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We start oflF with an account of Centennial Week, forecasting the events that are scheduled to take place. Don't read it unless you are prepared to pack up and head for Annapolis to share in the celebration, because it reveals what a whale of a time will be had by all hands. The Centennial promises to be the biggest alumni reunion of all time; those who miss it will most certainly regret ir.

Appropriate to the Centennial is the story of the founding of the Academy and a brief history to the present day, under the tide, "Through Five Wars."

Prepared especially for this issue, it is the most complete short history that has ever been written. Also of interest in (Continued on page 9)

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connection with the celebration are: "Admirals in Embryo," which will take you back to your own Plebe days; "Maryland Salutes the Naval Academy," a preview of part of the Centennial ceremonies; and "Your Four Annapolis Years," prepared primarily for the enlightenment of any young men of your acquaintance who want to know more about what Academy training is like.

The old school really tore loose on V-J Day. On the spot was Commander E. John Long, '22, who tells all about it in "Here's How the Middies Celebrated the Jap Armistice." He got pictures of the highlights, too. Commander Long was formerly Officer-in-Charge of the Pictorial Section of the Office of Public Information, Navy Department, in Washington. After a number of years of outstanding service in that capacity, he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy Museum, where he now serves.

Lt. Comdr. Jackson, author of "Maryland Salutes the Naval Academy," is also author of the history, "Annapolis." Formerly an Annapolis newspaper editor, his chairmanship of the Chesapeake District of the Associated Press was terminated by active duty. A native Marylander, Jackson was educated at St. John's College and was serving his second term in the Maryland Legislature when called in 1940. After duty in the Navy Department, in Norfolk, and in Baltimore, he returned to Annapolis in 1942 as a member of the staff of the Commandant, Severn River Naval Command.

We give grateful acknowledgement to the 1945 "Lucky Bag," for a number of illustrations used in this Centennial Issue. Among these are: the steel engraved portrait of George Bancroft used herein as a Frontispiece; the cuts illustrating "Through Five Wars," and the very interesting early map of the Academy used in connection with the latter story.

Now that the war is over, we bring you stories of two of its most interesting operations. The first of these is the methods of supplying and fueling at sea, which has been developed to a high state of perfection since Pearl Harbor and which is given major credit for enabling our fleet to maintain sustained pressure against Japan. The second is the bombardment of the sacred soil of the Japanese homeland for the first time in history, by units of the Third Fleet. The title of this eye-witness account is, "Bombardment Target—Kamaisha."

The November issue will be devoted to Naval Medicine. It will feature an article by the Surgeon General of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, and a number of other stories of outstanding interest. *

Well Done!

The signing of the Japanese surrender documents on a N a v y vessel was a most appropriate tribute to the important part the U . S. N a v y has played in bringing about final Victory. From the landings at Gasa Blanca to the conquest of Okinawa, N a v y ships and N a v y personnel have had the difficult and dangerous task of delivering the men and supplies and keeping the sea lanes open at whatever cost.

This task they have performed brilliantly.

We join the entire nation in saluting the N a v y for a job well done.

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THE PUBLICATION OF THE U N I T E D STATES NAVAL A CADEMY ALUMNI A S S O C I A T I O N ANNAPOLIS, MD.

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MANAGING EDITOR HARRY R. ENGLAND, '27

Vol. 8—No. 10

CONTENTS On the Beam Invitation to a Birthday Party—By Lt. E. B. Winspear, USNR Your Four Annapolis Years Birthday Greetings from the Secretary of the Navy Admirals in Embryo Market Day in the Pacific—By Lawrence A. Read Maryland Salutes the Naval Academy —By Lieut. Commander Elmer Martin Jackson, Jr., USNR My Life on the Dirty-D—By Lieut. Bob Pearson, USNR Here's H o w the Middies Gelebrated the J a p Armistice —By Commander E. John Long, '22, USNR Wardroom Stuff Bombardment Target—Kamaishi —By Commander Matthew Radom, '28, USNR The Navy on Gapitol Hill—By Fred Lardner Poem—"The Regiment" Through Five Wars Radar Contributions T o T h e Alumni House What's the Dope Navy Athletics "Something Old Something N e w " —By Captain H. A. Baldridge, '02, USN {Ret.) We Waiting Wives The Searchlight T h e Last Gall Local Associations News

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Victory O.'N V-J Day, as on V-E Day, we crowded

the churches and bowed in solemn mood to thank God for our deliverance from the powers of evil and to pray for strength to meet the new responsibilities which victory had thrust upon us.

The achievements of our people in every phase of our war efifort clearly prove that we are capable of measuring up to our responsibilities in the years ahead.

As all the world knows, our production record is a tribute to every workman on the Home Front, and a monument to the ability and patriotism of both labor and management in every field of effort.

Symbolic of the heroism of our officers and men in the Armed Forces in every theater of operation is General Jonathan Wainwright; and living testimony to their executive and strategic ability are the achievements of the Marshalls, Eisenhowers, MacArthurs, Somervells, Hersheys, Campbells and others of the Army; the Leahys, Kings, Nimitzes, Halseys, Standleys, Lands and others of the Navy; the Arnolds, Spaatzes, Doolittles and others of the Air Forces; the Vandegrifts and others of the Marines; and the Waesches and others of the Coast Guard.

Our leaders. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, all who served as members of their cabinets, the leaders and members of the Congress, and the agencies of Government that participated in our Victory program, steered us through to Victory over our enemies.

However, complete Victory will not be ours until the United Nations agree upon a peace plan that will make it impossible for any nation or group of nations ever again to start a world war.

Complete Victory depends upon international political policies that will give all nations the independent right to determine their own form of Government and also international economic agreements that will give all nations an opportunity to buy and sell in the world markets on a basis fair to every country, regardless of size or power.

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HE eyes of the entire country will T be focused on Annapolis, Maryland, for the week beginning Sunday, October seventh. The festivities will center around the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the U. S. Naval Academy, but they will be national rather than local in character. The events will include at least three national radio broadcasts, and a stag dinner at which the President of the United States will be the principal speaker.

Chief participants at the celebrations, and guests of honor all week, will be the crowds of Academy alumni who will gather to toast the school. Samrday, October 13th, the day of the NavyPenn football game, has been designated Aliunni Day. It wiU be a fitting climax to a glorious week, and any alumni who misses it will regret it for years to come.

The Centeimial program will acmally begin with a Memorial Service in the Naval Academy Chapel at 1030 on October seventh. The service will be devoted to those graduates who have given their lives in line of duty in the service of their country. On this solemn and impressive occasion, the sermon will be delivered by Rear Admiral W. N. Thomas (ChC), U.S.N., Chief of Chaplains of the U. S. Navy. It is particularly fitting that the week of colorful celebration should thus be opened with a tribute to those shipmates who provide mute testimony to the traditions of courage and devotion to duty for which the Academy stands, and who will not be present to see the nation honor their school.

It is also anticipated that the Memorial Ashlar, given by the Class of 1938, will be dedicated at this Sunday service, and that other appropriate class gifts will be acknowledged.

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For the many interested relatives of graduates killed in line of duty, and for dass members unable to attend, it is planned to print and distribute extra copies of the Special Program of Service. If at all possible, a recording of the service will be made.

The main feature of interest the following day, Monday, wiU be the broadcast, direct from the Naval Academy, of the famous Vox Pop program, over a national network. Emanating from die Band Room, the entire program will

feature the Naval Academy, stressing its hundredth anniversary. Midshipmen will be used on the air, and a contest between fathers and sons will be held if it can be arranged.

Tuesday, 9 October, is Educator's Day, when the Academy will be on display for the benefit of the Presidents of 53 Naval R.O.T.C. Universities, together with the officers of the American Council of Education. This distinguished group will first gather at 0930 on Tuesday morning in Memorial Hall,

where the Superintendent will give a brief explanation of the Naval Academy educational and training procedures. In all probability, the group will split up into committees, each interested in specific aspects of Academy work. The rest of the morning will then be given over to visiting classes.

At 1215 the group will again gather to witness the noon Mess Formation, after which they will lunch with the Brigade. When the midshipmen go to afternoon classes, laboratory periods, and

drills, they will again be under the observation of the visiting educators.

The final meeting of the guests will be at 1700, again in Memorial Hall, when the Superintendent will be on hand to dose the day and invite written criticism and comment.

The acmal anniversary of the founding of the Academy, and the fullest day of the week, is Wednesday, October tenth. Festivities will begin at 0750 with a ceremony on the Administration Building Lawn in which the Civilian Employees of the Naval Academy will present a National Ensign to the Academy. It will be accepted by the Superintendent, and the civilian employees of the Academy will compose most of the audience. At 0800, the new colors will be hoisted by a Color Guard of Civilian Employees, with a full Marine Guard and Band to parade. At the same time, all ships in the harbor Dress Ship. This procedure, together with the decorations on the grounds of the Academy itself, will constimte the most colorful display the Navy has staged anywhere, since the end of the war.

The main Anniversary Ceremony begins at 1100 on a platform erected on the site of the building where Commander Buchanan, first Superintendent of the school, formally opened the Naval Academy 1100 on 10 October, 1845, That site today is Tecumseh Court, and there Superintendent Fitch will open the ceremony by reading the first Superintendent's initial address, and his orders from Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. Following this. Mayor William U. McCready of Annapolis will present a Testimonial from the citizens of Armapolis and Anne Arundel County. The Superintendent will accept the Testimonial in behalf of the school, and then, in mrn, will present Meritorious Civilian Service Awards to employees who have served the Naval Academy for twenty-five years or more. The employee with the longest service will accept.

Immediately thereafter. Governor Herbert R. O'Conor will present a Testimonial from the State of Maryland, which will again be accepted by the Superintendent. The latter will then introduce the Chairman of the Tennessee Historical Commission and members of the Portrait Committee. Governor Jim McCord of Tennessee will present to the Academy a portrait of President Polk, who'approved the transfer of old Fort Severn from the Army to the Navy in 1845, and who was partially responsible for the founding of the Naval Academy. The portrait will be unveiled by Mrs. Bmce Douglas, President of the President Polk Memorial Association.

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OCTOBER,

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MR MM you want to go to the Naval AcadScoverOemy!

The first step, then, is to dishow you may obtain an appoint-

Particularly appropriate in view of the recent war is th=s Okinawa bell, a relic of Commodore Perry's. Formerly rung only after a football victory over Army, it was paraded by the middies and beat by everyone in town at the V-J day celebration.

High point of four years' career at the Academy are these colorful graduation ceremonies in Dahlgren Hall, with addresses by Naval leaders, congratulations from family and guests, and treasured commission as Ensign in the United States Navy.

ment.

There are a variety of different roads, all of which lead to the Academy. The surest of these, probably, is to obtain an appointment from your Senator or Representative, each of whom is aUowed five appointees. The appointment may be made outright, but is often awarded after competitive examination. In addition, the President is allowed five appointees for the District of Colmnbia, who are usually chosen after competitive exainination, and twenty-five appointees from the nation at large, selected from the sons of regular Army and Navy ofl&cers and men, in most cases after competitive examination.

One hundred appointees aimually are authorized from the enhsted ranks of the Navy, another hundred from the enhsted

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ranks of the Navy and Marine Corps reserves, and twenty more from the honor smdents of Naval R.O.T.C. Units. To encourage enhsted personnel to try for the Academy, the Navy Department offers special instruction for the required examinations.

Finally, thirty appointments are apportioned among the Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, the Phihppines, and the South American repubhcs.

In the case of all appointments, three alternates may be nominated in addition to the principal candidate. If a principal appointment is not open, you should accept the alternate, for there is many a prominent officer in the Navy today who entered on an alternate appointment.

If you can obtain an appointment, stop a moment and see if you qualify in the other respects required by law. You must be a citizen of the United States.

You must be not younger than seventeen, nor older than twenty-one. You must be unmarried, and never have been married. You must be physically sound, well-formed, and of robust constimtion.

And you must be able to meet the other requirements of the physical and mental examinations that wiU be given you before entering. In most cities. Naval surgeons are available to give you a preliminary examination to determine this.

You should next consider whether you are eligible to enter (1) upon a certificate; (2) upon a certificate with substantiating examinations in mathematics and English; or (3) by examination. To enter upon a certificate alone, you must be enrolled in a college or university with certain entrance requirements, and must have completed certain college {Continued on page 69)

J "Home" to every Midshipman is vast, sprawling Bancroft Hall, the Academy's only dormitory. This is a view of noon formation, one of three times each day that the entire Midshipman Brigade assembles for inspection before marching to chow.

The feeling of the sailing days of the Navy is not lost even today for the Academy Midshipmen. It is one of their most popular sports, as seen above. Below, Oliver Hazard Perry's famous Hag is today one of the treasured relics in Memorial Hall.

BIRTHDIY HEETINGS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

The story of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis is one of a century of service to the nation. As Secretary of the Navy I have seen at first hand how the men of the Academy played their part in America's greatest war. .Their devotion to duty, their high integrity and their skill .in their profession were of the highest value. The United States owes to them and to the Academy, which bred them, a debt of gratitude and the respect due to a great tradition.

May the next hundred years be equally successful!

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The port arms looks a little rough, but remember these Plebes have only been at the Academy four days. They'll learn fast.

IDIHIRillS These are a few of the things that a typical '^Plebe'' learns in his first weeks This is our typical plebe, William P. George, 20 years of age, who comes from Cannonsburg, Penna.

One of the first drills is in semaphore, which, despite all modern communication devices, is still one of the most used means of talking between ships.

Strenuous physical training begins early in George's Academy career. Here he hardens stomach muscles on the deck of the gym.

Under Tecumseh, God of 2.5, George pauses a moment to shoot the breeze with friend W. I. Whitley.

occasion of the Centennial, we hold a microscope on William ONP. theGeorge, an acmal and typical Plebe, who entered the Academy in August. The life he leads, the training he receives in the first few weeks are a far cry from the roaring days of a hundred years ago. As he accustoms himself to the bewildering complications of Academy routine, he sees reminders on all sides of the Navy's glorious past. But he realizes, also, that the Academy has progressed as the science of Naval warfare has advanced. Despite its reverence for tradition, its emphasis is on efficiency and on providing a complete preparation for every phase of Naval leadership. George's first year wiU be a hard one despite his excellent background. Old graduates say that if you can live through the Plebe year, you can live through anything. But while he is enduring the restrictions and sticking to the innumerable rules and regulations, he is also absorbing the fundamentals of discipline and respect for higher authority that are the backbone of the fighting Navy. He is becoming thoroughly indoctrinated in the Naval routine that will set the pattern of his fumre career.

The scene below and that opposite are proof that Plebes study "Reef Points" both ashore and afloat, the rule book below being of that title.

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''Our secret weapon" is what Nimitz called our improved technique for fue black that line!" is the order, as this bouncing destroyer boimces outboard under the impact of this huge wave as she fuels at sea.

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With a few variations, the Navy has adapted this idea to its own requirements and transplanted it to the wide areas of the Pacific where it has been the preominant factor in our amazingly rapid id thoroughly successful conquests.

The genesis of the plan was a namral result of the very namre of the battleground. Here was a vast area extending from the Dutch East Indies and the Solomons below the equator to Alaska and the Kuriles on the edge of the arctic cirde and from the eastern-most islands of the Gilberts to the coast of China.

With its land bastions set hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of miles apart, the problem of maintaining an adequate flow of supplies, provisions, equipment, materiel, fuel and ammunition seemed an insurmountable obstacle to any early indusion of hostilities. The matter bee even more complicated when, early Tn the war, events proved that the most effective weapon, both offensively and defensively, in this combination of sea, land and aerial warfare, was the fast carrier task group.

Built around the long range striking power of its carrier based planes, flanked by the anti-aircraft defenses of its battleships and heavy and light cruisers, and ringed about by its protective cordon of alert, watchful destroyers, this group, itself, presented a knotty problem in logistics. The larger ships were more or less self sustaining for thirty days or more of continuous operations, but the vitally necessary destroyers, with their low caity for fuel and their scanty storage ces for supplies, were ill-equipped to ithstand long tours of unbroken duty. the earlier strikes when the blows were

Clinging to this destroyer's foc's'l in spite of the heavy seas, a line of seamen heave in on the line that brings aboard the fuel hose, seen between the ships at lower left.

Three experienced seamen of the Navy tanker USS KASKASKIA stand by the fuel hose as it goes over to the USS MASSACHUSETTS, being fueled in enemy waters.

H e r e is seamanship of the highest order. Water breaks high over the deck of the USS T A L L U L L A H as she fuels the ESSEX, while a destroyer moves up along h e r other side.

Suspense crackles in the air as a swell rolls the R A N G E R and the t a n k e r H O U S A T O N I C dangerously close during fueling operations.

mainly of a destructive namre to prepare the way for future invasion, the problem was of little moment. If a destroyer ran low on fuel, it was a comparatively simple matter to come alongside one of the large ships and refuel from their more than ample supply. Nor, on these short maneuvers, did the rnatter of provisions or ammunition present any difficulty.

But as the laborious island hopping process began, it became more and more evident that the whole tempo of the offensive would be slowed as the penetration into enemy territory became deeper and the supply lines lengthened in proportion. On the longer operations such as developed in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, it could be 'dearly seen that this critical supply problem would make it necessary to relax the offensive and aerial protection over the target while the task groups remrned to a distant rear area base to refuel, re-provision and re-arm. Even the rotation of task groups did not provide a satisfactory solution, for, while it did succeed in keeping a continuous cover over the operations, it was impossible to maintain the full pressure of the aerial offensive at all times. The development of the

At this stage of fueling-at-sea p r o c e d u r e , t h e fuel hose has been taken aboard t h e M I N N E A P O L I S . P u m p i n g is about to begin.

"Market Day" plan was the eventual answer and had its inception in the fueling demands of the smaller escort vessels.

Re-fueling at sea had been established as an entirely practicable and satisfactory operation under normal conditions. In the earlier carrier task groups, tankers had been induded in the formation for that purpose. The technique is as follows:

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HE captains maneuver their ships into line abreast, and hawsers are passed from ship to ship to hold them within working distance of each other.

Supporting lines are then passed and carried to winches, some 200 feet of big hose is hung in loops from them, and pumj. kg begins as soon as the hose has been coupled up on both ships. The whole operation is carried "out under way, with the winches taking up or slacking away on the suporting line in order to keep the hose from sagging into the water or getting too taut. Separate hose and other gear are used for bunker fuel and Diesel oil, and smaher gear with tighter joints and couplings for aviation gasohne. When ""avgas" is being pumped, die smoking lamp is off throughout both It takes fearless men to fuel a tossing can in a high sea. Note the sailor clinging to the {Continued on page 70) lifeline of this destroyer as, bow awash, she takes on fuel from a carrier under way.

A moment of pure drama as a tanker fuels the YORKTOWN. Water has crashed clear across the tanker's well deck, knocking all hands down, including the officer-in-charge holding on to the lifeline in the foreground. It's wet, dangerous work, but essential.

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By Lieut. Commander Elmer Martin Jackson, jr., USNR "POR a century Marylanders have con-*- sidered that they are by birth affiliated with the Nation's sea service—a kin once removed. Through the years this spirimal alliance has existed in the hearts of naval personnel and civilians of the Free State. Even so, it was the Naval Academy's centennial that aroused

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the pent-up, sincere enthusiasm and emotions of the Old Line people as recorded in the physical form of an affectionately worded, expressive and heartfelt resolution passed by the Maryland General Assembly. This act congratulates the Naval Academy on its {Continued on page 74)

Below, Annapolis in 1858. Note complete lack of bridges. That is old Fort Severn at the water's edge in right corner, with Old Glory flying proudly from its flag pole.

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By Lieutenant Bob Pearson, USNR " . . . if the cabinet is opened on a port roll.

' T ' H E Y call him "Doc," but he hasn't shelf well stocked with the pick of the as ever, any time of dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and iiUed to -*- got an M.D. In fact, he's never been books from the ship's library. overflowing when there was an all-hands AU in all, it's a pleasant spot, rela- working party called, to load supplies or near medical school. He's just a Pharmacist's Mate First Class, Kotch by name, tively safe from the prying eyes of the take on ammunition. Time and again, but the health of all 200-odd offi- officers and bos'n's mates. It's a good the Exec has called Kotch on the carpet cers and men on The Dirty D. is in his place to loaf and read and cure a hang- about it. "But, sir," says Kotch, scratchover. On mornings-after-all-night-liber- ing his head, "it's so hard to define an hands. ties, the boys stack themselves in there emergency."

"Athlete's foot atid shots," is what three deep, like cordwood. To keep the The Exec can't say too much. When Kotch says his job consists of. But I know place from becoming exclusively a Gold- he has a hangover, he screams for Kotch different I've seen him calmly sew up brick Club, the Exec posted a notice on so loud you can hear him back to the torn, smashed hands. I've seen him cure the door. It said: "NO ADMITTANCE fantail, demanding instant relief. men of everything from trench mouth EXCEPT AT SICK CALL, 0800 and In addition to plain medical practice, to pneumonia. I've even seen him ex1600." But under rhat line, he added, in embracing everything from binding up tract an infected toothâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with forceps he fine print, "Emergencies treated at any gashes to diagnosing liver trouble, Kotch made himself. hour." is saddled with all the administrative Doc holds forth in the D.'s sick-bay, After a few days, sick-bay was as full {Continued on page 78 a htde compartment about ten feet by twelve feet, that is a combination hospital, pharmacy, clinic, and lounge. One bulkhead is hned with shelves, racks, and drawers where the medicines and supplies are kept. The problem here, as in all other storage aboard this bucking DE, is different from that ashore. Doc has developed a technique that is almost instinctive now. He yaiiks open the cupboard door or medicine drawer on the starboard roll only, snatches out the botde he wants, and latches the container closed again about the time the craft is passing amidships.

If a green Hospital Apprentice opens the cupboard on a port roll, a great shower of bottles, jars, scissors, gauze, pill-boxes, and cans cascades down upon him. By the time they all are rounded up and put back, nobody's sure that the phenol barbytal bottle doesn't contain pertassium permanganate tablets, or vice versa.

Sick-bay also boasts its own sanitary sink, with a special still for furnishing pure, distilled water. And files for the medical records. And a desk with a high stool strapped in front of it. And a book OCTOBER,

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days we had been expeaFORing several the word that the Japs had met our surrender demands. There had been the usual "anti-climaxes" and premature glad tidings. Nevertheless President Tmman's seven o'clock announcement on 14 August came somewhat as a surprise.

Most of us in the Yard were going about the usual routine of that time of day.

The midshipmen were at chow, in the big mess hall below Bancroft Hall.

Tecumseh Court, as the brick parade in front of Bancroft Hall is now known, stood lonely and deserted in the late afternoon sun. Yet not too alone, for in the center of the court, in its green pagoda, stood the famous Japanese bell, brought back by Commodore Perry when he opened Japan to the outside world in 1853.

The Jap beU, whose harsh clanging is heard only when Navy triumphs over West Point at football, had been silent since World War II began. But a few days before 14 August, at the orders of Rear Admiral J. R. Beardall, USN, Superintendent of Midshipmen, it was moved from Lover's Lane to Tecumseh Court. Admiral BeardaU said there would be no formal celebration of the armistice. But word was passed that, if the Middies wanted to blow off a little steam, and wanted a place to'do itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weU there was Tecumseh Court and the Jap bell!

What they did about it, and tradition, was up to them.

A few seconds after the President's radio announcement the twilight calm of the Yard was shattered by a prolonged blast from the great powerhouse whistle, soon puncmated with a crescendo of shrieks, howls and clanging from every other siren and bell in the Yard and Crabtown. Pigeons whirled up from the clock tower of Mahan HaU, bewildered by the sudden bedlam of sound. From the streets and windows came shouts.

Tecumseh has his gayest night as Middies and Navy Juniors make him up.

[HE MIDDIES P whisdes, auto horns and even the Rebel yeU. Ships in the Severn and Spa Creek joined in the din.

In no time at all Middies came running ous'^'f every doorway of Bancroft Hall. Dtfvv n the slippery steps and ramps of Tecumseh Court they poured like a white tide,—^leaping, sliding, jumping, whooping and whisding as they advanced on the Jap beU. The beU has no clapper, and the first arrivals were too excited to bring anything with them. One enthusiastic lad tried to kick it, and did a back flop on the glassy bricks; other pounded it ineffecmaUy with their fists.

Soon someone spied a gardener's rake.

Then two middies rushed out with dumbbeUs and tenpins from the gym.

Presendy a squad, yeUing "gangway," staggered up with a heavy wooden beam, which they swung in unison at the now wobbling, protesting beU. By this time the cacophony of noise was terrific, everyone shouting, laughing and pounding one another on the back.

Suppers were deserted in Yard quarters and Officer's Club. Officers, instructors, and famUies came running to join the milling throng in the Court. A midshipman band appeared, an instrument at a time, and began playing while a microphone was being rigged to amplify its happy toddles, squeaks and booms. N o one could hear the mne—no one cared!

Through aU this uproar, however, the brassy clangor of the old Jap bell came mmbling, roUing like the leit-motif of a Wagnerian opera. N o one who has heard the Perry beU can ever forget its weird ratding tone. Treasured relic that it is to Navy men, somehow that evening it seemed a good target for our bitterness as weU as our joy.

T ONG strips of white arched grace"•-' fuUy from the rooftops over the heads of the crowd, landing with a thump. Someone found that rolls of toilet paper made reasonable substimtes for Broadway ticker tape! Pillows were slit to add a shower of gray chicken feathers.

Snake dances sprang up from nowhere and were as quickly dissolved in the throng. Signs hastily painted on bedsheets—"We Dood It!", "So soUy, Pearl {Continued on page 11)

V-J night had its solemn side, too. P i c t u r e d above is an interlude of thanksgiving.

Although attendance at t h e nine o'clock chapel service was voluntary, the big building was almost filled with a reverent gathering of middies, officers, families, friends.

After the brawl was over, T e c u m s e h Court was a scene of littered confusion, while, below, the Old Japanese bell, formerly rung only on t h e occasion of a Navy victory over A r m y at football, was rung almost all night by everyone in a noisy m o o d .

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HEY'RE teUing this one on Guam about Adm. Raymond A. Spraance and his son, Lt. Comdr. Edward Spruance, a submarine skipper.

Recently Commander Spmance put into a port, discovered his father was there, too. He caUed by telephone and said he'd be on hand for dinner; "And you wiU send a car down for me?"

The elder Spruance said no, that the walk would do his son good. So the younger Spruance trudged up a long, dusty hiU to dine with Admiral Spruance.

Diimer over, the two departed together. At a gate a gimlet-eyed marine stood sentry. Commander Spruance produced his identity card. Admiral Spmance patted his pockets, discovered he had left his at the house.

"WeU," said die marine, "you can go through if Commander Spruance wiU identify you."

Comman der Spmance looked at Admiral Spruance a n d remembered the long hot walk.

Said he to the marine: "I never saw the man before in my life."

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guests at the sub-base annual Navy Day Ball.

Post mortem on the foc'sle the next morning with Snorky sounding off. "Of course we were gendemen and those were sweU girls but I wondered why they were not chaperoned."

Replied Red, "They were. By that tall blonde lady, a bit older than the others."

Whereupon Smoky, BMlc, came up with a start, "Good Criminy! Was SHE the chaperone?"

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following message: "Stop going so damn fast. We've got to send a pilot aboard."

—Ralph Carson.

It happened in a smaU English church in Naples. An American Navy chief petty officer was being married to a British Wren. Friends of the couple were quiedy watching the ceremony when a Navy photographer dashed in.

He ran up to the side of the minister and flashed a bulb. One of the Wrens sitting out in a mid church pew sang out: "Do Americans always have shotgun weddings?"

It was only then that we noticed that Nick, the photographer, had come in off Shore Patrol beat StiU wearing his side-arms.

—Ralph Carson.

The newly commissioned ensign was standing his watch at anchor.

Seafaring terms were jumbled in the mind of die new ninety - day wonder. The ship's boat was remrning and as it a p proached the gangway, the coxswain motioned with a wave of his hand that he had no pasWe relay the tale sengers on board. of the landing craft The ensign picked that was just about up the megaphone to go into action. and shouted, "CoxThe captain caUed swain, haul out and his men together, tie up to the startold them what to board yard arm." expect, said they What if we did have some ammunition left over when the war ended Orders to the boat shouldn't w o r r y Washington'!! raise hell when they hear about this!" given, he resumed about being afraid.

A Harbor Control Officer received a his pacing of the deck. Several minutes "Fear," he said, "is a very healthy thing."

A worried looking apprentice seaman warning: EVERY CRAFT ENTERING elapsed. The ship's boat was on its third popped up at just about that time, say- THE HARBOR MUST BE SENT A trip around the ship. The ensign became curious. As the boat again went by he ing: "Captain, you are now looking at PILOT. the healthiest man in the Navy."

On his second watch, a Cmiser sent off challenged through the megaphone, —Pageant.

"What are you doing. Coxswain?" one of its planes for reconnaissance.

The reply came back, "I'm going to When the plane remrned an hour later, it landed about two hundred yards away circle 'round once more and then take A group of fine young ladies from a from the eiitrance and started to taxi in.- off!"

—Captain Isaiah Olch, USN. nearby State Teachers' CoUege, had been The frantic Control Officer flashed the 1945

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By Commander Matthew R^dom, '28, USNR Admiral Halsey and his staff make preparations for the unprecedented bombardment operation. The Third Fleet units planned boldly to steam right up and pound shore targets, challenging the Japanese Navy to do something about it if they dared to try.

Inside a turret of a battlewagon off Japan, above a 2400-lb., 16-inch projectile moves toward the breech. Then, below, a salvo belches forth and American shells go whistling on their way toward the (formerly) sacred soil of the Nipponese homeland.

• p R I D A Y the 13th of July, 1945 (west •'- longimde date) was an unlucky day —for the Japs, for in the eastern hemisphere it was Samrday the 14th and that was the day Rear Admiral J. F. (Big Jack) Shafroth, USN, led a column of fast batdeships and heavy craisers screened by destroyers in on Kamaishi, 275 miles northeast of Tokyo. My ship, the heavy cruiser QuiNCY was fourth in column, and from that position I got a good look at the proceedings from my battle station on the flag bridge.

The weather and the weather forecasts the day before were, to use a well understood expression, "stinko." There was a heavy overcast and it was raining or drizzling most of the time. We were mighty happy to have ample quantities of hot coffee on hand to dispel the chill.

We were about 1500 miles north of our last base. This was a comparative Arctic region for most of us accustomed as we were to the heat of the tropical waters of Central and Western Pacific. We were ready, though. Admiral Halsey had warned his Third Fleet ship commanders to have cold weather clothing ready for this trip so it was no surprise to be cmising off Hokkaido in the middle of July with the temperamre just under 60.

The word finally came through that we were to bombard Kamaishi on the morrow. That evening Chaplain Duane A. Brady, who is a Naval Reserve Lieutenant, gave out the news over the public address system, which he usuaUy does every evening at sea. He wound up his broadcast with an electrifying announcement for the crew from the Captain.

"We've got a very interesting job for you fellows tomorrow. This ship wiU be one of a group which wiU bombard the coast of Japan at noon tomorrow. We wiU be about 275 miles north of Tokyo." A great shout went up aU over the ship. There was many a gulp in a dry throat. We knew that this was to be the first large scale bombardment of the Empire on the main island of Honshu. More details foUowed. The target was to be the Japan {Continued on page 80)

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eOMBiRDNEIT TlRliET-KilMillSHI The bombardment was carried ont as scheduled, at short range against industrial plants.

Colimins of smoke rising from the targets testify to the effectiveness of the bombardment. These photos are clips from an official movie.

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THE 1 1 0 01 (ilPITOl HILL Size of Navy—Demobilization Postwar Naval - Military

Plan—Enrollment

By Fred Lardner

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Education — Senate Claims Bills

Passed—Retirement Legislation—Volunteer Enlistment Program T is apparent, now, that the postwar Iprevious Navy wiU be larger than some estimates which seemed to bear the stamp of authority. Resolutions have been introduced in both branches of Congress caUing for a Navy about fivesixths as large as the total of the present Navy, available, building and authorized.

That's the way it stacks up in number of ships.

Here is the statement of Senator Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, on his resolution: "The resolution states it is the sense of Congress that the Navy of the United States should consist of ships of the following types: "1. Three large aircraft carriers (42,000 tons), 24 aircraft carriers (27,000 tons), 10 hght aircraft carriers (11,000 tons), 79 escort aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, 3 large cruisers, 31 heavy cruisers, 48 light cruisers, 367 destroyers, 296 escort destroyers, 200 submarines.

"2. That sufficient aircraft, auxiliary vessels, mine vessels, patrol vessels, landing craft, district craft, and drydocks should be maintained to support the above-enumerated fleet.

"3. That adequate facilities to support the Navy should be maintained wherever necessary.

"4. That sufficient personnel should be provided to adequately maintain and operate the Navy and that proper and adequate facilities be provided and maintained to fuUy train such personnel.

"5. That ships, vessels, and craft enumerated above should be replaced unit for unit in accordance with existing law, or earlier if the development of weapons or scientific research make such ship, vessel, or craft obsolete or obsolescent.

"6. That an orderly shipbuilding and

aircraft replacement program should be maintained.

"7. That a progressive program of research and development in aU fields of naval warfare be carried on and that an adequate organization and facilities for that purpose be maintained."

The 1,079 ships of the combat types as enumerated in the resolution compare with a total of 1,308, which, Senator Walsh said, is the aggregate number of ships of these categories presently available or under constmction or authorized.

