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^he Saturday Evening Post has been the magazine which has carried most • Lt. Comdr. Philip Gustafson's articles prior to oiir publication of "FLTLOSCAP" in this issue. However, SHIPMATE readers may remember his story of the work of CVE's in our Aviation Issue last year. In the Post in recent months have appeared two memorable contributions

by Lt. Comdr. Gustafson: an account of Japanese defense plans in the event we lad been forced to undertake an invasion of their home islands; and a series of interviews with Japanese Admirals, who told freely why they lost the war at sea and who answered many a question which perplexed allied military analysts throughout the war. "FLTLOSCAP," the lead article in this issue, like the Saturday Evening Post features, grew out of an extensive trip of investigation in Japan carried on by Lt. Comdr. Gustafson immediately after the cessation of hostilities. It tells the story of one of the most unusual duties ever assigned a fighting Admiral—that of putting an enemy fleet back into operation after working for four years to put it out of operation.

Many of the picmres which illustrate "FLTLOSCAP" were brought back by the author. an early issue. SHIPMATE plans -*• to publish still another article resulting from Lt Comdr. Gustafson's Japanese trip. It will relate in some detail the composition of Jap air power at the end of the war, telling wherein Jap planes excelled and wherein- they failed so utterly that our evenmal control of the Pacific air was inevitable. Phil Gustafson is pre-eminently qualified to turn out such a piece not only by virtue of his first-hand observation, but because of his personal experience. Before the war he was a member of the public relations staflF of one of the largest aeronautical manufacturing concerns, and he served for a time in the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy. About to be put on inactive duty as this issue goes to press, Gustafson plans to live in New York City and free-lance for various magazines.

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TJ"ANSON Baldwin is, of course, •*• familiar to anyone interested in Naval affairs. Military editor for the New York Times, he has been one of the foremost writers on naval matters (Continued on page 27) MARCH,

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The Navy on Capitol Hill—By Fred Lardner FLTLOSCAP—By USNR

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"Naval Covers"—A Novel Hobby—By Robert Murch, USN

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T h e Cat's Tale—By Lieut.

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Fire in T u r r e t Two—By Hanson

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Atomic Naval Warfare

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What About The Atomic Bomb?—Opinion of An Air Power Man—The Coming Experiments—The Army-Navy Merger— The Navy's Opinion—^What Will Congress Do?

By Fred Lardner "VUTHAT will be the size of the postW war Navy? How many officers will the U. S. Navy need? What are the chances for promotion? If you are unduly worried about such questions, blame two factors newly connected with the naval situation—the atomic bomb and the proposed merger of armed services. It seems probable that answers to such questions will not be forthcoming until die effect of the atomic bomb on naval craft has been determined and until Congress has acted on merger legisladon.

President Truman has asked Congress to prepare merger legislation, and in his message the President indicated he prefers the Army plan of consolidation. But the Senate Mihtary Affairs Committee, chosen to originate the bill, hasn't submitted anything at this writing (January 28), and Congress seems in no hurry to get going on this subject.

Atomic bomb plans are more definite.

Tests will be made in May to determine the effect of bomb explosions on naval craft, particularly surface craft.

What About The Atomic

Bomb?

"No one knows the ultimate effect of atomic power and rocket propulsion on navies as we now conceive them. The conclusion of anyone at this time is no more than a guess, for the answer will be a long time in evolving and it does not exist now except in terms of rarefied and nebulous speculation. Nevertheless, the mission of the United States Navy is to control the seas which are important to our security by whatever weapons are most effective, and as yet there is no indication that the control of the seas can be effected with atomic bombs and rocket bombs to the exclusion of a Navy.

"Certainly, the atomic bomb does not immediately destroy the usefulness of all navies now in existence," the report stated. "The atomic bomb is still a bomb requiring land planes or carrier-based planes to deliver it. The best offense against it is intercepting air power. If we were to give away our fleet and rely wholly on the atomic bomb we would lose control of the seas. Therefore, there can be no doubt about the necessity for the continuation now of a modern Navy, it carrier forces, its surface and submarine forces, and its amphibious arm capable of taking and holding beachheads. "^"There can be no question that the atomic bomb is the most destructive force yet devised by man. But history shows that the science of warfare has always developed an effective counter measure for every new instrument of destruction. There are indications that an effective counter measure to atomic bombs has been developed to such an extent that they can be exploded far short of their objective without the necessity of locating their position.

Knowledge of electronics promises ability to detonate atomic bombs at great distances by radio. Such interceptive defense can be effected at the greatest distance from our shores by the Navy.

That Congress is fuUy aware of the possible effea the atomic bomb may have on the Navy, is apparent in the report of the House Naval Affairs Committee on House Con. Res. 80, introduced "to announce the sense of Congress as to the composition of the postwar Navy."

This resolution raises two basic questions: first. Should we maintain a Navy after this war; and, second. If so, what size should the Navy be?

"Prior to the advent of the atomic bomb the first question would have been ridiculous," the House committee reported. "However, some opinion has been expressed that the Navy is the principal casualty of the atomic bomb—that "The claim that scientific development die rocket bomb and the atomic bomb has made the Navy obsolete is not new. have so devastated space as to eliminate {Continued on page 24) , the necessity of a Navy.

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FLTLOSCAP, Rear Adm. John J. Ballentine, USN, (head of table) confers with Rear Adm. K. Nakamoura, Japanese naval liaison officer, Capt. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, U S N (right) and Nakamoura's adjutant, at left, on fate of Jap ships and resuming operations.

flTlOSClP That was the otflcial designation of John Ballentine, whose job it was to destroy the Jap Navy with one hand and put it back together again with the other

By Philip Gustafson T N Tokyo, as our occupation got under way, an American admiral began resurrecting the Japanese navy. Few other admirals had been more diligent in knocking the Japanese fleets apart than this naval aviator who drew the job of putting the pieces back together again.

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out a sign which read: FLTLOSCAP. Not ETAOIN SHRDLU. FLTLOSCAP! It wasn't Japanese, either, just good old U. S. Navy dehydration. People got around the tonsil-twister by pronouncing it "floatoscap," if they pronounced it at all. Later, they just said "Ballentine."

For FLTLOSCAP was Rear Admiral John J. Ballentine, USN, of Yorktown, Virginia. His sign stood for Fleet Liaison OflEcer, Supreme Commander, Allied Powers.

"I never worked so hard for my own navy as I'm working for the Japs," Ad-

miral Ballentine told me in Tokyo as he took an evening off to relax and talk about his job. In those first few weeks after the surrender, the admiral was busier than a company of homesick Marines in a souvenir store. For, improvising with the small group of specialists available—ten officers and ten enlisted men—FLTLOSCAP supervised the resumption of operations by the Japanese merchant and fishing fleets, demobilization of Japanese personnel and disarmament of installations, including the destruction of suicide boats, submarines and aircraft. The prize job, however.

These vessels, shown in Yokosnka Harbor, including giant sub, are bnt a few of the many tagged for destruction in stripping Jap war power.

was the recommissioning of the Japanese warships—those that were left. Why recommission enemy warships.'' Mainly to bring Japanese nationals back to the home islands, since the merchant ships were not available and could not be spared for the job.

Admiral Ballentine's work has recendy been taken over by his chief of

staff. Captain Henri H. Smith-Hutton, USN, known as an expert on Japanese matters, but the operations of FLTLOSCAP still continue pretty much as set up by their originator. Admiral Ballentine, meanwhile, has a special assignment on the other side of the world—on the mihtary staff committee of the UNO Security Council.

Yes, this monster is a submarine, the Jap SS 1400, largest of its kind. Note AA guns. Schnorkel gear, radar and sound gear.

A LTHOUGH he was kept pretty bu^ -^*- taking over the defeated Jap navy and getting enemy craft under way again.

Admiral Ballentine hadn't exacdy been sitting around with his feet on the desk while the U. S. Navy was sinking the Japanese fleets. Just before he came to Tokyo, FLTLOSCAP was COMCARDIV 7 (Commander, Carrier Division 7).

Rear Admiral John J. Ballentine, USN, snapped on the bridge as he directed air operations against the Japanese whUe war was on.

Photo by Dave Johnson

Among the Jap naval types destroyed were midget subs. Some of these had been converted to suiciders with explosive warheads.

CARDIV 7 was so secret that a war correspondent couldn't repeat oiie of its wardroom jokes without going through the Washington censor. Since the surrender it can be told that this was the first night carrier task group for Task Force 58, whose planes flew by radar to guard the fleet against aerial torpedoes and sock Jap airfields from Kyushu to

Hokkaido. Night carrier operation was one of the hottest projects in the Navy's master mind department and they always tried to pick a fairly crafty fellow to run it.

Admiral Ballentine knows his way around pretty well in about all the departments of U. S. Naval Aviation. He ought to. He was one of the Navy's first

Large numbers of midget subs were scheduled in the Japanese naval buUding program, were declared largely defensive in purpose.

flying admirals, getting his wings in 1920.

One of his first jobs was helping test and develop the Norden bomb sight.

When Carl Norden, as Navy consultant, designed his first bomb sight in 1923, Ballentine put it through its original tests at the Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Virginia, and later tried out the first production models. He worked

FLTLOSCAP unearthed this trainer for Jap suicide pilots who were to meet their end in Baka bombs against our vessels.

Photo by Dave Jobnsoo Another type of Jap naval craft earmarked for Davy Jones were these suicide boats, \vith speed of 30 knots and hulls of light pl3rwood.

on further tests in the ensuing three years he spent at Dahlgren and returned there in 1928 to put in three more years testing advanced models of the bomb sight.

In 1927 and 1928, he had two tours of temporary duty as special Naval attache in Tokyo inspecting Japanese naval aviation facihties. He foimd the Japanese Navy much more advanced in aviation than most American military men had thought.

Though he's had a lot of good jobs since he first became a naval aviator. Admiral Ballentine looks back with the most pride on his command of the Essex class carrier, USS BUNKER HILL. He took her through Rabaul, the Gil-

berts and Marshalls, and started her well on the way to becoming one of the three or four contenders for the tide "Queen of the Flat-Tops."

Lean, bald and thin-faced, the admiral looks a htde hke an amiable eagle. His men liked to compare him to Captain Horatio Hornblower because of his coolness in action. They still tell about the time the BUNKER was under dive bomber attack at Rabaul and her captain stood calmly squinting along the Jap's trajectory until just the right moment to call "Full left rudder" and avoid the bomb cleanly. Even a Kamikaze, said his later crews, couldn't make him remove that cigarette danghng from his lips.

The Japanese were well advanced in jet propulsion, as evidenced by this newest type special suicide plane shown in empty factorj'.

After CARDIV 7, Admkal Ballentine was due to get a day task group, but came the Jap surrender and he got orders to report to General MacArthur at Manila for duty in Japan. General MacArthur landed on the Atsugi air strip at 2 pjn. August 30. Admiral Ballentine landed at 2:15. Alone and unescorted, he and his chief of staff. Captain SmidiHutton, drove cross coimtry that night to the Yokosuka Naval Base, where the U. S. Marines had landed.

"We were the first Americans to make that trip," the Admiral recalls, "and 1 couldn't help thinking how fantastic the simation was. Bayonets lined the roads (Continued on page 25)

Part of the demilitarization policy carried on by FLTLOSCAP was the burning of these Japanese Kamikaze naval planes.

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The seagoing postmarks of fighting ships are collectors' items

By Robert W. Murch, USN ASHORE and afloat one of the most -'^'popular but least pubhcized hobbies is that of naval cover collecting, a hobby devoted to the collection and study of naval postmarks. For those unfamiliar with the stamp collector's parlance, a "naval cover" is the term apphed to an envelope which has passed through the mad and bears postal markings of naval and philatehc interest. Although the first naval post office was established in August, 1908 aboard die USS MICHIGAN, naval cover collectors were few and far between until 1932 when President Roosevelt made the nation both Navy and stamp minded. That the President's interest in naval covers ran high is evidenced in the many to be found in his large and varied stamp collection.

From 1932 until mail censorship regulations were put into effect on 7 December 1941, no better history of the United States Navy can be found than in looking through the albums of the naval cover collectors. Keels were laid, ships were launched and commissioned, shakedown cruises made to South America or Europe, while other units of the fleet were dispatched to Mediterranean or Far Eastern ports to safeguard American interests—all these events can be traced from the large and colorful postmarks applied to ship mad by industrious and sometimes imaginative Navy mail clerks.

Until 7 December, 1941 every United States naval vessel having postal facilities aboard, cancelled the mail with the standard cancelling equipment provided by the Post Office Department. The most common form of postmark used was the MARCH,

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large circular handstamp with three cancelling bars, containing the ship's name in the circle and changeable type setting allowing for the insertion of the date and location of the ship. In this connection, collectors particularly prize covers cancelled at such strange out of the way seaports as Saigon, Indo China or Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In some rare instances, the ship's position has been postmarked in terms of Latitude and Longimde.

A close smdy of several dozen assorted envelopes bearing ships' postmarks will disclose the fact that many types of postmarks exist. These were first classified and listed in an illustrated article appearing in the American Philatelist in 1929.

The author, appropriately, was a Naval officer, the late Lieutenant-Commander Francis E. Locy, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. In 1939, a 150-page catalogue was published, listing and pricing all the types of naval postmarks as used aboard the various ships, starting with the fleet tug ACUSHNET and ending with the destroyer ZEILIN.

T N the early 1930's, before the Post -•• Office Department issued strict regulations to navy mail clerks concerning the proper cancelling and handling of mail, many ships used original and ornate cancelling devices created by the mail clerks.

Most of these artistic markings found on envelopes today are in the form of nautical figures and patriotic designs. Amon^ the more famous of these cancellations are the following: -Coiled Sea Serpent—USS N O R T H A M P TON

Eagle and Flag—USS NORTHAMPTON Life Ring and Palm Tree—USS RICHMOND

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Ship's wheel—USS BROOKS Fouled Anchor—USS BROOME Anchor Chain and Stars—USS MARYLAND King Kamehameha — USS HONOLULU Indian figurehead—USS TUSCALOOSA Stars and Bars—USS BLACKHAWK Heart—USS FAIRFAX

In addition to fancy postal markings, a vast majority of collectors' mail also bears privately applied descriptive markings termed "cachets." Many mail clerks had their own cachet marking feamring a cut of the ship, which they applied to collectors' mail on special holidays or upon request. Other cachets for fleet weeks, visits, maneuvers, launchings, etc., are to be found on covers and souvenir envelopes supplied by Chamber of Commerces, civic organizations, and ship yards.

Like in any other recognized hobby the laws of supply and demand have created a brisk market for desirable covers and many a collector has cast a 3c stamp on the waters with a high rate of remrn. For example, a collector taking the trouble to stamp and address a cover to himself in March of 1939 for forwarding to the new submarine SQUALUS for

cancellation, now possesses a cover selling from five to ten dollars. (Explanation—the SQUALUS foundered while on trial runs off the New Hampshire coast and was subsequendy raised, re-commissioned, and re-named USS SAILFISH. Covers from the SAILFISH post office are numerous but SQUALUS covers are scarcer than the proverbial hen's teeth.)

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THE c m TILE

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

PART TWO ' I 'HE flight from San Diego to Kane-*- ahe was routine—we subsequendy learned. As far as we were concerned, it was a routine we could just as well do without.

Soon after take-off the sun set, the stars came out, and it got damned cold. Then

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star . . ."

it got colder. It continued to get colder all night. We sat huddled in the plane, wrapped like Navajo Indians in woolen blankets, drinking gallons of coffee, and smoking like fiends fresh from hell. That is, we smoked after our hull tanks were empty and the plane was free of gas fumes—before that we just sat and wondered how soon the plane would explode.

We also wondered if we had enough gasl when the engines would quit, and did the navigator know where we were.

The automatic pilot flew the plane, while we took star sights for the navigator to work out—which he did with hands that shook like a reducing machine.

His figures resembled Babylonian cuneiform, but he managed to plot in enough 14

fixes to keep us located. When he wasn't computing how far we still had to go and looking dolefuhy at the hourly fuel report, he was giving himself the hotfoot to get warm and singing mnelessly: "Twinkle, twinkle, htde star.

How I wonder what you are— Beedejuice or Bellatrix?

If I knew I'd get a fix.

Then I'd know wher 'n hell we are.

Twinkle, rwinkle, htde star."

Sometime after midnight the Jap propaganda to which we had been listening on our voice radio was interrupted by a frantic message from the number rwo plane in the seaion.

"Hello seven three," they called, "this is six one. My engines are cutting out.

Over."

"This is seven three," we replied. "The Commander said get out and push. Comply. Over to you."

Our witty repartee was received with ill grace. In fact, if the Federal Communications Commission heard their rejoinder they probably learned fulsome details of what we could do to ourselves. It was undoubtedly a slug of air in their fuel system which caused their engines to cut out. because they picked up and ran beautifully the rest of the night, but they never did forgive us our helpful suggestion. No sense of humour.

After a while—a long while—the sun came up behind us. It was a dull red sun and looked like my co-pilot's left eye, but we expected at least a little more warmth after its arrival. We didn't set any, but from then on we could see the whitecaps below, and could speculate on our chances of finishing the trip in a rubber boat. According to the hourly positions reported by one of the planes, and the fuel on board reported by the other, somebody was going swimming, and it wasn't going to be off the beach of iWaikiki.

About the rime we were trying to cut hrough the fur on our t.^eth with hydrohloric acid—grapefruit jaice the com-

missary steward at San Diego had called it—one of the lookouts said: "Sir, the spots before my ^ e s are beginning to look like an island." were beginning to OURgrowowntreesspots and gush water-falls, too, so we agreed it must be Molokai or Oahu, and we coidd deflate our rubber boat.

We landed sometime before noon— about seven minutes or so. It had us nineteen hours to make it, and way we felt it woidd take nineteen i before we would have strength eno to crawl from the plane. It was a lo night—chasing the sun — and ne freezing to death hadn't helped much to' pass it.

W e were welcomed royally at Kaneohe. Before they would let any of us leave the plane they closed all the windows and hatches and sent in a sadist from the Medical Department to spray the plane with insecticide. Judging by the way he charged around blowing arsenic in our eyes we were convinced he suspected us of harboring a choice collecrion of Japanese beetles inoculated with blackwater fever.

When we finally got to bed, which was several hoius later and after we had filled out discrepancy sheets, arrival reports, weather forms, and various other green, violet, and pink forms, we slept for eighteen hours. W e had so much coffee in our systems by then that we probably jerked like Mexican jumping beans in our sleep, but not even the poker game in the next room could keep us awake.

After the whole squadron arrived at Kaneohe we commenced training, concentrating on what we considered completely useless acrivities — masthead bombing and free gimnery, with an occasional torpedo exercise thrown in for variet)'. Our Intelligence Officer, too, be-

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came energetic, and took great pains to point out the principal anti-aircraft weapons of Japanese warships; but we seaetly assured ourselves that we'd never get close enough to a Yoshida class destroyer to count its mrrets, so we listened politely and watched the clock. Our assurances, as it subsequendy developed, were based {Continued an page 32)

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Investigating possible nse of disease as a weapon, Naval Medical Research Unit No. 1 made peacetime gains also.

mmu WITH mauu Now it can be told that the Navy was studying man-made epidemics as a weapon of war ' T ' H E aura of mystery which for two not lifted altogether. disclosure of the mission performed by a -*- and one-half years has surrounded a Announcement of joint Army, Navy smallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but critically importantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Naval seaet Navy project on a West Coast uni- and civdian cooperative research in the command known prosaically as Naval versity campus has now been pierced, if field of biological warfare finally permits {Continued on page 33) An antopsy is held on one of the animals infected during the course at NAMRU ONE. Note protective masks worn by laboratory men.

Resembling a "Man from Mars" a man wearing a protective suit goes about his duties.

By Hanson W. Baldwin

In those morning papers of Friday the thirteenth, on the same front pages that announced "Coolidge and Dawes Nominated." tragedy stared in 36 pt. type: EXPLOSIONS KILL 48 ON USS MISSISSIPPINEW BLAST FEARED. Thus the nation learned of the worst turret disaster in modern naval history, the detailed story of which never has been told heretofore. The following account is based on the proceedings of the naval court of inquiry into the disaster, which were made avculable to the author recently. The quotations are from the official record of the court or from appended documents. ' ^ / ^ O M M E N C E Firing! Commence ^ - ' Firing!"

Hoists of bright bunting leaped from the flagbags of Batdeship Division Four; observers aboard the TENNESSEE, IDAHO

and MISSISSIPPI looked at their stop watches, noted the time. It was 11.34.19 AJM., 12 June, 1924.

The great ships heeled to the shock of the first salvo; the thunder of the gims ratded the window panes of San Pedro mdes away. Far to seaward near the circhng hem of the horizon spotters saw the spout of shell splashes tower crystal white into the air. Another salvo roared; California sunshine sifted through the clouds of powder smoke, sparkled on the slow Pacific rollers and dusted the brown hills of San Clemente with gold. The ships were firing Advanced Target Practice B, a routine exercise.

In the steel-armored mrrets, barearmed men work with the precision of machines. A dull concussion and a jarring shock which jostles the turrets and the men inside them like peas in a pot.

Recoil! The huge shining breeches of the 14-inch guns jerk backwards on their sUdes deep into the gun pits, then slam back to battery. Before they are still their crews go into action. The gun breeches come up from the pits as the guns are depressed from firing to loading positions. The plugmen twirl gleaming handles, open the breech blocks, insert fresh 16

11.40 h-M..—the searing flame of a turret explosion snuffed out the hves of forty-eight officers and men.

Those few of the crowded turret's crew who hved remembered later that Death puffed out of the open breech of the righr gun in a "small, greyish ball of smoke and flame, followed by a large flash of flame."

The seventh salvo had been fired; the three 14-inch guns of Turret Two dropped to loading posirion, and the plugs were opened. Again the hiss of compressed air as the gas ejection system blew into the breeches, the clatter of spaimer trays dropping into position, the rumble of the shells, the whirring lash of the rammer.

In the turret officer's booth in the rear of the steel-cased turret, 25-year-old Lieutenant Thomas Edward Zellars watched his men working through the peep doors of his steel-hned cell. The turret—divided into three compartments for greater safety, one for the right gun, one center, one left gun—^was jammed with men, the regular gim crews, each working against rime to slam home the great shells and the propelling powder; the official NEW M E X I C O observers; and seven unofficial observers from other starions aboard the A BOUT every forty seconds a broadside MISSISSIPPI there to see a crack crew in -^*- roared from each of the three ships, acrion. steaming off San Qemente that June day.

With Zellars in the turret were EnAboard the MISSISSIPPI the third salvo sign Marcus Erwin, Jr., his jtmior officer; was timed about 11.36, but observers Ensign William G. McCrea, observer noted that the left gun of Turret Two from the N E W MEXICO; Chief Turret fired premarurely, while the gun was still Captain Frank J. Rynes, and the regular in the loading position with the firing turret crew. In the upper powder hancircuit open. Ensign Julian J. Levasseur, dhng room Boatswain's !Mate Alfred J. one of nine observers from the N E W McBride was in charge, while Ensign MEXICO stationed in Turret Two, noticed Levasseur, the N E W MEXICO observer, the premature discharge; asked one of was stationed on the shell deck below. the shell deck crew if the MISSISSIPPI Far below, in charge of the ammunidon was "firing single guns." supply. Ensign Frank W . Parsons superTurret Two was the "crack turret" of vised the removal of the silk powder bags a smart ship; a white E for excellence in from the magazines and their loading on target praaice glistened on its side; its the lower hoists. crew had been "repeatedly observed" in In the turret, jerking slowly on its drill and during practice firings, and "yet roller bearings as the trainer kept its guns in this model mrret the safety of the swung towards the targets, the load for whole ship was twice put in jeopardy the eighth salvo was being completed. within the space of six minutes." On the The right gun was slow; the center and first occasion fate passed them by. On left guns had completed their loads; plugs the second—the guns were being loaded were dosed and locked; primers inserted; for the eighth salvo and it was almost elevation to firing position had started; primers. Compressed air hisses into the guns, blowing out through the muzzles burning particles of powder, bits of charred silken powder bags. Gun captains sight through the rifled cylinders: "Bore clear!"

Qatter of metal—steel on steel—; the bald glare of the bright bulbs ghstens from the spanner trays arching from the sheU cradles and hoists to the open maws of the great guns. Ogival-nosed projectUes—1,372 pounds of steel, target pracrice "duds"—^roll onto the trays; ghttering snakes — electric rammers — tmcoU themselves and seat the shells snugly in the guns. Powdertnen send up the powder through the flame-proof flaps from the upper powder handling room; shove it home — first bag! — second bag! — third bag!—fourth bag! The spaimer trays fold up; plugmen twirl shut the gun plugs, squeeze back against the white-painted steel; the ready hghts snap on. Swifdy the great, gleaming breeches drop into the pits, as the gun muzzles lift towards the target far away. Ominous pause—and then again the great guns speak with a voice of thunder, tongue of flame.

the guns were ready to fire. On the right gun the shell had been rammed home; the four silk bags holding about 475 pounds of smokeless powder were being shoved into the open breech. The powder car for the right gun was at the "hoisted" position and empty; the powder cars for the center and left guns were lowered; projectiles were in each of the, two shell hoists a few feet from the top. The flameproof flap to the right trunk of the upper powder hoist was not properly adjusted and there was about a three-quarter of an inch opening at the bottom instead of a dose seal. The shell table flaps between the center gun compartment and the two wing compartments had been latched open, a violation of safety precautions for which the mrret crew paid dearly.

Twelve bags of powder—ready for the next load—^were on the table in the upper handling room; there was an almost complete powder train to the lower handling room; four bags of powder were exposed in the lower handling room and the magazine doors were open.

Mate WaUace W. BOATSWAIN'S Keys, the right gun captain, fumbled at the breech of the gun and muttered about something wrong with the compressed air system which controlled the heavy plug. Coxswain Francis Majewski, plugman for the right gun, grasped the breech block by the lever. Chief Turret Captain Rynes, standing just forward of the shell cradle and outboard of the breech and working in a huddled crowd of observers, offered to adjust the reducing valve in the compressed air line to the plug operating gear. As he mrned quickly to reach for a pair of pliers the four silken powder bags rattled across the spanner tray into the open breech, and Death—of a blinding brightness— flashed and flamed from Turret Two's right gun.

Zellars, in his booth, saw the little grey ball of smoke with its core of flame which preceded the main flash, reached towards the mrret officer's sprinkler-control valve, and shouted his last command, forever lost. Rynes half-mrned towards a sprinkler valve, but was jostled on the crowded platform and never made it.

Majewski dove head first "down through the pointer's pit." The flame of Death— of an incredible brightness—clicked hungrily across the mrret. The flash burst through the latched-open shell table flaps to the center, and then to the left gun; it leaped through the peep doors into the mrret officer's booth, and Zellars, his hand on the closed sprinkler valve, moved no more.

The sizzling powder produced great volumes of choking gas, 50 per cent of it carbon monoxide. The yellowish acrid fumes, in sufficient volume to fill the mrret chamber many times over, were MARCH,

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From hitherto nnpublicized records, a noted naval writer reconstrncts one of the Navy's Avorst peacetime disasters.

First of two installments. forced under great pressure into the metal throats of the voice tubes and seeped through the tubes and under the improperly closed flap of the upper powder hoist down into the upper handling room. The explosive gases burst into flame "on coming in contact with fresh air" in the upper handling room, and set off some of the powder lying exposed on the table ready for the next load. With the speed of light 3V2 Hags of the twelve lying on the loading table had flared into flame before Boatswain's Mate McBride could twist the sprinkler valve. The water soaked the remaining powder; the deadly flame in the upper handling room died down; the flash did not reach the powder-filled cars in the lower hoists; McBride had saved the ship. But the yeUowish gas seeped on down from the mrret; the infernal flame scorched flesh and paint and metal. The moving mrret, shut off from the rest of the ship by great slabs of armor, trained on slowly with no man's hand on the training wheel. It moved ponderously to port—two guns elevated, the fatal right one drooping—until it reached its extreme train aft on the port side and brought up against the stops. Inside that steel shell in those few seconds three officers and forty-five men had died in the searing flame and choking gas. For some, "destruction was instantaneous"; for others there was an "appreciable period during which human namre had time to show its quality." Those who were not snuffed out in the first flash of flame either escaped instantly through the hatches in the mrret to the lower levels —and these were but a handful—or died gaspingly within seconds in the choking gas, the terrific heat. Before the mrret had ground against its stops there were none alive in the gun compartments or the mrret officer's booth but only groups of huddled, contorted figures, lying like sheafs of grain, where Death—with its scythe of flaming brightness — had mowed them down.

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INE of those who did escape from the mrret itself were burned—

some terribly seared and scorched, others just touched by the licking flames. Few could give—later on at the investigation -—coherent and complete accounts of the accident and its aftermath. Rynes, the turret captain, who miraculously escaped death in the mrret when the flame from the right gun skimmed past him, remembered being "blinded by the brightness of the flash." Somehow he half fell down the ladder outboard of the right gun to the training deck, but the flame from the burning powder in the upper handling room curled up the right side of his face and body and burned him badly as he escaped. Others dove, slipped, fell and scrambled through hatches and down ladders to the lower handling room; a number escaped downward through the pointer's pit; none had time to undog the heavy armored hatch in the mrret officer's booth and escape to the deck outside.

Flames swept right in front of Coxswain Majewski; "if I had opened my mouth I would have swallowed gas." He dived "down through the pointer's pit" and then jumped down through a small hatch to the shell deck. "There was a bunch of men scrambling there, three blocked in the hatch. McBride (the boatswain's mate) came out of the upper powder handling room and yeUed: "Take your time or all of you will get killed here.' " Majewski, with others, climbed down the ladders from the shell deck to the electric deck and thence to the lower handling room, then making his escape through the watertight door to other parts of the ship.

Coxswain Aloysius J. Ignowski, plugman, center gun: "A powder flame burst from underneath the gun captain's legs... . The first shellman's (W. H. BaU, Seaman, first) clothing was in flames; I grabbed him, and the gun had just started to elevate and I pushed him through underneath the gun to the pointer's pit; then through a small hatch to the training deck. Flames were coming from the right pointer's pit into the training deck. Ball ran towards the flames and before I could get him he was acting like a crazy man, so I hit him in the jaw and knocked him out. Two men were jammed in the hatch leading to the shell deck. I dropped them through and dropped Ball through and smothered his flaming clothing with a jumper." Ignowski mrned Ball over to another man to be taken aft to sick bay, and started back up into the mrret to look for "Beto," second shellman on the center gun. But as he smck his head through the hatch to the training deck a "big flame struck me in the face"; all he could hear was the "sizzling of the burning powder." and Ignowski knew that "Beto" was dead. {Concluded in the April Issue) 17

By J. H. Pearson, USNR

The Lone Wolves were hot stuflf In World War I, but mutual cooperation was what brought down Japs in this conflict TT

w a s Obit. M a x Tmmplmann

cele-

-*• brated German pilot credited with creating the Immelmann Turn of acrobatics, who was the "Washing Machine Charhe" of World War L Just as regidarly as the Emperor's envoy came over Guadalcanal in this war, Immelmaim set the watches of Paris at 5 pjn. in September of 1914.

The Germans were pounding the city's defenses oidy 25 miles away. Every avadable French airplane was at the front. Air raids and home defenses against such attacks were considered of secondary military importance. So without variation, as five o'dock appeared, so did the high hum of Immdrnann's Fdtker.

At first, the terror-stricken Parisians scrambled for shdter until he had tossed his hght bombs over the side and die explosions had subsided. After awhile, they looked upon his daily visits as a show—and target practice. Everyone with a rifle or revolver hterally peppered millions of bullets at him. Machine guns on the Eiffd Tower popped heatedly.

Immelmann disdained to fly above the firing range.

Even in their peril (more from bullets raining down again than the bonJis) the citizens admired his spectacular audacity. For he typified the ideal of pilots at the time—a completely fearless, freelancer of the air. With military aviation still in its infancy, the unlimited advantages of coordinated teamwork in the air had not yet been explored. High-spirited, pilots flew into combat, revehng in the so<alled "sportsmanship" of individual aerial duels.

Examples are endless. For instance, the French citation to a member of die John S. Thach, noted naval flier and originator of the famous "Thach Weave" Ucties.

\m im Lafayette Escadrille reads: "Chapman (Viaor). Corporal pUot of Escadrille 124—^American citizen enlisted for the duration of the war. He is a pilot remarkable for his audacity, constandy hurhng himself upon enemy aeroplanes without regard to their number or their altimde. On 24 May he attacked alone three German machines during which combat he had his dothing cut with many bullets and received a wound in the arm."

Even bomber formations allowed the pUot great latimde to operate independendy if he wished. The basic idea was to churn along to the target together.

When faster planes got ahead, they cirded until their comrades caught up. But if one plane was attacked, the pilot and his crew operated singly. Even if the attacking plane drew away, the pUot could give chase if he thought it worthwhile.

As the war progressed, so did offensive and defensive group tactics. Probably the most famous was the Lufbery Cirde named for American ace Major Raoid Lufbery. By joining tail to tail in a tight circle which couldn't be pierced by the enemy, alhed pdots combined firepower for their protection. It was purdy a defensive tactic, however, that permitted the group to move up or down, but not progress ahead.

By the end of the war, the importance of teamwork was recognized by aerial tacticians. Rene Fonck, ace of the Alhed aces with 75 to his credit, was reported in 1918 by Laurence L. Driggs in his "Heroes of Aviation" to have observed, "Early in the war . . . individual scouting for enemy aeroplanes was successfully practiced by Pegoud, by Garros, Gdbert, and Navarre. Even in the day of Ntmgesser and Guynemer this form of hunting met with some success.

"But when the Germans inaugurated group-flying they taught us something.

Incidentally they made us pay dearly for the lesson. For we had been following an effete method of free-lance combat.

"I am by no means in favor of flying over in big groups like those of the Richtofen squadrons. I prefer to fly in groups of three—a leader and a man behind each wing. I generally fly in this way with two comrades. I like to have other groups of three sufficiendy distant so that they will not hinder the maneuvers of another group yer sufficiently near at hand so that they can understand one another's signals and give help at crucial moments."

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ROSTER OF ACES NAVY

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Comdr. David Campbell, USN Lt. Cecil E. Harris, USNR Lt. Eugene A. Valencia, USNR Lt. Patrick D . Fleming, USNR Lt. Alexander Vraciu, USNR Lt. Charles R. Stimpson, USNR Lt. ( j g ) Ira C. Kepford, USNR I-'*- ( j g ) Douglas Baker Lt. ( j g ) Cornelius N. Nooy, USNR Lt. ( j g ) Arthur R. Hawkins, USNR

Aces David McCampbell (right) and Cecil E. Harris, (left), sign autographs for admirers.

MARINES Maj. Joseph Jacob Foss Lt. Col. Gregory Boyington 1st Lt. Robert M. Hanson Capt. Kenneth A. Walsh Capt. Donald N. Aldrich Lt. Col. John L. Smith Maj. Marion E. Carl Capt. Wilbur J. T h o m a s Capt. James E. Swett Capt. Harold L. Spears ARMY

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Maj. Richard I. B o n g Maj. T h o m a s B . McGuire Lt. Col. John C. Meyer Lt. CoL Francis S. Gabreski Maj. George E. Preddy Maj. Robert S. Johnson Col. Charles H, MacDonald CoL David C. Schilling Lt. Col. Gerald R. Johnson Capt. D o n S. Gentile

The long course to waves of carrier planes attacking under one operational command—to 1000-plane escorts for B-29s—had begun. It was a small beginning, just the dawning of an amazingly successful concept of military coordination.

The 23-year span of experience and development bridged a great gap. They were years in which the Navy perfected split-second timing of fighters, dive bomber and torpedo bomber squadrons working together for taut efficiency. {Continued on page 29)

Above, Ace Eugene A. Valencia. Below, a naval fighter pilot takes off for the kill.

WARDROOM STUFF A DELAWARE River pilot swears "*• •^ that he saw this happen when he was out with a big new submarine on trial runs.

At the end of the runs the boat put in at Delaware Breakwater to land the assembled multimde of brass who wanted to get back to their various Bureaus. The Coast Guard picket boat was a few minutes late meeting them, so the group stood around on deck with the ship's officers in peaceful conversation.

However, the time was 1800 and chow was ready to go down in the wardroom as soon as the brass left the ship. Finally one of t h e n e w steward's mates, fresh from boot camp, could stand the waiting no longer and p r o c e e d e d to the speaker for the PA system.

The Skipper was no litde embarrassed, despite the brass' amusement, when the loud speaker blared out; "Now hear this all you officer .fellas; yo' chow's gittin' cold and y'all come an' git it or I throws it overboard."

—Ray Smith, '34.

galley, heard the commotion and smck his head out to see what went on. Seeing the rwo officers tearing towards him, and hearing the Skipper's cry of warning, he assumed that the Aleutians had finally driven rhe Exec mad. With one jump he grabbed his rolling pin, and with the second he knocked the Exec colder than the proverbial mackerel.

The ship's speed is still unrecorded as of this writing.

—Ray Smith, '34.

In the days before the war, when the Coast Guard cutters patrolled the Bering Sea, their navigation was all done by DR and speed checked by the ancient method of dropping wooden chips from the bow and timing their progress astern.

The weather must have taken a turn for the worst One day the ExecHartwick walking the bridge again. . ."

Navigator wended his way forward, dropped the chip over, and started his stopwatch, and ran astern. The A CPO was on the train crossing the Skipper on the bridge noticed a gang country. One night as he was just dozing of men standing around amidships, so off in his upper berth the young lady in dashed down to clear the way for the the lower tapped lightly on the overNavigator who was racing close behind. head. "Hmff-huh? • As the two officers ran aft, the Skipper "Oh, sir, I'm awfully sorry to bother bellowed out, repeatedly, "Look out for you, but would you mind closing the the Exec. Look out for the Exec." window for me?"

Everything would have been fine, ex"Huh, oh, sure." cept that the ship's cook, working in the So he climbed down, reached in and 20

after a bit of grunting and straining finally managed to get the window dosed.

Then he clambered back up and got settled down again. Just as he was all mcked in and ready to go to sleep, the tap-tap came again.

"Well.?"

"Really, I'm sorry, but you must not have got it closed all the way. There is a draft. Do you mind?"

So down he came again and slammed the window shut.

Ten minutes later he w a s peacefully asleep when a g a i n came the gende tapping.

"Now what.'"

"Really the window must still be open a crack. I'm about to freeze. Do you mind trying again.'"

He poked his head over the side and whispered: "Look, my \ /^'S name is Chief Zabilski. yj j/y Let's pretend we are • *' ' ' married for the night."

Her eyes popped, but she shivered and said, "All right, diat wiU be fine." .

"Then — dose the window yourself!"

—]. W. Leverton.

Jr., '31.

It is alleged that there was great consternation at the Peaily Gates Sunday morning at 0933 (according to QM St. Peter's log) when a naval officer and a minister arrived at the same time.

It seems that when St. Peter, who was I hear O.O.D. at die time, saw the naval officer he became very excited.

He broke out the full guard (Marines imported from Hades for the occasion), the band of Angels, sixteen side Angels, and the gate piped by a man with a golden horn (diere aren't any boatswains' mates in Heaven).

The band played several marches and everything went off in great style (the bandmaster being on leave).

After it was all over, the minister came {Continued on page 29)

iTOMic um mmu A

LOOK into the atomic crystal to see what the future Navy will be.

When the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima last August it opened a vista for more efficient and more powerful navies of the fumre.

The history of navies is a constant sttuggle between ordnance and armor.

Practically every new weapon devised has been integrated into naval arsenals, in principle at least. There may be some exceptions, but in the main, every new discover)' in ordnance has given navies sttonger striking power. That the atom bomb will be no exception is evidenced by the attimde of the top commanders of the United States Navy, who are experimenting, smdying and testing for the best method to incorporate the principles of atomic energy and atomic explosion into rhe Navy.

With the existing developments in electronics, navies are perhaps the best suited of any arm of the service for using atom bombs against the enemy, and they are similarly best suited for defense against the same weapon.

Properly dispersed, defended with weapons firing shells containing atomic warheads, navies are capable of approaching close enough to a target to insure absolute accuracy—guaranteeing that from use of the atomic bomb practically 100 per cent military results will obtain.

This cannot be achieved by shore based aviation and cannot be achieved by ground forces without a great preliminary struggle.

Atomic warfare means that a navy, the only branch of the service capable of complete independent action, could destroy any military objective except those located within the wilds of central Asia or central Africa. A navy capable of containing a prospective enemy within these areas would keep the United States absolutely safe.

Safety of the United States is the basic mission of the United States Navy.

Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, testifying before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, discussed the Navy's mission in these words: "The Navy is a major component of the military strength which this Nation must maintain to defend itself and to discharge its responsibility in the international maintenance of peace. In each of the past two world wars, our enemies failed to control the seas. They were defeated. Their defeat, I believe, was made

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inevitable by their failure to control sea lanes. In the future as in the past the key to victory and to the freedom of this, a maritime nation, will lie in the mastery of the seas and of the skies above them.

Attacks upon us or by us must cross on, over, or under the sea. No enemy can reach us without crossing ocean areas, nor can we reach the enemy; neither can we join with our friends in the international enforcement of peace unless we can move across the sea. Therefore, whether peace comes to depend primarily on international cooperation or whether we must rely principally on our own strength—in either event, we shall need a Navy to discharge its traditional mission: control of the seas and of the skies above them.

tablishments. Ships are difficult and unprofitable targets for atomic bombing because of the degree to which they are mobile in both the strategic and tactical sense. Their ability to disperse makes them wasteful targets for atomic bombs.

Their ability to move makes them almost impossible targets for super rockets.

"The ability of our carrier task forces to prevent penetration by hostile aircraft may make atomic bombing very difficult.

The submarine may be expected to have continued and increased employment in the future. At sea it is relatively immune to atomic bombing and also to radar detection. It may become the most successful vehicle for carrying atomic weapons to within short distances of coastal targets and for ensuring accuracy in the use of "The time may come when war will guided missiles." be waged without the transportation of These two statements from the top cimen or materials or when such transpor- vilian and military men of the Navy inditation can be achieved solely by air. We cate that the sea power of the future will are not presently at the juncture either in make full use of atomic energy and the our plans or our reasonable expectations. atom bomb. They indicate that, as has "So long as men and materials must be been the case with every new weapon for transported by sea, ships will be required fighting wars, the Navy will emerge from and, concomitantly, a Navy adequate to the transition much stronger, with its keep the sea lanes safely open. efficiency greatly increased. What makes "So far as air attack is concerned, there the impact of the atom bomb differ from is a fundamental principle which I be- the impact of previous new discoveries lieve every responsible official of the is its suddenness. The transitions from Government should accept. Security shot to armor piercing shell and from against air attack can only be achieved oar to sail to steam were gradual. These by denying to our potential enemies the were evolutionary developments. Atom base areas from which mass air attacks smashing is revolutionary in its developcan be launched against us. This implies ment, concept and application. the maintenance of an over-all military From existing knowledge and from establishment capable of projecting our existing equipment clues can be found to military power overseas, quickly and decisively. To this end, powerful naval the Navy of the future—a Navy capable of. carrying out everything claimed for forces are essential.

"Atomic power and guided missiles in the atom bomb, with relative immunity no way weaken but rather serve to from attack itself. This does not mean, strengthen this fundamental principle." of course, that fumre naval wars shall be fought without loss to our side. In every war each side figures on losses, but vicAPPEARING before the same commit- tory is achieved by sustaining minimum' • ^ tee. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Ni- losses while inflicting maxitnum losses mitz, Chief of Naval Operations, gave on your enemy. But, based upon the d,;further indication of how the top brass velopment of this new found weapon and envisages the Navy of tomorrow, when source of power, together with further he stated: refinements of the various electronics de"There is no doubt that the use of vices, certain predictions can be made as atomic explosives and other new weapons to the general nature of the Navy of will have a profound effect on the com- tomorrow. position and employment of armies, naIt will be a Navy capable of carrying vies and air forces in the fumre.. .. out the defense of this country without "Ships are, of course, vulnerable to atthe assistance of the long range, shoretack with atomic explosives. So also are based strategic bomber plane. shore air bases, military and naval bases, {Continued on page 28) ground armies, cities and industrial es21

By Capt. E. John Long, USNR preliminary sketches, to be used as bases these pages are arrayed just a few ONoutstanding examples of some of

Admiral Thomas C. Hart, USN-Ret.

Admiral William F. Halsey, USN

the fine portraits painted or drawn by the combat artists of the Office of Pubhc Information during World War U. Exhibited for the first time, as a group, at the Naval Academy Museum in December they attraaed widespread attention, not only for Navy men and their famihes, bur from the general pubhc and art critics as well.

In all, fifty-five portraits were displayed from the 17th of December to the 31st. Nearly a third of them were full oils, the resr being charcoal, pastd and pencd and chalk drawings. The work of three of the six combat artists w a s represented â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lieutenant Commander Dwight Shepler, USNR; Lieurenant Commander Wilham F. Draper, USNR; and Lieutenant Commander Albert K Murray, USNR. The combat artists of the Office of Pubhc Information were sent into fighting zones to obtain, at first hand, graphic picmres of NAVAL ACTION for publicity purposes and for the historical record. Fommately, there was no rule against painting portraits, at sea or in the fidd, of those who made our great Naval and Marine victories possible. This was done where time and circumstance permitted, all portraits becoming the property of the Navy Department.

Many of the drawings are but rough

for more finished portraiture later. But they are induded because they catch some of the courageous confidence and the fighting spirit of the men who hdd "the thin red line" only with a "bow and arrow Navy" in the eady stages of the war, both in the Adantic and in the Pacific These sketches are of value, also, because quite a few of them have been autographed and dated by the subjects themsdves (General Vandegrift, for instance, autographed his portrait on December 1, 1942, the anniversary of Pead Harbor, in his headquarters tent in a bamboo thicket at Guadalcanal).

Induded in the exhibit also was a remarkable group of paintings of the wartime members of the Navy's General Board. These were painted in 194243

by Lieutenant Commander Albert K Murray, USNR., in Washington, while awaiting orders to the Mediterranean command. The portrait of Admiral Halsey was done in his headquarters, at Noumea, by Draper at a time when he was imder great strain,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a tension which the artist has caught on his canvas.

This portrait collection is indeed a valuable addition to the historicd record of the biggest and most cosdy war in which our Navy has ever been engaged.

It is hoped that there will be additions to it as long as the talented artists remain in the naval service.

The subjects exhibited were as fdlows:

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"Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, USN" Lieutenant Commander Alben K. Murray, USNR. "Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR"Admiral Claude C. Bloch, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR. "Admiral Thomas C Hart, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR "Rear Admiral Walton R. Sexton, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR "Rear Admiral Gilbert J. Rowcliff, USN" Lieutenant Commander Alben K. Murray, USNR. "Vice Admiral Richard S. Edwards, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, USNR. "Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, USNR. "Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, USNR "Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR"Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, USNR "Rear Admiral John R. Beardall, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Drapa, USNR "Vice Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR. "Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR. "Captain Thomas L. Gatch, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR

16. "Captain Edward J. Moran, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 17. "Captain Francis J. McKenna, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 18. "Commander Edward C. Kenney, MC, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 19. "Machinist Marshall Lee Shephard, USNR" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 20. "The Helmsman, USS BOISE" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray,

CHARCOAL PORTRAITS 21. "Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 22. "Major General Ralph J. Mitchell, USMC" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 23. "Rear Adimral George L. Weyler, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 24. "Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight Shepler, 25. "Rear Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 26. "Rear Admiral Howard F. Kingman, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 27. "Rear Admiral Arthur G. Robinson, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 28. "Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 29. "Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 30. "Rear Admiral Spencer S. Lewis, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 31. "Rear Admiral Milo F. Draemel, USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, 32. "Rear Admiral Aaron S. Merrill, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 33. "Commodore Cortlandt C. Baughman, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight Shepler, 34. "Captain Andrew D. Mayer, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 35. "Captain Ralph E. Jennings, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 36. "Captain Lewis Corman, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 37. "Captain Harry R. Thurber, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 38. "Commander Cameron Briggs, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 39- "Commander Arthur S. Born, USN" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 40. "Lieutenant Commander John D. Bulkeley, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight Shepler, 41. "Xieutenant Commander Samuel S. Walker, USNR" Lieutenant Commander William F. Draper, 42. "Lieutenant David S. Edwards, Jr., USN" Lieutenant Commander Albert K. Murray, PASTEL PORTRAITS 43. "Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC" Lieutenant Commander 44. "Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, Jr., USN" Lieutenant Commander 45. "Captain Thomas M. Shock, USN" Lieutenant Commander 46. "Colonel Gerald C. Thomas, USMC" Lieutenant Commander 47. "Captain James E. Maher, USN" Lieutenant Commander 48. "Captain Glenn B. Davis, USN" Lieutenant Commander 49. "Commander Allen P. Calvert, USN" Lieutenant Commander

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PENCIL AND CHALK PORTRAITS 50. "Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight 51. "Captain George B. Wilson, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight 52. "Lieutenant Commander David H. Conklin, USNR" Lieutenant Commander Dwight 53. "Lieutenant William D. Okerson, USNR" Lieutenant Commander Dwight 54. "Lieutenant Colonel James J. Dugan, USMCR" Lieutenant Commander Dwight 55. "Commander James P. Compton, USN" Lieutenant Commander Dwight

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termine whether surface naval craft are practical. Well, General Groves, like some other Army men, may be prone to forget that the "Navy took "em over . . . and the Navy will bring them back."

Those words, part of a song originated in World War I, may be just as appropriate in World War III, if it comes.

In the February issue of Readeis Digest. Major Alexander P. de Seversk)% who as special consultant to Secretat)' of War Patterson investigated all kinds of war destruction in Europe and Asia, says that the destructive power of the atomic bombs used in Japan was overrated. "If dropped on New York or Chicago, one of those bombs would have done no more damage than a ten-ton blockbuster; and the results in Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been achieved by about 200 B-29's loaded with incendiaries, except that fewer Japanese would have been killed," Major de Seversky wrote.

Not so long ago we heard it from the air power enthusiasts. Yet who can deny the effectiveness of the Navy in the past war? Air power could neither replace, nor make secondar)-, sea power. Instead the Navy converted air power to make itself a more powerful and new tj'pe of Nav)' with its striking carrier forces. Is there any reason to believe that the power of the atomic bomb cannot so be converted?

"Until it is proved that the atomic bomb is effective against our ships, we cannot scuttle our Navy but rather we must maintain the world's most powerful Navy intact. To do otherwise would make this country so vulnerable as to invite attack. The view that the destructive power of the atomic bomb actually necessitates more ships and bases to While not underrating atom bombs avoid "putting all our eggs in one basket' is no more extreme than the view that it or disrupting their future potential, the Major had the following to say regarding calls for the scuttling of our Navy." the Japanese bombings: "Modern buildings and factories still stood . . . Only one Opinion of An Air Power Man of the city's 20 bridges was down. HiroRecently, in a news movie, this cor- shima's clusters of modern buildings in respondent heard Major General Leslie the downtown section stood upright . . .

Groves, in charge of atom bomb produc- It was obvious that the blast could not tion, say the forthcoming test would de- have been so powerful as we had been 24

led to believe . . . 1 looked for the "bald spot" where everything presumably had been vaporized in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn't there or anywhere dse.

I could find no traces of unusual phenomena . . . Its effectiveness was inaeased by the incredible flimsiness of most Japanese structures, built of two-by-fours, termite-eaten and dry-rotted, and topheavy with thick tile roofs... ThepeojJe caught in the buildings did not suffer any unusual effects."

One might conclude, from this article, that if would take a super-atom bomb to damage severely a battleship or a heavy cruiser.

The Coming Experiments This coming ^lay, in a lagoon of the M.irshaLl Islands, under the direction of \'ice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, atom bombs will be exploded above the sorf.ice of the water, wirh target ships placed so as to subject them to different degrees of blast. In July bombs will be exploded on the surface.

Because of technical difficulties, it is probable that under-water tests will not be made until 1947.

Ninet}'-seven ships will be used in the rests at the Bikini Atoll lagoon.

The Army-Naiy Merger There is as much controversy in the subject of an Army-Navy merger as in that of the atomic bomb. On December 19, 1945, President Truman showed his hand in this controvers)', asking Congress to create a single Department of National Defense as part of a merger plan much like that advocated by ranking Army officers in previous months.

Mr. Truman requested that: 1. The head of the new department be a civilian, member of the Presidential cabinet, and have as aides an undersecretary and several assistant secretaries.

2. That Congress create three coordinated branches of the department— "one for the land forces, one for the naval forces, and one for the air forces, each under an assistant secretar)'."

3. That a single Chief of Staff for the unified department be named, with commanders for the three component branches—Army, Nav)' and Air. "The key staff positions in the department should be filled with officers drawn from all the services,'" Mr- Truman said, "so that the thinking of the department would not be dominated by any one or two of the services. As an additional precaution, it would be wise if the post of Chief of Staff were rotated among the several services, whenever practicable and advisable, at least during the period of evolution of the unified department Of course, said Mr. Truman, in a concession to the Navy, the Navy should retain its own carrier, ship and water-based

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Here are some of the advantages to be gained by this program, the President said: Integration of strategic planning and unification of military program and budget; Economies to be realized through unified control of supply and service functions. Creation of an organizational strucmre best suited to fostering coordination between the military and the rest of the Government. Provision for strongest means for civilian control of the military. Parity for air power. Provides "the most advantageous framework for a unified system of training for combined operations of land, sea and air."' Makes for unity of command in outlying bases.

The Navy's Opinion Now the Navy had opposed the Army's plan for many weeks prior to the President's statement to Congress. On December 13, 1945, in a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, Assistant Secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel outlined "The Proper Organization of The Military Departments."' Here are the highlights of his talk: 1. The Navy does not oppose unifica'tion of the national defense forces, but asserts unification and amalgamation are not synonymous, but acmally in antipathy.

2. The Navy has a positive program for unified, integrated national defense.

3. Major deficiencies in efficient operation of the national defense before and during the war were: ( a ) Foreign policy and military program not integrated— "Our pohcies in the world were not consistent with our armed might.", ( b ) Military program not geared to productive capacity of domestic economy, (c) Gaps and duplications as between government departments, Army and Navy.

4. Navy plan as submitted to Congress remedies these deficiencies. Army plan ignores them. Navy proposes establishment of a National Security Council, under chairmanship of the President, composed of the Secretaries of State, War, Navy, Air and the Chairman of the National Resources Board. This council would integrate foreign policy, national defense policy, and the domestic strategic produaion policy.

5. Navy says: "National security in its broad aspects is the business of statesmen responsive to the people." Army says it is the prerogative of the military. Navy plan continues with historic civil governmental control of the national defense, amplified to meet modern needs.

'To tie together foreign and military policy, the Navy proposed that the existing State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, established late in the war for that purpose, be replaced by a National Security Council This Council will be responsible for foreign and miliMARCH, 1946

tary affairs and will maintain active, close and continuous coordination between the agencies of goverimient responsible for foreign and military matters."

a Secretary of Common Defense and Undersecretaries for Army, Air Force and Navy-

The present Naval Academy and the Military Academy would be retained, What Will Congress Do.^ but there would be a standardized sysThere already has been much specula- tem of training thousands of reserve tion as to what Congress will do about officers at schools and colleges, and a this matter. Perhaps the majority of single over-all war college. opinions had it that Congress would go It appears now that the Navy will win along with the President and the Army. some of its arguments. If Senators, who Now, however, Senator Hill (Democrat, are more apt to go along with the PresiLouisiana), Democratic whip, has said: dent, approve some of the Navy's argu"We have agreed to take the best fea- ments, what will the House do? Much tures of postwar plans of both Navy and depends on which House committee War Department for the unification bill. handles this legislation. If the Naval AfWe will have a single department with fairs Committee gets it, the simation will three separate and autonomous forces— be well in hand. land, sea and air."

Many members of Congress like the Many of the features proposed by the Navy's suggestion about a tie-up with Navy should be incorporated in the uni- the State Department. They believe the fication program. Senator Hill said. State Department right now is fritterAmong these are: ing away our physical and psychological 1. A national defense council or com- advantages. Every time Secretary of State mission that would "assure closer liaison Byrnes opens his mouth, Stalin puts his of the State Department policies with foot into it, they explain. There ought those of the military and civilian to be someone around to advise Byrnes agencies. 2. An overall agency for the to bite once in a while. direction of scientific research. 3.

Stronger civilian control over the military. 4. Continuation of the wartime FLTLOSCAP joint chiefs of staff or some similar agency representing heads of the various (Continued from page 12) armed forces.

The gro.up selected to draft this legis- and armed Japanese soldiers were everylation are Senators Hill, Elbert Thomas where. But all they did was present arms.

(Democrat, Utah), chairman of the "Japan was flat on its back and everyMilitary Committee, and Austin (Re- thing was standing still when we set up publican, "Vermont). shop," Admiral Ballentine told me. "The The new agency would be called "The first thing v\?e had to do was get some Department Of Common Defense," with food and coal moving and let the Japs

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A temporary shipping authority was set up and, in the next month, authority was given the Japs to resimie operation of 317 cargo and passenger vessels totaling 388,600 gross tons—about 56 per cent of all operational shipping. Besides, permission was given to resimae fishing and some 455 wooden vessels totaling 77,000 tons went back into coastal trade.

When the first rush was over. Admiral Ballentine had himself replaced as temporary shipping authority by the more permanent SCAJAP (Shipping Control Administrator, Japanese) under Rear Admiral D. B. Beary, USN. "The Japs have only about 600,000 tons of merchant shipping anywhere near ready to nm," Admiral Ballentine told me, "and there are another 600,000 tons on the ways or being repaired. That's aU that's left of a 6,000,000-ton merchant fleet which, with capmred ships, once ran up to something like 10.000,000 tons. To a country so dependent on shipping for food, it adds up to a pretty grim simation."

In all the rehabilitation jobs, FLTLOSCAP just issued the orders or granted requests—in General MacArthur's name, of course. The Jap navy did the work Its "go-berween" was a liaison organization 26

whidi occupied a whole office building across the street from SCAP headquarters. Head liaison officer was Rear Admiral K Nakamoura, IJN. Admiral Nakamoura was constantly amazed at what the Americans were able to accomplish with so few men. H e and his aides came to have a high regard for Admiral Ballentine and Captain Smith-Hutton, both of whom had spent time in the coimtry before and knew how to deal with the Japanese.

"The Japs bend over backward to give the Adiniral information," was the comment of Lieutenant Paul A. (Pat) Terry, USN, Admiral Ballentine's aide and the man who handled the memos giving instructions to the Japs. "They bring him a lot of stuff they don't have to bring.

1 think they're acmally fond of the guy."

After shipping and fishing were under way, FLTLOSCAP swung into the job of supervising demobilization and disarmament of the Imperial Navy.

"The Number One job there was ro get the Japs busy clearing out the mines so our ships could get in," the Admiral explained. "Then we had to get rid of all the suicide boats and subs—himdreds of them—^with which the General Staff plaimed to sink our landing craft. Next came the airplanes. At first we just put them out of commission by taking off their propellers; later, the planes were destroyed. The Imperial Nav^ really did a good job of demobilization, I must say.

Three weeks after we came in here, only 40,000 of its personnel remained out of 1,500,000. That was really throwing them out."

But the admiral would become grave when he discussed another rehabilitation problem, nmning hand in hand with food and shipping shortages and promising serious social complications for years to come. This was the international puzzle of how to bring back six or seven million Japanese nationals from liberated territory and feed them in home islands unable to support their own popularions.

About half civilian and half military personnel, these nationals were left scattered at the war's end all through the Pacific islands, Korea, Manchuria and China.

The stranded Japs have since started moving back in larger numbers, but the problem looked insoluble at first.

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lem was to see that ships got started oat to pick up stranded nationals. Only warships could be spared by the Japs from the more urgent business of transporting food, and the Japanese Navy could scrape together only 25 of these. They were small fry for the most part, too—destroyer escorts, coastal patrol craft and the like.

Only something more than a total of 36 Japanese warships were in prospea for the repatriation service by the first of 1946, and it was finally found necessary to assign Allied ships to help widi the job.

"If the Japs had to depend on dieir own shipping, it would take six or ei^t years to get their home folks back," one of the SCAJAP officers told me during a conference in Admiral Ballentine's o&e.

"They've already projected sailing schedules all the way through 1949."

"The Japanese just haven't any navy left," Admiral Ballentine reflected. He fell silent, thinking, and 1 could see that he was back on the bridge in Task Force 58, sending out air strikes against enemy fleet units. Reluctantly his mind returned to the task at hand.

"1 guess we just did too damn good a job," he mused.

Naval Covers {Continued from page 13) Another ship much sought after by cdlectors is the PANAY, ill-fated Yangtze River gunboat. PANAY covers, postmarked Shanghai, Hankow, Ichang, or Chungking exchange hands for several dollars—^when fovmd. Collectors are still looking for any mail from the mysteiy ship of World War I, the USS CYCLOPS which disappeared at sea with all hands.

Covers from present day ships that went down fighting, the HOUSTON, LEXINGTON,

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and A R G O N A U T also meet widi a lively market.

Perhaps the two oldest ships of the United States Navy that had modem postal service are the USS R E I N A MERCEDES, veteran of the Spanish-American "War and the frigate USS CONSTITUTION, which toured American seaports from 1931 ro 1934. It is estimated that over three million covers were mailed from HORNET,

Old Ironsides' post office—and now repose in colleaors' albums.

at sea has collectors aboard that eagerly scan the popular fleet magazine Our Navy, for the cover column conducted by a Columbus, Ohio, newspaperman, who has become known as the dean of collectors.

At this point it might be suggested that many naval officers and navy minded citizens might adopt the naval cover hobby. According to the enthusiasts, it's hard to find a more interesting and rewarding armchair pastime.

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O what degree of importance our Naval Intelligence has evaluated the information to be found by closely examining naval postmarkings is not known, but many pre-war "security" measures failed to take into account the information to be found in a ship's postmark, namely, the ship's name, date, and location. For several dollars worth of postage stamps and envelopes, any individual could account for the movements of every ship in the fleet merely by sending covers to each ship for cancellation. In numerous cases many ships cancelled mail with special postal markings indicating keel layings, laimchings, and commissionings —which made a great hit with collectors —and perhaps with the Axis espionage system.

A striking example of rhe fast moving collector's "grapevine" is the case concerning the fifty destroyers which were traded to Great Britain in the fall of 1940. The official news release from Washington concerning the destroyer transfer made no mention of the names of the ships involved nor the dates of transfer, but, by November, alert colleaors had smdied the last day postal markings emanating from the ships and

published, name by name, all fifty of the destroyers involved.

Effeaive 7 December, 1941, however, all the ships reverted to the standard U. S. Navy type postmark which does not disclose the ship's name nor location but thousands of collectors are eagerly awaiting a remrn to "the good old days"— when every mail broughr covers from the ships sailing the Seven Seas. Other ambitious collectors are currently smdying the postal and censor markings of the warrime Navy.

Practically every naval officer has the nucleus for a fine naval cover collection, perhaps in the stack of letters he mailed to the One And Only while on a midshipmen practice cruise to Europe or else in that old trunk or seabag in the attic.

The hobby supports several flourishing organizations and publications devoted to naval cover colleaing and every ship

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Atomic Naval Warfare (Continued from page 21) will be a Navy capable of carrying ITdestruction to the vitals of the enemy; capable of delivering that destruction with uncanny accuracy; and capable of preventing the enemy from inflicting similar destruction on this countr)'.

As of today, naval gunfire is capable of pin-pointing a target, using conventional shells. Naval gunfire can destroy a target with one well-placed hit. Shore based high-level strategic bombers, to guarantee the same destruction, must samrate the same target with many bombs, the explosive power of each being comparable to the explosive power of one shell fired from a naval rifle.

The time will come when naval guns will fire shells containing atomic warheads; and naval giins with that one shell can more accurately destroy a military target than can shore based aircraft dropping the same explosive power from high altimdes.

Guided missiles, launched from aircrafr, are here today; and such guided missiles may be more accurately controlled than one fired from three to ten thousand miles away. Similarly, drones (pilotless aircraft) may be more accu-

rately controlled over a shorter distance.

Naval aircraft carriers can bring tnese drones to within a relatively short distance of enemy targets. Carriers can also bring the aircraft which can launch and direct radio controlled missiles within a relatively short distance from the target.

The Nav)' of tomorrow can do these things with relative safety by several means. There is the development of the submarine as a carrier of guided missiles and aircraft. While the United States Navy has never used the submarine as an aircraft carrier, other nations have in a minor way, and it is definitely within the realms of possibilit}'. The submarine, as Admiral Nimitz testified, is, while submerged, free from radar detections and relatively immune to atom bombing.

Radar defenses of surface ships themselves, together with dispersal, will make them relatively free from atom bombing. These defenses minimized the effectiveness of the Kamikaze's. While these suicide planes, when they hit our ships, did considerable damage, they were not able to prevent the 5 th Fleet from completing its mission at Okinawa. The ships which were damaged only by Kamikaze attack at Okinawa might possibly have been sunk had they suffered atom bomb hits, but had they been sunk they would have been no more out of action at Oki-

nawa than they weie on the way back to a repair base.

Inese same defenses, in the atomic age. should be more effective. With radar we could detect an enemy air fleet approaching with a lethal dose of smashed atoms. Using this same radar beam, our anti-aircraft could head unerringly to its target. It is more than likely that the antiaircraft burst of the future will be an atomic burst. An explosion in the midst of a fleet of atom bomb carrying heavy bombers would wipe that fleet from the skies. Proximity fuses would assure that your own anti-aircraft burst would occur at the desired place.

These predictions of the Navy in the atomic age are not predicated upon wild theory. They are predicated upon the existence and perfeaion of instruments already in common and effeaive useâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; radar, proximity fuse, submarines, guided missiles, pilotless aircraft. It requires no Buck Rogers fantasy to conjure these uses to which the Navy shall put the atom bomb.

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bomb will be exploded at water level.

Later an atomic depth charge will be exploded beneath a fleet at forty fathoms.

These tests, known as Operations Crossroads, were ordered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 'Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy is in charge of the Joint • Task Force, JTF-1, carrying out the operation. Results of the test will be evaluated by a board composed equally of Army and Navy ofiicers and civilian scientists.

When results have been evaluated we will then be in possession of the information which will tell the Navy what structural changes must be incorporated in ships for the atomic fleet. The Navy will know how best to disperse its fleet, as well as what ships shall predominate in that fleet. Until these tests have been concluded and the data properly evaluated, the Navy cannot begin to construct its atomic fleet.

But whatever the results of these tests shows, the Navy will be able to incorporate into its arsenal all the power of atomic energy. The Navy in the past has shown its flexibihty, for the Navy is an organization with a mission and the ability to perform that mission. The Navy is not ships and it is not guns, but it has the abihty to use the best ships and the best ordnance available, including atomic energy and the atomic bomb.

W a r d r o o m Stuff (Continued from page 20) through the gate but was quickly shunted down a side street. Well, he, being a man of the Gospel, took it in good faith, but when he learned later that there was to be a big reception that night for the officer he grew very angry. He went to the recording Angel, a retired Personnel Office Yeoman, and demanded why he, a man who had given his life to the service of the Lord, should be ignored while a naval officer (mostly staff duty) should be feted and praised by all hands.

"Well," explained the Angel, "the place is praaically full of ministers, but that naval officer who just arrived is the first to make the grade."

—E. S. Fritz.

Teamwork Makes Ace {Continued from page 19) Years in which Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault whipped his Fighting Tigers into coordinated teamwork that wrested remarkable victories from the Japs. Years in which the Germans devised the dazzlingly successful Luftwaffe blitzes.

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during the war until the entire operation of an invasion task force became delicate balance of intricate teamwork. Teamwork of all the services—Army, Navy and Marines. Teamwork of thousands of ships, planes and men. And all built up upon the same basic principal of mutual support used by the two-plane formation.

Capt. John S. Thach, USN, operations officer on the late Vice Adm. John Sidney McCain's staff, can explain it best.

A fighter ace of this war, he is the creator of the "Thach Weave" for mutual support in aerial tactics.

"In the last war—and early days of this war—planes merely flew in formation," Capt. Thach explains. There was always the danger of ambush.

"To meet this danger, we fixed the formation so that with quick turns— weaves—^pilots could shoot the plane, or planes, attacking the formation. It's a principle of mumal protection which v/orks as well with 100 planes as two— a principle that can be built vertically as well as horizontally, spreading the height as well as the depth of defense.

"This basic fundamental of teamwork —or "mutual support," as I prefer to call it—is what made it possible to take a carrier outfit of approximately 1,000 planes successfully into areas where they'd be opposed by 10 times that number of land-based planes.

"It was actually a matter of teamwork and taking advantage of the mobility of carriers. Carrier war is the only type of warfare where you can move your bases at high speed right into the front line.

Ir can be done safely because you always have the invaluable choice of the time and place you choose to fight. You can keep the balance of power by always having more airplanes than the enemy at the spot you know where the fight will be.

And if, for some reason, some other area turns out to be more threatening, you can move your base—your landing "fields," maintenance and supplies—at the rate of 100 miles in three hours.

"However, before you can bring anything in, you must have control of the air. This is gained by a spearhead of

fighters to knock the enemy out of the air and a protective, patrolling ring to keep them out. This is strictly a duel between your fighters and theirs.

"If the opposing two fighter aircraft are equal in performance and equal in number, then it is a foregone conclusion that the side using the best teamwork will win. But there are no rules in warfare limiting the number you can have on your team—like 11 in football, or nine in baseball — so why not put in more? W e always try to have the balance of power. For as the number of planes you have goes up over the enemy's you have an infinitely greater advantage.

It is not proportional. Four planes have much greater than twice as "much of an advantage over two.

"But right here let me point out a lesson we've learned. That is that you cannot send a boy to do a man's work. You must anticipate that the enemy will have ar least equal aircraft, in performance and number. But you can train your pilots better. American boys are adaptable to teamwork. They understand it easily because they learned it on the football field, in the sandlots and on the basketball courts. They know you must play as a team, not as an individual, if you hope to win. W e banked on this—^their ability to understand and adapt to teamwork in this war. It paid off. ' ' ' T p O get back to gaining control of -'- the air. If the fighter spearhead was successful, then the bombers and fighter-bombers can go in unmolested.

With enough carriers, you can pin down an enemy air force and keep it pinned down.

"For invasions the teamwork between the Army and Navy airforces worked in phases. First the carriers were the tactical spearhead that went in before the invasion to knock out the enemy air power, ground and air. When control of the air was gained, carrier planes provided air support over the landing forces.

Once the forces landed, they assisted them to secure the beachheads by close air support. Then they protected and assisted them until an enemy air field

could be captured. With an operating base secured, the Army AifForce moved in and took over control of the air for the land campaign.

eration! At the same time the Navy was attacking the Tokyo area. Army planes from Okinawa were attacking Kyushu, completing the tactic of mumal support.

"One of the greatest examples of teamwork was in the last operation against the Japanese home islands. As soon as the Task For'e moved in to attack the Tokyo area, all enemy fields within range —on a 200 to 400 miles front, north and south of Tokyo—were completely blanketed. The planes the Japs had expected to use to repel the attacking force never got off the groimd. W e divided the area of fields. Each group covered a definite block of land and made the grounds of fields within that block periodically too often for the enemy to take off. If a few managed to get in the air, they were shot down. It was an all-day, all-night, all-day, all-night coverage.

"The reason why a carrier force can blanket fields as no other air Force can, is that carrier planes have such a short distance to fly. Each wave of planes can stay over the assigned field two hours in a four-hotir flight. When time for leaving comes, the next wave is on station, ready ro take over.

"Through such mumal support not a single carrier was rouched in the last op-

"The question namrally arises—'Was the 20th Army Air Force duplicating what the Navy was doing?' The answer is,—'No'—not in any way. The B-29 is an entirely different weapon with an entirely different objective. Its main role was attacking large industrial areas. Our primary objecrive was the Japanese Air Force—the only threat to invasion after we had disposed of the Japanese Navy.

The B-29's destroyed aircraft in the making. Carrier planes destroyed aircraft in being, so there would be fewer aircraft to attack the B-29's.

"Only a fighrer can chase and shoot down enemy aircraft. A B-29 doesn't.

Army fighters, from immovable land bases, were too far away ro do anything more than fly there and back. They flew escort. In facr, that was the only reason Iwo Jima was invaded and talcen—to provide a base close enough for Army fighrers to accompany the B-29's on their raids and to provide a place for the B29's to land upon returning."

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Obviously not. Consider the nunAer of Congressional Medals of Honor, Navy Crosses, Distinguished Hying Qosses and other high awards given to pilots for not only performing their duties as part of the team but for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty," for "extraordinary heroism," and "for heroism and extraordinary achievements." There are undoubtedly many more aces well-known to the public now than during World War I, despite the previous war's emphasis on lone aerial duels.

A CE of all American aces in this war -^*- was Major Richard I. Bong who ran up an official total of 40 enemy planes destroyed. Major Bong, who was kiUed in a P-80, SHOOTING S'TAR, crash after returning from combat, was holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor as well as nujnerous other medals.

Major Thomas B. McGuire, who was killed in action over the Philippines 7 Jan. 1945, ran u p his final score to 38 on Christmas Day and 26 Dec over Qark Field. He bagged three on the first day and four on the following day.

McGuire had more than 720 c o o ^ t hours and 240 combat missions. On assnming command of his squadron he is reported to have said, "Now listen, you guys, there has been a lot of talk thrown around here about aces. There is no such thing as an ace. Every time a plane goes down, it goes dovra because of a whole squadron, nor one man."

Leading American pilor in the European theater of war is Lt. CcL John C Meyer who has a score of 37 Vi planes shot down. Top man of the 475th Group, "Satan's Angels," he flew a P-51 Mustang for his kills.

L t Col. Francis S. Gabreski, fourth ranking Army Air Force ace, tagged 28 enemy planes before being taken prisoner in Germany 20 July 1944. The 20 July sortie was to be his last before returning home on leave. He was freed in April of this year.

Major George E. Preddy, AAF, ace with a score of 27 Vi planes, was the first pilot in the Sth Air Force to shoot down six Nazi fighter planes in a single combat In telling how it was done, he took great care to give full credit for the help his wingman had given him. "You can't do anything up there," he said, "without teamwork."

Top Marine ace is Major Joe Foss with 26 planes. Major Foss always placed mutual support above individual prowess.

"In my estimation," he explains, "a pilot who goes up there and protects his leader rates higher than a pilot with a big score." In explaining the success of his group, "Joe's Flying Circus," Foss

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Foss got his planes at Guadalcanal.

On 23 October 1942, he shot down four Zeros in one day. Three days later he destroyed four Zeros in one hour and 15 minures.

Born in India, son of a missionary, L t Robert Murray Hanson, USMC, scored 25 planes to become leading ace of the "Fighting Corsairs" squadroiL Twenty of the planes he shot down in six consecutive days. L t Hanson won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bold artack against six enemy torpedo bombers 1 Nov. 1943 (whUe flying cover for landing operations at Empress Augusta Bay) and for bringing down four Zeros while fighting them alone (he was cut off from his division while flying high cover flight) 24 January 1944, over New Britain Island. The award was posthumous. For L t Hanson crashed into the sea 3 February 1944, one day before his 24th birthday.

First award that Lt Col. Gregory, "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, won was the Congressional Medal of Honor. It was awarded to him after he had disappeared 3 January 1944 after bagging his 26th enemy plane. "Pappy" Boyington, who MARCH,

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always said he would remrn if reported lost, made good his promise after several months' imprisonment. Boyington tagged his first six kills while flying with Chennault's Flying Tigers and added 20 more while leading his hard-hitting "Black Sheep" squadron, which has a record of shooting down 94 enemy planes in 12 weeks of combat

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EAMWORK is also stressed by Capt Kenneth A. Walsh, USMC, who has 21 planes to his credit Home on leave in October of 1943 after a tour of Pacific duty during which he shot down 20 Jap planes, the Marine ace observed, "The Japanese fliers are playing a wiser game now by using more teamwork and as much of our tactics as they can master." Then he added, "Our pilots have more initiative, with each man trained to be a leader. When the Japs lose a leader, their flight discipline is poor."

Capt Donald N. Aldrich, USMC, bagged four Zeros in one day to help run up his 20-plane total for the war. Also a member of the "Fighting Corsairs," Aldrich is the fifth ranking Marine ace.

He has been awarded the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal

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and a Gold Star in lieu of a second Purple Heart Ace of all living aces of this war is Comdr. David McCampbell, USN, with a total of 34 planes. His citation for the Congressional Medal of Honor reads, "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond rhe call of duty as Commander, Air Group Fifteen during combat against enemy Japanese aerial forces in the First and Second Battles of the Philippine Sea An inspiring leader, fighting boldly in the face of terrific odds. Commander McCampbell led his fighter planes against a force of eighty Japanese carrier-based aircraft bearing down on our Fleet on 19 June 1944. Striking fiercely in valiant defense of our surface forces, he personally destroyed seven hostile planes during this single engagement in which the outnumbering attack force was utterly routed and virtually annihilated. During a major Fleet engagement with the enemy on 24 October, Commander McCampbell, assisted by but one plane, intercepted and daringly attacked a formation of sixty hostile land-based craft approaching our forces. Fighting desperately but with superb skill against such overwhelming air power, he shor down 31

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We also flew negative patrols. A negative patrol, it was carefully explained to us, is good and necessary, and provides the Admiral with all kinds of hot dope; but it was just a bore to us. There are approximately one million, five hundred

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nine Japanese planes and, completely disorganizing the enemy group, forced the remainder to abandon the attack before a single aircraft could reach the Fleet His great personal valor and indomitable spirit of aggression under extremely perilous combat conditions reflect the highest credit upon Commander McCampbell and the United States Naval Service."

Lt. Cecil E. Harris, USNR, the Navy's second ranking ace, is credited with 24 planes. On three occasions, Lt. Harris destroyed four enemy planes in a single flight.

The ex-school teacher from Onaka, South Dakota, attributed his success to teamwork, claiming, "My Hellcat was never once hit by a Jap bullet because of the teamwork and protection policy of our pilots. Teamwork is unquestionably the answer to the successful fighter tactics."

Lt. Eugene A. Valencia, USNR, thirdranking Naval air ace with 23 enemy planes shot down, has two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Air Medal.

On the first day of the Tokyo raid, 17 Feb. 1945, Air Group 80 shot down 71 enemy planes. Four of them were accounted for by Lt Patrick D. Fleming, USNR, Naval ace with 19 kills.

helmets, gas masks, mosquito netting, shark knives, rommy-guns, flashlights, and fishhooks. W e signed our lives away and were ready for anything from the Aleutians to New Guinea.

W e were prepared mentally, too. We were given lecmres on Australian currency, Polynesian matrimonial ceremonies, aboriginal taboos, Esquimau superstitions, Melanesian eating habits, and favorite forms of torture in New Guinea; we learned who did what, with what, and to whom on every group of islands and every land mass washed by the Pacific. We were taught the symptoms, treatment, and manner of subsequent death associated with every known disease, including decapirarion and the evil eye. We smdied the flora, and particularly the fauna, which we would likely encounter, or which would Ukely encounter us; and which we could eat, and which could eat us. And we learned about ants, bugs, beetles, flies, termites, ticks, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, leeches, and mosquitoes—especially mosquitoes.

"We didn't know where we were going, but we'd certainly be equipped when we arrived."

thirty-nine thousand, four hundred sixtyfive square miles of ocean in the near vicinity of Oahu, and each square mile has roughly five hundred twenty-seven million, eight hundred sixty-four thousand, three hundred ninety-one waves in it—and each wave looks precisely like its brother. Our Gunnery Officer varied the monotony by playing cat and mouse with Army fighters which came out to sniff him on remrn from patrol, and the Assistant Materiel Officer landed on a reef out of sheer ennui; but in general our main diversion was telling funny stories over the interphone. ' I 'HIS went on for a number of weeks, -•- during which we devoted our free afternoons and evenings to dice, poker, and the Officers' Club, and then we prepared to continue our hegira. We still didn't know where we were going, but we'd certainly be equipped when we arrived. We drew jungle suits, light clothing, heavy clothing, work shoes, tennis shoes, tin helmets, plastic helmets, sun

"We packed them, all."

The lectures ended on a cheerful note, however.

"You'll be back in six months, boys," the Wing Operations Officer said.

We drank it all in. Hell, we could take anything for six months. This was going to be a picnic. Gee!—those poor fellows who had to stay home with their sweethearts and wives—they'd miss all the fun.

Lt. Alexander Vraciu, USNR, is also credited with bagging 19 planes. A straighr-shooting Hellcat pilot, Lt. Vraciu attributes all his success to teamwork and lucky breaks. "Lone Wolf" tactics, he claims, lead to nothing but disaster.

"Our motto," he declares, "was 'never get separated.' We won because we had superior teamwork."

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(Fourteen months later we gave up all hope.)

Finally we were inoculated all over again, our health records having been lost in transit, and given orders to pack.

Whoever said two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time never had the enlightening experience of packing a navy seabag. We knew we were going, but only the higher command knew where, or what we'd need: whites, blues, khakis, top-coats, raincoats, swimming trunks, or snow-shoes.

We packed them all, and stood-by for our orders.

Our orders were a yeoman's nightmare and the bane of our Skipper's naval career. The Squadron was split up like a passionate amoeba in a frenzy of propagation and sown broadcast o\ er the atolls of the Pacific: two planes and three crews here—five planes and six crews there—three planes and crews to convoy an Important Personage on an inspection tour and pick him UD out of the drink if anything happened—five planes and four crews to stdl another island—one plane and crew to remain at Kaneohe— we began to believe that we were expected to win the whole war in the Pacific single-handed. It was a gratifying

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conception, of course, but we didn't want which is highly fatal.

2. Laboratory and field data have been to be piggish about it. We felt some of the other squadrons ought to be given gathered which demonstate that a mana chance, too. The Wing Commander made epidemic as an instrument of war is a likely possibility. remained unconvinced.

3. A protective suit, with self-contained oxygen supply, has been devised for the use of workers in any prospective rescue or decontamination operation.

Warfare with Microbes 4. Conclusive information has been ob{Continued from page 15) tained which would be of great value not only for protection from bacterial attack Medical Research Unit No. 1.

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In April, 1943, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, USN, Surgeon General of the Navy, directed the Unit to devote the major portion of its personnel and facilities to investigations of possible use by an enemy of a certain infectious disease.

At that time Captain Krueger's staff was composed of 12 officers and nine enlisted men. By V-J Day this number had increased to 19 officers and 45 men.

The disease in question, of which identity must still be withheld, is centuries old and one of the greatest of killers. In the words of Captain Krueger, the "program was undertaken not from the standpoint of academic research, but with a view of obtaining short-term practical results with regard to offensive possibilities and defensive countermeasures."

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T N A S M U C H as this highly secret work -*• was being conducted in a campus building situated amidst various academic departments, one of the numerous security precautions taken in addition to extensive and elaborate means to prevent spread of the disease to surrounding areas was to establish a "blind." It was made public, nationally as well as locally, that the Navy researchers were studying means of preventing and controlling airborne infections, notably influenza. Actually, a small number of men were detailed as a token crew—to work in the field of preventive medicine. Considerable was learned which may be applicable to public health and industrial hygiene.

However, NAMRU No. 1 had to maintain its silence under wartime regulations to both scientific and medical leaders who expressed curiosity that nothing productive in influenza control had come out of the Unit after more than two years' work.

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Photostatic Copies of Jap Surrender Papers Exact, full size copies of one of the most important state papers of recent times have just been received from Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Chief of Naval Operations.

Principal document, in a portfolio of four, is the famous "Instrument of Surrender" signed September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay. It reveals, in clear photostat, the signatures of the twelve delegates to the conference aboard the USS MISSOURI, as well as the terms agreed upon by the Emperor of Japan.

The other sections of the Instrument are credentials of the Japanese delegates, embellished with the Imperial chop, or seal, and a long proclamation of Emperor Hirohito, pleading with his subjects to obey the terms of the Instrument (with English translations).

These interesting and significant photostats, originals of which are in the National Archives of Washington, join several other Japanese documents of this war, now on display at the Museum.

Another document, and well worthy of study by future historians and scholars, is the surrender paper signed at Tientsin, China, October 6, 1945. This is an original document, one of three made at the time, turning over all Japanese arms and equipment in the Tientsin area to the commanding officer of the Third Amphibious Corps, Fleet Marine Force.

Typed on parchment it contains the signatures of Lieut. General Gianosuki Uchida, for Japan, and of Major General K. E. M. Rockey, USMC, for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

General Rockey, in transmitting the three copies to General A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the Marine Corps, suggested that one copy be sent to the Academy's Museum.

This the Commandant very kindly did, forwarding it via Captain Edmund B. Taylor, USN, of the Secretary's Office.

Quite different in format is the Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese and Japanesecontrolled Armed Forces in the Philippine Islands, to the Commanding General United States Army Forces, Western Pacific. The Museum's copy is printed on parchment paper, but is the same size as the original two-page document. The original must have been printed, too, but dates and signatures were added in ink.

This Philippine Instrument, signed 3 September, 1945, at Camp John Hay, Baguio, Luzon, differs from the others above in that the two Japanese delegates signed their names

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King in turn sent them to the Curator, with a letter stating they are "for such use as the Naval Academy Museum might wish to make of them."

IISS Silversides "Recaptured" Portion of Its Own Torpedo

Here's one for Ripley: When the USS SILVERSIDES, famous submarine veteran of many combat patrols, fired at the TOEI MARU, on 18 January 1943, in enemy waters, the Japanese ship promptly exploded. Although the A cademy Museum range was 1500 yards, and the SILVERSIDES was submerged at the time, a large piece of Curator S \ Navy {Retired) its own torpedo was found on deck when the sub later surfaced!

Recently this odd but interesting souvenir was presented to the Museum by the commanding officer of the SILVERSIDES. It is apin our script, instead of using Japanese char- parently a section of the warhead, and still acters. Major General H. Leavey, deputy com- contains one of the rivets. The crew mounted mander, U. S. Army Forces, Western Pacific, it on a board and attached a brass plaque, signed for the United States. The Instrument giving details of the action.

The SILVERSIDES relic joins company with was presented to the Museum by Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, Superintendent other- famed accessions memorializing the work of the U. S. Navy's underseas service, of the U. S. Naval Academy.

The Museum expects and hopes, eventually, including: the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal to receive originals or copies of all such mile- awarded to the United States Navy by the stones of U. S. victory, for reference, com- Franklin Institute, 21 May 1941, for developparison, and study by midshipmen, instruc- ment of submarine rescue devices; relics and tors and general visitors to the Naval Acad- logbook of the USS S-4, which sank after a collision off Provincetown, Mass., 17 Decememy. ber 1927; the rescue lung developed by an officer of the S-4 and presented to Colonel Fleet Admiral King Sends Robert M. Thompson and in turn presented Jap Identification Models to the Museum by his daughter, Mrs. S. H. H. Tiny scale models of American and other Pell; and a replica of the plaque designating Allied warships, made by Japanese Intelli- the main building at the New London subgence for identification purposes, have been marine school "Gilmore Hall," named in placed on display in the Museum's lobby. The honor of Commander H. W. Gilmore, USN, models arrived in two wooden boxes within who, mortally wounded during a war patrol, which they were secured to trays for ready remained on the bridge of his submarine and reference. Such boxes, put together without gave the order which saved his men and ship: any metal parts whatsoever, were given to "Take Her Down!" each major Japanese warship, or fleet unit, so that our ships might be quickly disting- Triptych Recalls Part uished from their own (but apparently not Played by Chaplains quick enough to avoid being sunk!).

To the ever growing collection of battle The models, which range in size from six relics, flags and other valuable accessions coninches down to less than a half inch in cerning the Navy's important role in World length, are exquisite examples of craftsman- War II, has been added a beautiful triptych ship. They include British as well as Amer- (portable, three-panelled altar)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a loan from ican types, and are complete as to guns, tur- Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, whose Citizens rets, stacks, and other distinguishing detail. Committee for the Army and Navy revived These models were obtained from the Jap- the use of these folding backgrounds for anese Naval Base, Ominato, by Rear Admiral religious services on deck at sea, or on the M. L. Deyo, USN, who presented them to battlefields.

Fleet Admiral E. J. King, USN. Admiral {Continued on page 58)

Scale models of American and Allied warships furnished by Jap Intelligence to their fleet for identification purposes.

Spindrift

By Lee Shores

has at last arrived, that is, if we are SPRING to believe the recent fait weather (and,

without recompense, however, for the more enterprising men discovered that by conscientious goldbricking they could manage to stretch the exam over three hours, and in so doing miss some of the more obnoxious classes.

of course, no one does). The smart money is still betting we will have snow in two weeks and there are no takers. However, the spring sports squads are hopefully going ahead wirh their practices. "tJUNDREDTH night has come and gone to the great relief of '47' which at the The romance between the first class and the Executive Department is still flowering as time was rather sorry it had ever been proud full as ever with still a few more bouquets of its reputation as a class replete with disbeing thrown at the first class. The latter are ciplinarians. Breakage was held down to a now marching independently to class which minimum in the mess hall and it was not unhas given the grounds quite a collegiate aspect til after chow that the plebes acquired enough (if not a collegiate atmosphere). The advan- rank consciousness to behave like real first tages, of course, are manifold, not the least class. They really got moving then, however, of which is the facility in exchanging dope and in more than one company the plebes with the men just leaving the building. Die- had to carry pillows down to breakfast for hards among the first class lament that it's their first classmen the next morning. Look taken all the sport out of falling out of ranks out '49,' there's still graduation night. without authority but as yet no one has inAbout a month ago one first classman had sisted upon a reversion to the old method. An- a rather interesting, though somewhat disconother manifestation of good will from up certing, experience. It was happy-hour time above has come in the form of abolition of one afternoon and he was just getting set to extra duty.for the senior class. It's unbelieva- flake out for awhile when he heard the mate ble, but it's true. All that's ever posted now faintly in the distance. It was an ominous is a list of demerits whose presence bothers word. He strained his ears to hear—still unno one outside of the slashes who hate to see believing. There it was again, "All first class their multiples shoved down by even a thou- stand by for formal room inspection immesandth of a point. diately." "No!", he groaned, as he surveyed March is a dull month for entertainmenis the mess around him that he called his room. with only one hop scheduled (on the I6th) "Plebes," he yelled—anxious faces peered from but it's probably only the result of a Lenten nearby rooms; "Race down here and help me twinge of conscience on the part of the powers clean this room up pronto," he ordered. The that be. All of February was ideal for drag- plebes went to work with a will (with as ging, however, and many men welcome the much will as a plebe ever has) and were interlude as an opportunity to replenish their doing a creditable job. The first classman had opened his confidential locker and was busily bare wallets. Oh, yeah!

The musical club show has been a steady passing non-reg gear to his plebe to be placed offering for the last few week-ends and has in his laundry bag. He had just fished out been found very entertaining. "Bountifulness the last articles—three bottles of carbonated flows downhill," as the saying goes, with the water—when there was a sharp rap on the consequence that the first class gave permission door and in walked that certain Commander for the plebes to drag on March 2. As usual with the ridiculous chapeau. Looking about they showed up with the best-looking girls. as guilty as a man with three bottles of soda It has long been a peculiar commentary on water in his hand, he visibly blanched and the system that the dates of the midshipmen launched into his explanation. They were left decrease in looks with increase in rank, but over after a week-end and it would really have the proof is unmistakable. Perhaps it is due to been a shame to have left them in the hotel the waning eyesight of the upper classes, or room, now wouldn't it? Good naturedly, the perhaps because after a few years, touch is lost officer agreed—but not before the culprit had with civilization, and the difficulties of hold- been brought to justice to the tune of fifteen and four. ing on to a queen are too numerous.

Speaking of waning eyesight, the first class took their "physicals" last month and the early •pEFORE recounting this anecdote Lee wants to assure his readers that this one part of this one. Many men with borderline eyes were munching carrots and exercising is unadulterated truth. To commence logicaltheir eyes for months prior, and some with ly, Lee will start at the beginning. It is notable success. About forty percent of the early Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, and class desire aviation training and indications somewhere in Bancroft Hall there is a sleepy are that most will be able to get it after about plebe. Reasoning that he can't sleep on his a year. Submarines are second on the prefer- own bunk he decided to visit the room of a ence list but- as in aviation, there will be a first classman he knew in another wing. He delay of at least a year. The exams were not reached the room and quickly divested himself

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of his coat and began to snooze. Midway in the afternoon the first classman's wife returned to the room. After puttering around for a few minutes he decided to go out in town and reached carelessly for the first coat handy.

It was the plebe's coat unbeknownst to him, and thus attired he made his way out into town. On Maryland avenue he stopped at one of the local tailors to order some uniforms.

After all the measurements were taken and the transaction nearly completed, the tailor re-i marked on the length of his coat sleeves. The first classman agreed that they were too long and then took his coat off to have the sleeves shortened right away. The job was done in no time and so it was a well pleased man that walked out that afternoon.

The plebe. back in his room, had awakened by this time, and feeling rested decided it was high time to leave. To his dismay the only coat he could find was the gold-striped coat of the first classman draped over a chair.

With commendable prudence the plebe decided that waiting was the only solution. He waited for several hours. The first classman returned shortly before formation still oblivious of his mistake. Finally confronted by the unhappy plebe he realized his error and a big laugh was had by all hands with the exception of guess who.

Ordnance of late has been inordinately difficult; in parts almost impossible. Several weeks ago there was a particularly long lesson on the Mark VI stable vertical and included in the lesson was a section listing the steps necessary to start the apparatus. It was Sunday night; this first classman was very tired and a sketchy preparation resulted. No one would ever think of asking him how to start that machine, thank God—that was out of the question.

Bright and early Monday morning the slips were passed out in class. Hopefully this first classman glanced at his slip. It couldn't be-— but it was. "List the twelve steps necessary to start the Mark VI stable vertical." Other men were writing furiously around him but the blankness of his mind was reflected on his board. The minutes flew by and not even a few plausible guesses presented themselves.

Suddenly with the cunning of a trapped animal he saw an escape. Quickly he wrote: 1. Follow the rules prescribed below.

2. Turn to page 384 NOG. 3. Note the instructions noted thereon.

4. If it doesn't work scream for the nearest specialist.

Have you heard the story about a certain First Batt first classman who failed in his attempt to ride the elevator? If not, here it is: After short drill today a certain first classman was attempting to ride the elevator. He was standing by the elevator door waiting for it to come to the first deck. Upon the elevator's arrival, our hero looked furtively about to see if any of the Executive Department was hot on his trail. The elevator stopped, our hero, not looking, took a step towards it. All of a sudden the quiet voice of F. F. Jr. cooed, "Come on in. Bring the whole platoon with you." The surprised first classman halted in his tracks and answered F.F.'s statement, "No sir, I don't think that I had better," and dashed off to the security of one of the upper decks.

Whew, that was close!

And there was the first batt first class who expended his last erg to get to the elevator

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Left to right: William A. Kanakanui, jr., '48-B; Oliver S. Hollett, '47; James H. H. Carrington. '48-B; Charles B. Dwight, '49.

TLJENRY Ortland, jr., is pleased about his tankmen. And if Ortland is pleased, the Navy swimming team of this season must be worth a look-see. Mr. Ortland is the man to know about those things. He has been here, keeping a watchful, fatherly eye over the Academy's waterborne athletes for over a quarter of a century. The statistics of viaory since 1919, the year Ortland took over as coach, show Navy swimming teams coming out winners eighty per cent of the time. That gives Henry Ortland the right to be considered something of an authority.

Mr. Ortland, N. Y. U. '15, after World War I, left his native New York for Annapohs, the arrangements being made for him

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three and one-tenth seconds over a fifty-yard com-se. Thompson was also a member of the United States Olympic team of 1932. Dave MacCampbeU, '33, distinguished himself twice, as a midshipman, winning the Intercollegiate Diving Title in 1934; as a Navy flying ace in the war, winning the Congressional Medal of Honor. Another man earnWINTER, 1946 ing double distinction was Art Rule, 24, who used to play on the basketball team in the early afternoon, then pohsh off the day's acto come to the Naval Academy as swimming coach through Assistant Secretary of the Navy, tivities sprinting with the swimming team.

Ortland recalls that Pete Wyckoff, '23, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ortland started out determinedly to build up not only winning an exceptional sprinter. A great winning teams but individual tank-artists as weU. At combination was that of Jack Stevens, Joe {Continued on page 58) the top of his list of successful swimmers to date stand Ray Thompson, "33, who established a record, yet to be broken, of twenty-

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Winter Athletics in Full Svsfing BASKETBALL

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Duke University The midshipmen scored their fifth straight victory of the season in basketball at the expense of Duke University with a fimal score ef 51-40. It was the best game of the season thus far; played with plenty of action from die begiiming of the game until the final whistle. The game was tied three times and the spectators were kept on edge during the whole contest especially during the last half.

Koffenberger of Duke was the high scorer of the game with 16 points. Ken Shugart and Don Dick were the high scorers for Navy with 13 points for the former, and 10 points for the latter.

UNEUP Navy G 3 3 3 1 3 5 1 19

Carroll, f Nelson, f Waldrop, c Barrow, c Dick, g Shugart, g Duden, g Totals

F r 6 12 0 6 0 6 0 2 4 10 3 13 0 2 13 51

Duke

Navy Carroll, f Nelson, f Carson, f . . .

House, f Waldrop, c Shugart, g Barrow, g Duden, g Robbins, g Totals Columbia Poch, f Milenke, f AUison, f Feldman, f Wood, c Vogel, g Strober, g Blimier, g Wykar, g Totals Penn State

Currie, c Funk, c Rusinko, g Hatkevich, g Totals

1 1 0 0 2 0 5 9 12 9

3 0 4 18 33

G 5 2 0 0 3 7 3 3 1 24

F 3 2 1 2 2 3 1 0 0 14

T 13 6 1 2 8 17 7 6 2 62

G 0 0 1 0 1 3 6 .1 2 14

F 2 0 0 1 1 5 1 2 1 13

^ Navy met its first defeat of the season in 2 basketball Saturday, 9 February at the hands ^ of North Carolina 51 to 49 after a very 2 closely contested game. The Armory was 1 crowded to capacity and the fans were thrilled 5 by the play of two well drilled basketball 11 teams at their highest peak of the season 15 fighting it out nip and tuck from beginning 4 to the end of the game. Dillon was high man 5 for North Carolina with 15 points, and Car41 roll was high scorer for Navy with 18 points.

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PLEBE The plebe basketball team defeated the Valley Forge Military Academy 66 to 37, with the plebes using three complete teams.

North Carolina

LINEUP Navy

The Middle cagers rung up their 8th G F T straight game against Penn State, but the game Carroll, f " 8 2 18 was close from the beginning to the end. The Nelson, f 4 1 9 final outcome was the score of 34 to 33. The Waldrop, c 3 1 7 margin of victory was in Carroll's foul shots Shugart, g 3 3 9 —he made 9 out of 9 attempts, four of the Duden, g 1 4 6 shots were made in the last two minutes of "Totals 19 11 49 the game.

North Carolina Navy led, 20-14 at the half, in spite of G F T Penn State's tight defense, which grew bet- Dillon, f 5 5 15 ter in the second session when the Middies Paxton, f 0 1 1 got only 14 points, compared with 19 scored Thome, f 2 2 6 PLEBE by the Lions.

McKinney, c 4 2 10 The plebe basketball team defeated the St. Jordan, g 4 0 8 Paul's School of Baltimore, Md. 43 to 30. The White, g 5 1 11 UNEUP plebe team has only been defeated once this Totals 20 11 51 season and that was by Bullis School of Silver Navy Score by halves G F r Spring, Md. 26 25—51 Carroll, f 2 9 13 North Carolina Columbia 23 26—49 Nelson, f 2 1 5 Navy 4 0 8 Navy was an improved basketball team on Waldrop, c 2 1 5 2 February when they turned back a good Shugart, g U. S. Coast Guard Academy 1 1 3 Columbia team 62-41. The Middies took the Duden, g .

The Naval Academy basketball team won 0 0 0 lead early in the game and held it to the Barrow, g Totals 11 12 34 its 12th game of the season by defeating the final whistle. The Midshipmen hit the basket U. S. Coast Guard Academy 47 to 31 in the 24 times out of 63 tries. Shugart and Carroll Penn State last game prior to meeting their annual rival, G F T were high scorers for Navy with 17 and 13 points respectively. Strober, with 13 points, Simon, f 3 0 6 the U. S. Military Academy. The Navy team and Vogel with 11, were high men for Co- Nugent, f 0 0 0 has an enviable record of 12 victories in 14 lumbia. The summary is as follows: Light, f 1 0 2 games.

G F T Seward, f 2 2 6 Cheek, f 2 1 5 Ausborn, f 0 0 0 Koffenberger, c 6 4 16 Gordon, g 0 0 0 Roelike, g 0 0 0 Whiting, g 6 1 13 Totals 16 8 40 Score at the halftime was Navy 24; Duke 19-

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The Navy team took an early lead over Coast Guard and held it throughout the game.

The score at the half-time was 25 to 12.

Ken Shugart with 12 points was the high man for both teams. Carroll and Waldrop of Navy, and Ross of Coast Guard each made 10 points.

The Summary: Navy G F T Carroll, f , 4 2 10 Nelson, f 2 0 4 Robbins, f 0 0 0 Waldrop, c 5 0 10 Barrow, c 2 0 4 Duden, g 0 2 2 Shugart, g-f 4 4 12 Young, g 0 0 0 Dick, g 2 1 5 Totals 19 9 47 Coast Guard G E T Duin, f 2 0 4 Wetmore, f 2 0 4 Wagner, f 0 0 0 Brandfass, f 1 0 2 Ross, c 4 2 10 Bradburn, c 0 0 0 Gaither, g 3 2 8 Reed, g 1 1 3 Schweb, g 0 0 0 Totals 13 5 31 JUNIOR The Naval Academy junior varsity basketball team defeated Bullis School 35 to 34 on a last minute charity toss by Bob Jesse. This was the second game the Bullis Team has lost this season—the other game was lost to the Army junior varsity team.

PLEBE The Plebe basketball team defeated Staunton Military Academy 40 to 35 to complete their season with 7 victories and one defeat.

They lost the only game of the season to Bullis School in an overtime period.

Army The Naval Academy basketball team journeyed to West Point, N. Y., on Saturday, 2 March, and was defeated by the Cadets 67 to 60.

The final result of the game was surprising to everyone since Navy had the better record for the season, being defeated only by North Carolina and Muhlenberg and the latter game being played at Allentown, Pa. After Navy's outstanding victory over West Virginia it was the general opinion that this was the Middies' year.

Both teams scored the same number of field goals—24, but Army had a better record for the foul shots which was the margin of victory. The Cadets made 19 of their 29 foul shot chances, while Navy made 12 in 24.

The score changed hands 10 times during the game. Dick was cut about the eye, Waldrop came out of the game on personal fouls, and Shugart had to be removed from the game on account of "charley horses."

Nance of Army was high scoter of the game with 23 points, and Shugart of Navy was next with 18 points.

Summary: NAVY G F r Carroll, f 3 6 8 Dick, f 2 1 5 401

Nelson, f Waldrop, c Barrow, c Shugart, g Duden, g Robbins, g

0 2 6 8 3 0

7 0 1 5 4 0

12 18 8 0

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9 0 4 5 4 0 2 0 0

8 0 7 7 3 0 2 2 0

23 0 13 16 10 0 5 0 0

ARMY Nance, f Reed, f Folsom, f Rawers- c Hudspeth, g Tucker, g Tallman, g Davis, g Means, g

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Totals 24 29 Half-time score: Navy 35; Army 34 Final score: Navy 60; Army 67

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WRESTLING Merchant Marine Academy The Navy wrestlers continued the unbeaten path by taking two decisions and four falls from the Merchant Marine Academy.

DeLong, 121 pounds, Oscar Green, 136 pounds, Hathaway, 155 pounds, and Newbold Smith, heavyweight, took their bouts by falls.

Jim Eulitt, Merchant Marine won the 128pound-ctass by decisioning Navy's Joe Gibson. Sturgulewski chalked up the other 3 points for Merchant Marine by defeating Don Tardiff.

The Summary: 121 Pounds—DeLong, Navy, threw Hack Steele, with a reverse Chancery in 5:54 seconds.

128 Pounds — Jim Eulitt, Mer. Marine, decisioned Joe Gibson, 1 to 0.

136 Pounds — Oscar Green, Navy, threw Bob Metz, with' a head scissors, in 5 min., 5 sees.

145 Pounds—Jphn Fletcher, Navy, decisoned Jim Gardner, 11 to 8.

155 Pounds •—• Check Hathaway, Navy, threw Ed Barnes, with a bar arm and body press, in 8 mins., 45 sees.

165 pounds — Sturgy Sturgulewski, Mer. Marine, decisioned Don Tardiff, 7 to 5.

175 Pounds—Ed French, Navy, decisioned Buck Rogers, 9 to 5.

Heavyweight — Newbold Smith, Navy, threw Eric Jones, with a body stand, in 2 mins., 2 sees.

PLEBE

Summaries are as follows: 121 Pound Class — Don Mclver, Navy threw Pettianto with body press in one minute.

128 Pound Class—Geo. DeLong, Navy decisioned MacRae, 10 to 6.

136 Pound Class — Oscar Green, Navy threw Vrana with a half-nelson and body press in 2 minutes, 6 seconds.

145 Pound Class—Fletcher, Navy, threw Jiminez with a chancery and body press 4 minutes.

155 Pound Class—Keenan, Columbia, decisioned Hathaway, 4 to 2.

165 Pound Class—Forfeited by Columbia.

175 Pound Class—French, Navy, decisioned Kendler, 8 to 1.

Heavyweight — Newbold Smith, Navy, threw Vincent Nuk with an Oklahoma ride in 3 minutes.

PLEBE The plebe wrestling team met with their first defeat of the season at the hands of Washington High School of Washington, N. J. The visitors has an unusually good high school team and it will help the plebes a great deal by having such excellent competition.

Navy Retains Eastern Intercollegiate Championship The Naval Academy retained its Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Team Championship at Bethlehem, Pa., on Saturday, 9 February, 1946.

Oscar Greene, captain of the team, retained his individual championship in the 135pound-class, but George DeLong, 121, John Fletcher, 145, and Charles Hathaway, 155 pounds, lost in the finals. The other midshipmen were eliminated in the semi-final rounds.

The final team scores were as follows:, Navy 21 Army 20 Cornell 19 Penn State 14 Pennsylvania 10 Lehigh .

9 Princeton 7 Coast Guard 4 Columbia 0 This is the fourth successive year that the midshipmen have won the Eastern Intercol; legiate wrestling championship.

PLEBE The Navy plebe wrestling team was defeated for the second successive week by Newton High School of Newton, N. J. 26 to 8.

The visitors scored four falls and two decisions. They got falls in the 121, 128, 155, and 175 pound classes, and decisions in the 136, and heavyweight classes.

The plebe wrestling team defeated Roselle Park, N. J. High School team by the score of 21 to 9. Even though the Roselle team was The Navy varsity wrestling team completed no match for the plebes they provided better , its season by defeating the U. S. Coast Guard than usual high school competition for the Academy 29 to 3, and undefeated for the plebes. season. The Coast Guard Academy scored its Columbia 3 points on Gershkoff's decision over Navys Columbia dropped its wrestling meet with Bill Chandler.

Navy, only being able to take one bout by Summaries: decision. The Lions' three points were won 121 Pounds—Don Mclver, Navy, threw

by John Keenan when he outpointed Navy's Pahl, reverse chancery. Time—Im. 27s.

Charles Hathaway, 4 to 2, in the 155-pound128 Pounds—Bob Gershkoff, Coast Guard, class. The 165-pound-class was forfeited by decisioned Chandler, 6 to 2.

Columbia. Navy scored falls in the 121, 136, 136 Pounds—Greene, Navy, threw Rynick, 145, and heavyweight classes. head scissors. Time—2m. 2s.

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145 Pounds—Fletcher, Navy, threw Steffey, half nelson and body press. Time—2m. 45s.

155 Pounds — Hathaway, Navy, threw Clune, keylock. Time—4m. 15s.

165 Pounds—^Tardiff, Navy, decisioned Qough, 6 to 0.

175 Pounds—Settle, Navy, decisioned Hawkins, 10 to 0.

Heavyweight—Coppedge, Navy, decisioned Darrell Starr, 6 to 1.

50-Yard Freestyle — Won by Kanakanui, 50-Yd. Freestyle—Won by Korte, Kings Navy; second, Dwight, Navy; third, Russell, Pt.; Second, Kanakanui, Navy; Third, Dwight, Princeton. Time 24.8.

Navy, Time.23.

Diving—Won by Gomperts, Navy; second.

Fancy Diving—Won by Gomperts, Navy; Buttle, Princeton; third, Winslow, Princeton. Second, Barker, Navy; Third, Hodge, Kings 100-Yard Freestyle — Won by Russell, Pt. Princeton; second, Carrington, Navy; third, 100-Yd. Freestyle—Won by Hallett, Navy; Ivers, Navy. Time 56.9.

Second, Korte, Kings Pt; Third, Carrington, 150-Yard Backstroke — Won by Cowell, Navy; second, Lechner, Navy; third, Shand, Navy, Time .54.

150-Yd. Backstroke — Won by Cowell, Princeton. Time 1:38.8.

PLEBE 200-Yard Breaststroke — Won by Kallop, Navy; Second, Lechner, Navy; Third, Haynes, The plebe team defeated the Patterson Park Princeton; second, Reynolds, Navy; third, Kings Pt., Time 1.37.

220-Yd. Breaststroke—Won by Reynolds, High School of Baltimore, Md. 34 to 0 which Rogers, Princeton. Time 2:35.1.

440-Yard Freestyle—Won by Miller, Navy; Navy; Second, Ortland, Navy; Third, French, ended their schedule for the season. second, Mayer, Navy; third, Peterson, Prince- Kings Pt.; Time 2:21.6. ton. Time 5.17.

440-Yd. Freestyle—Won by Dayton, Kings SWIMMING 440-Yard Freestyle Relay—Won by Navy Pt; Second, Arthur, Kings Pt; Third, Meyer, North Carolina and Cornell (Crosby, Hall, Grechanik, Kanakanui). Time Navy, Time 5:22.

3:9.6.

Navy won a triangular swimming meet at 440-Yd. Relay—Won by Hallett, Dwight, the Naval Academy with Cornell and North Carrington, Kanakanui, Navy, Time 3:42.

U. S. Coast Guard Academy Carolina participating. Navy score 54 points.

North Carolina 42, and Cornell 33.

The Middle swimming team defeated an Army The Navy team placed first in four events, outclassed team from the U. S. Coast Guard got four second places, and four third places.

The Navy swimming team came through Academy 61-9.

By winning the meet Navy broke Cornell's in fine style to defeat the Army in a very close In two exhibition medley relays, the mid24 meet victory record, and also got revenge meet at Annapolis on 2 March, with the final on North Carolina who has defeated Navy for dies broke Naval Academy pool records. outcome being decided in the last event, the These were the 600-yard relay in which Cowell, the past two seasons.

Ivers, Hull, and Grechanik raced the course in 440-yard relay.

The summaries: The Army had an unusually strong team 3 minutes, 42.9 seconds, and the 300-yard 300-Yard Medley—Won by Navy (Cowell, relay, completed by Bob Cowell, Warren Ort- this year, being defeated once and that being Ordand, Hallett); Cornell, second (Iseman, land, and OUie Hallett in 2 minutes, 57.9 to Yale by only one point.

Murray, Martin). Time 3:01.3.

The score of the meet just before the last seconds. The previous 400-yard mark was 3 220-Yard Free St\-le—Won by VanDike, minutes, 43.6 seconds, and the 300-yard relay event was Navy 37 and Army 31. The fact Cornell; Procton, N. C , second; Zimmerthat the winner of the relay receives 7 points was 3 minutes, 01.3 seconds. The summary: man, N. C; third. Time 2:21.8.

220-Yard Freestyle — Won by Clifford, gave Army a chance to win the meet by taking 50-Yard Freestyle — Won by Kanakanui, Navy, second, Thompson, Navy; third, Clark, the relay event. The spectators were kept on Navy; Twining, N. C, second; Dwight, Navy, edge the whole time, and when Navy won the Coast Guard. Time 2m.46.4s. third. Time 0:24.2.

50-Yard Free style—Won by Kanakanui, relay event the crowd went wild. The Middle Low Board Diving — Won by Gomperts, Navy; second, Sheaffer, Navy; third, Walsh, swimmers were so excited and happy that they Navy, (96.25); Barker, Navy, second threw Henry Ortland, the coach, and Comdr.

Coast Guard. Time 23.8 sees .

(89.25); Ware, Cornell, third (88.38).

Fancy Diving—Won by Gomperts, Navy; B. M. Keene, USNR, the acting representa100-Yard free style—^Won by Twining, N. second, Joy, Navy; third Kaffenberger, Coast tive, into the pool but they were so happy that C; Hallett, Navy, second; Dwight, Navy, Guard. they did not object strenuously. third. Time 0:53.5.

Navy took five first places, and Army four.

100-Yard Free Style — Won by Crosby, 200-Yard Back Stroke — Won by Cowell, Navy; second, Walsh, Coast Guard; third, The Middies took first in the 300-yard relay, Navy; Lechner, Navy, second; Jenkins, N. C , Ivers, Navy. Time 56.6 sees.

440-yard relay, fancy diving, 150-yard backthird. Time 1.37.

150-Yard backstroke—Won by Reynolds, stroke, and the 200-yard breaststroke. Army 200-Yard Breaststroke—Won by Murray, Navy; second, McCallum, Navy; third, Clark, took first in the 220-yard, 50-yard, 100-yard, Cornell; Reynolds, Naw, second; Ortland, Coast Guard. Time 5:22.1. and 440-yard freestyle races.

Navy, third. Time 2:32.9.

440-Yard Relay—Won by Navy (Dwight, Summaries: 440-Yard Freestyle — Won by Van Dike, Hallett, Carrington, Kanakanui); second.

100-yd. Medley Relay—Won by Navy (CoCornell, Procton, N. C- second; Zimmerman, Coast Guard (Finks, Patterson, Walsh, Mcwell, Ortland, Hallett); Army, (Burrows, N. C, third. Time 5:03.

Cann). Time 3:39.9.

Gates, Dickey). Time: 3:5.

400-Yard Relay—Won by North Carolina 220-yd. Freestyle—Won by Gault, Army; (Morrow, Ficklen, Twining, Ward); Cornell, PLEBE second, Miller, Navy; third, Townsley, Army. second, (Hausman, Martin, Cousens, DisTime: 2:22. tasiopy); Navy third, (Crosby, Carrington, The Navy plebes defeated Haverford School Hallett, Kanakanui). Time 3:42.8.

150-yd. Freestyle—Won by Thayer, Army; in swimming 37 to 29. The plebes placed first second, LaMar, Army; third, Kanakanui, Navy. in five of the six individual events.

Ted LamPrinceton mot placed first in the 100 yard backstroke Time: 23:2.

Fancy Diving—Won by Barker, Navy; secThe Navy swimming team traveled to to give Haverford their only first place. HaverPrinceton, N. J. on 2 February and defeated ford won both the 150 yard and 200 yard ond, Gay, Army; third, Gomperts, Navy. that team 54 to 21. The Middies won 7 of relays.

100-yd. Freestyle—Won by Thayer, Army; the 9 first places. They took the 300-yard second, Hallett, Navy; third, Carrington, Navy.

Medley and 440-yd. free style relays, and Time: 53:2.

U. S. Merchant Marine Academy were first in the 220, 50, and 440 free style 150-yd. Backstroke — Won by Cowell, races, diving, and the 150-yard backstroke.

The swimming team still remains in the Navy; second, Lechner, Navy; third, Boyd, Bob Cowell took the backstroke race from Jim undefeated category by defeating the U. S. Army. Time: 1:38.8.

Shand, Princeton's N.C.A.A. champion win- Merchant Marine Academy 48 to 27. The 200-yd. Breast Stroke—Won by Reynolds, ing in a minute and 38.8 seconds. The Sum- Middies took six first places out of nine events.

Navy; second, Dodd, Army; third, Ortland, maries are as follows: Summaries: Navy. Time: 2:29.2.

300-Yd. Medley—Won by Navy: (Cowell, 300-Yard Medley Relay—^Won by Navy 440-yd. Relay—Won by Navy (Carrington, Ortland, Hallett) Time 2:59-5.

(Cowell, Ortland, Hallett). Time 3:04.6.

220-Yd. Freestyle—Won by Dayton, Kings Hallett, Dwight, Kanakanui); Army, (Bur!;e, 220-Yard Freestyle—Won by Thompson, Hickey, Thayer, LaMar). Time: 3:37.1.

Navy; second, Clifford, Navy; third, Peterson, Pt.; Second, Arthur, Kings Pt.; Third, Miller, {Continued on page 59) Navy, Time 2:25.

Princeton. Time 2:29.8.

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What's the Dope Marine and Naval Orders from February to March 1946 1QQQ LLOYD S. SHAPLEY, ' 9 9 , ' O ' ' (Capt., U S N - R e t . ) , gives his permanent address as 556 Arlington Avenue, Berkeley 7, Calif.

Lt. Comdr. Duncan I. Selfridge, U S N R .

V.Adm. H . Fairfax Leary, USN-Ret. Comdr. Logan Cresap, USN-Ret. Capt. Louis C. Farley, U S N R .

Capt. A . C. Stott, USN-Ret.

l O H Q T H O M A S C. KINKAID, '08 I 7 U O ( A d m . , U S N ) , former commander of t h e 7 th Fleet, took command of the Eastern Sea Frontier on 16 January, relieving Herbert F. Leary, ' 0 5 . Mrs. Kinkaid will sponsor the n e w carrier, CORAL SBA, 45,000-ton sister ship of the FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. R I C H M O N D K. T U R N E R , '08, (VAdm., U S N ) , is one of three representatives of the United States on the United Nations Military Staff Committee which will control the world's international poUce force.

Douglas, Archibald H., Capt. lieved all active duty.

Proceed home; re-

I / U / U S N ) , has been nominated by the President to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Belgium and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxembourg.

FREDERICK J . H O R N E , ' 9 9 , (Adm., U S N ) , has been named as head of the Board of Review for Decorations and Medals.

There were letters from Nimitz, Rawle, Strassburger, and Baggaley regretting circumstances which made their presence at the gathering impossible.

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Last year and for the previous several years, something like two-thirds of the members present had been in uniform. Every m a n this year was engaged in some civilian pursuit, all setthng down to new activities or wellearned rests. N o t a single m a n present was o n active duty with the Navy.

JESSE B . O L D E N D O R F , '09, (R-Adm., U S N ) , has taken command of the I l t h Naval District.

1QA# W I L L I A M GLASSFORD, '06, I 7UO (V.Adm., U S N ) , former commander of the U . S. Naval Forces, N o r t h African Waters, recently assumed command of U. S. Naval Forces in Germany, reheving Admiral R O B E R T G H O R M L E Y , ' 0 6 . Admiral Glassford will also serve as the naval advisor of the Office of Military Govermnent for Germany.

LEVIN H . CAMPBELL, JR., '09, (Lt Gen., U S A - R e t . ) , is now Vice President of International Harvester Co.

Foley, Paul, CapL Sraff—Joint Task Force 1, Navy Dept.

Hellweg, Julius F., Commo., Ret Naval Operations, Navy Dept., temporary duty.

1 0 0 1 J*^™^ P- J A C K S O N , ' 0 1 , I 7U I (Capt., U S N - R e t . ) . Sgt. Schuyler W . Jackson, son of Capt. Jackson was decorated during t h e war with the Silver Star Medal and the Bronze Star and O a k Leaf Cluster.

IQAQ E M O R Y S. L A N D , ' 0 2 , ( V . ' 'W-^ A d m . . U S N - R e t . ) , has assumed his new duties as President, Air Transport Association, at 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, N . W . . Washington 5, D . C. i Q A C H A R O L D G. B O W E N , ' 0 5 , I 7 U 3 (R.Adm., U S N ) , w h o is head of the Special Devices section of the Office of Research a n d Inventions, will be in N e w York now that several important branches of that office have been moved from Washington.

W A L T E R H . LASSING, ' 0 5 , (Capt., U S N R e t . ) , gives his new address as 755 G Avenue, Coronado, Calif.

W I L L I A M O. SPEARS, ' 0 5 , (R.Adm., U S N ) , will represent t h e U . S. Navy at the inauguration of Eurico Caspar Dutra as president of Brazil.

T h e class of 1905 in the vicinity of N e w York City assembled on 30 January to celebrate the forty-first anniversary of their graduation from t h e Academy. This is the twelfth consecutive year that they have gathered together t o celebrate t h e occasion, and there was a record attendance at this meeting. T h e following were present: Mr. R. P. R. Neilson.

Capt. A. K. Atkins, USN-Ret. Mr. P. E. D . Nagle.

Mr. Earle Farwell.

Capt. C. H . Shaw, USN-Ret. Mr. Frank B. Godley.

Capt. H . F. Glover, USN-Ret. Comdr. Samuel Gordon, USN-Ret. Mr. Malcolm L. Campbell.

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RUSSELL W I L L S O N , '06, (V.Adm., USNR e t . ) , will become associate editor of World Report, the new weekly news magazine o n international affairs.

Calhoun, William L., V.Adm. Western Sea Frontier.

Willson, Russell, V.Adm., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

H A R O L D C. T R A I N , '09, (RAdm., U S N ) , gives his new mailing address as 1401 Jungle Avenue, St. Petersburg 1, Fla.

Glennon. James B., Capt., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Robertson, Robert S., Jr., Capt, Ret. Eramnanpn

by Naval Retiring Board and release from active duty.

1 0 1 n CHARLES M. COOKE, JR.. '10.

I 7 IU (V.Adm., U S N ) , and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek have been discussing a training program for China's new Navy.

M A R C A. M I T S C H E R , '10, (Adm.,USN), Congramlations to Admiral Mitscher for the addition of that fourth star.

Norfleet, Joseph P., Comdr., Ret relieved all active duty.

1 0 0 7 ^- ALVERDO C O R W I N , ' 0 7 , l 7 U / (Capt., U S N - R e t . ) . M r . Henry Hobart Corwin, son of Capt. Corwin, was married to Miss Janis H u g h H o m e in January.

ALBERT C. R E A D , ' 0 7 , (R.Adm., U S N ) , is leaving his post as chief of staff to t h e commander air force, Atlantic Fleet and will report for duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Ooperations.

J O H N H . H O O V E R , '07, (V.Adm., U S N ) , gives his new duty address as Navy Department, c / o General Board, Washington, D . C. Bowdey, George H., Commo., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Bradley, Willis W., Jr., Capt. Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Bruce, Bryson, R.Adm. Supervisor of Shipbuilding, New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, with additional duty as Naval Inspector of Ordnance, New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, and further additional duty as Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Naval Inspeaor of Ordnance, Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia. Pa. Qark, Charles R., Capt., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Smith, Reuben R., Capt., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Proceed home:

1 0 1 1 RICHARD S. FIELD, "11. ' ' • ' (Capt., U S N - R e t . ) . writes: "From Stanley Mitchell, 28 San Leandro Park Rd., Santa Barbara, comes a newsy and interesting letter. Stanley is the man who lock most of the Naval Academy course in a Colorado hospital and graduated in absentia near the top of the class. I stayed right at the academy for the full four years and look at the time I had. Stanley was married 20 April, 1945, to Mrs. Alice Flannery Corbett of Clearwater, Fla. They have some land near Santa Barbara and intend to build there. He sees the McClarans frequently. Oscar Badger and Howard K i n g m a n have been there and recently, also "Brereton with his young English bride.' (Lewis Brereton was recently married to Mrs. Zena A. Groves of London.) S ^ e y understands that Bill Quigley is in command at H u e n e m e . "My little house above Monte Carlo,' he says, 'stood out like a sore thumb and was a likely target for our destroyers a year ago . . . caretaker, conveniently absent at the time, said it was German shells diat damaged the house and garden.'

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'Trank F. Reynolds sends a card announcing that after five years' service he is logging out of the Navy for the third time and resuming the practice of law. Address, 217 N. Pitt St., Alexandria, Va. "Here is Some long awaited news of the family of Rear Adm. and Mrs. Roger W .

Paine. Lt. Comdr. Roger W. Paine, Jr., '39, after a distinguished wartime career in submarines, is now skipper of the new submarine CUBERA. He and his wife have a son and a daughter. Margaret Paine is Mrs. Wm. G. Whyte. Her husband, a colonel, is now leaving the Army and going back to U. S. Steel in Chicago. Helen Paine has been a WASP during the war—staff pilot at Randolph Field, Tex. She is back home now and works in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. These Paine girls are real beauties.

"Along comes (to Hill) a letter from Fred Welden, feeding the class kitty, and reporting himself at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville. TS," he writes, "Am getting the hell out of here on 15 Feb.' Thus does Pete announce his approaching return to civil life! (Home address, 10573 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, 24.)

"And we learn that Captain Guysbert B. Vroom has been honored by our friends across the sea with the Order of the British Empire.

At the presentation ceremony he was accom. panied by his son. Captain (possibly higher) Guysbert Bogert Vroom, Jr., who has just terminated his five years' Army service, which took him into battle in Africa, Sicily and SWPac. "I wish Mrs. Norman Scott would write and let me know how her sons are getting along.

I have been told that Merrit Hodson left a son. I would like to have this confirmed. It will be remembered that Merritt married Edith Jones who used to visit Starr King's parents in Annapolis when we were midshipmen.

That, by the way, was one of the kindest couples I have ever known. They used to welcome me in their house on King George St. and I took full advantage of their hospitality!

"I commend to yovu: attention an excellent article in the January Naval Institute Proceedings, Foreign Georgraphic Names On The Mariner's Chart, by James B. Hutt. The author was in our class our first two years after which he resigned for physical reasons. He has been in the Navy's Hydrographic Office for more than thirty years where he has administrative duties with the publication of Notices to Mariners, Pilot Charts, Sailing Directions, Light Lists, Gazetteers, etc., and with the adjustment of geographic names.

"Vice Adm. Oscar Badger is in command of service forces. Pacific. Rear Adm. Frank Lowry gives his address as 212 6th Ave., E. Cresco, Iowa. Brandt called me the other day when he was in town. Among other things he told me of meeting on the West Coast a very attractive lady who is the widow of Herbert H. Bouson.

"Merring and Paine recently received the Legion of Merit. Harry for work as Chief of Industrial Readjustment, Office of Procurement and Material; Roger (second LM), Material and Products Control Officer. They should have another medal for being able to remember those titles.

'That grand old sailor. Captain C. Q. Wright, is home from the wars and has resumed his place as vice president of the Whit-

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ing Corporation, Harvey, 111. He "came back in' in Jan., '42, and after a succession of jobs finally got exaaly what he wanted and was fitted for when Charley Lockwood put him in command of the Holland. In this job for the last year and a half of the war, he was refitting subs right up at the front, really in the big time. He got to Tokyo from where he flew back to Chicago and was "paid off' last November. "Incidentally," says C. Q., "I collected five grandchildren during the war. . . . My son is back from New Zealand with a wife and two sons . . . oldest daughter has rwo daughters and my youngest daughter . . . has one son.'

"Remember Ginger? On the midshipmen's cruises he held one of the less glamorous positions in the housekeeping department and for that reason he was not accepted with enthusiasm as a waiter in the mess hall. "Ginger, take your thumb out of that soup!' 'It's all right, sir, it ain't hot.' " Bruns, Henry F., R.Adm., N R , CEC. Director Easiern Pacific Division of the Bureau Yards and Docks, San Francisco, Calif., and additional duty Western Sea Frontier.

Mack, Albert R., Comdr., R e t Examination by Naval Retiring Board and release from active duty.

Ret.), has returned to his home at 1651 Webster Street, Palo Alto, Calif.

CHARLES L. AUSTIN, '13, (Capt., USN, SC), has assumed duties as Supply Officer at the Naval Academy.

Donahue, Alfred H., Comdr., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Fenn, Herbert K., Capt, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Gray, Lloyd R., Capt., Ret. I l t h Naval Distria, San Diego, Calif., temporary duty pending release from active duty.

Hintze, Karl E., Comdr., R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Kirkpatrick, Robert D . , Capt., R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Pfaff, Roy, Capt Chief of Staff and Aide—U. S. Naval Base, New York, N . Y. Ruble, Wilbur J., Capt. Supervising Inspector of Naval Material, San Francisco, Calif.

Valentine, Rawson J., C a p t , R e t Examination by Naval Retiring Board and release from active duty.

Withers, Clarke, Capt., N R . Staff—19th Fleet

1 0 1 4 EDWARD L. COCHRANE, '14, I 7 IT (V.Adm., USN), was presented the DSM for his services as chief of the Bureau of Ships.

JOSEPH R. REDMAN, '14, (R.Adm., USN), has been awarded the DSM. He will 1 0 1 0 P- V. H. (MAMMY) WEEMS, become Vice-President of the Western Union I 7 IZ '12, (Capt., USN-Ret.), has an- Telegraph Co. on 4 February. nounced that the Sales and School Departments of the Weems' System of Navigation WILLIAM A. CORN, '14, (Capt., USN), have been moved, and the new offices are at received a Letter of Commendation and Rib227 Prince George Street in Annapolis. bon from the Secretary of the Navy.

ROBERT A. LAVENDER, '12, (Capt., USN-Ret.), who was patent officer for the atomic bomb project during the war, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for directing the legal work involving thousands of complex inventions relating to the bomb.

DANIEL E. BARBEY, '12, (V.Adm., USN), will head the principal training base for Atlantic Fleet Amphibious forces and headquarters for Amphibious Training Command which is to be installed at Little Creek, Va. RICHARD E. BYRD, JR., '12, (R.Adm., USN-Ret.), has announced that he is planning another trip to the South Pole. Things are really getting back to normal.

LOUIS E. DENFELD, '12, (V.Adm., USN), has been named head of the Red Cross campaign at the Navy Department.

Barbey, Daniel E., V.Adm. Commander, Amphibious Forces Atlantic Fleet.

Qark, James C , Capt Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Fox. John L., Comdr., R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

McMorris, Charles H., V.Adm. Commander, Fourth Fleet Nickinson, Edward P.. Comdr., Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Robertson, Richard S., C a p t , SC. Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Thompson. Robert R., Capt,, Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1 0 1 ^ CHARLIE P. McFEATERS, '13, I / ' •J (Capt., USN), gives his new address as 4704 Narragansett Avenue, San Diego 7, Calif.

GLENN B. DAVIS, '13, (R.Adm., USN), has been named superintendent of the United States Naval Gun Fartory, Washington, D. C. ARTHUR S. WALTON, '13, (Capt., USN-

Kessing, Oliver O., Commo. Operations Officer, I l t h Naval Distria, San Diego, Calif.

Malloy, William E., Capt Supervising Inspector of Naval Material, Chicago, 111.

Palmer, Edward C , Capt., N R . I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif., temporary duty in connection witli separation processing.

Short, Edwin T., Commo. Commander, Transport Squadron 2 and additional duty as Commander, Transport Division 2 1 .

Stecher, Lewis J., Capt. Supervismg Inspector of Naval Material, Seattle, Wash.

Wills, Arthur E., Comdr., N R . 3rd Naval District, New York, N . Y., temporary duty pending further assignment

101C A L E X A N D E R WOTHERI 7 ID SPOON, '15, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Wotherspoon announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Anne Parker Wotherspoon to Ensign Hugh Bell Ogburn, USNR. HOWARD L. VICKERY, '15, (V.Adm., USN), and Mrs. Vickery announce the en. gagement of their daughter. Miss Barbara Willia Vickery to Mr. Philip Somervell Bowie.

ROSWELL H. BLAIR, '15, (Comdr., USNRet. ) , gives his new address as East Hundred, Cobham, Va. DE WITT PECK, '15, (Maj. Gen., USMC). Miss Elizabeth Lansing Peck, daughter of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Peck, was married to Ensign Corliss Robinson Nugent, '46, on 13 January, 1946.

FRANCIS S. LOW, '15, (R.Adm., USN), is heading a 23-man board, the purpose of which is to formulate a policy governing promotion and retirement of regular officers of the Navy and Marine Corps.

FORREST B. ROYAL, '15, (R.Adm.. d e c ) . Miss Katharine Knight Royal, daughter of the late Admiral Royal sponsored a 2,250-ton destroyer, the FORREST ROYAL, on 17 January, 1946.

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Granat, William, Capt Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance for Naval Ordnance Establishments, Navy Dept.

Maher, James E., Commo. Chief, Base Maintenance Division. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Paddock, Hubert E., Capt. Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Perry, Benjamin F,, Capt Office of the Inspector General, Navy Dept, Ring, Morton L., R.Adm,, SC, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material Division), Navy Dept,

1 01 A ARTHUR W. RADFORD, '16, l 7 l O (V.Adm., USN), has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second DSM. ANDREW C. McFALL, '16, (R.Adm., USN), who retires from active duty on 1 March, 1946, will become a Vice President and Director of the Company in charge of Public Relations for Ponte Vedra Beach Company.

Ebert Dwyer of Newport were married on 1 February in Washington.

FRANK L. WORDEN, (Capt., USN), gives his new duty address as Navy Dept., Room 2923, Washington, D. C. Conover, James P., Jr., Capt,, Ret, Proceed home; relieved all active duty, , Fahrion, Frank G,, R,Adm. Commander of Joint Task Group 1.2 and Commander of the Naval Groups, Joint Task Force 1.

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

101ft ^'^^^ ^ - M^LLS, (R.Adm., I 7 10 USN), has been appointed the new Chairman of the Maritime Commission.

He was recently decorated with a DSM.

SAMUEL H. HURT, (Capt., USN), gives his address as Naval ROTC, University of SAMUEL P. GINDER, '16, (R.Adm., Va., Charlottesville, Va. USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

LELAND P. LOVETTE, (Capt., USN), former chief of the Navy office of Public InJOHN S. ROBERTS, '16, (Capt., USNRet. ) , having been specially commended by formation, has been nominated by the Presthe Secretary of the Navy for performance of ident for elevation to the rank of R. Admiral. duty in actual combat with the enemy, was adBOB PARKER, writes from Carnegie-Illivanced to the rank of R. Admiral on the retired list effective 1 January, 1946. Rear Ad- nois Steel Corp. in New York: "The Alumni miral and Mrs. Roberts are making their home House is .really a thing of beauty, and I'm sure you must be proud of it as it represents at 761 G. Avenue, Coronado, Calif. one helluva lot of heartbreaking labor and ROBERT B. CARNEY, '16, (R.Adm., many thankless tasks on your part."

USN), has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu CARLOS W. WIEBER, (Capt., USN), has of his third DSM. been awarded the -Navy Cross.

C. JULIAN WHEELER, '16, (Capt., USN), gives his address as U. S. Naval MisW. A. STEWART MACKLIN, (Capt., sion, Navy # 153, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. USN), writes that he is bound for the Pacific —ultimate destination unknown but probably CLINTON E. BRAINE, JR., '16, (Commo., as CO of a transport. He will be at the PreUSN), has been recently nominated for Rear Commissioning Training Center, Treasure IsAdmiral. land, for a while.

JOHN A. STANSBURY, '16, (Comdr., USNR), has left the USS POLARIS and gives his new address as The City Trust & Savings Bank, Trust Department, Youngstown, Ohio.

GEORGE F. HUSSEY, JR., '16, (V.Adm., USN), has been awarded the DSM. VAN H. RAGSDALE, '16, (R.Adm., USN), has left his job as commander of Carrier Division 6 to become chief of staff and deputy commander of the Western Sea Frontier.

Carney, Robert B,, R.Adm. Assistant, Chief of Naval Operations, (Logistics), Naval Operations, Navy Dept, Dudley, Sidney E,, Capt. Bureau of Ships. Navy D e p t , temporary duty, pending further assignment Ginder, Samuel P., R.Adm. Commander, Fleet Air Wing 4—additional duty.

Halpine, Charles G., C a p t , R e t Office of the Director of Public Information, Navy Dept.

Joy, Charles T,, R,Adm, Nearest Naval District, temporary duty pending further assignment, Kirtland, Fred D,, R,Adm, Commander, Amphibious Training Command, Atlantic Fleet Patterson, Theodore T,, C a p t , Ret, 4th Naval District Philadelphia, Pa,, temporary duty pending release from active duty.

Price, John Dale, R,Adm. Commander, Fleet Air, Alameda, Roper, Clifford H,, Capt, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept,, temporary duty pending further assignment, Solberg, Thorwald A,, R,Adm, Staff—Joint Task Force One, Navy Dept., additional duty.

Wheeler, Charles J., Capt. Naval War College, Newport, R. I,, temporary duty.

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now provost of Cornell University at Ithaca N. Y., received the Legion of Merit on 18 January, 1946.

Brooks, Winfield A., Capt Supervising Inspector of Naval Material, Atlanta, Ga., 'and additional duty as Inspector of Naval Material, Atlanta, Ga Clark, David H., Capt, Director Naval Engineering Experiment Station, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Day, Dorrance K., Capt.

19th Fleet San Francisco, Calif.

Hungerford, Ralph W . , Capt Commander, Charleston Group, 16th Fleet, Charleston, S, C. Mays, William H,, Capt, 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor, T, H,, for duty in connection with General Court Martial, ' Rush, Richard M,, Capt, Production Officer, U, S, Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.

Talbot, Paul H,, Capt 12th Naval District, San Francisco, Calif,, temporary dury pending further assignment, WiUenbucher, Franz O., Capt., R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

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L^'^UEL p. PADGETT, JR.,

' 'Xv (Commo., USN), was ordered to duty as naval petroleum attache, with diplomatic status, accredited to twelve Middle Eastern governments: Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Transjordan, Lybia, Afghanistan and Arabian Peninsula.

ALLAN D. BLACKLEDGE, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Blackledge announce the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Lt. William J. Tipton.

ALLEN HOBBS, (Capt., USN), has left the USS COLUMBUS, and now resides at 3631 Upton Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

ROBERT P. ERDMAN, (Comdr., USNRet.) , writes: "My cruise as CO of the AKA TOWNER is rapidly coming to a close. I was unfortunate enough to severely strain a heart muscle while exercising last week. The result is that I must return to the States on the sick list and give up this fine ship.

"We entered the Pacific in midjanuary, DONALD CURTIS, (Col., USMC), gives his new duty address as Hdqtrs., USMC, Wash- 1945, and have never been East of the 180th Meridian since. It was not our fortune to beington, D. C. come involved in actual combat but this ship Busbey, LeRoy W., Jr., Commo. 12th Naval Dis- covered 45,000 miles and touched at more trict, San Francisco, Calif., for further assignports than it would be wise to take space to ment.

Clifford, Lloyd E,, Comdr,, R e t Examination by mention. We spent considerable time in the Naval Retiring Board and release from active duty. roll-up of the South Pacific bases and ended by Connell, Francis B,, Comdr., ISTR. Naval Air Base, Kobler Field. Saipan Island, Marianas Islands, for carrying occupation forces to the Tokyo Bay— duty as Executive Officer.

Crutcher, Chauncey R., Capt. Office of the Board Yokohama Atea, Otaru in Hokkaido, and the of Inspection and Survey, Pacific Coast Section, forces that assisted the Chinese in the surrenSan Francisco, Calif. der of the Japanese garrison at Tsingtao, Fischler, Peter K., Jr., R.Adm. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

China.

Henkle, Ralph R , C a p t , R e t Naval Base, San "I had the great pleasure of seeing a great Francisco, Calif.

Macklin. William A. S.. Capt Commanding Officer. many 1920 classmates ranging from R. AdTISS M O N R O V I A , APA 3 1 . miral Jack Perry to Lt. Comdr. Sis Hopkins.

McDowell, Ralph S., Capt Commander, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, N . H. The happy reunions had in the Western Pacific will remain for me the brightest spot 1 Q1 A GUSTAVE H. B O W M A N , of my last tour of active duty."

Comdr. Erdman gives his new address as ' ' ' ' (Capt, USN-Ret.), assumed inactive status on 12 January, 1945, and gives Sparkleberry Hall, Wilmington Island, Sahis address as Box 118, RR 4, Lakeside Park, vannah, Georgia.

Covington, Ky. GEORGE M. DUSINBERRE, (Comdr., JAMES L. HOLLOWAY, JR., (R.Adm., USN-Ret.), is now an instructor at Virginia USN), and Mrs. Holloway announce the en- Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Va. gagement of their daughter, Jean Gordon, to Lt. Laurence Heyworth, Jr., '43.

MARCY M. DUPRE, JR., (Capt., USN), is attending the Interim Course in Industrial EARLE ,H. KINCAID, (Comdr., USN- Mobilization at the Army Industrial College.

Ret.), gives his new address as 4607 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. CARROLL T. BONNEY, (Capt., USN), and Mrs. Bonney announce the marriage of ARTHUR S. ADAMS, (Capt., USN-Ret.), their daughter, Margaret Hollis, to Lt. Comdr.

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Robert Maurice White, USNR, on 11 January at Walton Colton Memorial Chapel, Shoemaker, Calif.

Baber, Myron A., C a p t , Ret. Proceed home; relieved all active dut}'.

Christmas, Vi'alter F., Capt. Additional duty—-A.ssistant Industrial Manager, Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif.

Combs, Thomas S., R.Adm. Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics for Material and Services, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Decker. Benton W., Capt. Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan.

Donovan, Jermone F., Jr., Capt Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va. Doolin. Edward H.. Comdr,, Ret, Nearest Naval District, temporary dut>' pending further assignment.

Eagleton. William L., Comdr,, N R . Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material Division) , Navy Dept. pick, Harold F., Capt. Commanding Officer, Naval Air Base, Saipan Island, with additional duty as Commander, Naval Air Base, Kobler Field, Saipan, Marianas Islands.

Goode, Jesse B., Capt. Nearest Naval District, temporary duty pending funher assignment.

Graham, Roy W. M.. Capr. Nearest Naval Distria, temporary dut)- pending further assignment, Haugen. Lawrence T.. Capt. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Navy Dept,. for additional dut>'.

Kerr, Asel B., Comdr, 12th Naval District, San Francisco, Calif,, temporary dut>' awaiting release from active duty.

Kinney. Phillip R.. Capt Welfare and Recreation Officer. Pearl Harbor, T. H .

Mansfield. Brook S.. Capt. Operations Officer, U. S. Naval Base, New York, N , Y. McKay, James H.. Capt. Commander, Naval Air Bases, Marcus Island, Admiralty Islands, and additional duty as Island Commander.

MuUan, William E. A.. Capt. Naval Gun Factoxy, Washington, D . C. Murphy, Charles H., Capt I l t h Naval District San Diego, Calif., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Surran, Charles L., Capt. Supervising Inspector ot Naval Material. Los Angeles, Calif., with additional dury as Inspector of Naval Material, Los Angeles, Calif.

Walker, Harold E,, Comdr., N R . Officer in Charge, Navy Recruiting Station. Huntington. W . Va. Weller. Oscar A., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Quonset P o i n t R. L Wilson. Edward P., Comdr., N R . Columbia River Group. 19th Fleet, Astoria. Oregon.

1001 DAVID E. CARLSON, (Capt., I /^ I USN), has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

THOMAS J. RYAN, JR., (Capt., USN), has left the Naval Academy as head of the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery. He will take a short course of study before assuming command of the light cruiser, USS PROVIDENCE.

WILLIAM D. HOOVER, (Capt., USN), is serving aboard the USS GRAND CANYON, Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Wash.

WILLIAM L. MOISE, writes: "I would be glad to have my 1921 classmates know that I am back in civilian life with the investment banking firm of Blyth & Co., Inc., at 14 Wall St., N. Y. C. I had three and half years of very interesting active duty in the Naval Reserve, ending up with participation in the first Philippine landings on Leyte, followed by six months' duty connected with the development and operation of the large Naval operating base established in the Leyte-Samar area. From that duty I have the Bronze Star and recollections of enough excitement to last a plodding "cit" the balance of his life. Truly, it's a great Navy."

JAMES H. STROTHER, (Col., USMC), FRANCIS E. FAIRMAN, JR., gives his and RUTLEDGE B. TOMPKINS, (Capt., address as 2590 Ridgeway Road, San Marino 9, USN), are attending the Interim Course in Calif., and says: "I would like to be sure that Industrial Mobilization at the Army Industrial old friends have the information available as to how to get hold of me because, otherwise, College. many arm-bending opportunities may never EDWIN G. FULINWIDER, (Capt., USN), come to pass.

"Incidentally, my oldest son, Francis, 3rd, recently received the Legion of Merit. is an Ensign, USNR, located in the PhilipGUY CHADWICK, (Capt., USN), mar- pines. My second son, Philip, is now a firstried Mrs. Alice Bush Hopping, widow of classman at the Academy."

Hallsted L. Hopping, '24, on 2 February, Acuff, Jasper T., Commo. Nearest Naval District, 1946. temporary duty pending further assignment.

ELMON B. GUERNSEY, (Comdr., USN), is serving in the USS HOOPER ISLAND, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

CLINTON A. MISSON, (Capt., USN), has taken command of the light cruiser, DAYTON. He relieved Capt. P. W. Steinhagen, '20.

MICHAEL H. KERNODLE, (Capt., USN), has been awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Navy Cross.

MARCH, 1946

Barrett, Morgan C , Capt. Office of the Supervising Inspector of Naval Material, Pittsburgh, Pa. Brown, Charles R., Capt. Naval Instructor—Army Air Force School, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala. Cotton, Clement F., Capt. Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Curry, Duncan, Jr., Capt U. S. Naval Base, San Francisco, Calif.

Davis, William S. G., Capt I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Fitzgerald, William F., Jr., Capt Chief of Staff and Aide—10th Fleet Hughart John H. P., Jr,, Comdr,, N R . Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Lyttle, George H., Capt, Service Force, Pacific Fleet, for further assignment.

Macklin, Charles F., Jr., Capt, Commander LSM Squadron 3.

Macondray. Atherton, Jr,, Capt, Staff—Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet Meadow, Harold L,, Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t Pihl, Paul E,, Commo. Naval .Operations, Navy Dept, Roth, Edward E,, Capt, Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, Calif.

Switzer, Wendell G., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.

WILLIAM S. C A M P B E L L , (Capt., USN), gives his new address as 17 N. Chatsworth Ave., Apt. 3K, Larchmont, N. Y.

1922

EDWARD R. DURGIN, (Capt., USN), is on duty at the Navy Dept.

ALVAN FISHER, (Capt., USNR), is returning to the Warren Telechrom Co., Ashland, Mass., after having served over five years in the Navy. During that time he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

HERBERT S. DUCKWORTH, (Capt., USN), has taken command of the super-carrier, MIDWAY. E. JOHN LONG, (Capt, USNR). Congratulations to Capt. Long for his wonderful work during the war with the Combat Art Section and also for his new promotion.

HUBERT W. CHANLER, (Capt., USN), former Assistant Center Commander of Sampson, has been relieved in order to serve as naval attache to the United States Embassy in Rome.

KENNETH O. EKELUND, (Capt.,.USN), gives his new address as 938 duPont Bldg., Miami, Fla. RALPH EARLE, JR., (Capt., USN), has taken over as head of the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at the Naval Academy.

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Ring, Stanhope C , Capt Atkeson, Clarence C , Jr., Capt Neatest Naval District, temporary duty pending further assigtiment Bartlett, Bradford, Capt Officer in Charge, Gvilian Housing, Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Berner, Gus R., Jr., Comdr. Director of Distribution (Enlisted Personnel), 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Cater, Charles J., Capt Naval Shipyard, Maxe Island. Calif.

Craig, Edward C , Capt Industrial Engineer Officer, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.

Ellis, Lysle E., Comdr. Inspector of Naval Material, Philadelphia. Pa. Espe, Carl F., Capt Naval Operations. Navy Dept.

Fink, Beauford W.. Jr., Commo., CEC Construction Engineer Officer ia Charge, Naval Construction Battalion Center, Naval Station, Port Hueneme, Calif., and additional duty as Officer in Charge, Advance Base Depot. Construction Battalion Center, Naval Station, Port Hueneme, Calif.

Fitzsimmons, Andrew M. R., Capt, NR. Bureau of Ships, Navy D e p t Gardner, Edward R., Jr., Capt Service Force, Pacific Fleet.

Geise, John F., Comdr., NR. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Haley, Ignatius J., Capt, NR. Commanding Officer, USS

Z E N O B I A , AKA

52.

Hall, Frederick S., Capt PAWCUTIN, A E

Commanding Officer, USS

18.

Keeth, Austin S., Capt, S C Supply Officer, Florida Group, 16th Fleet, Green Cove Springs, Florida.

Kniskem, Leslie A., Capt Staff—Joint Task Force One, Navy D e p t , additional duty.

Libby, Ruthvea E-, Capt Commanding Officer, USS B R E M E R T O N , CA

130.

McCracken, Alan R., Capt Commanding Officer, USS RENvnxE, APA 227.

M<x>re, Chauncey, Capt Assistant Inspeaor of Naval Material, Chicago, 111.

Morse. Robert W., Capt Naval Operations. Navy D e p t , additional duty.

Neely, George L., Comdr.. NR. Bureau of Ships, Navy D e p t , temporary duty.

Nelson, Roger, Conmio. Bureau of Naval Persormel, Navy Dq>t, temporary duty pending further assignment Regan, Herbert E., Capt USS FRANKLIN D . RCXJSEVELT, CVB 4 2 .

RtKkey. Walter W., Capt Duty with the Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel as Officer Distribution Officer, I l t h Naval Distria, San Diego, Calif.

Sampson, James G,, Capt 16th Fleet Uehlinger, Archibald E., Capt Ordnance Officer, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.

Voegeli. Clarence E . Capt Commanding Officer,

SAKATCXIA, CV

3.

Commanding Officer, USS ..

Ringle, Kenneth D . , Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept „^ -Shaw, John D . . Capt Commanding Officer, Navy V-12 Unit, Case School of Applied Science, Ueveland, Ohio, additional dury. .

Thayer. William R-, Capt Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island. San Francisco, Calif., temporary duty pending further assignment Vondreele, William H., Capt Industrial Survey Division, Navy D e p t Willett James H., Comdr., NR. Naval Operanons.

Navy D e p t

1 0 0 4 PRENTICE A. S H I E B L E R. I /XT Word has been received that Prentice A. Shiebler, formerly of the U. S. Marine Corps, is now a Qstercian Monk with the address, c/o Cistercian Monastery, Valley Falls, R. I.

McKee, Ira C , Comdr., NR. Florida Gioop, 16di Fleet Green Cove Springs, Fla. Moss, RJchard S., Capt Commanding Officer, Nanl Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Norcross, Malcolm A., Capt, S C Staff—Joint Task Force 1, J Four Section, Naval Operatioas, N t n Dept Oden, Solomon P., Capt Commandioj! Offiar USS VINTON, AKA 8 3 . ' Perkins, Albert N . . Capt Commanding Offisg Navail Air Sation, Mojave, Calif.

Reiifa, George, Jr.. Comdr., NR. Amphibious Gioop Richter, Henry E., Capt Commanding Officer, Rea u i t Training Command, Naval Training Cenar San Diego, Calif.

Thomas, Lloyd H., Capt, S C Supply Officer, U. S. Naval Base, Boston, Mass., additional duty.

Verge, William E., Capt Bureau of Naval PcasoniieL Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Wilkin. Warren D . , Capt Bureau of Naval Ptrsoimel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pendiag fbtther assignment Williams, Roy D . , Capt Commanding Officer, USS SEVIER, APA

223.

JOSEPH A. FARRELL, (Capt., USN), has recently taken command of the new 13,000ton destroyer tender, YELLOWSTONE.

Woodyard, Edward L , Capt

JOSEPH M. P. WRIGHT, (Capt, USN), and FREDERICK R. FURTH, (Opt., USN), axe attending the Interim Course in Industrial MobUizadon at the Army Industrial College.

<g«(CHARLES A. BOND, (Capt, ' • *^ USN), has returned to shore duty and a job with OP-40 Y at the Navy Dept

JOHN C DANIEL, (Capt., USN), and Miss Anne Celeste Butt were married on 19 January in Washington.

USS C A M B R I A , APA

Commanding Officer,

36.

Yeomans, Elmer E., Capt Chief of Staff and Aide— Commander, Submarine Force, Atlaatic Fleet

ROBERT N. GARDNER, (Capt, USN). gives his new address as 418 So. Btoadway, Baltimore 31, Md.

JOSEPH P. THEW, (Capt., USN), is in command of the Naval ROTC Unit at the University of Utah at Salt Lake Qty.

RALPH A. SENTMAN, (Comdr., USNRet. ) , gives his address as National Ditecns, Veterans' Affairs, American Retail Federation, 1627 K St, N . W., Washington, D. C

EDMUND A. CUNNINGHAM, (Comdr., USN-Ret.), has received a Letter of Commendation with Ribbon from the Secretary of the Navy.

GEORGE GELLHORN, JR., (Comdt, USNR), gives his new address as QJQ C E Halaby & Co., Apartado Nacional 139, Maddlin, Colombia.

JOSEPH M. WORTHINGTON, (Capt., USN), is at the Army Industrial CoUege, Rm. 1 QQQ FREDERICK MOOSBRUGGER, le, 580 Pentagon Bldg., Arlington, Va. i J ^ i (Commo., U S N ) . has been awarded a DSM. WILLLAM L. ERDMANN, (Capt., USN), is on duty at the Naval Air Station at Pasco, JOHN AVERY has resigned as Manager of Washington. the Blower and Compressor Dept., AUis-Chalmeis Mfg. Co., to become President of Roots- Bradley, Maurice M., Capt Commanding Officer, ConnersviUe Blower Corp. of CotmersviUe, InUSS GEORGE CLYMER, A P A 27.

Carlson, Richard P., Capt., CEC Office of the Indiana. dustrial Survey Division, Office of the Secretary

WILLIAM B. HOWARD, JR., (Qpt, USN, CEC), is leaving Patuxent River and is headed toward Kodiak. His address will be Hdqtrs. 17th Naval District, fjo FPO, Seatde, Wash.

USS

D A N E , APA

Whimey, cer,

USS

John

P.,

238.

Commo.

O R I S K A N Y , CV

Commanding

Offi-

34.

JOHN H. BRADY, (Capt., USN), gives his duty address as USN Logistics Office, 150 Causeway Street, Boston, Mass.

Anderson, William D . , Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Livermore, Calif.

Burke, Arleigb A., Capt Chief of Staff and Aide— 8di Fleet Carson, Harry R., Jr., Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Diept Coe, Charles F., Capt Commanding Officer, USS H O R N E T , CV

12.

Cone, Daniel N . , Jr., Capt Director of Naval Reserves, 12th Naval Distria, San Francisco, Calif.

Day, Dwight H., Capt Commanding Officer, USS ATHENE, AKA 22.

Dusinberre, Henry W., Comdr., NR. Naval Personnel Separation Center (Officer), N e w York, N . Y., temporary duty in connection with separation processing.

Dussault, George A., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Hederman, Thomas H., Capt Chief Staff Officer— San Diego, Underway Training U n i t Stan Diego, Calif.

Huebl, Roland M., Capt Electronics Officer, Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N . Y. McDowell, Percival E., Capt Naval Gun Faaory, Washington, D. C Mullins, William J., Capt. Atoll Commander, Eniwetok, and additional duty as Commander, Naval Air Bases, and Commander, Naval Operating Base, Eniwetok.

Peterson, John V., Capt. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment

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of the Navy, Navy D e p t Collins, Howaird I_, Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Cutler, Shirley Y., Capt Commanding Officer, Navy V-12 U n i t California Instimte of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.—additional duty.

Daniel, Henry C , Capt Direaor of Naval Reserves.

6th Naval Distria, Charleston, S. C Deutermann, William V., Capt Naval Operations, Navy D e p t Dockweiler, Edward V., Capt Industrial Command, Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Calif.

Fines, Qifford A., Capt Commander, Destroyer Squadron 12, and additional duty as Commander, Destroyer Division 121.

Goldthwaite, Robert, Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, Pa. Hartwig, Glenn R., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Herring, Lee R., Capt Commander, LST Squadron 2.

Hoffman, Charles M. E., Capt Naval Base, Bremerton, Wash.

Hopkins, Howard V., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Technical "Training Center, Norman, Okla.

Huckins, Thomas A., Capt Commanding Officer, USS

B R O N X , APA

236.

Laidlaw, James S., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Ordnance Plant, Canton, Ohio.

Linthicum, Theodoric C , Comdr. Production Officer, Assistant Industrial Manager, San Pedro, Terminal Island, (San Pedro), Calif.

MacDonald, Frank W., Capt. Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia Station, Washington, D. C MacLean, Sumner K., Capt Commanding Officer, USS ARGONNB, AG 6 1 .

Mallory, Francis, Jr., Comdr., NR. Assistant Marerial Officer, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet

We hear that ALEXANDER JACKSON and WILLLAM W. PUTNAM skippered DFs and have both been made Captains in the Naval Reserve.

ALAN A. LUKE, (Lt Comdr., USNR), is home from the Pacific on terminal leave. His address will be 1505 Keyes Ave., Schenectady 8, N . Y. ARTHUR H. GRAUBART, (Capt, USN), is in command of the German heavy cruiser, PRINZ EUGEN which docked at Boston in January. She is the first large German or Jap w«r. ship to come to this country.

WILUAM P. McGIRR, ( O p t , USN), gives his duty address as USS "DSTON, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

BYRON C WANGLIN, JR., (Comdr..

USNR), leaves Oklahoma A. & M. College for the Navy Dept Last month in the LAST CALL, we canied the name JOHN ABEL LORD, "25, as having died in Bath, Maine. We have recently learned that it was JOHN ABEL LORD, Sr., who died and not his son who was a member of the class of 1925.

Adams, Robert L., Capt nance, Bethlehem, 9^.

Naval Inspector of Ori-

Benson, William H., C a p t Bureau of Ordnance, Navy D e p t Benson, William L., Capt.

Commander, Servicr Force, Atlantic Fleet Representative.

Benz, Alfred J., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS COMSTOCK, LSD 19.

Blanche, John G., Jr., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS

S A N M A R C O S , LSD

25.

Broadley, Charles V., C o m d t , N R . Naval Personnel Separation Center (Officer), Washington, D . C , for separation processing.

Clark, Jeane R., C a p t Small Craft Training Center.

Roosevelt Base, Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Cowie, Terrence R., C a p t Commanding Officer, Naval Barracks, Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Texas, and additional duty as Executive Officer, Naval Station, Orange, Texas.

Gaines, Richard K., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS S A L E R N O B A Y , CVE

110.

Gardner. Robert N . , C a p t , N R . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Na\'y D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment.

Goodwin, John F., Capt. Executive Officer, Naval Ammunition D e p o t Hawthorne, Nevada.

Gordinier, Virgil F., C a p t Commanding Officer.

USS WHARTON. AP 7.

Goulert, Wilfred B., Capt. Commanding Officer.

USS

N A V A R R O , APA

215.

Graubart, Arthur H.. Caor. Commanding Officer.

USS PRDSfZ EUGEN, DC 300.

Griffin, John H., C a p t Naval Operations, Navy Dept Heneberger, Harry B., C a p t Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Depr., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Hobbs, Ira E.. C a p t Aviation Officer, 4th Fleet.

Jarrell, Albert E., C a p t Naval Operations, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Johnson, Warren W . , C a p t Staff—Inaaive Fleet, Atlantic Kirten, William, Jr., Capt. Commanding Officer, USS C A N I S T E O , AO

99.

Kivette, Frederick N . , C a p t Chief of Staff and Aide—Commander, Carrier Division 3. lambrecht John O., Capt. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Mason, Redfield, C a p t Commanding Officer, USS EVERGLADES, AD

24.

McAuliffe, Qifford L., C a p t , N R .

Staff—19th Fleet San Francisco, Calif.

McMurtrey, Thomas B., Capt. Commanding Officer.

USS P I C K A W A Y , APA

222.

Nonweiler, Karl H., Comdr.. N R .

USS

Y E L L O W S T O N E , AD

Parker, Thomas C . C a p t C A T O C T I N , AGC

Executive Officer,

27.

Commanding Officer, USS

5.

Parks, Lewis S., Capt Executive Officer, Submarine Base, New London. Conn.

Powell, Morgan A., Comdr., N R . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Ray, Clarence C , C a p t Commanding Officer, USS BEXAR. APA

237.

Roberts, David G., C a p t Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Robinson, James M., C a p t Biureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Schleif, Edward L., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS O K A N O G A N , APA

220.

Seabury. Claire C , Commo., CEC. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Tibbitts, Frank P., C a p t Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.

Todd, George L., Comdr., R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Tyree, David M., C a p t Chief of Staff and Aide— Task Force 74.

Wallace, Lewis, C a p t Texas Group. 16rh Fleet.

Orange, Texas.

lOOA MONTY MONTAGRIFF, (Lt ' '*-0 Comdr., USN-Ret), has returned to the Public Service Co. of Colorado as Industrial Development Engineer. He was relieved of active duty on 16 December and ordered to return home—home being 2950 Bellaire St, Denver, Colorado.

JOSEPH H. WILLINGHAM, JR., (Capt., USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for outstanding performance of duty as Commander of Submarine Division 262 in the Pacific.

ROBERT B. PIRIE, (Capt, USN), will head the new Air Department which has been inaugurated at the Naval Academy.

DEWITT C. E. HAMBERGER, (Capt., USN), has reported to the embassy in Cairo, Egypt, where he has been ordered to duty as Naval Attache. He has just completed a course

MARCH,

1946

at the Army-Navy Staff College in Washington.

ALBERT BENJAMIN, (Capt, USNR), gives his address as 11 Garden St., Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. FRANK SCHAEDE, (Capt., USN), is now Commander Fleet Air Wing Three, Hdqtrs. at Coco Solo, C. Z. He says it's a very pleasant spot.

JOSEPH W. CALLAHAN, (Capt, USN), was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star from the French Government

WEEMS SYSTEM of NAVIGATION T A K E S PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE

R E M O V A L OF T H E SALES

ALBERT E. BERNET, JR., (Lt, USNR), gives his address as 702 Southwestern Life Bldg., Dallas, Texas.

AND

At a 1926 Class luncheon at Army-Navy Town Club in Washington, D. C, on 26 February 1946, about 65 members were present Upon the suggestion that some action be taken on a 20 year Class Bulletin, Al Mumma was immediately appointed General Chairman of the Committee to start the ball rolling.

Many members signified their willingness to assist. Of course, there must be a questionnaire —^but first of all, Al must know where to send the questionnaire—so the purpose of this notice is to ask everyone reading the 1926 class notes in SHIPMATE to send a postcard with their present address to Captain A. G. Mumma, USN, Code 445, Bureau of Ships, Washington, D. C. (If your address is in the Washington, D. C. telephone directory— skip it!)—PRONTO. Incidentally, Steve Rice, Room 161, Senate Office Building, was elected corresponding Secretary for Classmates arriving in Washington, D. C. He is most likely to be permanently located in Washington, D. C. Also Smedberg is about to send around a questionnaire to classmates in D. C. area re next class luncheon probably in May and/or class party in Washington probably in June. If you don't get the word by the 1st of May, call Smedberg on Republic 7400, extension 63319.

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Asserson, William C , Jr., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS PRINCE W I L L I A M , CVE 3 1 , with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Aylward, Theodore C , Jr., C a p t 3rd Naval Dist r i a , New York, N . Y., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Benjamin, Albert, C a p t , N R . Naval Personnel Separation Center (Officer), N e w York, N . Y., for separation processing.

Brown, Donald C , Comdr., N R . Operations Officer, Transport Division 12.

Carpenter, William H., C a p t Commander, Fleer Training Group, N e w York.

Clarke, Ralph S., C a p t Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Los Alamitos, Calif.

Crandell, Donald A., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS POLLinc, AKS 4.

Dudley, Paul L., C a p t Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Fratzke, Walter E., C a p t , SC. Officer in Charge, Ordnance Stock Office, Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. Glick, John A., Capt. D i r e a o r of Naval Reserve, 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Graf, Frederic A., C a p t Chief of Staff Officer, Transport Squadron 2.

Greenacre, Alvord J., Capt U. S. Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va. Greenslade, John F., C a p t Staff—CINCLANT. Grenfell, Elton W., C a p t Commander, Submarine Division 51—additional duty.

Gurney, Marshall B., C a p t Chief of Staff and Aide —Carrier Division 4.

H o l t Norman L., Comdr. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Leeper, James E., Capt. Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, New Orleans, La. Lovell, Royal, Comdr. Executive Officer, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, Calif.

Lowrey, Barron G,, Capt, Bureau of Ships, Navy Dt^t

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McClusky, Clarence W., Jr., Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Depr., temporary duty pending further assignment.

McCIure, Jesse S., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS SANTEE,

CVE

29.

McKee, Samuel J., Comdr. Commander, LSM Squadron 1.

Meade, Robert H., Commo., CEC. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Dept.

Miller, William, Jr., Capr. Staff—Advanced Joint Task Force 1.

Niekum, Philip, Jr., Comdr., R e t Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept.

Parr, Marvin C , C a p t 19th Fleet, San Francisco, Calif.

Reynolds, Luther K., Capt. Naval Training Station, Naval Station, Norfolk, Va. Rodee, Walter F., Capt. Commanding Officer, USS PUGET S O U N D , CVE 113.

Smedberg, William R., Ill, C a p t Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, Navy D e p t Stirling, Yates, III, C a p t , SC. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Stfoop, Paul D . , Capt. Staff—CINCPAC-CINCPOA. Taylor, John B., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, Calif.

Thomas, Olin P., Jr., C a p t 19th Fleet.

Watson, Paul W., C a p t Officer in Charge of a Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif.

Westbrook, Ralph E., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Station, Tacoma, Wash.

Willingham, Joseph H., Jr., Capt.

Commander, Submarine Division 81—additional duty.

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HARRY R. HUMMER, JR.,

* 7^' (Capt, USN), has been awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his meritorious service while serving as officer-in-charge. Surface Division Anti-Submarine Development Detachment, Atlantic Fleet, from September, 1943, to July, 1945. He also wears the Legion of Merit which he received in January 1944.

LEONARD C. CHAMBERLIN, (Capt., USN), reports his new address as Shop Supt., San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Sian Francisco, Calif.

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GORDON S. EVERETT, (Capt., USN), is on duty at the Navy Dept., Op-20-M.

'2-." We will try to make each get-together bigger and bener, so come on and help out.

THOMAS J. HAMILTON, (Capt, USN), has been recalled to the post of head coach of the Navy football team. He is due to reporr about March 1st.

Bryson, William C , Capt Staff—Task Group 1.2 Qark, Thurston B., Capt Aviation Officer, 10th Fleet. Navy D e p t Cooper. Clifford S., Capt. Naval Opetations, Navy D e p t . temporary duty pending further assignment Davey, Thomas L.. C a p t . CEC. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy D e p t , temporary duty pending further assignment Dayton, Milton T., Capt Texas Group, 16th Fleet, Orange, Texas.

Donohue, Timothy F., Capt Commander, Mme Division "?. , „, . »T Dunning, Allan L., Capr. Bureau of Ships, Na\T Dept., temporary duty pending further assignment Dykers, Thomas M., Capt Staff—Submarine Force, Atlantic, New London, Conn.

Dyson. Howell J., Capt Commanding Officer, USS

WALTER C. WINN, (Capt, USN), is now on duty in Washington after being at sea throughout the war, and gives his address as 2846 27th St, N. W., Washington, D. C. HAROLD S. HARNLY, (Capt, USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

HOWARD W. GORDON, JR., (Capt, USN), has reheved Capt Fitzhugh Lee, '26, as Public Information Officer for the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, and Pacific Ocean Areas.

CARL J. PFINGSTAG, (Capt, USN), gives his new duty address as Bu. Aer. Gen. Rep. Eastern Distria, 90 Church Street, New York, N . Y. HENRY P. WRIGHT, JR., (Capt., USNR), who has been serving on the USS ESSEX for the past three years, gives his new duty address as USS KANAKAKEE, C/O FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

SELMAN S. BOWLING, (Capt, USN), has been awarded the DSM. LEVI J. KNIGHT, JR., (Capt, USN), gives his new address as Office of the Assistant Industrial Manager, USN, 1424 Exchange Bldg., Seattle, Wash.

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JeUev, Joseph F., J t . R.Adm.. CEC. Deputv Chief of Civil Engineers, USN, and also durr as Depurr and Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Na\T D e n t Jennings. William C , C a p t , N R . Commander, Escort Division 6.

Jones. Francis R.. Comdr. Commanding Officer. USS C R O A T A N . CVE 2 5 . and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Leahv, WUliam H., Capt. U. S. Naval Shipyard.

Norfolk. Va. Legwen, Glenn W . , Jr., Capt Staff—16th Fleet.

New York.

Lue'b'hl. Eugene L., Capt Commanding Officer.

USS

WILLIAM T. McGARRY, (Capt., USN), gives his address as 302 Locust Lane, State College, Pa.

78.

Ewing, John L., Jr., Capt Bureau of Aeronautics.

Navy D e p t Foley. Robert J., Capt. Commander. Submarine Squadron 1. and additional duty as Commander, Submarine Division 1 1 .

Gleim. Fritz, J t , Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Habecker, Frederic, Capt Naval Ot>erations, Nav>Dept Hamilton. Thomas J., C a p t U. S. Naval Academy.

Annapolis, Md. Hansen. George L.. Comdr. Executive Officer, Naval Station. Coco Solo. C. Z. Haten. Joseph T.. Capt. Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I., temporary dury pending further assignment Hoeg. James H., Capt Naval Operations, Navy Dept Irvin. William D.. Capt. Commander. Submarine Squadron 2, and additional duty Commander, Submarine Division 2 1 .

Jarrell. Henrv T., Capt Commanding Officer. USS

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53.

Maeinnis. Jack, Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS MrNTNEAPOLIS. CA 36.

Mavfield. Albert B., Jr.. Capt. Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco.

Calif., temporary duty pending further assignment.

McCann. Francis W . , Comdr. Commanding Officer.

USS HECiniA, AKS 12.

McCoy, Melvyn H.. Capt Small Craft Training Center, Roosevelt Base. Terminal Island. San Pedro. Calif., temporary dury pending funher assignment Monroe, Jack P., Capt Commander, Naval Air Base, Sangley Point, Luzon, P. I, Pickering, Samuel M,, C a n t Commanding Officer.

Naval Air Station, St Simons Island, Georgia, and Commanding Officer, Naval Radar Training School.

Naval Air Station. St. Simons Island. Ga, Powell, Elmer C , Comdr,. NR, DE, Executive Officer, USS AtfBURN, AGC 10.

Ross. Philip H.. C a o t Commanding Officer. USS

The 27th of February, when Spring was in the air, was the signal for the class of 192^ to gather at the Army-Navy Club in Washington for their monthly get-together. Sevent}' members found it possible to dismiss the cares of war and enjoy a chit-chat and luncheon. The following attended: Howard Adams, Freddy Agens, Johnny Bays, Art Born, Selman Bowling, Randy Boyer, CHEMCTNG, AO 30.

Steve Brodie, Bob Brown, Frank Brunner, Rubins.

Joseph R.. Capt. Ordnance Officer. LI. S. Gordon CasweU, Joshua Cooper, Cliff Cooper, Naval Shipyard. Terminal Island, San Pedro. Calif.

Charlie Clutts, Dave Coleman, Lannie Conn, Smith. Allen, Jr.. Capt. Commanding Officer, USS S O L O M O N S . CVE 6"'.

Ted Dahl, Oscar Dodson, Ducky Donaho, Sutherland, William A., Jr,, Capt, Duty on Staff in the Office of Public Information, Naval Air StaMonroe Duffill, Edward Edklemeyer, Tom tion, Pensacola, Fla. Eddy, Warner Edsall, Harry England, Earn- Teall, Edward N . . J r , Capt. Chief of the U. S. shaw. Buck Ewing, Parker Fairlamb, Frazer, Naval Mission to Colombia. Bogota. Colombia.

Giambattista, Fritz Gleim, Otie Gregg, Ha- Walsh. David J.. Comdr., N R . Staff—Operational Development Force. becker, Harnley, Paul High, Firpo Hines, Wilcox, George W., Capt. Florida Group. 16th Fleet.

Hunter, Have Hull, Joe Jelley, Johnston, Burt Walter C , Capt Assistant Operations OffiKlakring, Lang, Jack Lewis, Molly Malone, Winn. cer. Joint Task Force 1, Navy D e p t , temporary F. B. C. Martin, L. A. Martin, J. J. Mcduty.

Kinstry, Doc McKechnie, B. E. Moore, Nickel- Zemmer. Harold M.. Capt. Commanding Officer.

USS C L A R E N D O N , APA 72. son, Leo Nilon, W. H. Organ, H. C. Owen, Herman Paige, A. M. Patterson, R. H. PhilLEX L. BLACK, (Capt, USN), lips, Bob Quackenbush, Schumm, Shands, gives his new duty address as Jack Sipe, Count Southerland, Bud Southwick, Bob Speck, G. D. Sullivan, K. T. Sullivan, USS LONG ISLAND, C/O FPO, San Francisco, Wev, White, Winn, Reds Yeager, Dave Calif.

Yourn and Zahm.

And when any of you 27'ers arrive in or THOMAS A. DONOVAN, (Capt, USN), are around Washington on the 27th, call is living at 4652 Valencia Dr., San Diego 5, Ext 6-1891 to check in and let us know if you Calif., and writes: "Returned a short while are interested in keeping alive the "Spirit of ago after forty-two months a prisoner of the

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Japs in Celebres and Java. Right now I'm on rehabilitation leave with orders to report to the U. S. Naval Hospital at San Diego for a physical exam about the tenth of February.

Then to school to "learn about the Navy."

Having been out of the picture for neady four years, I'm going to need it!"

Aichel, Alfred M., Comdr. Assistant Material Of. ficer, Florida Group, 16th Fleet Curtin, Neale R., C a p t Duty on Staff—16di Fleet Dexter, Edwin B., C a p t Office of Public Infoonation, 12th Naval Distria. San Francisco, Calif., temporary duty.

Eves, Edward T., C a p t Director of Distribudoo, 8 4 Naval District. N e w Orleans, La., and additmaal duty as Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Barracks, N e w Orleans, La. Hawk. Earle C , Capt Commanding Officer, USS T A B O R A . AKA

45.

Parsons. William S., C a p t Bureau of Naval Personnel, Na\'y D e p t Schoech, William A., Capt Commander, Naval Air Transport Service, Asiatic Wing.

Simmonds. Thomas H., Comdr.. NR. Aerology Officer, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. Walsh, William M., Capt Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Trinidad, B. W. I. Wyatt. Joe E., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS MONOGAHELA, AO 4 2 .

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^^'^'^ J- ''^'LSH, (Capt,

' ' •^ ' U S N ) , has reported to the Navy Dept and OP-517.

MILTON C. DICXINSON, ( Q p t , SC, USN), has relieved Capt A. P. RandoIjA as officer in charge of the Midshipmen's Store, Dairy Farm and Service Activities.

Brandley, Frank A., Capt Naval Oi>eradoiis, Navy Dept Qark, Robert N . S.. Capt. Pre-Commissioning Training Cenrer, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif., remporary dury pending further assignment Conley, Edwin G.. Comdr. Operations Officer, Transport Division 1 3 .

Denham, Walter S., Capt. Texas Group, 16di Fleet, Orange. Texas.

Dve. Williston L., C a p t Na\-al Operadons, Navy Dept Folger, Edw-ard C Jr.. Comdr. Pfe-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif, temporary duty pending further assignment Garland. Guy P., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS S T A R R . AKA

67.

Lake, Richard C . C a p t Staff—CINCPAC Loomis, Almon E,, Capt. Nearest Fleet Air Command, temporary duty pending further assignment Lynch. Ralph C , Jr.. Cipr, Planning Officer fra Operarions, Naval Base, New York, N . Y. Matrie. Dominic L., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS Uv.\LDE, AKA SS. Moore. John R., Capt San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco. Calif.

Morse. Leonard T., Comdr. Commanding Officer, L'SS

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52.

Nelson, Paul J., Capt. Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Frandsco. Calif., temporary dury pending further assignment, Pryor, K n i g h t Capt Staff—^Naval Forces, Europe.

Sharp, George A., Capt Temporary duty on Staff— Commander, Task Group 1.2, Navy Dept Walker. Philip A.. C o m d t . N R . 14th Naval District. Pearl Harbor, T, H, Wilkinson. Robert H., C a p t Commander. Mine Division 3.

1QOA GEORGE C. SEAY, (Capt, I 7J U USN) has been awarded the Silver Star Medal.

ROBERT E.. PERKINS, (Comdt, CO, USN), gives his new address as Ship Repair Base, Navy 3864, f? FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

WALTER G. EBERT, (Capt, USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

ELVIN HAHN, Capt, USN), gives his new address as 30 Grafton St, Che\7 Chase, Md. PARKE H. BRADY, (Comdt, USN), has been awarded a Bronze Star Medal.

Qilnmah

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WALTER A. REINHARD, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), writes from the University of Rochester: "Am returning to inaaive duty on 1 February and plan to stay on here in Rochester, assuming the position of General Manager of Staub & Sons. My mailing address is 951 East Main St., Rochester, N. Y. "Capt George Towner out of '24 is P.N.S. & T. here and is doing a swell job."

Adams, Scarritt, Capt D i r e a o r of Welfare, 3rd Naval Distria, New York, N . Y. Bardwell, Francis E., Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS E N T E R P R I S E , CV 6, with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Bauer, Rudolph C , Comdr.

Staff—Commander, Fleet Air Wing 14, San Diego, Calif.

Block, Everett M., Capt Head of Department of Strategy and Taaics in General Line School, Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I. Butler, William C , Jr., Capt. Staff—10th Fleet Qifton, Joseph C , Comdr. Executive Officer, USS WASP, CV 18.

Colestock, Edward E., Capt.

Naval Operations, Navy D e p t Corbus, John, Capt Officer in Charge, U. S. Navy Contraa Termination Officer, Crucible Steel Co., Harrison, New Jersey—additional duty.

Eddy, Ian C , Capt Commander, Submarine Division 82.

Edgerton, Everett W . , Comdr., N R . Maintenance Officer—Commander, 4th Fleet.

Hansen, Henry O., C a o t Commanding Officer, USS

CALOOSAHATCHEE, AO

98.

Harmon, William L., Capt 19th Fleet.

Heyward, Alexander S., Jr., Comdr. Naval Operations, Navy D e p t Hindman, Joseph A. E., C a p t Staff—Commander, 8 4 Fleet Howard, James H., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS MERRICK, AKA 9 7 .

Johnson, Frank L , Capt Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t Lawver, Rowland C , Comdr. Commanding Officer, USS

R E N O , CL

96.

McCombs, Charles E., Capt Naval Training Station, Newport R. L, temporary duty pending further assignment McLeod, Bowen F., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS B U N K E R H I L L , CV 17 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Moffert William A., Jr., C a p t Naval Operations, Navy D e p t temporary duty.

Moreno, John A., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS SAN J A C I N T O , CVL 30 and Executive Officet Nelson, William T., Capt Nearest Naval D i s t r i a temporary duty pending further assignment Nixon, Richard M., Capt Commander, L S M ( R ) Squadron 4, Q u i ^ e , Lyime C , Capt Staff—CINCPAC. Rigsbee, Everett O., Jr., Capt. Public Information Officer, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Rutter, Royal L. L., Capt Officer of the Inspector of Naval Recruiting and Induaion, Fifth Joint Service Induaion Area, Columbus, Ohio.

Sanders, Eddie R., Cdr. Bureau of Naval PersonneL Navy D e p t temporary duty.

Simons, Manley H., Jr., C a p t Commanding Officer, USS SYLVANIA, AKA 44, Spring, Arthur F., Capt Chief Staff Officer—Fleet Ttaining Group, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Stevens, James E., Capt Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Stroh, Robert J., C i p t Naval Operations, Navy Dq>t Thorahill, Thomas J., Jr., Capt. Commander, Mine Division 4.

Trower, Robert S., HI, Cdr. Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif, temporary duty pending further assignment Wagner, Edwin O., Cdr. Office of Research and Inventions, Navy Dept.

Whitfield. James D., Jr., Capt Naval Operations, Navy D e p t Winant Frank L, Jr., Capt Staff—Joint Task Group 1.2 of Joint Task Force 1—temporary duty.

Wingard, Walter C , Jr., Capt. Public Information Officer, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla.

1Q01 FREDERICX J. BECTON, ' ' ^ ' (Comdt, U S N ) , has been awarded the Navy Cross and a fourth Silver Star Medal.

FRANK F. WALKER, has returned to his civilian job with the Commercial Industrial Bank and gives his home address as 1639 Monroe Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. He would like very much to hear from Nat Warman.

EDWARD S. BURNS, (Comdr., U S N ) , has been awarded the Navy Cross. At present

MARCH, 1946

he is on duty in the Production Division of the Naval Gun Factory, and resides at 1330 N. Harrison St., Arlington, Va. CHARLES T. STRAUB, (Comdt, USN), is serving in the USS N E W ORLEANS which is at present in the Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia, Pa.

Officer, USS C A S A B L A N C A CVE 5 5 , and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Flenniken, James A., Cdr. Office of the Assistant of the Navy (Material Division), Navy Dept.

Ford, Joel C , J t , Cdr. Office of Public Information, Navy D e p t temporary duty, Goodman, Daniel C., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS M O N T E R E Y , CVL 26 and additional duty as Execuive Officer.

Harshman, Alberton C , Cdr., N R . Commanding Officer, USS

C O A S T E R S H A R B O R , AG

Harwood, Richard D., C d t P R I N Z E U G E N , DC

OSCAR E. HAGBERG, (Comdr., USN), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

GORDON A. UEHLING, (Comdr., USN), is serving aboard the USS CHICAGO, % FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Aldrich, Charles W . , Cdr. Executive Officer, Service Force Atlantic Fleet Subordinate Command, Norfolk, Va. Almgren, Charles R., Cdr., SC. Naval Supply Depot, San Diego, Calif.

Anderson, Jay S., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS A N T I E T A M , CV

36.

Dempsey, James C , Cdr. Commander, Submarine Division 7 2 .

Fellows, John B., Jr., Cdr. U. S. Naval Mission to Colombia, Cartagena, Colombia.

Fitzgerald, John A., Cdr. Submarine Base, N e w London. Conn.

Gasterland, Clarence L., Cdr. Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept Greene, George M., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS H A N C O C K , CV

19.

Hammond, Douglas T., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS MISSOURI,

BB

63.

Hatton, George A., Cdr. Naval Air Material Center, Philadelphia, Pa. Head, Nelson M., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS

COMMENCEMENT BAY, CVE 105 with additional

duty as Executive Officer.

HoUister, William W . , Cdr. Executive Officer, USS O R I S K A N Y , CV,

34.

Hunter, Raymond P., Cdr, Bureau of Naval Persorinel. Navy Dept. temporary duty pending further assignment.

Jung, Karl E., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS H O R N E T , CV 12 and additional duty as Executive Officer.

Myhre, Floyd B. T., Cdr. Office of the Director of Public Information, Navy D e p t Parham, John C , Jr., Cdr. Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va. Payne, Thomas B., Cdr. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy D e p t temporary duty pending further assignment Peckham, George E., Cdr. Personnel Officer, Inactive Fleet, Adantic.

Schoeni, Walter P., Cdr. Submarine Base, Balboa, C Z. Toth, Joseph C , Cdr. Nearest Fleet Air Command, temporary duty pending further assignment Van Mater, Shermerhorn, Cdr. Executive Officer, Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C. Walpole, Kinloch C , Cdr. Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assignment.

Wilson, Albert H., Jr., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS M I D W A Y , CVB

41.

ipOO F R A N K M. R A I N , (Lt, ' ' ^ ^ USNR), has been released from active duty and gives his address as Court House, Fairbury, Nebr.

ALFRED L. COPE, (Comdr., USN), is serving aboard the USS HAWKINS, % FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

RICHARD S. CRAIGHILL, (Comdr., . U S N ) , and Mrs. Craighill announce the birth of a daughter, Virginia Drewry on 3 February.

JACOB A. LARK, (Comdr., USN), gives his address as 3603 Gunston Rd., Alexandria, Va. CHARLES M. KEYES, (Comdr., USN), is serving in the USS TAUSSIG, % FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Asman, Edwin C , C d t Air Officer, USS B O X E R , CV 2 1 .

Beardslee, George R., Cdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Bryan, Louis A., Cdr., U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Dibrell, Aqtulla G., jr., Comdr. Commanding

Kaufman, John H., C d t SANTA

FE,

CL

74.

Executive Officer, USS

300,

Executive Officer, USS

60.

Kerr, Robert H., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS BILOXI, CL 80.

Lank, Theodore S., Cdr. Minecraft, Pacific Fleet, temporary duty pending further assignment McAlpine, Lloyd H., Cdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept. temporary duty.

McCarley, Henry H., C d t Executive Officer, USS MISSISSIPPI, BB 4 1 .

Parker, Frank M., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS MARYLAND,

BB

46.

Phillips, Charles E., Cdr. C L E V E L A N D , CL

Executive Officer, USS

55.

Smith, Charles H., Cdr., N R . Office of the Judge Advocate General, Navy Dept.

Smith, Daniel F., Jr., C d t Staff—Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. Stieler, Roland E., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS LEXINGTON, CV 16.

Stoner, Howard F., Cdr. Staff—Submarine Squadron 7. ' Weston. Wallace H., Cdr, Executive Officer, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, "Tenn,

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EDWARD E. GRIMM,

' ' ^ ^ (Comdr,, USN), gives his new address as U. S. Naval Separation Center, Memphis 15, Tenn.

HAROLD G. BOWEN, JR., (Comdr., USN), has left his job as gunnery Officer on the staff of the Commander Cruisers, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet, to assume command of the destroyer, SAMUEL N. MoORE. THOMAS H. MORTON, (Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Morton returned from London where Comdr. Morton has been on duty with the UNO Conference. He is temporarily on duty in Washington.

JOHN C. LOVCI, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), has left the YORKTOWN and is living at 1331 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, Calif.

CHARLES B. JACKSON, JR., (Comdr., USN), is a member of the Marine Engineering Dept. of the Naval Academy and lives at 84 Bowyer Road, USNA. ROBERT A. MACPHERSON, (Comdr., USN), is in the newly established Aviation Dept. at the Naval Academy and lives at the Officers' Mess.

HERMAN T. SHARPE, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), gives his address as 114 Baublits Dr., Navy Pt., Pensacola, Fla. KENNETH S. SHOOK, (Comdr., USN), has left the USS JAMES E. KYES, and gives his address as 616 N . Milton Ave., Whittier, Calif.

A b b o t Edward W., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS T E N N E S S E E , BB

43.

Barnes, Stanley, M., Cdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Brown, Maurice B., Cdr. Commander, LCI(L) Squadron 1.

Chase, Jay V., C d t Executive Officer, USS VlCKSBURG, CL 86.

Curtis, Robert W., Cdr. Staff—CINCPAC. Dawson, William L., Cdr, Executive Officer, Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine.

Fortune, James H., Jr., Cdr, Naval Operations, Navy D e p t temporary duty in conneaion with communications.

Hardman, Ward F., Cdr. Executive Officer. USS Providence, CL 8 2 .

Ingels, Albert C , Cdr. Executive Officer, USS BOSTON, CA 69.

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gives his mailing address as 1753 Lamont St., N. W . , Washington 10, D . C.

WHY PUNNED SECURITY? IF Y O U WERE G O I N G

TO BUILD

A

HOME— W o u l d you merely provide the terials?

OR W O U L D Y O U —

ma-

1. Visualize the home you want?

2.

Plan the

THEN

details?

WHY PROVIDE FINANCIAL MATERIALS—

Life Insurance

Policies, Bonds, Cash

and

Pension—

WITHOUT

PLANNING?

PLANNED SECURITY PROVIDES A FINANCIAL HOUSE OF

PROTECTION

CASH FOR FINAL EXPENSES CASH FOR EMERGENCY FUND INCOME FOR FAMILY UNTIL CHILDREN ARE GROWN EDUCATIONAL FUNDS FOR CHILDREN LIFE INCOME FOR WIFE MOST FAMILIES need INCOME form of Monthly Checks through PLANNED

in

CHARLES M. H E N D E R S O N , (Comdr., USN), has been awarded a Bronze Star Medal and gold star in lieu of a second Bronze Star.

the

SECURITY

Write or call CHARLES RANTZ, Special Agent NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 734 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING NEW YORK I. NEW YORK LOngacre 5-4922

Jackson, Edward F., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS

R O Y SMITH, writes: "I am now on 9 0 days' terminal leave, and become i n a a i v e again on 6 April. It's been so long that I wonder what civilian life will be like. I got h o m e the fourth of January but had to turn in here at Miami for an abdominal operation a few days later. I hope to get out by this week-end, but will still be on the take-it-easy squad for a couple of months so I have decided to take a six months' course in languages, history, and economics.

"There is always open gangway for '34 or thereabouts at SOQ, N A S Opalacka, Miami, Fla." BENEDICT J. SEMMES, JR., (Comdr., USN), has received the Navy Cross.

J O H N P. WILEY, has returned to civilian life and gives his address as c / o Lago Oil and Transport Co., Ltd., Lago Colony, P.O. Box 395, Aruba, Curacao.

W e have received information about J O H N E. AVISE, which will be of interest to his friends. In August of 1940, he enlisted in the R.C.A.F. and took his training in Canada, and on 4 July, 1 9 4 1 , he arrived in England where he was stationed until December of that year. H e left for Egypt and arrived in Alexandria on N e w Years's Day of 1942 where he was stationed until his death on 17 O a o b e r . 1942.

BAYFIELD, APA 33.

Kibbe, Richard L., Cdr. Air Force, Adantic Fleet.

Lane, Richard, Cdr. Office of Public Information, Navy Dept Lindsay, Harry M., Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS THRESHER, SS

200.

Marks, Laurence H., Cdr. Navigation Officer, USS PROVIDENCE, CL 82.

McGoughran, Joseph C , Cdr. Executive Officer, USS LITTLE ROCK, CL 92.

Tucker, James F., Cdr. Commanding Officer, Material Salvage Unit designated by Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet Tyree, John A., Jr., Cdr. Aide and Flag Secretary, Commander, Submarine Force, Adantic Fleet Unmacht, George P., Cdr. Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific dury on Staff.

Weintraub, Paul L., Jr., Cdr.. SC. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept •tooA J A M E S P. C R A F T , JR., ' / O T (Comdr., U S N ) . W e heard recently that Comdr. Craft had been decorated during the war with the Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Letter of Commendation with Ribbon. ^ S A I A H M. H A M P T O N , (Comdr., U S N ) , gives his new duty address as American Embassy, Wellington Road, Ottawa, Canada.

E D G A R R. M c C L U N G , JR., writes that he is no longer with N e w York Shipbuilding Corp., but has taken the job of W e l d i n g Engineer with Lukenweld, Inc., Coatesville, Penna.

D O N A L D W . ERASER, (Lt. Comdr., U S N R ) , gives his new address as 4426 Stratton Avenue, San Diego 2, Calif.

J O H N HARLLEE, (Comdr., U S N ) , is now on duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and

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pleasure to get together again and talk over old times. T h e affair lasted from 5:00 in the afternoon until 11:00—and there were ao casualties either! It is anticipated that we will have another meeting along about the latter part of February, or late in March, and it is hoped that those few classmates in the atea who were unable to attend the recent gettogether wiU be able to be with us at that time.

H e r e are a few of the people who have just recently returned to the area, and although their names are induded in the above list, it is believed worth repeating: J o h n Harley, Red Adams, Bob WilUams, Pappy Stirling, Chick Clarey, Hank Miller, George Browne, Dick Bromley, B. J. Semmes, Dick Mann, J o h n Roenigk, Charlie Thurston, George Clifford, Earl Lagsdon, and Brown Taylor. I have the addresses of all these people, so if anyone wishes to contaa them, I shall be pleased to give them all the dope.

Incidentally, Johnny Weber has moved out to the West Coast, and his new address is: 6230 Northeast Bothell Way, Seattle, Washington. W e were sure sorry to see Johnny leave us, but we know that he will be back again, and we hope very soon. Bill Martin has moved from Washington to Patuxent River, Maryland, where he is serving as Dir e a o r of Tactical Tests for NATC. Ray Ours has moved to Philadelphia, but we haven't been advised at this point as to his new mailing address.

Brown, Samuel R., Jr., Cdr. Carrier Division 3.

Church, William C G., Cdr., CEC Western Pacific Division of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Close, Robert H., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS TROILUS, AKA 46.

Day, Barton R, Cdr. Assistant Recorder on Ttaining Policy Board, Naval Operations, Navy Dept Fletcher, Francis O.. Jr., Cdr. USS THEODORE E CHANDLER, D D 717.

O n Sunday, 20 January, the class of '34 held a cocktail party at the Carlton Hotel for all of the classmates in the Washington area.

Similar affairs have been held in the past, but undoubtedly this was the most successful that we have had so far. T h e following is a list of those who attended: Comdr. and Mrs. D o u g Swift, Comdr. and Mrs. John Roenigk, Comdr. and Mrs. B. J. Semmes, Comdr. and Mrs. R. R. Williams, Comdr. and Mrs. Charlie Thurston, Comdr. and Mrs. Russ Maynard, Comdr. and Mrs. Frank Pinney, Comdr. and Mrs. Luke Sample, Comdr. and Mrs. Harry Cook, Comdr. and Mrs. John Harllee, Comdr. and Mrs. Dick Shepard, Comdr. and Mrs. Hoff Clark, Comdr. and Mrs. Terry Watkins, Comdr. and Mrs. C. W . Stirling, Comdr. and Mrs. Bill Martin, Comdr. and Mrs. Ray Ours, Comdr. and Mrs. Otto Schatz, Comdr. and Mrs. C. J. Walters, Comdr. and Mrs. G. H . Browne, Comdr. Gene Rider, Comdr. and Mrs. S. M. Adams, Comdr. and Mrs. Hank Miller, Comdr. and Mrs. Brown Taylor, Comdr. and Mrs. B. A. Clarey, Mrs. Bob Patton, Bill Calhoun, Mr. and Mts. Larry Becht, Mr. and Mrs. W . E. Bailey, Comdr. and Mrs. Dick Bromley, Comdr. W .

T. Dutton, Comdr. and Mrs. George Clifford, Comdr. and Mrs. Curt Hutchings, Comdr. and Mrs. R. L. Mann, Comdr. and Mrs. Earl Logsdon, Comdr. and Mrs. H . E. Halligan, Comdr. and Mrs. Bob Chandler, Comdr. and Mrs. Lewis Coxe, Comdr. Jack Biard, Comdr. and Mrs. Jack Arnold.

A good many of these people we had not seen since garduation and it was certainly a

Gralla, Arthur R., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS D E N N I S J. BUCKLEY, DD

808.

Griffith, Walter T.. Cdr. Sth Naval District New Orleans, La. temporary duty pending fiirdier assignment Gutm, Frederick A., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS STARR, AKA

67.

Hasrings, Willard E., Cdr. Execurive Officer, Naval Air Starion, Banana River, Fla. Hembury, William C , Cdr. Execurive Officer, USS SAINT CROIX. APA

231.

Kait, Herman H., Cdr. LCS(L) Squadron 1.

Maddox, William S., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS BLUE, DD 691.

Nichols, John C , Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS GUILFORD. APA

112.

Paine, Charles B., Jr., Cdr. Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home, Payne, Raymond, Cdr. Chief Staff Officet Pordand Group, 19th Fleet, Portland, Oregon.

Presler, Irving S., Cdr. Nearest Naval Distria temporary duty pending further assignment Price, Lowell S., Cdr. Operations Officer, Naval Ait Station, Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif, and additional duty as Officer in Chkrge, Aircraft Commissioning Unit, Naval Air Station, Terminu Island, San Padro, Calif.

Ritson, Ernest L. E., Cdr. Control and Assistant for Operations Officer, Transport Squadron 1.

Schulz. Lester R., Cdt Executive Officer, USS INDIANA, BB 58.

Sellars, Roben F., Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy.

Annapolis, Md. Strickler, Lyle E., Cdt Submarine Base, Balboa, C Z. Taylor, Keith E., Cdr. Commanding Officer, I ^ CHARGER, CVE 30 and additional duty as Executive Officer. ^, Van Buskirk. Beverly R., Cdr. Submarine Base, New London, Conn. , _ Vose, James E., Jr., Cdt Air Officer, USS .ANTIETAM. CV 36.

Westholm. RoUin E., Cdt Naval Ttaining Stanon, Naval Station, Norfolk, Va. _ .

Wheeler. Robert E., Cdr. Naval Training Stanon, Norfolk, Va. I Q O r DALE C O C H R A N , (Comdr., I JOD U S N ) , is in New Haven as exec, of the N R O T C Unit at Yale University. H^' was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a secon J Bronze Star.

ALAN M. NIBBS, (Comdr., U S N ) , gives his address as Bureau of Naval Personnel, 2709 Arlington Annex, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. MACWORDELL, (Comdr., U S N ) , writes from Bethesda Naval Hospital: "I have had the good fortune while here to see Swede Westin who is a Comdr. (ret) and on the good outside working at Taylor Model Basin as Joe Civilian. He has two boys now, and is doing very nicely. Swede told me that Joe Pike has gone back to Concord, N. C. to run the old drug store. Also he informed us that Johnny Cotten had relieved Squidge Lee in BuPers. Squidge has gone out to be on Admiral Nimitz's staff. Also learned that Ed Gibson was still in BuPers. We went over to see Cosgrove and found him commuting home via wheel chair, so no see. He was badly shot up at Saipan.

"1 had a pleasant talk with Butch Tarantino, 2nd Batt. Butch has become a distria lawyer to be competing with old Red Powell.

I haven't seen Red since early '44 but understand he is still with Alien Property. Today Noel Gaylor dropped in by accident. My roommate here is Bill Wall, USMC (ret), from Ga. Tech and he knows Dinnay Gorham and other good Marines who used to play around with us in '35.

"Kindest regards to all classmates and we're hoping to be with you all again soon."

WILLLAM S. SAMPSON, (Comdr., USN), gives his new duty address as Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman, Okla.

ARTHUR E. TARANTINO, (Comdr., USMS), who has been Exec of the Sheepshead Bay Training Station, retired from the Maritime Service on 15 January, 1945.

DERMOTT V. VICKEY, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), gives his duty address as Staff, Com BatDiv one, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Baker, George T., Cdr. Nearest District temporary dury pending further assignment Bridewell, Edward W. Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS BRETON, CVE 23 and Executive Officer.

Chipman, Briscoe, Cdr. Executive Officer, USS SAMUEL CHASE, APA 26.

Islev-Petersen, Harold J., Cdr. Engineering Officer, USS N E W JERSEY, BB

62.

Kear, Carleton R., Jr., C d t Nearest Naval District temporary duty pending further assignment.

Kirkpatrick, R. C , J t , Cdr. Executive Officer and Navigatot USS INDEPENDENCE, CVL 22.

Lloyd, Weldon H., C d t , R e t Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Matthews, Frederick R., Cdr. Commander, L C I ( L ) , Squadron 2.

McLaughlin, Robert B., Cdr. Gunnery and Training Officet Batdeshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cruisers, Atlantic, Fleet Osborne, Edgar G., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS BELLEAU WCX)D, CVL

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Parker, Edwin B., Jr., C d t Commanding Officer, USS RUDYERD BAY, CVE 81 and Executive Officet Phillips, Frederick N . , Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS P E T R O F BAY, CVE 80, with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Probasco, John T., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS ROBERT L. W I L S O N ,

DD

847.

Purdy, Arthur M., C d t Assistant to Operations Officer, CINCLANT. Schmidling, Matthew S., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS N E W , D D 818.

Taylor, Leroy T., Cdr. Naval Training Starion, Newport R. I. Thompson, William C , Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officet USS S P I K E F I S H , SS 4 0 4 0 . westin, Howard S., Cdr., R e t Proceed home; relieved all acrive duty. wheeler, Frank K. B., Cdr. Service Force, Pacific Fleetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;duty on Staff in connection with Electronics Material.

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ipOZj J A M E S W. O ' G R A D Y , ' ' ^ " (Comdr., USN), gives his new address as 3376 Stuyvesant PL, N. W., Washington, D. C. JEAN W. MOREAU, (Lt, Col., USMC), received the Silver Star Medal. Despite fanatical enemy resistance, Lt. Col. Moreau led his battalion in the capture of a key point on the Naha-Shuri Castle and during the fighting was so severely wounded, he later lost his right leg.

JAMES B. RUTTER, JR., (Comdr., USN), has received a Gold Star in lieu of a third Bronze Star Medal.

"YER DERN TOOTIN' "

BY G E N E RIEWE

About a week ago on my first visit in a long time to New York I was priveleged to get together with Henry Hemenway, Cal Lawrence and Logan Cresap. Over the luncehon table many things were batted back and forth and it was a most enjoyable occasion for each of us.

Henry and Cal are still with Foster Wheeler and Bobcock and Wilcox respectively, although Henry has recently moved into the Research Dept. of his organization. Logan is back from the wars and has returned to the praaice of law in the firm of Winthrop.

Stimson, Putnam, and Robert at 32 Liberty Street in the big city. All the boys are looking fine. It was nice to see Logan again for the first time in almost ten years.

By the time you read this, Logan will have deserted the bachelor ranks. He is scheduled to walk down the aisle with Miss Laurie Applegarth on 27 March in San Francisco. Our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy married life! And we welcome Laurie into our '36 family.

Some of the dope that passed across the table was the following: Windy Brown is now working in Philly and living in Ardmore. He was among the group that attended the Army game. The Browns have two fine sons. Hope to be able to look them up soon.

Maxt Hoffman, who is married to Windy's sister, is still down Norfolk way (a later communication seems to indicate that he's moved to Washington). The Hoffmans have three children, two boys and a girl.

Frank Law is now at Philly and is reported to have two girls while Smitty Smith, who is leaving Washington for the West Coast has rwo boys to run him ragged.

George Grider was among the boys at the Army game and is out here on the East Coast somewhere.

J. O. Phillips was Gunnery Officer of the South Dakota, and has been ordered to duty on the Third Fleet Staff.

Bill Lederer is skipper of the Honolulu and at present is accused of being in Philly.

Fred Chenault is Exec of the Guam.

Bill Kramer has made full Colonel and is at Parris Island. Andy Galatian is also reported sporting buzzards on his shoulder straps and is our on the West Coast.

We also tried to get in touch with Art Cofod while in New York but his father informed us that he was still in London with American Export Airlines but that he was winding up things over there and expected to be home in about three weeks.

For some unexplained reason we overlooked C. L. Johnson while we were there.

Our apologies, Johnny. We'll try to make up for it next time. Incidentally, the last Register lists Johnny's new home address as 8009 35th Ave., in Jackson Heights.

Communications from Jim Gray and Jocko O'Grady reveal that the boys planned a gettogether in Washington on Lincoln's birthday.

We're very much pleased at the fine exhibition of class spirit and we hope that future meetings will be planned, particularly one to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our graduation on next 4 June. Jocko and Bill Blenman were the committee in charge of arrangements for the Lincoln's birthday gathering and presumably many of the following in the Washington area were in attendance: R. S. Thompson, M. J. Smith, J. V. Noel, B. R. Ware, K. C. Lovell, W. A. Ellis, D. G. Dockum, W. Blenman, J. W. O'Grady, J. T. Reed, J. W. McCauley, J. N. Boland, S. S. Sherby, Ed King, J. H. Barnard, H. A. Romberg, S. N. Trotl, M. C. McGrath, D. G. Gumz, R. A. Arndt, Gould Hunter, E. J. Hoffman, H. A. Arnold, C. A. Houston, D. M. Paul, S. R. Miller, Ray Walsh, S. E. Wright, D. M. Laizure, J. H. Phinney, and Bob Egnor. We also suspea that many of the Annapolis gang were there. Jim Gray, Dick Pratt, Punchy Shea, Dick Hansen, Jim Rutter and Pug Southerland are in that delegation at present. We regret very much that we were not able to join the boys as we knew that the party was a real success and a thrill to all those who were able to attend. We trust that one of the boys will give you a real report on the gathering as soon as possible.

Had a nice letter again from Bob Bonin's dad. Bob is still being carried as missing.

Mr. Bonin makes the following request which we should make every effort to respond to. "I would appreciate very much some news of his record if you could find it and forward it to me. It is only natural that I ask for news of all description concerning Bob." So will any of you who saw Bob during the war years or know of any of his activities during that time sit down and write an account of it to the very fine Dad of our own Bob. It's the least he should expect of us. Please address your letters directly to Mr. Michael J. Bonin, 1229 South 24th St., Milwaukee 4, Wis. We note with deep regret that in the January issue of SHIPMATE the following were listed as having answered the Last Call after having been listed as missing since the earliest days of the war: Phil Wild, Louis Gulliver, and Dick Meyers. All were on the Asiatic station when war broke out and were among those heroes who were at the outposts of our defenses and subjected to the first onslaughts of the enemy. We also regret the announcement that Al Bonder, '35, and Mark Eslick, '35, and Ken Pound, '37, all warm personal friends, also had to make the supreme sacrifice.

Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to all those to v/hom they were especially dear.

We would like to obtain additional information regarding the brave exploits of these heroes. Will you oblige with whatever you can? Incidentally, we might pass on the fact that Mark took over Ruckey Dickson's squadron, VB-18, we believe it was, after Ruckey was killed.

We were very happy to note that the January SHIPMATE carries the orders of all the

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Navy boys again. Now the job of keeping up with the movements of some of you should be easier. We congratulate Dave Brown, Al Fleming, Fran Greenup, Carl Heywood, Jo-jo Kircher, and Mo Slonim on the assumption of their new commands and we wish success to all the other boys in their new billets.

To the Gus Garvers go congratulations on the arrival of a new '36 junior, their second son. Is it only my imagination or does the class really run heavily to the male side?

Also congratulations to Bruce Ware and Jack Noel on their being decorated and to Dick Pratt on his Cinclant commendation.

I haven't told you sooner that I also saw States Mead, '37, briefly while in New York.

He's safely parked behind a stately desk in the office of Technical Managers, Inc., located in the Trinity Building. States plans to continue his column for '37 so I passed on some items concerning Jerry Joyce and John Taylor which you will find reported in his column.

We close now in the hope that England will be able to get this in the issue for which it was intended despite the faa that we missed the deadline. Incidentally, we owe him a great deal of thanks for having done that very thing on numerous previous occasions. Our hearty thanks, Harry!

This morning's mail brings the happy announcement that a new baby boy has been added to the Jack Hewitt household. John Curtis was born on 29 December and tipped the beams of 7 lbs., 131/i oz. John has an older sister, Ann Carroll, now in her fifth year. Our congramlations to Peggy and Jack.

We wish that Jack would have written a short note but we get the hint that makes us now believe that we were wrong when we said he had been retired because he signed the announcement "Lt. (jg) and Mrs. J. D. Hewitt, 3rd." The Hewitts are still living at 3806 Ocana Ave., Long Beach 8, Calif.

An AP dispatch in last night's paper reveals that '36 is now represented on the Princeton University faculty in the person of Eddy Kyte, who was appointed to an assistant professorship in the naval science department.

Apparently Ed is Exec. Skipper of the staff is Chris Barker, '33. We hope to establish contact with Ed very soon and pick up some interesting dope to pass on. Ed, incidentally, is a native Jerseyite, hailing from Salem. We welcome him ashore and back to his native haunts.

"THE SPIRIT OF '36" Thanks to Information Submitted

BY JIM GRAY

A very successful reunion of '36 was held on 12 February when a luncheon meeting took place at noon at the Army-Navy Club in Washington. Among those attending were Jim Rutter, John Baumeister, Doc Dockum, Hank Arnold, Sherman Wright, Gould Hunter, Bill Ellis, Ray Thompson, Jocko O'Grady, Hank Romberg, Tom Reed, Chuck Houston, Don Gumz, Ralph Arndt, Duane Paul, Bill Bleman, Jim Barnard, Bruce Ware, Jack Alford, Jack Noel and Jim Gray. Much fun was had by all and a vote of thanks is due Jocko O'Grady and Bill Blenman for the excellent committee job that they did.

A petition nominating Griff Sexton as trustee for the Alumni Association was circulated and the necessary number of signa52

tures was obtained to put him up as a nominee ary. It was a top-notch affair, well managed

by LARRY together with "SPIKE" EWOLDT at the next election.

The name of Gene Riewe's column, which who did the mimeo and mailing work, TOM had been reported as displeasing to some, DAVIES who procured the refreshments was approved, thanks to the large number of (liquid), and "STRETCH" KELLEY who provided a very attractive leather-bound and First Batt Aggies in attendance. gold-lettered Guest Book (in which entries The proposal for a ten-years-after party were duly made . . . to begin a custom). was very favorably received. In order not to Thirty-two members of the class were present have it in competition with a severe June for what turned out to be a gr^nd affair.

Week schedule, it was proposed to have it on the Saturday following June Week and the HANK ROWE found the party a good location was tentatively set for Washington. stopping off point on his way to Florida. DON Future get-togethers are being planned and we WENGROVIUS dropped in to advise of imhope that future participation will be as pending arrival of second heir (which meant gratifying as was that of our first effort.

JEAN stayed home). BILL and DOTTlt PORTER were newcomers; BILL (Supply Baumeister, John Jr., Cdr. Staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;5th Fleet Corps) is attending the Army Industrial ColCaldwell, Robert H., Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS S A B L E F I S H , SS 303. lege at the Pentagon . . . was sorry to have Fleming, Allan F., Cdr. CIC and Air Operations Of- missed the October party. REX WHEELER ficer on the Staff, Commander, Sth Fleet.

Holman, William G., Cdr. Commanding Officer, now a rival "butterball" to BERNIE BIERI USS C O B B L E R , SS 344. . . . wives PEGGY and ELEANOR should Knapper, John K., Cdr. Nearest Naval District temporary duty pending further assignment take cooking honors. LEVICK STREET, our Lewis, William E., Cdr. Naval Training Station, Medal of Honor submariner, was in town Newport, R. I. Michael, Fred D., Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy, minus the lovely MARY MARTHA, but Annapolis, Md. came to the party with BOB and JUNE Palmer, Fitzhugh L., Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer and Executive Officer, USS A L T A M A H A , CVE NORTHWOOD. TOMMY PEARSALL was 18 also "batching" it.

Ryan, Paul B., Cdr. Engineering Officer, USS BOXER, CV 2 1 .

Faces on hand this time, but not last OcWoodville, Jonathon, L. W., Jr., Cdr. Naval Traintober, included STRETCH and MARTHA ing Starion, Newport, R. I. KELLEY, SPIKE and BOLLING EWOLDT, 1 0 ^ 7 WILLIAM M. P O R T E R , LEW and MARGUERITE RUPP, FILL and ' ' ^ ' (Comdr., USN), is attending the "J" GILKESON, and MARGARET HUEY, Interim Course in Industrial Mobilization at whose husband DON (Marine Lt. Col.) is expected home from the Pacific any day now. the Army Industrial College.

With DON and MICKEY GAY was THOMAS M. ADAMS, (Comdr., USN), BETTY KELLY, pretty wife of J. C. KELLY, and Mrs. Adams announce the birth of a now on Pacific duty. JOE DALTON and son, Thomas McConnell, Jr., on 8 February in WILLIE GREGG were again the footloose batchelors, although WILLIE had an attracthe Emergency Hospital, Annapolis. tive Wave Ensign in tow. BARNEY and WILLIAM J. HELD, (Comdr., SC, USN), ROSE BARNINGER appeared as if that gives his new address as NSD, Mechanics- Quantico home life was good duty. CHARLIE and TRUIE MEIGS, TOM and ELOISE burg, Pennsylvania.

DAVIES, BONES and JULIA SAVAGE, FILLMORE B. GILKESON, (Comdr., FRAN and VIRGINIA FARRINGTON, USN), is in the Ordnance and Gunnery Dept. FRED and ANN DALLY, GENE and VIRat the Naval Academy, and lives in Apt. D-4, GINIA RANKIN, DAVE and HELMA DRESSENDORFER, ED and MARY VIRN-193.

GINIA GIBSON, and CHUCK and JANE STATES M. MEAD, '37, (Comdr., USNR) STEIN made up the rest of the gang from As was promised in the December issue the the Department, most of whom are living in Class of '37 is coming back into print again Arlington, Alexandria, or Bethesda. and yours truly continues as the self-appointed All hands awere glad to see SALLY scribe. Right now I can say that the initial JULIHN stepping around without those effort brought forth some response from the crutches. The MEADS proudly announced lads far and near, but not enough. LARRY arrival of a second son, on same day as yours BRANTLEY bounced back with a nice letter truly passed through separation center to inin which he bemoans the fate of an aviator active duty. JOE and CONNIE WALKER who is saddled with the job of First Lieu- brought news of move to Montgomery, Alatenant on a CV (USS ESSEX), particularly bama, where JOE will continue in the real during the pains of having to lay the ship up estate business, no doubt, successfully. Up in an inactive status. LARRY writes, " A c i from Annapolis way were CHARLIE and BARTON is around here (Bremerton) on the MISSY DODDS, JACK and NANCY Makin Island and just about as unhappy as MINGAY, and STAN and MARTHA I am. WYMAN HOWARD is on the Indiana ZIMNY. which is in the Yard for overhaul.

SID The January party may justifiably be FREEDMAN is Exec, of the Pennsylvania, recorded with a "Well Done," and so '37 which has been waiting for 3 months to go has two very successful East Coast reunions alongside the dock. CHARLIE COKER is on the books. But that is just a starter, and Assistant Captain of the Yard. These are all with this nifty Guest Book to turn into a the boys of 37 I have seen around Puget Party Log, we should turn out a bigger list Sound. , . . Bea and I are spending the coming next time. The next get-together ought to weekend with Betty CURRIER (Roger's include the Norfolk contingent of DON widow) and her fiance."

WHITE, RAY PARKER, PAUL HARTA committee headed by genial LARRY MAN, as well as such anticipated WashingJULIHN staged the Second Class Cocktail ton assignees as BOB WILLEY, "SCOOP" Party of the Washington and East Coast gang VORSE, and DICK COLBERT. at the Army-Navy Country Club on 25 JanuCHARLIE BURCH set some sort of a class

record with eight unbroKen years on the Pennsylvania (since g r a d u a t i o n ) . H e was finally uncovered and is in the Bureau of Ordnance, studying Law on the side at night school. From Annapolis we'd like to bring to the next reunion T O M and M A R Y CUNNINGHAM, the J. E. PACES, and the MERRITT ADELMANS. J O E R E N G E L , head of Marine Division at Westinghouse phoned long distance to express regrets that he and A D R I A N R I C H couldn't make this last party (but will try for the n e x t ) .

Have heard that D O U G C A R S O N , long a POW in Pacific, is back and reentering the Regular Navy as a Supply Corps officer. He's reported at home in Asbury Park, N . J. I saw Bill Lowndes at the Army-Navy game, recovered from his stretch as a P O W and glad to be stateside. Also sat near PEACHES BROWNING, R E D HESSEL, and D O N DEAN, all on duty in the Philadelphia area at that time.

The RALPH KISSINGERS are reported as having passed through Washington en route to duty at Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, N .

H. I hear that AL G E R K I N is in Norfolk and that D W I G H T J O H N S O N headed from West Coast to the Naval Academy. All hands of '37 express sorrow on loss of H U G H RIMMER, a gallant submariner now declared officially deceased after being missing on patrol in the Albacore since late 1944.

Hope still being held for CLAY G O O D L O E whose PB4Y is missing since last Summer on patrol in Far East.

LARRY J U L I H N asks that all hands of '37 be urged to drop him a note at Room 2436, Navy Department, Washington, D . C , telling him where they are and what they are doing. It is hoped that a class mailing list may be compiled. Meanwhile, and at the same time, let's have some chatter on '37 for coming issues of SHIPMATE. W i t h n o party to report I'd Hke to p u t more time o n the families and professional activities of you fellows. Just drop the line to m e at Technical Managers, Inc., I l l Broadway, N e w York 6, N.Y. Baet Donald G., Cdr. Commanding Officer USS REMORA, SS

487.

Barton, Harry H., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS MAKIN ISLAND, CVE 93 with additional duty as Execurive Officer.

Bottomley, Harold S., Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS FANSHAW BAY, CVE 70 and also Executive Officet Buckley, Franklin D., Cdt Senior Assistant to Ordnance Superintendent Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa. Creap, James B., Cdr. Office of the Secretary Joint Chiefs of Staff for duty as Assistant Secretary Implementation Section, Naval Operations, Navy Dept Dalton, Joseph F., Cdr. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept temporary duty pending further assignment DeVane, John M., J t , Cdr., Executive Officer, USS SUWANNEE, CVE

Eddy, Frank M., Cdt BURRFISH, SS

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Commanding Officer, USS

312.

Frredman, Albert S., Jr., Cdr. Temporary duty on Staff—^Joint Task Force 1, Navy Dept.

Fuhrman, Albert S., Cdt Commanding Officer, USS LING, SS

297.

Hughes, John G., Cdr. Nearest Naval District temporary duty pending further assignment Inglmg, Francis W. Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. KeUy, John C, Cdt Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Lytle, Morton H., Cdt Commanding Officer, USS SEGUNDO, SS

398.

Madison, John R., Cdt Commanding Officer, USS SEADOG, SS

401.

Moore, Theophilus H., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS WINDHAM BAY, CVE 92 and additional duty as Execurive Officer.

Pond, John E., J t , Cdr. Naval Training Starion, Newport R. I. Pridmore, James A., Cdr. Naval Training Starion, Newport R. I.

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Ross, James G., Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Rowe, Henry A., Cdr. Air Operations Officer—Joint Task Force One, Navy Dept.

Sanderson, Everett G., Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Sherry, Harmon B., Cdt Submarine Base, New London, Conn.

Spruance, Edward D., Cdr. Staff—Submarine Division 102.

Ware, Robert M., Cdr. Aide and Flag Secretary Fleet Air West Coast Whistier, Jack C , Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS MARCUS ISLAND, CVE 77 and additional duty

as Executive Officer.

Zavadil, Anthony P., J t , Cdr. Executive Officer, USS

BOISE, CL

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I Q O p W I L L I A M O. SPEARS, JR., I 7J O (Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Frederic H . O'Hara were married on 9 February, 1946.

RAYMOND A. M O O R E , (Comdr., U S N ) , reports his new address as 3807 Taylor Avenue, Drexel Hill, Penna.

V I C T O R BYDALL, (Comdr., U S N ) , was recently promoted and is now in command of a new destroyer.

LOUIS K. BLISS, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , gives his new address as Navy Office, M.I.'T., Cambridge, Mass.

LEO R. J E N S E N , (Comdr., U S N ) , gives his new address as 1448 Dale Street, San Diego, Calif.

G E O R G E B O U R L A N D . '38

(Lt.

Comdr.,

USN)

Much has been doing in the class of '38 here in Washington these past two months.

O n Tuesday, the 28th of January, we held a cocktail party at the Army-Navy Club.

Attending from the Annapolis area were Otis Wesche, Mort MacDonald, and Zeke J a r m o n and wives. Jamie Adair, here on temporary duty, and John Saxten, here learning how to get along with the Army, brought their better-halves up from Annapolis also.

O n hand from the Washington crowd were the H u g h Robinsons, John Sweeneys, Red Masons, Bob Bidwells, George Bourlands, John Eckhardts, J o h n Leydons, Frank Lynchs, Jim Mastersons, Alan MacFarlands, and Bob O'Neills. Bachelors Paul Lovelace, Connie Hartigan, W i l l Spears, and Willie W a n s came also, but the party must have seemed tame to these gents who are more accustomed to the sort of thing a bachelor Naval officer in Washington gets accustomed to. Lovelace says that even with flight pay, it's too damned expensive living in Washington as a bachelor, and marriage is inevitable if he is to live within his income.

Deke Ela made the party, also. H e was here only temporarily, and, I believe, has gone to Shipyard, Boston, for duty. Jamie Adair has also left, reporting to the Shipyard, N e w York.

W e got our dates fouled u p on the monthly luncheon, but it came off smoothly on the 15. A goodly crowd of nineteen, including out-of-towners Weiler and Ingham, were there to toss off manhattans and martinis, and subsequently, lunch.

Did I mention before that Leon Rodgers attended the December luncheon? H e looked fine. All hands will be interested to learn, also, that Marie Hamilton and W i l l Spears were recently married and are now honeymooning in Bermuda, or some such place.

Understand, too, that George Bullard is coming here for duty, I believe as an aide.

At the January luncheon Bob Bidwell was unanimously acclaimed as secretary-or-what-

have-you of the Washington '38ers. His job will be to arrange the monthly luncheons, gettogethers, etc., and anyone passing through should get in touch with Bob to find out who is here, what they are doing, and what is going on.

Discussed also the date of the ceremony when the stone, which '38 has bought as a gift for the chapel, will be accepted. This stone was shipped from Black, Starr & Gorham on 25 February, and the installation should be complete by mid-March. A weekend of good athletic events was voted as most desirable, and details are being worked out.

As of today, 28 February, we have received $442.00 in contributions toward payment for the gift. This is very good considering that, initially, addresses of only about half the class were known, and consequently the first batch of letters mailed reached only this half. Addresses have since been brought u p to date on virtually all the remaining members of the class, and all should have received the dope by now.

It is hoped that the greatest number of the class possible can attend the ceremony.

As soon as a definite date is selected, a postal card of announcement will be sent out. In the meanwhile, all those w h o haven't yet gotten around to sending in a check are urged to do so right away. All of us would like to meet the bills (about $1,100.00) promptly, and to show the spirit of unity that ties '38ers together.

This will be my last report on Washington doings. A lot of out-of-town duties in the immediate fumre, plus departure from Washington in June, makes it desirable, and I know Biddy is anxious to take over. I wish him the fun I had.

However, either myself or someone else will write a full SHIPMATE article, complete with pictures, on the ashlar (that's the stone for the chapel, son) and the acceptance ceremony.

Some time soon, I hope my address will be MISTER George Bourland, somewhere in Honolulu. A m looking forward to seeing many classmates there.

Bardshar, Frederic A., Cdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept Bogley, John A., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS LUCIDOR, A F

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Brown, William G., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS SANDOVAL, APA

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Burgess, Andrew L., Cdr. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Conrad, Homer E., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS THOMAS JEFFERSON, APA

30.

Cutts, Robert E., Cdr. U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N. Y. for duty as Head of the Department of Naval Science.

Dalton, George F., Cdr. Navigating Officer, USS MASSACHUSETTS, BB

59.

Douglas, James, Cdr. Staff—U. S. Naval School (CEC Officers), Davisville, R. I. Dubois, Raymond F., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS WHARTON, AP

7.

Fitzpatrick, Joseph P., Cdr. Flag Secretary—16th Fleet Grafff Victor B., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS FARENHOLT, DD

491.

Greenwood, Phillip E., Cdr. Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S. C. Haines, John L., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS CORTLAND, APA 75.

Jensen, Leo R., Cdr. Commanding Officer, Patrol Bombing Squadron 122.

Kelly, Monroe, Jr., Cdr. Commanding Officer, USS WISEMAN, DE

667.

Managham, Robert R., Cdr. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy I)ept.

Mansfield, Jack E., Cdr. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Morgan, Robert J., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS GILBERT ISLANDS, CVE 107 with additional duty ai Navigator.

Shirley, John B., Cdr. Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., temporary duty.

Welte, Cecil R., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS FREMONT. APA

44.

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Worthington, Robert K. R., Cdr. Executive Officer, USS E L O K O M I N , AO

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Zimanski, Frank A., Cdr. WASHINGTON,

BB

Gunnery Officer—^USS

56.

1Q0Q THOMAS M. BENNETT, (Lt. I70 7 Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Bennett announce the birth of a daughter, Joanne Elaine on 6 January at the Naval Hospital in Annapolis.

THOMAS H. BELL, (Lt. Comdr., USN), is now stationed at the Naval Fuel Annex, Naval Supply, Depot, San Pedro, Calif.

FRANK M. CULPEPPER, (Lt. Comdr., USN), reports his present address as U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. CHARLES B. ADELMANN, writes from 1916 Octavia Street, San Francisco: "I was released from active duty on 24 October and have since taken a job with Bechtel Bros.-McCone Co. in San Francisco, I am with their pipeline division and get around quite a bit.

The above address is temporary until I find suitable quarters for my family which now numbers four—a wife, two boys and a girl.

Quite by accident I ran into Herb Benham on the Street in San Francisco the other day.

He is presently with Panagra in Peru but tells me he intends to start a business in Frisco soon."

WILLIAM DENTON, (Lt. Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Denton announce the birth of a daughter, Michael Anne on 26 November, 1945 at Pensacola, Fla. EDWIN L. HARRIS, JR., (Lt. Comdr., USN), has been awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Flying Cross by the Secretary of the Navy.

JAMES M. IRVINE, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), gives his new address as 2421 Russell Avenue So., Minneapolis, Minn.

JAMES F. B. JOHNSTON, (Lt. Comdr., USN), advises us that he is on duty in the Office of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Dept. He writes: "I am daily seeing an increasing number of classmates ashore here and I would be delighted to have any of them pay me a call."

JOHN M. GORE, (Lt. Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Gore announce the birth of a daughter, Jane Lucille on 29 December, 1945 at Newport, R. I. •\QA(\

CHARLES

ITT'U

(Lt.

H.

CHAMPION,

Comdr., USN),

has

re-

ported for a course at the P. G. School in Annapolis.

DOUGLAS W. PHILLIPS was married on 12 January, 1946 to Miss Doris Chisler in Hartford, Conn. He is now out of the service and is working for American Bridge Co. in Pittsburgh.

ROBERT L. DODANE, (Lt. Comdr., USN), was reported missing in action last May when the USS TRIGGER failed to return from a patrol.

HORACE H. FIGURES, (Lt. Col., USMC), has become engaged to Lt. (jg) Suzanne Falk, USNR.

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BEX TRIMBLE, gives his address as 811' Union, Ft. Wayne, Ind. and writes: "I am now an employee of General Electric and have been assigned here for training in the manufacturing phase of the business.

"Would like to hear from my roommate, Davenport, and our plebes."

PAUL S. TREITEL, (Major, USMC), is at the Naval War College, Newport, R. L, as a student in the course of staff and command.

DAVID B. BENHAM, (Lt. Comdr., USNR), left the Navy on 26 January, 1946. He has gone into the Benham Engineering Co. at Oklahoma City and gives his address as 820 N. W. 41st Street, Oklahoma City.

1941

JERRY E. CLANCY, (Lt. Comdr., USN), is a member of the P. G. Staff at the Naval Academy.

SEYMOUR EINSTEIN, (Lt. Comdr., USN), is serving aboard the USS HOOPER ISLAND, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

ERNEST C. FARKAS has returned to the civilian ranks and is on Terminal leave until 17 February, 1946. He writes: "O. F. DREYER, please contact your old wife at 11823 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland 20, Ohio.

"I ran into Major Bill Dinsmore, AAF, stationed at Boiling Field. He would like to hear from his old friends.

"I ended up my naval career as a senior grade Lieutenant and am once again united with my wife and two-year-old son. Butch."

TULLY SHELLEY, JR., (Lt. Comdr., USN), and Mrs. Shelley are parents of a son born at Georgetown University Hospital.

FRANK G. EDWARDS, (Lt. Comdr., USN), gives his duty address as Torpedo Squadron 80, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

WILLIAM M. MILLER, (Major, USMC), and Miss Lorraine Hellen Burns were married on 16 February, 1946.

The Publication of "Classmate ' 4 1 " has been held up for about a month because (a) we ate still waiting for some dope from the Navy Department, (b) we still have received questionnaires back from only half the class and (c) the printers are a bit overloaded. It is requested that all members of the graduating class of 1941 please accomplish the following: (1) If you have not already contributed your $2.00 for your copy of "Classmate ' 4 1 " please send cash, money order, or check to Lt. Comdr. J. K. Taussig, jr., USN, 92 Revere Street, Boston, Mass.

(2) If you did not receive or send in questionnaire mailed to you re "Classmate '41", please drop a card airmail to Lt. Comdr.

C. W. Styer, jr., USN, 29 Crest Street, New London, Conn, with the following information: (a) Present station or address. (b) Permanent mailing address, i.e., where you want "Classmate ' 4 1 " to be mailed. (c) Name of wife and children. (d) Resume of duties since graduation. (e) Awards, commendations, qualifications held.

(f) Any suggestions you have on the magazine. Pictures, cartoons, and any stories or articles are welcomed. Please send airmail.

Many thanks to those of the class who have already contributed some fine articles and to those who have cooperated in sending in questionnaires. I will do all I can to ensure a good publication for you. I'm sure you will be as interested in the magazine in its final form as I am in reading over the questionnaires and stories that arrive daily.

Charlie Styer.

ROGER H. ALLEN, (Lt. Comdr., USN), who was reported dead in the 1945 Registei of Graduates, is alive and well. The mistake was made when R. H. Allen of the Naval Reserve was reported dead last July.

ARTHUR G. MCINTYRE, (Lt. Comdr., USN) who has been in a Jap prison camp for some time is now back in the States finishing up rehabilitation and sick leave.

1949

LEONARD ERB, (Lt. Comdr.,

' ' '^ USN) gives his address as 395 Pequot Ave., New London, Conn.

ROBERT G. GIBSON, (Lt. Comdr., USN) is a P. G. Smdent now and lives at 90 Cathedral Street in Annapolis.

WILLIAM M. MONTGOMERY, (Lt. Comdr., USN) and Miss Marion Louise Saunders were married on 31 December, 1945, at Norfolk, Va. WILLIAM F. KIGERL, (Lt. Comdr., USN) gives his new address as Route No. Ij Box 14 D, Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas.

GLENN H. EASTON, JR., (Lt. ig USNR) gives his address as Tanker Control Office, U. S. Naval Harbor Craft Base, San Pedro, Calif., and says: "I'd welcome a call or visit from any classmates (particularly Jim Salassi, Hank Woessner, and Fred Lang) that may be stationed or pass through this area.

I ran across Bob Sweek at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe about the middle of August while on leave enjoying New York's Pre V-J Day celebration."

ROBERT LEONARD, (Lt. Comdr., USN) gives his duty address as USS KANKAHEE, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

FREDERICK S. ROBERTSON, JR., (Lt. Comdr., USN) and Miss Mary Harden Fowler became engaged in January.

MONK MOELLER, (Lt. Comdr., USN, CEC) is the proud father of a son, Robert Lewis, born on 1 February, 1946 at Morristown, N. J. HOWARD L. TERRY, (Lt. Comdr., USN). We extend our sympathy to Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Terry whose infant daughter died in a Little Rock, Ark., hospital on 23 December, 1945.

REGINALD L. WORKMAN, (Lt. Comdr., USN) and Mrs. Workman announce the birth of a son, Reginald Llewellyn, jr. on 11 January, at the Naval Hospital in Annapolis.

QunmaiP

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AT

CARVEL HALL Class of '63 or '43—through the years—as classmates have graduated and sailed away as shipmates.

Carvel Hall has kept cleared for acticm to give you the hospitable welcome as of old, with the same gcx>d fcxxi, good drink, good lodging and good cheer.

M

ONTEREY BAY H O M E between Santa Cruz and Carmel, near beach. Gorgeous unobstructed ocean view. Price $15,000 net, $7,500 cash required. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, storeroom, garage, guest cabin. Central heating, 2 patios; on 3 landscaped lots.

Write owner:

The same old welcome awaits you at America's most famous address . . . King George St. opposite U. S. Naval Academy.

Walter Schuster, Rio del Mar Country Club Box 3 1 3 , P h o n e : 4 2 1 , Aptos, California

"ZZZiZZZ,^22% Tzzzzzzzzz-xzzzzzzzi^ WILLARD L. NYBURG, (Lt. Comdr., USN), writes from 1323 Wilson Avenue: "Just finished 'ME' training at Corry Field under new postwar flight training syllabus.

Expect to be in the Pensacola area at least until June or July. We have beer on ice, soda and mixer in the cabinet, so if you're passing through, drop in and see us. Oh yes. Honey and I are proud parents of a girl, Olga Christine, born here in Pensacola last 29 August. PECK BREWSTER and BOB HANSON of '42 are fathers of a girl and boy, respectively, born at Pensacola Naval Hospital last week."

JAMES W. SALASSI, (Lt. Comdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Salassi announce the birth of Ellen Salassi on 22 January in the Naval Hospital at Pensacola. lO^Q

WILLLAM H. HARDCASTLE,

I7*T5

J R . , (Lt., U S N ) , gives his new

address as Hdqtrs., 10th Naval District, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, JR., (Lt., USN), and Miss Jean Gordon Holloway, daughter of R. Admiral and Mrs. J. L. Holloway, '19, were married on 1 February.

DUNBAR LAWSON, (Lt., USN), gives his address as VBF-81, c/o FPO, New York, N.Y. We extend our sympathy to Mr. Samuel H. Miller whose son, N O R M A N "K" MILLER, has been officially determined dead after having been missing in aaion since 26 August, 1942, in the Southwest Pacific Area.

AMERICO J. VESCOVI, (Lt., USN), gives his duty address as Naval Air Training Bases, Corpus Christi, Texas.

KENITH V. LINDSTROM, (Lt., USN), gives his address as Apt. 156, 4281 Ravenscroft St., San Diego 2, Calif.

JONATHAN LEFF, (Lt., jg, USN), is serving in the USS OREGON ClTY, c/o Supervisor Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass.

ROBERT W. NEWELL, (Lt., jg, USN), and Klazina van der Linden Gleysteen are engaged.

MAURICE I. GLAD (Lt., jg, USN), is on duty at USNATB, Corpus Christi, Texas.

RICHARD A. RYZOW, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Eleanora Ruth Buchanan were married on 3 February in Windsor, Conn.

CHARLES L. MILLER, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Elizabeth Ann Begley were married in the chapel at the U. S. Naval Air Base in Jacksonville on 15 December, 1945.

EDWIN K. SNYDER, (Lt., jg, USN). gives his address as 2 Mather Ave., Branford Ct., Groton, Conn.

ROBERT P. COOGAN, (Lt., jg, U S N ) , and Miss Mary O'Neill Hayes are engaged.

Bob is taking flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas.

MARCH,

1946

HOBBY, GILLESPIE and KALK.

"Betty and the baby boy are here in Charleston with me now and we have a rather nice little furnished house.

"My roommate, BILL AMICK, is still in Groton, Conn., putting a new sub in commission. J. MACDONALD is here in Charleston—Exec on the HOBBY, tied up next to us."

I Q ^ r WILLIAM F. DOEHLER, (1st ' ' '^ Lt., USMC), has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

EDWARD J. TAYLOR, (Lt., jg, USN), is attending Officers' Gunnery School, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.

HALLETT T. LAWRENCE, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Dorothy Mae McElroy were married on 30 December, 1945, in Norfolk.

GARWOOD R. WOLFF, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Joanne Sokol were married on 27 January, 1946. Lt. Wolff will be flag lieutenant and aide to R. Admiral F. S. Low at Pearl Harbor. He received the Silver and Bronze Star Medals during the war.

FORREST S. PETERSEN, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss June Berkshire were married on 2 February, 1946, in the Naval Academy chapel.

EDWARD R. GASKIN, (Lt., USN), and Mrs. Helen Frances Ray were married recently.

MAYLON T. SCOTT, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Betty Chambliss became engaged in January.

*^^^L J. ADAMS, (Lt., jg, is "Finishing up at Air Bombers Training

' ' ' USN), gives his new address as 1307 Blondean St., Keokuk, Iowa.

JIM WINDSOR, (Lt., jg, USN), writes: "I am still on the KENDRICK—our new. address is U. S. Naval Base, Charleston, S. C. Have been Exec for a month now aiSti like the work. I have the additional duty of handling staff paper work for Capt. Bosquet N. Wev who has his pennant on the "K" and who is now S.O.P.A. in the area where the inactive fleet destroyers are berthed. The KENDRICK is scheduled to remain'in commission to act as mother destroyer for the LAUB,

JOSEPH A. SOUTHWORTH, (Lt., jg, USN), is taking a course at the P. G. School.

RAGNWALD MULLER, (Lt., jg, USN),

1944

JR., are attached to VB-74, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y.

Unit and rolling on to operational in Privateers, along with D. A. MILLER, '43; W. W. STEVENS, '43; R. GAIBLER, '44; W. F. MARTIN, '\^, and J. R. TRAUTMAN, '44."

His new address is NAS, Hutchinson, Kansas.

BUDD SALZIG and W. A. PATTERSON.

RICHARD J. COOKE, (Lt., jg, USN), and wife are residing at 33 Granite St., New London, Conn., where Cookie is attending sub school. He was attached to the carrier ESSEX before going to New London. He reported having seen A. C LEWIS and DUFF. While in Bremerton he saw BILL RHINESMITH, his wife, and son. Bill.

FREDERICK J. KELLEY, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Elizabeth J. Coggins were married in New York on 12 January, 1946.

WILLIAM J. McGARRY, (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Eleanor May Green were married on 9 February.

JOSEPH M. SNYDER, JR., (Lt., jg, USN), and Miss Nettie Frances Graman were recently married in Washington.

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DOUGLAS E. McINTYRE, (Lt., jg, USN), writes: "Although I requested and got tin<an duty, reporting to the USS HAMBLETON in the Mediterranean last fall, I'm now in the minesweeping outfit. The "H" was converted shortly after I came on board to DMS 20. It's not a bad outfit, and we got to see plenty of action at Okinawa and Tokio Bay, but I'm still anxious to get back to destroyers.

"Other 45ers in this DMS Squadron are MANLEY, LOWREY and IVES, the latter being gunnery officer of his ship.

"Incidentally, when we next hit the U. S., I'm planning to be married to Miss Ruth Cunningham of Upper Darby, Penna., the little red-head I used to drag as a first classman."

If Ives' visit to the Alumni House a while back means that the rest of the DMS Squadron is in, Doug must have a wife by now.

IQAL I 7 t o

ANSEL C. BRASETH, (Ens., USN), is serving in the USS

MISSISSIPPI,

c/o FPO, New York, N. Y.

ALFRED F. BRIDGER, (Ens., USN), and Miss Rose Mary Ericson were married on 24 December, 1945.

• RICHARD H. DALY, (Ens., USN), and Miss Elizabeth Ann Lynch became engaged in January.

JACK E. GUENTZ, (Ens., USN), and Miss Ivajean Dollarhide were marriecl on 1 February.

HAROLD EDWARDS, JR., (Ens., USN) .gives his duty address as USS DULUTH, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

WILSON F. ENGEL, JR., (Ens., USN), is serving in the USS FARENHOLT, U. S. Naval Base, Charleston, S. C. BOB BERGS, (Ens., USN), gives his address as 7 Esplanade, Newport, R. I., and writes: "On 16 Oaober, the class of 1946 celebrated the Academy's Centennial with a dinner party in the Officers' Mess at the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. Among those present to toast the class and our alma mater were: BILL EATON, BILL ADAMS, JOE ARMAO, JOHN CREHAN, BOB GARTON, TOMMY GROVES, DON ISELIN, SAM CANDLER, BEN HOOKS, BILL JONES, NARLIN JANKOVSKY, and KEN LYONS. We believe this was the first large formal .gathering of our classmates since graduation."

ROBERT S. HALEY, (Ens., USN), is serving in the USS DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD, C/O

FPO, New York, N. Y. ROBERT A. PAGE, (Ens., USN), and Miss Suzette Rynd became engaged recently.

ARTHUR J. MORROW, (Ens., USN), gives his duty address as USS PAIVER, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. DONALD G. ISELIN, (Ens., USN), married Jacqueline Mary Myers, of Wilmette, 111., on 9 June, 1945.

THOMAS L. PEACE is in the Coast Guard Reserve. He writes: 'The war was over before I got out here but I have had some in-

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valuable experiences and am now comfortably set-up as Exec on my ship."

CORLISS R. NUGENT, (Ens., USN), and Miss Elizabeth Lansing Peck were married on 13 January in Coronado, Calif.

SHIPMATE wishes to acknowledge communications and/or contributions from the following: LLOYD S. SHAPLEY, '99 SINCLAIR GANNON, '00 ROSCOE C. DAVIS, '02 EDWIN G. KINTNER, '02 ROSS P. SCHLABACH, '03 HAROLD R. STARK, '03 HARRY A. STUART, '04 RALPH B. HORNER, '07 RALPH C. PARKER, '07 JOHN M. SCHELLING, "07 VICTOR D. HERBSTER, '08 FRANCIS S. CRAVEN, '11 DELAVAN B. DOWNER, '11 HERBERT E. DUNTON, '11 FRANK C. McCORD, '11 HAROLD W. SCOFIELD, '12 HENRY F. HECK, '14 FRED D. DIRTLAND, '16 JOSEPH LYNN, '16 C. JULLAN WHEELER, '16 EARLE E. MUSCHLITZ, '17 ERNEST B. COLTON, '18 JOHN K. JAYNE, '18 EDMUND J. KIDDER, '18 STANLEY C. NORTON, '18 ROBERT B. PARKER, '18 HENRY S. KENDALL, '18 CARLOS W. WLEBER, '18 ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER, '19 ALAN B. FOWLER, '20 WILLIAM A. P. MARTIN, '20 JOHN B. LONGSTAFF, '20 LAURENCE A. ABERCROMBIE, '21 JOHN J. CURLEY, JR., '21 RALPH B. HUNT, '21 CHARLES R. BROWN, '21 ATHERTON MACONDRAY, JR., '21 THOMAS ALDRED, '22 WILLIAM S. CAMPBELL, '22 KENNETH O. EKELUND, '22 ANDREW M. R. FITZSIMMONS, '22 FULWAR S. HALSELL, '22 HARRY KEELER, JR., '22 HAMILTON WALLACE, '22 JOHN J. O'DONNELL, '22 FRANCIS S. DRAKE, '23 ALFRED C. OLNEY, JR., '23 LAYTON A. ZIMMER, '23 HOWELL ARMOR, '24 JOSEPH F. DAHLGREN, '24 FRANK R. DAVIS, '24 EDMUND A. CUNNINGHAM, '24 WILLIAM L. ERDMANN, '24 PRESTON V. MERCER, '24 EUGENE C. ROOK, '24 JOSEPH P. THEW, '24 JAMES J. WHALEN, '24 JOHN W. WOOD, JR., '24 JOSEPH M. P. WRIGHT, '24 MARTIN J. DRURY, '25 GEORGE GELLHORN, '25 CLARENCE E. GREGERSON, '25 ROLAND B. VANASEE, '25 BYRON CHASE WANGLIN, JR., 25 JOSEPH W. CALLAHAN, "26 WILLIAM O. FLOYD, '26 ROBERT B. GOLDMAN, '26

JOHN S. LITTIG, "26 PETER W. MOURER, '26 FRANK B. SCHAEDE, '26 PETER A. WYCKOFF, '26 JOHN R. DALX, '27 JOSEPH DANHOFF, '27 GORDON S. EVERETT, '27 JAMES A. LUCIER, '27 WILLIAM T. McGARRY, '27 ROGER F. SCOTT, '27 MALEN DURSKI, '27 HARRY E. DAY, '27 RICHARD F. PETTENGILL, '28 HAROLD K. FEIOCK, '30 KENNETH M. GENTRY, '30 ROBERT E. PERKINS, '30 WILLLAM A. HUN'TER, JR., '31 ROBERT E. LOCKWOOD, '31 FRANCIS B. MERKLE, '31 RAYMOND H. NELSON, '31 GEORGE F. SCHULTZ, '31 HARRY G. MOORE, '32 CHARLES H. PARKS, '32 EDWARD E. GRIMM, '33 CHARLES E. KING, '33 FRANK D. SCHWARTZ, '33 JOHN T. BLACKBURN, '33 H. HART KAIT, '34 ZOLTAN PAPP, '34 ORME C. ROBBINS, '34 HINTON I. SMITH, '34 ROY SMITH, '34 WILLLAM J. FRANCIS, '35 ALAN M. NIBBS, '35 JAMES M. WOLFE, JR.. '35 JOHN M. MLLLER, '35 WILLLAM S. SAMPSON, '35 CHESTER W. NIMI1Z, JR., '36 WILLLAM J. HELD, '37 DWIGHT L. JOHNSON, '37 ROBERT H. WESCOTT. '37 DONALD M. WHITE, '37 HOWARD B. BENGE, '38 RANDOLPH C. BERKELEY, JR., '38 JOE L. BETTINGER, JR., '38 LEO R. JENSEN, '38 SPENCE KEMP, '38 ROBERT J. MORGAN, '38 JOHN T. READY, JR., '38 THOMAS H. BELL, '39 RUSSELL DUNCAN, '39 ANDREW B. HAMM, '39 WILLARD Y. HOWELL, '39 JAMES M. IRVINE, '39 REUBEN N. PERLEY, '39 HAROLD W. BIESEMEIER, '40 JACK A. HOLMES, '40 ROBERT N. MILLER, '40 VERNON E. TEIG, '40 FRANK H. PRICK, JR., '41 FRANCIS E. SOMERS, '41 FRANK G. EDWARDS, '41 ERNEST C. FARKAS, '41 DAVID G. ADAMS, JR., '42 WILUAM A. ARTHUR, '42 GEORGE H. MAYLER, '42 JAMES W. SALASSI, '42 ROY W. F. WERTHMULLER, '42 JUDSON C. DOYLE, '42 WILLIAM A. BUDDING, JR., '43 JAMES W. HERRING, '43 ERIC ISCHINGER, '43 OWEN F. KEELER, JR., '43 KENITH V. UNDSTROM, '43 NELSON C. WOODWARD, '43 HARRY S. McCOOL, '43 RAYMOND E. PEET, '43 REGINALD C. LAMB, '43

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EDWIN L. SIBERT, JR., '43 LOUIS K. TUTTLE, JR., '43 STANLEY H. BRITTINGHAM, '44 JOHN E. CARR, '44 CHARLES H. HAYDEN, '44 WILLIAM H. KNULL, JR., '44 ROBERT M. KELLER, '44 HENRY A. EIMSTAD, '44 DONALD W. M C C A R T H Y , '44 HORACE C. H O G A N , '44 WILUAM B. P R I G M O R E , '44

EDWIN K. SNYDER, '44 JOSEPH A. SOUTHWORTH, '44 JIM WINDSOR, '44 ELSTON WYATT, '44 ROBERT B. BAER, '45 WILUAM W. COLLIER, '45 RICHARD J. COOKE, '45 SCOTT C. DAUBIN, '45 STANLEY M. HIRSCH, '45 WILUAM E. KALOUPEK, '46 THOMAS L. PEACE, '46 THEODORE R. DIBBLE, '46 ALEXANDER F. BONACARTI, JR., '49

THE

BALLOT

The by-laws require a secret ballot. this notation will serve to indicate that ( 1 ) Use this ballot. Indicate your you desire to become a member and that preference by marking your choice with you subscribe to the Constimtion and By-Laws. Your name and class are aban "X" in the proper square . solutely necessary in order to verify the (2 ) Place your ballot in the envelope validity of the ballot enclosed. Unless and seal it. this is done, the ballot will be thrown out. ( 3 ) Place this envelope inside en(5) All members of the Naval Acadvelope addressed to Secretary-Treasurer, emy Alumni Association are entitled to USNA Alumni Association, Annapolis, vote.

Md. (6) Ballot must be in the office of ( 4 ) On the back of this outer envel- the Secretary-Treasurer, USNA Alumni ope, sign your name and class. If a new Association, by noon. May 15, 1946. member or if you have not already subAdditional ballots will be sent by the scribed to the Constimtion and By-Laws, Secretary-Treasurer upon request.

Vor President and Trustee n

Spindrift

Vor Vice-President (West Coast) and Trustee

(Continued from page 3 7 ) in the first wing basement after a hard-fought steeplechase meet. He prodded the button weakly but persistendy. No response, but worth one more try. In the a a of making the final effort he was startled by the dank of cudery and the flash of three broad ones.

Maclaren stomped past with messenger dutifully in tow, throwing back over his shoulder as he passed, "It's a shame it doesn't work, isn't it?"

So far independent travel to dass for the first dass has worked out agreeably to all hands, but Lee knows of one man who would have fared better under the old system. This particular morning he entered old Isherwood Hall several minutes early and went to his appointed room. He started filling out his Form W to have it ready when the Prof walked in.

Someone walked in but it wasn't the Prof. It was an officer that he had never seen before and so he presumed that their regular professor had been replaced. He made a remark to this effea, and to his horror the officer replied that he wasn't instructing this period; he was merely in the room to correa papers.

Suddenly a great wave of comprehension overwhelmed him—^what in hell was he doing in this building anyway? He zoomed out of the room and out of the building just as the latecomers were pouring through the door.

His destination—Luce Hall.

/ hope the readers of SHIPMATE tvUl be as pleased as the Editors were vuhen they learned that their magazine had received honorable mention in a contest which was for the purpose of selecting the best alumni publication, the Robert Sibley Award goes to the magazine which is most successful in doing the job set out for it. This year the Ohio State University Monthly was the winner, but we have high hopes for the next year.

MARCH,

1946

Charles P. Snyder, '00, Washington, D. C.

D *Haller Belt, '08, San Francisco, Calif.

Vor Vice-President (East Coast) and Trustee n

*Donald S. Walker, '24, New York, N. Y.

Trustees The following 19 members of the Alumni Association have been nominated by petitions in accordance with the provisions of the By-Laws. You may vote for (not to exceed) 8 names from this list. A majority vote elects.

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*David F. Sellers, '94, Washington, D. C. *Wilson Brown, '02, Waterford, Connecticut.

Husband E. Kimmel, '04, Bronxville, New York. *Thomas A. Nicholson, '10, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. *Morris D. Gilmore, '11, Annapolis, Maryland.

Thomas M. Searles, '13, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A. Arnold Brand, '14, Chicago, Illinois.

Claude C. Vickery, '15, New York, New York.

Ross F. Collins, '17, Annapolis, Maryland, James A. Smart, '22, U. S. Marine Corps.

William R. Smedberg, '26, U. S. Navy.

Thomas J. Hamilton, '27, U. S. Navy, Louis A. Bryan, '32, U. S. Navy.

O. Griffith Sexton, '36, U. S. Navy.

John A. Saxten, Jr., '38, U. S. Marine Corps.

Alexander S. Goodfellow, '40, U. S. Navy, Robert P. Norton, '44, U. S. Navy.

Robert A. Bergs, '46, U. S. Navy.'

Benjamin S. Martin, 'A.d, U. S. Navy. *Incumbent whose term expires June 30, 1946.

Do Not Sign This Ballot Send ballot to: Secretary-Treasurer, USNA Alumni Association, Annapohs, Md. 57

is his day as a midshipman and swam on die 160-yard relay team that established an intetcoUegiate record in 1922.

—^INCOME AND T A X —

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HERE is considerable specvdarion that the law which permits enlisted personnel to dedua all of their service pay as an income tax deduction will be extended to officers.

Just at this time when income tax returns are occupying our thoughts and depleting the bank account we tend to feel that there is inequality in the law. Surely we paid as much to eat and house our families, and the moves we made w^ere just as expensive as were those for all service families.

Just in case the provisions should be extended, many of those who are trying to dear and make rerurns for the past three years, together with the pay-as-you-go installments for this year, wUl take advantage of the thirty-six months allowed for payment. This on the theory that, even though we have been saving the money for some time for eventual payment, we can get a small return on it in a savings account, and should the law be changed it might not be reuoactive.

Among the other things to be considered in making out this tax return business is that six states in the Union have community property laws which allow husband and wife to split, (in separate returns) all income received by either. This, when it can be taken advantage of, and the little two-legged exemptions assigned to the husband, results in a lower combined tax for husband and wife than would be possible in a joint return. It's distinctiy worthwhile to inquire about the community property laws in the state in which you live as certain states were specifically exempted to avoid conflia with state laws when the Federal codes were written.

With the possible exception of states which have a sales tax on all purchases, even food, the blanket exemption of five hundred dollars allowed taxpayers is more generous than the former compilation of charitable donations, license and tax payments, church contributions and the other items we tried hard to remember at the end of the calendar year.

Speaking of church contributions, I once heard a minister's wife wryly remark that if all the contributions to church listed in income tax reports had actually been made, no church in this country would have a mortgage on its roof.

—SMALL CHANGE—

Still speaking of money, at a time when the little added costs on all our purchases are making the ol' budget squeak and groan, and the batde of OPA and manufacturers has left the consumer practically naked, you should know of the reasons advanced for raising the price of admission to the baseball games of two of the biggest professional teams in the East. They raised the prices to make the "change come out even." For instance, the managers said, grandstand seats were $1.20 last year, but a nickel has been added so that the customer can hand the cashier a dollar and a half or two dollars and not have to

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The most sensational team developed under Mr. Ordand's coaching was that of 1924, the National Tide Team. Yet he is not reget a large number of coins in return. This luctant in praise of the current season's team, also will allow the cash customers to get in considering it tops as an all-round outfit in the ball parks more quickly than waiting un- collegiate competition. Its captain, R. 1. der congested circumstances at ticket booths. Cowell, 47, copped the outdoor senior naNow I realize that few of us are in the habit tional tide for his backstroke profidency diis of waiting in line to get into professional year, at Dayton, Ohio. Just the other day, baseball games, under any circumstances, con- February 9th, swimming against the Coast gested or otherwise, but I do think the reason Guard Academy, Cowell took part in the given for raising prices is the most wonderful setting of a new record for the Academy pool, yet. I hope sincerely that the groceries and when he, Warren Ortland, '48-A, and OUie the movie theaters do not relieve their cus- Hallet, 47, lowered the 300-yard relay record tomers in the same way, and I wonder too, by three and four-tenths seconds. Ihe who invented the idea that inflation spirals, combination of Crosby, '48-B, Ivers, "49, Hull, when anyone can see that it goes straight—^up. '48-A, and Grechanik, 48-A, sliced seventenths of a second off the pool record in the 400-yard relay. Others on whom Ortland is — " F R O M WHERE YOU STAND"— relying to swim home the bacon this season Remember simmering under the barrage of are Charlie Dwight, '49; Ross MiUer, Don letters which hit the magazines and newspap- Mayer, Neil Thomson, Don Clifford, and Jim ers last Fall about the inequalities in the mili- Carrington, '48-B. Carrington makes an untary services, and the panning the officers got? usual sports combination of swimming and The simation was somewhat deared recendy football, having been first-string guard last when, after careful investigation and really fall. thinking the matter through, a congressman declared that a "brass hat" was a man one Diving honors this season are going to G. rank higher than the man who was com- A. Gomperts, jr., '49, R. N. Barker, '47, and plaining.

Turner Joy, 47. Both Gomperts and Barker saw service as eidisted men before entering —^NIGHT U F E — the Naval Academy, as seaman 2c, USNR, and This leads me to the story of the brass hat, private, U. S. Army Air Corps, respecrivdy. who, sympathetic to the last dothing drive, Joy is the son of Rear Admiral Charles dedded to contribute an old uniform, and that Turner Joy, now on duty in China. evening he cut off all the gold buttons and This season's aquatic team has won seven laid the uniform out on a chair as he left for straight meets, over Duke, Franklin & Marwork the next morning. That night he was astonished to find the uniform neady pressed shall, Lehigh, North Carolina, Cornell, Princeand with aU the buttons carefully sewn back ton, and the Coast Guard Academy, in that on. A litde reflection reminded him that he order. Ordand is oidy sorry not to have his had forgotten to mention to his houseboy schedule indude Yale, last beaten by the midshipmen in 1923. We're all looking forward, that the uniform was being discarded. A litde though, to March 2nd—Army. further reflection made him wonder about the private thoughts of the houseboy as he stitched back the buttons; probably, that the "old man' didn't have much to do if he sat up nights cutS o m e t h i n g Old ting off his buttons to make work for the (Contintted from page 36) help.

This particular triptych was given in memory of Ueutenant (jg) Demarest Lloyd, USNR, (who was killed in action as a fli^t S w i m m i n g at t h e Academy pilot over Guam, 12 June 1944), by his mother, Mrs. Demarest Uoyd. In the INDEX {Continued from page 3 8 ) of the triptychs, supplied by Mrs. Morgan's Plichta, and Billy Hyland, who placed oneCommittee, it is No. 348. two-three in both the quarter-mile and the The central panel shows a large figure of 220-yard course in the 1934 IntercoUegiate's.

Three midshipmen of former years, remem- Sir Galahad, mounted on a white horse, in bered by their swimming coach as stars, who low relief against a blue background. The went on to give their lives in the war, were right panel depicts an andent sailing vessel Phil Torrey, captain of the 1936 team, Hugh manned by cross-bowmen. The left pand is Wager, '41, and Al Gross, '43. Torrey entered dominated by a stylized representation of a the Academy while his father was command- modern naval aircraft carrier, with silver ing officer in charge of the Marine Detach- planes aloft. ment.

Across the bottom of the central pand runs Ortland has two swimming sons of his own, this quotation from the Saiptures: ."ThereHenry Onland, III, and Warren. Young for take unto you the armour of God—St. Henry swam against the Navy at North Caro- Paul Ephes. 6." lina, then switched over to the Naval Academy, '46. Warren, '48A, swims breaststroke Second PT Boat Scale-Model with Emil Eyler and Church Reynolds. There Note on Display in Museum is a Bill Kanakanui, '48-B, showing promise in The second scale-model of a motor torpedo this years batch of swimmers. His father. boat has been received from the Elco Naval Bill Kanakanui, '22, was a top-notch sprinter and Yacht Division, Electric Boat Company,

Bayonne, New Jersey, and is now on display with the model of the original PT boat used

by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley, USN, to evacuate General MacArthur, his staff and family, from Corregidor in 1942.

The new model, the latest design in PT boats, is a beautiful example of the model maker's art, finished in one-half inch to onefoot scale. It is interesting to compare the rwo models and note improvements in design.

Also the number of salient features that were carried, almost unchanged, through four years' development of the craft.

The principal improvement is, of course, in armament. The latest PT boat includes rockets as well as a battery of three different types of anti-aircraft guns. In addition, the latest model has radar equipment and it even carries a small dory to take its crew ashore.

Near these two mcxlels rests a spar torpedo, similar to the one used by Ueutenant W. B. Cushing, during the Civil War, in his famous exploit to sink the Confederate irondad ALBEMARLE—thus recalling the individual acts of heroism of the younger officers in that war with those of World War II, under almost similar conditions. A few weeks ago the Museum received a 7-page manusaipt desaiption of Cushing's exploit in the autograph of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.

FENCING Columbia The Navy fencers lost their first dual meet in fencing in many years to Columbia at New York City on 16 February by the score of 14 to 13. Columbia won in the foil and epee weapons, and Navy took the Sabre.

The plebe fencers won their match with Riverdale Country School of New York, N. Y., 15 to 12.

New York

University

The Navy fencing team still remains undefeated for the season by defeating New York University 19 to 18. "The plebe fencing team defeated its opponent August Military Academy 18 to 9.

Philadelphia Fencing Club The Middle fencing team continued in an undefeated path by defeating the Philadelphia Fencers Club 14 to 13. Philadelphia won the foil and sabre contests by the score of 5 to 4, but Navy defeated them in Epee 6 to 3, which enabled them to get by the Philadelphia swordsmen by one point.

The plebe fencers defeated Baltimore Polytechnic Instimte 9 to 3.

New York Saltus Club

Athletics (Continued from page 4 1 )

GYMNASTICS Brooklyn YMCA The gymnastic team opened its season with a viaory over the Brooklyn Y.M.C.A. team of Brooklyn, N. Y. by the score of 59 to 34.

The plebe gym team also won its meet with Dickinson High School of Jersey City, N. J. 59J4 to 3 6 ^ .

State College The Navy Gymnastic team journeyed to State College, Pa. on 9 February for an intercollegiate match with Pennsylvania State College and were defeated 65 to 31. Green of Peim State took three events—^parallel bars, side horse, and rope climb. Pitt of Navy won the flying rings.

Germantown YMCA The Germantown Y.M.C.A. gymnastic team placed first in the side horse, horizontal and parallel bars, and tumbling to defeat the middies. Navy won the flying rings and the rope climb. "The score was Germantown 51^4 to Navy's 44^4.

New York Turners The Navy gynmastic team defeated the New York Turners 59 to 33 with Navy taking four fint places in six events. The New Yorkers had the advantage in team points in the Horizontal Bar and Parallel Bars.

Army An unusually strong Army gymnastic team came to Annapolis on Saturday, 2 March, and defeated the Middies, 56i/i to 'b^Vl• The Middies took first place in the side horse and rope climb with Army taking the parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings, and tumbling events. Midshipman Hoffman dimbed the rone in four seconds and took first place.

MARCH, 1946

The varsity fencers defeated the New York Saltus Club Fencing Team 19 to 8 in a warmup for the important match with Army on 2 March. "The plebe fencers defeated William Penn Charter School 23 to 4.

Army The Navy fencing team defeated Army at West Point, N . Y., by the very dose margin of 14 to 13.

The defeat of Army came as a climax to a very successful season for the fencers. Tlie only meet they lost during the season was to Columbia at New York City.

THE SEARCHLIGHT T h e wanted list for this month's Searchlight includes the following names: Bunner, Mrs. James J., wife Comdr., (SC).

Cass, Mrs. William F., wife Lr., USCG. Cook, Mrs. A. B., wife Comdr., '15.

Davis, Mrs. Robert, wife (MC).

Griswold, Mrs. W. A., wife Comdr., '21.

Harenburger, Mrs. C. H., wife Lieut.

Hawes, Mrs. R. R., wife Lieut., (SC).

Henry, Mrs. G. R., widow Lt. Comdr.

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

Overand, Barbara, daughter of Lt. Comdr., USN (SC).

Quinn, Mrs. Lawrence A., widow Lt. Col., USMC. Rogozienski, Mrs. Frank, wife Ensign, USNACR. Stocker, Mrs. Louis J., wife Comdr., '26.

Taffinder, Mrs. Sherwood A., wife R.Adm., USN, '06.

Troxell, Mrs. Charles E., wife Ensign.

Wilson, Mrs. John M., widow Lieut., '34.

Wilson, Mrs. Ronald L., wife Comdr., '32.

visitors with 280 points, while Ellis led Navy with 277.

Army

RIFLE Yale University The small bore rifle team defeated Yale University 1394 to 1324 to remain undefeated thus far for the season. Midshipman O'Keefe was high gun with 283 points.

The Middle rifle team was defeated by the cadets at West Point by the score of 1377 to 1358. It was the second defeat of the season for the Middies as they were previously defeated by the U. S. Coast Guard Academy.

Ellis and Sawtelle of Navy, and Plummet, Brown, and Patton of Army, tied for the high score which was 276.

St. J o h n ' s College The plebe rifle team lost its match with St. John College of Washington, D. C. rifle team 1382 to 1326.

U. S. Coast Guard Academy "The Coast Guard Academy defeated Navy both in rifle and pistol, taking the rifle match 1390 to 1359, and the pistol match 1341 to 1315.

The hitherto undefeated Navy rifle team lost to the sharpshooting rifle team of The U. S. Coast Guard Academy 1376 to 1360.

The midshipman won only in the kneeling position by a score of 4(i(> to 462. Coast Guard took the prone firing laurels 488 to 476, and standing 426 to 418. Dilliver paced the

PISTOL U. S. Coast Guard Academy The Coast Guard Academy pistol team defeated the midshipman 1371 to 1360. This was the first pistol match of the season for Navy.

Army The Cadet pistol team defeated the Middies at Annapolis by the score of 1325 to 1300.

By defeating the midshipmen the Army pistol team was undefeated for the season. Navy was defeated by the U. S. Coast Guard Academy earlier in the season. Frazer of Army, with a score of 269, was high man for the match. Whittire was high scorer for Navy with 268.

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mt Itagt Call lost. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed determined to be missing in action as of 24 to have occurred on 6 December, 1945.

September, 1943, having been serving, aboard the USS GRAYLING when that submarine was lost in the Western Padfic CHARLES FREDERIC BRINDUPKE, '32, Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in acOcean. In compliance with Section 5 of tion as of 27 March, 1944, having been Public Law 490, as amended, death is preserving aboard the USS TULLIBEE when sumed to have occurred on 3 January, 1946. that submarine was sunk during an attack upon an enemy convoy in the vicinity of SALVATORE BALESTRIERI, '44, Ens. Officially the Palau Islands. In compliance with Secdetermined to be missing in action as of 5 tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, July, 1944, having been se'rving aboard the death is presumed to have occurred on 15 USS HERRING when that submarine failed -December, 1945. to return from a war patrol in the vicinity of the Kuril Islands. In compliance with said Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as ROBERT MARION BRINKER, '34, Lt. Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in acamended, death is presumed to have oction as of 24 September, 1943, having been curred on 17 January, 1946. serving aboard the USS GRAYLING when that submarine was lost in the Western DONALD F R A N Q S BANKER, '40, Lt. Comdr.

Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 Officially reported to be missing in action of Public Law 490, as amended, death is as of 5 November, 1944, when the plane in presumed to have occurred on 3 January, which he was flying a unit of Bombing 1946.

Squadron NINETEEN, was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed in Manila Bay, Luzon Island, The Philippines. In compli- FRANCIS ELWOOD BROWN, '33, Lt. Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in action ance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as as of 7 October, 1943, having been servamended, death is presumed to have ocing aboard the USS S-44 when that submacurred on 6 November, 1945. rine was lost due to enemy action in the Kuril Islands area. In compliance with SecGEORGE LIEINBERGER BELLINGER, '32, Lt. tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, Officially reported to be missing in action death is presumed to have occurred on 15 as of 1 February, 1942, when the plane of December, 1945. which he was pilot, a unit of Torpedo Squadron 5, failed to return from an attack J O H N W I N S T O N BOOKER, '43, Lt. ( j g ) . Offiagainst Japanese mandated islands. In comcially determined to be missing in action as pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, of 24 September, 1943, having been servas amended, death is presumed to have ocing aboard the USS GRAYLING when that curred on 26 November, 1945. submarine was lost in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Seaion 5 of HOWARD BURTON BERRY, JR., '38, Lt. OffiPublic Law 490, as amended, death is precially determined to be missing in action as sumed to have occurred on 3 January, 1946. of 6 November, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS CISCO when that submarine JOSEPH H U N T BOURLAND, '33, Lt. Comdr. failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Officially determined to be missing in acSouth China Sea. In compliance with Section as of 11 July, 1943, having been servtion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, ing aboard the USS RUNNER when that death is presumed to have CKCurred on 8 submarine failed to return from a war paJanuary, 1946. trol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have ROBERT ALEXANDER BONIN, '36, Lt. Comdr. occurred on 2 January, 1946.

Officially determined to be missing in ac• tion as of 5 May, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS GUDGEON when that WILLIAM W I L S O N BURGAN, '40, Lt. Offisubmarine failed to return from a war patrol cially determined to be missing in action in the Western Pacific Ocean. In complias of 1 November, 1943, having been servance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as ing aboard the USS W A H O O when that amended, death is presumed to have ocsubmarine failed to return from a war patrol curred on 15 January, 1946. in the Sea of Japan. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 7 W I L L I A M HARLAN SIMPSON BRADY, '38, Lt. January, 1946.

Officially reported to be missing in action as of 2 February, 1943, when the plane in which he was flying, a unit of Escort J O H N AUGUSTUS BUTLER, '34, • Lt. Col., Scouting Squadron ELEVEN, upon its remrn USMC, was killed on 5 March, 1945, in from an attack mission over Munda Airthe battle of Iwo Jima. field, was prevented from making a safe landing at Henderson Field when under W I L L I A M MURRAY CHEWNING, '42, Lt. Offiattack by enemy planes, and was thereafter cially determined to be missing in action D A N I E L EUGENE ARNOLD, '40, Lt. Officially

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as of 30 November, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS CORVINA when that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 9 January, 1946.

ALBERT HOBBS CLARK, '33, Lt. Comdr. Offi.

dally determined to be missing in action as of 7 April, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS TROUT when that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance • with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 14 January, 1946.

JAMES SEERLEY CLARK, '35, Lt. Comdr. Of-

ficially determined to be missing in action as of 12 July, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS GOLET when that subm.irine failed to return from a war patrol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 18 January, 1946.

JAMES WIGGINS COE, '30, Comdr. Offidally

determined to be missing in aaion as of 6 November, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS CISCO when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the South China Sea. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 8 January, 1946.

ELMER FRANKLIN CRAIN, JR., '44, Ens. Offi-

cially determined to be missing in action as of 7 April, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS TROUT when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 14 January, 1946.

J O H N SHAW DALTON, '38, Lt. Officially te-

ported to be missing in action as of 18 July, 1943, when the plane in which he was flying, a unit of fighting Squadron TWENTY-SEVEN, based on the Russell Islands, failed to return from a strike against enemy shipping in the Kahili Area. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 7 January, 1946.

GREER ASSHETON DUNCAN, JR., '37, Lt.

Comdr. Officially determined to be missing in action as of 23 March, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS TULLIBEE when that submarine was sunk during an attack upon an enemy convoy in the vicinity of the Palau Islands. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 December, 1945.

EDWARD HOVEY DURELL, '87, Capt.-Ret. Died

of a heart attack on 11 January, 1946.

DANIEL

FARNSWORTH

EMSLIE,

'45, Ens.

USNR. Killed on 7 January when his airplane crashed during a training flight at the Naval Air Station at Los Alimatos, Calif.

RAYMOND CHARLES FERRIS. '20. Died on 6

November, 1945, at the American Legion Hospital at Kerrville, Texas.

RICHIE NEALE HENDERSON, '40, Lt. Offi-

pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 4 January, 1946.

FRED FERGUSON MALLORY, '40, Ens.

Offi-

submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the Sea of Japan. In compliance with said Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 7 January, 1946.

cially determined to be missing in action as of 1 November, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS W A H O O when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the Sea of Japan. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 7 January, 1946.

cially determined to be missing in action as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving N O R M A N W I L F R E D NAYLOR, '43, Lt. Offiaboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship cially determined to be missing in action was sunk during an engagement with enemy as of 7 November, 1944, having been servships in the Java Sea. In compliance with ing aboard the USS GROWLER when that Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, submarine failed to return from a war patrol death is presumed to have occurred on 15 in the China Sea. In compliance with SecDecember, 1945. tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 8 FRANK KINSEY HILL, '84. Died 18 Decem- EUGENE ELLIOTT MARSHALL, '31, Comdr.

November, 1945. ber, 1945.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 15 December, 1943, having been ALVA FREEMAN N E T H K E N , '40, Ens. Offiserving aboard the USS CAPELIN when that ERNEST DOBBS HODGE, '32, Lt. Officially decially determined to be missing in action submarine failed to return from a war patrol termined to be missing in aaion as of 1 as of 1 March, 1942, having been serving in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. In comMarch, 1942, having been serving aboard aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, the USS HOUSTON when that ship was was sunk during an engagement with enemy as amended, death is presumed to have ocsunk during an engagement with enemy ships in the Java Sea. In compliance with curred on 10 January, 1946. ships in the Java Sea. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 death is presumed to have occurred on 15 W I L B U R JEROME MASON, '39, Lt. Comdr.

December, 1945.

December. 1945.

Offidally determined to be missing in action as of 5 July, 1944, having been serv- J O H N THOMAS NICHOLS, JR., '41, Lt. OffiJOHN WASHINGTON KING, ' 3 ^ , Lt. Officially ing aboard the USS HERRING when that cially determined to be missing in aaion reported to be missing as of 15 August, submarine failed to return from a war patrol as of 24 September, 1943, having been 1942, when the plane in which he was in the vicinity of the Kuril Islands. In serving aboard the USS GRAYLING when flying, a unit of Scouting Squadron SEVENcompliance with Section 5 of Public Law that submarine was lost in the Western TY-TWO, based on the USS WASP, was lost 490, as amended, death is presumed to Padfic Ocean. In compliance with Section while returning from a routine search flight. have cKcurred on 17 January, 1946.

5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is In compliance with Section 5 of Public presumed to have occurred on 3 January, Law 490, as amended, death is presimied to RAYMOND LEON MAYO, '30, Comdr., USNR. 1946. have occurred on 4 December, 1945.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 28 March, 1944, having been OTto FERDINAND KOLB, JR., '36, Lr. Offiserving aboard the USS GRAYBACK when RICHARD HERMAL PETERSEN, '43, Lt. ( j g ) .

Offidally determined to be missing in acdally reported to be missing in aaion as of that submarine failed to return from a war tion as of 27 March, 1944, having been 28 February, 1942, having last been seen patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In comserving aboard the USS TULLIBEE when aboard a life raft off Bawean Island, Indopliance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, that submarine was sunk during an attack nesia, after the HMNS (Dutch DeRuyter,) as amended, death is presumed to have ocupon an enemy convoy in the vicinity of which he had been aboard as a member of curred on 12 January, 1946. the Palau Islands. In compliance with Secthe staff of the Commander Destroyer tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, Squadron "TWENTY-NINE, was sunk in the D O N A L D RAYMOND MIDGLEY, '41, Lt. Offideath is presumed to have occurred on 15 batde of the Java Sea. In compliance with cially determined to be missing in aaion December, 1945.

Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, as of 5 May, 1944, having been serving death is presimied to have occurred on 4 aboard the USS GUDGEON when that subDecember, 1945. marine failed to remrn from a war patrol MELVIN CLYDE PHILLIPS, '43, Lt. ( j g ) . Ofin the Western Pacific Ocean. In complificially determined to be missing in action DAVID DREXEL LAIRD, '42, Lt., RAF. Killed ance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as as of 28 March, 1944, having been serving in action over the Gothic Line, 27 July, amended, death is presumed to have ocaboard the USS GRAYBACK when that sub1944. curred on 15 January, 1946. marine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliFORT ELMO LAND, '42, Lt. Comdr. KiUed J O H N DUCKETT MILLER, '37, Lt. Comdr. ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as in a plane crash near San Diego, Calif., on Officially determined to be missing in acamended, death is presumed to have oc- â&#x20AC;˘ 23 November, 1945. tion as of 6 November, 1943, having been curred on 12 January, 1946. serving aboard the USS CISCO when that RICHARD HENRY LEIGH, ' 9 1 , R.Adm.-Ret. submarine failed to remrn from a war paCANTERBURY BROOKE PIERCE, '39, Lt. OffiDied 4 February, 1946, at the Naval Hostrol in the South China Sea. In compliance cially determined to be missing in action pital, Long Beach, Calif. with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as as of 22 February, 1944, having been servamended, death is presumed to have ocing aboard the USS SCORPION when that WALTER HOWARD LOUNEY, '41, Lt. Officurred on 8 January, 1946. submarine failed to remrn from a war pacially determined to be missing in action trol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In comas of 6 November, 1943, having been JACK COBB MOORE, '36, Lt. Officially repliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, serving aboard the USS CISCO when that ported to be missing in action as of 1 Febas amended, death is presumed to have ocsubmarine failed to return from a war paruary, 1942, when the plane of which he curred on 11 January, 1946. trol in the South China Sea. In compliance was pilot, a unit of Torpedo Squadron 5, widi Section 5 of Public Law 490, as failed to return from an attack against amended, death is presumed to have ocJapanese mandated Islands. In compliance CLAIRE CORNWELL POOLE, '41, Lt. Officially curred on 8 January, 1946. determined to be missing in action as of 15 with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as October, 1943, having been serving aboard amended, death is presumed to have octhe USS POMPANO when that submarine curred on 26 November, 1945.

THOMAS PATRICK MCGRATH, '40, Lt. Offifailed to remrn from a war patrol in the cially determined to be missing in action Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with as of 15 October, 1943, having been serv- DUDLEY W A L K E R MORTON, '30, Comdr. OfSection 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, ing aboard the USS POMPANO when that ficially determined to be missing in action death is presumed to have occurred on 4 submarine failed to return from a war paas of 1 November, 1943, having been January, 1946. trol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In comserving aboard the USS W A H O O when that

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as amended, death is presumed to have ocOfficially reported to be missing in aaion as of 18 curred on 12 January, 1946.

July, 1943, when the plane in which he was flying, a unit of Fighting Squadron MAXIMILIAN G M E L I C H SCHMIDT, ' 3 2 , TWENTY-SIX, based on the Russell Islands, Comdr. Officially determined to be missfailed to remrn from a strike against enemy ing in action as of 22 February, 1944, havshipping in the Kabili Area. In compliance ing been serving aboard the USS SCORPION with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as when that submarine failed to return from amended, death is presumed to have oca war patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. curred on 7 January, 1946.

In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 11 January, 1946.

FRANCIS ALBERT RILEY, '42, Lt. Officially determined to be missing in action as of 12 December, 1944, having been serving DONALD STONE SCHEU, '40, Lt. Officially aboard the USS ALBACORE when that subdetermined to be missing in action as of marine failed to return from a war patrol 22 February, 1944, having been serving in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In comaboard the USS SCORPION when that subpliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, marine failed to return from a war patrol as amended, death is presumed to have ocin the Western Pacific Ocean. In complicurred on 13 December, 1945. ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 11 January, 1946.

H U G H RAYNOR RIMMER, '37, Lt. Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 12 December, 1944, having been WALTER ALLAN SHARER, '38, Lt. ofecially serving aboard the USS ALBACORE when determined to be missing in action as of that submarine failed to remrn from a war 15 December, 1943, having been serving patrol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In aboard the USS CAPELIN when that subcompliance with Section 5 of Public Law marine failed to remrn from a war patrol 490, as amended, death is presumed to have in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. In comoccurred on 13 December, 1945. pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have ocJAMES BONNYMAN ROAK, '42, Lt. Officially curred on 10 January, 1946. determined to be missing in action as of 30 November, 1943, having been serving VERNE LESLIE SKJONSEY, '34, Lt. Comdr. aboard the USS CORVINA when that submaOfficially determined to be missing in acrine failed to remrn from a war patrol in tion as of 1 November, 1943, having been the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance serving aboard the USS WAHOO when that with said Section 5 of Public Law 490, as submarine failed to return from a war paamended, death is presumed to have octrol in the Sea of Japan. In compliance curred on 9 January, 1946. with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have ocDAVID W E L L S ROBERTS, '21, Comdr. Officurred on 7 January, 1946. cially determined to be missing in action as of 1 Match, 1942, having been serving DAVID K I N N E Y SLOAN, JR., '38, Lt. Officially aboard the USS HOUSTON when that ship determined to be missing in action as of 30 was sunk during an engagement with enemy November, 1943, having been serving ships in the Java Sea. In compliance with aboard the USS CORVINA when that subSection 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, marine failed to remrn from a war patrol death is presumed to have occurred on 15 in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliDecember, 1945. ance with Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have ocEDWARD DUNBAR ROBERTSON, '35, Lt. curred on 9 January, 1946.

Comdr. Officially determined to be missing in action as of 15 December, 1943, having CARTHEL H I L L SMITH, JR., '40, Lr. Offibeen serving aboard the USS CAPELIN when cially determined to be missing in action that submarine failed to return from a war as of 28 March, 1944, having been servpatrol in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. ing aboard the USS GRAYBACK when that In compliance with Section 5 of Public submarine failed to return from a war paLaw 490, as amended, death is presumed to trol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In comhave occurred on 10 January, 1946. pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 12 January, 1946.

RODERICK SHANAHAN ROONEY, '29, Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 30 November, 1943, having been JAMES THOMAS STEPHENSON, JR., '42, Lt. serving aboard the USS CORVINA when Officially determined to be missing in acthat submarine failed to return from a war rion as of 7 October, 1943, having been patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In serving aboard the USS S-44 when that subcompliance with Section 5 of Public Law marine was lost due to enemy action in the 490, as amended, death is presumed to have Kuril Islands area. In compliance with Secoccurred on 9 January, 1946. tion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 W I L L I A M CHARLES ROY, JR., '42, Lt. OffiDecember, 1945. cially determined to be missing in action as of 28 March, 1944, having been serv- W I L L I S M A N N I N G THOMAS, '31, Lt. Comdr. ing aboard the USS GRAYBACK when that Officially determined to be missing in acsubmarine failed to remrn from a war pation as of 15 Oaober, 1943, having been trol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In comserving aboard the USS POMPANO when pliance with Secrion 5 of Public Law 490, that submarine failed to return from a war DAVID HENSHAW POPE, '39, Lt.

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patrol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 4 January, 1946.

W I L L I A M HARLAN TURNER, '44, Lt. (jg).

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 7 November, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS SHARK when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the China Sea. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 8 November, 1945.

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Comdr. Missing to determined dead as of 25 January, 1946. Casualty occurred on 6 July, 1943, off Hare Island, Kapingmarangi Group.

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'39, Lt. Comdr. Officially determined to be missing in action as of 12 July, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS GOLET when that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In â&#x20AC;˘ompliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 18 January, 1946.

THEODORE TAYLOR WALKER, '41, