. The pointers and trainers stood by the guns, turned wheels back and forth, kept their sights on the Spanish ships. Beliind them shell boys rushed across the decks to ram in shells and to catch the hot cases springing out as breech locks were pulled clear. Below decks, sweating ammunition handlers carried shells and powder bags to the powder hoists. In the engine rooms black gangs heaved coal through the insufferable heat. Altogether, 1,456 swearing men raced through their well-known duties that hot morning, with the discipline of an afternoon of routine drill in an open, peaceful sea.

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echoed back across the bay, stinging the ears and jarring the teeth with each booming report of the guns. Smoke covered the ships and only when they ceased fire to mrn and begin a new run against the Spanish ships did they emerge from the cloud.

On the Boston, gunners shed their jumpers, then their pants, finaUy their underwear, and by the end of the fourth run they wore only shoes. Every, twenty minutes they were served whisky and water which they gulped down as they worked and swore.

During the second run, when the Olympia was stiU untouched by enemy fire, a Spanish torepdo launch headed out from the point behind Cavite. Stickney, the Commodore's newspaper aide, caUed Dewey's attention to her.

"You look after her," Dewey barked back. "I've no time to bother with torpedo boats. Let me know when you've finished her."

Gunnels -in the secondary rapid-fire batteries mrned their smaU guns on her, spattered her with spray, and blew her out of the water. She sank bow first, as her crew splashed toward shore.

The American fire was concentrated on the Reina Christina, flagship of the Spanish fleet. On the third run. Admiral Montojo bravely charged the Olympia, but her eight-inch guns, trained accurately on his ship, tore into her stern, killed twenty Dons, and partiaUy disabled her steering gear.

Another voUey struck the forecastle, shattered four of the secondary guns, and knocked their bleeding crews to the deck. A third sheU smashed through the after orlop, another severed the mizzenmast. The Spanish ensign and Admiral Montojo's flag plunged into the sea. A sailor raced to replace them on another spar. In the sick bay awaiting medical attention from blood-bespattered doctors, lay eighty wounded Spaniards. An eight-inch shell from the Olympia smashed through the hull and exploded violently in the hospital. Not a man survived.

The Reina Christina had had enough, and staggered back, wounded and on fire, to the protection of the other ships. Sailors fought desperately to put out fires on the stern and in the ammunition rooms.

Cartridges began to explode, and Admiral Montojo ordered the magazine flooded to end the danger. A smaUer gun from the Olympia knocked out the Christina's starboard bow gun as she retreated. Her broadside guns were stiU in action, but shells from the American ships played havoc with the crews. Man after man dropped to the deck. The wounded cried piteously, and fires broke out in new spots with almost every American shot. Then Montojo gave orders to abandon ship. As the sea cocks were opened and water poured into the

Reina Christina!s huU, the unwouttded sailors lowered boats and struggled manfuUy to drag their injured feUows into them. The admiral, accompanied by his officers and a sailor carrying his pennant, rowed to the cruiser Isla de Cuba, where he again raised his flag. The gallant Captain Don Luis Cadarso, commander of the sinking Spanish flagship, although injured, was stiU directing the rescure of his men when another sheU ripped through the superstrucmre and kiUed him.

Meanwhile, Spanish shells thundered through the Olympics rigging. When some of the men on the bridge ducked, the Commodore shouted, "Don't dodge, boys; they can't hit you after they're past" Just below the bridge a gun was firing regularly at the enemy, and as the vessel mrned on one of its runs, the muzzle swung around to maintain its train upon the Spanish ships. The Commodore stood at the starboard side, staring ahead.

Suddenly an aide seized him by the coat and thrust him back. AngrUy Dewey tried to wrench himself free, but, at that point the gun belched smoke and blackened the raU where he had been standing. The concussion would have knocked him down.

During the second run. Lieutenant Rodman, on the Raleigh, went below to cheer the ammunition gang and teU them the batde was going weU. As he neared the powder room he heard a fiddle playing. The powder men, wearing abbreviated gunny sacks, combined their ammunition passing with a hula dance.

"There'U be a hot time in the old town tonight," they sang.

"Men," Rodman said. "Things are coming our way. We've got 'em on the run.

I don't know what the mne is you were playing, but it's a corker. Keep it up. I want the music to reach the upper deck.

Go on with the dance, and I.know we'U have ample powder and sheUs to keep the guns going."

Captain Coghlan had ruled that no profanity should be used during the battle and that all orders should be given in the identical language of the driUs. On the third run, observing that the Spanish ship Castilla, apparently undamaged, was beginning to find the range of the Raleigh, he leaned over the bridge and yelled at Rodman, who was directing fire.

"Rodman, do you see that blanketyblank white ship that's raising hell at our expense and mrning his whole damned battery on us? Give him heU and keep it up."

"Captain, I don't find some of your words, or your exact orders, in the drill manual," Rodman said, as he trained a gun on the Castilla. "But I understand what you mean."

"You do what you're ordered to do.

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In peacetime, t h e y served o n general ocean patrol, Arctic and Alaskan patrol, and many special missions. When war came, these valiant little ships helped to form our first thin line of defense against the Nazi wolf^pack menace lurking along our shores, and gallantly held on until reinforcements were ready.

As a result of the performance of these equipments on the Coast Guard Cutters, the N a v y chose the Sperry ElectroMechanical S t e e r i n g S y s t e m s for

installation on 200 of the first Patrol Vessels which were authorized shortly before Pearl Harbor. Thus, when the emergency arose, this steering device also was tried and proved—ready to go to war. Since 1941, more than 2,000 installations have been made.

Normally, "finger-tip" electric steering is provided. If power should fail, a clutch in the steering stand permits the wheelsman to shift conttol immediately to manual steering. A rudder indicator shows rudder position in both hand and electrical steering. One or more non-follow-up steering controllers m a y b e located at any place on the ship.

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L J O T E L Bancroft has setded back -'• -'• upon its foundations for the summer, now possessing about one-third of its usual normalcy. Those first classmen and youngsters making up this fraction of the total Regiment are now experiencing life at its lowest ebb, having been the selected few who were volunteered for last cruise and early Christmas leave.

The combination of business-as-usual academics and the ever-present samrated atmosphere, which picks Bancroft-onthe Severn as its hangout, is rapidly changing to other forms of pastime, particidarly sack drills.

The mtors in most of the departments are having field days with their Utde red books, both literaUy and figuratively, as evidenced by the thick foUage cropping up in the corridors and classrooms this summer. FoUowing the course that their predecessors before them set, first classmen have diverted their preference from the Mark 30 five-inchers to the less compUcated and more easily understood Mark 8 juke-box combination. Youngsters in the meantime merely hang on, while plebes . . . weU . . . exist.

This forgotten one-third soon journeys out to get its dose of salt on one of Sammy's men-of-war. So far cruises this summer have proven to be better liked than the one furnished a year ago aboard the invincible "X," one of the few remaining vessels that was buUt before shipbuilders reaUzed that air was necessary for human existence. Dope on cruise is stricdy secret at the present, being known only to the feUows acmaUy there and their respective O.A.O.'s. FuU report wiQ be made as soon as your correspondent can contact some of these mentioned femmes.

integrate wayward grasshoppers, one can weU visualize the results inflicted upon those who stagger innocendy down to breakfast (and other meals for that matter ) after a good sleep. Many have proposed that an investigation be imdertaken to ascertain whether the amps are CltAIV^ED DOS A. I Bo NOT TOOCH '

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doing more to reduce the Muscidae family (common house fly) or to make midshipmen Uveher as a result of the big charge.

P-rades this summer are quite a novelty, to say the least With two-thirds of the usual pairs of leggins seen on Worden Field now stowed away in cruise boxes, the remaining stand-by part of the Regiment is surely having a difficidt time trying to look up to snuff. Plebes are stiU busily engaged in their infantry phases, while youngsters most of the time are either learning how to fly in two easy lessons or how not to run aground in Y P.S, leaving usuaUy first classmen (minus those on watch or Excused Squad) the honor of passing in review.

Subtraaing from those number of potential graduates those who are stripers, there are left about four or five rifle carriers to a company. What in normal times is a moderately sized squad in one platoon has now blossomed forth into a fuU company, making the afternoon treks across the driU field look more like a badly organized Labor Day parade in Cedar Heights than what Movietone portrays on the silver screen. But the old adage of making things perfect through practice is stUl adhered to, even though it is the first class which is receiving tJie exercise.

tion being kept busy trying to make '48 worthy of staying around, other units of the Academy are taking advantage of this brief respite from being entered upon the official guest log of the E. D. Squad. Needless to say, first class sections (being known as first class only because of a hereditary tide and not as a resiUt of appearance) are reaping the largest share of dividends, especiaUy along the sea-waU route to class, where the average D.O. doesn't venture, primarily because of the scarcity of adequately screened hiding spots large enough for himself and his blue and gold-tagged representative to crouch behind It has been noticed that class details taking this particular route in the early morning are wider awake in section rooms, this resulting either from the saltier air or from inspirations gained whUe observing Junior Miss boatcrews holding knockabout driUs — the latter cause seems to be the prevalent one.

Other equaUy mihtaristic groups are sharing the aforementioned benefits, a few taking time ofiF for nature smdy, observation of modernistic lawn-mower construction, and similar educational topics. One bold leader, deciding that it wouldn't look too good to the D.O. if his section returned about fifteen minutes early from drill, gave his men a halt and a fail out to rest a whUe on the grass (obviously out of the direct line of vision from the main office). The new supersonic listening devices reported to be recendy instaUed about the Yard evidendy are a myth, for the unit eventuaUy collected itself together and resumed march without an interruption from the Utde feUow with the pad and pencil And then there's the one about the Ensign out of '45. It seems that the new one-striper was matching wits with a fresh, young thing classed as a plebe at one of the mess haU tables. '48, having

The ever-alert Execs about the old Alma Mater, acting upon years of observation that reveiUe and an early morning shower are insufficient jolts to awaken the majority of sleepyheads, have devised a new scheme for getting pracanswered correcdy a question concerning ticaUy dormant blood-ceUs active for the men-of-war, had his reply doubted by day—a device that even rivals Forms 2.

'45. An argument ensued, during the Acting under the guise of desiring to course of which '45 bet in the manner to keep flies and other pesky insects out of which he had been accustomed to as a the mess haU, the ever-thoughtful ones midshipman that '48 was wrong. Upon have had instaUed special electricaUycharged screen doors at outside entrances.

With most of the walking frap-traps checking with the very latest authority As said doors pack enough waUop to dis- from the executive branch of this instim(Continued on page 73) 38

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By CAPT. C. O. HUMPHREYS, USN Director of Athletics. U. S. Naval Academy NDER stress of war the Naval U Academy has become a busy crossroads for officers changing stations from the Adantic to the Pacific or South America to Alaska or the reverse. They aU try to stop in at "Crab Town" and very often one of the first questions they ask is: "How's the Navy team going to look this faU?" WeU, some of our opponents think it is going to resemble Task Force #58 but with only two veterans on hand from the starting line up against Army last faU, the coaches are inclined to see nothing but holes where great men use to stand. The final result probably will be a strong but somewhat inexperienced team able to measure up to better rhan average seasons.

The two first team veterans from last faU are Ben Chase at right guard and Bob Jenkins in the backfield. Around these gridiron aces the coaches wiU shape their 1944 team for better or worse.

Ben Chase is team captain for 1944.

He is a two-fisted 198-pounder who stands six one and holds a medal as the Naval Academy heavyweight boxing champion. Back in his scholastic days Ben was an AU-State fuUback at the Hoover School in San Diego, California.

Ben's earlier backfield experience combined with his present position in the Navy line most certaiidy gives him some double-barreled experience useful as a team captain. He now holds two N-Stars in footbaU and a summary shows that he started in every game of last year's hard but successful season of eight viaories and one defeat — the latter to Notre Dame.

Bob Jenkins, veteran of the backfield, is from TaUegda, Alabama. Bob was a Plebe last season but under war-time suspension of the Freshman Rule earned an N-Star and a touchdown against the Army. To begin with. Bob is a 200pound fullback with the speed and power of a locomotive. As a substimte at Alabama he won his spurs in contributing to a 37-21 victory over Boston College in AUGUST,

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the Orange Bowl game of two years ago.

Although citation of Ben Chase in the line and Bob Jenkins in the backfield exhausts the regulars, some of the new lads who wiU be moving up for the big job are worthy of special note. One of these is Jim Pettit from Pordand, Oregon.

While at Benson Tech he is reported to have averaged three touchdowns a game whereupon local scribes nominated him an AU-City halfback. As a member of the Navy track squad he has burned up the cinders for 9.6 in the hundred. Last faU Pettit scored one touchdown against the Army and now holds an N-Star. In the Navy single wing system which places special emphasis on speed, Jim Pettit is the type to appeal to the aUaround imagination of any coaching staff.

Of a somewhat different type but equaUy useful on a team is Bill Barron— a wiry back from the "Squirrel gun" country of Tennessee. Last season BiU's greatest contribution was a hard earned touchdown against the Fighting Irish . . . but for good measure he scored three against other Navy opponents during 1943.

Other promising backs who did good work last fall are Dick Duden, Vic Finos (a point after touchdown expert.) and Bruce Smith.

Turning to problems in the line

(which are especiaUy numerous if for no other reason than seven men are required in place of four in the backfield) the coaches reaUy are scratching their thinning scalps. Everyone in the footbaU world as well as the armed forces abroad, appear to be crying aloud for tackles!

Without them the game of football soon resolves itself into wide-open infiltration with the home team backs scoring long gains in the wrong direction. Although members of the press freely list such names as Leon Bramlett and John Hansen for end posts, Gail Gilliam as a guard to team up with Ben Chase and even offer John Baker as a center ready for the grove, their columns strangely enough shy away from any mention of who they would like to see in there as a couple of Spanish buUs at tackle. Apparently they have joined the coaches in a great man-hunt throughout the squad.

Turning from players to Navy's most likely opponents for the season there is every indication that the teams of 1944 wiU be more seasoned, richer in man-power and likewise better coached. The tremendous early demands by the armed forces swept players and coaches alike from the gridirons.

Since then a new crop of high and prep (Continued on page 69)

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What's the Dope IQQC JAMES T. BOOTES, '85, lOOJ ((^^1^ USMC-Ret), 213 King George Street, AnnapoUs, Maryland, dropped into the office recendy to pay his respects and say "heUo," through these columns, to dassmates and friends.

dency of the Miami Chamber of Commerce. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edith Stearns, who likewise, has had an active career of her own since Qark's retirement, she having been the founder and for years the president of the Pan American League, with headquarters at Miami.

Interment was in Arlington Cemetery, attended by dassmates Althouse, Christy, GiUmor, WeUs and WUUams. WaUer unable to attend. Lane and Consaul out of city. Flowers were sent in the name of the dass.

Qark had the respect and most affectionate regard of aU who knew him and his career, and dassmates extend to Mrs. Stearns their sincere sympathy in her bereavement.

1001 CHARLES F. CONSAUL, *^'* '91, 826 MiUs BuUding, Washington 6, D. C , gives his usual monthly report on '91: The monthly dass luncheon was postponed from Thursday, 1 June to Friday, 9 June, with view to making it possible to have a fuU attendance to greet General Richards, who as wiU be remembered, has been in the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda since October, 1942. Pop Christy brought in George and his attendant from the hospital. This was George's third venture W. H. McGRANN: When I was in out of the hospital during a period of Adantic City for two weeks recendy, it over a year and a half. occurred to me that "Mike" on his last Present: Althouse, Christy, Consaul, visit to Washington had told me that on Gillmor, Lane, Richards, Smith, (from account of the health of the daughter, N. Y.) WaUer, WeUs and WiUiams. Mrs. McGrann and Miss McGrann were Usual preliminary meeting in Pop's residing in Ventnor, N . J. I therefore room at the Club. This was more than a telephoned to their home and learned 100 per cent attendance in honor of that Mrs. McGrarm was about to return George's presence, bringing Gerrish from a sojourn of 10 weeks in the hosSmith from New York. With some as- pital as a result of a broken leg. I theresistance and his cane, George navigated fore took it upon myself to have some flowers sent to her, to greet her upon her aU about the club. arrival home with best wishes of the dass Existence is made up of contrasting and expressed the hope that the Mcevents. The above is a statement of an Grann famUy is now starting upon an incident which gave great pleasure to aU era of better luck. Miss McGrann inconcerned. It becomes my duty now to formed me that "Mike" is slowly improvgive the contrasting news. ing but is StiU in a convalescent home.

CLARK D. STEARNS, '91, (Capt., USN-Ret), early on Thursday, 25 May, Clark passed on at the Naval Dispensary in Miami, Florida. He had been in failing health for considerable time but his condition was not deemed very serious until the end was near. He was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, 15 Jan. 1870.

FoUowing graduation he had an active and honorable career. During the World War I, he commanded a fleet of mine layers operating in the North Sea, and won the Distinguished Service Medal. He and Mrs. Stearns estabhshed their home at Coconut Grove, a suburb of Miami, in 1926, upon his retirement. He was active in the work of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Forty and Eight Society, MiUtary Order of the World War, and Civics, induding presi-

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JOHN T. MYERS: Jack sent me a note with some dippings with respect to Qark Stearns, for which I thank him. In a round-about way, through Rex Belknap, I learned Jack has been active during the present war, although not officiaUy so.

EDWARD TRICKLE: Ed and Mrs. Trickle have left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and wiU be at Moylan, Pennsylvania, for the summer. Ed's letter of 19 May also enclosed a dipping as to the activities of Mrs. Stearns to which I have referred.

Ernest Edwin PoUock, USMC (Class of '28), nephew of Ed, in an airplane crash in Nordi Carolina, 19 May. The good news in her letter was that her son, Robert Smith Chew, Jr., made a good standing in a competitive examination for USNA for Presidential appointment, was to report 14 June for his physical and was to enter if he then passed. He has just graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy at Toms River, N. J., of which the Superintendent is Adm. S. S. Robison, Ret., Class of '88, whom '91 remembers in a most friendly way. It may be remembered that Harry E. Caldwell, Jr., son of our "Bones" Caldwell, also graduated at that school an^ is now in the service as an Ensign. Beatrice and Captain Chew are still at Jamestown, R.L GEORGE W . N O T T : George wrote Pop recendy expressing regret at learning of Qark Stearns' passing and stating that he has diffiodty in using a pen on account of neuritis. George used to be the prized penman of the class.

CHESTER "WELLS: Chester and Mrs. WeUs have recendy leased their beauriful home near Chevy Chase for a year, to a Chinese GeneraL The fanuly is leaving for Chester's farm at Wyalusing, Peima., but expect to return in the autumn to an apartment at 2900 Cotmecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C D E W I T T BLAMER, (Capt., USNRet.) : Pop Christy brought me a lener addressed to him by Mrs. Enuly Blamer, Dad's wife, dated 16 June, and informing Pop of the passing of Dad, at the Naval Hospital, Mare Island on 25 May 1944. Mrs. Blamer had been iU herself, which accounts for the dday in informing the dass. Dad was born in Iowa in 1872, and foUowing retirement, 12 years ago, he and Mrs. Blamer made their home at Carmd, CaUfornia. His Naval career was outstanding and brought him several medals and awards. Surviving him are Mrs. EmUy M. Blamer, Box 2603 Carmel, CaUfornia; a son, DeWitt, Jr., of Seat?de; a grandson, DeWitt III, of Pomona, California, and two nieces, Mrs. George Reynolds, and Mrs. Lester Hanson, both of Pasadena, California. Mrs. Blamer's brother, Maj. Gen. Joseph C Fegan, USMC, took over duties recendy as Commanding General, USMQ Department of Pacific, with headquarters at San Francisco.

Pursuant to his expHdt request. Captain Blamer was buried at Sea, from the destroyer LAWRENCE, on 7 June 1944.

AU hands join in extending to Mrs. Blamer and the family sincere sympathy.

EDWIN F. POLLOCK: Beatrice CHARLES F. CONSAUL: I have not Pollock Chew, daughter of Ed, wrote me been up to par for some time past; with on 31 May of the recent death of Col. Mrs. Consaul and her sister, Mrs. Mc-

A . lively terrier can do a right smart job of shaking the life out of things.

But no shaking the most ambitious dog ever administered to his master's slipper could begin to compare with the shaking this machine is applying to the RCA Interior Communications unit here pictured undergoing an RCA laboratory test.

Three thousand times a second its motion violently reversesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;involving accelerations equivalent to 10 gravitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;enough vibration, yoii would think, to "shake the daylights" out of the RCA unit tested.

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a lead artide therein. His daughter, Mary, has been selected to christen the new USS BUCK, a DD, perpetuating the

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JOHN J. LONDON, '05, ( Q p t , USN-Ret), has been ordered to duty at USNTC. Great Lakes, Illinois.

1906 affenflea

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Elroy, recendy spent two weeks at the Mariborough-Blenheim, Adantic City.

AU feeUng somewhat improved as the result If, from time to time, there seems to be undue delay in getting out a dass bidletiu, ascribe it to my physical disabiUty and not to indifference. With recendy acquired assistance, I have been keeping my office running, being disinclined to retire. I have however, given up various extraneous activities, including. Chairmanship of Parks Committee of Washington Board of Trade; and other civic activities, retaining only my exalted position as Secretary-Treasurer of our class.

1 Q Q C THOMAS M. DICK, '95, ' " ' - ^ ( L t Comdr., USN-Ret), has left Key West and reports his address as 905 N . Division Street, Salisbury, Md.

Shipping Administration, was presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering at New York University on

7 June.

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MLLTON S. DA"VIS, '03, I 7UJ ((-^pj^ USN-Ret), reports his correct home address as 1000 Qayton Stteet, San Francisco, CaUf. AUSTIN S. KIBBEE, '03, (Comdr., USNR), changes his address to 47 Crafts Road, Chesmut Hill, BrookUne, Massachusetts.

1 Q f M WILLIAM F. "BULL" HAL' ' ^ ' ^ SEY, '04, (Adm., U S N ) , who worked himself out of one highly satisfactory Jap-kiUing job when his SoPac campaign was completed, has been placed in command of the Third Fleet, one of Admiral Nimitz' highly mobUe Pacific units. Just before leaving his SoPac command, "BuU" was made a Knighr of the British Empire.

ERNEST J. KING, '01, (Adm., USN), did a bit of Eiu-opean uaveUng in June, visiting PAUL P. BLACKBURN, 04, (Capt, London, and in addition, a newly opened French area in Normandy. With Gen- USN-Ret), has left a biUet with the erals MarshaU, Eisenhower and Arnold, Hawaiian Sea Frontier to assume duties and Prime Minister ChurchiU, Ernie in- with Headquarters, Northern California spected the invasion beach positions.

Sector, Western Sea Frontier, Treasure Island, San Francisco.

WILLIAM S. PYE, '01, (V. Adm., HARRY A. STUART, 04, (R. Adm., USN-Ret), President of the Naval War CoUege, Newport, was given the addi- USN-Ret), reports his home address as tional star as one of the last acts of Con- 3808 Kanawha Street, N . W., Washinggress before that body recessed for ton, D. C. poUtics.

1 o n e CHESTER W. NIMITZ, '05.

1On0 EMORY S. LAND, 02, (V. I 7 W J ( ^ j ^ ^ U S N ) : CinCPac's Âťy^^ Adm., USN-Ret), chairman Ukeness was on the cover of Life Magaof the Maritime Commission and War zine for 10 July, and was the subjea of

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JOHN H. NEWTON, '05, (V. Adm., USN), has assumed command of the South Pacific Forces, reUeving Admiral Halsey.

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(Capr., U S N ) , sends along

the foUowing notes on the class of 1906: "At the Class Luncheon on 6 July, there were present Bogart, Brainard.

Bryan, Dixon, Jacobs, Pence, Reichmuth, Kirby Smith. Kirby Smith aaed as chaperone in the absence of Atkins, who was unexpectedly kept away at the last minute. It was fine to have Walter Jacobs on hand again after his recent iUness.

"Keimeth Boush, who was reported in last month's notes as unaccounted for, has been located employed by Newport News ShipbuUding Company.

"Arthur Reamy Joyce, who left 1906 at the end of yoimgster year, died in Marietta, Ohio. 7 AprU 1943, after a short iUness. He had long been associated there with the Koppers Company.

Wood Preserving Division, and he was a Past President of the American Wood Preservers Association.

"Letters with news and greetings to dassmates have come from: "Harris Booth, who writes from his farm at Urbanna, Virginia, how very busy he is wuth his war job as DirectorCoordinator for CiviUan Defense in his 5xea.

"Emma Emerson, who thinks Sioux Falls, S. D., is too far from the Sea Frontiers for an old sailor in wartime, but he hasn't been able to do anything about i t "Frank Jack Fletcher, who is keeping busy in the Great Northwest, but took the right amount of time out to correa an item in the recent Qass BuUetin rdative to dass dues.

"Worth Foster, who runs ttiak for the Electtic Boat Company, and keeps up a healthy dass sentiment "Bob Ghormley. who is stiU keeping his active and important war job in the Pacific running on four bells.

"Tommy Green, who is now with the General Accounting Office in Washington.

"Alden HaU, who is doing a Fleet job at Charleston, S. C , and who reports the recent arrival of a grandson, W . A. Hall, III. Alden is watching his health carefuUy and has stopped running after stteet cars, which is quite a hard.ÂŤhip.

"Bob Harter, who is Chief Engineer of Trabon Engineering Corporation, Cleveland, and who reports two officer sons who are air pilots, and a WAC daughter in Africa.

"BiU Hickey, who invites classmates to look him up at the Embassy in Mexico City if they pass through there enroute to anywhere, especiaUy if they need a dust remover.

"Bing Howe, who seems to like Miami but could do with seeing more classmates.

"Jam Lowe, who is pining for someone to talk dass shop with, now that Cy Barker is a Commodore and has left Los Angeles.

"Joe Lowman, who is doing a Fleet j o b a t N . O . B . , NorfoUc. "Bob Merritt, who is stiU busy in Chicago but wishes he were stiU in the Navy, but takes much satisfaction in having a Navy son, Lt Comdr. Bob, Jr., N . A., 1939.

"Mose Moses, who is back on his Warm Springs, Georgia, plantation after 8 months seagoing to the South Seas as Chief Engineer of a Liberty Ship.

"Frank Roberts, who is literally living high, being a professor at the University of Colorado. Frank seems to like the view, but salt water would probably suit him better.

"Harold Shanlfy, who is in real estate in San Jose, California, and reports a good golf course available for visiting classmates.

Ben TiUey, who has moved over from Corpus Christi, via Chattanooga, to the Office of the I. N. M., Adanta.

"Eddie Washburn, who is at the Navy Pre-Right School, Iowa City, Iowa.

"Birthdays seem to be becoming of some importance to people around our time. A good many 1906 classmates aresuffering from them at this season. So greetings of feUcitations or sympathy, as may be appropriate, are passed to the following who were born in July— Boush, Calhoun, Causey, Goldman.

Madden, McCoy, Rees, Russell. Kirby Smith, Stirling, TiUey, TurnbuU, WaUter, and WaUace; and to those who were born in August—Cooley, Dewar, Dixon, Emerson, Foster, Harter, Keene, McCain, Meyers, Moses, Riebe, Sharp, Silsbee. and N H. White."

JOHN B. RHODES, '07, (Capt, the invasion of the Gilbert and Marshall USN-Ret), has left Los Angeles and Islands. now receives his mail at 302 Lincoln Avenue, Manoa, Pennsylvania.

JAMES C VAN DE CARR, '08, writes he has been "roaming about the HARLOW T. KAYS, '07, (Capt., world as a convoy Commodore." He conUSN-Ret.), on duty with ComOne, has tinues: "Have recently been the house changed his residence address to Long- guest of Kent Hewitt, '07, and of Buck wood Towers, 20 Chapel Street, Brook- Yates, '08. They are both well and going line, Massachusetts. strong."

1 9nft RICHMOND K. TURNER, '^^ '08, (V. Adm., USN), has been decorated for the third time for services in directing successful amphibious operations in the Pacific. His latest award, the Gold Star in Ueu of the second DSM, cities the exceUent coordination of Naval, air and ground forces in

CARLETON M. "CAP" DOLAN, '08, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), has left Frisco and his new address is GCM, U. S. Naval Station, Eighth Naval District, Algiers, Louisiana.

MARTIN J. PETERSON, '08, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), C O., Section

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ANDREW S. HICKEY, '06, (Capt., USN-Ret), now Naval Attache in Mexico City, has received the Legion of Merit for services as Naval Observer at Port de France, Martinique.

1907 NEWTON H. WHITE, JR., '"' '07, (Capt, USN), and the officers and men of his New York NAS command, have received a "Well Done" from CNO for expediting a series of special secret cargo flights to Europe.

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Base, Monterey, California, and Commander, Monterey Section, Western Sea Frontier, died in the early morning of 10 May as a result of a heart attack the previous day.

Captain H. S. Haislip, Commander, Northern CaUfornia Seaor, WSF, in announcing the death, said: "In spite of physical limitations which incurred much suffering. Commander Peterson's only thought, after this country went to war, was to do his part. He did more. His services as Section Commander were, in spite of his physical limitations, outstanding. His loss wiU be felt by aU of us, particularly by the Section Base officers and die officers of ships which have based at Monterey. In performing his duty, he knew no hours and his steadfastness to its demands, in spite of physical suffering, should be an example to aU. He died as he would have wished it, in aaive naval service."

GEORGE D. MURRAY, '11, (R. Adm., U S N ) , who until recendy was Commandant of the NATC, Pensacola, with coUateral duty as Chief of Naval Air Intermediate Training, recendy assumed duties as Chief of Naval Air Training. Operating direcdy under die DCNO (Air), R. Adm. Murray who wiU continue to make his headquarters at NAS, Pensacola, wiU supervise aU naval air training activities in the United States.

1911

JAY K. ESLER, '11, (Capt, USNR e t ) , is Industrial Manager for the Nindi N . D. ELLIOTT B. NEXON, '11, (Capt, USN), is Disttict InteUigence Officer, 3ND, New York City.

wives, widows and children. This has been proposed by classmates and encouraged by the editor. My sources are limited and a successfid showing wiU depend on assistance in the form of letters from dassmates and their wives, which I hereby invite. The location and aaivities of many of those in active service may not be disdosed unless such information has already been made pubUc I shaU attempt to learn through proper channels the station of each active member and, to such extent as may be approved by the department, wiU make news of that informatiort It would be helpfid, however, if our admirals, generals, commodores, captains, commanders, etc., not forgetting those in civU life, would drop me a Une, and this invitatiort is addressed especiaUy to widows of our classmates for whom we have concern and affection. W e would also like to know of the doings of the sons and daughters of the class and whUe I rdy on the parents primarUy for this information, I would be happy to hear direcdy from the younger ones themselves. So come along now, aU you good enemies of Japan and let me have the dope.

DANIEL L. BORDEN, '11 ,(Col., USA), has received orders transferring him from duty as C. O. of the Station 1 QOQ J O H N W . Q U n U A N , 09, Hospital, Fort Eustis, Virginia. He gives ' ' ^ ' ( L t CoL, USA), is on duty his new address as 410 Hearst-Tower at the Ohio River Ordnance Works, BuUding, Baltimore, Maryland.

Henderson, Kenmcky.

RICHARD S. FIELD, '11, Route 3, 191 n HOMER A. BAGG, '10, ( L t RockviUe, Maryland, writes: (From R. S. FIELD, T l , ( C a p t ) : "Beginning with this issue, I propose ' ' • ^ Col., USA-Ret), has left Capt George J. McMillin, Governor Charleston, S. C , and gives his new ad- to conttibute a short column each month dress as P. O. Box 415, Main Post Office. to SHIPMATE devoted to news and inter- of Guam when the japs struck in DeFederal Budding, Los Angeles 52, CaUf. ests of the Qass of 1911, its members, its cember, 1941, is a prisoner of war, ad-

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dress Taiwan (Formosa), Camp Sheiakawa (or Sheiakara). Bupers says letters to prisoners of japs must be typed or hand-printed, body of message not to exceed 24 words. Letters should be addressed by name and rank of prisoner, giving his prison address, adding "New York, N . Y." The sender's name and address and words "Prisoner of War Mail" must appear on envelope and no postage required. George's wife, Annabel, lives at 324 Carroll Park West, Long Beach 4, Calif. Her daughter Rudi (Mrs. WilUam P. Mack) and BiU Mack, Jr., live with her while Lt. Coipdr. Mack (son of A. R. Mack, '11) is at sea. The other McMiUins, Frosty and George, Jr., are in coUege. Annabel writes, "My last was a 100-word letter hand-printed by him and dated August 30, '43. At that time the last mail he had received was my letter of 12 June 1942." He had not heard about his grandson, not even of the prospects.

I turned up the other day a group picture of the J. O. Mess of the MISSOURI, made in 1911. Three 1910, Traynor, Gibson, PownaU; six 1911, Reeves, Mann, Cheek, Lamberton, Vroom, and Field. Mann and Lamberton are dead.

Cheek got out of the Philippines in *42 and has earned distinaion in this war.

PownaU and Reeves became rear admirals, the sooner perhaps because they

were aviators, but they would have made it anyhow. This photograph is unique because it shows aU nine of us wearing the litde half stripe of a passed midshipman which 1911 was the last class to wear.

Rear Adm. Frank J. Lowry, of Anzio fame, is, as one man puts it, still throwing his weight about in the Mediterranean.

Rear Adm. Morton L. Deyo has been prominently mentioned in the press as commander of a sizable fleet which covered the Normandy landings and subsequent battles as long as they remained within range of his guns.

Rear Adm. Harry W. HiU has distinguished himself several times taking islands away from the japs. Rear Adm. Robert M. Griffin, after a command at sea, is commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Other flag officers whose locations are either unknown to me or for some other reason may not be disclosed are rear admirals, Bieri, Wood, Murray, Read, Kingman, Hanson, Badger, and commodores, PhiUips and Quigley. Rear Admiral Cobb recently arrived in this country in time to see Calvin, Jr., graduate as a star meniber of the class of '45.

Henry Bruns is a rear admiral of the civil engineer corps which, in this war as never before, has been a principal factor in the destruction of the enemy. Com-

modore John Holmes Magruder is chief of staff, Caribbean Sea Frontier.

The whole country knows, and mourns the loss of. Rear Admiral Callaghan, and Rear Admiral Scott, who died as Nelson died, in victorious action against superior enemy forces, in those days when the simation in the South Pacific was about as serious as at Trafalgar in October, 1805. KiUed in a plane accident while on duty, was Rear Admiral Robert H. English, one of the Navy's most valuable officers, at a time when he had built up the success of our Pacific subiiiarines under his command. In the same accident. Captain Donald C. Godwin lost his life. Other casualties since we got in the war are Bode, Holt, Ridgely, Webster, dead; and Baltzly, prisoner of war.

On the army side, L t Gen. Lewis H. Brereton who won about aU available medals flying in France during the last war, is now one of the leaders in the European Theatre. When last noted Maj. Gen. Jonathan W. Anderson was cornmanding a corps. Brig. Gen. Vincent Meyer has an important post somewhere across the Atlantic. I have no late news, but hope to have, of the foUowing army members: A. W . Ford, Perley, Cygon, Stark, Baird, Hicks, BirdsaU, Sessions, Newton, R. C. Scott, and Red Erwin.

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Bernhard Bieri (address U.S.N. 100, F. P. O., New York) writes that he is living in a tent and if you saw him you might think he was Gen. Grant without the whiskers. EUiott Nixon is in the 3rd Naval District. Lt. Comdr. Wm. Van C. Brandt, USNR, always good copy, is now captain of USS — (taUest smoKC stacks in the Navy), at Gulfport. Miss. He is an enthusiastic and successful skipper. I hope he gets leaves on his visor soon, so he will not have to salute his son-in-law, the distinguished Comdr. James C. Dempsey of submarine fame.

Dick and Doris Booth, Rt. 2, OroviUe, Calif., have a lovely house they built, orange groves in commercial production, chickens, mrkeys, cows, gardenias and a grand daughter! Commander W. Fred Kurfess, USNR, of Buships, spent several months in hospital this spring but was thoroughly recovered in time to see his son graduate with the class of '45.

Freddy is an important steel executive of Chicago, loaned by his company for the duration. Scott and Gladys McCaughey live at 2708 East 2nd St., Long Beach, Calif. Their son Wm. H. is a lieutenant, class of '43,-who in turn has a son Bill of his own. Anne married Bill's classmate, Lt. Robert Jewell Williams and has a daughter, Elizabeth Anne.

Comdr. Paul M. Bates is Buaero representative at G.M.C. plant. Linden, N . J. Paul's daughter Jean is a successful film actress at Hollywood.

WILLIAM A. CORLEY, '12, (Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret), has changed his address to 115 North Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery 5, Alabama.

JAMES C. MONFORT, '12, (Capt., USN-Ret), has left the west coast for duty at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis 15, Tennessee.

LUNSFORD L. HUNTER, '12, (Capt., USN), is on duty at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, Indiana.

1010 CLARKE WITHERS, 13, ''•'^ (Comdr., USNR), Department of Seamanship and Navigation, USNA, wishes to advise those classmates who were unable to get class rings because the die was missing, can now do so as Bailey, Banks and Biddle have a casting for the ring and are ready to process Your correspondent reluctantly re- all orders. mains idle and outside the gigantic business of winning this war. With classH. WATTS PILLSBURY, '13, mates and friends fighting gloriously aU (Comdr., USN-Ret.), remrned to active over the world he thinks admiringly of duty in October 1939- He spent two them and contemplates the closing lines years at I N D as Director of Conversion of a pep talk given by King Henry to and Repair, followed by two years as Ashis officers on the eve of a great battle in sistant Supervisor of Shipbuilding at France: King Henry V, Act IV, Sc. III. Tampa, Florida. Since August, 1943, he has been assigned as a convoy commoAnd gentlemen in England now a-bed dore in the Atlantic. He makes his resiShaU think themselves accurs'd they were dence at 214 King George Street, Annot here; napolis.

And holds their manhoods cheap whiles 1914 JOHN F. MOLONEY, '14, any speaks ' ' '^ (Comdr., USN-Ret.), for the That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's past several months has been rationing day. officer at NATC, Pensacola, Florida. igiO HAROLD B. GROW, 12, ' ' • ' ^ (Capt, USNR), and E. P. NICKINSON, '12, (Comdr., USNRet. ), who went to sea together as shipmates in 1912, once again are shipmates as C. O. and Exec, respectively, of NAS, Pensacola.

STILES M. "BEN" DECKER, '12, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), from 1407 West Street, Annapolis, Md., where he is "alPittsburgh, Pa. ways at home to visitors," writes: "After about eight months in the hosQuality Electrical Products Since IS>05 pital at Key West and Annapolis, I was 46

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My papers have not come through yet so I can't give you the date of my retirement yet.

"I am still in hopes I can remrn to active duty again before the fight is over, but the medicos don't hold out much hope; having lost the sight in my port running light and the old circulating pump not doing so well.

"Incidentally, "Rube' HaU, '12, and 1 were laid up here at the same time. Rube tells me he is ordered before the board for retirement also.

JOHN H. BROWN, '14, (R. Adm., USN), was a recent visitor to SHIPMATE'S offices. The bang-up job he is

doing is keeping him in fine fettle.

FRANKLIN G. PERCIVAL, '14, (Lt., USN-Ret), reports his correct address as 604 Marion Street, Boone, Iowa.

4Q4C PRESTON MARSHALL,'15, '^'•^ (Comdr., USN-Ret), on duty at the Washington Navy Yard, gives his correct address as 4000 Cathedral Avenue, Washington, D. C.

1Q1Z. EDWIN F. COCHRANE, • ' " " '16, (Comdr., USN-Ret), whose former billet was Head of the Navigation Training Section under C. N. O. with Headquarters 61 College Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland, recently left for sea duty. Residence address is 81 Market Street, Annapolis, Md. Ed. note: Best wishes from SHIPMATE. WILLIAM M. FECHTELER, '16, (R. Adm., U S N \ has received a letter of commendation for services as Assistant Director and Director of Officer Personnel, BuPers, from 14 March 1942 rhrough 26 June 1943.

ARNOLD W. JACOBSEN, '16, (Brig. Gen.. USMC), was elevated from Colonel on 25 May. Gen. Jacobsen is commanding officer of the far flung Depot of Supplies, San Francisco.

WILLIAM G. HAWTHORNE, '16, (Col., USMC), is on duty with CNO, Navy Department, Washington.

LINTON HERNDON, '16, (Comdr., USN), is on duty at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, living in Quarters "I." 1917 A. DEAN DOUGLAS, '17, ' ' " (Capt, USN), had the unique honor this spring of seeing one son graduate from USNA, while another was graduating from West Point. It was only the second time in American history for such an odd occurrence. Robert G. Douglas, '45, was commissioned an ensign and plans to foUow his father in submarine service. James S. Douglas was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry foUwoing his graduation from the MUitary Academy.

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HERBERT W. ANDERSON, '17, (Col., USA), C. O. of Yuma Army Air Field, writes: In the Army over twenty years, I have long been away from salt water, but you may depend on it that wherever I am in command, my band has "Anchors Aweigh" as its theme song. My last three stations have, through three successive years, been in three deserts, and S H I P MATE has faithfully roUed in monthly with its tang of the deep sea wave to sustain the old Navy Spirit in the desert AUGUST,

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And for the last five years, my associates among West Pointers close at hand,—and some well removed—have consistently contributed to my liquor stock immediately after the Game where, as long as I live, I shaU annually establish and hold forth in a Navy Corner, even though I draw my pay in the Army.

Yuma is now a fairly important stop on the southern transcontinental miUtary air routes and I shaU consider it the utmost in pleasure to receive and visit with seagoing friends who pass this way, and CO show them the pretty fancy proposition we have here at my station, and to hear the world's most noble music, "Anchor's Aweigh" played by an Army Band in the desert.

CONRAD LEIKNES JACOBSEN, 17, (Comdr., USN, Deceased), died at Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, 27 May. Comdr. Jacobsen was previously stationed at the U. S. Naval Powder Factory, Indian Head, Maryland, as exec.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jane Greer Jacobsen, and two children, Conrad AUen and Carolina Leslie.

CHARLES D. LEFFLER, '18, (Capt., a letter of commendation for outstandUSN), has been awarded the Legion of ing services in the development of Radar Merit for services as skipper of the while in charge of Radio and Sound in OMAHA during the interception and the Naval Research Laboratory. subsequent sinking of two Nazi blockade runners. Capt. Leffler has come CHARLES B. McVAY, III, "20, ashore to relieve Captain H. G. Hop- (Capt, U S N ) , became a June bridewood as Director of Planning and Con- groom when he was married to the fortrol, BuPers. mer Louise Niernee Claytor.

LELAND P. LOVETTE, '18, (Capt., GEORGE B. CUNNINGHAM, '20, USN), has received the Legion of Merit (Comdr., USNR), has left the Philaddfor his services as Director, Office of phia Navy Yard for sea duty. His home Public Relations, Navy Department. address while afloat will be 28 HugueCapt. Lovette has been relieved of this not Drive, Larchmont, New York. job by R. Adm. A. S. Merrill and is to be skipper of a new ship.

WILLIAM E. MAXWELL, '20, (Lt. Col., USMC), is on duty at the Norfolk igiQ SCOTT S. LAMB, '19, Navy Yard and may be reached at the ' ' ' ' (Comdr., USN-Ret), is Di- Marine Barracks, there. rector of Training of the 4th N D with offices in the Widener Building, PhilaTHOMAS G. COX, JR., '20, (Lt. delphia. The honorary degree of Doctor Comdr., USNR), gives his address as of Laws was conferred on him by Ursinus 1501 Key Boulevard. ArUngton, Va. CoUege at the June Commencement.

GEORGE H. DANA, '20, (Lt. MAURICE H. STEIN, '19, (Cpmdr., Comdr., USN-Ret.), reports his correct USN-Ret.), writes from the Naval Re- address as Box 276, 119 St, Virginia 191R JOHN J. BALLENTINE, serve Educational Center, Ninth Naval Beach, Virginia. ' ' • " '18, (R. Adm., USN), has District, Great Lakes, Illinois. won both the Silver Star and the Legion igOl APOLLO SOUCEK, '21, of Merit for skill in carrier operations in 1 9 9 0 (Capt, USN), who was MAURICE E. CURTS, '20, *'^* I 7XW ((^^pj^ USN), has received exec, on the HORNET when she was sunk the Pacific Ocean Area.

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EDWIN M. CROUCH, '21, (Capt., USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service as Operadons Officer of the staflF of Commander Cruisers and Destroyers, Pacific, and Commander of a Task Force during the period 21 January 1943 to 2 January 1944.