The postwar Navy wiU not be far below its present strength as regards combat ships, and will be about four times the size of the fleet authorized in the. Naval Expansion Act of 1938.

"It is important to note," said Senator Walsh, "that with respect to this proposed total postwar fleet of 1,079 combat ships it is contemplated that one-third will be kept fuUy manned and ready for any emergency; one-third wiU be organized into reserve fleets and partiaUy manned; and the remainder will be held in decommissioned stams but available for recommissioning if needed.

"This will serve as notice to the world that the United States does not intend to junk her mighty fleet, but intends, rather, to keep herself strong and invincible."

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On September 17, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Undersecretary of the Navy Artemus L. Gates said a detailed plan of Navy demobilization wiU soon be presented to the naval affairs committees.

"The situation in the Pacific," he explained, "is not sufficiently stable and

secure to justify the early remrn of aU naval forces and the activities which support them."

At the same time Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief of persormel, promised that 764,000 enlisted men and 75,000 officers would be back in civilian clothes

by Christmas.

Various Senators criticized the Navy for an aUeged slowness in demobilization.

Simultaneous Navy announcements indicated that trainees in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps scheduled for graduation November 1 wiU be retained on active duty unless eligible for release on points. AJso, V-12 engineers, physics majors, aerology majors, and presupply candidates wiU complete training and be commissioned.

AU graduates of the Naval Reserve midshipmen schools have been caUed to active duty.

Aviation cadets in the V-5 program will be released to inactive duty, if they so desire.

Medical, dental and theological smdents wiU be released to inactive duty in the Naval Reserve provided they agree to continue training.

Navy To Have 558,000 Men On September 18 Senator Walsh and Representative Vinson, Democrat of Georgia and chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, introduced twin biUs in the Senate and the House fixing the postwar strength of the U. S. Navy at 558,000 officers and men and the Marine Corps at 108,000. The proposed Navy roster of 58,()00 officers and 500,000 enlisted men compares with a {Continued on page 81)

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A FEW weeks ago at the Naval Academy I again saw the Regiment in a Regimental Pa-»- ^ rade. It made me think of the Fleet, and the glorious record Naval Academy men are writing in the annals of our country.

Being a "written and a rhymin' Riley" both by birth and inheritance, I wrote this:—

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/ saw the Regiment passing by Heads erect and with flashing eye Shoulder to shoulder it swung along Var ahead zoomed its battle song Men of the Regiment follow today where they have marched to "Anchor's A-Weigh/" And as the thud of the pounding feet Came back to your ears you thought of the fleet You thought of that Fleet fighting miles away In the early morn, or the sunset, say Aren't you proud ,of the Navy Blue Winning your country's battles for you!

I saw a beautiful Regiment passing Drums beating, flags flying And still again I thought of the Fleet Alert and ready its foes to meet, And behind them the story never old The background of Navy Blue and Gold Roll back, old times, roll hack if you may To the days of your youth on the Chesapeake Bay.

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But that is past in the yesteryear, And they strike a blow with a note of fear To the alien nations, who to their blame Didn't remember the rules of the game Who for lust and power, it suited them then To forget the decent rules of MEN! I saw that Regiment passing hy The youngsters there and they caught your eye Because they made you think of the Fleet Fighting to win in the battle's heat Halsey and Mitscher, Stark, Nimitz, King And all of the rest who to us will bring The visible tokens that all can see The chosen fruits pf our victory.

Out of these gates they went away Trained and moulded the Navy way Trained by A cademy, never to rest Until high above hangs the Navy Crest!

Honor them, glory them. Men of today Fighting to win in the Navy way.

Men of the Regiment passing by Heads erect and with flashing eye!

D O N RILEY—1945 ST. JOHNS—1906

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10 October 1945, the United ONStates Naval Academy looks back with great pride on its first full cenmry of existence. During that time it has grown from a smaU class for 50-odd midshipmen, held in an antiquated Army fort, to the largest and most celebrated instimtion of its kind in the world. Its graduates have served brilliantly in five wars, and those who have remrned to civilian life have been outstanding in their chosen fields. Its intangible contributions to the organization and advancement of the U. S. Navy, and to the life of the American nation, have been enormous.

It is hard to picmre the world into which the Naval Academy was born. In 1845 many of the older people in Annapolis could remember when George Washington took office as the first President. GeographicaUy, the country was only half developed; the frontier had been pushed only as far as Missouri and lUinois. Our Navy was such that a seaman from the Spanish Armada would have felt more at home aboard one of the ships, than a sailor from an 1845 ship would feel in a modern man-of-war. The entire fleet consisted of 76 ships, only eight of which were even partially steampowered, and not one of which was armored. A single modern, Fletcher class destroyer could have blown the whole lot of them out of the water. In displacement, a single Iowa class battleship of 38

today equals fuUy half of the entire fleet of 1845.

However, the 51 years of the Navy's life previous to the founding of the Naval Academy had seen some of its most glorious history. It had fought many of its most famous battles, and won some of its most spectacular victories. It had produced officers like John Paul Jones, David Porter, Stephen Decamr, Jr., Richard Somers, Oliver Hazard Perry, John Barry, Thomas Macdonough â&#x20AC;&#x201D;immortals of Naval history, who play an important part in the Naval Academy's teachings today.

And, though the Academy had not yet come into existence, its roots reach back into this period. The training of midshipmen to become fumre officers was an old problem, dating back to colonial days.

It underwent gradual evolution, the establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis being the culmination of this process.

The education of early midshipmen was predominantly afloat. What this quarterdeck training lacked in system, it made up for in severity. Improvements came slowly. In 1802, Navy regulations instructed ships' commanders to see that the "Schoolmasters" performed their duty toward the midshipmen by "diligently and faithfully instructing them in those sciences pertaining to their department." By 1831, it was provided that no vessel the size of a sloop-of-war or larger

should sail without a schoolmaster on board.

The Navy protected itself from the inadequacies of its educational system by making it possible for midshipmen to qualify. for promotion only after extremely hard examinations in seamanship, navigation, and gunnery. This policy in turn, made it desirable to provide some facilities for smdy ashore, and midshipman schools were evenmaUy established in the Navy Yards at Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk.

Attendance at these schools was compulsory, and the midshipmen for the most part were not interested, except for the purpose of "cramming" for their examinations for promotion. Though this system produced some outstanding naval officers, it was incomplete and intermittent at best. There had been numerous suggestions, both from within the Navy and out, that some kind of educational instimtion be established ashore, but aU met with failure. ' T ' HE one factor which brought about -'- a change of opinion on this subject in the early 1840's was the advent of steam in the Navy. No longer could it be argued that a midshipman could acquire aboard ship aU he should ever need to know to make him a competent naval officer, for there were practicaUy no steam-propeUed men-of-war on which the midshipmen could be instmcted

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THBOllliH FIVE WAUS '^Make the Midshipmen

a body of which the

country may be proud'' said Bancroft. shows how the Academy did just afloat. And even had there been, it was recognized that a systematic engineering educarion, obtainable only in classrooms and laboratories ashore, was essential thenceforth to aU naval officers.

On 11 March 1845, when James K. Polk was inaugurated as President, he invited George Bancroft, a distinguished New England philosopher, historian and diplomat, to sit in his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. If one man can be singled out who contributed most to the estabhshment of the Naval Academy, that man is George Bancroft. By 6 June he had his plans so far advanced for anaval school that he felt ready to choose its site. To the Secretary of War he wrote that a suitable place must be chosen

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"with the smaUest expendimre of public to the proposed transfer, the Secretary funds. From what I can learn of the of War consenting thereto. 16 June position and accommodation of Fort 1845."

By this brief and informal exchange Severn at Annapolis, I am inclined to think that post would be very suitable of correspondence, the site was acquired for the naval school. Although no Act of location."

On the back of this brief letter was Congress was ever passed establishing affixed an even briefer endorsement in the school, it was formally opened on the hand of the Secretary of War: "I as- 10 October 1845. Commander Franklin sent to the transfer 5 Aug. '45. W. L. Buchanan, who had been appointed first Superintendent by Secretary Bancroft, Marcy."

On 13 June, Bancroft wrote to Presi- assembled the officers, instructors and dent Polk on the same subject. Polk re- midshipmen in one of the classrooms. mrned the letter, with his endorsement He read a letter from the Secretary of the attached. It read: "Secretary of the Navy: Navy, and gave a brief address outlining Proposing a transfer of Fort Severn from the purpose for which the school was the Military to the Naval Service of the founded. Classes started at once.

There were between fifty and sixty United States. No objection is perceived

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midshipmen attending. The instruction staff numbered seven.

The objectives under which the Navy school (which was not known officially as the U. S. Naval Academy until 1850) was founded, and the tone that was set

by Superintendent Buchanan are even today the most important influences in the tenor of the instimtion. Discipline was given as much stress as education.

Secretary Bancroft directed Buchanan to "begin with the principle that a warrant (as midshipman) is to be held a pledge for subordination, industry, sobriety, and assiduous attention to duty . . . Make of them an exemplary body of which the country may be proud."

"DUCHANAN was a strict disciplin-â&#x20AC;˘-' arian himself, and required midshipmen to deport themselves as gendemen. He is credited with thus giving the force of law to what had previously been only custom, so that today an officer can be court-martialed for conduct unbecoming a gentleman. Buchanan also dismissed a midshipman because his intemperance would prevent his becoming an "ornament to the service"; another for being hot-tempered and insubordinate; still another for 'not having the capadty to acquire knowledge." These grounds have remained valid to the present day.

In short, there was born in Annapolis on 10 October 1845, a kind of instimtion that was at that time unique. It was never contemplated to be a college, and that term has never been appied to it.

It was intended to provide a place where midshipmen and instructors could be congregated to pursue certain subjects essential to the training of naval officers and to develop those traits of character most desirable to the naval service.

Despite its great growth, despite the changes and expansion in curriculum 42

"Abbey," a dormitory near the north waU, they didn't even mn the risk of scaling the wall. They mnneled under it.

Social life started in early 1846 with a ball in the Lyceum above the mess haU. Soon afterward, the smdents organized a theatrical company and presented "The Lady of Lyons" by Bulwer-Lytton. In the summer of 1851, the first midshipmen practice cruise was held, instimting one of the most important phases of the Academy's present-day training, and solving to everyone's satisfaction the much-discussed problem of how to combine sea-going experience with formal instruction ashore. During the '50's various physical driUs, infantry driUs, puUing-boat exercises, sword exercises, and simple sports were added to the Academy's activities. These did much to absorb the midshipmen's excess energies as weU as aid in their physical development.

When the Civil War broke out, the Naval Academy was moved bodily to Newport, Rhode Island. This was pardy to prevent its possible capmre by Confederate forces, but primarily so that the site could be used as an Army base. The famous frigate CONSTITUTION effected the removal of the school's equipment and personnel.

and activities, despite its enormous influence in the Navy and the nation, it has remained essentiaUy just that to the present day.

The first midshipmen at the Naval Academy were formed into two classes.

Those who had never been to sea formed the junior class, or Youngsters. Those who had been to sea, but who had one year to go before taking their promotion Before the CONSTITUTION sailed, ten examinations formed the senior class, or midshipmen of the Senior Class were orOldsters. They were a uniformly unmandered to active duty. Soon afterward, the ageable lot. remainder of the class was ordered to HERE were no provisions for ath- sea. Two more classes foUowed suit letics or sports. Smoking and card- shortly, leaving only one class at the playing were taboo. There was no organ- Academy until the vacancies could be ized social life or outside activities. So it filled by special Congressional appointis smaU wonder that the problems of re- ments.

During the Civil War, midshipmen straining high spirited youths were many. Their exuberance within the waUs educated at the Academy met their first of the Academy was hard enough on the test of war. An account of a few of those nerves of the early authorities, but even who distinguished themselves in both more exasperating was their practice of the Federal and Confederate Navies wiU "frenching out" by scaling the waUs, and serve as examples of the consistently outrendezvousing at a nearby tavern. In the {Continued on page 84)

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RADU (Continued from September Issue) Radar in Naval Warfare

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HE USE of shipboard radar by the fleet in deahng with air attack and in convoy escort work has akeady been covered. The variety of shipboard radars in use, both longwave and microwave, have been mendoned, and a limited picmre has been given of the functioning of CIC in air defense. It is our purpose in this chapter to show the other days in which radar and CIC have revolutionized fleet tactics and made possible a new flexibihty in surface-ship warfare.

In modern task forces, large numbers of ships cruise at high speed in relatively tight formations with aU hghts blacked out. This not only provides protection against possible enemy submarine attack, but provides a concentration of fire power against possible air attack, helps prevent detection by snooper planes, and has numerous other advantages. Before this war, however, such a formation presented a problem in station keeping, and few officers-of-thedeck were ever absolutely sure where their neighbors were. The simation was particularly fraught with danger for every man on board when the whole formation was executing simultaneous zig-zags. If a single OOD made a mistake and "zigged" when he was supposed to "zag," or even if he forgot to execute the turn on time, coUision was a probabihty.

Today, however, watching the whole simation on a PPI he can maintain his proper station in the formation througout zig-zags, course changes, and emergency turns solely on its information.

Even without the repeater, CIC relays to him periodical ranges and bearings on the guide and on the ships nearby which may themselves be out of station. And not only are the individual OOD's able to handle their ships in perfect safety, but the officer in tactical coinmand of the force can see at a glance the disposition of the formation for which he is responsible.

On the basis of this radar information, but supplementing it, a summary plot is kept of aU ships in the disposition and the officer in tactical coinmand can be advised, for example, which destroyer is leaving the screen for picket duty, which one is returning from investigation of a sound contact, the posi44

tion of the carrier which has left the formation to laimch and land planes, the composition of the carrier's screen and hteraUy scores of kindred items.

In addition, the same information is available concerning other friendly forces within radar range—^providing sufficient inteUigence information has been made available. With surface radar, IFF, and the latest operational information at his side, a CIC officer can report something like the foUowing to the Captain, even in the middle of the darkest night: "Several ships — probably five, two large and three in the screen; lead^ship bearing 030, range 39,000, showing IFF; course 220°, speed 18 knots, no zig-zag; believed to be two CVE's on ferry duty with three cans in screen, as they are approximately 3 miles west of the supposed position of ferry group; should pass them to starboard with 2,000 yards between screens at 0137; wiU advise any change in course, speed, or our evaluation."

This is not a trvimped-up simation for the sake of example. This is being done every day on almost every ship in our Navy.

If such information can be furnished about friendly forces, it can do the same with enemy forces. Then the report above might be the same except for the statement: "No IFF, evaluation—enemy; could be task force reported to have sortied from Tokyo Bay, consisting of one BB, one CL, and 3 cans." And at this point CIC would be feeding information to the gunnery department. The target's bearing and range, course and speed are fed into computers as the huge main battery directors swing swifdy into position. Gun crews stand ready to load powder bags and shells.

The two forces continue to close. New ranges and range rates automaticaUy reposition the mighty guns. Finally the radar indicates that the enemy is within range. Word is given to "Commence firing!" The master salvo key is closed, and with a roar nine l6-incli sheUs go hurding through the night. So sensitive is the radar that the operator can "watch" the sheUs move across his screen toward the target "pip." Then he sees indication of their splashes and can

quickly read off how much correction must be made. Again the guns boom forth, and this time the salvo appears to land squarely on the leading ship.

Sure enough, as rhe operator watches, the "pip" slowly fades from the screen.

The ship has been discovered, identified, tracked, fired upon, and sank without a man seeing it visuaUy. This is npt an imaginary incident.

It has happened many, many times in the history of the present war.

One of the first times was late on the evening of 4 November 1942, among the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.

One of our new warships was out looking for the enemy. The sea batde for Guadalcanal was in its final phase, the issue StiU imdecided. Aboard the American vessel, radar, like an invisible searchUght, probed the darkness and discovered the presence of an enemy vessel more than 8 miles away. The big ship hfted its gun muzzles toward the stars. They flashed and thimdered. The second salvo, despite both darkness and extreme range, landed squarely on the target, which disappeared from the radar screen.

Last faU, at the batde of Svuriago Strait, the captain of a destroyer leading a column of destroyers was on the bridge when the enemy fleet was sighted and action was begun- The commodore of the destroyer force was in the CIC, watching the radar screens and plots.

It was a speaacular surface battle at fairly close range, and the gunfire and the blaze of Japanese ships which had been hit made an unforgettable spectacle.

"Come up here, for the sight of your life!" the captain caUed down to the commodore.

Replied the commodore: "No, thanks.

I can see it better from here."

A technique has been worked out for shore bombardment with the aid of radar that is perhaps even more remarkable than the technique of sea batde.

It has played an increasingly important role in the advance of our amphibious operations across the Pacific and in the working over the Jap home islands. In the black of night or through the thickest fog, our warships can pinpoint a target. {Continued on page 85)

To Tfie Alumni House (Through September)

Class of

1853 1859 1865 1866 1868 1870 1871 1872 1874 1876 1877 1878 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

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1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

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Amount Contributed

Number of Contributors

$10.00 70.00 525.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 20.00 155.00 50.00 45.00 47.50

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35.00 170.00 70.00 65.00 90.00 65.00 115.00 80.00 310.00 52.00 275.00 1,500.00 240.00 220.00 280.00 421.00 255.00 235.00 215.00 442.00 535.00 2.171.48 1,270.00 675.00

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3 2 1 5 5 4 4 3 7 4 5 5 6 9 7 16 5 16 17 12 18 16 26 17 16 14 3!

42 81 78 51

Class of

Amount Contributed

1910 1911 .'..

1912 ' 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924...

1925.

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933..

1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1948 Friends of the Ass'n.

$523.00 1,035.05 578.00 621.00 530.00 620.00 670.00 415.00 685.00 765.00 1,101.22 1,656.00 2.605.00 1.060.00 1.477.60 1,292.50 1,100.00 1.600.00 400.00 505.00 744.00 941.00 1,020.00 955.00 1.032.00 945.00 587.25 760.00 940.00 1.168.50 1.000.40 1.036.00 1.346.00 1,158.00 2.125.00 2.964.00 595.00 15.00 650.00

34 73 50 49 48 50 -50 40 49 53 97 136 129 91 108 105 90 136 36 44 69 77 90 84 79 85 52 60 79 105 89 93 119 100 189 260 61 I 13

$50,050.50

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Confr/Jbuffons To The Alumni House |(Since July First)

Class of 1900

Class of 1859

Ellis, Hayne

^Miller, Merrill

Class of 1871

Class of 1901

*Cresap, James C .

Class of 1872

Parmelee, H . P.

Kiernan, J . E. J .

Foy, E. J .

Pfaff, Roy

Lamb, Scott G .

James, Jules

Venable, R. S. H .

O'Rear, George M .

Keleher, T. J . (2nd cont.]

Walton, Arthur S.

Sample, W . D.

*Kemman, Arthur S.

Allen, B. C .

Latham, John C .

Cook, Merlyn G .

McGuire, Henry D.

Fisher, W . C .

Meredith, J . E.

* Fowler, Orie W .

*Mertz. Albert

Barnett, John W .

Class of 1914

Anderson, Erik

Black, J . D.

Schipfer, Carl A .

Brown, John H., Jr.

Blakeslee, Victor F. Bryan, E. D.

Warren, Lee P.

Cary, Robert W .

Class of 1874

McCommon, Frank

Wille, Frank J .

*Fletcher, Paul W

*Dorn, E. J .

Rich, Albert T.

Wilson, Eugene E.

Kurtz, T. R.

Class of 1902

Class of 1876

Cooper, O . F.

*Boush, C . J .

Class of 1909

*WainwrIght, Richard, Jr.

*HalpIne, N . J . T.

Hambsch, Philip F. Haxton, Ralph G .

Raguet, E. C .

Class of 1903

Class of 1881 Eldredge, Houston

Spiller, O . L.

Leahy, Lamar R.

Train, Harold C .

Schlabach, R. P.

Wickham, W . C .

Burgess, Julius A .

Maury, Robert H .

Christmas, W . F.

Offley, A . N .

Christoph, Karl

*Rooks, Albert H .

Class of 1915 Dobyns, George Berry Godfrey, Vincent H .

Kinne, M . T.

* M c N u l t a , Herbert

Davidson, Lyal A .

Bagley, D. W .

Class of 1888

Brown, Walter E. *Hancock, Lewis, Jr.

Stuart, Harry A .

Brewster, George P.

Robottom, P. K.

Burhans, Arthur D.

*Norton, A . L

Ryan, Russell C . s

Cochrane, E. F.

Sherman, Frederick C .

Halplne, C . G .

Smith, John H .

Major, Earl M .

Williams, Edgar M .

Scout, Augustus

* Dortch, I. F.

Class of 1889 *Offley, Cleland N.

Howze, Gerald

Tildsley, J . M .

Irvine, Robert L.

Webb, A. W .

*Lightle, William T.

Class of 1891 * W a t t , Richard Morgan

Schoemaker, Harry E. Woodson, W . B.

Class of 1911 Deyo, M . L.

Class of 1906

Doddridge, J . S.

Atkins, L. M .

Doyle, Robert M., Jr. *Fletcher, John A .

Gilmore, M . D. (2nd cont.

*Severyns, Joseph H . *Slawson, Paul S. Talbert, Joseph T. Tillman, E. H., Jr.

Class of 1921 Belch, Kieth R. Brown, Charles R. Bueche, H . S. Costello, James P. Davis, Ransom K.

Wilkes, John

*Eaton, William G .

Bates, Paul M .

Class of 1893

Moureau, R. C .

Onley, William B.

Smith, Alexander F., Jr.

Class of 1916

*Miller, Marcus Lyon

Class of 1905

Markell, Harold

Sabalot, A . C . J .

Class of 1910 Class of 1904

Johnson, D. P.

Page, Dudley M .

Lewis, J . M .

Walker, Myron J .

Class of 1884

Haven, H . E. Heineman, Paul R.

*Miller, Marcus C .

Van Auken, Wilbur

Buracker, W . H .

Larson, W . J .

Bunkley, J . W .

Puleston, W . D.

Class of 1877

Class of 1920

Eicks, Casper H .

Class of 1917

Elmers, H . O .

Forster, G . F.

Erwin, Donald L.

Hansen, Carl L.

Hamilton, W . V.

Class of 1894

Bryan, George S.

McCloy, Thomas S.

Ludlow, William G .

Harrison, John S.

*Bulmer, Roscoe C .

Connor, John F.

Okie, John B.

Perkins, C . N.

Hllding, George D.

Chappell, Ralph H .

Hall, Wolcott

Rodgers, James L.

LaBach, Paul M .

Jacobs, Walter F.

Rood, George A .

Jensen, H . M .

(2nd cont.)

Pence, Harry L.

Lyon, Frank

Class of 1912

Reeves, J . M .

Class of 1907

Class of 1896

Ingersoll, S. H .

Class of 1918

Johns, Llewellyn J .

Kime, Frederick D.

Busby, L. W .

Marshall, Charles J .

Colton, E. B.

McQuIston, E. I.

Bischoff, Lawrence P.

Dodge, Frank R.

Pratt, Charles R.

Byers, John A .

Macklin, W A . S.

Purves, Stuart S. Reiter, L. R.

Cohen, Albert M .

Fulton, Garland

Malone, W . J .

Mitchell, Mason E.

Crosse, C . W .

Hunter, L. L.

Moore, C . G .

Robinson, R. H . M .

Robertson, James L.

Dunn, C . A .

Stone, H . G .

W a t t , R. M., Jr.

Gulliver, L. J .

Class of 1897

Wilbur, John

Wilson, J . D.

W i r t h , T. R.

Horner, R. B.

Hepburn, A . J .

Zimmerli, R. M .

Howell, James B. Pryor, Frank D.

Class of 1898 *Brown, George,

*Hurlbert, Griswold

Jr.

Class of 1919

Brownell, John A .

Bowman, G .

Starr, F. C .

Clarke, Laurence W .

Coney, C . E.

Brown, Harry A . B.

Davis, Ellsworth

Crawford, John G .

Cady, John P.

Davis, Glenn B.

Day, Dorrence K.

Comp, C . O .

Dillingham, Frederic W .

Dlngwell, Paul D.

Crew, William

Plnney, Frank L.

Class of 1899

Class of 1913

Robinson, C . R.

Class of 1908

H.

Class of 1922

*Sayles, William R.

Allen, A M . R.

Du Bose, L. T.

Graham, J . J .

Egan, W . H .

tSee July Shipmate.

Belt, Haller

Lee,

Hungerford, R. W .

Elghmy, G . W .

Jerome A .

'Contributions mode in memory of these graduates.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ALUMNI HOUSE BY CLASSES Class of 1925

Ellis, V. G .

Barclay, K. J .

Scott, James

Zondorak, C . J .

Bierer, Howard T.

Shaffer, John N.

Hoag, Leslie F.

Stanley, E. D.

Conwell, L. C .

*Johnson, Victor E. Lemly, F. W .

Long, E. J .

Sampson, William S.

Gollner, Marsh

Havard, C . A .

Larson, E. E,

Class of 1933

Coleman, Robert I.

Harrigan, Daniel W .

Johnston, Bates H .

Sutherland, W m . A., Jr. Turner, Frank

Graham, Joseph H .

Croghan, John A .

Class of 1928 Brennan, William C .

* M c N u l t a , Herbert, Jr.

Martin, Edward J .

Edwards, Albert E.

Thomson, J . W .

Heinz, L. C .

Walker, F. D., Jr.

McAlister, Norman D.

Morris, Ned

Murphy, M . E.

Seldl, Julius C . G .

Jones, A C .

Nold, George E.

Sima, F. F.

Keating, Robert A., Jr.

Sampson, James G .

Turney, William L.

Hunt, W . A., Jr.

Zabilsky, John

Sutton, F. C .

Class of 1929

Class of 1926

Walsh, Harvey T. Zotti, Frank, Jr.

Class of 1923 Bennett, Claude H., Jr.

Militana, S. G .

Hezlep, J . McB.

Miller, George H .

Fyfe, J . K.

Hutchison, C . K.

Purdy, Frederick W .

Campbell, Neil R.

Gray, James S., Jr.

Kennedy, M . G .

Roullard, George D.

Boyle, Charles L.

Kirkpatrick, Harlan G .

McCoy, Robert B.

Sheppard, Frederick W .

Dietrich, H . T.

Kramer, W . F.

Waterhouse, J . W .

Slayton,

Phillips, Charles K.

Flippin, Royce N .

Morgan

Tomanichel, Jack J .

Class of 1930

Greenslade, J . F.

Dodge, Harry B.

Fly, William A .

Groff, Rowland H .

Downing, George

Fowler, Wendell C .

HaUoran, Thomas F.

Estabrook, W m . S., Jr.

Gesen, Carl G .

LInsley, Ralph H .

Gluntz, Marvin H .

Bailey, Wendell E.

Hass. P. W . , Jr.

Moses, C . W .

Hilles, F. V. H .

Brock, James W .

Kane, Joseph L.

Mounts, P. R.

Hines, Wellington T.

Christensen, Ernest E.

*Kern, Lester H .

Class of 1937

(addit. cont.)

Colbert, Richard G .

G.

Fisher, A. W . , Jr.

Class of 1934

Mullen, E. M .

Lynch, Robert F.

Cordlner, Douglas L. L.

Leavitt, Raymond B.

Romoser, W . K.

Marable, H . H .

Davis, Eugene W .

Martin, Earl P.

Sellers, Abbott M .

McKinney, John R.

Singleton, C . T.

*Marshall, Thomas W . , Jr. Rutter, R. L.

Murdaugh, A . C .

Stout, Herald F.

Olney, Alfred C .

Strange, Hubert E.

Parish, David A .

Sweeney, John D.

Class of 1931 *Ghetzler, Benjamin

Dissette, W . F. Dutton, William T. *Ethridge, Walker

Peck, Edwin R.

Sweetser, Willard M .

Sargent, Walter S.

Turek, William

Smellow, Morris

Waldron, E. M .

Hall, Madison H., Jr. *KleIn, M . J .

Hessel, Edward W .

Huelsenbeck, Paul C .

Kelly, John C .

Lake, C . E. Lytle, M . H .

Mingay, John E., Jr. Pond, John E., Jr. *RJmmer, Hugh R. Schmidt, J . S.

Fleck, F. E., Jr. Fulp, James D., Jr. Grosh, Harold A .

Hawes, Frederic W .

Houston, Robert C .

Tate, V. B.

Johnson, Willis O .

Kossler, Herman J .

Tucker, Thayer T.

Kurtz, Thomas R., Jr.

Lennox, William

Morrow, W . J . , Jr.

Nichols, John C .

Adams, Howard C .

Myhre, Floyd B. T.

Pfotenhauer, Fred D.

Armstrong, Henry J .

Wheland, Karl R.

Robinson, Richard S.

Atkeson, John C .

Wright, Edward A .

Van Arsdall, C . J .

Class of 1927

Riewe, Eugene F.

Weikel, Karl F.

Grant, Etheridge

R.

Street, G . L, III Worth, F. R. W .

Zimny, S. M .

Class of 1938 Bogart, Frank L. Bogley, John A .

Byrnes, Robert B. Carter, R. W .

De Laureal, Henry H .

Haines, John L.

Bednar, Adolph

Bottom, George A .

Smith, Klnton I.

Budnitz, Emil A .

Byrd, M . M .

Walker, G . P.

Hamlin, H . S., Jr.

Ekstrom, C . E.

Downes, Robert N .

Walters, C . J .

Harris, David L.

Evans, C . M c A .

Durski, Malen

Abrahamson, Ernest P.

French, Walter H .

Day, Harry E.

Archer, S. M .

Goodall, Henry W .

Ethrldge, Harrison

Arthur, L. A .

Hake, G . E.

Everett, Gordon S.

Bush, Horace P., Jr.

Barrett, Osborn T.

Fitzgerald, G . W .

Cox, William R.

Brown, James H .

Marks, James A .

Home, Donald F.

Goyette, E. T.

Gibson, S. K.

Ferguson, John N., Jr.

McDonald, Lucien B.

Ilsemann, F. J .

Hellauer, Joseph F.

Hughes, George E.

Leverett, A . B.

Heinlein, Rex I., Jr.

Humrlchouse, J . W .

Longfellow, William J .

Hinners, R. A .

Luthrlnger, Marshall S.

Jelley, Joseph F., Jr.

Jewett, Garry W . , Jr. Johnson, John H . S.

*Hayter, Hubert M .

Class of 1932

* Hurst, E. W .

Houston, W . A., Jr. Irvine, Robert K.

Class of 1935

. Finnlgan, O . D., Jr. . .

Foster, Robert C .

Johnson, Lauren E. *Lamberson, William L.

Moore, Raymond A .

Muse, G . R.

Hack, Jolin A .

Payne, J . R.

Hathaway, Amos T.

Smale, G . F. *Smith, J . C . H .

McLean, E. R., Jr.

Jensen, Lawrence M .

Mellon, W . L.

Johnston, Andrew E., Jr.

Quinn, B D.

Jordan, James A .

Jonson, W . C , Jr.

Gay, Jesse B., Jr.

Rice, L. K.

Knight, L. J .

Kirn, Louis J .

Harris, Charles L., Jr.

Class of 1939

Roane, V. R.

Madison, John M .

Lewis, Porter

Karaberis, C . A .

*Allen, Nelson J .

Southworth, Harrison B.

MarggrafF, F. C , Jr.

Mitchell, Gilbert H..

McDonald, Harold W .

Thomas, Lloyd H .

Newbegin, Robert G . , Ill

Moore, Harry G .

Mills, Lowis H .

Blomker, W . Robert

Townsend, Arthur M .

Nilon, Leo W .

ShovestuI, Paul J .

Nibbs, Alan M .

Chandler, C . R. Childers, K. C , Jr.

*Oberender, Thomas O .

Walker, Donald S.

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Adair, Charles

Collins, Edward T.

Class of 1924

Brent, Harrison, Jr. Cresap, Logan, Jr.

Chandler, Alvin D.

Whitehead, John E.

Bjarnason, Paul H Bradley, Richard R., Jr.

*McCutchan, George T.

Duborg, F. R.

*Fox, Douglas H .

Burford, W . P.

Class of 1936

Leach, Robert W .

*Bermingham, John M .

Thieme, Karl A .

*Stephenson, Richard D.

(addit. cont.)

Hauck, Philip F. Hutchinson, George

Snyder, Donald D.

Almgren, Neal

Todd, K. S.

Nowell, Byron H .

Welsh, D. Emmett

Outerbridge, William W .

Thomas, D. I.

Petrie, C . W .

Cushman, Charles W .

Wheeler, Homer B.

Pellegrlno, Pete A .

West, John T.

Powell, George L.

Edrington, F. R.

Witmer, Edgar L.

Quackenbush, Robt. S., Jr.

Young, Melvin T.

*RIcketts, Milton E.

Eversole, John S.

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Bagley, G e o r g e J . . J r .

G o u l d , R. K.

Backus. P. H .

Gordon, A . N.

Class of 1943 Anastaslon, Steven N .

Bartlett, James V .

C e c i l , W i l l i a m R.

Holovak, Charles

Benham, David B.

Cherbak, A l f r e d A .

H o w l a n d , John B.

Costagliola, Francesco

Cordellus, G e o r g e

Hunter. W i l b u r H . . J r .

de Stefano, Michael C .

M c D a n i e l , G e o r g e T., J r .

Farkas, E. C .

M e r r i t t , R. G .

Fears, C . L.

Frese, Bernard W .

O'Rourke, S. C .

Fields. A . R.

Gano, John H .

*Pope, David H .

Dewees, Stuart A . *Eversole, James H .

Harbrecht, G e o r g e W .

* G l y n n , W i l l i a m D.

Raney, C . H .

Lynn, Joseph

Reindollar, Wlillann M.

Matton, W . G.. Jr.

Helme, Charles F., Jr.

Schreiter,. Ernest F.

M c W h o r t e r , Thomas O .

Huber, Harvard C .

Hanson, R. M .

Slemer, R. L.

Merdinger, Charles J .

Smith, James H., J r .

Newsom, John W .

Kurtz, Lawrence A .

Splain, John F.

Roderick. T. S.

Law, Richard R.

Sugg, H o w a r d A . I.

Rowney, J . V.

Thomas, Charles S., J r .

Southard, Pemberton

W a l d r o n , A l t o n L.

* Maxson, W . E., J r .

*Spowers, C r a i g

Weschler. T. R.

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Class of 1942

*Banker, Donald F.

Armstrong, P. B.

Burke, Louis E. Cain, M . M., Jr. Carlson, C o n r a d H .

Clancy, A. H . , J r .

Fischer, H . F., J r .

G r a h a m , Henry F. H e a r n , G u y E., J r . * J a r r e t t . M i l t o n L. Longino, J . C , J r .

McRoberts, J . F. M o r t o n , W . B. Osborne, M . C . *Rees, C a r l t o n F. Sherwin, S. A . , J r .

Snyder, M i l l a r d C .

Street, A b b o t P. Strum, L. W . , J r .

Vickery. H . B. Wagenhals, S. E. White. H . C.

Class of 1941 Ackley, Norman W .

Naylor. Jesse A .

Nelson, Frank M .

O'Brien, John J .

Ryan, Joseph F.

Arthur, W . A .

Ashley, J . M., J r .

Scott, H u g h A .

Backus, W i l l a r d O .

Berry, Francis U .

Sibert, Edwin L., J r .

Staff, R. E.

Brewster, W i l l i a m R., Jr.

Stuart, Robert M .

Shonerd, D. A .

Hennegan, James B.

Flanagan, W i l l i a m R.

Hirsch, A r n o l d J .

Flowerree, C . C .

Herrick,

Gibson, W . C .

H i l l , Edward T. H o w a r d , A l l e n R., J r .

H o r n , Dean A .

Keller, Robert M .

Johnson, H o w a r d T.

Kelley, Edmond L.

Johnston, Roe H .

Laboon, John F., J r .

Kraushaar, David

Lemlein, A l a n B.

Lamartin, F. H . , J r .

Maxwell. Lester G .

* M a d s e n , Robert B. Muller, Ragnwald

Orbeton, Maurice C , Jr.

Nelson, W i l l i a m N., J r .

Powell, A r t h u r A .

Patterson, Joseph, J r .

Prier, H o w a r d W .

Quinn, R. D.

Randall. C r a i g E.

Searies. Thomas M . , J r .

Rawlings, Frank T., J r .

Stribling, John W . , J r .

Rawls, Elbert S., J r .

Smyth, Bernard B.

Taylor, H . A .

Sorrels, James S., J r .

Trautman, W . C , J r .

Stickles, A l b e r t L II

U t e g a a r d . Thomas F.

Stuart, Jack C .

Versaggi, D. A .

Terrill, Scott E., Jr.

W e t z e l , Blair H .

Tingle, Jack E.

Wheeler. James H . , J r .

Watkins, G e o r g e C .

White, William H., Jr.

Windsor, J . M .

W i l d e r , Tracy H . . J r .

Yeich, L. G .

W i s e , J o h n P. Voung, Ben W i l e y

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Avey, Floyd G . , J r .

Bowen, Manley Clark, W . Douglas. J r .

Dugger, John A .

Foster, A l b e r t L. Foust, James W .

H a r t , James A . , J r .

Herzog, John J .

Larson, Ray F. Lee, Jerome A . , J r .

Maxson, Richard D. Metzger, Robert L. Murdock. John E., J r .

Ritchie, Fred P.. J r .

Weaver, Roy B.

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W a g n e r , Dennis A .

Bowes, W i l l i a m A .

C r a w f o r d , John W .

Williams, W i l l i a m W .

Bush, Thomas A., J r .

Easton, Glenn H., J r .

Van O r d e n , D. O .

Butler, R. C .

Haffey, John J .

Wilson, W a l t e r K. C a m p , Joseph M .

HInchey, John J .

Zechella, Alexander P. CockrIII, James T. ' Houston, F. E. Converse. Paul V. Class of 1944 Joers, Peter D. Culbreath, H . L. Adams, Donald L. Kelley, H a r r y J .

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Fuseller, Marius. J r .

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How RCA 16 mm. Sound film Projecfors Do Double Duty in Our Armed Forces

NE of the most effective means of building efficiency and morale in the armed forces of the United States and its allies has been the extensive use of-motion pictures.

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What's the Dope 10CQ ALFRED THAYER ' ^ ^ ' MAHAN, '59, (RAd., USNDec.): An oil painting of the late Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, was unveiled in the auditorium of the Naval War College, Newport, R. I., on 25 August. The ceremony was brief, consisting of short addresses by Vice Admiral W. S. EYE, '01, USN-Ret., President of die War College, and Admiral E. C. KALBFUS, '99, USN-Ret., former President.

Both speakers extolled the genius of Admiral Mahan and his part in the development of the art and science of naval warfare through his lectures as second President of the War College and later by his famous volumes on naval strategy and tactics. ' The portrait was painted by Mr. Alexander James of Dublin, N. H., and will hang in the War College library which is known as Mahan HaU. Funds to pay for the painting were contributed by many Naval officers, ihost of whom will learn by this announcement of the completion of the project.

The project originated with Admiral C P. Snyder, '00, USN-Ret., at the time he was War College President, and was given enthusiastic support by Capt. W. D. Puleston, '02, USN-Ret., author of a biography of Mahan and a member of the official party at the unveiling.

The ceremony was witnessed by members of the Naval War College staff, the Command and Staff Class; the Staff Class and the Army and Navy Staff College dass, as well as by Civil Service and enlisted personnel attached to the War College.

The remarks of Admiral Pye, who conducted the ceremony, follow: Gendemen: W e are assembled here this morning to honor a great American, one of the most widely known and respected officers of the United States Navy, the late Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan.

It was in the old library of the Naval War CoUege, now the periodical room, that Admiral Mahan did much of his later research and writing. For this reason, in 1935, the old library was officially designated, Mahan HaU. In 1938, as the new addition to the library was nearing completion. Admiral Snyder, then President of the Naval War CoUege, tried to obtain a suitable oil 50

pomait of Admiral Mahan to place in this haU. Inquiries of Admiral Mahan's famUy disclosed that no such portrait existed.

Admiral Snyder then conceived the idea of raising a fund by voluntary subscription, sufficient to engage a weUknown artist to paint the desired portrait.

Through Admiral Snyder's effons, many people became interested in this project, among the most enthusiastic of whom were the Board of Control of the Naval Institute; Mr. W. H. Stayton, a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1881, and for many years President of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; and Captain W D. Puleston, U. S. Navy, author of a biography of Mahan.

Admiral Snyder was detached from the Naval War CoUege soon after the project was initiated, but his successor.

Admiral E. C. Kalbfus, gave his fuU support to the plan.

SoUcitation of subscriptions was restricted to Naval Academy graduates and to a few members of die New York Yacht Qub. The amount of the subscription requested from each person was one doUar. The Naval Institute carried the solicitation for subscriptions in several of its issues and aaed as a repository for the funds subscribed.

With such smaU individual subscriptions some time went by before the fund became adequate. But before Admiral Kalbfus was detached the required amount had been subscribed, and Mr. Alexander James of Dublin, New Hampshire, had been commissioned to paint the portrait.

Delays were experienced in the completion of the portrait due to Mr. James being engaged in work in connection with the war, to his later illness, and to the faa that no photograph of Admiral Mahan in fuU dress uniform was available.

A uniform of the period was made; equipment, such as cocked hat, epaulets, sword and belt, were borrowed; and now, after many months, the portrait is completed.

With an audience such as this there is litde use to dweU upon the influence of Mahan's writings upon the naval thought of the world.

On behalf of the Naval War CoUege I wish to express our thanks to Admiral

Snyder for his recognition of the need of a portrait of Admiral Mahan in the Naval War CoUege, and for his initiating a plan to fiU this need; to Admiral Kalbfus and the Board of Control of the Naval Institute for their substantial support; and to each contributor to the fund which made this portrait possible.

I desire, also, to thank Mr. Alexander James, whose art has brought back so vividly a personality of whom the United States Navy wiU always be proud. We regret that Mr. James was unable to accept our invitation to be here today.

As President of the Naval War College, I accept with gratitude, for permanent exhibit in Mahan Hall, the portrait of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, which I now unveU. 1881

EUGENE CARROLL, '81, reports his new address as 315 West Granite Street, Butte, Montana.

1 ftftP SUMNER E. W. KITTELLE, I007 .gc,^ {RAd., U S N - R e t . ) , writes from 2229 CaUfornia Street, N. W., Washington, D . C : "The dass of 1889 seems to have been absent from "What's The Dope' for some years, so, in the absence of a press agent I wiU say that our most enterprising member, Danforth, once a year, writes a long newsy letter which makes the rounds of the survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Anderson, de Steigner, Patton, Nulton, Pratt, KitteUe and Rock and usuaUy Danforth gets a word from each."

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ADELBERT ALTHOUSE, '91, (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his address as 1661 Qescent Place, Washington, D. C

1897 THOMAS C. HART, '97, ' " ' ' (Ad., USN-Ret.): Senator and Mrs. Hart have aimounced the engagement of their daughter, Hariet, to Lt. Frands B. Sayre, Jr., (ChC), USNR. WILLIAM R. WHITE, '97, (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his new address as RFD, New Hope, Pennsylvania.

1899 WALTER M. HUNT, '99, ' " ' ' (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his new address as 14 Elm Street, Exeter, New Hampshire.

1900 GEORGE W. STEELE, '00, I /w ((^^p^ USN-Ret.), gives his address as 300 So. Axroyo Boulevard, Pasadena 2, California. lOQI JULIUS A. FURER, '01, ' ^ ' (RAd., USN-Ret.), has received a Legion of Merit.

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CHESTER W. NIMITZ, '05, (FlAd., N.A.S., Floyd Bennett Field.

USN), has received die Order of the AUGUSTIN T. BEAUREGARD, Bath, Knight Grand Cross, from the '07, (RAd., USN-Ret.), gives his new ROBERT R. HENDER- British. address as Apt. 403, St. Nicholas, 2230 SON, '02, (Capt., USNRet.), gives his address as 829 Security I Q O A AUBREY W . FITCH, '06, CaUfornia St., N . W., Washington, D. C. BuUding, 510 S. Spring Street, Los An- I 7 U O ( y ^ j ^ USN), new SuperinJOSEPH BAER, '07, (Comdr., USNtendent of USNA, has received the Legeles, California. gion of Merit. He is also scheduled to be Ret.), gives his address as 1309 ChesaMARTIN K. METCALF, awarded the decoration as Knight Com- peake Avenue, Hampton, Virginia.

'03, (RAd., USN-Ret.), has mander of the British Empire. Soon after EMANUEL A. LOFQUIST, '07, he assumed his new post at USNA he received a Legion of Merit. was made a Commander in the French (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his new adWILLLAM F. HALSEY, JR., Legion of Honor and received the cus- dress as c/o American Car & Foundry '04, (Ad., U S N ) , has been tomary two cheek pecks from General Co., 80 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Charles de GauUe. Illinois. made a Knight of the British Empire.

mo., USN-Ret.), has been awarded Legion of Merit.

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ARCHIBALD G. STIRLING, '06, PAUL P. BLACKBURN, '04, (Capt., USN-Ret.), gives his new address as 523 (Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his new address as 66 Ayrault Street, Newport, GraviUa St., La JoUa, CaUfornia.

Rhode Island. ignc ARTHUR C. STOTT, '05, HARVEY DELANO, '06, (Capt., I 7 WJ ((^^p^^ USN-Ret.), has been awarded a Letter of Commendation. USN), gives his new address as 763 Bay Captain Stott was reUeved of active duty Street, San Francisco, CaUfornia. on 6 July and has returned to his former RANDALL JACOBS, '07, position with the United States Salvage (VAd., USN), was slated to Association at 99 John Street, New York. Captain Stott has been for die past be relieved as Chief of Naval Personnel four years in command of the Reserve on 15 September.

Officers School of Indoctrination and of NEWTON H. WHITE, '07, (Capt., the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Fort Schuyler, New York.

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IQAp WILLIS A. LEE, JR., '08, I 7UO (VAd., U S N ) , died in Portland, Maine, on 25 August. igno ALAN G. KIRK, '09, (V' ' ^ ' Ad., U S N ) : Ens. Deborah Kirk, USNR, and Lt. Peter Solbert, USNR, were to have been married in September. Ens. Kirk's parents, Admiral and Mrs. Kirk, have recendy moved into a new home at 3017 N . Street, N . W., Washington, D. C. HUGH V. McC ABE, '09, (Capt., USN-Ret.), and Mrs. McCabe have announced the engagement of their daugh-

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ter, Virginia McCabe Myers to Sgt. Eugene G. Hawkins. The wedding was scheduled for 5 October.

STANLEY R. CANINE, '09, (Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his correct address as P. O. Box 21, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

HAROLD C. TRAIN, '09, (RAd., USN), gives his residence address as 11 Grafton Street, Chevy Chase 15, Md. 1010 W A L D E N L. A I N S • ' • ^ WORTH, '10, (RAd., USN), former ComCruPac and ComDesPac, has taken over command of the Fifth Naval Distria.

1Q11 ROBERT B. SIMONS, '11, • ' ' ' (Capt., U S N ) , since 7 June 1942, C.O. of the Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Virginia, has been relieved for an assignment in the Pacific.

RICHARD S. FIELD, '11, (Capt., USN-Ret.), reports:— Congratulations go to two of our dassmates, distinguished in civU life: to BUSHROD B. HOWARD because he was recendy elected a member of the board of directors (there are only eleven) of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; to JOHN M. SYLVESTER because he has recendy been appointed general manager of the Bethlehem Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. On 7 September, Captain GEORGE J. McMILLIN arrived in Washington, having flown westabout from China via Africa. He was met at the airport by Vice Adm. RandaU Jacobs, Vice Adm. Charles M. Cooke, R. Adm. Bernhard Bieri and others. He stayed only long enough for lunch and was given a special flight to his home at Long Beach, Cal., where, presumably, he arrived the next morning. I was pleased to get a letter from George written at Hoten War Prisoners Camp, Mukden, Manchuria, on 21 Aug., the day after diey had been Uberated.

The fact that George McMiUin is weU known to be a discreet and moderate, even-tempered person gives -a deeper significance to these words of his: "It has been a tough spin. These little Japs are about what we figured they would be, only they are much worse than we ever dreamed of. The stories will be unbelievable. W e have been starved, kicked about, beaten up and generally mistreated. Sanitary conditions terrible and no medical treatment worthy of the name." His letter came in an envelope marked "Government House, Guam."

He had managed to hold on to some of his high class stationery aU those years.

In Harper's Magazine of September there is an article by Fletcher Pratt, weU known writer on naval subjects, "Battleship Admiral," The Story of Dan CalOCTOBER,

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laghan. It covers briefly Dan's life from boyhood to his last batde. Dan's first ship was the armored cruiser, CALIFORNIA, and its steerage, according to this article, was "hilarious," to say the least.

"When she ( C A L I F O R N I A ) was not winning gunnery trophies—thanks to Callaghan and a battery officer named Bates —she was usuaUy staging a heroic party." Two points in the article are questionable. Speaking of being made ensign from passed midshipman without examination, ". . . was considered a break for him, since the examination at this grade was the toughest on the list and it was doubted whether he would make it." And a less serious matter— basebaU. "In his fourth year at the Academy he made the varsity and his N." I may be wrong but it is my recoUection that Dan was first baseman early in his days and became catcher after Phil Hambsch was graduated in '09. Another point is this business of being caUed "Uncle Dan." I believe it is a reporters' myth like "BuU" applied to Halsey. The destroyer CALLAGHAN was lost in the last months of the war. The Department says it has no un-named DD which may become the second CALLAGHAN. W e have had the foUowing DDs named for classmates — PARROTT, MELVIN, CALLAGHAN,

NORMAN

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and there may be others. Since the abation of censorship I have seen mention of a ship caUed PICKING, which may very weU be named for the late Captain Sherwood Picking.

From Captain Brandt of the Hospital Ship SANCTUARY I have a very handsome ship's newspaper, the STETHOSCOOP, which relates a voyage from

Panama to Pearl Harbor and states that their next stop is Okinawa.

In the National Geographic Magazine, March, 1945, is an article, "Heroes' Return," by WiUiam H. Nicholas. I have their permission and the permission of the Charleston Port of Embarkation to publish this extract which is a letter from a grateful soldier patient to the commander of the hospital ship in which he is being brought home.

Sunday Sep 24 1944 Dear Frends: Just a fue lins to say how much I rely thank you aU for the good cear and I thank the chaplan for the nise words and the sweet prairs that He brought to us each morning. And I want to thank the cooks for the good mess they have repared for us all and my bes wish to them aU. And I want to thank the ship comander for the nise words he has spoke and the nise words He has don for us aU. My bis wish for him and the ship pUout. I want to thank the ward boys for the time they have wated on me and the good things the hav don for me. My best wishes for them all and I want to thank aU of the doctors and the M.D. for ther nise cear the have give me. My bes wish. And I want to say that I rely preshate my sweet and kind nurses for the times the wated on me and the things the hav don for me, my best wishes for them and may God Bless them aU. And I want to thank the special service and the Red Cross for the things the have gave me, my best wishes to them all.

From yours truly PFC J. H. Hensley 35706243 Elys, Ky Knox County 53

THOMAS "TOM" M. SEARLES, '13, PAT BUCHANAN, '11, (RAd., USN-Ret.), was placed on the retired Penn Rivet Corp., Third and Huntinglist on 1 August, and now lives at 221 don Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., reports:— Pacific Avenue, Piedmont 11, Calif.

"Here is a little news I picked up. J. M. SYLVESTER of '11, was just apSAMUEL K. DAY, '11, (Cdr., US- pointed General Manager of the BethleN R ) , gives his new address as 68 South hem, Pennsylvania plant of Bethlehem Paint St., ChiUicothe, Ohio.

Steel Company. He was formerly Superintendent of the Lehigh Division of the FRANCIS S. CRAVEN, '11, (Capt., Company. I think he resigned about USN), gives his new mail address as 1914.

Route 1, Box 313, BeUevue P. O., WashHOWARD E. OREM, '22, has finaUy ington. succeeded in getting out as Flag Secretary to ERNIE KING, now Commander IQIO LOUIS E. DENFELD, '12, of the H O U S T O N . I think if you wiU •'•'^ (RAd., U S N ) , has been check his record you wiU find that he has named new Chief of Personnel, to take been Aide to several Admirals and has over on 15 September. contributed very materiaUy in making some of them look pretty good. In any CAMPBELL D. EDGAR, '12, (Capt., event, 1 understand that he has had a USN), gives his address as Quarters 468, very difficult time getting an assignment Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, as he was just too good in his job as Washington.

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I am qualified for the "Triple Order lOiq ELROY L. VANDER- of Grandsons," as my daughter, the wife •'"'^ KLOOT, '13, (Capt., USN- of Lt. Comdr. G. S. PARRETT, "39, has Ret.), gives his new address as 530 W. three sons, the last two being twins.

California St., Pasadena 2, California.

TOM SHOCK and C. C. TODD of 1913 are both at the War CoUege in C H A R L I E P. McFEATERS, '13, (Capt., USN), gives his new address as Newport.

GEORGE M. TISDALE, '13, has been c/o Mrs. G. C. Barnes, 4104 Rochester made a Vice President of the U. S. RubRd., San Diego, Calif. ber Company and has a very responsible position in New York City.

JOE HOFFMAN, '13, was in die hospital for about a month, but is out and spent the summer at Newport recuperating. He was over at the house not long ago and looks better than ever.

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1Q14 HERMAN A. SPANAGLE, • ' • ^ '14, (Capt., U S N ) , PG school C.O. at USNA, has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit.

ALEXANDER R. EARLY, '14, (Capt., USN), now serving as Chief of StaflF, 13th Naval District, was awarded the Navy Cross for services as Skipper of USS CANBERRA, torpedoed oflF Formosa last October and together with the H O U S T O N used as bait to draw out the Jap Fleet.

RICHARD L. CONOLLY, '14, (RAd., USN), has received a Gold Star in lieu of a third DSM.

1 Ql C DE W I T T PECK, '15, (Maj. ' ' ' "^ Gen., USMC), has succeeded PEDRO DEL VALLE, '15, (Maj. Gen., USMC), as Commanding General of the First Marine Division.

RALPH J. MITCHELL, '15, (Maj. Gen., USMC), has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

THEODORE E. CHANDLER, '15, (RAd., U S N ) , has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal.

ALLEN G. QUYNN, '15, (Commo., USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

RAYMOND R. WRIGHT, '15, (Maj. Gen., USMC), is on duty at Marine Corps Headquarters, Arlington Annex, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. MYRON W. (Hutch) HUTCHINSON, JR., '15, (Capt., U S N ) , StaflF Commandant, Navy 128, c/o Fleet P. O., San Francisco, California, reports from "Casa Banana," 14th N.D.:— "The '1915' HUNKYDUNKS in diis Area get together for a litde '30 year out' Qass reunion. The date was Tuesday, 28 August, and the place was the Kailva Officers Club Annex. Out of ten here in the Area, nine appeared for a swim, KT's, and a sweU dinner.

"Those present with their Naval Academy laundry number were:—^ARMSTRONG, D. W., 110; CLARK, R W , 54; HUTCHINSON, M. W., JR., 123; JENKINS, S. P., 422; KELL, C. O., 167; OVERESCH, H. E., 343; PENNOYER, F. W., JR., 356; QUYNN, A. G., 457; RING, M. L., 702.

"ARCH HOWARD of the Marines was unable to attend due to a very important date. I have been out here about 21/^ months and find the duty and the climate most delightful.

"Perhaps you should estabUsh a Branch Office of SHIPMATE out here, so you could make a trip every now and then, to check up on the office force."

1 g 1 /L THOMAS J. KELIHER '16, ' ' ' " (Capt., U S N ) , has been awarded a Gold Star in Ueu of a second Legion of Merit.

JOHN D. PRICE, '16, (RAd., USN), is CO. of N.O.B., Okinawa.

PAUL S. GOEN, '16, (Capt., USNRet. ), gives his new address as c/o Enterprise Engine and Foundry Co., 18th and Florida Sts., San Francisco, Calif.

W I L L I A M D. AUSTIN, '14, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his new ad- 1 0 1 7 DOUGLAS A. SPENCER dress as 264A Brooklyn Avenue, Brook- ' ' ' ' '17, (Capt., U S N ) , has relyn 13, New York. ceived a Legion of Merit.

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EARLE E. MUSCHLITZ, '17, (Lt. Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his address as 251 S. Atherton St., State CoUege, Pa. FELIX B. STUMP, '17, (RAd., USN), gives his duty address as Building No. 624, Naval Air Station, Annapolis, Md.

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1 Ql Q CARLOS W. WIEBER, '18, ' ' '" (Capt., U S N ) , has assumed command of aU naval air bases in the Third Naval District with headquarters at Floyd Bennett Field.

RALPH C. ALEXANDER, '18, (Capt., USN), was die C O . of USS R E N O when she was torpedoed in the Philippine Sea last November.

LISLE HENIFIN, '18, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), gives his address as Kingman, Arizona.

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1Q1Q LOGAN C RAMSEY, '19, ' ' • ' (Capt., U S N ) , has been awarded the Brotize Star and a Letter of Commendation.

WILLIAM C. VOSE, '19, (Capt., USN), has been ordered in from the Pacffic to assume duties as C.O. of the Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Virginia.

THOMAS G. W. SETTLE, '19, (Capt., USN), was the C.O. of USS PORTLAND during a 20 weeks period of operation without availability for material upkeep or repair, in which she participated in the Leyte landings. Battle for Leyte Gulf, and aU other Philippine actions through the assault on Corregidor.

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1990 CHARLES B. McVAY, III, BAMA when she was damaged by a ty" '^^ '20, (Capt., USN), was a phoon in June—something years of trysurvivor when his ship, USS INDIANAP- ing by the Japs failed to accomplish.

GEORGE W. BRASHEARS, '19, OLIS, went down suddenly between Leyte (Capt., U S N ) , and Mrs. Brashears have and Guam after delivering parts of the EDWARD E. PARE, '20, (Capt., announced the engagement of their atomic bomb to Guam.

USN), assumed command of USS MAdaughter, Patricia, to Lt. (jg) Albert P. CON when that 13,000-ton cruiser was OSCAR A. WELLER, '20, (Capt., commissioned on 26 August.

Hulten, USNR, of Oakland, California.

USN), has been awarded a Gold Star MAURICE H. STEIN, '19, (Comdr., in lieu of a second Navy Cross.

WINFIELD S. CUNNINGHAM, USN-Ret.), visited Annapolis in Au'20, (Comdr., USN), in charge of aU J O H N E. GINGRICH, '20, (Capt., naval forces on Wake when that island gust. He wiU return to inactive status as of 21 October. His permanent address is USN), has been awarded the Silver Star. was captured by the Japs in 1942,' was 6141 N. Harlem Avenue, Chicago 31, contacted in the Peiping area, has been GEORGE P. KRAKER, '20, (Capt., liberated, and is now with his family at lUinois.

USN), has received the Legion of Merit. Annapolis, Md. CHARLES ALLEN, '19, (Capt., USN), gives his new address as 741 HARRY D. POWER, '20, (Capt., WILLIAM B. GOGGINS, '20, (Capt., Tolita Avenue, Coronado, California.

USN), was the Skipper of USS ALA- USN), was C.O. of USS BIRMINGHAM OCTOBER, Ki^:

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J O H N H. LEPPERT, '22, (Opt., USN), has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star by the French Government.

WILLLAM S. PARSONS, '22, (Capt., USN), accompanied the B-29 which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima as a Naval observer.

B E V E R L Y E. C A R T E R , '22, (Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Carter are parents of a son, Bruce AUan, born at Hastings, Nebraska, on 26 July.

J. LOCKWOOD PRATT, '22, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Pratt have announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Lynn to Cadet John Stuart Gayle, who wiU graduate from West Point next June.

Mrs. Hardin watches while Captain Hardin swears in their triplet sons into the Navy.

IQOO WILLMM M. NEILL, '23, ' '^^ (Comdr., USNR), has been relieved as C O . of the V-12 unit at University of Rochester. He has requested inactive duty.

LAWRENCE T. BURKE, '23, (Col., USMC), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

when a Kamikaze damaged her on 4 USS INDIANAPOLIS when that ship went May off Okinawa. This was the third bat- down. He is Usted as missing in action. de damage for the BIRMINGHAM.

W n j J A M M. MOSES, '20, (Capt., USN), was Skipper of USS PENNSYLVANIA when she was torpedoed off Okinawa in the dosing days of the war. She had suffered minor damage at Pearl Harbor as the war opened, and in between had hurled more tons of ammunition than any other ship in Navy history.

DRAYTON A. McMILLAN, '20, gives his address as 144 Grafton Street, Chevy Chase 15, Maryland.

ABEL C J. SABALOT, '20, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Sabalot are grandparents. A daughter, Nancy Latane Barbour, was born on 3 August at Corpus Christy to Henry ('44) and Nancy Sabalot Barbour.

REED T. ROBERTS, '23, (Capt., USN), gives his correa address as 199 ROBERT R HICKEY, '21, (Capt, Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey.

USN), is the C O . of USS HANCOCK, CARTER KENDALL, '23, (Lt. ESSEX dass CV, with one of the war's Comdr., USNR), gives his new address outstanding records. as 119 City Park Avenue, Portsmouth, GEORGE A. JONES, '21, gives his Virginia. address as Bourbon, lUinois.

PAUL F. DURGAN, '23, (Capt., USN), whose most recent sea duty was RENWICK S. McFVER '21, (Capt., as Chief of Staff, Amphibious Group 6, USNR), gives his new duty as with CNOP, Navy Department, Washington, is now O-in-C, U. S. Naval Radio Station, Annapolis, and Radio Station, D.C. Cheltenham, Maryland.

THOMAS M. DELL, '21, (Capt., USN), gives his new address as 1432 Bankers Securities Building, Juniper and Walnut Streets, PhUadelphia 7, Pa.

1994 WILLIAM M. COLE, '24, ' '^^ (Capt., U S N ) , has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

HOWARD N. KENYON, '21, (Col., USMC), has received the Navy Cross.

WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, '24, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has been retired effective 1 August.

1 QOI GROVER B. H. HALL, '21, CARL H. BUSHNELL, '21, (Capt., ' '^ ' (Capt., USN), was the Skip- USN), gives his new address as 744 "B" per of the Big-E when she took a Kami- Avenue, Coronado, CaUfornia. kaze on 14 May. KINLOCH N. GARDNER, '21, WARD C GILBERT, '21, (Capt., (Comdr., USN-Ret.), has been detached USN), was the Skipper of USS BATAAN, from duty at F.A.O., Charleston, and is whose gunners, after downing 61 enemy now on duty with 5 th Naval District planes, operating "normaUy," on l 6 Headquarters, N.O.B., NorfoUc, Va. March shot down six Kamikazes.

1 QOO ALVIN I. MALSTROM, '22, EDWIN M. CROUCH, '21, (Capt., ' ^^^ (Capt., USN), was Captain USN), on a special mission for Bureau of USS SANGAMON when that CVE was of Ordnance, was a passenger aboard hit off Kerama Retto on 4 May, 1945.

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HENRY C DOAN, "24, (Capt., USN), was the C O . of die USS CURTISS, seaplane tender, which survived a suicide crash last June near Okinawa.

SHIRLEY Y. CUTLER, '24, (Capt, USN), is on duty at the University of Southern California, NROTC, in Los Angeles.

GEORGE C KING, '24, (Comdr., USNR), C.O. of USS SALEM, gives his home address as 16 Madison St, Brockton 16, Massachusetts.

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HENRY G. BROUSSEAU, '24, (Lt. that ship was damaged heavily off ForComdr., USNR), gives his address as 20 mosa last October.

Carver Road East, Watertown, Mass.

ERNST A. RUTH, JR., '26, (Capt, lOQC WILLIAM B. COLBORN, USN), has been awarded the Legion of I 7 Z 3 '25, (Lt Comdr., USN), Merit. went on the retired list effeaive 1 Aug. LAURENCE H. FROST, '26, (Capt., WILLLAM O. HANNER, '25, writes: USN), has been awarded the Gold Star "I was discharged from the army in in lieu of a second Silver Star Medal.

July, 1944, and returned to my parish, Trinity Church, Rock Island, that date, GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, '26, where I have been carrying on since. I (Capt., USN), has been detached as was in the army 26 months, serving as Deputy Director, Office of PubUc InforSquadron Commander and Supply Offi- mation, to assume coinmand of USS cer on the General's staff at the Air Corps ARIEL. Proving Ground, Eglin Field, Florida."

USN), gives his address as University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.

SAMUEL F. BURKE, '26, gives his address as Thomaston, Georgia.

GEORGE E. SCHADE, '26, (Lt Comdr., USN-Ret), gives his new address as Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Florida.

EDWARD N. DODSON, JR., '26, (Capt, USN), gives his new address as 12 Vernon St, Plymouth, Mass.

JACKSON A. LAHN, '26, (Lt. Comdr., USNR-Ret), gives his address as P. O. Box 127, WaU St Station, New NATHANIAL C BARKER, '26, York 5, New York.

CHARLES W. BUTLER, '25, gives his new address as Garratt-CaUahan (Capt, USN), has been awarded the Le1927 WILLIAM R. SANDS, JR., Company, 148 Spear Street, San Fran- gion of Merit I 1^1 '21^ gives his new address as cisco. He is the company's marine manCHARLES F. HORNE, '26, (Capt, 114 Westmoreland Ave., Wihnington, aget USN), has been awarded the Legion of Delaware.

WnUAM SIHLER, '25, (Capt., Merit.

GEORGE B. TUGGLE, '27, (Lt (CEC), USN), gives his maUing adWARD E. DICKEY, '26, (Col, Comdr., USNR), gives his address as dress as 50 North Santa Cruz Street, VenUSMC), has been named Chief of Staff 2333 E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach 3, tura, CaUfornia. to Maj. Gen. Louis E. Woods, Com- California.

1 0 9 A CLARENCE BROUSSARD, manding General of the Second Marine BRUCE HEGEMAN, '27, gives his 11Z.O <26, (Capt, USN), has been Air Wing. address as 38 WiUow Street, Beacon, awarded the SUver Star medal for serCHARLES JACKSON, '26, (Capt., New York. vices as Exec of USS HOUSTON when

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TIMOTHY F. "Tim" DONOHUE, '27, (Comdr., USN), writes: "The last operation gave me a lot of good experience. In between I had a chance to see some of the older commanders ('27 ) which was most pleasant.

In particular I ran across DUTCH DEUTERMAN, H A L L E ALLAN, ERNIE BLAKE, SKINNY TALLMAN, R O S I E L A N D , HEESJIE ARMSTRONG, and MITCH MATTHEWS." GEORGE W. WILLCOX, '27, (Capt, USN), changes his address from USS ALASKA to 4128 Randolph Street, San Diego 3, California.

H A R R I S O N ETHRIDGE, '27, (Comdr., USNR), sends in this interesting DOPE:—"At present I am stationed at the New Naval Ordnance Laboratory project at White Oak, Maryland, as Resident Officer-in-Charge. I'm very proud of my promotion which came 11 August. Don't know how long I'll remain in the Service but for a while longer at least. Then I'm not sure what . . . would like to stay around Washington but may return to my old job.

"Guess you heard that C W. FLESHER and his lovely wife have a baby boy—their first.

"I had a letter from J. S. COLEMAN recently, he was at Guam."

CARL F. (Red) STILLMAN, '27, (Capt., USN), writes from USS SOUTH DAKOTA:

"Thought you'd be interested in this line up. My ship went to sea and I was unable to attend the gathering; those

that did go had a fine time, with a cruise on a PT Boat to Tacloban to finish off the evening. Since we have now been away from Leyte for over a month it can now be told we have been there.

"They detached my Skipper with hurry up orders to Washington, giving me command again! This happened before in November-December, you wiU remember. I figure if I can get it a third time—like a silver cup—they'll let riie keep it!

"Best regards—and, I guess you've read about us in there pitching! They're going to use us now for something besides armored tanks, storeships, and third base in the Carrier Task Group.

"On the eighth of June such members of the Class of '27 as were in San Pedro Bay and who got the news got together at the Macarata Officers' Club for a reunion. There weren't many of us in the Bay and not all got out. A few days ago some of the troops at the club opined that we ought to try it again—and set the date for Saturday, 23 June, at 1400. Since TG 38.3 will have difficulty meeting that date—especiaUy the Execs—I have set the date up to Sunday, 24 June, at 1400.

Sunday had been mentioned as a possible date. From various sources the following members of the Class '27 are reported present in the area. I have listed the nick names of as many as I remembered to make it easier on some who 'haven't seen each other since graduation.'

"Captains J. S. (Jimmy) Thach— Staff CTF 38; T. M. (Tommy) Dykers —Staff CTF 38; H. L. (Jack) Hoerner —Staff Com 3rd Fleet; J. C (Jack) Broach—Staff CTF 38.3; L. C (Skivvy)

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"Commanders W . C (BiU) Bryson— Exec Chester; M. T. (MT) Evans— Exec Yorktown; T. B. ('Tommy) Neblet —Exec Randolph; A. W. (Doc) McKechnie—Exec Bon Homme Richard; R. V. (Ike) HuU—Exec Baltimore; W. C (Bill) Specht—Exec Boston; Brooke Schumm—Exec San Diego; J. _R. (Mac) McCormick—Exec San Juan; A. M. (Alex) Patterson—Exec Oakland; E. W. (Eddie) Herron—Exec Flint; Malen Durski—Exec Mobile; G. W. (Whitey) WiUcox—Exec Alaska; E. P. (Bud) Southwick—Exec Springfield; Oscar H. Dodson—Exec Topeka; H. W. (Crapo) Taylor—Exec Dayton; T. J. (Tommy) Flynn—Exec Iowa; D. T. (Tom) Eddy —Exec Wisconsin; Monroe P. Duffil— Exec Quincy; Gordon S. Everett—Exec Alabama; WiUiam H. (BiU) O r g a n Exec Indiana; L. T. (MoUy) Malone— Exec Missouri; C B. (Charley) Beasley —Exec New Mexico; George L. Hansen —Exec New York; G. D. (Dean) Dickey—Exec Texas."

IQOO M A L C O L M B. "Mac" ' '^" FLANDERS, '28, affiliated with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, P. O. Box 359, Newark 1, N. J., sends in this interesting Dope:—"As you may remember I was drafted in April, 1944, and had my Boot Camp at Sampson. I then went to Storekeepers' School there until 19 Sept, when I was shipped to "Magruders Navy' at Newport. Was in SHIPS' Company doing Yeoman work at Receiving Unit and also had charge of the reimbursement The boys can get their money in two hours now instead of being tossed around for months as they used to. The same Draft Board that recommended my induction in April recommended my Discharge in October and no circumstances had changed. My wife is stiU in a Sanatarium—three and a half years now. " 'Bruno' Albertson, '26, was CO. of the Service Schools at Sampson' and I used to see him quite often. You may also remember Norman WaUcer, '27. He was CO. at the Receiving Unit at Newport I went in to see Magruder one day and had a nice chat with him. He hasn't changed much since he was 4th Batt Officer at the Academy in 1925.

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School but were aU given S l / C while WILLIAM H. SANDERS, some of the later classes came out S2/C. JR., '30, (Comdt, U S N ) , "Being the Senior man in Boot (37) was the Skipper of USS AARON WARD, I was made Clerk and in S.K. School, was which took six suicide planes in less Seaion Leader so had quite a few extra than a half hour, but lived to limp to privUeges and as a whole I enjoyed the Brooklyn for repairs.

10 months that I was in the Service.

J O H N E. EDWARDS, '30, (Comdr., However, it probably cost me $10,000 but who knows, it may have added ten USN), has received a Legion of Merit. years to my Ufe." EMMET O'BEIRNE, '30, (Comdt, 1QOQ WILLIAM L. KABLER, '29, USN), was Exec of USS SANGAMON ' '^^ (Comdr., U S N ) , was Exec of when she took a two-engined Jap bombUSS ENTERPRISE when she was hit by a er on her flight deck off Keramo Retto on 4 May. suicider on 14 May.

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moored cargo ship, and blasted a party of liberty-bound Jap sailors boarding a bus on the pier.

WALTER C MOSES, '30, (Lt., (SC), USNR), writes from an Aviation Re-equipment and Staging Depot: "Station WVTD has just given out with the official word of the Jap acceptance of the Allied peace terms; a happy day for you aU in Crabtown, and we who are far from Uncle Sugar."

EDGAR J. MACGREGOR, III, '30, (Comdt, U S N ) , gives his address as 505 Pomona Avenue, Coronado, Calif.

CALEB B. LANING, '29, (Comdr., EDMUND S. L. MARSHALL, '30, R I C H A R D E. B R I N E R , '30, USN), was C O . of USS HuTCHDsrs (Comdt, USN), now wears a Silver Star (Comdr., U S N ) , changes his address when she was severely damaged by a for his work in helping bring back the from USS WASP to NaTechTraCen, Japanese depth charge on 27 April, and crippled HOUSTON. Memphis 15, Tennessee. has been awarded the Navy Cross for his damage control work. He was subseR O B E R T H. T A Y L O R , '30, WILFRED AVES WALTER, '30, quently relieved as Captain.

(Comdr., U S N ) , has received the (Comdt, U S N ) , who served as commanding officer of the USS W I L L I A M D .

CHARLES BROADBENT, '29, ( L t Bronze Star.

PORTER, has been awarded the Bronze Comdr., USNR), giving his address as MELL A. PETERSON, '30, (Comdt, Star Medal.

7 Beacon Street, GloversviUe, New York, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for writes from Naval Hospital, Sampson, USN), has received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Bronze Star.

Air John L. SuUivan presented the award New York: at the Navy Department in August.

"I'm at Sampson now with some unCommander Walter is now on duty determined gastronomical disturbance.

J O H N CORBUS, '30, (Comdr., Arrived back in the States 30 July and U S N ) , was the Skipper of USS BOWFIN in the Research and Development Divinow glad for all hands that this rat-race when that submarine surfaced in the sion, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Departis over." vicinity of Daito Shima, torpedoed a ment and he and his wife and two OCTOBER,

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LEWIS C HUDSON, JR., '31, ( L t Col., USMC), has received the Navy Cross.

CHARLES C KIRKPATRICK, '31, (Comdr., U S N ) , was Skipper of USS SHEA, a DM, when a Baka bomb bored through the superstructure from starboard to port, near the chart room.

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EDWARD J. DILLON, '31, (Lt. Col., USMC), has received a Navy Cross.

EDWARD L. FOSTER, '31, (Comdr., USN), Skippered the USS SHANNON which assisted the A A R O N WARD, crip-

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1 Q O O RICHARD S. CRAIGHILL, I 70Z. .32, (Comdr., USN), has received the Silver Star and has been detached as Aide to the Superintendent, USNA, and assigned to duty as an Instructor.

W I L L I A M W . VANOUS, '32, (Comdr., U S N ) , has reported for duty in die PG school, USNA. RONALD L. WILSON, '32, (Comdr., USN), was wounded when the ship which he Captained, USS DREXLER, sank in less than a minute after taking two suicide hits on 28 May off Okinawa.

JOHN R. LEEDS, '32, (Comdr., USN), has received a SUver Star.

RICHARD C WILLIAMS, JR., '32, (Comdr., U S N ) , Skippered die DM USS HARRY F . BAUER through a suicide

daughters are living at 330 North Oakland Street, Arlington, Virginia. Their usual address is 3632 Stockbridge Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and Commander Walter's birthplace was Florence, Kansas.

Text of the citation for the Bronze Star Medal is as follows: "For meritorious achievement as Com-

attack during which three planes were splashed, a fourth was driven off damaged, and the BAUER came through unscratched.

ly to the extensive damage inflicted on the Japanese in this decisive engagement and to the success of our sustained drive against the enemy in the Pacific war area.

FRANK DE VERE LATTA, '32, His expert seamanship, bold tactics and (Comdr., U S N ) , is listed as missing in zealous devotion to duty in the face of action. The USS LAGARTO, the submagrave danger reflect the highest credit rine of which he was Captain, has been upon Commander Walter, his intrepid reported overdue and presumed lost. officers and men and the United States manding Officer of the USS W I L L I A M Naval Service."

ALPHA L . B O W S E R , JR., '32, (Lt. D. PORTER in action against enemy Col., USMC), has received a Legion of Japanese forces in the Okhotsk Sea from Merit.

3 to 5 March, 1944. An expert and forceCHARLES O. COOK, '31, ful leader, consistently skillful in the 1931 (Comdr., USN), recently deMALCOLM E. GARRISON, '32, conduct of his command, Commander tached as Exec of USS HOUSTON for an (Comdr., U S N ) , has been awarded the Walter fought his ship gaUantly through NROTC biUet at Dartmouth, is wearing Navy Cross. out her initial offensive sweep in enemy- a Bronze Star for his work in helping controlled waters, contributing material- bring his crippled ship back to port.

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his home address as 2140 Barrancas Ave., Pensacola, Florida, and his own as USS MINDORO, C/O P. M., San Frandsco, Calif.

1Q7^ HENRY S. MONROE, '33, I7JO (Comdr., U S N ) , was C O . of the sub RONQUIL, which repaired its own battle-damage dvuring a severe storm—almost within sight of the Jap home land.

GEORGE H. MILLER, '33, (Comdr., USN), die new Exec of USS H O U S T O N wears a Navy Cross earned by his valiant efforts as First Lieutenant to bring the aippled H O U S T O N home from Formosa.

It was one of war's greatest damage control jobs.

C H A R L E S W. T R A V I S , '33, (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Travis are parents of a daughter, Barbara Burlason, born at U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.,on 11 August.

MORGAN SLAYTON, '33, (Comdr., USN), has received a Bronze Star.

JOHN A. CROGHAN, '33: An early Autumn wedding is scheduled for John and EUeen Erwin of Washington, D. C THOMAS W . BEARD, JR., '33, gives his new address as 2107 Claremont Ave., Norfolk 7, Virginia.

LELAND P. KIMBALL, JR., '33, (Comdr., (SC), U S N ) , gives his new duty address as Staff Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet.

10^4 CHARLES M. BERTHOLF, I7J t .34^ (Comdr., U S N ) , was the CO. of USS CALLAGHAN, overdue and presumed lost.

ROBERT J. HARDY, '34, (Comdr., USN), has received the Navy Cross.

JAMES C BENTLY, '34, (Comdr., USN), has reported for duty at PG school, USNA. WILLIAM A. STEVENSON, '34, (Comdr., U S N ) , was C O . of the sub USS ASPRO, L.C.S. The "LCS" was added when the AsPRO went aground on a Luzon shoal to enable her men to make the "first amphibious assault" on Luzon.

MAURICE T. IRELAND, '34, (Lt. Col., USMC), gives his new address as M.O.Q. #344, M.C.A.S., Cherry Point, North Carolina.

JUNE P. HOBBS, '34, (Lt., USNR), gives his new address as 3875 Rodman St., N. W., Washington, D. C OCTOBER,

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W I L L I A M B. BROOKS, '34, Francisco, a son, John Wiltsey Bradbard (Comdr., U S N ) , gives his new address —a mighty fine young lad whom they as Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. have taken for adoption.

By the time this column goes to print, CARL W . MIDDLETON, JR., '34, your columnist wiU be wearing civilian gives his new address as 173 Plymouth clothes and will have become a "school Drive, Scarsdale, New York. boy" once again, attending the School of Jurisprudence, University of California,

BY SAMMY BRADBARD Berkeley, California. My orders have arrived and I shall go to inactive duty on Letters from Classmates have been very few and far between these past few the retired list sometime during the latmonths. DON FRASER having com- ter part of September.

So I sing the "Swan Song." It's been pleted the Radar course at Harvard and fun writing this column, hearing from M.I.T. is now assigned to the Electronic Field Service Group. While in Washing- you either by mail, telephone, or perton, on temporary duty in June, DON sonal visits, and then passing on "THE visited with BOB and Marion PATON. DOPE" to the other members of the Bob was then on duty at the Naval Gun Class.

We expect to live in Berkeley, CaliFactory. During the latter part of July, Bob passed through San Francisco on his fornia, for quite some time to come and way West to take command of an Am- wiU be happy to see you when you come munition Base on Okinawa. Conflicting through this area.

Hoping that someone wiU continue dates prevented our getting together, but we enjoyed a couple of telephonic con- with the column, perhaps "LARRY" BECHT, who is '34's representative on versations.

The June, 1945 issue of Sea Power the BOARD OF TRUSTEES, or ROY contains an interesting article by SMITH, who has contributed so much "MIKE" CHAMPLIN tided "It Was in the past.

Only Yesterday"—an artide about the IQOC THOMAS F. SHARP, '35, grim days of Bataan and Corregidor.

(Lt. Comdr., USN), missing "CHARLEY" THURSTON, now on I 7 J 3 duty in the Training Division of BuPers, in action, has been awarded the Silver while on an inspection trip throughout Star.

California and Washington, stopped by LAWRENCE L. EDGE, '35, (Comdr., for a few minutes for a very short visit USN), was the C O . of USS BONEFISH, during July. Charley had just recently returned from Sea duty . . . Gunnery Offi- reported overdue from patrol and presumed lost, is missing in action. cer of the USS N E W YORK. Hit the "Jack-pot" one night during June. Stopped in at the Army-Navy Club CHARLES O. BIERMAN, '35, (Lt. in San Francisco and saw C T. DOSS Col., USMC), has been presented the and J O H N N Y HORTON. Doss is stiU Silver Star. with Amphib Training, soon-to-go back to Sea, and Johnny was Exec of a CVE, JOSEPH H. WESSON, '35, (Comdr., building at Tacoma, Washington. Both looked well and say "hello" to '34.

'33 wiU be interested to learn that "WILLIE" RAKOW is now on duty as Executive Officer of the N.R.O.T.C. Unit at the University of Oklahoma. He writes that he is enjoying his duty but, like everyone else, anxious to be back at "YT^OU can get that additional Sea once again in command of a Delife insurance which you stroyer. promised yourself at sea. We Congratulations are in order to the can get it for you without war Naval Reservists of 1934 who have been restrictions and gear it to yoiu" promoted to Commander: "BILL" present estate to take care of CRUTCHER, A. J. DAVIS, JR., "LEO" your family if you don't live FLYNN, "CHARLEY" FREY, "BOB" or to pay you retirement inGRAHAM, 'FRANKIE" AULD, "AU' come if you do.

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USN), has received a Gold Star in lieu of a second SUver Star.

HARRISON P. McINTIRE, '35, (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Mclntire are parents of a daughter, Cher}'l Lynn, born at Long Beach, Calif., on 16 August.

DERMOTT V. HICKEY, '35, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), is serving aboard USS IOWA.

G I R A R D L. McENTEE, '35, (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. McEntee are parents of a son, Girard Lindsley, 4th, born at AnnapoUs, Md., 7 August.

DAVID W. TAYLOR, JR., '35, (Comdr., USN-Dec): Woot's widow, Virginia, writes from 2400 East First St., Long Beach 3, California: "It is no longer news, but since it has not ever been published in SHIPMATE, I fdt diat WOOT TAYLOR's friends would like to know that he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for "heroism and extraordinary achievement as Commander of a Squadron of Torpedo Bombers attached to the USS RANGER during a raid on enemy shipping along the West Coast of Norway, 4 October, 1943. Leading his squadron against a

weU defended enemy merchant vessel.

Lieutenant Commander Taylor pressed home a vigorous attack in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire, scoring three direct hits amidships and setting up a series of violent explosions which left the hostile ship enveloped in flames. His outstanding leadership and superb flying skiU, maintained with utter disregard of personal safety, were in keeping with the highest tradidon of the U. S. Naval Service.

"Aldiough WOOT did not Uve long enough to receive the medal personaUy, he read the citation in an artide in a San Francisco paper. His comment was, 'Gee —who's that guy.'

"The Navy Department later sent a posthumous Commission in his name as Commander, USN." JAMES H. BROWN, '35, (Comdr., USN), is now on duty in the Department of Marine Engineering at USNA.

1QO/' JAMES S. GRAY, I7JO (Comdr., U S N ) , ported to USNA as Aide to Superintendent, Vice Admiral

JR., '36, has rethe new FITCH.

JAMES R. HANSEN, '36, (Comdr., USN), has reported for duty at PG school, USNA. W I L L I A M B. PARHAM, '36, (Comdr., USN), is known as Head Lifeguard on Tokyo Beach—in a 31 day Patrol w i ± his sub, USS G A B I L A N , he saved 17 Army flyers.

RICHARD ROTHWELL, '36, (Lt. Col., USMC), has received a SUver Star.

WILLL\M F. KRAMER, '36, (Lt. Col., USMC), gives his address as M.O.Q., #2313, Paradise Point, Camp Lejeune, North CaroUna.

JAMES B. RUTTER, JR., '36, (Comdr., U S N ) , is now on duty at THOMAS H. HENRY, '35, (Comdr., USNA. USN), gives his address as 125 9th St., West, Birmingham 4, Alabama.

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The LAIZURES are in fine fetde except that BUZZ does not seem overjoyed at the prospect of spending another year as Prof over in O and G. He's also bemoaning the fact that he's lost his '36 Lucky Bag, so if anyone knows where he might obtain a copy, please get in touch with him at Apt. G-4, U.SJST.A. While at the Laizures I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. E. K. McLAREN, whos,e husband ('34) is also on duty at the Academy.

Our most recent addition to the N.A. Colony is JIM GRAY, who appears quite resplendent in trappings which indicate that he is Aide to the new Superintendent, Vice Admiral FITCH. Jim is looking fine as is Peg, his wife, whom I had the pleasure of meeting for the first time.

Their children were already in bed but their photos reveal them as being beautiful offspring. It was the first meeting Jim and I managed since graduation and namraUy we did a lot of reminiscing, particularly, with the aid of a projector and several reels of movies that Jim had taken during our Academy days, they brought back many happy memories.

RUSS BURKE, also an Aide to Vice Admiral FITCH, also enjoyed the movies and our antics of those days. Jim verified the report that DAVE CONNOLE is missing but had'not heard the reports regarding PORTER MAXWELL and RALPH HAAS. He revealed the good news that CHUCK HOUSTON had turned up safe and sound. Seems that Chuck and his Air Wing of Liberators had been having a great time up until the Jap surrender bombing and strafing in the Formosa and Korea areas. But to counteract the good news he informed us that JEAN MOREAU had sacrificed his right leg on the altar of freedom on Okinawa. Jean is now at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda. Hope that you feUows in the area have been or will be able to get over to see him. The least the rest of us can do is to drop him a line.

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sandwiched in among the Admirals and Captains. Who ever thought we'd get to that point.^ More bad news for the month came through in the dispatches regarding the Indianapolis disaster. Her Navigator was our own JACK JANNEY now listed among the missing.

It's been called to my attention that the heading of this column is generaUy disliked by those who read it. That being the case it ought to be changed. So how about some suggestions? We'll be glad to comply with your wishes.

A note from Minta Springer reveals that GUS and HANK ARNOLD have been in Europe since March with the U. S. Naval Technical Mission. From previous information we conjecture that ARCHIE HEMENWAY may be with the same group. Imagine three First Batt Aggies touring Europe together!

Minta also reports that she had just seen LiU and KARIN SIMONEAU off for LiU's native Norway 25 August. Thanks for the Dope, Minta. We share the hope with you that we'U be able to get together soon after FRANK gets back.

I caUed BETTY KIRKPATRICK while in Philadelphia recently and she told me she had received no word as yet regarding the liberation of HARLAN as a Jap prisoner. Her last word from HARLAN was received about three months ago and he was still getting along very well under the circumstances.

We hope that you wdl send in promptly any news regarding the liberation of our other known prisoner, JACK RYDER, and any of those still listed as missing who may be liberated or show up in territory which was enemy controUed. W e still have many loose strings which must be tied up.

While in Baltimore I visited with RUTH NICHOLSON. I regret to report that Ruth and NICK were divorced some time ago. Their son is a cute, chubby, dark eyed little rascal about two and a half years of age. Sorry I arrived at nap time and was unable to see him. Ruth is now living at 3402 Powhatan Avenue.

NICK now has his third wife. From what I gather he is now out of the Merchant Marine or planning to get out. I tried to get in touch with him but he apparently has moved and I was unable to reach him at the phone he was listed under.

While in Annapolis I also had the pleasure of v i s i t i n g with OTIS WESCHE, '38, for the first time since the Fall of '37 and also of meeting his bride, Mickey. OATS is a Gunnery student at PG and is looking fine despite the five years plus that he was marooned on the IDAHO before he was finally rescued and sent to a Carrier. OATS and his charming wife are comfortably and happily established at 206 Monroe St., in West Annapolis.

Ran into BOB HARWOOD, '41, on the Annapolis trip. Bob is recently back from the wars and is at PG School. He was a Submariner and our conversation drifted to mumal friends and finaUy centered on BOB WARD, '35, with whom he had been Shipmates. He spoke so highly of you. Bob, that I thought it necessary to disiUusion him a bit. So I let him in on a couple of the family secrets, the best one being the incident of the D.O. conked with a chair that was meant for you one night Plebe Summer.

And remember the time during our second class Summer that you kidnapped my "drag" at a hop and didn't show up with her again until it was time to go home? Incidentally, I stiU suspect that you late-dated her that night. So when you see Harwood again. Bob, you can blame me for it, if he knows you better.

Forgot to mention that JIM GRAY reported that WHITEY McGILL, '35, and family had been over from Washington to visit them and had left just prior to my arrival. If I remember correctly, he said the McGILLS have two boys. Jim had also spent the previous evening with AL FLEMING, his brother-in-law, who had been up from Sea Island, Ga., where he is on duty as a Radar Specialist. The Flemings also have two fine boys.

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The question that everyone in '36 is asking is:—Do you know which '36ers acquired the tide of "Cement Head" and "The Junior Midshipman" as D.O.'s?

And then there's the famous "Fearless Fosdick" of '34.

The August SHIPMATE arrived only a few hours ago in the last mail and we note with much joy that DICK HANSEN was not lost with the MORRISON. Sorry that I didn't know you were in Annapolis and that no one enlightened me on the subject, Dick, because we certainly would have liked to see you. We hope to do that very thing soon. Incidentally, we still disclaim responsibility for the erroneous report in the July SHIPMATE.

We're glad to hear that you successiv^^ ducked that Kamikaze plane, JACK NOEL, and to get your new address PONY SHETENHELM. Congramlations are due the BJARNSONS on their new boy and to DAYTON SEILER on his bethrothal. For the next issue we hope to have a completely new stmimary on the Class and an appraisal of what the war did to us.

IQO7 DONALD GAY, JR., '37, ' ''^' (Lt. Comdr., USN), has received the Air Medal.

THOMAS M. ADAMS, '37, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has entered PG school for work in radio engineering.

JACK A. O B E R M E Y E R , '37, (Comdr., U S N ) : Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant of New York City have announced the engagement of their Navy Nurse daughter, Lt. (jg) Joan Grant Dotson to Commander Obermeyer.

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ERNEST W. WOOD, JR., '38, (Lr. Comdr., USN-Dec), has been killed in action.

Office: Chicago, ill.

JOHN E. PACE, '37, (Lt. Comdr., USN), was die Skipper of die DE, USS J O H N C. BUTLJER, which has five Jap suiciders to its credit.

WILLLAM W. WOODBURY, '38, (Ens., ( A ) L ) , gives his duty address as AEOS, NaTechTraCen, Memphis 15, Tenn.

IRWIN T. BROOKS, '38, (Lt. Comdr., USN), gives his new address as 501 Barksdale Road, Norfolk 5, Va.

1 Q^Q CLAY H. RANEY, '39, (Lt. ' '-^ ' Comdr., U S N ) , is die CO. of GEORGE H. FOSTER, '37, (Lt., USS Ross.

USNR), writes from the Skipper's quarFREDERIC B. CLARKE, '39, (Lt. ters of LSM 420: "I am once more in the service, since Comdr., USN), has received the Legion June 1944. I am attached to the Am- of Merit. phibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, as C.O. of this small ship. It is somewhat contrary L I N C O L N MARCY, '39, (Lt. to the maxim we were taught at the Comdr., USN), is credited with a pretty academy to "keep the ship ofiF the beach' fair job of damage repair on the sub and am still somewhat amazed to deUb- RONQUIL, while the ship was lying alerately drive it onto the shore. Altogether most within sight of the Jap homeland, it is an interesting little ship. during a heavy storm.

"The years since leaving the academy have seen only a few of the old friends— RICHARD L. HELM, '39, (Lt. LEVICK STREET, '37, W. C. (Bud) Comdr., USN), missing in action and HALL, '37, AL GERKEN, '37, GEORGE presumed dead, has been awarded a BULLEN, '34. Would like to hear from Silver Star. any who can find a moment to write a few lines."

FRED W. KITTLER, '39, (Lt. Comdr., USN), has reported to USNA 1 Q'VDi BEN B. PICKETT, '38, (Lt. for Radio Engineering studies in the '''^" Comdr., USN), and Mrs. PG school.

Pickett announce the birth of a son, Ludwell Lewis, at the Naval Hospital, JAMES D. McBRAYER, JR., '39, Annapolis, Maryland, on 29 August. (Capt., USMC), and the former Jean Ludwell is a grandson of Captain Mays Paterson were married in Frederick, Livingston Lewis, '18, and a nephew of Maryland, on 11 July. the late Ludwell R. Pickett, Jr., '33.

ALFRED F. ROBERTSHAW, '39, ROBERT G. BIDWELL, '38, (Lt. (Lt. Col., USMC), has won a Gold Star Comdr., USN), saved a man's life when in lieu of a second Bronze Star. the USS DREXLER sank by cutting him free from tangled clothing which preHOWARD A. I. SUGG, '39, (Lt., vented swimming.

USNR), and the former Suzanne D. Decker were married at Naval Academy LEONARD E. HARMON, '38, (Lt. Chapel, Annapolis, Maryland, on 11 Aug. Comdr., USN), has received a Gold Star in lieu of a fifth Air Medal.

NATHANIEL W. JAMES, III, '39,

I Lt. Comdr., (SC), USN), gives his new parents of a son, Vincent de Paul, born duty address as Naval Supply Depot, 23 July at New York City. They have another child, Veronica Jane, two and a Clearfield, Utah. half years.

EMIL F. KORB, "39, (Lt. Comdr., LAWRENCE C McEWEN, JR., '40, USN-Ret.), writes: "I am now very happily associated (Lt., USNR), gives his address as 10 with Courts and Co., Investment Bank- Holly Street, Hingham, Massachusetts. ers in Atlanta, Georgia, after becoming HOWARD L. SMOLIN, '40, (Lt. inacnve in February, 1945. Would like to keep up with my class and Naval asso- Comdr., USN), gives his new address as ciates and can think of no better way 1043 Madison St., Eastport, Maryland. dian through SHIPMATE. Regards to VERNON E. TEIG, '40, (Lt. Comdr., all." (P.O.Box 1295).

USN), gives his new address as Box VADYM V. UTGOFF, 39, (Lt. #4005, Warrington Br., Pensacola, Fla. Comdr., USN), gives his new duty adMILTON J. SILVERMAN, dress as U.S.N.A.S., Hutchinson, Kansas. 1 Q 4 1 ' ' ^ ' '41, (Lt., USN), is Exec on WILLIAM H. MARSHALL, JR., 39, USS Ross. gives his new address as c/o Pan AmeriJOHN M. CASTER and JAMES W. can World Airways, New York Airport STEIDLEY, '41, (Lts., USN), have reStation, LaGuardia Field, New York. ported to USNA for PG school.

WALTER L. LONGNECKER, '39, gives his new address as 2176 Morrison Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.

LESTER S. WALL, JR., '39, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , is C O . of Squadron VBF 94, which, as hostilities ceased, was flying missions over Tokyo and vicinity.

194n LUCIAN J. HUNT, '40, (Lt. I7TV Comdr., U S N ) , arrived in "Ye Ancient City" last March, and is pursuing a course in Aeronautical Engineering at the Postgraduate School, U.S.N.A., Annapolis, Md. OR VAL C DICKES, '40, (Lt. Comdr., USN j , was in charge of an antiaircraft battery aboard USS R E N O when that ship took a torpedo in the Philippine sea while operating with TF 38.

PAUL M. PAUL, '40, (Lt. Comdr., USN), was C.O. of Composite Squadron 25 which had the job of neutralizing the Sakashimas during the Okinawa landings.

ROBERT E. THOMAS, '41, (Lt. Comdr., (CEC), USN), gives his new maihng address as 831 Overlook Road, Rockford, Illinois.

PEMBERTON "Pem" SOUTHARD, '41, (Lt., USN), writes: "In Sept. '43, took the big step and now have a son six months old. With due respect to the rebels I hope to Yankeeize my wife before the year is up.

At present I am Exec on a new 2200-ton destroyer. Was ashore in Norfolk awhile back for a six months tour and saw KEN STEEN, BOB SLAYMAKER, ARMSTRONG, KLINGAMAN, and SOMERS and they are probably all at sea too."

SEYMOUR EINSTEIN, '41, (Lt., USN), giving his mailing address as 2419 Third Avenue, Los Angeles 16, California, writes from USS PENSA-

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"I have just finished a tour of duty as First Lieutenant and Damage Control Ofificer of this fighting old heavy cruiser and really hate to leave her. My shipmates include "LOBO" LOMBARD, '39, JULIUS F. STEUCKERT, '40, (Lt. BOB BOGARDUS, '40, and LONNIE Comdr., U S N ) , won a.Bronze Star for ROARK, '40, who is my relief. Looks his part in bringing the crippled USS like we're about to finish off the Japs HOUSTON to port last Fall and Winter. darned soon. (Seymour's letter was dated 8 Aug.—ED.) Chances are my present CHRISTIAN H. COCHRAN, WIL- Shipmates will decommission this overLIAM J. SCOTT, WILLIAM R. age gun platform. Would like to hear MEYER, WILLIAM R. BOEHM, from BILL ROWEN and CLARENCE ALEXANDER J. HILLER, JR., and DELLER and JOE MATERl, who, scutJOSEPH WEBER, all '40, and all Lt. tlebutt has it, is a BeeGee in the Army."

Comdr., USN, have reported to USNA WILLIAM F. HE AVEY, JR., '41, (Lt., for PG school.

USN), writes from USS MARYLAND: "On last Wednesday evening, the I6th JOHN W. ANTONELLI, '40, (Lt. of May, the class of '41 was fortunately CoL, USMC), has received a Navy Cross. able to gather together one of the largest J. ROBERT TREANOR, '40, (Lt. groups of the class that I have heard of Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Treanor are since graduation. This occasion was fos-

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"Besides BILL DALY, his wife, Cornelius, and yours truly, the following members of the dass and their guests were present: TONY LILLY and his wife Gingie, BOB SLAYMAKER and Bobbe Malone, the courageous widow of TOMMY (T. F.) MALONE, KEN STEEN and his wife Gran, old "DOC" SAVAGE, GENE SOMERS and his wife Gail, ROLAND BIENVENU and his wife Verne, OSCAR MACMILLAN and his date, JIM JAMISON and his date, JOE SPITLER and his date, (or was it the other way around?) "MITCH" MITCHELL ( C A., J R . ) , B . T . SLMONDS and his wife, Jeanne, and TOM BURLEY and his attractive wife.

"It was hoped diat "HOPPY" HOPKINS (E. S.), "TIP" CLARK (H. D . ) , and Parker, (E. A.), could also come but

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CLAUDE W . ADAMS, jR-, '43, (Lt., USN), gives a new home address, 19162 Persons Avenue, Hayward, Calif.

JAMES B. JOHNSON, JR., '41, (Lt., USN), is serving aboard the USS BoN

J O H N T. SHEPHERD, '43, (Lt., USN), from Corpus Christi, Texas, informs that sometime in October or NoJapan. vember, upon completion of operadonal 1Q49 JUSTEN A. O'NEIL, '42, training, he will walk down an aisle and ' ^^^ (Lt., USN), has reported to wed Lt. (jg) M. F. Roof, ( W ) , USNR, at Stanford University Chapel, Palo Alto, USNA for PG school.

Calif HENRY J. WOESSNER, '42, (Capt., FENTON F. SMITH, '43, (Lt, USMC), has been detached from duty USN), writes: aboard USS BALTIMORE in the Pacific "Three years in subs called for a and gives his new address as 8244 Eberchange so now will try flying at NAS, hart Avenue, Chicago 19, Illinois.

Dallas. Three other coolies from the boats are also here, namely O'BRIEN, ARMISTEAD DENNETT, '42, (Lt., RUIZ, and ETHERIDGE. The surface USN), gives his address as 7 Randall ship crowd is in great abundance likeCourt, Annapolis, Maryland. wise, KIRKLAND, NORTON, J. E. SMITH, SCHNEIDER, MOONEY, JAMES K. LEIPPER '42, (Lt., BOULTON, FEHR, GALLY, FACER, USNR), informs that after early Sepand JUDGE HARDY of die Gyrenes. tember he expected to rehabilitate at Am needing the address of my wives, 1228 Edgewood, Lake Forest, Illinois, HARRELL and VAN ORDEN. ZOELand adds: lER is dug in at M.I.T." "Would like to hear from ALDEN WHITNEY and BOB ARMSTEAD. DALE W. COX, '43, (Lt., USN), LEW STECHER's last address is USS gives his new address as 1066 So. BiLOXl and he's a poppa. JOHNNY Genesee St., Los Angeles 35, Calif HANSEN is Assistant First Lieutenant on die MONTPELIER. BILL ENGDAHL HAROLD F.LANG, '43, (Lt,USN), and "BALDY" VAN GELDER grace die and Mrs. Lang announce the birth of a NASHVILLE'S roster." daughter, Janice Marie, on 4 August at Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N . Y. The GLENN H. "Duke" EASTON, JR., baby is the granddaughter of Capt '42, writes from New York, where he is JAMES E. KIERNAN, USN, and Mrs. on temporary duty following a year's Kiernan and of Mrs. Frederic S. Lang. service in Far Eastern waters: "While in the Pacific I ran into SKIDHARPER E. VAN NESS, '43, (Lt, MORE, '42, WOESNER, '42, BETZER, USN), gives his new duty address as '42, LOWE, '42, PESSALANO, '42, ComAirlant, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, SWEEK, '42, G U T n N G , '42, PIERCE, Virginia.

'42, and MEYERS, '42, aU of whom were fine. Looked all over for my two wives, HARVARD C HUBER, '43, (Lt, JIM SALASSI and FRED LANG but USN), gives his new duty address as never did locate them."

N.A.S., Pensacola, Florida.

ROBERT T CONNOR, '42, (Lt., J O H N P. STREET, '44, (Lt USNR), gives his new duty address as 1 0 4 4 (jg). U S N ) : The engageUSNAS, South Weymouth, Mass. ment of Martha Anne Cummins to John 1040 R O D E R I C K C DEN- has been announced by her mother. '^^"^ NEHY, '43, (Lt., U S N ) , HENRY S. BARBOUR, '44, (Lt and Mrs. Dennehy are parents of a daughter, Joan Bruce, born at Pensacola (jg), U S N ) , and Mrs. Barbour are parents of a daughter, Nancy Latane, born on 10 August.

3 August at the Naval Hospital, Corpus JAMES C ALLER, '43, (Lt., USN), Christi, Texas. and Mrs. Aller are parents of a son, HAROLD A. WRIGHT, '44, (2nd Charles Clinton, born on 13 August at Lt, USMC), has been retired.

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ROBERT G. BAGBY, '44, (Lt (jg), JOHN B. GRIGGS, IH, '43, (Lt., USN), has been commended by CinCUSN), has received both a Silver Star Pac. and a Bronze Star.

JOHN C HAYNIE, JR., '43, (Lt., USN), and the former Harriet G. Cook were married at Mare Island on 27 July.

FRANCIS J. O'MALLEY, '44, (Lt. (jg), USN), reports his mailing address as 27 Gorman Rd., Framingham, Mass.

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WILLIAM F. RIORDAN, '45, (Ens., SAM ROREX, JR., '45, (Ens., USN), USN), changes his mailing address from NEWTON P. FOSS, '44, ( L t (jg), and the former Loraine Elliott were mar- USS TENNESSEE to 77 Park Terrace USN), gives his mail address as 1936 ried in Annapolis on 18 August 1945. West, New York 34, New York.

North 10th Avenue, Pensacola, Florida.

WILLIAM B. LOONEY, '45, (S-V THOMAS McNlFF, JR., '45, (Ens., ROWLAND L. WARREN, '44, gives 12(S), USNR), gives his address as USN), gives his new home address as 1215 Confederate Avenue, Richmond, 5 Makin Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Ishis address as Millsboro, Delaware.

Virginia. land.

WILLIAM B. STAN ARD, '44, ( L t DAVID F. DUCEY, '45, gives his (jg), USN), and Mrs. Stanard announce 194A STANLEY G. SECCOMBE, the birth of a son, Richard Earl, born at duty address as N.A.D., lona Island, ' ' ^ " JR., '46, (Ens., USN), and New York.

Pensacola on 6 August 1945.

Eleanor Joan Dreher, of Derby, Connecticut, were planning an October wedJOSEPH M. CHAMBERLIN, '45, WILLIAM G. ("BiU") HORTON, ding.

'44, (Lt (jg), U S N ) , has come ashore (Ens., USNR), who graduated from from USS S A N FRANCISCO and his pres- Kings Point in December, 1944, is now JEROME A. LEE, JR., '46, (Ens., ent duty address is N.A.S., Corpus on active duty with the Navy.

USN), and the former Betty Summerall Christi, Texas. had a mid-summer Annapolis wedding.

WILLIAM A. SIEGRIST, '45, (Ens., and the former Geneva May PEMBERTON B. WALL, '44, (Lt. USN), THOMAS L. PEACE, '46, (Ens., (jg), USNR), was last reported in the Sells, of the W-R, were married in ToUSCGR), was commissioned in the Philippine area, the Skipper of an LCT. ledo, Ohio, on 21 July.

Coast Guard reserve on 22 August, folWILLIAM F. DOEHLER, '45, (Lt., lowing a course at the Coast Guard AcadHAROLD C MOYNELO, JR., '45, (Ens., USN), has USMC), with the First Marines, gives emy's Reserve Training School, New been listed as missing since the sinking his Statesides address as Box 26, Raspe- London, Conn. of the INDIANAPOLIS, aboard which he burg Station, Baltimore, Maryland.

WILLIAM V. McKEE, '46, (Lt, USserved. writes from the "middle of ROBERT B. ATWELL, '45, (Ens., AAF), India," APO 219 1347 AAFBU, c/o USN), and Mrs. Atwell announce the JOHN L. WALTERS, '45, (Ens., P. M., New York City: birth of a daughter, Patricia Lynne, at USN), suffered a head injury when a

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"I have applied for a regular commission in the Army. It isn't that I am disloyal to the Navy, but it is that I am in the Army and have an Aeronautical rating of Navigator. It is a good career and I feel that I wdl do as well here now that I am in my present rank and job."

ALLAN N. GLENNON, '46, (Ens., USN), gives his duty address as BOQ, U. S. Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut. wishes to acknowledge communications and/or contributions from the following: SHIPMATE

SHERWOODE A. TAFFINDER, '06 FRANK J. LOWRY, 11 ANDREW G. SHEPARD, '17 GEORGE H.MILLS, 19 ALLAN D. BLACKLEDGE, '20 CHARLES F. ERCK,'21 LAWRENCE C GRANNIS, '21 LLEWELLYN J. JOHNS, '21 CHARLES W. ROLAND, '21 WILLIAM L. ERDMANN, '24 PAUL J. KIEL,'25 CARLETON G. LONG, '26 ROWLAND H. GROFF, '26 HYSELL P. COOPER, '27 HAROLD D. HANSEN, '27 GEORGE D. DICKEY, '27 JOHN F. HENKEL, '27 68

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ROBERT L. LEDBETTER. jR > '^^ DAVID T. LEIGHTON. ^'^ ROBERT E. McCORMACK. JR., '46 HENRY M. McPHILLlPS, JR., '46 ROBERT E. MEGEE, JR.. ^ 6 JOHN E. MURDOCK. JR., 46 BYRON OSTERWEIL. 46 PRESTON A. PEAK, 46 JAMES M. SMITH, JR.. '46 ROBERT D. THOMPSON, '46 HENRY M. WADDELL, '46 JACK T. WATSON, '46 JAMES E. WEIRICH, '46 ALLAN E. WHITE, '46 CHARLES V. WILHOIT, JR., '46 WINSTON C WILLLAMS, '46 SEYMOUR YALEN, '46 ERWIN P. YOUNG, JR., '46

Invitation to a Birthday Party (Continued from page 17) It is estimated that it will be now about 1210. The next event on the program will be the singing of "Navy Blue and Gold" by the Brigade, with the author, Professor Crosley, assisting in the leading. Noon mess will then be held, with the Speakers' Platform party eating with the Brigade. At 1300, two new murals will be unveiled in the Mess Hall. They are "Action at Midway,"

by Lt Comdr. Griffidi B. Coale, USNR, and "Amphibious Landing at Guam,"

by Lt. WiUiam F. Draper, USNR. At 1430, a stone on Chapel Walk will be dedicated; it is to serve, ultimately, as the cornerstone for a Memorial Building.

On Worden Field, at 1600, a speaacular Brigade Review is promised. "ITie Guards of Honor of three platoons will be garbed in the uniforms of three distinctive Naval periods—1845,1870, and 1895, respectively—and, after marching by the Reviewing Stand, wiU leave formation and form to review the remainder of the Brigade, symbolizing the midshi|)men of past generations reviewing the midshipmen of the present.

At 1900, cocktails wiU be served for a stag group of about 300 guests, in Smoke HaU. This wiU be foUowed by a formal Stag Banquet in Memorial HaU. The Honorable Ralph A. Bard, former Undersecretary of the Navy, will be Toastmaster. The President of the United States, Harry S. Truman wiU be Guest of Honor, and principal speaker, with Rear Admiral W. T. Cluverius, USN (Ret.) also making an address.

The same evening, at 2100, the midshipmen wiU have their own celebration in the form of a Hop in Dahlgren Hall, with Kay Kyser's famous band playing and broadcasting on a national network.

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the Brigade Review in the afternoon, wiU be present in their period costumes, and the lady guests will be requested to wear gowns of 19th century style. The Hop wiU be terminated at 2400 with the sounding of 8 bells on the Okinawa BeU, and the singing of "Navy Blue and Gold" and the National Anthem.

Saturday, October 13, will be the biggest day of the week for Academy Alumni. Officially designated as Alumni Day, it wiU open with the placing of the cornerstone of the new Alumni House (see August S H I P M A T E ) at 1200, foUowed by an inspection of the building immediately afterward. At noon the assembled alumni will be guests of the Alumni Association for hght refreshments at the Alumni House.

At 1345, an air squadron will commence a flying demonstration over Thompson Stadium. The Navy-Penn game begins at 1430, and it promises to be a good contest Between halves, the stands wiU witness a spectacular massing of State Flags. Each State Flag wiU be borne by a midshipman appointed from that State, emphasizing the truly national character of the Academy, and wiU be accompanied by a Color Guard from that State. The State groups wiU march on the field in succession, beginning with the original 13 States, in the order

in which they ratified the Constitution, and continuing in the order in which they entered the Union. The State Flags are the permanent possession of the Naval Academy, presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

This spectacle will conclude the week's official celebrations. Unofficially, of course, the centennial week will afford an unprecedented opportunity to see old friends, renew old acquaintances, and live again the many school memories. It is safe to say that no other educational instimtion in the nation has ever had an anniversary celebration of such magnitude. National publications, newsreels, and the daily press will headline the events.

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and solid geometry, and chemistry. Although these requirements sound rigorous, the fact that each year about a thousand young men enter the Academy is proof that they are not prohibitive.

After passing your examinations, you make a deposit of $100, to which the United States adds $250, to cover your immediate purchases, Now you are ready to be assembled with a group of your new classmates to be sworn into the Navy. It is an impressive ceremony, taking place amid the almost sacred naval mementos in Memorial Hall, in front of Perry's flag, "Don't Give Up the Ship."

And from that moment on you are no longer a civilian, but a midshipman in the Navy, with all the obligations and privileges pertaining thereto. You have entered upon a lifetime career—but of more immediate concern to you is the momentous four years before you.

OU will either choose or be assigned Y room-mates. You will outfit yourself, and will learn to be a good house-

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beginning of academics in October in becoming accustomed to the discipline and routine of the Navy and of Academy life.

Your Plebe year wiU be tough. You must buckle down to new and difficult subjects, and you will have few privileges, little recreation. You may run afoul of the disciplinary system, but within a few months you will find yourself speaking a nautical language effortlessly, and wiU fall naturally into naval customs. The first year is in a sense a test—^probably the hardest one the prospective officer will ever have to pass in his naval career.

The following summer, you will go on your first practice cruise. You will have learned to scrub decks, stand helm watches, lookout watches, fire room watches, and all the rest. You will learn gunnery, navigation, seamanship, engineering, and communications first-hand.

In September comes your first big leave.

It passes quickly and you are back as a Third Classman. This year you can begin to enjoy a few outside activities, more leisure time, and more privileges.

The Army-Navy game, the Thanksgiving Hop, Christmas, and the first term is over. Classes are hard, and your activities are time-consuming; June Week comes quickly.

On this summer's cruise, usually on a destroyer, you will find yourself treated as one of the junior officers. You will 70

stand more responsible watches, and accustom yourself to the rougher, faster motion of the smaller ships.

Back at the Academy again in the fall, you wiU enjoy considerable dignity as a Second Classman. The subjects will be increasingly difficult—not a one that does not require considerable mathematics, except English. This year you are still more active in athletics and extracurriculars. After June Week, another cruise, this time on a battleship. You know your way around now. You bring up the Third Class the way you were brought up. You act as junior Officer-ofthe-Deck and as a junior division officer.

You do a day's work in navigation, and stand more watches in the engine room.

First Class year at the Academy is the formative period for your career, so soon to begin. You are treated as a junior officer by the commissioned officers and instructors. To the lowly plebes, you loom larger than the Superintendent. Extracurricular activities demand more and more time, but you jealously protect your standing in your class by application to academics. Your courses become more and more specialized and professional— fire control, external ballistics, alternating currents, naval regulations, tactics, official correspondence. Unconsciously you are changing from midshipman to officer. FinaUy comes your own June Week, with the graduating address, the colorful ceremonies, and the precious commission. You are a full-fledged ofiicer in Uncle Sam's Navy, with new responsibilities which you will never be able to divest yourself of, afloat or ashore.

You wiU always live up to the traditions of those previous Academy graduates who have distinguished themselves in five wars.

Market D a y in the Pacific {Continued from page 27) ships, but when the tanker is pumping heavier oils, you can smoke in your room provided you're not within 50 feet of the hose.

More lines are passed for the transfer of mail, drums of lubricants, medical supplies, provisions, ammunition and clothing, sometimes still more lines to carry the breeches buoy in which ofiicer and crew replacements are put aboard their ships.

Refueling "on the run" calls for the kind of seamanship which keeps the captain in the bridge wing with a megaphone at hand and a talker at the telephone beside him. Ships can yaw 10° or more in heavy seas, and sudden changes of course may have to be made.

Battleships have been fueled under conditions in which a sudden 180° turn has parted the lines and hose, and the tank-

ers have had to run for their lives to keep from being stepped on in the night, and eventually fueling has had to begin all over again in complete darkness except for a single dim red light.

While tankers went right along with the task forces, however, their slower speeds hampered the maneuverability of the group and nullified one of their most effective assets. The formation of separate tanker groups was a natural result.

Protected by a small number of destroyers and destroyer escorts, the tankers were sent in, to within only a few hundred miles of the operating area, there to rendezvous at pre-determined locations and dates to refuel the entire task group.

The positions were usually close enough to the battle area so that the carriers could launch strikes all day, the group retire to the rendezvous at night, refuel the following day, and remrn and renew their offensive against the enemy by the second day. The tremendous speed-up of the operations was immediately apparent.

The next step in the evolution was the addition of escort carriers to the refueling groups. This was not done as a protective measure but as a source of aircraft replacement In the intensive aerial warfare that prefaced and continued throughout a major invasion, inevitably some planes were lost both in enemy action and as a result of operational failure. Many others were damaged or rendered ineffective by the long hours of combat flying. After two or three weeks of continuous operation, these cumulative casualties noticeably impaired the striking power of the task groups. The simple expedient of including escort carriers with the refueling groups not only made it possible to replace the losses but also to take aboard the flyable duds and return them to rear area bases where they could be repaired for further duty. Thus, the fuU offensive power of the carriers could be maintained at all times. "^77" ITH this satisfactory solution to ' ^ the fueling and plane supply problems, it became vitally important that some method of supplying the ships and planes with ammunition be evolved before full powered operations could be continued indefinitely. The hazardous task of transferring bombs, rockets and smaller caliber ammunition across the 75 to 100 feet of water separating two ships underway presented many difficulties, but an ingenious device was worked out whereby the load was transferred from the crane of one ship to that of the other in mid-air. With the plans perfected as much as possible on paper, it came time to put them into acmal practice. Happily, the transfer was completed without a flaw and the re-arming ship became a permanent addition to the re-

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fueling group. With it, to round out the traveling market, came the supply ships to restock the larders of aU ships, particularly the destroyers, with fresh, frozen and dry provisions. Now it was no longer necessary for the task groups to retire to a rear area base for ten days or rwo weeks to replenish their stores. At last, it was possible to maintain a constant, fuU powered offensive against the enemy as long as the demands of the operation diaated. The market had finally moved to the vicinity of the battle area.

The tremendous importance of this development was remarkably demonstrated in the recent Okinawa operation.

Here our forces undertook to capmre an island that lay weU within the inner defense areas of the Japanese Empire. The nearest American land bases were 700 miles away. It was physically impossible to provide air cover for the invasion from these distant bases. Without control of the air, there could be little hope of success without a long, bloody struggle.

This aerial protection could only be supplied by the carrier task groups during the early stages of the invasion and could be augmented only slightly by land based planes on Okinawa itself as the occupation progressed. But the comparatively small number of planes that could be moved to Okinawa would not be suffiOCTOBER,

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dent to relieve the pressure on the carrier air groups, for Japan lay only 300 miles to the north with convenient staging points in tKe northern Nansei Shoto Islands by which a constant stream of planes could be thrown into the struggle.

The domination of the skyways would have to be maintained at all times and that job was given to the carriers. The fanatic Kamikaze attacks took their toll, of which the FRANKLIN and the B U N K ER H I L L were mute witnesses, but the fleet stayed.

By virtue of the ministrations of the refueling group, one task group operated continuously in the battle area for 79 consecutive days. In this group, the USS ESSEX was the only CV that withstood the gruelling pressure of this two and a half month ordeal without damage or relief. Some of her statistics relating to the transfer of fuel, ammunition and provisions demonstrate clearly the tremendous importance of the refueling groups in maintaining an unrelenting pressure against the enemy throughout the operation. Multiply these figures by the number of large ships involved in the various task groups for comparable periods and a fairly accurate picmre can be obtained of the great volume of business handled by the traveling market.

During the 79 day operation, the

ESSEX contacted the tanker 18 times, on which occasions they delivered tb her a total of 7,050,880 gaUons of bunker fuel oil; 1,427,600 gaUons of aviation gasoline and 5,056 gallons of aviation lubricating oil. Of this amount, she later transferred 1,257,569 gaUons of fuel oil to 29 destroyers that needed a "drink" between visits of the refueling' group. On 15 visits to ammunition ships, she received an astronomical total of bombs, rockets, and ammunition. value of including the escort THE carriers in the group was easily proved by the fact that the ESSEX received 19 TBM's, 22 SB2C's, 48 F4U's and 81 F6F's as replacements during that period and sent off nearly as many flyable duds for re-servicing. Although the supply and refrigeration ships were included mostly for the convenience of the smaller ships, the ESSEX found it necessary to patronize them on five different occasions during which she received tons of fresh fruit and dry provisions to replenish her dwindling food supply. In addition to the above items, there were many tons of heavy and light freight received aboard including airplane parts and accessories, belly tanks, and miscellaneous gear of all kinds that were vital(Continued on page 90) 71

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Football Navy vs. Villanova ' T ' H E Naval Academy opened its 1945 J- footbaU schedule at Annapolis, Md., on Samrday, 29 September by humbling the Villanova CoUege Wildcats by the score of 49 to 0.

Navy's first team played the entire first quarter and showed much power and speed. The firsr team backfield composed of Hoernschemeyer, Scott, KeUy, and Sundheim (substimting for Jenkins who was injured) scored three touchdowns or a total of 21 points during the fifteen minutes they were operating in the game.

This is Navy's first year for the "T" formation and the first team aggregation made the plays click in fine fashion.

However, one thing was discovered during the game that needs particular attention and that is the development of the second and third teams.

The middies roUed up 14 first downs, 10 by rushing and 4 by passing, for a net total of 445 yards, while the Wildcats scored 4 first downs, 2 by rushing and 2 by passing for a total of 82 yards.

Jack Currence, a plebe, made seven conversions out of seven tries for the points after touchdowns.

Navy scored within three minutes after the opening whistle by taking the ball on a punt on their own 20 yard line and crossing the goal line on six plays.

Clyde Scott, from Smackover, Arkansas made the score on a 26-yard dash after taking a lateral from Hoernschmeyer.

Scott took a 5 yard pass from Hoernschemeyer for the second touchtown, and also passed to Kelly for the third tally.

Scott was in the Wildcats hair every minute he was in the game.

Navy's second and third stringers scored 28 points during the second, third, and fourth quarters.

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Navy vs. Duke On Samrday, 6 October at Durham, N. C, the Navy footbaU team fought its way to a 21-0 victory over the Duke Blue Devils. Navy's T formation was very effective against Duke despite the fact that they were playing on a wet field with a very slippery ball. There were a lot of fumbles made by both teams, but none of them was costly to either team. The capa?ity crowd of 44,000 spectators refiased to let the rain drive them away from the game, and sat in the wet stadium during the entire game waiting to see what Duke would do offensively.

Navy scored its first touchdown less than six minutes of the first quarter when Bob Jenkins ran the ball twentytwo yards down to the Duke one yard line, and then plunged across for a score on the next play. Hoernschemeyer, Navy's quarterback, faked a pass and ran around left end scoring standing up from Duke's 27 yard line, before the end of the first quarter.

During the second and third periods the Blue Devils' defense stiffened and Navy was unable to score. In the fourth quarter, Scott took the ball from Hoernschemeyer, went through left tackle and moved to the sideline and raced 83 yards for a touchdown. Scott made a sensational run and he brought the entire crowd to its feet Navy's line performed well from end to end and helped in no smaU way in breaking the fast, powerful backs loose on numerous occasions.

The Navy goat was stolen by the loyal Duke supporters on Friday night, but it was returned to the Navy dressing room

on Samrday morning.

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Navy vs. Penn State As a climax to the week of celebration in connection with the Naval Academy's One Hundredth Anniversary, the Navy football team mrned back the Nitany Lions of Pennsylvania State CoUege by the score of 28 to 0.

All in all the Navy team did not perform in this game in the same smooth, rhythm like manner as they worked in the Villanova and Duke games on preceding Saturdays, which might have been due to two of its regular operatives out of the starting backfield on account of injuries. Clyde Scott, who had starred in the rwo previous games, and Bob Jenkins were both watching the game from the bench.

The first score came on a blocked punt when Penn State attempted to kick from behind its own goal line, and Lee Bramlett, Navy's outstanding end, knocked it down for an automatic safety and two points for Navy. Navy then scored a touchdown in each period during the game.

Hoernschemeyer and WiUiams played excellent footbaU in the backfield, and the entire first string line did a good job throughout the game. Pistol Pete WUliams, the plebe from Miami, Florida High School, provided the spectators with some fancy running which on one {Continued on page 90)

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As a part of the general celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the U. S. Naval School at Annapolis in 1845, the Museum has assembled a special exhibit of original documents, books, relics, models and other niemorabiUa relating to the period and the event Centerpiece of the exhibit is a beautifully executed scale model of the Naval Academy yard and waterfront in 1850, five years after the establishment of the original Naval School and the year the name was changed to "Naval Academy."

The model, made by the Bureau of Yards and Docks for the World's Fair at New York, was presented to the Museum by Captain Lewis B. Combs, USN, at the suggestion of Vice Admiral Ben MoreeU, USN, Chief of the Bureau. A special case was built for it.

Every building of the Old Fort Severn, Army post founded in 1808, is shown in meticulous detail. A white line, far from shore, outlines the present waterfront of the Academy. Circular Fort Severn, which later served many purposes, stands well out on a neck of land, but today it would be as far inland as the east Corner of Bancroft Hall.

Early regulation books of the U. S. Naval Academy contain some amusing passages. One, dated 1857, prescribes the restrictions and privileges concerning bathing: "Midshipmen wiU be marched to the bathing rooms in crews, and the Captains of the crews will be held strictly accountable for any want Academy Museum of decorum. Crews will bathe about once a week; if any take baths other S. Navy {Retired) Curator than that they will pay the Barber six cents extra. . . . Midshipmen who go to bathe will confine themselves strictly to their bathing room, they will not climb the sides of the "Bath Rooms" or go necessary arrangements and to receive into another room while it is occupied possession of the station. Respectfully with a bather, or commit any improyours, G. Bancroft. Navy Department, priety whatever. Any Midshipman vioAugust 15, 1845." lating the regulations will be prohibited As simply as that—less than 60 words from bathing, unless otherwise ordered, —the Navy established a school to train by the Superintendent." its future officers. With the exception of four years during the Civil War, Greatest Collection of Art on when the midshipmen moved north to Naval Subjects Held in New York Newport, R. I., the Academy has remained in Annapolis for a full century.

Probably the largest and most valuIn fact, the name "Annapolis" is more able collection of paintings and graphic familiar to the public at large than "U. art on nav^l subjects ever assembled S. Naval Academy," the official name of opened at the Knoedler Galleries in the institution.

New York City September 24th. Spon-

Original Order Setting Up Naval School at Annapolis Annapolis had a third of a cenmry of active military life before the U. S. Naval School was founded—but it was an Army post! The original handwritten order, setting up the Naval School, is owned by the Museum and is on display in connection with the Centennial. Addressed to Commander Frank Buchanan, USN, it reads as follows: "Sir: The Secretary of War has issued an order for the transfer of Fort Severn and the whole military site near Annapolis to such officer of this Department as may be authorized to take charge of same. You are authorized to make the OCTOBER,

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sored by the Centeimial Commission and Academy Museum it contains masterpieces of the Colonial, Revolutionary, War of 1812, CivU War, SpanishAmerican War, and the two World War periods. The exhibit, of which President Truman and Secretary Forrestal are among the â&#x20AC;˘ sponsors, wiU continue through October 13th.

Predecessors of "Lucky Ba^' Crude, but Entertaining Three predecessors of the "Lucky Bag," Midshipman dass yearbook, have been secured for the Centennial display.

They are crude but entertaining, and the sketches and other art work give a quaint insight into some of fhe middies' activities outside of classroom and drills.

The three volumes and dates of pubUcations are: "Shakings" (1867); "Fag Ends" (1877); and "Junk" (1899).

Report of First Naval Battle With Japs in "Wyoming" Logbook The original logbook of the USS WYOMING, 1863-64, is a new accession. This is one of the most valuable of the original source materials concerning our relationship with the Japanese. Under the date of July 16, 1863, wiU be found the complete ofl&cial report of the engagement fought in the Straits of Shimonoseki, our first hostilities with the Japanese. The USS WYOMING was in a group of AUied (EngUsh and Dutch) ships that answered the fire of shore batteries. At the time the Wyoming was commanded by Commander (later Rear Admiral) David McDougal, USN, grandfather of Rear Adnural D. McD. Le Breton, USN, commandant of the Fifth Naval District.

The logbook is a gift from Rear Admiral Le Breton.

Battle Flag of "ENTERPRISE" Shows Scars of Pacific Combat Blackened by oil smoke, and frayed

by Pacific gales the batde ensign of the USS ENTERPRISE has been received from Captain Cato D. Glover, USN, commanding officer of the "Big-E." With it was a letter from Captain Glover, graphically describing some of the action in which die ENTERPRISE took part, and the names of its victims.

With the permission of Captain Glover part of this letter is quoted: "Upon my detachment from the ENTERPRISE last December the officers and crew presented to me the flag that we flew in the second battle of the Philippines, now known as the batde of Leyte Gulf. During that series of engagements the big "E" rose to the occasion magnificently, and in keeping with her unparaUeled record of accom74

in view of the Navy's outstanding contributions in the war theaters of the world toward the peace that is being won.

The action of the Maryland Legislamre at its 1945 session established it as the first large group to pay tribute to the "home of naval officers" by declaring in the joint resolution passed unanimously by its 152 members that "The State of Maryland shares the Nation's deep appreciation of the achievements and accomplishments of the United States Navy, and is warmly sensible to the essential part played in such achievements and accomplishments by the Naval Academy in its cenmry's service of training the officers of the United States Navy."

This action by the Maryland Senators and Delegates enjoys a traditional Maryland character, for one hundred and nineteen years ago, the State Legislature of 1826 appreciating "the superior advantages which the City of Annapolis and its neighborhood possess as a simation for a Naval Academy," adopted a resolution caUing upon the State's Delegation in the Federal Congress to "use their best exertions in favor of the estabhshment of such an instimtion."

Other interesting evidence of the constancy of the cordial relations between the Academy and the State of Maryland, persistent since the Academy's founding, was the visit of the members of the General Assembly to the Naval Academy in February of this year upon the invitation of Rear Admiral John R. BeardaU, USN, then Superintendent of the Naval Academy. Heads of Departments and their executive officers met the Legislators at the Administration Building and conducted groups on a tour about the grounds and buUdings. Because of rain a planned dress parade was brought indoors to Dahlgren HaU where the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House accompanied the Superintendent in a review of the regiment of midshipmen. Later, Admiral BeardaU received the legislative group at the Officers' Mess.

Here again tradition was being Maryland Salutes the Naval foUowed because it was in April of 1846, Academy in the sixth month of the Academy's existence, that the first such visit was paid (Continued from page 28) the Academy by the Maryland Legislators, who at that time came to see the 100th anniversary and resolves that an initial fruits of their long and faithful expansion of the instimtion to accomsupport of the project for the establishmodate the needs of the post-war fleets ment of the Naval Academy in Annapcan, and should, be undertaken in Anolis, Maryland. napolis where the Naval school was founded and time and again heretofore In the lapse of 99 years between the has been expanded. visits of the Legislators, the Academy has By this gracious resolution of good grown from ten-acre Fort Severn into wishes and esteem it might be said that the largest instimtion of its kind in the the State flower, the Black Eyed Susan, entire world. More than three thousand has burst into fuU bloom to become a midshipmen take part in dress parades, bouquet for Navy men everywhere. and buildings stretch over 258 acres, yet Recognition by the citizenry of Mary- this $100,000,000 Naval Academy, (part land is doubly appropriate at this time of the Severn River Naval Command,

plishments she was in the right places at die right time. The ENTERPRISE air group was the only group in the Fleet formnate enough to get in teUing blows on aU three of the Japanese task forces.

"During the early morning of the 24th of October the group attacked the southernmost Japanese force in the Sulu Sea and inflicted considerable damage on die FUSO and YAMASHIRO. That afternoon they dehvered the death blows to the MUSASHI and inflicted severe damage on several Jap destroyers of the Center Force in the Sibuyan Sea. The MUSASHI, we now know, exploded and sank about three hours after the ENr TERPRISE attacked.

"The foUowing day, 25 Oaober, the ENTERPRISE air groups together with other air groups of the Fleet, shutded back and forth with litde air opposition and accomphshed the complete destruction of the carriers of the northern Japanese force northeast of Luzon.

We assisted in the destruction of the ZUIKAKU, die ZUIHO, die CHITOSE, the SHIYODA, and inflicted damage on the ISE, HYUGA, assisted in the sinking of one or two cruisers and several destroyers on that day. On the 27th of October die ENTERPRISE air group sank one destroyer and damaged several others of the fleeing remnants of the Japanese forces.

"The flag flown by the Big "E" in these engagements is torn and tattered and dirty from the smoke of batde. I offer it to the Naval Academy just as it is for the archives. I have previously discussed the matter with Captain IngersoU and he indicated to me that the Naval Academy would be pleased to have the flag for the Naval Academy Museum as a symbol of the unparalleled accomplishments of the great ship ENTERPRISE. Certainly no other ship in the history of our Navy has a more iUustrious record."

which has an annual payroll in excess of $17,500,000), is StiU cramped and possessed with growing pains. A major expansion program is believed essential if Annapolis is to furnish the fuU quota of officers needed to man a navy larger than the pre-war service of a puny one hundred thousand. It is obvious that the war navy of three miUion wiU be drastically reduced, yet the program of officer replaceinent from the bottom, at the entrance to careers, must continue in the peacetime order, and likely in larger numbers. High ranking naval officers recognize the probabihty of future expansion of the Naval Academy and during an address before the Academy Chamber of Commerce in the Spring of 1945 Captain T. R. Wirdi, USN, chief of staff of the Severn River Naval Command said in part: "I hope the Naval Academy wiU be expanded in Annapolis because I feel that any separate officer training facdity would deprive the naval service of that tremendously important and valuable spirimal bulwark, the traditional brotherhood of Annapolis." The speaker further dedared that "these spirimal influences have innumerable pracrical aspects."

T P H E 1945 Maryland Legislamre, too, -'- recognizes that the Academy must expand and its joint resolution contained the statement "there is available in AnnapoUs, Maryland, contiguous to the present reservation, adequate areas to accommodate expansion of the United States Naval Academy to a dimension that wiU permit the training of sufficient officers for the post-war Navy."

However, the resolution contains so many additional thoughts including "valuable leadership, experience and cosmopolitan views and knowledge" that the State has gotten from the Naval Academy personnel that the fuU text of the resolution is herewith presented: "WHEREAS, The United States Naval Academy, the home of naval officers, wUl on 10 October 1945, attain the One Hundredth Anniversary of its founding at Fort Severn, in Annapolis, Maryland, and "WHEREAS, The State of Maryland shares The Nation's deep appreciation of the achievements and accomplishments of the United States Navy, and is warmly sensible to the essential part played in such achievements and accomplishments by the Naval Academy in its cenmry's service of training the officers of the United States Navy, and "WHEREAS, The State of Maryland esteems the decision of the many Naval Academy men electing to become legal residents of Maryland, some commencing as midshipmen and continuing as officers with their families when in duty residence, and frequently consummated

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by their adoption of the State for permanent residence at the time of retirement from the United States Navy, with the result that the State has gained in these citizens valuable leadership, experience, and cosmopolitan views and knowledge, all in keeping with the highest standards and traditions of Maryland, and "WHEREAS, The State of Maryland enjoys the most cordial and co-operative relations with the Administration of the United States Naval Academy and with the Regiment of Midshipmen, and "WHEREAS, It is the sense of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland that to establish supplemental instimtions apart from the cenmry old home of the Naval Academy in order to provide increased needs for naval officers, as has been proposed, would, by competitive and extraneous influences, rend the common heritage of naval officers, the tradition of Annapolis brotherhood, and "WHEREAS, It is the conviction of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland that there is available in Annapolis, Maryland, contiguous to the present reservation, adequate areas to accommodate expansion of the United States Naval Academy to a dimension that wiU permit the training of sufficient officers for the post-war Navy; now "THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED By the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, that the most sincere congramlations be extended by the State of Maryland to the United States Naval Academy on this the occasion of its centennial, together with an expression of the convictions that the accomplishments of the fumre will equal those of the Naval Academy's glorious history, and that the cordial spirit characterizing the State relations with the Naval Academy wiU continue through the years, and "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That it is the conviction of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland that facilities for the training and education of such additional officers as the United States Navy may need can, and should, be established, with obvious spirimal and economic advantages, by expansion of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where it was founded and where, in the cenmry being rounded, it already has expanded many times, and "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution be spread upon the journals of the Senate and House of Delegates, that copies be presented the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, the Secretary of the Navy and the Senators and Representatives of the State of Maryland in the Congress of the United States, and that by this Resolution the

State of Maryland Delegations in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress are petitioned to lend every aid to the retention of the Nation's one Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland."

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HE action of the Maryland Legislature on the Academy's centennial was considered of such importance by Governor Herbert R. O'Conor that he gave the resolution unusual distinction by adding his signamre, and forwarding it with a personal letter to Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. Other copies were sent to members of Congress by Secretary of the State of Maryland, William J. McWiUiams, while the local Evening Capital newspaper commented that Delegate Albert W Woodfield had mailed the resolution to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

One of the late acts of our late President was to appoint Gov. O'Conor to a National Committee to commemorate the Naval Academy's centennial. The House of Representatives had on 19 March 1945, with the concurrence of the Senate, provided $5,000 for the work of this Federal committee.

United States Senators Millard E. Tydings and George L. Radcliffe of Maryland soon after receipt of the State resolution introduced one of a similar namre in the Congress of the United States, extending felicitations to the Academy on its approaching centennial.

The State of Maryland and the National Congress are not alone, however, in expressing their admiration and high regard for the Naval Academy and naval service in general.

A handsomely bound volume, prepared by a book binder and engraver at a cost of $800 and signed by thousands of citizens of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County will be presented to the Naval Academy as "A message of congramlations and good will from the citizenry of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County to the United States Naval Academy on the 100th Anniversary of its founding, 10 October 1845-10 October 1945."

The testimonial gift, conceived by the Annapolis Chamber of Commerce with the moral and financial support of the Mayor and City Council of Annapolis and the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Amndel County will, it is anticipated, receive a place of honor in the Naval Academy's Museum of treasures.

The Message contained in the testimonial book was prepared by a committee of citizens headed by Chief Judge Ridgely P. Melvin of the Maryland Court of Appeals. The complete text of the message of congramlations follows: "WHEREAS, in the year 1845, the Government of the United States, fore75

seeing the destiny of the young nation as a great naval power in the world, determined to estabhsh a national school to educate and train officers for the navy that would be caUed upon to fulfiU that destiny; and "WHEREAS, Annapolis, the historic capital of Maryland, was chosen to be the seat of this instimtion, which was given the official name of the United States Naval Academy and provided with the land and buildings of the army post known as "Fort Severn"; and "WHEREAS, on the tenth day of October, 1845, the Academy was formaUy opened with a faculty of seven members, an enrollment of eleven midshipmen for the first academic year, with a negligible ouday of public funds for capital expenses and an annual appropriation of but $28,200; and "WHEREAS, during the years of the cenmry just ended the Academy has become the greatest instimtion of its kind in the whole world, having, on this anniversary, an administrative and teaching staff of four hundred.and sixty members, an enrollment of twenty-nine hundred and seventy-five midshipmen, with grounds, buildings and equipment representing an investment of approximately thirty-five miUions of doUars, with plans for the immediate fumre for vast enlargement both in officer and midshipman personnel, and in physical property holdings by the National Government; and "WHEREAS, in the achieving of this greatness in material resources, .a spirit of loyalty and devotion to the high ideals and standards of patriotism set by the founders of the Academy has been steadfastly maintained, with added lustre to the proud record made by the Navy in this history-making period; and "WHEREAS, throughout aU these years the interests of the Naval Academy and of Annapolis and its environs have become closely interwoven and have been promoted through the most cordial relations and mumal good will.

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the citizens of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County whose names are hereto subscribed that we join in extending to our neighbor and friend our most hearty and sincere congramlations and expression of pride upon the achievements of the Navy and of the Naval Academy, in particular, on this, its one hundredth anniversary; and "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the original signed draft of this message be delivered to the Superintendent of the Naval Academy to be placed in such appropriate depository as he may select as one of the permanent memorials of this historic occasion." ' I ^HE Civitan Club, a service organ-'• ization of the Annapolis community, and other similar groups also took notice that 10 October 1945, marked the Naval Academy centennial and sent words of greetings and congramlations. As Captain Wirth told the Chamber of Commerce, only in Annapolis does the use of the word Annapolis mean anything different from the use of the word Naval Academy. Elsewhere around the world Annapolis and the Naval Academy are synonymous. Annapolis is better known in Hong Kong than is Philadelphia or Baltimore. Naval officers everywhere are spoken of as "Annapolis Men." And, while the Navy has brought fame to this thriving little community of 24,000 and has helped it prosper because 70 per cent of the population is dependent in some way upon employment by the Naval Academy, Annapolis earlier in its history earned a niche of fame of its own —in faa, gained the tide of the "Athens of America," replaced now by the label "Cradle of the Navy."

The old Annapolis homes were the "casdes" of early America and until the Civil War Annapolis was one of the most prosperous and sociaUy important centers in the colonies despite the heavy sacrifices of wealth made during the Revolutionary War.

George Washington was entertained in Annapolis on 18 recorded occasions while Annapolis was stiU the great port of the land. The Capital City of Annapolis has entertained every President of the United States except McKinley and Truman. The first theatre in America was buUt in Annapolis; colony fashion was created in the baU rooms of the town; the first silver money for smaU change circulated in America was used in Annapolis as a replacement for tobacco, the first race track in America was located at nearby Camp Parole, and beautiful St Aime's Episcopal Church, though not the first brick church to stand on the Church Cirde site, is the offspring of what some historians say was the first brick church erected in America. The first free public library in America was opened in Armapolis in 1696, and some of the volumes of this library are being preserved here in the Memorial HaU of Records. The old homes of Annapolis are famous shrines for tourists, the Hammond-Harwood House in Maryland Avenue, as an example, being America's finest gem of Georgian architecture.

But Armapolis' chief fame was won by her statesmen in those early days when our fumre as a nation was far from assured. Much of the boldness, leadership and violence found in the Color ies against British domination was centered in Annapolis, and the four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence were residents of Annapohs.

Thomas Johnson who nominated George Washington for both the offices of Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and as our Nation's first president, was an Annapolitan. In 1777 Johnson became the first governor of the State of Maryland. Annapolis' influence was so great during the days of sedan chairs arid slaves that the city nearly became the Capital of the United States, and the National Congress was in session in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House on 23 December 1783 when George Washington came to Annapolis to resign his commission as head of the Continental Army. And, through the ages, Annapolis has retained the glamor, intellectual standing and hospitality that labels it stiU—the pulse of Maryland.

So, while the Naval Academy has so much to offer to Annapolis, the old city, too, can point with pride to tradition, romantic associations, and the irresistible emotional force revolving around brotherhood, but above all it is obvious to the obser^'ing that the aUiance of naval and civilian Annapolis constimtes a united combination as they go through the years together arm in arm—the Naval Academy as the handsome grandson of old Dame Annapolis who is due to celebrate her greying hair and 300th Anniversary in 1949.

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— A L U M N I WIVES TOO, PLEASE—

With all due respect to the editors and readers of this publication, I feel strongly that the support of the wives has been overlooked and neglected when the explanation of the purpose of Alumni House was presented to the Alumni of the Naval Academy.

NaturaUy, the Academy isn't co-ed, but there are mighty few wives who lack a feeUng of loyalty and interest in the instimtion from which their husbands graduated. For that reason Alumni wives should be allowed to take as much part as possible in making Alumni House a financial and social success.

If there are any wives who haven't visited Annapolis and been taken on a conducted tour of the Academy, (with special attention devoted to the window in Banaoft HaU from which their spouse hung by his hands to win a ten dollar bet) etc., if there are any, they wiU have developed a healthy curiosity about the place which they intend to satisfy someday, and Alumni House can and should be one of the highspots of their visit For the others who have been there, the realization that one of the most fascinating old houses in Annapolis, and one which many of us have longed to explore, belongs to the graduates, is very gratifying.

The Naval Academy is one hundred years old this month, October, Alumni House is two hundred and six years of Annapolis history. It is one of the most formnate. houses in Annapolis in that surrounding buildings have never crowded close or overshadowed it, to destroy its dignity. Gray painted red brick, two high ceilinged stories high.

Alumni House has always been known to most of the living Alumni as Ogle HaU. When originally built by Dr. Stevenson in 1739 it was one of the outstanding Colonial homes in the thirteen colonies. Records and diaries of aU the great of Colonial America mention dining or passing the night at Ogle Hall, Governor Samuel Ogle having leased the budding in 1847.

These diaries and travel journals that mention stopping at Ogle Hall contain names of Washington, Lafayette, governors of all the states as they passed back and forth through Annapolis enroute to Colonial conventions. It should be mentioned in aU fairness that often their wives accompanied them. So we have not only the ladies of the Colonial great, but in latter years when the property passed into the hands of the famous Navy famOCTOBER,

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ily, the Porters in 1867, visiting back and forth among the leading Navy families.

Therefore I think that present wives of Naval Academy Alumni can take a decided interest in the building where so many of the wives of famous officers were entertained, when their husbands were in Annapolis on business. W e can imagine Mrs. Porter as the hostess entertaining Mrs. Farragut, Mrs. Buchanan, perhaps if the Buchanans revisited Annapolis after his tenure as first Superintendent expired.

With the probability of many of their predecessor's visits and admiration for the house in mind, wives of the Alumni who are contributing to the underwriting of Alumni House should feel as much pride and concern for its success as the officers themselves.

The house is being remodeled with the definite plan in mind that it will be a place for Alumni to meet and relax whenever they may be in Annapolis.

There are few Alumni who don't make one or more trips and bring their families to see Annapolis. In an instimtion one hundred years old, its amazing that there has not been such a meeting house before this, certainly there were no other facilities at the Academy suitable or encouraging for a rendezvous with friends of the past.

It was very noticeable in the lists of contributors by classes recently published in the July number of SHIPMATE at the start of the initial drive for funds for the remodeling and decoration of Alumni House, that the older the graduates, the more separated from the Academy by years passing, the greater the list in proportion to living graduates. The number of contributions sent "in memoriam" is impressive too.

Truly the whole plan of the house and its inside decoration will be in keeping with simple Colonial standards, as good now for hospitality as they were two hundred and six years ago.

Reproductions, as faithful as possible to the original furnishings of the house will be made for the rwo main rooms on the first floor. The Memorial room, on the right of the large center hall will, it is hoped, be the repository of mementoes of Naval officers and unusual events of their careers. On the left will be a large lounge, and upstairs in addition to the offices of SHIPMATE and the Alumni Association and Foundation will be yet another large lounge. This lounge too, will be finished and furnished in original

style. Downstairs, in the tap room, the appointments will be in Raleigh tavern style.

Going back to the theme that the contributions were large from members of the older classes of the Academy, it is evident that they all anticipate getting back to the Academy atmosphere once more, it is evident that as the years go by our husbands will look forward to a return. In the Navy we cannot stay with the friends we like the best, constant shifts of duty move us around until we wonder if we will ever get back again with the friends we value. It will be possible to anticipate a reunion on the premises of Alumni House, probably surrounded by a larger Naval Academy than the old grads ever dreamed. It wiU be extremely gratifying to enter the doors of the Navy's own graduate house knowing that you and your husband were enthusiastic supporters and admirers, the older you grow, the more you wiU welcome and feel welcome in Alumni House.

Here's H o w the Middies Gelebrated the Jap Armistice (Continued from page 31) Harbor!", "Smdy Hour!" — blossomed from windows overlooking the Court.

Then came a call for volunteers to paint the replica of Tecumseh—and a howling roaring tribe of white-clad Indians gave the bronze figurehead the shellacing of its life! Pretty Navy Juniors, hoisted up for advice on the fine points of facial makeup, posed for "cheesecake" photographs.

But the climax of the celebration came when the Naval Academy band swung into the Court (the mob parting before them) blaring: "Lay That PistoL Down, Babe, Lay That Pistol Down!"

Frank Sinatra never was greeted with more enthusiastic screams, whistles and howls of applause than was Lieutenant W. R. Sima, St., and his bandsmen. "Anchors Aweigh, the Marine Hymn, and other songs dear to the hearts of Navy men followed in quick succession.

For a solid hour the fanfare continued.

Superintendent and Mrs. Beardall were there, and so was most of the rest of the officialdom of Annapolis and their families—watching the fun from the sidelines, and smiling approval even when enthusiastic snake dancers cracked the whip and some luckless middle was sent spinning into the midst of a cluster of brasshats!

There was a brief pause while "Slim" IngersoU, Commandant of Midshipmen, took the microphone to give the occa77

sion an official blessing, warn the boys to "keep their dukes up" in fumre years, to aimounce a short "voluntary" chapel service at 9 o'dock, and grant freedom of the Yard until ten.

From down in the crowd somewhere piped a thin dear voice: "What about hberty?"

"Liberty tomorrow, aU day," Captain IngersoU replied.

The thin dear voice rose again: "What about reveiUe?" There was a laugh, but quick as a flash Captain IngersoU shot back: "It shaU not blow!"—and the crowd roared its approval and glee.

The celebration waned and the crowd graduaUy thinned out But even Chaplain F. H. Lash must have been amazed at the turnout for the "voluntary" service. EspeciaUy considering the weather.

It was a hot, muggy night. You who know Annapolis in August know weU the kind—when it is better to relax on the veranda of the North Severn Club!

But somehow it seemed to almost everyone that it was appropriate to be thankful as weU as jubilant So officers, middies, families and aU drifted over in the direction of the Chapel. A few die-hards stayed behind to give the Japanese beU a bit more punishment. Maybe it was weU that they did.

For its strident pagan clanging was soon

lost in strong young voices raised in the best he can, but these are the ones "Faith of our Fathers" and "O Where which need a real medic, and probably Are Kings and Empires Now." There hospitalization. So for a week before The was inspiration and a promise in the re- Dirty D. puUs in, Kotch is busy fiUing sounding lines from the Second book of in their Health Records, and making out Timothy: "I have fought a good fight, hospitalization and transfer forms, and I have finished my course, I have kept getting them ready to be escorted to the the faith." And never did the hymn that nearest hospital or dispensary when we closes aU services at Annapolis sound hit the dock. more inspiring, more appropriate— In addition, there are always a lot of "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." men who haven't had their Night Vision tests. And more who need an annual physical examination. And some officers M y Life on the Dirty-D who must get a physical exam before thiy {Continued from page 29) can be promoted. AU these are Kotch's duties of the Medical Department. He worries, too, so he has to sit down with has to keep the 200-odd Health Records the Exec and figure out a schedule for up-to-date. He has to make out Forms his dispensary parties that fits in with on every man transferred to and from the aU the other forms of tormre that are ship. He has to make monthly and quar- planned for the Navy Yard visit terly and annual Reports. He has to make Also, this stay in port aff^ords Kotch out requisitions for supplies, and more his ordy chance to replenish his tincture reports of how he used them. of merthiolate and adhesive tape and such. So for weeks before we come in he He's busiest when we hit port. is taking inventory and making out "COR the whole trip, cases have been requisitions. Like any good, progressive -•- accumulating. The Seaman with doctor, he keeps up on the medical bulprostatitis. The Signalman who's a letins and tries to get the newest medichronic seasick case. The Fireman and cines and supplies when they appear. He the Electrician's Mate with tooth trouble. bummed some peniciUin oflF a tanker out The Torpedoman who dropped a depth at sea months before it was issued to any charge on his foot. Oh, there are perhaps ships that did not carry a doctor. Of ten or twelve patients in aU. Kotch has course he would have been court marpatched 'em up and nursed 'em along tiaUed if he had been caught

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Kotch has two assistants. One of them, caUed Van, a Pharmacist's Mate Third Qass, is capable enough. He's one of these older men, with a wife and two kids at home, pulled from a job in a chain grocery store to give typhus shots to sailors. He's okay, but his heart's not in it. Anyhow, he's no worry to Kotch.

"But that Greemey!" says Kotch of his second assistant. "He's more trouble than ten inflamed appendixes and a strep throat." Greemey has been in the Navy two years, but he's still a Hospital Apprentice. He's the dirtiest man on the ship. He slouches around with bleary eyes and a week's growth of beard, looking like a Bowery panhandler. He's up for Captain's Mast every week, and he's been restricted until he rotted on board.

But when he's Duty Pharmacist's Mate in port, he can usually find some poor slob to send to the hospital. Greemey escorts him and then frenches out for the rest of the night. Or until caught.

He comes in drunk and dirty. He's had more doses than any man on the ship.

Funny part of it is, Greemey is a kind of prototype of that drunken, no-good doctor in so many movies, who's really skilled and fine underneath. If you can catch him sober and can stand his filth, Greemey's a lot better Pharmacist's Mate than sober old Van. He can plunge the needle into your bicep without a twinge of pain, and can swab and bind a wound with a deft and expert hand. I'm afraid that in a batde, I'd take Greemey.

There's still more to Kotch's job.

He is responsible for the Public Health aspects of shipboard life. For example, when we puU into a dirty foreign port, he is responsible for seeing that any water obtained from a shore outlet is chlorinated. He's pretty thorough at that. Once in Casablanca, he chlorinated both the starboard tank and the port tank. When they began to get low, the engineers pumped the contents of both into the port tank, and fiUed the starboard tank anew from shore. Kotch came along and chlorinated both tanks again. The port tank was now about three times normal strength, which fact we failed to discover until we were at sea again, when we had to use it anyway. For a week we drank table water holding our noses. It made the cofi^ee taste like the dregs from a hospital sterilizer. The crew is still talking about the time "Kotch dosed the chlorine up with water at Casablanca."

and "heads"; and of tlie galley and the mess-cooks assigned to work there. He must inspect all these things every day and sign reports that conditions are satisfactory.

Civilians are always questioning Kotch as to his difficulties with venereal diseases. And Kotch always replies, "The worst of 'em all is crabs."

Maybe a couple of men pick up a few lice in some cheap waterfront house.

They don't bother to do anything about them. In a few weeks you notice that most of the crew is scratching. "Funny thing," says Kotch, "They'll come runnin' to me for the clap or diorrhea, or maybe a tapeworm. But nine out of ten men are just plain ashamed to admit they have crabs."

So the only solution is mass inspection. One day the loudspeaker booms, "All men in first, second and "O" Divisions not now on watch lay down to sickbay." The boys line up, and Kotch goes over each with a strong flashlight.

Those who are harboring the little strangers are treated, their bunks are sterilized, and they are restricted to a special, clearly labeled "head."

The Navy's penchant for inoculations causes Kotch a lot of extra work. As if it wasn't enough to keep all the men upto-date on their smallpox, typhoid, yellow fever, and all the rest, whenever we are headed for a port known to be infected, Kotch has to give a three-shot "course" for typhus. Again the crew is called down to sick bay by divisions.

Again the lines, and the inevitable wisecracks.

"Doc is a sadist, that's wot. He gets a gleam in his eyes, and the next thing you know we're down here gettin' more shots."

"Yeah, he grins when he sticks you."

"This is the eighteenth shot I've had on this tub. Next thing, they'll be giving them to us for dandruff."

Officers have to take the shots, too, of course, which poses an embarrassing problem for Kotch, PhMlc. He can't very well order the Captain and the Exec and the rest down to sick bay. So he compromises and takes sick bay to the ofiicers. He organizes a flying task force: one man with alcohol and cotton, one with serum and sterile needles, and Kotch himself with hypodermic in hand.

Thus confronted, there's not much the brass hats can do, no matter how much they dread the needle. I particularly reT F there are disease-bearing insects near member once that Kotch's task force -*â&#x20AC;˘ an anchorage, Kotch is supposed to caught me while I was on watch. I was rig the mosquito nets and spray the in- just reaching for the "talk" button on secticide necessary to protect the D.'s the squawk box when this hand reached crew. If fruits or vegetables are purchased out and grabbed my arm, another hand in a foreign port, Kotch is the man re- swabbed a spot, and the needle was in sponsible for inspecting them and mak- and out again before I realized what hit me. The party on the other end of the ing sure they are properly cleaned. He is squawk box got the following message: responsible, in fact, for the over-all clean"Awrk!" liness of the washrooms, shower rooms, OCTOBER,

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The Searchlight E have been receiving quite a few Wrequests for addresses of wives, and so far, we have been able to answer most of them with the aid of our files.

When we do not have an address, we place the name of the wife in our wanted list. If you know the address of anyone on our list, please send it in. In that way, we will be able to answer requests promptly and increase and complete our files. If you request an address, please send in one cent for every address requested or a self-addressed envelope.

We would appreciate the addresses of the following wives: Bartlett, Mrs. Wilson R., wife Lt. Comdr.

Boone, Mrs. Walter F., wife Comdr. '21 Bunner, Mrs. James J., wife Comdr. (SC) Cook, Mrs. A. B., wife Comdr. '15 Griswold, Mrs. W. A., wife Comdr. '21 Harenburger, Mrs. C. H., wife Lieut.

Hays, Mrs. James F., wife Comdr. (MC) Henry, Mrs. George R., widow Lt. Comdr.

Kenny, Mrs. E. T., wife Lieut.

Keyes, Mrs. Charles B., wife Comdr. '32 Mallory, Mrs. Francis, wife Comdr. '24 Morrison, Mrs. George D., wife Capt. '20 Quinn, Mrs. Lawrence A., widow Lt. Col. USMC Stocker, Mrs. Louis J., wife Comdr. '26 Troxell, Mrs. Charles E., wife Ens. Waterhouse, Mrs. J. W., wife Capt. '25 Wilson, Mrs. John M., wife '34 Wilson, Mrs. Ronald L., wife Comdr. '32

I have talked with "Doc" Kotch about his future plans. He had always wanted to be a doctor when he joined the Navy.

The Navy, as part of his Pharmacist's Mate training, gave him duty in hospital wards, and later in operating rooms, for more than two years. He feels as if he has almost interned before he has gone to medical school, so to speak. When he gets out of the Navy, he plans to go on to medical school and become a real Doc. I'm all for him.

Oh, and another thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;don't worry about his being too old to go through medical school and still get a start in life.

He just turned twenty-one three months ago.

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Bombardment Target Kamaishi (Continued from page 34) Iron Works at Kamaishi. Each heavy ship was assigned specific areas to hit.

There were power plants, open hearths, cove ovens, blast furnaces, foundries, piers, warehouses and all the facilities usually conneaed with such an industry.

We were to have a heavy fighter cover from our carrier planes. Other carrier based planes were going to strike the airfields on southern Hokkaido and northern Honshu to keep any air opposition bottled up. We coidd handle any surface opposition of what litde was left of the Jap Navy. The Chaplain completed his broadcast asking God's blessing and placed us in His care for what might prove to be a dangerous mission.

about 5000 tons. There's another, same size. Also a destroyer. These targets look good. The sooner you start shooting the better."

At 1206: "We are getting some AA fire from the ships in the harbor." We were waiting for "Big Jack" to give us the go ahead. It wasn't long in coming.

At 1210 came that long awaited for signal "Open Fire."

The leading battleship let go with a salvo of 16 inch shells. There was a terrific blast of air concussion as the rumble of destruction rushed into the valley where Japanese targets were waiting for the rain of steel and explosives. On our cruiser, we felt the rapid blows of compressed air. The commanding officer of the ship. Captain J. A. Waters, USN, didn't need any special instructions. It was all going according to plan. We heard the warning buzzer. All hands got set for the first salvo. Thenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Whammo!

A salvo of 8 inch shells was on the way.

CHICAGO, one of our latest cruisers, was just astern and blazing away. Another CHICAGO had been sunk by Jap aerial torpedoes off Guadalcanal during those early and dark days of the war against Japan. Here was sweet revenge with a vengeance.

It stopped raining that night. The skies began to dear. About 0900 the next morning the boatswain's mate piped a message to all hands, "The island of Honshu is in sight about 50 miles off our starboard bow." That seemed incredible in view of the previous weather. But after we rushed out on deck and took a look, there it wasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;;Japan! The skies were clearing and up over the horizon loomed a towering peak of uimiistakable Once the tension had been broken by land. We were bearing down on it at high speed in a fairly smooth sea. Al- the opening salvoes, each ofiicer and enthough the skies overhead were almost hsted man went about his job methcompletely overcast, the huge cumulus odically and cooUy. I'm sure that pulses douds were beginning to roll away. Our were pounding and throats were as dry air cover was now flying much higher. as mine. But outwardly, there was nothOff in the distance, there were patches of ing to indicate the inner emotions. blue and then the sun came out.

Now the airborne spotters began to send in their observations. Smoke and AS we neared our objective, all hands flame began to sprout at the water line -^*- were called to their battle stations. of the harbor and it was getting difficult The anti-aircraft crews had been on their to see. So we listened and plotted in the toes since before daylight and lookouts spotters' reports. Here are some of them: 1215 "You are hitting too high. Come had been relieved frequendy to keep eagle eyes on possible approaching air down a thousand."

1218 "Pretty smoky. Can't make out raids or enemy ships. Except for a few sooty terns wheeling over the long swells the hits."

1221 "You are hitting in the target and some black fish spouting into the area. No change." sun-filled air, all was quiet and serene.

1228 "The ships in the harbor are getBy 1100, the crevices of the peaks began to stand out sharply and momen- ting underway."

1232 "There are many hits going into tarily we expected some hostile sign from the approaching land. Kamaishi the steel works."

1234 "Cannot see salvoes. Too much and the Japan Iron Works were nestled in the foothills of the mountains we had smoke and dust." first seen 50 miles away. In less than an hour we would be ready to open fire.

T this point. Admiral Shafroth or' dered the destroyer squadron comAt 1145 signal flags fluttered from yardarms and the ships were given the mander. Captain Harry Henderson, final course for the first run in on the USN, to head off any shipping coming target. Communications had been estab- out of the harbor. Captain Henderson lished with our spotters in the planes with a laconic "Wilco" ordered a divioverhead. All was in readiness. Our gun- sion of destroyers to follow his flagship. ners were raring to go but we hadn't Soon we saw the "tin cans" firing towards the harbor entrance. A destroyer yet received any signal to open fire.

The spotter in one plane reported over or destroyer escort was seen coming out the voice radio that visibility was good. behind a hill overlooking the entrance.

Two minutes before noon he exclaimed, Suddenly we noticed the wake of his "I see a large freighter in the harbor props stop, then churn madly again. He

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was backing in! Evidently the Jap skipper had taken one look at those big batdeships and cruisers and decided that a new naval maneuver was necessary at this point. It was a slick trick and it worked, for we couldn't send any ships into that narrow harbor entrance and take a chance on mines or concealed shore artillery. The large freighter captains must have come to the same decision for our spotters reported that the ships had headed towards the beach under the protecting hills overlooking the entrance.

As we steamed back and forth in front of the harbor entrance, each ship in the line belching salvoes, the orange and yellow flames from the muzzles filled the air with acrid fumes. Less than 10 miles away, huge columns of smoke were pouring into the sky.

1246 "There is an oil tank just north of the main pier on fire. It's burning fine."

1250 "Several splashes around the railroad bridge."

1251 "You have just straddled the DE. He's maneuvering wildly. If you don't get him the air boys will take a crack at him later."

1254 "I think you hit one of the DE's that time. One of them is smoking."

1257 "Warehouse just north of pier is on fire. Shift to new target."

1304 "You hit between the two wharves that time."

1306 "No change. N o change! Keep hitting."

1308 "Here is a summary of what 1 see. The target at the head of the wharf has been hit and is burning. Also the area around that target. Good fire north in the town about two hundred yards back from the wharf area. The coke and blast furnaces have been hit but are still standing. The area assigned to us has been well hit but it is of such a nature that it won't burn especially the coal handling equipment. There is a great amount of smoke about the target area making it difficult to see anything. The waterfront has been hit. Nothing on the waterfront except four large fishing boats. There are considerable fires one hundred and fifty yards to the west of the northernmost pier covering four or five city blocks and it is spreading."

By this time, most of the ships had expended their ammo allowances designated for this job. But they all wanted to shoot some more so Admiral Shafroth granted additional allowances. The cruisers particularly wanted to sink the freighters and destroyer escorts. But the Japs were smart. They kept the ships well covered by the hilly land which curved on each side of the narrow harbor entrance affording a perfect haven. Now the planes began to make strafing runs.

Puffs of AA fire spat out sharply against the background of smoke. Suddenly we

saw a huge explosion and a great pall of grayish black smoke rise in a big puffy ball. At first we thought one of the enemy ships had exploded but our spotter told us that a dump of some sort at the waterfront had blown up. He remarked that from the smell of things, there was a lot of wood and oil burning below.

It was getting time to go. W e had seen no enemy planes though there had been a momentary alert when an over anxious lookout had mistaken two of our planes flying wing and wing as a two-engined bomber. It was exactly two hours from the moment when we had opened fire. The signals were given to cease firing and a course was set to rejoin our carrier forces which had not been idle. Our planes had had a big day.

They had met no airborne opposition.

We lost a total of three pilots that day shot down by AA fire.

have been terrified by the concussions and were speeding away. They followed the ships all the rest of that day and we even saw a few at daylight the next day.

The seas were black with birds.

That evening. Chaplain Brady summed up the day's work and closed by saying, "I don't think God needs a commercial.

He took good care of us today. Tomorrow at divine services you will have an opportunity for thanking Him. I'm sure there will be a big attendance." There was.

Monday afternoon I listened to the smooth Oxford trained voice of a Jap news commentator speaking from Radio Tokyo (or so he said). This is an approximation of part of his commentary on our combined carrier strike and bombardment job: "Saturday morning, enemy planes from carriers commanded by Vice Admiral McCain attacked northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido. W e shot down many "liTEN who had been firing the big of the enemy and damaged a consider-L'A guns came out of the turrets and able number. According to a Navy looked back on the terrible destruction spokesman, it was a one-sided affair as which they had wrought. As we steamed our Japanese people decided to comaway from the smoke covered area and pletely ignore this attack. About noon the air began to clear, we saw ahead of the same day, an enemy surface force atus flying over the water hundreds of tacked Kamaishi with naval gunfire. thousands of sooty terns which must Damage was negligible according to the

same Navy spokesman. These kind of attacks will and I quote bring a great surprise to Admiral Nimitz unquote."

To which I would have replied, if I could, to the honorable Jap Navy Spokesman, "To use a well known expression often spoken by your own Toyko Rose and I quote, "There is more here than meets the eye,' unquote."

The Navy on Capitol Hill {Continued from page 36) wartime peak of 3,389,000 officers and men. The Marine Corps' wartime peak was 482,500.

The legislation also authorizes the appointment of reserve officers to commissioned and warrant ranks in the regular Navy and the Marine Corps.

Senator Walsh and Representative Vinson conferred with various naval officers on this legislation, but would not say it has the approval of the Navy Department.

On September 18 the Navy announced plans for encouraging reservists and inductees to eidist in the regular Navy. Reservists and inductees may be transferred to the regular Navy in 40 dif-

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ferent ratings, afrer receiving a 30-day retaries of War and Navy to make a sysre-enlistment leave. Civilians from 17 tem of extended furloughs available at to 30 years of age would be taken in. the earliest practicable date.

If on such an extended leave, or on And the term of enlistment would be any leave, you get a job in civilian life, reduced from six to four years. you will still be entitled to the largest possible pay for accumulative or accrued Situation Clouded leave, under terms of a bill—S. 1036— The subject of demobilization in par- just passed by the Senate and about to ticular is so clouded with new bills and be acted on in the House. new requests, most of them resulting Enrollment Legislation from demands of the people "back home," that it is difficult to write about.

The House passed and sent to the SenWhat may be news on a certain day or ate (September 18) three bills concernduring a certain week may not be news— ing entrance to the Naval and Military may not even be fact—when you read Academies.

One bill would allow forty it. extra students at each academy, to be By the time you receive you copy of appointed by the President from sons of SHIPMATE, for instance, the Navy may veterans kiUed in either World War. Anhave liberalized its points system to inother would increase temporarily the age clude credit for length of sea service, limits for admittance from 16 to 22 to combat participation, and decorations.

17 to 23, to make possible admittance of Various members of Congress are pressveterans who have served at least one ing for such action at this writing. year. The third bill would permit the Meanwhile, the Coast Guard cut its President to make an unlimited number point score for officers from 49 to 43 of at-large appointments from sons of points, and for enlisted men from 44 to men holding the Congressional Medal of 40 points. The point score for Marines Honor. was reduced from 85 to 70.

Here is an idea of the legislation sitPostwar Naval-Military Education uation regarding demobilization: Senator Johnson, Democrat of ColoPresident Truman is holding a series rado, has sponsored a bill providing for of conferences with Army and Navy ofdischarge within six months of all en- ficials regarding educational programs listed men with two years or more of for officers of the Army and the Navy. service.

The controversy over the proposed locaSenator O'Mahoney, Democrat of tion of a second naval academy on the Wyoming, has called for release of all Pacific Coast is being dumped into the men, 30 years of age or older, who have President's lap, according to reports. children.

Many membets of Congress are preSenator McCarran, Democrat of Ne- pared to back a proposed program that vada, has requested that all men whose in the future part of the educational and college studies were interrupted by the miltary training of officers be given in war, be discharged immediately.

ROTC colleges throughout the country.

A number of bills on the subject have Some members want certain existing military schools and academies to bebeen introduced since September 5. come graduate institutions for Army and Navy commissioned officers. Others preLonger Leaves And Civilian Jobs fer that higher-ranking ROTC students Congress is aware of the need to help be given two more years at Annapolis or service men get located once more in West Point.

In any event, the Navy has recognized civilian life. The Senate is considering a resolution approving the granting of the tremendous opposition expressed in extended furloughs with full pay and recent weeks to the centering of all naval allowances to men awaiting discharge, or officer education at Annapolis. It sent whose services can be spared from pres- a commission of five high-ranking ofent assignments, or who are awaiting new ficers to the Pacific Coast to explore posassignment. The resolution asks the Sec- sibilities for location of a postgraduate

school. The group was headed by Captain H. A. Spanagel, director of the Nav)postgraduate school at Annapolis.

The postgraduate school may be located at St. Mary's College near San Francisco, a Congressional authority said.

The need for extensive postgraduate facilities is imperative, if the Navy, as announced, is to give 40,000 reserve officers a postgraduate Naval Academy course.

The publicity given crowded conditions at Bancroft Hall is being turned into an argument for another academy.

Some members of Congress contend thar enrollment at the Annapolis academy could not possibly be doubled even with the acquisition of the St. John's College property.

Senate Claims Bills Passed The Senate has recently enacted the following claims bills: S. 1215—Reimbursement totaling $2,859.35 authorized for payment to Marine Corps personnel and former Marine Corps personnel for property lost in sinking of steamship Maasdam on June 26, 1941. S. 1135— Reimbursement totaling $1,167.60 to Navy and former Navy personnel for property lost because of fire at naval auxiliary air station, Pungo, Norfolk, Virginia, February 13, 1945. S. 1134— $804 to Navy and Marine Corps personnel for fire losses at Tutuila, American Samoa, August 17, 1944. S. 1119— $243.95 for losses suffered by Navy personnel because of fire at naval operating base, Bermuda, April 26, 1945.

S. 1103—$4,310.90 for property losses resulting from fire at Hamoaze House, Plymouth, Devon, England, December 31, 1944. S. 1102—$1,672.25 for losses due to fire at naval convalescent , hospital. Banning, Calif., March 5, 1945.

S. 1076—$4,000 for losses due to fire at naval station, Tumila, American Samoa, October 20, 1943 (the boys must be generating a lot of heat out there in Samoa).

Retirement Legislation Here is the Navy's retirement policy, as expressed in an analysis of S. 1405, introduced by Senator Walsh September 18.

Sections 1 through 5 deal with appointment of boards to recommend retirement and procedures to be followed.

Section 6 ( a ) : Provides that officers of the rank of rear admiral and commodore of the Navy and major general and brigadier general of the Marine Corps, recommended for retirement, shall be placed on the retired list with the highest grade or rank held by him on the active list and with 75 per cent of the highest pay to which he was entitled on the active list.

Section 6 ( b ) : Provides that officers

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of tht rank of captain and below in the Navy and colonel and below in the Matine Corps, recommended for retirement, shall be placed on the retired list, with the highest rank held on the active list, provided performance of duty in that rank has been satisfactory, and with retired pay based upon 2-1/2 per cent of die pay of the rank in which retired multiplied by the number of years of service, not to exceed 75 per cent.

If an officer's service in the highest rank has not been satisfactory he shall receive the next lower rank not below his permanent rank with retired pay based on such lower rank.

Section 6 ( c ) : This is the saving clause if an officer is entided to a higher rank or pay under other provisions of the law.

Section 7: Authorizes the President to discharge, without pay, any officer of the regular -Navy or regvdar Marine Corps who has completed less than 7 years of active commissioned service and who has not received a temporary higher appointment during the war or who, having received a higher appointment, performed service such that it was necessary to revoke the appointment and revert the officer to his permanent rank.

Section 8. Changes the statutory retirement age to 62 years, for all officers below the rank of fleet admiral, bur authorizes the President to defer placing any such officer, in numbers not exceeding 10, on the retired list for the length of time he deems advisable.

The section also provides that officers immediately affected by the lowering of the retirement age from 64 to 62 will not retire for 6 months following the date of the approval of this act.

Section 9. The repeal provisions.

Section 10. Limits the time in which the Secretary of Navy may convene boards to consider officers in ranks of captain and below in the Navy and colonel and below in the Marine Corps for retiremenr, also, limits the authority of the President to discharge officers

with less than 7 years' active commissioned service now serving in permanent rank, until June 30 of the fiscal year following that in which the present war shall be declared ended by proclamation of the President or by act or resolution of the Congress.

Volunteer Enlistment Program S. 1406, introduced in the Senate, and a companion bill introduced in the House, constitute the official program to encourage volunteer enlistment, which in turn would speed demobilization. Here is what Senator Walsh said of the subject as it relates to the Navy: "In the past, our peacetime Army and Navy have been composed entirely of volunteers. I feel quite sure the Members of the Senate and the American people as a whole desire our postwar Navy be manned by volunteers if possible. Practically all persons who entered the naval service immediately prior to and during the war are now anxious to be released. Very few of them show any indications of reenlisting and making the naval service a career. Many of these men are those whom the Navy would like to keep and who would make the best type of men for our post war Navy. They are not applying to remain in the naval service due chiefly to the fact that under existing laws they cannot obtain certain benefits provided by the Congress until after they are discharged or placed on an inactive status.

"As one example, men cannot receive mustering-out pay if they reenlist or elect to remain in the postwar Navy.

"The main purpose of this bill is to make available now and to men who elect to remain in the Navy the benefits which they will receive at once under existing law only if they become separated from the service."

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"The present Mustering-Out Payment Act of 1944 authorizes this pay only when discharged or released to inactive duty. It is not a new provision but merely extends the Mustering-Out Payment Act. Section 8. This section authorizes the reenlistment allowance to be based upon the highest enlisted grade held at the time of reenlistment with regard to the Navy . . . It permits, including all continuous active Federal service (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coasr Guard), whether in enlisted grades or in commissioned, commissioned-warrant, warrant officers' grades in computing the number of years' service for the purpose of reeidistment allowances.

Navy temporary promotion law now permits enlisted personnel who are serving temporarily in higher commissioned grades to count such commissioned service for purpose of reenlistment if they revert to enlisted status.

Under the law an enlisted allowance of $50, multiplied by the number of years served in the enlistment period from which last discharged, is paid to every honorably discharged man of the three highest pay grades upon reenlistment, and an allowance of $25 is paid in the four lower grades under the same conditions.

Section 11. This section makes the GI bill of rights, providing for education, loans, and certain unemployment benefits now only authorized to personnel who are discharged or released to inactive duty, payable to personnel who transfer from the Reserve to the Regular Establishment. The GI Bill of Rights is made applicable only during a man's first period of enlistment or reetdistment after which he will, if he remains in the

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service, not be entitled to these provis- manded the C.S.S. MOBILE in the Mississippi River. John T. Wood, 1853, ions.

Section 12. This section makes the commanded the TALLAHASSEE on a 19provision of 10 per cent increase in pay day raid in the summer of 1864 and capfor officers and 20 per cent increase in tured or destroyed 26 vessels.

With the end of the Civil War and the pay for enlisted men and warrant officers for service at sea and foreign service return of the Naval Academy from Newpermanent legislation. Under present port in 1865, Vice Admiral David Dixon law this sea and foreign service pay Porter, one of the 'outstanding Federal would terminate 12 months after the naval officers of the war, took over as Superintendent. He modernized the curtermination of the present war. riculum, introduced new courses, brought in able young officers with war experience as instructors, cleaned up the Through Five Wars grounds from the ravages made by the Army, constructed several new buildings, (Continued from page 42) and introduced a planned program of standing performance of the graduates. sports and athletics. He encouraged the William B. Cushing, who had entered school's social life so that the newspaper the Academy in 1857, operated (with a wags of the period labeled the school classmate, William F. Stewart) small "Porter's Dancing Academy." armed boats destroying Confederate Instead of being content with the simschooners almost under the bows of ple graduation ceremonies of the past, heavier enemy ships. He also conceived he made the week of graduation a season a scheme to destroy the Confederate of festivity with dances, parades, athletic man-of-war ALBEMARLE by means of a events, and even introduced the comspar torpedo carried by a small launch. petition for the company flag. His force He executed his plan successfully, under and energy gave new life to the AcadConfederate fire. He even had to hurtle emy, and most of his innovations are over a protective boom of logs, which standard procedures today. almost spoiled his attack, before getting For many years after the Civil War, near enough to touch off his torpedo. the Navy was moribund, the country beMiraculously, he survived to help lead a ing indifferent to the Navy as a means of Naval battalion into action at Fort Fisher, national defense during this era of peace, and reached the rank of commander be- prosperity, and national expansion. But fore he was killed. under President Arthur the White Samuel W. Preston, at the capture of Squadron was authorized and by the year Port Royal, was cited for "an undis- 1898, when we went to war with Spain, mrbed intelligence which proved use- we had a respectable naval force for that ful." In the capture of Roanoke Island, period. The Academy, fortunately, had Midshipman Benjamin H. Porrer com- continued to expand its physical plant, manded a battery of six naval howitzers its curriculum, and the number of midcredited with having much to do with shipmen in training. By the beginning the success of the operation. Midshipmen of the Spanish-American War, 2,307 Lamson, Roland, and Robertson, six men had been graduated. months after their accelerated graduation The short war with Spain had little from the Academy, commanded the effect on the Academy. The officers who pivot guns and spar-deck batteries of the manned the fleet were, of course, almost flagship W A B A S H direcdy under the observation of Commodore DuPont, who reported that "They sustained the reputation and exhibited the benefits of the Naval Academy training . . . only which could make such valuable officers of such young men."

AMONG the Naval Academy grad-^*- uates who went South, the following are among the better known: William H.. Parker, who had been head of the Seamanship Department, established the Confederate States Naval Academy and commanded the gunboat BEAUFORT during the Battle of Hampton Roads.

Lieutenant Commander J. W. Alexander, class of 1857, commanded the gunboat RALEIGH. A. F. Warley commanded the ALBEMARLE, which had successfully resisted all Union attacks and was a menace to Union ships until torpedoed by Cushing. F. E. Shepard com84

all Academy graduates, as they have been in every conflict since, but their exploits are properly the subject of general histories rather than of this account.

Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the Academy enjoyed growth commensurate with the rest of the Navy. Appointments by Senators were authorized in 1902, and the number of appointees was doubled in 1903. The Naval Academy undertook an extensive rebuilding program, and acquired many new facilities for training.

During World War I, the course was shortened to three years, and the Academy opened its doors to officers of the U. S. Naval Reserve, who were given short courses in navigation, gunnery, seamanship, electrical and marine engineering, and Navy regulations and customs. During the course of the war, the Academy trained 2,569 Reserves for the Naval service.

The war weariness that followed the Armistice had repercussions in the Naval Academy. For two decades, under a series of taut-shipminded Superintendents, the discipline at the Academy had tended to become more and more strict. Now, however, under Rear Admiral H. B. Wilson, more privileges were extended to the midshipmen. They were allowed to smoke, within cerrain prescribed areas. They were granted Christmas leave and eventually Easter leave, and were allowed to visit Washington and Baltimore. Pool tables were installed, card playing was permitted, and more comfortable uniforms were adopted.

At the same time, improvements were made in the curriculum and equipment.

The ordnance course, for example, was extended to include airplane bombing, aviation gunnery, and mines. The fire control system used in the latest battleships was installed in Dahlgren Hall, with a director system for broadside guns. A course in flight tactics was added to the Seamanship Department, and a course in aeronautical engineering to the Engineering Department. Second class summer was given over to ground-school training in aviation, with at least ten hours' flying time for each midshipman.

World 'War II, more than any other in the hundred years of the Academy's existence, gave the world proof of the true worth of the school's training. The quality of leadership engendered at Annapolis was shown at the Coral Sea and Midway, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. Academy-trained officers consistently served the function of providing a skeleton organizadon around which rhe larger force of Reserves could be assembled. The Regular officers were experienced in as many fields as possible. TTie Reserves, on the other hand, are largely specialists.

This meant that the Navy was able to use the knowledge and skill of its Academy-

trained officers to the utmost, throwing them in wherever the organization needed strengthening. For example, the same officer, over a period of two or three years, might be employed to set up an advanced base, command a cruiser, organize a gunnery school, and straighten out logistic problems on an area commander's staff.

As it had in past wars, the Academy adapted itself to the requirements of World War II. The four-year course was speeded up to three years. Senators' and Representatives' appointments were upped from four to five per year. The number of midshipmen in training increased from 2,307 in October 1940 to 3,043 in October 1944. During the war years, each successive graduating dass set an all-time new record for size. In addition, the Academy trained 3,129 Reserve officers.

In the words of Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal: ". . . you couldn't have won [this war] without the codes of professional attainments of men who had gone to Annapolis, men who had the character and patience and patriotism to remain in the Navy during the twenty years between wars, and who provided the foundation of professional skill which [gave us] the best and greatest fighting fleet the world has ever seen."

Radar (Continued from page 44) Obviously, if such precision of gunfire is possible by means of radar readings of short targets, radar is an everpresent, invaluable aid to navigation and piloting in dangerous waters. This, of course, will be its major peacetime use for shipping and passenger liners.

A captain can bring his ship safely into narrow harbors, avoiding navigational hazards, detecting landmarks, lighthouses, buoys, rocks, coast line and other dangers. He can detect other ships go-

ing in or out and avoid collision, though the harbor be fog-bound. The contour of a shore line can usually be seen almost as accurately as if it were drawn on a chart.

Rather early in the war, the ultimate potentialities of radar began to be apparent when the following incident took place. A formation of cruisers was ordered to steam into an archipelago in the Solomon group to bombard some enemy shore installations. The time chosen was on the blackest of black nights, and the waters had been charted only sketchily, yet the formation set out, relying on their radar to bring them through. They took column formation, steaming at 25 knots, and kept formation perfectly. They cruised confidently through the intricacies of the unfamiliar archipelago to the point to be bombarded. Reaching that point, they successfully evaded several mine-sweepers engaged in sweeping operations in the immediate vicinity. They found their objective and carried out their assigned bombardment. Still at 25 knots, they turned and countermarched in the narrow waters and steamed back out. And on their arrival back at base, they were able to report that one of the reefs on their crude charts was in error by about six miles. All this was done in zero visibility.

Again and again in this war, it has been necessary for United States Navy ships to approach strange harbors in the dead of nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;harbors about which oidy the sketchiest information is known. In the Aleutians campaign we operated for two winters in waters of the most perilous kind which had never been charted. Farther out in the Pacific it has enabled our largest battleships to come closer to strange shores in the dead of night than they would ever have dared before. This has afforded pointblank fire against shore batteries. In the same way, transports and cargo ships are permitted to unload closer to the beach, lessening the danger to their

small craft and saving immensely on unloading time.

The other ways in which the Navy has used radar to speed the end of the war are literally too numerous to mention. Many of them are still bound in security. But it is safe to say that the speed with which our overwhelming naval might has driven the Jap from the seas and brought our land forces within the shadow of Tokyo would have been much more difficult and costly in men and ships without radar.

The Electronic Navigation Earlier discussion of the use of radar in ships and aircraft has made it clear what an important bearing radar has on navigation. The RAF's pulse navigation system, designed to guide its bombers out and back on their raids over Germany, has been more or less universally adopted for air navigation, either in its original form or in a United States version which goes by the name of Loran (for Long Range Navigation).

This system, while based on the same principles as the British system, was developed independently by the Radiation Laboratory. Work on it was commenced by the beginning of 1941, and by the end of 1942 the first of the ground stations which were later to lace the world with the electronic lines of position were operating. The original British system works on a shorter wave length; and is consequently limited to straight-line propagation and line-ofsight ranges. It is of litde use for the navigation of surface vessels for this reasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;before they are many miles from the ground stations they are over the horizon and out of range.

Loran, on the other hand, works on a longer wave length which is not radically different from the range of wave lengths used for long-range radio communications. Its waves are reflected from rhe ionosphere and therefore follow around the curvamre of the earth just in the way that radio broadcasting waves do. Loran fixes can be taken

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either by aircraft or ships at distances of several himdred milesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes more than a thousand milesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the ground stations. The accuracy of these fixes is just as good as a celestial observadon would provide, and they are much easier to take and interpret than celestial fixes are. They are available whatever the weather or the visibility. This system has become the basic navigational scheme for the long-range ships and aircraft of the United Nations, not only for combat craft, but for transport ships and aircraft as welL We have also seen how airborne radar, such as B. T. O., or the ASV used by troop carrier aircraft, will permit navigation by radar pilotage, in which radar check points which may be cities, lakes, islands, or characteristic stretches of shorelines, are used in place of the visual check points so essential to conventional air navigation. Such radar pUotage caimot be used over empty expanses of water, of course; here Loran is the only rehance. And it must not be depended on, alone, for truly rehable navigation, but must be supplemented by fuU-time dead reckoning. Radar check points, however, permit constant and rehable dead reckoning to be done over land or within a hundred miles or so of land, and are a primary rehance of all aircraft which carry airborne radar.

Certain supplementary devices aid in navigation by airborne radar. Mention has already been made of the radar beacons which give a characteristically coded reply to a radar challenge; the world is now dotted with these unmistakable radar check points. And the labor of dead reckoning is being reduced

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by a radar attachment which will do automatic dead reckoning between the taking of radar fixes, obtaining its data from a compass repeater and a true air speed meter.

One last radar device deserves mention; this is the radar altimeter. Just as the range to an aircraft can be measvired from the groimd, so the range to the ground can be measured from an aircraft by radar means. Crude radar altimeters antedated the war, but the development in the radar art has made the present automatic radar altimeter a simple, rehable, and practical device. It is very widely installed and used.

Radar Personnel and Training To appreciate fully the remarkable nature of the growth of radar and of its use in the war, we can compare it with the development of the airplane.

In terms of the elapsed time between the reception of the first pulse radar signals in the history of the world and the outbreak of war, it is as though a war had begun in 1907 and the Wright Brothers' airplane, having made its first faltering flight in 1903, had been developed by 1910 into a powerful weapon of which thousands were in constant use.

These is nothing magical about radar.

Much of its effectiveness depends on the techniques that have been evolved to make maximum use of its information.

And its work depends ultimately on the training, native skiU, and inteUigence of its operators, and on the degree to which radar's capabihties have been integrated into tactical plaiming and combat operations.

The development of radar moved so rapidly aU through the last years before the war and the early years of the war itself that only the radar specialist had any real knowledge of its behavior and its capabihties. Yet the immediate demands of war made it necessary to expand suddenly and tremendously in all directions at once.

Probably no scientific or industrial development in the history of the world has expanded in aU phases simultaneously, and on such a scale. Research, development, production design, actual production, field trials, training of thousands of operators and instaUersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all these had to go on at the same time, and they did. Most significant of aU, the use of radar with the armies and the air forces in the field, and the ships at sea, was so widespread that nearly every responsible commanding officer had to be educated to an appreciation of the capabihties and the limitations of the new weapon which was being put into his hands. Having gained this appreciation, officers in the field had to work out the tactical employment of this new equipment through the trial and error of combat operarions. Further, they had to communicate the experience and knowledge thus gained to aU other field commanders. AU this was made more difficidt by the necessity of maintaining the strict secrecy which must surround a new and important development.

The Army and the Navy set up a huge program to fiU the ever-growing personnel by recruiting men with radio experience, and estabhshing special preradar and radar schools.

The earhest training of Army personnel in radar techniques was informal and was carried out at the Signal Corps Laboratories concurrendy with the early development work. It was effecuated by such steps as having a detachment of antiaircraft troops stationed at the laboratories for several years beginning in 1937. A course on Radio Set SCR-268 for Coast ArtiUery noncommissioned officers was conducted at the Signal Corps area on Fort Hancock in the faU of 1940, and these men served afterward as the nudeus for an antiaircraft artiUery radar school.

On 2 June 1941 the Signal Corps School at Fort Monmouth set up an Aircraft Warning Department which, by early 1942, was operating on a threeshift basis to provide the many operators and maintenance men needed for the gready increased numbers of radar sets coming from the factories. In June 1942 Camp Murphy was opened at Hobe Sound, Fla., to house the Signal Corps Radar School, later renamed the Southern Signal Corps School. During the ensuing 2 years, this school trained thousands of enlisted men and officers, of

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the Signal Corps, Coast ArtiUery Antiaircraft, Air Corps and Marine Corps, as weU as a limited number of AUied Army officers, in the operation and maintenance of various types of radar equipment.

Special technical training in ultrahigh-frequency techniques associated with radar was given Army and Navy officers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Instimte of Technology, beginning in June 1941. These schools gave the armed services the advantage of the most advanced electronic training facUities at two instimtions whose faculties also were connected with major research projeas in the electronics field.

The Navy, of course, was having simUar personnel problems early in the war, and at first it feU to the Naval Research Laboratory to furnish most of the technical know-how. The Radar Section, which now numbers more than 600 people, at that time consisted of only a handful of scientists. These few had to double and triple in brass, supplemented where possible by field personnel of contractors for radar equipment. Their presence was required in the Laboratory itself to solve the urgent development problems that faced them. But if the equipment was to be installed and operated, they were required elsewhere as weU. They were required in navy yards to teach the Radar Divisions the entirely new art of instaUing radar. They were also required to go aboard ship and explain the operation of the new equipment to the radiomen and other bluejackets who had been hurriedly puUed from other stations to become radar operators. They were required to write manuals and instruction books.

And finaUy they were required as teachers in the newly-set up radar schools.

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several universities. Laboratory personnel was required to assist in most instances.

The story of radar training in the Pacific Fleet illustrates the point.

In the spring of 1941, the Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet, took steps to meet the problem of training the Fleet, and a few dozen officers were remrned to the Naval Research Laboratory.

The time and distances involved as well as the limited capacity of the laboratory made necessary the establishment of a school at the Fleet base in Hawaii.

A request was made, and plans for this advanced school were under way before the outbreak of hostilities. From the beginning, the school, although staffed mairdy by Navy personnel, taught the maintenance of all types of radar—landbased, airborne, and shipborne—so that when the school began formally in March 1942, it was attended by Army, Marine, and Navy personnel.

By the end of 1942, the simation had become more complex, for the supply of experienced radio repair men was nearing exhaustion, many new types of radar were appearing, and the numbers involved were rapidly increasing. In order to meet these new demands, specialized training was instimted, and a preradar course was begun in order to give more background to the less experienced smdents.

Since the early radars were air search radars, the problem of training fighter direction officers arose at an early date, and a school was started in San Diego in 1941, which moved to Hawaii in the spring of 1942 and occupied part of the same building as the maintenance school. The fighter director school was also an interservice school teaching controUers from all branches of the service.

In addition to teaching, this school developed the tactics of fighter direction which were to prove so successful in later battles.

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founded in November 1942 to teach fire-control tactics. In the spring of 1943 it was decided that steps shoidd be taken to coordinate aU Fleet radar training and development in one organization to be known as the Pacific Fleet Radar Center with the mission of training radar maintenance men, radar operators, CIC and Fighter Director Officers, and of instructing senior officers in radar tactics.

Today, training of Navy radar operators and technicians is organized on a vast Nation-wide scale. Training aids of every kind have replaced the highly personal, verbal instruction that served in the early, critical days. More than 125,000 officers and men have gone through advanced radar training at Navy schools within this country.

With the initial phase of Air Corps radar training—in the use of ground sets for the Aircraft Warning Service— handled by the Signal Corps in the early days, the first problem of Air Corps training concerned itself with the use of ASV, and other sea search equipment, used by the Antisubmarine Command. A school was set up at Langley Field, headquarters of the First Sea Search Attack Squadron, where training methods were pioneered, usually under operational conditions. The growth of the radar training program in the AAF is seen in a comparison between the 818 graduates of all radar courses for the first 6 months of 1942 and the 23,175 graduates for the first 6 months of 1945. In the interim radar schools had been set up in all the Technical and Flying Training Commands.

With the introduction of B. T. O., the difficulty of training increased, for a potential radio operator or bombardier who would use the equipment in combat could be taken on only a limited number of operational flights over simulated target areas. Many ingenious training devices have been developed to simulate, for smdents, the performance of airborne radar equipment, and thus cut 87

down the flying hours required for instruction.

In April 1941—a month after passage of the Lend-Lease Act—British authorities ofifered to provide training for American officers in the radiolocation system which already was in operation against the German air force and U-boats. An agreement was made by which hundreds of qualified United States Army Signal Corps officers were to be sent to the United Kingdom for radar training in British schools, and a period of operational duty with the British armed forces. The United States Army's ranks were combed for officers and men with the requisite education or experience in radio engineering or electronic physics. Eidisted men and civilians with the necessary qualifications, who volunteered for overseas duty at a time when the United States was stdl at peace, were appointed second lieutenants in the Signal Corps Reserve with assignment to the Electronics Training Group.

The recruiting campaign began 30 June 1941. The first section of the Electronics Training Group—consisting of 1 first lieutenant and 30 second lieutenants—was assembled at Fort Monmouth on 11 August 1941. After 3 weeks of preliminary instruction on Americantype radar equipment, the officers on 12 September left For Monmouth for England. They were dassified as military observers, and headquarters of the Electronics Training Group was established at the American Embassy in London.

The American officers were given theoretical and laboratory training in British schools and then assigned to British Army and Royal Air Force operational units. By the end of November 1941, a total of 209 Signal Corps officers were on duty in England. The next group of 50 learned only upon their arrival that the United States had been attacked at Pearl Harbor whUe they were at sea.

America's entry into the war accelerated the return of some of the ETG officers, and by March 1942 a total of 58 had been brought back for reassignment to aircraft warning duties with AAF Fighter Commands along the coasts of the Continental United States and at overseas bases. Many of those remaining in England after the completion of their instruction took over active positions in the British aircraft warning 88

service as weU as on airborne radar patrols against German submarines.

Four members of the group were reported kiUed or missing as a result of airplane flights during their services in England.

When the overseas electronics training program was ended in 1943, a total of 907 Signal Corps officers had completed their training in England—457 in British Army radar, and 450 in Royal Air Force equipment. On various occasions thousands of British troops served under the command of these American officers, at a time when combined military operations under supreme aUied headquarters were stiU in the furare.

As United States operations expanded in the European theater, many of these Signal Corps officers were taken over by AAF units.

secretary of the Microwave Committee and has served since April 1942 as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War) were sent to the field to serve as expert advisers on the operarional use of radar. This group also assisted in planning the Army's radar program, integrating the scientific and industrial eflfort with the military needs.

The Radiation Laboratory set up a British branch which helped with the field modification of radar equipments to fiU operarional needs, gave maintenance help, and in some cases advised on the operational use of radar. The Office of Field Service of OSRD, operating through the War Department General Staff, sent civilian experts to the theaters to advise and assist in the operational use of new equipment.

Whatever the formal auspices on which civilians reached the field, once there they were welcomed by most commanders. Because of their special knowledge of the new and rapidly-developing field of radar, these men could often be useful in connection with operations; and they were able to bring back to design and procurement agencies an upto-date picture of radar's current performance and of the directions in which new developments was most urgendy required. As radar became more of a routine part of mihtary operations, the Army and Navy to an increasing extent provided speciaUy trained detachments to introduce new equipment systematicaUy into combat.

From the British viewpoint the ETG provided qualified persormel during a period when both the British Army and the RAF were short of officers with the necessary technical background. From the American point of view the arrangement was valuable because a number of these officers obtained training and exRadar in the Peacetime World perience under operational conditions, There has already been a great deal during a phase of the war when the United States had not yet undertaken of rather uninformed speculation about the peaceful uses of radar. It wiU be fuU-scale oflfensive expeditions. dear from what has gone before that Under various auspices, important the direct and immediate use of radar civilian assistance was rendered to the wiU be to make air and sea navigation Army and Navy. In the Navy, an Oper- entirely continuous and foolproof, reational Research Group working on the gardless of night or weather. Its use in antisubmarine problem was concerned land transport, during the immediate with operational matters touching radar. postwar years, is more dubious. In the Under the sponsorship of the Navy's forms in which it exists now, radar is Bureau of Aeronautics, the Airborne Co- not a very useful attachment to an autoordinating Group sent to the field civil- mobile or a railroad locomotive. ian radar experts concerned with mainThe biggest influence radar wiU have tenance. Many radar-wise civilians have after the war is indirect. The thousands been working with the Army, mostly the Army Air Forces. The AAF had Oper- of man-years which have gone into the ations Analysis Sections which were, as improvement of the detailed componpart of their work, concerned with the ents which make up a radar set—many of these components being identical operational performance of radar. with those of a radio or television set, The Signal Corps had, in the Office or hearing aid, or other electronic device of the Chief Signal Officer, an Oper- —have made obsolete many of our preational Research Group concerned with war ideas about what could and could the impact of operational experience on not be done in electronics. equipment problems. The Signal Corps Furthermore, radar has made the elecand Air Service Command sent to the tronic industry one of America's major field civilian Technical Observers, on ones, now comparable in size to the precontract from industrial firms, to deal war automobile industry. This new inwith maintenance and other radar prob- dustry, through its enormous laboratorlems. Civilian consultants in the office ies, can be expected to find innumerable of Dr. E. L. Bowles (who was the first applications in a wide variety of fields.

If television is stiU around the corner after the war, nothing but economic faaors, not technical ones, will have kept it there. Communication, especiaUy radio communication, will have a tremendous flowering based largely on die opening up of the microwave field.

Individual radio communication is even beginning to appear a practical matter, subject to certain limitations.

The number of men who have been trained in the techniques of radar operation and maintenance by the Army and the Navy is colossal; we can expect these men, in large part, to make feasible the gready expanded use of electronic equipment of ail kinds, because of their preparation to enter the industry or to set up in the parts and repair business.

Altogether, it is fair to say that radar as radar, wiU have a mild immediate beneficial effect on aU our lives, by making it safer to travel by sea or by air.

But the impact on electronics generally of techniques developed during the war because of radar wiU have profound and far-reaching effects on the shape of our daily hfe.

Appendix. Technical Description of Radar Systems PracticaUy every radar set is made up of the foUowing major parrs or components: 1, A modulator; 2, A radio-frequency osciUator; 3, An antenna with suitable scanning mechanism; 4, A receiver; and 5, An indicator.

Whde the physical form of each of these components may vary widely from one kind of radar set to another, each radar must have this complement of parts in order to function.

1. The modulator is a device for taking power from the primary power source (which may be the commercial power line, a special engine or motordriven generator, or storage batteries) and forming suitable voltage pulses to drive the r-f osciUator in its bursts of radio frequency oscdlations. In other words, it is the modulator which mrns

on the radio frequency oscillator to os- such side lobes may often be fatally conciUate violently for a miUionth of a sec- fusing; and, ond or so, turns it off sharply and keeps c. The radar antenna must be capait in repose until time for the next ble of being directed or scanned from burst. one point in space to another, and on 2. The radio-frequency oscillator is a shipboard and in aircraft it must frevacuum tube of suitable design, or a quently be stabilized to take out the group of such tubes, which wiU oscil- motions of the ship or airplane itself. late at the desired radio frequency and An antenna may be made directional give the desired bursts of radio frequency either by building it up of an array of power when connected to the modulator. small antennas or dipoles, suitably The development of suitable oscillator spaced and phased to concentrate the tubes has been one of the major achieve- energy in one direction, or it may be ments of the radar art. It is a relatively built on the searchlight priciple of simple job to produce a radio frequency spraying the energy into a large paraoscillator which will give oscillations of bolic "mirror," which focuses the energy any desired frequency provided one is into a beam. In either case, the larger satisfied with a power of only a few the antenna, the sharper the beam for thousandths of a watt. In the receiving any given wavelength. Sometimes anpart of a radar circuit this amount of tennas may be longer in one direction power is adequate. A practical radar than the other, giving a beam which is transmitter, however, must generate dur- sharper in the first direction and thus ing its momentary bursts of oscillation fan shaped. a power which may run into hundreds of The scanning of the position of space kilowatts. Since the oscillator is mrned which the radar set is intended to cover on a smaU fraction of the time, the must usually be done by mechanical average power is usually hundreds of movement of the antenna structure ittimes less than the peak power, but even self. This means that the strucmre, whatthe average power may run up to the ever its size, must swing around or up order of one kilowatt. Thus, practical and down to direct the beam in the radar equipment requires extremely high necessary direction. In certain cases frequency oscillators running at powers where one needs to scan only a small thousands of times greater than was sector, techniques have been worked thought possible a few years ago. out for rapid electrical scanning not 3. The problem of antenna design is requiring the motion of the whole analso one of the major problems in radar, tenna structure itself. So far, however, incomprehensible as this may seem to there has been no method for extending the operator of a home radio receiver, this rapid electrical scanning to cover who finds a few yards of wire strung up more than a relatively small sector. Raon his roof adequate for his purpose. A dars for directing guns which need acsuitable radar antenna must have the curate and fast data in a small sector following characteristics: are making use, however, of this valuable technique. a. It must be directional; that is, it must concentrate the radio energy To carry the radio-frequency energy into a definitely defined beam, since this . from the osciUator to the antenna, and is the method by which the direction to the echo from the antenna to the rethe objects detected is determined; ceiver, wires and coaxial cables are used b. It must be highly efficient. AU at ordinary wave lengths. For microof the generated power must go into waves, however, it is more efficient to the beam and none must leak off into use wave guides, which essentially are "side lobes" in other directions, since carefully proportioned hollow pipes—

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and the transmission system hence is often caUed "plumbing."

4. The problem of the receiver for radar is also a complex one. In practicaUy aU radars the superheterodyne principle is employed, which involves generating at low power a radio frequency fairly dose to that received, and "beating" this against the received signals, forming an intermediate frequency, which is then amplified many times.

Curiously enough the crystal, used as a detector and mixer, has again come into its own in microwave receivers. The pecidiar characteristics of pulse signals require that receivers be built with extremely fast response, much faster even than that required in television. The final stages must prepare the signals for suitable presentation in the indicator.

The receiver normaUy occupies a rela•^tively smaU box in the complete radar set, and yet this box represents a marvel of engineering ingenuity. A particularly difficult piece of development is concerned with a part dosely connected with the receiver. This is a method of disconnecting the receiver from the antenna during the intervals when the transmitter is operating so that the receiver wiU not be paralyzed or burned out by the smpendous bursts of radio frequency energy generated by the transmitter. Within a miUionth of a second after the transmitter has completed its pulse, however, the receiver must be open to receive the relatively weak echo signals; but now the transmitter part of the circuit must be dosed off so it wiU not absorb any of this energy.

5. It is the indicator of a radar that presents the information coUected in a form best adapted to efficient use of the set. Nearly (but not quite) aU radar indicators consist of one or more cathode-ray mbes. In the simplest or "A" type of presentation the electron beam is given a deflection proportional to time in one direction—say, horizontaUy —and proportional to the strength of the echo pulse in the other—say, verticaUy. If no signals are visible, then one sees a bright horizontal line (the "time base") across the mbe face, the distance along this hne representing time elapsed after the outgoing pulse.

A returning echo then gives a V-shaped break in the line at the point corresponding to the time it took the echo to come back. The position of the "pip" along this line measures the distance to the reflecting object. There are many variations of this type of indicator for special purposes, but most radars have an A-scope, even when other types are also provided.

Many types of radar whose antennas "scan" various directions employ the PPI mbe. Here the time base starts from the center of the mbe and moves radi90

aUy outward in a direction corresponding to that in which the antenna is pointing. This time base rotates in synchronism with the antenna. The returning signal, instead of causing a break in the time base, simply intensifies its briUiance for an instant. Hence each signal appears as a bright spot of light at a position corresponding to the range and bearing of the target. Thus a maphke picture of aU reflecting objects appears in the cathode-ray mbe face.

Since the antenna can usuaUy be rotated only slowly (e.g., from 1 to 20 r. p. m.) and since the Hght from an ordinary cathode-ray mbe fades away almost instandy, one might expect not to see a "map" at aU, but only bright flashes at various spots as the antenna revolves. Some way had to be found to make the brightness of these flashes persist for many seconds after they were produced. Special screens were developed which continue to glow for some time after being lighted by a signal.

Thus the whole map is displayed at once.

Athletics (Continued from page 45) occasion took him 20 yards for a touchdown when he intercepted a Penn State forward pass.

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Market Day in the Pacific {Continued from page 71) ly necessary for the continued effeaive operation of the ship. And last but not least were the hundreds of bags of U. S. and official mail that were regularly delivered at this very edge of the front Une batde. There wiU always be a corner of die heart of every saUor in the Pacific reserved for Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the man who kept the maU coming!

Nor would these remarks on market day activities be complete without some mention of the yeoman work of the destroyers. From die first light of dawn until late at night, fueUng days found these swift guardians of the fleet constandy on the move receiving and transferring mail, returrung the downed pUots that they had rescued to their own ships, carrying freight from one ship to another, deUvering maU, exchanging movies, running errands and maintaining a general messenger service for aU ships.

In this dehcate maneuver of coming alongside a large ship, they became so adept that the condition of the sea and the namre of duty were of httle consequence. The ESSEX alone took destroyen Alongside on 385 occasions, the high mark being set on 14 AprU when 21 visitors made routine calls. It was not an uncommon sight for the ESSEX to be catapulting planes from the bow with a tanker or ammunition ship alongside, a destroyer with a Une across on each quarter and a string of destroyers following in her wake impatiently waiting their mrn to come alongside. On one busy day, a destroyer escort approached the ESSEX from another task group and importandy despatched a mesage, "Request permission to come alongside to dehver official mail." With two destroyers already waiting at each quarter, the executive officer wearUy remrned an affirmative, induding the admonition, "Take your place in line."

These calls were not aU made in the safe light of day on merely routine business. On one dramatic occasion when a large number of casualties on one of the Kamikaze victims had exhausted the available supply of blood plasma, a plea went out to the other ships in the group urgently requesting an immediate replenishment of their supply. In the deceptive blackness of a moonless night, with calm sureness a destroyer came

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alongside one of the other large ships, received the precious package and delivered it safely in time to relieve a tragic situation and save the lives of many men.

As a final paraUel to the market day of rural tradition is the brief relaxation afforded from the hazards of batde. This is not necessarily true physically because the task of receiving and stowing ammunition and supplies and the manning of the fuel hoses and lines require an added expendimre of effort. "There is, however, a distinct mental relaxation as the imminence of attack is lessened by the few hundred mile withdrawal from the operating area. But even more important is the wonderful balm of a closer contaa with home and aU that it means.

From almost the moment the first lines goes aaoss to the tanker, the eager question buzzes throughout the ship: "How many bags of U. S. mad are there?" And aU through the day, there is the prospea of that happy moment when mail caU wiU be sounded and for a few brief moments aU hands can be transported on its magic wings to the scenes of memories that become more cherished with each passing month of overseas duty.

And to the lucky few who have been tapped for transfer to shore duty back there, there is the breathless excitement of getting the dearance cards signed, the

sea bags packed and the brief ride on the breeches buoy on the first leg of the long journey home. Those many who remain aboard watch yearningly as the fueling group drops out of sight over the horizon, with the buoyant hope that next time it may be one of them who eagerly clutches his orders for transfer to "Uncle Sugar."

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USS Pecos Three Japanese planes on her bridge scoreboard and three "firsts" to her credit is the record of the USS PECOS, fleet oiler, which probably has more continuous service in the Pacific without remrning to the states than other ships of her type.

The PECOS was in the first group of oilers to participate in a sustained fleet operation when combat vessels remained on patrol for 90 days in Aleutian waters.

She was one of the first fleet oilers to enter Jap-held territory, when she steamed into Majuro atoll in the Marshall Islands, only two days after the island had been capmred from the enemy.

She was the first oiler to anchor in Mangarin Bay oflF Mindoro in the Philippine Islands for refueling operations.

She again escaped unscathed.

The PECOS' Navy career began 5 October 1942, when Commander Palmer M. Gunnell, USN, whose usual address is 1022 North Topeka Avenue, Wichita, Kansas, and whose wife lives at 130 Linden Avenue, Long Beach, California, took over after commissioning ceremon-

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Next the PECOS mrned north to the job of fueling ships in the cold Aleutian area, and additional service of supplying task force vessels with food—^meat, fruit, and candy.

While at anchor in Adak Harbor, the PECOS had two narrow escapes. On the first occasion, she was anchored outside the harbor anti-submarine nets when an enemy sub was contacted near the anchorage. The port director could not jeopardize the combat vessels lying in the protected portion by opening the nets, so the oiler stood fast in the open harbor while patrol craft chased the submarine.

During another visit to Adak, the tanker was informed that the Army establishment there was to hold antiaircraft firing practice. On asking for berthing instructions, however, the PECOS was told to "anchor at discretion."

No sooner had the ship been secured than antiaircraft shells began exploding direcdy overhead. Later, a number of caliber .50 projectiles were removed from bulkheads and crates of oranges on the cargo deck.

Before remrning to her home port, the PECOS withstood both the 90-knot fury of an Aleutian storm, and the rigorous duty of refueling the bombardment and transport groups preceding, during, and after the landings at Tarawa.

The PECOS' last visit to her home port was at the end of 1943- She sailed from San Pedro, California, on New Year's Eve after receiving oil and supphes and undergoing repairs. A month later, Lt. Comdr. George W. Renegar, USNR, of 913 Sherrod Avenue, Florence, Alabama, who had formerly served as Executive

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ofiicer of the ship, relieved Commander Gunnell in command of the PECOS. After a series of routine fueling operations in the Marshall Islands area, and six days at Pearl Harbor, the PECOS remrned to the Western Pacific to take part in the strikes against Palau, and refuel warships for operations against Saipan and Tinian.

Lieutenant Commander Renegar's seamanship met a stiff test when the PECOS refueled an ocean-going tug underway with a damaged ship in tow. The difficult job had to be done quickly, for typhoon warnings had been hoisted. The PECOS' captain later received a Letter of Commendation from Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.-, USN, Commander Third Fleet, for the efficient manner in which the fueling was handled.

On 2 January 1945, the PECOS earned the nickname of "Task Force 65" — a name another taidcer gave her out of respect for the volume of fire the PECOS hurled at Japanese aircraft which attacked her between Leyte Gulf and Mindoro Island. The following day seven general quarters alarms were sounded, and concussion from a near miss off the stern caused the main engine to stop when oil feed pump fuses blew. Power was regained in a few minutes and the ship regained her place in the convoy.

The only casualties were two men who suffered light shrapnel wounds from fragments.

On the evening of 4 January, three enemy planes swept in at the ships anchored in Mangarin Bay, and one dropped a dud bomb that smashed into the PECOS' after port cargo bomb boom, bending the end of the spar almost double. Lt. E. E. TuUis, USNR, whose father lives at 1027 East Johnson Street, Madison, Wise, got the ship underway, but faulty operation of a winch made it necessary to drag 15 fathoms of anchor chain while heading for open sea. Air attacks continued as she steamed out of the bay, but she reached open water safely—and three days later successfully repeUed another bombing.

The PECOS won a ten-to-one shot at Mangarin Bay when she followed General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's orders to supply aviation gasoline for a squadron of P-38's which were virmally grounded for lack of gasoline. In desperation the pilots had been using lowoctane fuel from jeeps and tanks to make 15-minute patrols until the PECOS arrived with the aviation gasoline. Earlier attempts by oilers to get gasoline ashore to the Army had failed, and several of the ships had been sunk. Army men told the PECOS' crew that the squadron was betting ten-to-one against "Task Force 65" leaving Mangarin successfully after discharging her fuel. But the PECOS finished her job and went on her way again.

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perience and skills of veterans entitled to reemploymenr, and to ascertain as far in advance of their return as possible by communication with them what additional qualifications they have obtained A Cleveland Seabee is still trying to de- during military service. He also will decide whether a good tender chicken din- termine what type of work the veterans ner is worth $30 even in the Marianas. now desire and believe they are fitted to This Seabee, a butcher, loudly pro- perform, and how much training or reclaimed to rhe battalion cooks that they fresher training they will need upon their couldn't produce a tender chicken with return. the old hens furnished unless the fowl In this manner, it is hoped that defiwere parboiled first. One pardcular bird nite plans can be made to absorb vetlooked so tough, the Seabee even offered erans who have reemployment rights, to bet $30 he was right. and to properly employ those who The cooks covered the bet, and, a few through injuries may have become handihours later, the Seabee sat down to his capped. chicken dinner. He admitted the meat The Advisor also will formulate plans was tender, declared himself the loser, and recommendations for the Personnel and paid the wager.

Relations Officer and the Training OffiHe found out a little later that the cooks had kept their word all right— they hadn't parboiled the chicken . . . at STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY least, not in the customary fashion.

THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24 1912, A N D MARCH 3, 1933, of SHIPMATE Before roasting the bird, they suspendpublished monthly at Annapolis, Maryland for September 30, 1945. ed for 40 minutes by one leg and sprayed STATE O F MARYLAND ) it with live steam.

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Post W a r Navy Jobs The Navy has taken steps to assure discharged war veterans of their rightful oppormnities as civilian employees in Naval establishments.

In a recent letter to all Navy shore establishments. Rear Admiral Frederick G. Crisp, U.S.N., Director of the Division of Shore Establishments and Civilian Personnel, directed personnel officers ro smdy a plan for the appointment of a Civdian Veteran Placement Advisor in each activity.

The Division of Shore Establishments and Civilian Personnel, which administers the employment of approximately 750,000 civilians in Navy shipyards, ammunition depots, supply stations, air bases and orher activities, already has placed on its employment rolls more than 15,000 war veterans and the number is growing monthly.

Under the plan, the advisor will function on rhe staff of the Personnel Relations Officer. He must be a veteran and will be selected on the basis of full technical competence.

"The Department recognizes the importance of proper planning to assure the best possible placement, utilization and adjustment of the large number of remrning veterans who will be added to the forces of all shore stations," Rear Admiral Crisp said in his letter.

The program calls for the smdy and preparation by the Veterans' Advisor of plans for absorption of veterans as civilian employees. He will determine the ex-

Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Harry R. England, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the S H I P M A T E and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse side of this form, to wit; 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, U.S.N.A. Alumni Association, Annapolis, Maryland.

Editor, Harry R. England, Annapolis, Maryland.

Managing Editor, Harry R. England, Annapolis, Maryland.

Business Manager, Harry R, England, Annapolis, Maryland.

2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, its name and address as well as those of each individual member, must be given.)

U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland.

N o stockholders.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: ( I f there are none, so state.) None.

4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.

5. That the average number of copies of the publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the twelve months preceding the date shown above is 15,004.

HARRY R, ENGLAND, Editor.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of September, 1945.

Margaret M. Nayden.

[Seal] My commission expires May 5, 1947.

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cer; to aid and supervise the problems of adjustment, training and placement of remrning veterans during the difficult period of transition from military to civilian life.

Finally, a counseling service will be developed by the Advisor to help the veterans in their personal problems of adjustment, relations with other workers, veterans' rights, privileges and obligations.

Of the 15,000 who already have been hired in shore establishments within continental limits, 1,886 were former employees on military leave; 464 were former employees who had resigned, whde the remaining 12,670 were discharged veterans without former work experience with Naval establishments.

Sec. 5 of Pub. Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred 10 August 1945.

CARL BERMAN ADRIAN HOLMSTROM, '38,

Lt. Comdr., USN. Died—Presumptive 6 August 1945. Officially reported to be missing in acrion as of 5 August 1944, when CHICAGO the plane in which he was flying a unit of VB-13 was hit by enemy aircraft fire The opening fall meeting of the Chicago and crashed into the water near Chichi Association was held at the Naval Air TechJima, Bonin Islands. In compliance with nical Training Center at 87th and Anthony Sec. 5 of Pub. Law 490, as amended, death Streets, Chicago, Illinois, 28 September 1945, is presumed to have occurred 6 August Captain Robert L. Fuller, USN, being our gracious host. The following members of his 194'5. staff were with us and participated in the very W I L L I S AUGUSTUS LEE, JR., '08, Vice Ad- worthwhile and informative inspection of the miral, USN. Died 25 August 1945 in Casco Center schools which followed our dinner and a short business meeting: Comdr.- H. E. Day, Bay, Maine. Natural causes.

Lt. E. J. McCleary, Lt. A. Hay, Lt. R. H. Skamfer, Lt. P. O'Rourke, Chaplain J. Dolan, J O H N SIDNEY MCCAIN, '06, Vice Admiral, USN. Died 6 September 1945 in (Coro- Chaplain Feroe, Lt. R. Kunt2. nado), San Diego, California, of natural

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This space allotted by Shipmate each month for the -jews of Local Associations of U. S. Naval Academy Alumni.

FREDERICK MOONEY.

JR , '35, Lt.,

D-V(S), USNR. Died—Presumptive 10 August 1945. Officially reported to be missing in action as of 6 July 1943, having been serving aboard the USS HELENA, when that ship was torpedoed and sunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Kula Gulf. In compliance with Sec. 5 of Pub. Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred 10 August 1945.

The following members of the Association with the indicated guests were present: Swift Riche, '14, his guests Frank J. McKee, Chas.

Brickley, Frank Kish, A. Arnold Brand, '14, Alfred W. Burket, '20, M. L. Kirk, '27, his guest J. Reed, C. E. Boyd, '27, Edward H. Enright, '21, Albert V. Rudd, '22, L. J. Bastien, '24, his guest H. G. Eichholz, E. W. Funk, '25, N. E. Weaver, '26, his guest Comdr. H. V. Chase, USNR, George Fitzgerald '27, his guest S. R. Hendrikson, E. P. Nelson, '30, Geo. E. Mumma, '34, E. L. McLean, '35, his guests J. B. Cauley and F. W. Cauley, W. J. Mauer, Jr., '40.

USN. Died—Presumptive 10 August 1945.

Officially reported to be missing in action as of 6 July 1943, having been serving aboard the USS HELENA, when that ship was torpedoed and sunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Kula Gulf.

In compliance with Sec. 5 of Pub. Law RUSSELL ROOSEVELT Ross, '30, Lt., USN. Very little time was devoted to talking al490, as amended, death is presumed to have Died 5 June 1943 in Thailand—Camp un- though the members present did authorize the occurred 10 Aug. 1945. known, Asiatic Area. (P. O. W. to Dead). officers and directors to prepare a resolution disapproving of the proposal to estabhsh one JAMES THOMAS BOOTES, '85, Colonel, USMC WADE CALVERT SHAFFER, JR., '38, Lt., or more additional naval academies in other USN. Died—^Presumptive 10 August 1945. sections than Annapolis or moving the pres(Ret). Died 29 August 1945 in U. S. Officially determined to be missing in ac- ent Naval Academy from Annapolis. The Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland. rion as of 6 May 1943, having been serving drafters of the resolurion were empowered to aboard the USS PICKEREL, when that ship incorporate such principles and to accompany FRANK HOMEWOOD D E A N , JR., '43, Lt., failed to return from a war patrol in the it by supporting reasons additional to those USN. Died 7 September 1945. Killed Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with of mere tradition. This latter the directors when a Corsair fighter plane he was piSec. 5 of Pub. Law 490, as amended, death are doing, it seeming obvious that while tradiloting crashed near San Diego, California. is tjresumed to have occurred 10 August tion may be a motivating factor when one firsr protests against the now reported moves, there 1945.

HERBERT SAMUEL FULLER, JR., '33, Comdr., are much more weighty reasons which should USN. Died 21 January 1945. (Missing to therefore quiet the present agitarion. determined dead). Enemy action in Asi- RAYMOND B. SWIGERT, '92. Died 5 April Following dinner. Captain Fuller and his 1945. atic Area. Evidence establishing death unstaff guided us through the training center in der Pub. Law 408.

ALFRED BRUNSON WALLACE, '39, Lt. small groups. At each center a specially desComdr., USN. Died 30 July 1945. Killed ignated instrurtor gave us an understandable, JOSEPH SEBASTIAN GRIFFIN, '43, Lt. (jg), informative and brief discussion of the subin action in Asiatic Area.

USN. Died—Presumptive 10 August 1945. ject matter covered at his particular station.

Officially reported to be missing in action as FRANCIS BROOKS WEILER, '39, Lt. ( j g ) , Then quesrions were asked and within a reaof 6 July 1943, having been serving USN. Died 26 March 1942 in Asiaric sonable rime we passed on to the next area. aboard the USS HELENA, when that ship Area, from shrapnel wounds. Enemy acIt is regrettable that our attendance was was torpedoed and sunk during an engagetion. (P. O. W. to Dead). small because those who did come designated ment with enemy ships in the Kula Gulf. the first fall meeting as the most interesting In compliance with Sec. 5 of Pub. Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have oc- J O H N WINDHEIM, JR., '44, Lt. (jg), USN. in which they had participated. We were Killed in an airplane accident 18 Sep- flooded with information concerning the latest curred 10 Aug. 1945. tember 1945 at N. A. T. B., Corpus Christi, training and instrucrion technique in connecTexas. tion with the latest in Navy airplane engines, GEORGE GALLAGHER HART, '44, Lt. (jg), hydraulics, propellers, carburetors, etc.

USN. Died 13 April 1945. Killed off Oki- ARTHUR BERNARD YEATES, JR., '38, Lt., For further information concerning the nawa. Enemy action.

USN. Died—Presumprive 10 August 1945. Chicago Ass'n, please communicate with A. Officially reported to be missing in action Arnold Brand, '14, President, Room 2015, 77 RICHARD LINTNER HELM, '39, Lt., USN. as of 6 July 1943, having been serving W. Washington Street, Chicago, telephone Died—Presumptive 10 August 1945. Ofaboard USS HELENA, when that ship was Central 9892. ficially determined to be missing in action torpedoed and sunk during an engagement as of 6 May 1943, having been serving with enemy ships in the Kula Gulf. In ANGELES aboard the USS PICKEREL, when that ship compliance with Sec. 5 of Pub. Law 490. LOS failed to return from a war patrol in the as amended, death is presumed to have ocThe regular monthly dinner and meeting Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with curred 10 August 1945. was held at the Los Angeles Athleric Club on

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Wednesday evening 5 September. About 25 members and guests were present. Among those present was Qiff Johnson, "32, fresh from his destroyer, then at the Terminal Island Base, and we were privileged to hear some first-hand informarion about the recent phases of the war and parricularly the Jap suicide airplanes.

The speaker for the evening was Mr. Geoffrey Morgan, narionally known lecturer of over 20 years' experience, who was present through the courtesy of the Douglas Aircraft Company, with whose Department of Industrial and Public Relarions Mr. Morgan is associated. His enhghtening talk on '"The Shape of Wings to Come" has been presented to well-known clubs and civic groups throughout the country and we felt fortunate, indeed, to have him with us. His clear and concise reasoning with respect to the future of aviation was very much enjoyed by all.

Meerings of the Los Angeles Branch will conrinue to be held on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the L. A. Athletic Qub. We will probably forego the December meeting in favor of our customary get-together for luncheon (with wives) on the day of the Army-Navy football game — 1 December.

For further information concerning the Los Angeles Association please communicate with W. Clare Ennis, president of Los Angeles Assodation, 444 Homewood Road, Los Angeles.

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MARYLAND

G. W. McComb, F. W. Conway, John W. Cable, III, J. Leonard Power, and others.

Members in attendance were — Franklin D. Karns, '95; Sinclair Gannon, '00; Paul L. Holland, '08; Philip Hambsch, '09; Morris D. Gilmore, "11; Clayton Demarest, Jr., '19; Erik L. Anderson, '20; Captain Charles O. Humphreys, '22, USN, Director of Athletics, U. S. N. A.; J. C. Lester, '22; John T. Waldhauser, Jr., '23; John B. Poore, '25; Charles S. Silsbee, '25; Harry R. England, '27, Secretary of U. S. N. A. Alumni Association; Delano J. Fitzgerald, '27; W. Beverly Bristor, '27; Frederick A. Weiss, Jr., '30; Oliver N. Fowler, '33; John P. Zuris, '39, and others.

Meetings are held on the Tuesday nearest the fifteenth of the month, and a cordial welcome is extended to all Alumni. ^For further information concerning the Maryland Association please conmiunicate with Erik L. Anderson, '20, Secretary, 3061 Crossland Ave., Baltimore, 13, Maryland.

NEW YORK The September Luncheon Meeting of the Naval Academy Association of New York, Inc., was held on 12 September at 12 P. M., at the Midday Club, 25 Broad St., N. Y. C. Captain Apollo Soucek, '21, USN, Commanding USS FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT, and Com-

mander E. E. Miller, USNR, were guest speakers at this meeting. For further information concerning the New York Association please communicate with Robert B. Parker, '18, 71 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

SAN FRANCISCO

Our September Dinner-Meeting was held A new place, the Main Officers' Mess, on the evening of the 18th at 7 o'clock in the Stafford Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, with Treasure Island, and a new day of the month a large attendance of friends and members —the first Thursday—marked our regular On this occasion we were especially pleased monthly dinner meeting which was held 6th to have four guest speakers—Comdr. Oscar September, with Haller Belt, '08, president, E. Hagberg; '31, USN; E. E. "Rip" (as his presiding. The larger-than-average attendance friends like to call him) Miller; Lt. Edward of 68 at this first post-war meeting highly apErdelatz, USNR; Lt. (jg) Charles Purvis, Droved the chanees pnd joined in thanks to USNR; Varsity Head Coach, Line Coach, End Commodore R. W. Cary, Commander, TadCoach and Asst. Backfield Coach, respectively, cen, Treasure Island.

Best wishes for a happy birthday were exat U. S. Naval Academy. Basing thpir talk on Football in General, the interested listeners pressed for Clyde King, who was unable to soon captured the football spirit of the en- attend because his wife was honoring him with thusiastic speakers, who gave a fine sketch of a birthday party.

Our guest speaker was Comdr. Eric L. this season's prospects on the gridiron. Among the guests present, besides our speakers, were Barr, Jr., USN^ '34, (son of Comdr. Eric A. Lament Loucks, Iowa State, '23; Dr. M. M. Barr, '11, a submarine skipper in World War Whitehurst, P. T. Malby, Oliver B. Wight, I), whose subjea was "Submarine Patrols."

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Comdr. Barr, the commanding officer of USS BLUEGILL, put that submarine in commission 19 months ago, on Armistice Day, 1943, and immediately put to sea. Just recently he brought her back here for overhaul. Modestly, he outlined each of the six combat patrols which the BLUEGILL made, indicating their locale on a chart of the Western Pacific. He told of torpedo attacks on shipping, of hundreds of depth charges dropped near the BLUEGILL, of frequendy being forced down by enemy aircraft, of co-operating between submarines and the assistance rendered by friendly planes, of gun duels, and even of capmring an island and raising the American flag over it. In the background, hung up on the wall, was the special flag flown by the BLUEGILL on entering and leaving port. On this flag were smaller Japanese flags representing ships sunk—5 combatant vessels and 12 merchant ships.

Among the guests we were pleased to have with us were the following: Comdr. Eric L. Barr, Jr., USN, guest speaker.

Cyril H. Cane, British Consul General.

Jan Oostermeyer, Shell Oil Company.

Col. C. W. Thomas, USA-Ret. Lt. Col. T. N. Arnett, Georgetown, "39.

Capt. James A. Bull,, (SC), USN-Ret., Sewanee, '00.

Capt. R. W. Schumann, (SC), USN-Ret., Hobart '04.

Capt. G. P. Smallman, (SC), USN-Ret. Comdr. E. Danielson, USN-Ret. Comdr. O. V. Calhoun, (MC), USNR. Lt. Comdr. Henry Gibbons, (MC), USNR. Lt. Maynor B. Shove, USNR. Cadet Midshipman Larry Marbourg, son of Ned Marbourg.

Richard M. Bates, Pennsylvania. '11.

Alan Ferguson.

Philip H. Pierson, MD. Empey A. Robertson, Yale, '08.

Horace Guittard.

• Jesse McCargar.

Joe McCool.

Theodore Roach.

Frank Shaughnessey.

Members present included the following: T. W. Greenslade, '99: H. M. Gleason, '99; H. W. Osterhaus, '00: W. H. Sh»a, '00; C. W. Fisher, '01: A. B. Court. '05; James L. Hall, '07: J. B. Howell. '07; Haller Belt. '08; C. M Dolan, '08; C. G. McCord, '11; John Falge, '12; Ben Perlman, '12; R. W. Cary, '14; S. C.

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Cleveland Diesel Engine Div. General Motors Corp

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National Electrical Machine Shops, Inc

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Pan American Navigation Service

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Stengel, '14; Paul S. Goen, '16; J. H. Conyne, '17; Ned Marbourg, '17; E. J. Moran, '17; T. D. Ross, '17; R. G. Rhoton, '19; J. Y. Dannenberg, '22; Joseph H. Graham, '22; C. L. Helber, '22; David B. Justice, '22; A. L. Toney, '22; T. E. Boyce, '23; Allen Bres, '23; E. R. Duncan, '23; E. A. Cunningham, '24; F. J. Grandfield, '24; George W. Mortenson, '27; Spalding Trafton, Jr., '27; E. P. Burton, '28, J. J. Spilker, '28; A. M. Gray, '29; Edw. M. Bingham, '31; E. M. Brown, '31; S. E. Nelson, '31; Gordon A. Uehling, '31; F. U. Weir,

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Our San Francisco dinner meetings are held monthly at the Main Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on the first Thursday of every month. All Navy alumni and their friends are welcome and are cordially invited to attend.

For information please communicate with Haller Belt, '08, Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Francisco, 4; Telephone Garfield 0695.

The Naval Academy Association of Washington, D. C , had a Beer-Stag Party at the Army-Navy Club at Farragut Square and I Streets, N. W., Thursday, 27 September 1945.

We missed not seeing you but know you are very busy with the thousand and one details concerning the opening of our new Alumni House on Saturday the 13 th of October. We discussed the plans for the Centenary, by the way, and many of us will be there for the big celebration.

Lt. Rudy Ashton, USMS, brought some excellent Navy films to the party, for which we are very grateful, and except for that there was no formal entertaining窶馬o dancing girls. We consumed a barrel of beer and pounds of that salty dry stuff which makes you thirsty for more beer, but the Club was good enough to supply us a room with a Head so no casualties were had. There were lots of good stories being told and listened to and lots of good news concerning postwar plans of those leaving the Navy or Goverimient as the case may be.

Thirty-eight stalwarts braved the rain and the wrath of their "Mates" to attend. I am listing them below in case their wives are checking up in SHIPMATE, but 1 hasten to add that some of the names, although written, I am sure, in perfectly legible handwriting, now appear to have been but a dozing stenographer's shorthand or the marks of a happy drunk.

(And by the way, 1 am no stenographer!)

Bill Bullis, '24; Harrison Ethridge, '27, Lt. Comdr. USNR; Tom C. King, '27; Charles L. Willard, Jr., '30, Lt., USNR; J. H. Howard, '30, Comdr., USN; E. P. Dorner, '30; WiUiam G. Tisdale, '30; T. J. Hurd, Jr., '30; Comdr.

Richardson, '31, USN; Mel T. Young, '32; G. D. O'Brien, '33, Lt. Comdr., USNR; Frank E. Johnson, '34; F. D. Bradley, '34; Bob H. Milbrath, '34, Comdr., USN; L. R. Becht, '34; James B. Eppes, '35; Reginald C. Power, '35; George L. Powell, '35; Hoch Reid, Lt., USNR (Guest); C. G. Blackwell (Guest); R. A. Buddeke, Lt. Comdr., USNR (Guest); D. M. Paul, '36, USNR and Guest; Howard S. Westin, '35, Comdr., USN; Mark H. Jordan, '37, Lt. Comdr., USN; Farrington, '37, Lt Comdr., USN; Joseph L. Walker, '37, Lt., USN (Ret.); A. M. Johnson, Lt. Comdr. and Guest; Rudy Ashton, Lt., USMC; Keen, '37; States Mead, '37; C. Stein, Jr., '37; Guy Anderson, '37; B. S. Rogers, '37; Ted Gibson, '37, Comdr., USN; Gay, '37, Comdr.; Byrnes, '37; K. H. Northrup, "37.

Our program of monthly "Third Thursday" Luncheons at the Roger Smith Hotel at 12:30 p.m. begins on Oaober 18th. Our speaker will be announced in a few days and we expect he will be on a par with the other excellent speakers our President, R. Adm. C. H. Woodward, secures for us. By the way, we may lose our President in a couple of months, as he expects to be retired. Atlanta, Georgia will benefit and our loss will be keenly felt.

P.S.: Larry R. Becht, '34, will be our Secretary now that A. E. Tarantino, Comdr., USMS, '35, is stationed in New London.

Larry's address is Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C, Phone EXecutive 4600. Get in touch with him to be put on our mailing list and pay your dues for '45-'46.

Reported by George L. Powell, '35, Vice President.

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