JOHN W. HARRIS, '21, (Capt., USN), has been awarded a letter of recommendation with ribbon for services as representadve of BuAer on the U. S. MiUtary Mission to Dakar from 11 December 1942, to 23 Febmary 1943.

ELMER P. ABERNETHY, '21, (Capt, U S N ) , is in command of the newly organized San Pedro Shakedown Group Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif.

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WILLIAM B. JACKSON, JR., '21, (Capt, USN), on duty widi BuPers, gives his home address as 1900 N . Lex- and is on duty with Cominch, in Washington, D. C. ington St, ArUngton, Va. L. CALHOUN ALLEN, '21, co-partner in the contraaing firm of Levasseur and AUen, Alexandria, Louisiana, writes: You can teU from the letter head that I am in the construction game, in fact, I have been cormected with it either directly or indirecdy since leaving the Academy in 1919. For the past two years I have done nothing but construction work in the various Army camps located in this vicinity and we have aU been kept very busy. I shaU not elaborate on this any more than to say that I have done real weU in a material way.

My principle reason for writing in addition to saying "HeUo" to aU the boys is to give you a brief outline as to what my two sons are doing. My oldest boy, L. Calhoun AUen, Jr., 23, is an Ensign, USNR. He received his commission at Northwestern, 1 July 1943, and was assigned to the Amphibious Force of the Navy. He received extensive training at Litde Creek, Virginia and F t Pierce, Fla. and now his address is afloat At Litde Creek I was happy to learn that the C. O. of the base was Capt "Buddy" Macklin, also of '21. My other son, James Edwin AUen, 20, is a second lieutenant, Field ArtiUery, AUS, and is stationed in Georgia.

Best of luck to aU my former friends and classmates and God bless those who have been caUed to the Great Beyond— the famUiar names on the Honor RolL ROY C HUDSON, '21, (Capt., USN), has come back from SoWesPac AUGUST,

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USN), gives his new address as 4915 Glenbrook Rd., N. W., Washington, D.C.

1999 EDWARD R. GARDNER, JAMES M. POOL, '22, ( L t Comdr., ^'^^ '22, (Capt, USN), is on duty at the Navy Department in the Of- USNR ), gives his correct address as 1171 fice of Chief of Naval Operations, Vine Street, Denver 6, Colorado.

Washington 25, D. C. HOWARD HOGAN, '22, (Lt, CoL, USMCR), is on overseas service with HENRY F. M A C C O M S E Y , '22, (Capt, U S N ) , who has been Comman- the Medical Corps. dant of the Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, expects sea duty as skipper of JOE F. SIMMONS, '22, (Col., USA), a smaU carrier. is on duty at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, with the sixth Replacement KENNETH D. STODDARD, '22, Regiment ( L t Comdr., USN-Ret), is now Yard Officer at NAS, Pensacola, Fla. ARCHIGALD E. UEHLINGER, '22, (Capt, U S N ) , has come ashore to QuarJOHN F. GEISE, '22, (Lt. Comdr., ters K, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, BremerUSNR), who recently completed the ton, Washington.

StaflF Preparatory Course, at the Naval War CoUege, Newport, is now perform- I Q O O ALVIN DUKE CHANDing StaflF duty in the Pacific. ' ^^^ LER, '23, (Capt, U S N ) , has been awarded the Legion of Merit ANTHONY R. BRADY, '22, (Capt, Medal for service as Commander of a USN), has-been awarded a letter of D D unit in the South Pacific from Jancommendation for services as Com- uary to November 1943. mander Utility Wings, Atlantic Fleet, during the period from December 1941 WILLIAM B. AMMON, '23, (Capt., until March 1944.

USN), now on duty as Cominch communications officer in Washington, has MELLISH M. LINDSAY, JR., '22, received a letter of commendation for (Comdr., U S N ) , is on duty at the Naval service as skipper of the USS MADISON "Torpedo Station, Keyport, Washington. on the rescue and salvage of the burning transport, USS WAKEFIELD, 3 SeptemDONALD W. GARDNER, '22, ( L t ber 1942.

Comdr., USN-Ret), is on submarine service. He was retired in 1940 and re- 1 0 9 4 HOMER B. WHEELER, '24, mrned to active service in April 1943. ' '^^ (Comdr., USN), reports his correct address as Amphibious Training EDWARD H. PIERCE, '22, (Capt., Base Coronado, San Diego 55, Calif.

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CHARLES SILSBEE,'25, ( L t Comdr, USNR), writes: Lt. Comdr. Lee Weston recendy visited at my home. He is being detached from St Mary's Pre-FUght and is going out in the far Pacific, I believe. Comdr.

Frank Monroe, Jr., was also at the house, with Martha, and we had a nice gathering.

BiU SuUivan, a retired Lt. Comdr. caUed me recendy, having just got back from Key W e s t where he had a vacation with his son, BiU, Jr., '35, a new fuU Comdr. Dusty Rhodes, of our class, he told me, was sporting four stripes down there.

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PAUL M. SIEGRIST, '24, (Comdr., USNR), from a BB writes: The Central Pacific contingent of the Qass of 1924, USNA, held an appropriate and rather unusual re-union at "Shangri-La 14, Care of Postmaster" on 4 June 1944. (20 years to the day!) All arrangements were made by Tom Griffith and E. J. Taylor, and nothing was omitted. Special attention was given to the music (they brought their band) and it was aU arranged to have the music of the era 1920-1924, with "Avalon" and "The Shiek of Araby" as theme songs.

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LUTHER K REYNOLDS, '26, (Comdr.. U S N ) , has been decorated with the Silver Star medal for conspicuous gaUantry and intrepidity in acdon in the northern Solomons area.

ROBERT R. D E W O L F E , "26, (Comdr,. U S N \ has been detached from NATC, Pensacola, where he served for several months as C. O. of the NAAS, Barin Field. He now commands a training carrier in Lake Michigan.

ROBERT ASHTON, '26, ( L t Comdr., USNR), is damage control officer of a carrier. On 1 March he received a SUver Star and citation from Admiral Nimitz.

Shipmates are Steve Rice and Jim Lane.

WILLIAM M. HAYES, '26, (Lt, THOMAS J. BALL, 24, ( L t (jg), USN-Ret), is now living at 1770 Oak- USNR), has moved from Corpus Christi dale Street, Pasadena 4, CaUfornia. The to 40 W. San Antonio St, San Jose, CaUf. spinal injury which Tom received at L.i Haina Rhodes, years ago, has confined PETER A. WYCKOFF, '26, (Lt him to a wheel chair.

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17th Street, SupShips, Bob Barnes and Henry Koonce at Naval Drydocks and Gardner Grout with AIM. Gardner recently made Lt. PHILLIP A. TAGUE, JR., '27, Comdr. USNR on last selection. Con (Comdr., U S N ) , a n d Hume (Ret.) is with Consolidated Ship FRANCIS R. "SNOOKS" JONES, '25, Building, Long Beach, and George Jones, (Comdr., USN), have similar com- (Ret.), in charge of Warehouse and mands at NATC, Pensacola. Tague Storage Division of Lockheed Aircraft commands the NAAS, EUyson Field, and in Los Angeles. Hank and I had a good Snooks the NAAS at Bronson Field. visit with Jim Thorpe on his recent visit in this area—Ted Fauntz left about a JOHN C. BROACH, '27, (Comdr., month ago for duty at Rio de Janeiro.

USN), has been awarded a N.ivy Cross for heroism in action by V. Adm. KinHENRY P. WRIGHT, JR., '27, caid, commander, 7 th Fleet.

(Comdr., USNR), is afloat as D. C O. and 1st Lieut. He relieved Wash Wilcox HENRY M. MARSHALL, '27, who is a new Exec, on something new (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Marshall are and big. parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Brooke, born at Pasadena, Calif.

JAMES S. WILLIS, '27, (Comdr., USN), has a DD. JOHN R. DAIX, '27, (Lt. Comdr., WILLIAM KERN, '27, (Comdr., USNR), has remrned to the U. S. after 23 months in SoPac for duty with the USN-Ret), writes: Just completed a 30,000 mile swing Amphibious Training Command. Corothrough the Pacific on BuShips engine nado. maintenance problems and had the good ARTHUR G. BRUNER, 27, ( L t formne to see many 27ites who are rackComdr., UUSN-Ret), writes: ing up good records for themselves and The Bureau ordered me to active duty great credit to our class. Lord Weatheron 8 December '41 and have been here by Parks and John Bernet were seen on as Port Director, San Pedro, since then. the West Coast before leaving the States.

Don't see many of '27 these days—there At Pearl Harbor I found BiU Organ, are a few of us here—Hank Henry at Julian Greer, George Anderson, Bob

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Midtlyng, Art Taylor, Gene McKinney, Pete FerraU, Bud Southwick, Hank Denty, Joe DanhoflF, Tom Eddy, Arch Hunter, Bob Quackenbush, Bud Hammond, Carl Steiner, and Bob Fravel. In the RusseUs I saw Archie O'Neil and Jerry Stofflet at Tulagi. Jack Hoerner and BiU Loveland were in Noumea. Red Martin and Sam Pickering are in Brisbane, Joe McKinistry in Sydney, and Al ZoUars, Swede Olson and Jack Broach in Perth. Rosey Boyd was seen at Buna and Bob Foley at Milne Bay. Needless to say, it was a trip chuckfull of thrills and doubly enjoyed since I had the oppormnity to see so many of our gang.

JOSEPH B. DANHOFF, '27, ( L t Comdr., USN-Ret), since BiU Kern's visit to Pearl in the preceding item, has returned to the States for duty with CNO (DNC-Registered Publication Section), Washington 25, D. C LLOYD R. SAUER, '27, ( L t Comdr., USNR), writes: Was detached from N. C. Pre-Flight on 7 March and expected to be outside continental limits before now. Btit fate decided differently and I'm O in C at Camp Ojai under the CO of AATD. It's not too unpleasant as this was one of the

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EDWARD N. TEALL, JR., '27, (Comdr., USN), reports his new address .IS 6 Union Street, AnnapoUs. He was previously at West Palm Beach, Florida.

WILLIAM L. KNICKERBOCKER, •27, (Comdr., (SC), USN), is O-in-C, Advanced Base Section, Naval Supply Depot, Oakland 4, CaUf. 1 QOQ IDRIS B. MONAHAN, '28, I 7XO (Comdr., USN), has had two jobs since reporting to the NATC, Pensacola, in March, first as C. O. of NAAS, Saufley Field, and now as SupAv Training for NATC. JEROME O. DEVLIN, JR., '28, is with the Combustion Engineering Company, Inc., Houston 2, Texas. ' '*^

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MATTHEW "MATT" RADOM, '28, (Comdr., USNR), who is doing Cmiser communications staflf work in the Pacific, writes: I was formnate enough to get home twice in 3 months, 10 days the first trip and 2 weeks the second. My first transcontinental plane rides which I enjoyed a lot On the second trip, we got stalled by weather beginning at Cleveland. At Chicago I ran into Bobby Densford, '27, and we shared a seat aU the way to the coast. This chance meeting was lucky as we were grounded at North Platte, Nebraska for 7 hours. Bobby is on his way to an important staflF job in the Pacific.

At Mare Island, I saw BiU Howard looking much slimmer if you can call it that He's doing a sweU job getting out new construction. His description of a 4-day jubilee in Denver where he and Fran were guests of honor and slept in the Presidential suite is a classic. Ran into Keith Taylor who skippers a new can, T. A. Smith at Pearl where he is a destroyer skipper. Both looking amazingly dapper for "old" Twenty-Eighters.

Bob Archer gave us the dope recendy as Boss Communicator but he says he'd give it aU up for a new can. I seem destined for StaflF duty for at least a whUe yet. Never a duU moment JOSEPH TRESE, '28, is with die American Automobile Ins. Co., 1521 National Bank Building, Detroit, Mich.

NORMAN F. GARTON, '28, (Comdr., USN), is chairborne in BuAer, Maintenance Division, Washington 25, D.C.

1Q9Q ELWOOD A. TEAGUE, '29, ' '-^ ' (Lt. Comdr., U S N R ) , has assumed duties as Squadron Commander of Squadron 8-C at NAAS, Whiting Field, Pensacola. Recently he was commended by R. Adm. George D. Murray for preparing the syUabus used in the new multi-engined land-based squadron.

Towser Miller, fat and still single, was between ships on the East Coast a short time ago. BiU Kaiser can be found polishing mahogany with an elbow in between his jobs at the air station, Quonsett BiU Butler appeared in Washington papers "Crowning a Queen" at his old H. S. but I haven't seen him as yet The list of those who've done things with GUY P. GARLAND, '29, (Comdr., subs at the Sub Base, New London, looks USN), reports his home address as 153 like '30 has reaUy been doing its stuflF. Hope to see a lot of the gang when I Pomona Avenue, Long Beach 3, Calif. leave and to those on the other ocean— whichever that may be — my best and I Q O n DUDLEY W. MORTON, good hunting.

I 7JU 30^ (Comdr., U S N ) , carried as missing in aaion since his sub, USS CLIFTON G. HALL, '30, (Lt., WAHCK), has been presumed overdue and lost, has been awarded a Gold Star USNR), since 1 December 1943 has in Ueu of a fourth Navy Cross. He was been Exec, on a DE. the first Navy officer to be so honored.

HENRY V. POPE, '30, reports his new address as Shore Oak Drive, Stony EDGAR J. MACGREGOR, '30, Brook, Long Island, New York.

(Comdr., U S N ) , has been awarded a Navy Cross for successful enemy opera1001 SCHERMERHORN S. VAN tions in the Pacific. Our AUy, Great ' '*" MATER, '31, (Comdr., Britain has taken cognizance of Mac's USN), is now holding forth as Assistant feats and have given him the D.S.O. for Superintendent of Aviation Training, successfid operations in the Atlantic.

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JOHN E. LEE, '30, (Comdr., U S N ) , MARVIN J. JENSEN, '31, (Comdr., reports his correct address as 4261 Aloha USN), has been awarded the Silver Star Place, San Diego, CaUf. Medal for courage and aggressiveness during the first war patrol of a sub, of VICTOR E. RTVA, '30, (Lt., U S N R ) , which he was the skipper. a Charleroi, Pa., lawyer in civUian Ufe, has been assigned to duty in the DepartNELSON K. BROWN, '31, ( L t Col., ment of Seamanship and Navigation at USMC), has been named C. O. of the USNA, ArmapoUs, Md. Marine assault engineer regiments he guided as executive officer in the MarFIANCIS E. 'WILSON, '30, (Comdr., shalls invasion.

USN), on dury in the Pacific, reports his permanent address as 804 Cathedral LOUIS J. SEFCSIK, '31, with die EDO Street, Baltimore, Md. Aircraft Corporation, CoUege Point, New York, reports his address as 166-16 DENYS W . KNOLL, '30, (Capt., 88di Ave., Jamaica 2, N . Y. USN), sends greetings and best wishes from Moscow.

ALEXANDER A. ZUNTAG, '31, ( L t Comdr., USN), gives his new adGEORGE K BRODIE, '30, (Comdr., dress as 186 Charles Avenue, Port Rich(CEC), U S N ) , has transferred from mond, Staten Island 2, New York.

San Diego to the Public Works Department, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, BremerJAMES I. "RED" CONE, '31, ton, WashingtotL (Comdr., USN), writes: .

I'm StiU a cruiser sailor out here where EVERETT M. "MIKE" BLOCK, '30, I've been most of the time since the war started, and the only recent changes in (Comdr., U S N ) , writes: I am about at the end of the Army location have been to the westward, and Navy StaflF CoUege Course and hav- toward Tokyo.

During the past few months I have ing been with Army Air Forces at Orlando, the Army War College at Leaven- seen hardly any of my classmates because worth, the Naval War CoUege and now our chances of getting together and Washington, SHIPMATE is the only swapping yarns are few and far between. tangible evidence of my being in the I talked to Craig Veasey when he came Navy. The course is five months and alongside not so long ago and saw E. M. weU worth while after the initial shock Brown and CliflF Iverson around Christof "going to school during war" is over. mas time. Brownie has been quite a subMy new orders are not yet out, but if they kiUer out here and recently I saw that foUow the norm, I wiU be on my way to CliflF had been awarded the Navy Cross a joint or combined staflF. I just can't for outstanding work in the Solomons kst year. seem to keep away from staflFs. AUGUST,

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1000 ROBERT O. BOWEN, '33, I 7JJ (j^^ ^^^ USMC), has been awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur for exceptionally meritorious conduct with a section of General Heddcjukrters, SoWesPac Area.

GORDON A. GRIFFIN, '34, (Lr. Comdr., USN), has reported for duty as Op Officer, NATC, Pensacola, after 20 months aboard a flattop.

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Though the members of '33 are naturally scattered far and wide I bump into the boys now and then and here and there: Hatcher, Shafer, Bunevich, Militana, Seagroves, Derickson. Berwick, and others recently. Have been mighty JAMES R. OGDEN, "33, (Lt. Comdr., pleased to follow the fine work turned in U S N ; , and ELLIOTT L. JAMES, Jr., particularly by Buie and Blackburn out '33, (Lt. Comdr., USN), both have as- where we'd all like to be. sumed duties on the staff of R. Adm. Murray, Chief of Naval Air Training, PHILIP W. WINSTON, 33, (Lt. Pensacola.

Comdr., USN), formerly Department of Marine Engineering, USNA, has left for HERMAN T. SHARPE, 33, (Lt., San Diego, California, and Pacific duty.

USNR), from a carrier aircraft service Mrs. Winston will reside at 1607 Grove Avenue, Richmond 20, Virginia. unit in the Pacific, reports: The last six months have been busy ones in this area. For those who would EDWIN S. MILLER, '33. (Comdr., like to know, Ike Hampton, '34, and USN), sends "best wishes to all my Comdr. Mackert, '30, are stationed on friends there—the Pittards,' Florences, this hunk of coral. Saw Johnny Gannon, Dexters, Hagbergs, Comdr. Gilmore, '33, who went through here a few weeks etc." ago. Capt. Cruise, '22. is skipper of the rock.

EDWARD E. GRIMM, '33. (Lt. Comdr., USN), from a cruiser's wardCHARLES E. "CHARLIE" ROBERT- room in the Pacific, writes: SON, '33, (Lt. Comdr., USN), writes You may be interested in publishing from afloat: an account of a recent luncheon attendAfter having commanded a PBM ed by a few members of the class of squadron and later an Air Group in the 1933.

Norfolk area, I have recently taken comMorgan Slayton was our gracious host

JAMES T. BENGHAM. '34, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), left N A T Q Pensacola, with orders to a flattop. "Admiral" Bingham, PRO at NATC. had served 39 months at Pensacola.

SAMMY BRADBARD, '34, reports the foUowing correction in re Mel Dry, and some additional dope: Another person whom we heard from is Mel Dry who is another of our dassmates now commanding a submarine in Pacific waters. His letters are few and far between which suggests that he is keeping mighty busy.

W e were especially delighted to have him follow up his letter with a surprise visit—enjoying a bit of leave while his ship is getting an overhaul.

Naval War College's recent graduating class had two of our dassmates in it —Bob Fairweather and Mike Champlin.

Bob—Lt. Col., USMC—has been ordered to duty overseas. We have no knowledge as to where Mike went.

JAMES E. VOSE, JR., '34, (Comdr..

USN), was presented with , the Air Medal and two Gold Stars in lieu of the second and third DFC on 19 June by R. Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsey, BuAer Chief.

The awards covered dive-bombing operations against the Japs from Guadalcanal to Kavieng.

DAVID S. EDWARDS, '34, (Comdr., USN), writes: Marooned—on a praaically desea island with nothing but three cases of beer to keep us company—were Willy Martin, Bill Smith. Eddie Lee—and I. To

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celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of '34, we met—in strict accordance with Bud Slack's Operation Order—and awaited the rest of the diss to join us in singing of the fame and glory of '34.

Of course—after waiting a couple of hours we decided ir would be perfectly fair for us to have one beer apiece—well, why not two? And when nobody else showed up—well, you know how fast beer loses its chill.

Where was the rest of '34? To listen to Lee and Martin, you'd think they were all in soft jobs on the beach. But we happened to know that there were a few more around that missed our exclusive celebration.

The Bullens—Jake and George—were having a family reunion. Jake just having arrived from the fleshpots to pick up a DD. And the Battleship Boys—Frank Pinney, Jack Parker, Leo Flynn—to mention a few, have been heard from not long ago.

Bud Slack put out the OpOrder on the Reunion—hut we suspect his own orders came too soon for him to stick around. The destroyer gang—^Jim Babb, Al Moore, J. B. Morland, Doug Fuller, Dave Miller and F. O. Fletcher have been on the go pretty much, so you never know whether or not they'll show up. Frank Marshall and Charlie Brewer sent regrets—they had a genuine excuse.

We ended the evening with a display of close harmony that came close to getting us thrown ofi^ a certain quarterdeck.

Willy Martin's barber shop tenor was the pride and joy of us all. But hell, gang— you can't imagine how far three cases of beer go with four old broken down Lt. Comdrs. (Or are we Commanders, maybe? ) It almost taxed our capacity.

Hope the rest of the class celebrated too. 'We'll look forward to hearing about any minor celebrations held elsewhere.

REGINALD RUTHERFORD, '34, (Comdr., USN), from NAS, Gordon Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, writes: On 31 May, the only two '34 graduates we could scare up in the Atlanta area had a couple to celebrate our tenth anniversary—at the Naval Air Station, Atlanta. We were Lt. H. A. Marcoux (Ret.), and Commander Reg. Rutherford. The Sea Beast was celebrating, in addition, his family's arrival in Atlanta, while I was having a belated celebration of the third stripe plus orders to sea. I have been relieved as CO. Instrument Flight Instructors School and am on my way west to C. O. an AVP. Commander W. W. White, '29, arrived in April and took command of the NAS. My wife is making her home at 59 Haygood Drive, N. E., Atlanta.

PATRICK C. MORAN, '34, with Eclipse-Pioneer Division of Bendix, Teterboro, New Jersey, reports: These last few years have been rather hectic in turning out aircraft instruments, and I have eagerly awaited each issue of SHIPMATE since it has been my only contact with my classmates. I have been glad to see the wonderful spirit displayed by Sammy Bradbard, Larry Becht and others in keeping the class in touch with one another.

ROBERT WHITNEY LEEMAN, '34, (Lt. Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Leeman announce the birth of a son. Robert Whitney, Jr., on 23 February 1944.

GORDON P. CHUNG-HOON, '34, (Lt. Comdr., USN), reports his correct home address as 308 Ohua Avenue, Honolulu 30, T. H. ROBERT A. PATON, '34, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has come ashore and is bunking in Quarters M, Navy Yard, Washington 25, D. C. ERVIN R. "RUSS" JETER, ',34, gives his home address as 6104 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

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reunion on 31 May, the daas' tenth an- Young, '25, but he left in May and is now niversary. Expeaed to be present were running one of CaUfomia's most beauLt. Comdrs. M. C. Reeves, and Frank A. tiful resorts.

Nuson, and Lts. J. T. Bingham and HoSaw L H. Mills, '35, during the winter bart Key. Frank recently joined the ranks when he came here to coordinate the of the Benedicts when he married Rose- Academic work of this program. He was mary Roselle, of Santiago, Cuba. then stationed in Washington but I hear that he is now in Pensacola.

As for myself, there is no news except 1g o t FRANKLIN GRAISTT HESS, I 7JJ .35^ (Lt. Comdr, U S N ) , has that we added a daughter, Su2anne, to been awarded the Bronze Star for ser- our coUection, last October. Guess that vices while Exec, of a sub during its first is aU for now. war patroL GORDON E. HENDRICKS, '35, NORVALL G. WARD, 35, (Lt. (Lt. CoL, USMC), reports his correct adCbmdr., USN), has been awarded a dress as USMC, Air Station, Cherry Gold Star in lieu of a second Silver Star Point, North Carolina. for, as skipper of a sub, "aggressivdy attacking the enemy at every opportunity."

EDWARD C "EDDIE" OUTLAW, '35, (Lt. Comdr, U S N ) , who was J O H N BURNETT CLINE, '35, (Lt. plugged for his HeUcatting a few paraComdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Cline an- graphs ago, writes the foUowing: '35 seems to be few and far between, nounce the birdi of a daughter, Susan Terry, born 10 May 1944, "Washington, but I have seen the foUowing recently, Pat McEntee and Jim Baird, on CA's, DC. Ken Musick, skipper of a V T squadron EDWARD C. CUTLAW, '35, (Lt. operating from a CV, Charlie Lyndon, Comdr., USN), was the skipper of a BB, Bob Jackson, CV, and Jim Reniers, squadron of Hellcats which shot down back in as a Lieutenant and on a sta£F 21 Jap planes without loss as it swept now.

InddentaUy '34 had a reunion last over Truk to prepare the way for divebombers as a carrier task force hit this week and actuaUy had about 25 members enemy bastion on 29 and 30 ApriL Out- present. Twas quite a party.

Omar Spain left my ship about two law was top scorer for the squadron with five definite Zeros, plus a probable sixth months ago and can probably be found at his home in Bethesda, Maiyland.

ARTHUR E. TARANTINO, '35, ( L t Comdr., USMS), has been designated Training Officer for the United States Maritime Service. InddentaUy, 'Art' is our interested and active Secretary of the Washington, D. C. Branch of USNA Alumni Association. He can be addressed Room 701, National Theatre Bldg., Washington, D. C. BERNARD E. DUNKLE, '35, (Lt. CoL, USMC), and Mrs. Dunkle announce the birth of a second son, Towneley Brian, on 20 May, at Baltimore, MA At present Bernard is in the South Pacific, while Mr. Dimkle Uves at 1110 West Street, AnnapoUs, Maryland.

DONALD "DON" ERSKINE, '35, (Lt. (jg), USNR), back in uniform for nearly a year, reports from the Georgia Pre-Flight school: After taking the thirty days indoctrination course at Chapd HiU last July, I was ordered to Athens where I have been ever since. Incidentally, at Chapd HiU I saw BiU Qark, '35, who headed the V-5 Instruaors School, Alex Qoud, '34, head of Aerology, and Ted Hodgkins, who was personnel officer.

Here in Athens I roomed with MUt MUls, '24, untU my famUy arrived in December. Until recently, the head of the MiUtary Department here was C H.

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1QOL CHESTER W . NIMTIZ, JK^ I 7J O .3^^ ^Lt Comdr, U S N ) , has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second SUver Star for services as Exec and navigator of a sub. H e navigated his ship dose inshore, says the dtation.

FREDERICK I. LXNCOLNT, 36, (Lt, USNR), in reporting a new address, which we can't print, writes: It was like leaving home to say goodbye to Captain (Lt. Comdr.) F. W . Auld, '34, and our happy ship. However, I look forward to being skipper of a new destroyer-escort.

My wife and three sons are here widi me for a whUe but wiU soon return to our home—40 Walnut Street, Lafayette, CaUf.—where my mail would be forwarded to me.

It is gratifying to see the enthusiasm, cooperation and effidency of aU concerned—Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Pre-Commissioning Detail, officers, crew and dvUian workers.

There are several Naval Academy boys in the area—Lt. Comdr. St. Johns, '38, doing splendid work in supply, Lt Comdr. Greenbacker, '40, after his second D-E, L t B. Hayden, '38, passing through on temporary duty aboard a new D-E and many others I have not contacted as yet.

FOR DEAR OLD 1936

By CHARLES J. ELLIS

(Ed. Note: W e hope this new submission by Charlie EUis, now on duty with CNO, becomes a regular.)

Spent most of the month of May on a rather hurried flying trip up and down the West Coast but managed to see and get some dope on a few of '36.

Before leaving I saw BiU Hanger for a minute at Anacostia. BiU is on the Air Ships Lant Staff at Lakehurst Don Gumz is skipper of a bombing sqdn. near San Diego about ready to shove off.

Bon Amme is Op officer of a squadron near San Diego and seems to be in for a while. Same old Bon, tho!

Jim McCauley is skipper of a squadron training near Los Angeles and says he'U be shoving off soon.

Dick Fowler had just left as skipper of a squadron on a CVE. Norm GiUette was at San Diego but I missed seeing him.

Saw Joe Reed at Seattle for a few minutes. He has been there for some time and expects to leave soon.

Sid MiUer has joined the Battle of the Bureaus here and established his beach head on some desk. Have talked to him and wiU see him soon and get the dope.

Porter MaxweU was up from Deland recently and our plans to meet were thwarted by a conference into which I was roped.

Missed Porter but Ralph Humes was at the pow-wow. He is on the West Coast and should have some dope on a lot of '36. How about sending it in?

A letter from Link Lincoln indicates he's XO on a D-E. Hope he gets C. O. soon. (He hasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Ed.) "That's d l for the present Does anyone have about 15/20 each for two eyes they can spare so I can get to sea?

19^7 EDWARD H. O'HARE, '37, â&#x20AC;˘ ' "^ ' ( L t Comdr, USN ), has been awarded a Navy Cross for night fighting action last November in the vicinity of die GUberts. Butch is missing in action, officiaUy, although little hope is held that he is a survivor.

LA"WRENCE G. BERNARD, '37, (Lt Comdr., U S N ) , has been awarded a Bronze Star for services whUe diving officer of a sub on its first war patroL DONALD M. "WHITE, '37, (Lt. Comdt, U S N ) , ashore from the Pacific, has been assigned to duty on the staff of R. Adm. George Murray, NAS, Pensacola.

DONALD E. HUEY, '37, ( L t Col., USMC), has transferred from the Marine Air Station at Edenton, N. C , to that at Cherry Point, N . C. AUGUST,

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Tom—you can imagine the tales that were exchanged in that gathering. Seems that there are very few bachelors left in '38—Eloise and I have a daughter who just celebrated her second birthday.

Frank had some nice pictures of Emily and their son.

Saw Classmates Vance Gordon and Jack Leonard the other day—they are in submarines. I have command of a squadron of "Cats." This is my first letter to SHIPMATE and it seems to me that there are many others in '38 who should let us hear what they are doing.

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1 0 * 5 0 PAUL E. LOUSTAUNAU, I707 .35,^ (Lt, U S N ) , has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Navy and Marine Corps Medal for services as Gunnery Officer during war patrols.

HAROLD C. MILLER, '39, (Lt, USN), after duty in the Mediterranean theater, is now an instructor at Squadron 8-A, NAS, Pensacola, Fla. RICHARD STAFFORD McELROY, JR., '39, (Lt, Comdt, USN), and Mrs. McElroy, of 16 Stoneleigh Park, Westfield, N . J., announce the birth of a son, Richard Stafford III, on 28 April 1944.

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ROBERT C. BARNES, '39, (Lt Comdr., USN), writes: Latest news in the Barnes household is the arrival of our baby—a son this time, born 4 June at the Coronado hospital. I was lucky enough to be present for the great event. Our daughter Barbara was ten months old before I saw her.

Mac and Ruthie Kilpatrick are here and have bought a house in Coronado, Calif.

ENcmEs. .ISO to2000 H.p. CLEVELAND DIESEL ENGINE DIVISION, Clevelandu, o. [WENDELL W. BEMIS, '39, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , writes from Moffett ENCINES IS to 2S0 HP. DETROIT DIESEL ENGINE DIVISION, Detroit 23, M,ch. \ Field: Seem to have lost aU contact with the tOCOMOTIVES...; ; ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION, La Grange, 111. j most of '39, so will take the opportunity to stick in a contribution, plus some dope on myself. Have been flying blimps on the West Coast since February, 1942.

DONALD G. BAER, '37, ( L t Yard, is living at 1707 6th Street, Brem- Willie Kain and Ralph Locke are the Comdr., USN), gives his correct resi- erton, Washington. only other 39ers in the game on this dence address as 2062 Green Street, San Coast, although there are several more JOHN K. LEYDON, '38, (Lt. of the boys in the East Coast.

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Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Leydon anIn the vital statistics department, am IQOO JOHN R. WEST, '38, (Lt, nounce the birth of a son, Edward Ri- married — have one son twenty-one ' ' * ^ " AUS), reports from 119th vinus, on 22 June 1944. months old, and his baby sister was born General Hospital, Camp Ellis, Illinois: last week, so I'm now quite a family Have been in the AUS since Jan. '44.

LAUREN E. "STEVE" JOHNSON, man.

Never overseas. Graduated from Co- '38, ( L t Comdr., USN), writes: Saw a note some months back from lumbia University, College of Physicians I guess Tom and Mrs. Suddath are on Dick Cody, wondering where I was, so and Surgeons, New York City, in their way to the states by now — Mrs. you might put in a notice that I can be March, 1943. Interned at Bellevue Hos- Suddath's first visit to the states, by the located at NAS Moffett Field, Calif. It's pital, N . Y. C, and entered extended ac- way, so those of you back there give pretty bad, when your old friends have tive duty AUS on 5 Jan. 1944. them a real welcome. At the fareweU to advertise to find out your whereabouts. dinner I was the only aviator among our Would appreciate any dope you might JOHN A. BRISTOL, '38, ( L t Comdr., submarine Classmates, Carl Dwyer, Ed have on Dick Cody. (Let's have it, Dick.

USN), stationed at Puget Sound Navy Conrad, Frank Lynch, Miles Refo, and —Ed), and his present duty.

ARTHUR F. FISCHER, JR., '39, ^Lt. Comdt, USN), returned to duty in the Pacific in July. He had come ashore in March.

months with our old friend Professor Thompson—Slip Stick Willie to you— who was stationed at 8th Bomber Command. He is a full Colonel, Coast Artillery, serving as a flak expert with Army EDWARD OLCOTT, '39, (Lt, Bomber Command. I believe he is now USN-Ret.), writes from 111-45 76th back in Washington. He is the only exAvenue, Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y.: Navy man I've run into over here and I was recently placed on the retired we had many a gay time together talking list for physical disability and am now over old times, especially some of the with the Westinghouse Electric Interna- lectures that used to be held just before tional Co. Xmas leave. As for me I'm working in Dorie and I stiU feel a little strange in the Operations of the 1st Bomber Division as Senior Controller. My work deals the civilian world. entirely with planning a bomber mission.

Sort of a soft job after flying the JOHN P. SEIFERT, '39, (Lt. Comdr., missions.

USN), Box B, NAS, Key West, writes: Other members of '39 on duty here are George Sharp, a submarine skipper, 1 9 4 0 DONALD STONE SCHEU, and Harry Helfrich, exec, of a patrol ' ' ^ ^ '40, (Lt, USN), missing in squadron, in which capacity I am like- action, has been awarded the Silver Star for services as Torpedo and Gunnery wise serving.

Officer of a sub.

HARRY J. HOLT, '39, ( L t CoL, AUS), from a rather weU-known unsinkJOHN W. M. MONTGOMERY, '40, able carrier, reports: (Lt, U S N ) , is fitting out a cruiser to Don't have any American cash over head for wars. here but this English Pound is worth about $4 in a good poker game anyGENE WALLACE, '40, (Ens., where. By the way I've been over here USNR), reports he is back in service as going on two years now and have stiU to a Construction Corps volunteer, and is ran into any member of the Class of '38 attached to the office of the Supervisor or '39. I daim both, you know. It might of Shipbuilding, USN, 11 Broadway, interest you to know that I worked for 9 New York City 4.

VICTOR G. MATUSEK, '40, (Lt..

USN), reports from a CL's wardroom in the Pacific: I entered the state of matrimony on 6 June 1943j to a young widow from Oakland with a daughter, age 3- On the 6th of April just passed we had another addition to the family, again of the feminine variety. She weighed 8 lbs. 14 02., taking after the old man, and was named Kathleen Lynne. All of which makes me the proud head of a family of four. My hope now is that I get a chance to see the young tyke before she starts dating Navy.

JOHN H. ROCKWELL, JR., '40, (Lt., USN), reports from NAS, Miami: Wish to announce the birth of a son, John Hobart III, 8 April 1844, in Jackson Memorial Hospital, this city. He is the first grandchild of Capt. J. H. RockweU ("Soc"), USNR, USNA, 1915.

STANLEY E. WAGENHALS, '40, (Lt, USN), is recuperating from a back injury sustained in a fighter plane accident at Atlantic City in April, and hopes to be flying again in the Fall.

RICHARD M. NILES, '40, (Lt., USN), gives his correct home address as 67 Manthorne Road, West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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MARAND E. "RANDY" STEFFEN, JR., '40, reports: Please note that my correct address is Fourth Avenue, Haskell, New Jersey, where some of '40 can let me know where they are.

I have run into BiU Colson several times. He's at the Wright Aeronautical Plant in Paterson, New Jersey, and I also ran into Heagy once out at Wright Field about a year ago. I certainly would like to hear from Heiuy Davison, "Arky" Mason, and any others of the old bunch.

After being in the aircraft industry since leaving the Academy I have finaUy been able to establish my own business.

We are making specialized test equipment and special ground maintenance machine tools for the Army Air Forces.

So far, we have not done much with the Navy but expect to start making some test stands for you feUows too.

I would be very much pleased to hear from some of my classmates who are doing such a splendid job in the Fleet. WiU somebody please teU Carry HaU who was, at least until last May, Resident Inspector at Package Machinery Company, Springfield, Mass., that since I used to be pretty handy with a pen in the Art Club that I would be only too glad to submit a design for a plaque for instaUing in rooms occupied by our classmates who have been kiUed in action. That sounds like a

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OSCAR F. DREYER, '41, (Lt, USN), writes: "Been married for a whole six months to the home town girl.

"Give a big hello to aU and teU Lew Larson, Tom Meckling, Jim Bardett and Ernie Farkas I'd like to hear from them —same old address."

wife, the former Mary Hanes, of 1313 Farragut Street, N . W., Washington, D. C , and 11-month-old daughter are presendy living in San Diego.

Major Herring, who is awaiting another overseas assignment—this time with a fighter squadron—recently was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained during the Savo Island Naval battle in the Solomons on August 9, 1942.

While serving aboard the USS Q U I N C Y as an aerial observer. Major Herring, then a captain, was injured by shrapnel from an enemy sheU that exploded nearby. After the ship sank, he remained in the water seven hours before being rescued by a destroyer. He was transferred to a New Zealand hospital and later to the Naval Hospital at San Diego.

Major Herring was commissioned in the Marine Corps in February, 1941, he won his wings last November foUowing aviation training at JacksonviUe, Florida.

He also attained his present rank last November.

WILLIAM T. HERRING, '41, (Maj., USMC), whose home is Rocky Mount, North Carolina, has arrived at the Marine Corps Air Depot, Miramar, Calif., from the Virgin Islands, where he was attached to an aviation defense unit. His

WILLIAM F. HEA-VEY, JR., '41, (Lt, USN), asks any of his friends of any class to look up his father. Brigadier General W . F. Heavey, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Commanding Officer of the Second Engineer Special Brigade,

splendid idea and I might further add that I would be only too glad to have these plaques cast in my foundry.

1041 RICHARD E. LEARY, '41, ' '^' (Capt, USA), was one of two men at "an advanced AUied airfield" who knew the secret of the invasion date.

Captain Leary helped supervise the Ninth Air Force fighter operations, and prepare briefing for crews for D-Day and mark out maps in the assault area.

TULLY SHELLEY, JR., '41, (Lt, USN), and Mrs. SheUey announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Boteler, on 13 May at the United States Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida.

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WILLIAM BERRYMAN MORROW, '42, (Lt., U S N ) , and Miss Nancy GosneU, were married 1 July, at the NaJACK A. L A S P A D A , '41, asks that his val Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Md. address for the present be 557 Arden Drive, Temple City, California, and reJAMES RAYMOND SWANBECK, ports that when he gets settled at his new '42, (Lt, U S N ) , and Miss Florence BeU station, he wiU register a final address.

Loveland were married 10 June at St. John's Church, Montclair, N. J. 1Q49 J O ^ ^ ^- WELSH, '42, (Lt, ' '^^ U S N ) . writes from the USS EDWARD BEVERLY HERNDON, III, '42, (Lt, USN), writes from the : "Would Uke to hear from Harry Vin- USS "Jack Schmidt reported on me recentcent, '41, and BiU Gunnels, '41. Also ly when I was at Newport, R. I. While from Leo Garland, '42, if he can spare up there I also ran into J. E. Smith. I the time from the Louisiana girls.

'I helped put a new can in commission had 22 months in the Pacific before golast spring and am now her Executive ing up there and am wearing 10 stars in my Asiatic-Pacific Theatre ribbon for it.

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"The past six months in the States "'Peck' Brewster's trip to the altar caUs for the settlement of a Uttle bet, if have been a welcome respite for many reasons, but particularly because of a girl my memory is good." in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Her name GARRISON BROWN, '42, (Lt., is Marianne GiUiland. W e became enUSN), and Mrs. Brown, announce the gaged earlier this month. She is a Navy birth of a son, MelviUe Stuart Brown, Junior (Comdr. C. G. GiUiland, USN2nd, at the Family Hospital, Naval Air Ret, '12), and used to drag '42 at the Station, San Diego, CaUfornia, 21 May. Academy, '43 too, at times.

"Aboard this ship with me are John FRANCIS EARL RICH, '42, (Lt., Bowen, and Bob March, both of '42. The USN), who is now in the submarine only members of the class I have been service, and Miss EUzabeth Hatheway able to keep in touch with are Dick were married 10 June at the Church of Arey, Don "Wilson, and Jocko Hebron.

The latter two are now in HTA training St Vincent Ferrer, New York City.

and trying to persuade me to join them.

Dick has a son almost a year old, whom he has never seen, and Jocko has a daughter six months old.

"If any one should see F. S. "Fuzzy" Knight tell him to drop me a line. My permanent address is 1021 CoUege Street, Shreveport 36, Louisiana."

WALLACE "HANK" GARRETT, '42, (Lt, USN), 400 Memorial Drive, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts, writes: "After two years on a destroyer in the Pacific I'm at last back in the promised land. For now it's temporary duty at the Charlestown Navy Yard, but starting 25 August it wiU be back to the books at M. I. T. Construction Engineering P. G. course.

"Any of '42 who find themselves in this vicinity please give me a ring at TRObridge 2341. The number's good from now on."

SILVIO D E C R I S T O F A R O , '42, (Lt.,

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HAROLD A. FISHER, '42, (Ens., USNR), writes: "I see from my latest copy of S H I P MATE that my former 'wife' ClifiF Esler, has a little responsibility in the way of

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GORDON S. WILEY. '42. (Lt., USN), from the USS sends this along: "Here's some info on myself.

'Left MIT" in '42 and had one more glorious month of shore duty after being married at St. Andrews Chapel by my good friend Chaplain Thomas, 6 AprU 1942. It's been over a year since I've seen my wife, yes it's Jeanne and I am hoping now for flight orders (having waited a long time). A further incentive would be a first glimpse at my son, Frederick John Wiley, born 14 August 1943- Hope to catch the taU end of my class at least at DaUas. "How about some 'times' in the sports writeup for old participants!"

"The Marines of '43 reaUy broke our into print in the March issue, with the printing of McHenry's Womeldorf s letters. We are aU located on this island, that is, those of us Mac mentioned. We'd aU like to hear from the rest of our Marine classmates.

"Has anyone the scoop on Pappy Adams, Tom Ogden, or BiU Cafferata?

I'm still with the 1st Battalion 21st Marines. This is our sixteenth month overseas. Our life may be boring at times, but we have a sweU outfit I'm stiU sold on this branch of the service.

"Going to BougainviUe I was aboard Mike Strohl's APD. As usual, I got sea sick, but I didnt let Mike know it, I was glad to hear that he showed up Stateside not long after I saw him.

"I hear that BiU Chip is with the Marine detachment on the No other dope avaUable on '43.

"Lt. Col. 'Tex' Butler, and Lt Col. Ernie' Fry, '30, are my regimental commander and exec, respeaively."

WILLARD L. NYBURG, '42, (Lt..

USN), writes: "My ever present N. A. drag, 'Honey' and I were married 1 May 1942-â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and we've been together just as much as dutj' wiU permit and that isn't much. I've reaUy enjoyed cruiser duty the past few years and am now attempting to spread my wings. Have hopes of going to Dallas for a bit of flight trainine this FaU. Ran into Jay Land and Bob Humphries not long ago. Jay and I had quite a time 'elbowing' for Simmons, Jack Hinchey, and Gene MacDonald. Sure would like to hear from Frande, Wiley, Gene MacDonald. Hinchey, 'Navey Dorey' Green, Dick Hopes, and Holt Esworthy. I promise to answer any and aU letters. Oh, yes, "Honey' is helping the war efi^ort at home by driving a truck at PhiUy Navy Yard."

ALBERT W. COX. '43, (Lt, USN). writes: ""My wife, LiUian, is Uving with my famUy in Los Angeles at present Our daughter, Anne B., was born 28 November 1943, and if the stories I hear of her development are true, she wiU be going to school before Daddy gets home to see her! ""After leavings AnnapoUs, I had the good fortune to attend several gunnery schools before reporting to my ship. I am a plank-owner in the "Mighty Moe," and proud to be! W e reaUy have a good ship in the fuU meaning of the word, from the Skipper right on down to the heel. '"Eleven of the officers have become "proud papas' since we shoved off last summer (3 boys, eight girls!), so you can guess how much a little pipe and slipAQAO FRANCIS X. BRADY, '43, per duty would appeal to us. ""If Captain Frank Talbot is still â&#x20AC;˘^^"' (Lt, USN), and Miss Mary Anah Dougherty, have announced their aboard, teU him I was asking abour engagement. him."

WILLIAM HENRY KASTENBEIM. '43, (Lt, USN), and Miss Lucy Jane Stewart, were married in the Dutch Reformed Church, Manhasset, Long Island, New York, 3 June.

WILLIAM B. VAN DUSEN, '43, (Lt., USN), writes from die USS . . . . : "I would like to have everyone know that on 22 April 1944, in Columbia Women's Hospital, Washington, D. C, my wife Barbara presented me with a 7 lb.

JOHN P. HARRELL, '43, (Lt, 5 oz. baby boy, WiUiam James by name.

USN), and Mrs. HarreU announce the birth of a daughter, Marcia, on 14 June HARRY L. ARNEST, JR., (Lt., 1944, at Dallas, Texas.

USN), and Miss Betty Banks Norris, were married 24 June at 2000 in Kinsale W. EDWIN BLAIR, '43, (Ens., Methodist Church, Kinsale, Virginia.

USNR), gives his new address as Barracks 3, Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, Home address, 5907 Martel, DaUas, Tex. N. T. JAMES E. HEG, '43, (Ens., USNR), LAWRENCE V. VAN LAANEN, somewhere at sea, inquires: "How are tricks and the meetings up '43, (Capt, USMC), writes:

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ALEXANDER P. ZECHELLA, '43, (Lt, USN), from '"out there" writes: "'I am still on the same old "four piper,' 1 have been exec, since last December.

1 like the job a great deal, but am looking forward to getting a new 'can.'

"From aU the dope Hawes' sub is doing a bang up job. Saw Ted Swain not too long ago. Ted is the proud papa of a litde girl. Along the same line I am also a proud papa of a reasonable facsimile of myself as of March 1st. That's all the dope for now."

FRANCIS CREIGHTON MULVANITY, '43, (Ens., U S N ) , who served aboard the USS has been officiaUy reported missing in action as of 15 November 1942 when the USS WALKE was sunk in the Fourth Battle of Savo Island.

FENTON F. SMITH, 43, (Lt., USN), from the USS writes: "Am beginning to feel like the last leaf on that tree after seeing so many of the class heading stateside for new construction, flight training, etc. Recently Art Emerson passed through on his way to a new wagon. Shortly thereafter Johnnie HarreU and Taz Shepard came through on their way to flight. '"The same situation holds true in the submarine league in which I am stiU thrashing about However, new faces keep appearing too, including Jimmy Traylor."

AMERICO J. VESCOVI, '43, (Lt., USN)^ gives his address as Student Brks. No. 3, United States Naval Air Station, DaUas 2, Texas.

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1044 JAMES C CAMP, JR., '44, ' '^^ (Lt., USMC), and Miss Shirley Jean Pitman, were married 28 May, at the Unity 'Temple, San Francisco, California. Their home address is 75 Woodrow Avenue, Santa Cruz, Calif.

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again before I go overseas.

"I am out here at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, a lone Marine among millions of 'dog faces,' and I must say that I would gladly shake the hand of a good old Naval Academy man were there one within a thousand miles.

"There isn't any news concerning NaHENRY GORMAN, '44, (Ens..

USN), asks that his address be changed val Academy men around here, so guess to 4222 Loch Raven Boulevard, Balti- I can't put out any hot dope concerning them for old SHIPMATE." more 18, Maryland.

""I am planning to marry Betty Haselwood, Scotty's sister when I get back to good old Maryland again. She is working for the FBI in Washington right now, and as she said 'yes' some time ago, I think that I have waited long enough."

JAMES W. JUDY, '44, asks that his address be changed to 150 North Clay Avenue, Ferguson, Mo., and writes: ""Well another dass has graduated and left dear old USNA—I reckon it still hasn't affected the place at that. "Wish I could get back there and see the place

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RAYMOND W. STRASSLE, '44, (Ens., USN), reports that he will be stationed at New London under instruction through August, but his home address is Box 106, Bloomingdale, N. J.

AQAK GEORGE L. FITCHETT, Vf^H '45, (Ens., USN), gives his GAGE L. BAKER, '44, (Ens., USN), address as 655 Forest Street, Arlington, New Jersey. writes: "For the interest of my friends who MAURICE C. ORBETON, J,R., '45, left me behind in Jax, I would like to say that I left shortly thereafter for my (Ens., USN), 140 Grant Street, Bangor, home town Naval Hospital in Pensacola Maine. to recover from my broken leg. I had a MORRIS A. PACKER, '45, (Ens., USN), gives his address as 2905 Byron Road, S. "W., Grand Rapids 9, Mich.

LA'WRENCE T. SIMMELINK, '45, (Ens., USN), should be addressed 10314 Lake Avenue, Cleveland 2, Ohio.

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RICHARD M. McCOOL, '45, (Ens., USN), reports his address as 1006 Classen Boulevard, Norman, Oklahoma.

EDWARD M. BAIN, '45, (Ens., USN), may be reached at 870 University Avenue, Boulder, Colorado.

WILLIAM J. BEARDSLEY, '45, (Ens., USN), makes his home at 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D. C. RICHARD ri. LEE, '45, (Ens., USN), paid a visit to the office to say hello, and requested that SHIPMATE be mailed to his home address 1541 Cambridge Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio.

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JAMES ROBERT GREEN, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Helen Eleanor Allison.

GERALD FRANKLINf RESTER, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Virginia Plummer Burr.

Weddings: JOHN HARDIE BALDWIN, JR., '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Emily Hayne Bailey.

LLOYD FRANKLIN BELL, 45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Mary Adelaide Sullivan, 7 June 1944, in the Naval Academy Chapd, Annapolis, Md. HENRY E. STEPHENS, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Jane I. Brewer, 8 June 1944, in St. Andrew's Chapel, USNA.

CHARLES PRIEST, JR., '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Suzanne Marie Randall, Memorial Chapel at Army Medical Center, Washington, D. C ROBERT D. McCRARY, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Mary Ann Dickey, 8 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

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EDWARD HOCH, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Audrey Blackledge, 8 June, Community Church, Teaneck, N. J.

CHARLES N. BRENNECKE, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Patti Eugenia Robinson, 7 June, 1944, Naval Academy Chapel.

DONALD J. LOGIE, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Joan Merklee Davis, 17 June, Reformed Church of Bronxville, New York

ROBERT D. REYNOLDS, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Jane Cornelia Edmonds, 7 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

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LUKE DANIEL LYNCH, '45, (Ens., HENRY A. MONTILLON, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Marjorie Carol Thien, USN), and Miss Marjorie Ann Corwin, 10 June, Our Lady of Angels Church, at the Naval Academy Chapel. The New York City. couple are making their home at 200 South Cherry Grove Avenue, Annapolis, ROBERT G. C U R L E Y , '45, (Ens., Md. USN), and Miss Jeannette E. Chrysler, 8 June, St. Mary's Church, Annapolis, JOHN P. WISE, '45, (Ens., USN), Md. and Miss Mary Helen Meyette, 7 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

THOMAS C. LYNCH, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Florence Nelson, 7 DEAN L. AXENE, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , June, Calvary Methodist Church, Anand Miss Sally Ann Haas, 7 June, Naval napolis.

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W A - i ^ E STUART NELSON, '45, EDWARD P. COLEMAN, '45, (Ens., (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Barbara Anne USN), and Miss Jane Valentine, 9 June, Johnson, 7 June, main chapel of the St. Andrew's Chapel, Annapolis.

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HOWARD W. PRIER, '45, (Ens., THOMAS W. MADIGAN, '45, USN), and Miss Anna Belle McMinn, 7 (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Bette L. Dennis, June, College Avenue Baptist Church, 8 June, St. Andrew's Chapel, Annapolis.

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J O H N ROGERS NORTH, '45, WALTER R. GERICH, '45, (Ens., (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Jeanne MackUSN), and Miss Mignon Jenkins, 9 lem, 7 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

June, St. Andrew's Chapel, Annapolis.

HARRY A. STEBNER, '45, (Ens., JOSEPH F. BOLGER, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Suzanne Scheneck, 7 USN), and Miss Catherine Shea, 7 June, June, Calvary Methodist Church, AnSt. Ann's Church, Washington, D. C. napolis.

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JOSEPH PATTON BRANTLEY, JR., '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Phoebe Frances Batham, 13 June, Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Maryland.

MERVIN R. MYHRA, 45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Esther Kathleen Gunvaldsen, 7 June, Calvary Methodist Church, Annapolis.

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DREXEL REECE MARTIN, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Joyce Towne, 7 June, Calvary Methodist Church, Annapolis.

ROBERT W . BRIGHTMAN, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Kathryn Elizabeth Warner, 7 June, St. Mary's Church, Annapolis.

JAMES THOMAS INGRAM, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Martha McMillan, 7 June, College Avenue, Baptist ROBERT ALFRED SCHAUFFLER, Church, Annapolis.

'45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Jane Keyes Walker, 8 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

RAYMOND H. BITNEY, JR., '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Florence A. ROBERT O. COULTHARD, 45, Wells, 7 June, Naval Academy ChapeL (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Evelyn Jackson, HORACE LOMAX BA'H.ESS, '45, 7 June, Calvary Methodist Church, An(Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Emily Barbara napolis.

Overesch, 16 June, Naval Academy.

THOMAS K IVES, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Carolyn V. Scheffenacker, 8 PAUL BROOKS PUCKETT, '45, June, Naval Academy Chapel.

(Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Mary Jane Gott, 8 June, All Saints' Episcopal Church, HUGH LEE CULBREATH, JR., '45, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

(Ens., USN), and Miss Betty Kay King, 8 June, Naval Academy Chapel.

J O H N EDMUND BROWN, JR., '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Frances MarRUFUS L. ODEN, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , guerite Napier, 8 June. and Miss Eunice Qare Starks, 10 June, J O H N E. LOSURE, '45, (Ens., USN), Naval Academy chapel. and Miss Edna J. Hoover, 7 June, Naval JOSEPH HAROLD HELDEBRAISTD, Academy Chapel.

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WILLIAM ERNEST BARNES, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Clarine Aim J O H N MONROE DESfWIDDIE, '45, Haas, 8 June, St Mary's Church, An- (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Celia Danforth, napolis.

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June, at the home of Commander R. S. Quackenbush, Jr., USN and Mrs. QuackROBERT B. GREELEY, '45, (Ens., enbush, of 19 Northwest Street, AnUSN), and Miss Barbara M. Berson, 7 napolis.

June, Naval Academy Chapel.

VICTOR R. KNICK, '45, (Ens, JAMES D. HIGHTOWER, '45, USN), and Miss Florence Clark, 10 June, (Ens., USN), and Miss Doris E. Bomar, Floral Park, Long Island.

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ROGER H U G H MULLINS, '45, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Dorothy Jean THOMAS JOSEPH CURLEY, JR., Brooks, 8 June, St. Mary's Church, Cam'45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Elizabedi bridge.

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ROBERT W. DOSIEN, '45, (Ens., USN), and Miss Roby C. Hand, 7 June, St. Anne's Church.

SHIPMATE has received and wants to acknowledge subscriptions, contributions, or other communications from the following officers, whose addresses for the usual reason cannot be published: CARROLL Q. WRIGHT, JR., '11 EARL M. MAJOR, '16 ROBERT C. BOURNE, '16 JOHN J. BALLENTINE, '18 CHARLES S. CONEY, '19 STEPHAN K. HALL, '19 HAROLD R. BROOKMAN, '20 WILLIAM B. GOGGINS, '20 ROBERT D. THRESHIE, '20 WnUAM L. EAGLETON, '20 WILLIAM W. FIFE, '20 CHARLES J. MARSHALL, '21 FREDERICK W. BIEHL, '22 ADELBERT F. CONVERSE, '22 OMER A. KNEELAND, '22 EDWARD B. ARROYO, "22 JOHN P. WHITNEY, '22 HORACE B. BUTTERFIELD, '22 HAROLD H. CONNELLEY, '23 ALBESr R. SODERGREN, '23 ROBERT K WALKER, '23

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ROBERT B. RHETT, '43 MARSH K. ECKHARDT, '43 MORTON T. SWARTH, '44 ALFRED H. AHRENS, '44 RALPH W. FRAME, '44 JOHN R. TRAUTMANN, '44 GEORGE P. MONTCJOMERY JR.,'44 WALTER R. MOORE, JR., '44 CARL R. JENNINGS, '44 JAMES R. GOOD'^KOONTZ, JR.,'44 WILUAM L. BENNETT, '44 CHARLTON R. KING, '44 LORIN W. HAY, '44 JOHN D. WHITE, '45 JOE R. WILSON, '45

Our Maritime Future (Continued from page 21) cases this return to the government has amounted to a very substantial part of the funds granted operators and the arrangement takes considerable sting out of a term rhat has become opprobrious— "subsidv."

The Commission, in common with a large segment of the shipping industry, believes that we should not relinquisla the maritime advantages we have gained.

We shall have a surplus of tonnage, mosdy in Liberty ships, when the war is

over. What we shall do with them remains an open question. W e can sell them, scrap them, charter them to other nations, give them away, lay them up for emergencies or place them in an international shipping pool. The modern, fast fleet we shall possess, however, will be one of our means to maintain national prosperity. It will cost us something, it is true. But not nearly so much as has been represented in some quarters.

There will be an appropriate amount of shipbuilding after the war, sufficient to repair, convert or build ships for the need that will develop. What yards shall be retained in construction cannot be foretold. The yards that have the best records for efficiency stand the best chance for survival. It is probable that there will be a great increase in ocean travel for which our ships are not now prepared and for which we may require additional ships of passenger types. Special trade routes will undoubtedly be developed. New areas will see the American flag in their ports. Small or shaUow ports will be no difficulty for the shallow-draft vessels we are already building.

Refrigerated cargo ships are on the increase. The cargo ships of our Merchant fleet win open new territories with new services. Our passenger vessels will ofiFer every inducement to travel American.

Ships wear out. There is every possibility

that shipbuilding will remain an essential, strong, and dynamic industry after the war in quality even if not in quantity.

The plans are in the making. Whether they come to the zenith of our expecta^ tions depends in great measure on the support that is given our Merchant Marine.

The worth of a strong Merchant fleet in wartime has been amply demonstrated.

Its worth in peace is just as great. If we maintain it at the proper level we shall give five million persons jobs, keep our foreign waterborne commerce largely under our control and give our armed forces —at a low cost—the added assurance of a strong auxiliary.

The American Merchant Marine is a vital auxiliary to National defense.

'The Beast' Scratches a Flat-Top (Continued from page 23 ) mistake, for there were planes from several squadrons milling around their home carriers, each pilot trying to get back aboard with his last few gallons of fuel Lights from all those planes mingled with the truck lights from the carriers and their screening destroyers until it was almost impossible to distinguish one

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ship from another. "The Beast' picked out one carrier whose signalling truck lights looked familiar, and circled it for a landing. As he came up the groove for the last part of his approach, the plane ahead of him was just about to land. He watched it closely, for even in the daytime a carrier landing is a tricky evolution, especially on a converted cruiser, whose flight deck is quite narrow when compared with the wide landing ramps of the bigger carriers.

As he watched this plane, "The Beast" saw its lights jerk past the usual landing position, glare brightly for an instant as it cocked up on one wing, and disappear as it dropped over the side into the black water below. He told us afterward that it gave him cold chills. "Not for me!" he told himself. "If that guy went over the side, that litde old flight deck is too small for me! I'm going to go look for a big one."

This he did, cruising up ahead until he found what looked like the biggest airaaft carrier in Task Force 58. Using his last remaining pints of gasoline, he started his approach, confident that he would have no trouble landing on such a nice wide flight deck. Everything went smoothly and a few moments later he cut his throttle to bring the big Avenger in to a perfect landing.

"Now," he thought, "all I gotta do is

find out what ship I'm on and try to borrow a bunk for the night."

As he climbed out of the cockpit, a waiting mechanic clapped him on the back. "Nice going, Mr. Russell! We knew you'd get back!"

"The Beast" stared. "How'd you know my name?" he asked.

"Why shouldn't I know you?" answered the mechanic. "I can recognize you even in the dark by the way you kick that big plane around!"

"For Heaven's sake!" cried "The Beast." "What ship is diis?"

The mechanic laughed. "Why, it's your ship, of course. What ship did you think it was?"

For an answer, "The Beast" dropped on his hands and knees and kissed the deck. "Nevermind!" he said. "That's all I want to know!"

Athletics (Continued from page 39) school boys has entered colleges for special military courses and the older coaches who filled in have become more stabilized and cagey.

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• Commander Oscar E. Hagberg, USN, now on duty at the Naval Academy has been named head coach for 1944. He will be assisted by Lieutenant-Commander E. E. Miller, USNR (now an oldtimer who has been with Navy eighteen years), Mr. Keith Molesworth and Mr. Ray Swartz, et alii.

Summed up—and prior to fall practice—the situation looks promising . . . but in the final analysis a lot depends upon what the opposition can shape-up from the more than a hundred million people still living in America.

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U N E , July and August are always the rush periods of the Searchlight staff, as many wives are traveling about and wish to contact friends in other cities.

Thanks to the p r o m p t response this year from readers of our wanted list, we have been able to furnish information quickly in most cases. May we repeat again that mail should be addressed directly to The Searchlight, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., regardless of where the wanted name was listed, as several publications donate space for the publication of our list.

Arnold, Mrs. Marshall Britt, wife, Capt., '15.

Andrews, Mrs. Chas. L., wife, Capt.

Baker, Mrs. Guy Scott, wife, Capt.

Baker, Mrs. John L., wife, Lt. C, USNR. Bakutis, Mrs. F. E., wife, Comdr., '35.

Booth, Mrs. Richard H., wife, Comdr., Retd.

Bowman, Mrs. Roscoe LeRoy, wife, Capt.

Brady, Mrs. Anthony R., wife, Capt.

Brown, Mrs. Alfred W^., widow, Capt., '10.

Calhoun, Mrs. Wm. Lowndes, wife, V. Ad., '06.

Chapman, Mrs. Albert E., wife, Comdr., '22.

Clark, Mrs. Sherman, wife, Capt.

Clifton, Mrs. A. Lee, wife, Capt.

Colt, Mrs. Stockton B., wife, Lt. C, USNR. Cook, Mrs. R. M., wife, 1st Lt., USMCR. Copeman, Mrs. Thos. H., wife, Lt. C, '31.

Cotton, Mrs. John H., wife, Lt. Comdr.

Crasland, Mrs. Geo. H., wife, Comdr. ( D C ) .

Denny, Mrs. Clifton Enyart, wife, Lt. Comdr., USN, Ret. Ervine, Mrs. Wm. L., wife, Capt.

Evans, Mrs. Joseph S., wife, Capt.

Flood, Mrs. Bruce Pepper, Comdr., USN, Ret. Ford, Mrs. Francis D. A., wife, Comdr., '21.

Gray, Mrs. John, wife, Chaplain.

Griswold, Mrs. W. A., wife, Comdr.

Harenburger, Mrs. C. H., wife, Lt. Heneberger, Mrs. Harry, wife, Comdr., '26.

Hoffman, Mrs. Harry, wife, Capt.

Irvine, Mrs. Donald, wife, Lt. Comdr., '34.

Jackson, Mrs. C. B., wife, Comdr.

Jackson, Mrs. Robert W., wife, Lt. Comdr.

Johnson, Mrs. Frank L., wife, Comdr., '30.

Jones, Mrs. G. F., wife, Capt., USMCR. Knight, Mrs. Page, wife, Lt. Lafrenz, Mrs. Walter Frederick, wife, Capt., USN, Ret. Lash, Mrs. Frank, wife, Adm. (Cch).

Lee, Mrs. Chas. L., wife, Lt. C. Leurs, Mrs. Leverett, wife, Comdr., USN. Lupinski, Mrs. H. H., wife, Comdr, USNR. Lyttle, Mrs. George H., wife, Capt.

Manahan, Mrs. Stewart Allen, Capt., USN. Mayberry, Mrs. Dale, wife, Lt. Comdr.

Mills, Mrs. Schuyler, wife, Capt., USN. Moebus, Mrs. Lucian Ancel, wife, Capt., USN. McCann, Mrs. W. J., wife, 1st Lt., USMCR. McKeena, Mrs. Francis J., wife, Capt, '21.

McQueen, Mrs. John G., wife, Capt., USN. Norman, Mrs. Robert Gentry, wife, Comdr., '30.

O'Donnell, Mrs. John Joseph, jr., Capt., USN. O'Leary, Mrs. V. M., wife, Capt., '20.

Perry, Mrs. Wadell H., wife, Capt.

Pugh, Mrs. H. Lamont, wife, Capt. (MC).

Quirk, Mrs. P. D., wife, Comdr., '32.

Ramee, Mrs. John, wife, Lt. Comdr.

Renn, Mrs. Joseph B., wife, Capt., '23.

Skjomsby, Mrs. V. L., wife, Lt. Comdr., '34.

Smart, Mrs. P. A., wife, Chaplain.

Small, Mrs. Earnest G., wife, Capt.

Smith, Mrs. Robert H., wife, Comdr.

Sperry, Mrs. E. R., wife, Comdr.

Sweetser, Mrs. Williard M., wife, Comdr., '26.

Taylor, Mrs. J. E., wife, Lt. Comdr.

Thomas, Mrs. Wm. E., wife, Major, USMC. Thomson, Mrs. Thaddeus Austin, jr., wife, Capt., USN. Troxell, Mrs. Chas. E., wife. Ens., USN.

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W e Vv aiting ^Jf^ives s this is written the radio has been aimouncing that the first landing parties have seized a small part of the island of Guam. It's possible that by the , dme it reaches print the whole island will be under American control again.

Thinking of the fighting that must ensue for possession reminds me of a very usable foxhole, all dug out and partially furnished by a native hermit.

I know I haven't thought of that hermit's retreat for years, not since the afternoon I made a secret expedition with the family laundress, and peeped down into the deep hole, some twenty feet in a rocky cliflf. Below was a rude table and chair, but the hermit was absent. This was really a relief, as I remember, because he had been mentioned in connection with some island's spirits that the natives feared, and while I had been brave enough to go to see where he lived, I hadn't wanted to meet him.

Any mention of Guam brings back memories of getting there and living there, and while later years meant just a clipper ride of several days, it used to be quite a trip, and there was one that should be mentioned with Ferdinand Magellan, I'm sure we were runners up.

In the first place, going to Guam some twenty odd years ago was looked upon by one's relatives as tantamount to going to Siberia.

It was so far away and such a small spot on the map that it seemed doubtful that you would ever live to return, and leavetakings were as tearful and final as for those under sentence from the Czar.

Formnately for those departing on diat trip, we couldn't forsee that the relatives were entirely correct, and we did go to Siberia before we ever reached Guam.

Starting from San Francisco on a December day on the old Army transport Sheridan, the passengers were buoyed by thoughts of Honolulu next stop, tropical shores, et aL Robert Louis Stevenson's collected verse was displayed by the occupants of deck chairs.

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mas our schedule would allow no delays, and sail we did, all prepared for the most tedious part of the trip, two weeks of ocean before we arrived in Guam. That delusion lasted until the nuts and raisins part of Christmas dinner, when a messenger arrived directing the transport to mrn north to Midway, pick up one of the cable operators, and have the ship's doctor perform the appendicitis operation that would save his life. For the passengers this was a pleasant diversion, the anchorage at Midway swarmed with sharks after the ship's garbage, the tiny cable station just perched on a sandy waste of island looked dreadfully lonely, and all in all it had been a side trip to write home about.

We by no means resembled the leisured class on a crack cruise liner, but for three days after leaving Nakasaki we were more interested in survival, as our passage through the China sea was attended by a storm that the ship's ofiicers freely admitted might be the end of the Sheridan. So the entrance to Vladivostok Our errand accomplished, the ship was was welcome, and we entered in majestic just mrning about when it was ordered style behind two large ice breakers that to proceed to Nakasaki for coaling and crunched away the ice twelve inches thick to Vladivostok to pick up the last of the AEF. The Allies were disbanding and removing the forces that had been stationed there, and all ships that could be diverted north were to collect a share of GOOD REASONS the evacuating troops. Immediately Stevenson went at a discount and anyone who For you t o take out more LIFE INSURA N C E now are t h a t LIFE I N S U R A N C E knew the difference between yen and sen purchased t o d a y will cost you less than was in demand, and there was much dis! t will a year f r o m t o d a y , and no one cussion of culmred pearls and the opporis certain how much longer he can mnity to get "some really nice things meet the r i g i d physical requirements nececssary t o purchcase LIFE INSURfrom Japan."

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This was hastily re-installed, and where quantity permitted, in two layers. We were rapidly approaching the coals to Newcastle state, all anticipating being frozen before we ever got to Russia, when a large stock of knitted helmets, scarves and socks was unearthed, presented to the ship by some charitable organization during the past war days, we were very grateful for the boxes that had been stored and forgotten in the hold. Distributed impartially among the passengers, they quickly learned to wind long knitted scarves into sweaters, and covered stinging ears with helmets that had been intended for the night watch in a trench.

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in the channel. This ice froze us in again after we anchored and the braver spirits caught rides ashore in the Army trucks that delivered troops to the sides of the ship, but there was little to see or do ashore in the barren frozen town, except finger a few bullet holes in the railroad station wall. So we were shiveringly glad to turn south, but cold and miserable as the trip had been everyone felt much better able to appreciate a Russian novel when next encountered. W e had been to Siberia!

The next part of the trip, with only thirty days' delay in Manila was quite ttanquil too. Only two things other than a seven day typhoon disturbed the air.

One was the concerted noise made by the heads of families, who after all this perambulating around the Pacific, and with "dead horses' quite expended, were very anxious to see a paymaster. This led to the Guam contingent taking passage in the supply ship Pensacola, whose main mission was the delivery of food and coaL The accomodations were not too spacious, but there was one bath available for forty some passengers, the ship's officers kindly gave up their rooms, and together with the passenger officers set up a clubby arrangement in the chart house, with cots placed so close together that the first one in at night was necessarily the last one out next morning.

Some care was exercised to keep the

navigator nearest the door, as 1 remember.

As I said one other slight misadventure marred our last lap of the journey, but we could hardly arrive without a fanfare after all this, so fifteen of the children on board developed whooping cough, and thus with a good share of the passengers whooping and barking, rather on the order of the old cutter Bear with a deck load of Huskies, we pushed into the harbor of Guam. Pushed is entirely correct. The quarantine officer did his best to push us out.

We had however, arrived! Now Guam is a place that is adequately described in geographies for those interested in miles long and wide, principal exports, and such dry data, but to those who have ever lived there it will always be an ocean-bound New England village, in that everyone knew within twenty-four hours what everyone else had done and said, ate, wore and thought.

For many years the monthly supply ship was the main contact with the mainland, and its advent was eagerly looked forward to, it meant after mail and newspapers, food, fresh vegetables, celery and letmce, fresh meat, and a general restocking of the all too monotonous commissary. The arrival of this ship was like the visit of the traveling peddler to the country village, and invariably led to a rash of dinner parties, at which hostesses

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vied with each other to be the first to offer crisp curly celery, or fmit salad.

Parties were plarmed to the last detail and always the friendship of the officer in charge of the ice plant had to be cultivated. He could make or break a dinner party, by granting or withholding extra ice. It was not often that there occurred a horrible accident, but there was the time when after collaring the best of the newly arrived celery, the hostess led her drooling guests to dinner, only to discover that the cook had been inspired.

He had stewed the celery with cheese.

Ever since its acquisition from Spain, the island had been governed and ran like a naval base, but surrounded by thirty thousand odd natives who looked to the Naval administration for all civic functions, the source of their income, and the arbiter of everything except religion.

Thus the bank, the harbor facilities, the police, upkeep and maintenance of roads, the radio station, each had its head of department.

The housing problem was simple, a certain number of houses were tacidy held for Naval families in and around the capital city of Agana, and as the Department maintained the same number of officers there year after year, there were always enough houses to go around.

Bachelor officers lived at the dub.

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from the Philippines. Most houses were two story, with the living quarters on the second floor to avoid the dampness in the long rainy season. The bathrooms were particularly interesting in that when they boasted a mb, it was unfettered by any such ties as drainpipes. It simply stood aloofly on the floor, and was drained by pulling the plug and the water gushed out onto the floor and disappeared thru a drainhole.

of frosty white. As this equipage and its progress could be identified two blocks away, the recipients of calls were seldom taken by surprise.

In this rambling account of a trip to Guam and some details of an almost forgotten way of living, there have, I see, been few descriptions of the scenery, the natives, or the principal export, but I'm sure it won't matter to those of us who are reading this page while we "are "WAITING," so long as the largest tonThe governor's palace was the same as nage exported this year consists of Japs. that used by the Spanish commandants, it stood at one corner of the plaza, the other three sides being taken up principally with the large cathedral, the school Spindrift and the jail. Within the palace has resided many an individual and his wife (Continued from page 38) whose foibles and whims could furnish conversation for days, around the island. on ships and aircraft, '45 discovered that One governor's whim was heard around '48 was absolutely within his rights. the world, he prohibited whisding any- Reminiscent of his own plebelet days, where within die city limits of the cap- '45 reported in traditional style (but in ital because his wife suffered from head- a slighdy reversed stams) around to aches. This prohibition received so '48's room and reluctandy paid off his much publicity after its inadvertent re- bet. Post Script: the plebe is still lease by radio that it was hastily recalled. amazed.

This same governor and his wife spring It is now time for this reporter to put instandy to mind whenever the popular away his battered typewriter and see if song, "The Surrey with the Fringe on he can pick up a few pointers on navigaTop' is played, as they preferred this tion prior to the next Samrday P-Work. method of locomotion to all others, and Running into lighthouses and shoals is drove daily or made calls in a smart black no way to excel. It's until next month surrey, with seat covers, top and fringe then.

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On a high area in what seemed more or less the fore center of the city, great dancing balls of fire rose and fell—in a line, as if someone were pressing a key. dancing the fiery blasts up and down at will. The roar was continuous, and it was all but impossible to separate any except nearby machine-gun and crackling rifle fire, much of which was coming from our immediate right, slightly to our rear, where knots of smbborn Germans, apparently by-passed, were fighting to the bitter end as our troops closed in on them.

I was with a 9.2 howitzer regiment in 1918, and have a fair idea of what a bursting shell can do; also a fair recollection of the visible effects of different calibre.

"What's the biggest guns the Army's using up here?" I asked with a general wave toward the hills and forests about us.

"Six inch—one fifty-fives," answered one of the Army officers.

"If that's the case," I told my companion, "The Navy's moved in on Cher-

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bourg." None of us had knowledge that the Navy had suddenly moved in to help reduce Cherbourg, but the gigantic billowing red bursts that could come only from big gun shells gave evidence beyond all doubt. Without glasses we could not spot the ships from our position.

Even with binoculars, it is doubtful that we could have seen the ships; for the sea was cloaked in haze which we later knew came from the stout-hearted destroyers' smoke screens.

Fascinated, all of us stood watching the vast billows of red fire and smoke, which seemed to float rather than explode into being.

Unanimously, we agreed we would hate to be on or under the receiving end of the fire coming down on the German held forts.

And when, during the course of our stay at this point of vantage, we saw a group of some 140 prisoners herded out from the defenses below us and marched up past the spot where we had parked our jeep, I think each of us felt a passing tinge of pity for the Germans who had this type of fire coming down on them.

And some of them had taken shell fire for many days.

The majority of these prisoners were hard, tough soldiers, and there was litde doubt in our minds but that they would have made a break if possible with the probable thought of joining up with some of their people still fighting it out with our infantry in a woods just to our right And it was obvious that their guards were aware of all this. They took no chances, and saw to it that each German, weary as he might be, kept his hands over his head in the approved fashion and kept moving back toward the first stockade from which they would be hauled further rearward in trucks to the gathering compounds.

Suddenly from the direction of the sea, a Navy plane swept in over the inferno below. It travelled in an easy curve, apparendy intent on only one objective— spotting for the ships laying down their fire on Cherbourg. From our right, perhaps a mile distant and slighdy to our rear, a German anti-aircraft battery came to life, its bursts trailing the plane across the sky. You always send up a prayer for your own aircraft; but I particularly hope that the lad in that particular plane is still sound and whole.

"Particular accuracy was required of the Naval gunnery, as American troops were known to he concentrated close to the target areas!'

The foregoing sentence is another from the SHAEF official release of 26 June describing the batde.

I've told you that our particular vantage point was just inside the two-kilometre sign post looking angling down on the city. With the assorted hardware that was flipping through the air not far

from us, it did not seem wholly impossible that a flying hunk of one of those big shells could drop in our vicinity.

And we were fully a mile and a quarter from the edge of the town below where infantrymen were edging in foot by foot So you can know that the fire from the naval vessels was coming down with astounding accuracy. The soldiers marvelled at it, and there is no doubt in my mind but that in their hearts was grarimde for the ships which steamed into the range of the German gims to make the job of the soldiers easier and more quiddy accomplished.

We saw other signs of this modem accuracy in employment of naval gunnery, stories of which have been told before.

Of naval shells that came raining down on German tanks on roads far in from the beach; of fire delivered on strong points holding up the advance. German equipment, blasted and twisted, lying in fields that appeared as if churned by hundreds of shells testified to the effectiveness of fire laid down from the sea. All the ships had to know was the exact spot where fire was wanted.

If you'll recall some of the motion pictures that you saw in the first two weeks after D day, particularly those showing German prisoners being marched down the slopes to the beaches to board Tank Landing Ships and other craft that hauled them across to England, you find one quality conmion to virtually every prisoner's face. N o matter whether he was a veteran Nazi still carrying himself tough, aloof and haughty, or whether he was a round, simple-faced peasant boy of sixteen or seventeen, die expression that was common to all as they beheld the mass of tanks, gun carriers and other equipment still piling out of the landing vessels along with the maze of shipping off the beaches was—amazement "They could not believe this power of the Allies.

It was not in anything that they had read or been told, that there was such a deluge as this to expect.

And a restrained expression of this same quality was in the faces of Lieutenant General von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Hetmecke and lesser officers who came out of Cherbourg as prisoners when the end came. I saw two of them sitting in an Army truck near an air strip that was only a cow pasture above one of our beachheads, disconsolately munching on a piece of bread and tinned cheese which a guard had broken out for them, while they awaited transportation to England. Close by. Army engineers were exploding land mines which had been planted by the Germans in a futile hope before D-Day. They, too, while they waited, were having a dose up look of new striking power rolling ashore from the ships and landing craft. On their faces, too, was that look of disbelief at what they saw.

Mass of power alone was probably not Flying the flag of Rear Admiral Carleton die only factor that amazed their eyes. Fanton Bryant, USN. The sudden and daring employment of USS NEVADA (Capt. P. M. Rhea, allied weapons could not but awe them. USN).

For example, I know that seeing our USS ARKANSAS (Capt F. G. RichArmy fighter and fighter-bombers taking ards, U S N ) . off from meadows and cow pastures of USS Q U I N C Y (Capt. Elliott M. Senn, Normandy to uideash their devastation USN). on German positions but a half dozen HMS GLASGOW (Capt. C. P. Clarke, miles away was a gratifying thrill. Un- DSO, R N ) . mindful of German shell fire slamming HMS ENTERPRISE (Capt H. T. W . down on their improvised fields, our Grant, DSO, R C N ) . aviators took off and landed in daring Amongst the destroyers which took routine. The views the German prisonpart in the operation were: ers had of this could have given them HMS ONSLOW (Capt. J. A. McCoy, scant comfort concerning the welfare of their comrades who across the fields and DSO, R N ) .

HMS O F F A (Lieut. Commander R. F. duough the wooded countryside still Leonard, RN). faced the gathering allied power.

HMS MELBREAK (Lieut G. J. Kirkby, Writing of Cherbourg, Hanson Bald- DSC, R N ) . win, the New York Times' military and USS O ' B R I E N (Comdr. W . W. Outernaval expert, simimed up the fall of the bridge, U S N ) .

French port in the following words: USS M U R P H Y (Comdr. R. A. Wol"The capture of Cherbourg three verton, U S N ) . weeks after the first landing in NorUSS RODMAN (Comdr. J. F. Foley, mandy represents the greatest Allied USN). strategic triumph of the war.

USS EMMONS (Comdr. E. B. Billings"It may well be written by future his- ley, U S N ) . torians as a decisive victory, for CherThe minesweeping forces consisted of bourg's loss probably means the begin- British and U. S. flotillas of fleet sweepning of the end for the Germans. If any- ers, the three senior officers being: thing can be forecast in war, it seems to Comdr. R. W . D. Thomson, RN; meanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^unless the enemy has 'secret Comdr. Heiuy Plander, USN; Lt. Comdr. weapons' of undreamed of potentialities S. E. Davies, DSC, RNR. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;that the Germans have lost their last Units of the 5 th Minesweeping M / L chance for victory or even for averting Flotilla were also engaged in the operadefeat tion.

"This is not to say that the enemy has Monday, 26 June, while the Army's 'thrown in the sponge' or that he is likely artillery and infantry were still smashing to do so soon. In one sense the bitter, down the last defenses and defenders of week-long defense of Cherbourg by sec- the port, I met Commodore William Sulond-rate troops and the hard, slow fight- livan, USN, the United States Navy's ing in Normany are disappointing. "Tac- salvage expert, easy going and genial, just tically we can expect only more of the ashore in France from England. With same; just as Cherbourg's capture took him were a group of assistants. Next somewhat longer than we had hoped day, while desultory firing still continued and expeaed, so fumre battles in France around the city, the commodore and his are likely to be protracted and difficult. group were at work. I have a feeling that "Nevertheless, 27 June must go down had Lt. Gen. von Schlieben or Rear Adm. as a red-letter day for the Allies for Cher- Hennecke seen and recognized Commobourg's fall means the bankruptcy of dore Sullivan that Monday morning beGerman strategy." fore the German guns had all been silMy specific mission and orders did not enced, they would have been a bit amazed permit me to remain with the troops un- by such accurate timing of his arrival. til the final fall of the city on Tuesday, Leastwise, few Germans could better but I would not trade for a great deal have known the importance of holding the privilege and experience of having Cherbourg and the meaning of its fall. seen what I did the afternoon of Sunday, 25 June, when our ships and those of the British moved in from sea to slam down And From the Sea! their flaming power to make the soldiers' (Continued from page 24) job easier and its accomplishment faster.

I did not know until my remrn to and HMS GLASGOW and HMS ENTEREngland what ships had participated in PRISE, with their six inchers. Particular the bombardment of Cherbourg. They accuracy was required of the Naval gunare enumerated in this section of the nery, as American troops were known to SHAEF 26 June release: be concentrated close to the target areas.

"The enemy shore batteries lost no USS TUSCALOOSA (Capt. J. B. W .

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blazing, enemy shells fell close among them. As the fire grew more intense destroyers laid a smoke screen, behind which the bombardment continued.

"After 90 minutes of continuous shelling, the ships were scheduled to withdraw, but Rear Admiral Deyo extended the time limit in order to remove further obstades from the path of the Army's advance into the vital port. Brief billows of smoke and dust were seen ashore. For another two hours ships continued to pour shells into the enemy targets."

D-Day and the Royal Navy (Continued from page 26) for the highest skiU and seamanship. If the sweep wire parted, the sweeper had to stand out of the line of advance before its gear could tangle up following the ship's sweep. It had to carry out repairs and remrn to its station without delay.

No matter what might happen, the flotillas had to maintain a steady course and a steady speed, adjusted to the speed of advance of the fleets that followed astern. One single slip-up, one single error of judgment, would imperil the whole enterprise. But the sweep was car-

ried out. A lane of safe water was cleared.

The armada sailed on.

That did not finish the work of the sweepers. They have swept continuously ever since, widening the lane of safe water, clearing new channels, ensuring that no danger to convoys foUows from new enemy minelaying.

Guarding the great armada and the unceasing flow of convoys that followed after and that still continues without intermission, the Navy's light forces, destroyers, sloops, frigates, and corvettes, patrolled the flanks. On the night of June 7, E-boats in four groups attempted to break into the assault area. In the running fights that followed they were badly mauled and driven off.

Shortly before dawn on June 9 the British destroyers H. M. S. TARTER, AsHANTi, ESKIMO and JAVELIN, with the Canadian destroyers H. M. C. S.

and time again; H. M. C. S. SlOUX and H. M. Ss. D U F F , VIDETTE, MELBREAK, SERAPIS and SWIFT, and a number of

HuNT-c/rfjj destroyers operating under H. M. S. STEVENSTONE, have all figured in these savage fights. On June 14, H. M. S. ASHANTi and the Polish O. R. P. PlORUN, made contact with a force of seven German M-class minesweepers near the Channel islands. Three were promptly sunk, another probably destroyed, and two of the remaining three left were stopped and fiercely ablaze despite the enemy's coastal batteries.

Escort and patrol—the job is ceaseless, unremitting. Convoys must be protected from U-boats as well as from surface craft. There are plenty of experienced and cunning U-boat hunters among the Royal Navy's escort groups to attend to that The aircraft too—ack-ack guns must always be manned. When enemy aircraft HAIDA and H U R O N , and the Polish O. attacked a merchant convoy on June 9, R. P. BLYSKAWICA, intercepted a force the destroyer H. M. S. WANDERER of German destroyers off Ushant. Skil- promptly shot down one; the convoy fully avoiding the Germans' torpedoes, steamed on and had neither casualties they closed and brought the enemy to nor damage. action. One German destroyer was torParticularly active have been swarms pedoed and blew up, another was driven of M. T. B.S of the British light coastal ashore in flames, and the remaining two forces, with their battle - experienced were heavily damaged before they made crews of young veterans, who for years good their escape. have been nightly infesting GermanE-boats attempting to attack our com- controlled waters along the coasts of munications have been driven off time France and Belgium and Holland, shoot-

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ing up the German convoys, shooting it out with E-boats and armed trawlers, and even larger craft Their sweeps have had new intensity and new meaning since the dawn of DDay. Off Pointe de Barfleur, for instance, on June 9 there was one of those splitsecond savage battles of speedboats, with the British patrol cutting right through the German line, engaging them at less dian 30 yards' range, sending one to the bottom and mauling another. Off Cap de la Hague on June 14, British M. T. B.s came upon three German patrol vessels.

They torpedoed the leading ship and set the second in line on fire. These are typical successes. Nighdy fierce, brief batdes take place, but the men in the M. T. B.S are used to that, for night after night, month after month, for several years, they have been out looking for such running fights as these, and finding them on occasions too numerous ever to chronicle.

These then are others of the Navy's functions. But even so, they do not cover more than part of the whole. There is the great armada itself—thousands of naval vessels and merchant ships that ferry the troops and their endless equipment across to France. Parent ships for the landing aaft, troop ships, tankers, store ships; landing ships of all sizes, rescue ships to stand by any casualties, rescue mgs to pull ships to safety, to go in and haul

stranded craft off the beaches, and to keep the whole vast complex of shipping functioning smoothly.

And there are the landing craft themselves. Landing craft in so great a diversity of types that they must number near a hundred. Landing craft for the first assault troops, Commandos, beach parties; landing craft for tanks and mobile guns and bulldozers, and the host of other mechanized vehicles of war; landing craft for water, petrol, and oil; landing craft for the Allied air forces, for their ground crews, construction men, and equipment; support landing craft gun craft, and rocket craft to give close cover and support to the others that touch down. There are even landing barges (kitchen) to prepare and pack in containers hot meals to issue to the crews of the smaller craft that have no cooking facilities on board.

cialists of the Royal Navy's obstruction clearance units, to deal with the vaunted underwater defences of the foreshores of the Fortress of Europe. That was the other of Hitler's chief miscalculations— that these obstructions would render the landing abortive. They had not been overlooked in the long and careful planning of the day.

Some shore batteries survived the first pounding given them by the big ships and the close-range shooting of the smaller ships and landing craft There were inevitably casualties. The heavy seas running on that first day helped the enemy, for some of the unwieldly landing craft could not avoid the mined obstructions thkt the clearance units had marked for them, and slewing helplessly in the breakers, were thrown upon the tripods and damaged by the mines.

Others came under heavy fire from the Nothing has been overlooked, no de- surviving shore batteries. But these were tail has been too trifling to receive the only a few. The vast majority touched down and put their men and tanks and closest attention.

So with great ships thundering their guns ashore as they had done so many mighty salvoes to silence the German times in exercise and in grim earnest on batteries, with destroyers and support other beaches. and rocket craft to lay smoke screens to They are naval vessels, these British samrate the defences at close range and landing craft, wearing the white ensign, to cover the landings, the first wave of manned by ofiicers and ratings of the assault craft rushed for the beaches on Royal Navy or by Royal Marines. They that unforgettable dawn. carried, too, Royal Naval and Royal MaWith them went highly trained spe- rine Commandos and beach parties, who

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formed part of the initial wave of assault troops, but whose job was to remain upon the beaches.

The naval parties deared the foreshore, and the naval beach masters took charge and controlled the vast flow of traffic from the ships. Many of these men had done the same job in North Africa, in Sicily, at Salerno, and at Anzio. Until the beachhead is widened to such an extent that the enemy's guns can no longer pound the lieaches, they must work day and night under fire.

Now the beachheads are being widened. Now the Navy's task becomes one of supply—pouring an unending stream of men and materials into France. It is a task perhaps no longer spectacular, but it is one of ceaseless vigilance, in which every ship, from the smallest landing craft to the greatest batdeship, will continue to play its vital part.

Fight Amphibious (Continued from page 29) were assigned on the right of the channel and the other half to the island' on the left W e moved in, opening up with our 78

40 mm at 2,500 yards and picking out our targets as we pushed ahead. W e kept right on going and at 1,500 yards let go with our 20's and then our 50's. The Jap's only response was small machine gun fire.

W e saved our rockets for dessert They literally tore the top off the earth.

Nobody could survive above ground. In fact, afterwards we found scores of dead Japs who had tried to scramble out of their foxholes to man their guns. I have never seen so much concentrated on so small an area.

By that time, the troop-carrying craft started through the surf. A matter of minutes later, the beach was secure. W e suffered very few casualties. As for my own LCL there were a few machine gun scars, and that was about alL At sunset we received orders to patrol the waters between the two captured islands to prevent infiltration from nearby atolls. But the Japs were infiltrating the wrong way—they were trying to get away from us; not bring in re-enforcements.: Patrolling close to Roi, we noticed the mast of an old sunken ship about a half mile offshore. Something was moving on the yardarm. As we drew doser we could make out the shape of a man. It was a Jap who had hanged himself in desperation—an imusual way for a Jap to commit suicide, they prefer the edge of a sharp knife. He was still moving and we wanted to go in and cut him down, but my flotilla commander feared it might be some kind of a trick and ordered us to stay away.

Next morning our forces had negotiated the channel we had deared, and we assaulted the main defenses of Roi and Namur. The battleships opened up with their .l6-inchers at point-blank range. And when the big boys had finished, we moved in just as we had done the day before. The noise was deafening.

It seemed to constimte a protective barrier, and once you were accustomed to it you were not afraid.

A few days later when Roi and Namur were pacified, our LCI support boat and one other were ordered to support landings on the other islands stretching along the perimeter of the atoll. We supported landings on 57 islands in all—most of them with little or no resistance.

In the aftermath of battle, the LCI's had plenty of chores to perform. W e ferried water; landed supplies; patrolled; did salvage work and pulled stranded LSTs off reefs. The water inside the lagoon was tricky and we had to keep our eyes open. The blue water was deep and safe; so was the dark green. But where the dark green suddenly turned a light shade mixed with yellow, it was a sure sign of a reef. These reefs jutted up like skyscrapers from the floor of the lagoon.

On 14 February, I was ordered to proceed back to Pearl Harbor, and thence to the States. At Pearl, more changes were made in our support boats. The lessons of the Marshalls were being applied without delay.

After arriving in the United States, I had the privilege of addressing the first classmen at the U. S. Naval Academy, to tell them about the amphibious forces.

Along with Lieutenant Carl Robinson, USNR, who coDomanded the LCI(L) No. 1 in the Mediterranean operations, we recited our batde experience. We were happy to note an upsurge of interest in amphibious duty. As a result of the stellar performance of landing craft personnel in every theatre of war, more than 100 first classmen had volunteered for amphibious duty, which doubled the quota of 50 that had been set The same response is reported among the men of the fleet. Beforehand, many men were no more enthusiastic than I had been. But after the Marshalls batde, there were plenty of volunteers for amphibious duty at Pearl Harbor, and amphibious duty may soon be put on a volunteer basis entirely.

This change in attimde is due to a better understanding of the function and importance of amphibious forces. I believe all hands now understand that this is an amphibious war and that landing craft are absolutdy necessary to win it in a hurry. It is not my intention to reflea upon the importance of the battleship, the aircraft carrier and other types of combat vessels. But neither a batdeship nor an aircraft carrier can run up on the beach. Landing craft are indispensable.

They are the vehides that will propd our land forces onto the beachheads of die future.

As I see it, we shall have to build landing craft in astronomical niunbers in the future to handle all the men who will volimteer amphibious.

Who A r e the Chinese?

(Continued from page 31) The typical Chinese is naturally democratic, and in this he is as much like most Americans as he is unlike most Japanese. In the Japanese language there are whole separate vocabularies for ordering servants about, for keeping your wife in her place as a subordinate being, or for showing a ceremonial obsequiousness to your social superiors. The Chinese are not like this. They have ceremonial ways of saying things, but they use these formalities on occasions when it is polite for each man to act as if the other were well-educated, financially well-off, and socially important—^regardless of whether either of them acmally is all these things. But as soon as the ice is

broken, Chinese like to be easy and informal with each other, much like Americans. Above all, no matter how poor, badly dressed, or uneducated a Chinese is, you must, when you first speak to him, show your respect for him as an independent human being. To treat him brusquely as "one of the lower classes" is bad-maimered and is regarded as showing that you yourself are ill-bred. A further Chinese characteristic is that anybody will pick up a casual conversation with a boatman, rickshaw puller, or mule-cart driver in the same friendly way that Americans talk with taxi drivers. They fed that the act of paying money for personal services is made more civilized by friendly conversation.

Most people think of the Chinese as being more philosophical than Americans. This is a characteristic that is pardy true. In the old China, everything was pretty well setded. The life story of the average man was something that had been repeating itself for cenmries. There was very little reason for supposing that the world as a whole was going to get noticeably better in the next few years.

It was pretty obvious that very few poor men got rich quickly, while anyone who looked around him could see that it was quite common for people who were fairly well off to meet sudden disaster in the way of flood or famine or disease. AU

ot this tended to encourage a philosophical acceptance of fate, and even to make successful people feel that their success was due as much to luck as to merit.

Americans are different in this respect, because we are still a young people in a new country. According to our tradition, there is always another opportunity around the corner; even if what you are doing now turns out to be a failure, you are as likely to get another chance as the next man is. Chinese philosophicalness is changing, however. The things that are happening in modern China affect the whole people and go far beyond the good luck or bad luck of individuals. The horizons of the fumre promises far more than a mere repetition of the past; it is crowded with new prospects and new oppormnities. Accordingly, it is not at all surprising to find that younger Chinese are much less philosophical and fatalistic than their parents, and more like Americans—resdess, eager, experimental, ready to assert that what you do for yourself counts more than what happens to you.

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More than eighty per cent of the Chinese people are farmers, and the typical farmer does not live in a house in the middle of his own land, like the American farmer, bur in a village. A city in the densely populated part of China is therefore not surrounded by residential suburbs, but by dusters of villages.

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Before the war there were two types of Chinese who might be called representative of the people as a whole. Tliey are still the two most important types, but their importance relative to each other is changing. In fact, this changing relative importance epitomizes the Chinese Revolution and the emergence of the new China out of the old China. One of these types is the peasant, the other is. the scholar-gendeman.

Judged numerically, since four-fifths of the people live by farming, the typical or average Chinese is a peasant—just the kind of simple, honest, limited, but shrewd and likeable peasant we have come to know through "The Good Earth" and other books by Pearl Buck.

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Both the paternalism and the oppression trace back to the scholar-entry, or landlord class. These are the typical Chinese that Lin Yutan had chiefly in mind when he wrote "My Country and My People." From the landlord's families came the scholars whose long fingernails were the proof that they did no physical work, and who combined the grossest corruption (particularly as officials appropriating squeeze from state revenues) with the most delicate artistic refinement and the most subde training of the intellect. The power of the landlords rested on the fact that grain, accumulated and stored, was until very recendy the standard of real worth. This made the landlords more powerful than the merchants, because the landlords actually controlled agriculmre. In fact, merchants were often merdy the agents of landlords.

Almost all of the officials, the "mandarins," came from the scholar-gentry dass. It is tme that according to law the way to appointment as an official was through the public examinations, for which anybody could enter; but since the knowledge of literature and philosophy required for these examinations demanded years of smdy, the sons of landlords, who did not have to work in the fields and could smdy at home with pri-

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function as the agents of the scholargentry. Since, however, some of these merchants also had a footing among the scholar-gentry, the process of conversion spread in time among the families that for centuries had provided China's landlords and mandarins.

Today, China is dominated by the families that have diversified their activities; they continue to hold large landed properties, but at the same time are active in trade, industry, and banking.

The artisan class is being rapidly converted into an industrial proletariat, divorced from the villages and the peasant family standard. The last to be affected have been the peasants. This makes the fate of the peasant decisive for the nation. If he is to be held down to the old way of life while the rest of the nation changes, then China will become a vast Japan, with an industrial development high in certain activities but uneven as a whole, and with a disastrous and widening gap, as in Japan, between the mechanical progress of the factories and the human-labor standard of the farm. Either the peasant must be liberated and granted equal rights to progress with the rest of the nation or else the overproduction of human labor on the farm, under serflike conditions, will drag down the wages and standards of factory labor and undermine the whole national economy— again, as in Japaa.

W H E R E D O THE CHINESE COME FROM?

However much we may consider people, individuals or nations, as products of their recent environment, it remains a fact that in attempting to understand them the question "Where do they come from?" ,is pertinent. The answer, with respect to the Chinese, must be sought among prehistoric records. The Peking Man is the first Chinese we know anything about. He lived in North China about 500,000 years ago, and studies of his remains, particularly of skulls and teeth, have l?d anthropologists to.believe that he is the remote ancestor of the people who inhabit North China today.

These remains, which were dug up in the country near Peking in 1927, were relics of the most ancient and primitive human beings of whom we have more than one skull or part of a skull.

If you find only one skull in one place, as in the case of the Neanderthal Man or the Piltdown Man, you are not absolutely sure how far the individual was typical and how far he may have been peculiar. In the case of the Peking Man we have a whole group of skulls—some men, some women, some young, some old. W e therefore have an idea of their type as a group, and some idea of the changes of growth from youth to age.

Moreover, smdy of the skulls, and espe-

cially of the teeth, suggests that as far as the Peking Man can be considered related to any living human type, he is related to the present living North China type. This is our oldest evidence—even though it is' part guess, part fact—of the dramatic continuity in time from thousands of years B.C. to the present day, and continuity of evolution in the same geographical area.

The Peking Man belonged to the Old Stone Age. He kept fire going in a cave and used rough stones as tools. The difference between the Old Stone Age and the Neolithic or New Stone Age is that Neolithic people knew how to grind and polish a sharp cutting edge on their tools made of chipped stone. W e have a great deal of evidence that Neolithic people were widely scattered over China. Some of them lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering many kinds of food—fruit, nuts, berries, edible roots, and the seeds of wild grasses. Others, in North China, knew how to cultivate millet; probably, in South China, rice was already cultivated in the Neolithic Age. The dog and the pig were the first animals domesticated; later, sheep, cattle, and horses were also domesticated. The Neolithic people used stone knives and axes, spears, and bows and arrows. They wove baskets and cloth, and they made a great deal of pottery, some of it on the potter's wheel and some of it very beautiful.

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Before 3000 B.C. the area around the great bend of the Yellow River became one of the most important centers of Neolithic culture. Probably the soft loose soil of this region was a help to cultural progress, because it is easily worked with crude primitive tools, making possible more food, larger communities, and a more rapid development of social organization. Probably irrigation was also practiced in this region, by digging ditches in the soft loess.

CHINESE EXPANSION

We can say with certainty that this Yellow River culmre was not just preChinese, but was in fact the early Chinese civilization. Gradually it spread eastward into the coastal plain and southward toward the Yangtze, taking over other early Neolithic settlements and making them Chinese. From settlements they became states. On the Yangtze other states grew up which challenged the supremacy of the northern states. Below the Yangtze the wilderness of mountain and subtropical jungle was penetrated more slowly, but gradually its aboriginal tribes began to be absorbed, or partially absorbed. EvenmaUy the Chinese spread all the way to the edges of the Mongolian and Central Asian deserts, the Tibetan highlands,

and the frontiers of Burma and IndoChina.

The way in which the Chinese people grew and spread explains why they are so homogeneous. There is no other group in the world that combines, as the Chinese do, vast numbers and a high degree of both physical and culmral uniformity. This is explained by a Chinese attitude for which Confucius found a formula many cenmries ago: "Let those who wear the cosmme of the barbarians be barbarians; those who wear the costume of the Chinese, be Chinese." In other words, if you want to act like a barbarian you will be treated like a barbarian; if you want to act like a Chinese, you will be accepted as a Chinese. The Chinese have been spreading out for thousands of years to occupy the vast territory which is now China; but in any one region, at any one time, the rate of migration was rather slow. Of course the process was accompanied by war and slaughter, of which there are many echoes in Chinese romance and legend; but it seems always to have been the rule that either a group or an individual willing to speak the Chinese language, dress like the Chinese, and farm like the Chinese would be accepted as Chinese without discrimination.

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Sun Yat-sen for instance, who lived abroad much of his life, in Hawaii and elsewhere, and received a western education, remrned to China to play a larger part in history than any other Chinese of modern times.

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First Battle of Manila Bay (Continued fro?n page 36) and do it damned quick," roared the captaia "Aye, aye, sir," said Rodman, and a sixinch gun blasted a shell straight and true to explode under the after bridge of the Castilla. It wiped out a five-inch gun and a six-pounder, wounded all the gun crews and killed or wounded every ofiicer on the bridge. A Spanish lieutenant of marines who had left the bridge a moment before, later told Rodman of the damage from that shell, adding that it was the first shell which had struck the Castilla during the action. It was ordy th? first of many, however. Other American ships mrned their attention to her, riddled her with shot, and set her ablaze.

With twenty-three of her crew killed and eighty wounded, she was abandoned and sunk.

On the fourth run the Commodore was looking over the Olympia's starboard side when a six-pounder from a Spanish ship hit the flagship's plates six feet beneath his feet, denting it in a few inches, and shaking him up slightly. Five other Spanish shells hulled the Olympia during the fight, but virmally no damage was sustained.

The Baltimore, just behind, fared less well. Five shells smashed into her huU, one of them entering the side just forward of the starboard gangway. It tore into the ship above the main deck, through the hammock netting, down through the deck planks and steel deck, and bent the deck beams in an ofiicer's stateroom off the wardroom. From there the shell bounded up through the after engine room, struck against the cylinder of a six-inch gun, which was disabled by the blow, then continued its erratic course to smash into a box of threepounder ammunition, strike a ladder, and fall without exploding on the deck. The American ammunition, however, did explode, and its blast slightly wounded Lieutenant F. W. Kellogg, Ensign N. E. Irwin, and six enlisted men stationed in the room.

The squadron began its fifth run to die west at 7.15 A.M. In the middle of it Captain Gridley approached the Commodore to report that only fifteen rounds of five-inch ammunition remained in the magazines. Without any exact knowledge of the damage to the enemy fleet, Dewey anxiously ordered his ships out of range, where ammunition could be redistributed among the fleet. At 7:35, the signal came to cease and retire "for breakfast." This wording added greatly to Dewey's later fame, especially when newspaper accounts of the battle dedared that the unrufiled Commodore had debonairly interrupted the fighting to give his men their breakfast, as usual.

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Some of the men protested. One gunner yelled to Commander Lamberton, "For God's sake, Captain, don't stop now.

Let's finish em up right off^."

As the squadron withdrew from the range of fire, the smoke lifted slightly and enabled the Commodore to judge more accurately the effects of his 115 minutes of shooting. The distress of the Spanish ships was evident. Many were on fire, explosions from their bursting magazines sounded across the bay, some were obviously sinking, and one or two were limping behind Cavite Point. They had stopped shooting altogether, and only poorly aimed shells from the three shore guns continued to land far beyond the American fleet. Later it was learned that these had been mounted so that they could not be trained on targets closer than 2,000 yards, on the assumption that "enemy would venture within this distance."

Ah Mah, the Commodore's personal attendant, brought his chief a cup of hot coffee, while Bob, the Chow dog Dewey had bought at Hong Kong, rushed up to the bridge happily wagging his tail.

"Well, Ah Mah," said Dewey. "What you think?"

"Very fine, Commodore," answered the Chinese servant. "Just like target practice.

As the fleet passed into the bay, American gutmers gave a wearied cheer and collapsed on the decks. Below, smoke-blackened engineers had been at their posts in the fiery heat of the engine rooms of the fleet since midnight, and the coal heavers had been locked in the depths of the ship, for battle hatches had been battened down. The temperature according to one of the stokers, had reached almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and ventilating pipes did little to relieve it. The roar of the engines and of shells almost burst the engineers' heads. Each time a gun fired the ship's lunge sent men careening into scalding pipes. Heat from the furnaces seared their hands and wrists, and singed their hair. The only water was in an old pork barrel. The fire-

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men plunged their hands in it to cool them oflF and used it to moisten their parched mouths as well. For 114 minutes of battle the men in the suflfocating engine rooms expected every moment to be their last. Now and then apprentice boys came to the ventilating pipes and yelled down news of the fight. Frequently firemen collapsed from the heat and were carried on deck for fresh air. "I shall never forget those few hours I spent in front of the furnaces in Manila Bay," said Stoker Twitchell. "It seemed to me the longest day I ever lived."

When the fleet withdrew, the men in the boiler rooms came on deck, grimy, sweat-covered and exhausted. They looked around the decks, frightened, expecting to see blood running through the scuppers from piles of dead and wounded. But they saw none. N o one on the Olympia had been scratched. Safe in the outer bay, the Commodore called all commanding ofificers to a consultation aboard the flagship, while the sailors rested at their posts and devoured sandwiches and hot coffee.

One by one the captain reported their casualties: Captain Dyer of the Baltimore: five hits, six slightly wounded; Commander Wood of the Petrel: one hit, none injured; Captain Wildes of the Boston: four minor hits, no wounded; Captain Walker of the Concord: no

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hits, no injuries. The score was flashed to the fleet from the Olympia's signal flags, and at every announcement of "0 killed, 0 wounded," a cheer swept through the squadron. The Baltimore's score: "0 killed, 6 wounded," brought the greatest yells, for she had emerged from the fray smoke-blackened and with lifeboats in shreds.

Shordy afterward, Dewey learned rhat the information given him about an ammunition shortage was wrong. Gridley had been told that only fifteen rounds of eight-inch ammunition remained, whereas, in reality, only fifteen rounds had been fired, leaving eighty-five rounds in the ammunition racks. At 11 o'clock, therefore, the litde squadron remrned to attack once more. "This time the Baltimore led, to save the remaining shells aboard the Olympia. At 11:16, guns roared again but the Spanish ships still afloat had taken refuge behind Sangley Point. Only the Don Antonio de Ulloa remained at anchor in the roadstead, bravely remrning the American fire. In a few minutes American shells found her range, and, smothered by shells, she sank, with colors flying. The Spanish shore batteries, unable to achieve the range, were soon silenced as well.

Now the mopping up began. The Olympia signaled the Concord to destroy a large transport, Mindanao, which had

been beached on the eastern shore, while the Petrel whose light draft permitted her to navigate shallower water, was ordered to enter the harbor of Cavite and destroy any ships left there.

Gallantly the ofiicers and men on the litde Petrel headed into the harbor to fire six-inch shells at the government building. Only a few shots were necessary. The Spanish flag came down, and a white flag of surrender floated in the noonday breeze. At 12:30 the Petrel signaled that all Spanish forces had surrendered, and firing ceased. But as the vessels were not completely destroyed. Lieutenant E. M. Hughes boarded a whaleboat with seven men to set them on fire. Four, including the Don Juan de Austria, the Isla de Cuba, the Isla de Luzon, and the Marques del Duero, had been abandoned in shallow water. Two others (out of commission) which had not engaged in the fight also lay in the harbor. These were the General Lezo and the Correo.

All were burned. Only the armed ttansport.Manila was spared, to be floated and serve for many years as an American gunboat in Asiatic waters.

All afternoon the Petrel worked at her task, and by 5:20 rejoined the squadron with a string of mgs and launches in tow.

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that he could reduce the defenses in one day was borne out, even though Manila's thirty-nine shore guns remained unscathed. The city, however, was demoralized. Shore firing had long since ceased, and when the Olympia, Baltimore, and Raleigh steamed toward the city in the early afternoon, the flagship anchored unconcernedly off the Luneta battery in full range of Spanish guns.

Consul Williams left the Olympia, boarded the McCulloch, and crossed to a British ship moored near the Pasig River to hand the English captain a message from the Commodore to the British Consul, then representing American interests in the islands. It asked him to warn the Spanish captain general that if another shot were fired at the American ships, the Commodore woidd "destroy the city," that any and all torpedo boats which might have sought safety in the Pasig River must be surrendered at once, and that if the American Navy were allowed to share the Manila cable, Commodore Dewey would permit the Spanish to use it, too.

The Spanish official willingly agreed not to reopen hostilities unless it became apparent that Dewey was aligning his ships in position to bombard the city.

On the other terms the captain general was less amenable. He advised Dewey that his honor would not permit him to

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surrender any torpedo boats, even if there were any in the river, nor could he accede to the request for American use of the cable. Unperturbed, Dewey ordered the Zafiro to drag for the cable, pick it up, and cut it in two. This was done that night, and the next morning Manila was isolated from the outer world. Another cable, open to Cebu, but not beyond, was severed on May 23.

The cutting of the cable became one of the most controversial of all Dewey's actions in the Philippines. His consequent isolation, of course, made him the master of the situation, out of touch with Secretary Long, and able to manage affairs as he desired. His own explanation was that his squadron carried no telegraphic equipment which would permit it to pick up the cable and use it from shipboard, and that he cut the cable to prevent the Spaniards from calling for reinforcements. Furthermore, he added, cutting the cable seemed the easiest way to avoid fumre claims by the company in the event that revolution spread dirough Manila and unauthorized persons sent messages without paying for them.

Nevertheless, by putting himself solely in command and eliminating telegraphic communication, he strengthened his own authority in Manila and could act without reference to possible interference from Washington.

In the final inventory of the action certain assets and liabilities were revealed. Lieutenant John M. Ellicott, a Naval intelligence officer who published a report of the battle, showed that 141 hits had been scored upon the Spanish squadron, and that 167 Spaniards had been killed and 215 wounded, a total of 382 Spanish and six minor casualties on the United States side. The Reina Christina, with 130 killed, was hit at least thirty-nine times, possibly more; the Castilla suffered forty hits; the Ulloa, thirty-three! the Don Juan de Austria, thirteen, and each of the other vessels, five or less. N o record was made of the total number of shells fired by the American ships, although no authority has ever tried to claim that the percentage of hits was anything but low.

In the earlier minutes of battle American marksmanship was exceeded in wildness only by that of the terror-stricken Spanish. During the first hour the Commodore stormed on his bridge because of the waste of ammunition. Bradley Fiske, who was aboard the Raleigh, wrote that "Everybody was disappointed at the great number of shots lost. Our practice was evidently much better than that of the Spaniards, but it did not seem to me that it was at all good. . . . Our gunners fired too fast, I thought." The American gunnery had at least been good

enough to justify Montojo's belief that he had no chance of victory.

The one-sidedness of the battle has undoubtedly detracted from Dewey's reputation. Some of his critics have charged that his one great battle gave him no right to a position among the great Naval heroes. Certainly, as Dewey was the first to admit, if the Spaniards had fought to their best ability the victory could not have been so cheap; probably also, as Admiral Fiske has stated, if Admiral Montojo had utilized the great shore guns in Manila, he could have sunk every one of Dewey's ships. Nevertheless, it is uncontested that Commodore Dewey made his pre-battle plans with all the thoroughness of a Farragut or of a Nelson; that his entrance into Manila Bay was as coldly calculated and courageous as Farragut's at Mobile; and that his daring made possible the great success which he achieved. He himself declared that "the battle of Manila Bay was won at Hong Kong."

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ae Luzon, each of them protected with armored decks and fitted with two torpedo mbes, made any anempt to torpedo our ships. But, as at all times during the war, the Spaniards lacked initiative; their courage was indisputable, but undirected courage alone does not conduce to successful war."

Admiral Dewey's success was due to his exhaustive preliminary smdies of the simation, to his careful foresight and preparation at Hong Kong, to his wise consultations with his captains and their mumal consideration of every contingency which might arise, to his analytical diagnosis of all the ominous rumors of Spanish preparation, and finally to his celerity and virmal surprise of their position at an hour when he was least expected."

The element of surprise was perhaps the outstanding contributor to the victory. Although the Spaniards knew that Dewey was on his way, apparendy they never believed he would dare attempt an entrance by night. Admiral Montojo was at a ball in Manila when Dewey passed Corregidor. Many of the Spanish officers stayed overnight in the capital and rowed out to their ill-fated ships after the battle had been joined.

Even in the morning the American fleet gained the advantage by holding its fire until the Commodore and Grid-

ley were ready, and then opening such a concentration of shells that the Spaniards became demoralized. That tactic was another borrowed by Dewey from Farragut, whose policy Dewey stated as "the best defense against enemy fire is superior fije of your OWIL" That creed has been expressed in various ways, but no matter how it is stated it recognizes the fact that in battle the din and fury of rapid explosions is almost as terrorizing as acmal hits.

It was one of the ironies of this extraordinary war that the Spanish admiral, Don Patricio Montojo y Pasaron, ordered home to Madrid to stand courtmartial for his failure, should have called upon his chief antagonist to defend him. In a letter addressed to Dewey he wrote: To His Excellency, Rear Admiral Dewey.

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ness to praise my conduct, I force myself to believe that this will be well received.

The affair has an immense importance for me, since it is closely related to my honor and professional reputation.

1 have another request to make of you, and that is in favor of Captain Del Rio, old and sick, late naval commandant at Subic, and the officers, sailors and soldiers who are with him in the power of the insurgents, and very badly treated. If you would consent to arrange for their transfer to Manila, continuing as prisoners, they would be satisfied.

For my part, after begging your pardon a thousand times, for the liberty which I am taking, I hope that you will kindly grant my request for which your faithful servant will be eternally gratefiil."

PATRICIO M O N T O J O .

Dewey's answer, not without subtlety, read: MY DEAR SIR:

It gives me pleasure, replying to your letter to record my testimony in favor of a gallant foe.

1. In regard to the port of Subic, it was carefully recoimoitered on the 30th of April by three of my ships, two of which made the complete circuit of the bay without finding anything to oppose them.

2. Your statement as to the probability of greater loss of life in a deep bay like that of Subic than in shoal water as at Cavite, appears to me to be incontrovertible.

3. Although without a c c u r a t e knowledge as to the condition of your ships, I have no hesitation in saying to you what I have already had the honor to report to my government, that your defense at Cavite was gallant in the extreme. The fighting of your flagship, which was singled out for attack, was especially worthy of a place fn the traditions of valor of your nation.

In conclusion, I beg to assure you that I very much regret that calumnies have been cast at you, and am confident that your honor cannot be dimmed by them.

With assurances of my highest consideration.

Very sincerely, GEORGE D E W E Y ,

Rear-Admiral, U.S.N., Commanding Asiatic Station.

To his own men, however, he made no excuses for the Spanish defeat.

When the last echo of battle had died down that May afternoon, and only the smoking, hulks of the Spa^iish fleet marred the tropical peace, the Commodore asseisfeled his officers in his cabin to thank them for their skill and bravery, and added solemnly: "Gentlemen, a higher power than we AUGIS^.T; 1 9 4 4

has won this battle today.'

Hardly a single sign of battle remained as the tropical sun sank below the hills of Luzon and the Olympia's band played the soft tones of "La Paloma," a message of peace to the hundreds of Manila residents who crowded to the shore to see the conquering ships.

Manila had endured a day of fear and horror. Now at evening civilians crowded around the batteries of shore guns, as if there were no war.

As the tropical night swifdy engulfed the city the Commodore tossed a halfsmoked cigar into the bay, then rubbed his eyes, and went below to his cabin.

Sitting down at the green felt-covered table, he took out his litde leather-bound diary and wrote: "SUNDAY, M A Y 1. Reached Manila at daylight and immediately engaged the Spanish ships and batteries at Cavite. Destroyed seven of the former including the Reina Christina and Castilla. Anchored at noon off Manila."

He crossed out the word "seven" and above it wrote "eight." The Commodore pulled at his mustache and reread the entry. He put a little cross after the word "Castilla," and at the bottom of the page, after another cross to mark the footnote, added "Also one large steam transport."

Then he went to bed.

Wardroom Stuff (Continued from page 27) "How do you pronounce the name of that island?" Mahoney inquired. " 'Saypan' or 'Sigh-pan'?"

The officer growled: "Hell, you oughta know that—"Thaipan"! " Mahoney was stho un-gallant as to tell the whole sthory to his lispeners.

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Now, hush-a-bye, Edson. This doesn't prove your point at all. The most that it proves is that you are a polypary poetaster. (See Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, fifth edition, pp. 766 and 770.)

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picture of one of our bloodiest battles.

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The book is neither pro- nor anti-Wilson—or at least the author so claims. Because he has condensed the facts, he has the advantage of dealing in over-all conclusions without the necessity of requiring the reader to wade through volumes of texts and shelves of newspaper files of that period.

Doctor Bailey very carefully traces the cause for ultimate defeat of Wilson's peace plan to errors committed by the President, by his opposition, and by our Allies during the period of the war. The reader is reminded, in the words of General Jan C. Smuts, that the months after the Armistice were perhaps as "upsetting, unsettling, and ruinous to Europe as the previous four y^ars of war." It is well to remember this in the days ahead, for there is a popular assumption that our problems will evaporate after the shooting of this war is stopped.

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political speeches are several philosophical discussions, such as the lecmre at the Witwatersrand University in 1927 on the "Theory of Holism."

The Smuts' speeches picture him as master of rough and mmble oratory. The best example here is his inspiring address at Bloemfontein on November 3, 1939, two months after he had persuaded the South African parliament to sever relations with Germany and join Britain and France in the new war. His denunciation of General Hertzog, the former Prime Minister, who had advocated a soft policy of neutrality, was pitiless.

versal a membership on too loose and nebulous a basis of organization and duties," he believes. Any new world association should "grow practically out of existing friendships and affinities, and might expand later into the wider international society of the fumre."

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large under parole. He thus had an almost unique oppormnity to smdy Tokyo in war time, an opportunity which he would gladly have exchanged for confinement in an interimient camp, he says.

Written without passion but with an engaging sense of wit, this thin volume is of more value to the thoughtful reader than most current books purporting ro give the low-down and the close-up on BOOMERANG, by Commander William Japan. Former Ambassador Joseph C. Chambliss. USNR. Harcourt, Brace Grew contributes a foreword. & Co., Sl.50.

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JAXIES MCKESSON BOWER, '87. Died 16 March 1944 in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Ulinois.

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MILTON DARGAN, '84. Died 25 June 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia.

J O H N RICHARD DILLON, '33, Comdr. USN.

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\aLLARD FILMORE ROSENBERG, '25, Lt. AAC Killed in a plane crash 5 June 1944, over the swamps of Florida, during a routine flight. Another Army plane crashed into his plane, tearing the top completely off.

MILTON D U N C A N FAIRCHILD, '30. Lt. Comdr.

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ROBERT ARCHIBALD JOHNSON, '27, Comdr.

USN. Active. Died 11 June 1944 at Sea in Pacific Area.

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DAVID WOOSTER TAYLOR, JR. '35, Lt. Comdr.

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Christman, '30; E. P. Nelson, '30; Ervin R. Jeter, '34; Edward C. McLain, '35; D. W. Gilmore, '35; William J. Maurer, "40; P. D. Richmond, '42; F. E. Hay, '42.

Entertainment during and after dinner was furnished by members of the Station dance orchestra, we being particularly favored by several songs from "Oklahoma," sung by one who, until recently before joining the Navy rendered these same numbers while a leading member of the Chicago cast of that musical show. Both Comdr. Sawyer and Midshipman Fantozzi were called upon for their impressions as viewed from opposite ends of the fifty-five year span berween their Naval Academy classes.

In outlining the finandal situation it was emphasized that the Chicago Assodarion is •not a graduate body. Anyone who has once . enrolled at the Naval Academy is eligible to membership. As a matter of fact, an appreciable number active in the Chicago Association and two of its present officers are bilgers. This point was stressed because the various branch assodarion by-laws are not uniform in this respea; one concludes its notice in a recent SHIPMATE with "we would like all grads to join us, "another admits bilgers only as "associate" members, others go so far as to welcome as "assodates" all "interested in the Naval Academy."

It was accordingly explained that the Chicago Assodarion was a going concern,—admitting Naval Academy bilgers as members on exactly the same footing as graduates,— even before the formation of the National Association. It was pointed out that the Na-

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We were glad to demonstrate this feature of the Chicago Association's praaice by having Midshipman Fantozzi with us as a prospective member.

The high point of the evening was Admiral Carpender's scholarly and informative downto-earth talk of the progress of the Padfic Naval campaign. Immediately following Pearl Harbor, Admiral Carpender was ordered to sea as Commander Destroyers, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. In September, 1942, he became Commander, Southwest Pacific Force, and of the.

Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Padfic Area.

In recognition of his services in this duty, Admiral Carpender was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the U. S. Army and the Legion of Merit of the U. S. Navy.

He returned to the United States last December and in January, 1944, assumed the duties of Commandant of the Ninth Naval Distria, with Headquarters at Great Lakes, Illinois. So thoroughly did our speaker cover his subject that when he kindly consented to answer questions, none of us could think of anything which, within the security area, had not already been explained.

The apparently universal comment following the dinner was "Why can't we have more Great Lakes meetings?" Everyone was impressed by the opportunity afforded to renew their acquaintance with the officers who are aaive in this district. It should be as easy for those working in downtown Chicago now and then to get to Great Lakes as it is for those on duty at Great Lakes to come in to

Chicago. Possibly the Chicago Association officers and planning committee have been too reluctant in suggesting meetings at Great Lakes. In view, however, of the feblings expressed on 30 June, we shall make eflforts again to meet at Great Lakes and this without waiting until time for another closing annual meeting.

As a matter of fact, we are now planning to have a social meeting at the Great Lakes Officers' Club with our ladies on the afternoon of the Army-Navy game this coming fall. This will provide a splendid chance further to keep things going for those members who are away in active service and who will expea to find that nothing of a promotional nature has been left undone in their absence.

Reported by A. Arnold Brand, '14, in absence of our Secretary.

For further information concerning Chicago Branch please communicate with Raymond D. Sullivan, '22, Secretary, c/o Marine Office of America, Insurance Exchange Bldg., Chicago 4, Illinois.

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The meeting was held in a private dining room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Wednesday evening, 5 July. 29 members and guests were present at this meeting which filled the place to overflowing. This turnout was the best in many months and was indicative of the results of a membership drive currently in progress. Members attending included : G. S. Dale, '13, (Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret.);

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Interesting impromptu talks were given by Comdr. Warren who is attached to the Naval Training Unit at University of California at L. A., and by Lt. Comdr. Dale who is Naval Inspector at the Douglas Aircraft Company's Santa Monica plant. Midshipman Pew, son of M. V. Pew, '22, also addressed the gathering and told about the present set-up of the California Maritime Academy where he is in training to become an officer in the Merchant Marine.

Principal speaker on the program was Mr. "Barney" KirchofI, an Army veteran in the fullest sense of the word. Mr. KirchofI was not satisfied to have participated in front line fighting in World War I, but in addition managed to get into the thickest kind of action in the South Pacific theatre in this war. He was a member of the expeditionary force which pushed the Japs back on New Guinea in the early stages of the war. His description of the fighting and hardships involved was indeed inspiring to all of us.

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MARYLAND BRANCH Our monthly dinner-meeting was held on Tuesday, 18 July, at the Stafford Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. The regular business meeting followed the dinner, and then "all hands" took part in the Bull Session which proved interesting. Present at this meeting were Clifford R. Wise, '41; John T. Waldhauser, Jr., '23; W. Beverly Bristor, '27; Delano Fitzgerald, '27; Lt. Comdr. Charles S. Silsbee, USNR, '25; Capt. Franklin D. Karns, USNRet., '95; Honorary President of our Branch; Comdr. Morris D. Gilmore, USN-Ret., '11, President of our Branch; and Harry R. England, '27, Secretary-Treasurer of our Parent Association; Dr. Whitehurst, Pearson, Conklin and Wiedeman. Meetings are held on the Tuesday nearest the fifteenth of the month.

For further information concerning the Maryland Branch please communicate with W. Beverly Bristor, '27, Secretary, Aintree and Hastings Road, Towson, Maryland.

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH A meeting of the available officers and directors of the Philadelphia Association was

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Meetings of the L. A. Branch continue throughout the year on the first Wednesday of each month. For further information call C. N. Perkins, '17, (Pres.), at Tucker 7272, or W. C. Ennis, '30, (Sec), at Arizona 30271.

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The Philadelphia Branch Association will resume regular meetings with a dinner to be held on Friday, 22 September. Details regarding time, place, etc., will be announced later.

Due to the fact that the present mailing list is not up to date all members and interested eligibles are requested to advise the Secretary, Thomas M. Searles, Penn Rivet Corporation, 30th & Huntingdon Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. of their present addresses.

SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH At our monthly dinner on Wednesday evening, July 5, 1944, we were very much pleased to extend a cordial welcome to a number of newcomers to our midst, and among the seniors were Rear Adm. Henry F. Bruns, '11; Capt. D. C. Laizure, '08; Capt. Elmer F. Helmkamp, '20; Comdr. W. W. Agnew, '25; and Comdr. Patrick Henry, Jr., '27.

Also, we were particularly glad to have among our distinguished guests, a West Point graduate of the Class of 1917 — Earl F. Knoob, '17, President of the Presidio Golf Club. Needless to say, we enjoyed needling the former ""grey leg" a bit.

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Otherwise, our evening was most enjoyable.

The dinner was excellent, thanks both to Chief Commissary Steward Wallace and to Chief Cabin Steward White. The crowd was most enthusiastic, and our guest speakers gave splendid talks.

First, Comdr. Herbert E. Schonland, USN, '25, gave an excellent talk on the USS SAN pRANasco, and on the action in which Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan, '11, and Capt.

Cassin Young, '16, were killed.

Then, following Commander Schonland, we were greatly pleased to have an equally fine and equally enthusiastic talk on the Submarine Service by Lt. Comdr. Roy M. Davenport, USN, '33.

Both speakers are to be commended most highly for the grand "Esprit de Corps" that they reflect; Commander Schonland for the surface ship, and Lt. Commander Davenport fot the Submarine Service.

On the conclusion of Lt. Commander Davenport's talk, the meeting adjourned with a rousing vote of thanks to both speakers.

The roll call for the evening developed a goodly number of attendants and was as follows: Stanford E. Moses, 1892, W. W. Chapin, Penn. 1894 (Associate), .W. B. Izard, 1895, John S. Graham, 1898, Hugo W. Osterhaus, 1900, James L. Hall, 1907, R. McC. Beanfield, 1908, Haller Belt, 1908, D. C. Laizure, 1908, H. F. Bruns, 1911, John Falge, 1912, C. H. Want, 1913, R. W. Cary, 1914, Ned

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Among our fellow Naval Service representatives, both of the Regulars and the Reserves, were; Capt. W. J. Hine, (SC), Lt. Ward S. Clark, USNR, Lt. A. J. Crabaugh, USNR, Lt. G. P. Maushart, USNR, Lt. R. W. Mullinex, USNR, Lt. (jg) R. F. Keller, USNR, Lt. W. T. Vogan, USNR. Our guests from civil life were all distinguished for their great and friendly interest in the Navy, arid were as follows: Lt. Col. H. G. Foster, USA-Ret, Earl F. Knoob, 1917, USMA, George L. Brandy (Ned Marbourg), Bradford Dearing, MD (Presidio Golf Club), Edward Dorresten (Lt. Com. Davenport), D. Porter Duniap (Presidio Golf Club), B. M. Eubanks (Lieut. Com. Davenport), Gordon W. Hay (Ned Marbourg), Roscoe W. Maples (Capt. W. B. Izard), Gerald W. Munay (Ned Marbourg), Philip H. Pierson, MD (Haller Belt), Empey A. Robertson (Haller Belt), H. G. Vesper (Haller Beh), John H. Wood (Capt. W. B. Izard).

Our San Francisco dinner meetings are held regularly on the fitst Wednesday evening of every month; for information please commun-

icate with Haller Belt (1908), Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Francisco (Telephone GArfield 0695).

WASHINGTON, D. C. BRANCH Sixty-six (66) interested members and guests attended our July 20, 1944, "Third Thursday" Luncheon meeting at the RogerSmith Hotel at 12.30 P. M. Admiral William H. Standley, '95, former Ambassador to Russia, spoke of his experiences in Russia and commented on the various relationships that Russia now has with her allies. Admiral Standley's talk was particularly interesting in that he gave the membership a considerable amount of information regarding the Russian attitude and their posrwar policies.

The membership was advised that there were two types of contributing membership privileges; the first, Active Membership, wherein the member pays annual dues equal to | 1 2 , and is entitled to free monthly luncheons; the second. Inactive Membership, wherein the member merely pays annual dues of $2, and must then pay | l . 5 0 for the monthly luncheon.

All members are advised that they may bring as many and any guests as they desire.

Our next meeting will be held on August 17, 1944, at which time Admiral Merrill, present Public Relations Officer of the Navy, will speak of his experiences in the Southwest Pacific.

For further information concerning the activities of the Washington Branch please communicate with Arthur E. Tarantino, '35, Secretary, Room 701, National Theater Building, Washington 25, D. C ; telephone. Executive 3340, Extension 1009.

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On the Beam Robert A. Winston, who has seen this war COMMANDER from land, sea and air did for us " T h e Beast' Scratches a Flat-Top," upon his return from the Battle of the Philippine Sea. He's had a kaleidoscopic career—end. University of Indiana; five years on New York Daily News; Navy aviatioa cadet 1935, graduating year later and placed on inactive list as Ensign; test pilot for Brewster; to Finland in 1939 to break in Finnish Air Force on Brewster Buflalos; dashed to Brussels in 1940 when Germans invaded Low Countries, observing for Navy; then to Paris to observe German breakthrough; back to this country to return to active duty as Ensign in Buireau of Aeronautics; refresher coiurse at Jacksonville in spring '43 and to sea in fall in command Fighter Squadron 31; with Fifth Task Fleet as Commander Air Group 31 in Philippine Sea and Marianas actions. Author of "Aircraft Carrier," "Dive Bomber," etc. * * • * IEUTENANT Commander Harold B. Say, USNR, who is • officer in charge of the Review Section, Office of Public Relations, Navy Department, was sent overseas in April to assist in organizing the censoring division of SHAEF—Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces—and placed in charge of the Naval wing of that division. He in turn reported directly to an officer on the staflF of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, R.N. His visit to France, a phase of which is described on these pages, was not his first. He served overseas with a regiment of artillery in 1918. Say came to the Navy from civil life in June, 1941, being on leave of absence from the Oregon State Highway Commission.

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ITie excellent photographs accompanying this artide were supplied by the Chinese Ministry of Information, via the United Nations Information Office. * * # * r T. Laurin Healy's "First Battle of Manila Bay" is another ^ excerpt from his book, "The Admiral." We published another chapter under the tide of "Midshipman Dewey" in July SHIPMATE. Both excerpts are oflFered here through courtesy of ZiflF-Davis Publishing Company and the author. * * * * ^XT E invite your attention to "Wardroom StuflF," our new ''» feature consisting of anecdotes of the war, and to the excellent photographs contained in this issue. The Marine Corps photos on the frontice page and under "Miscellaneous Photos" on Page 32, (both from Saipan and both by Sergeant James L. Burns, USMC, represent some of the finest photography to come out of this war. Also noteworthy are the aaion shots on the Battle of the Philippine Sea on Page 22, and the LCI's oflF Saipan on Page 28 (both Navy). The latter is taken from a Navy film of the Saipan invasion. Both bear the indehble stamp of authenticity. * * * * HE photo gracing the cover is of an oil painting by Lieut.

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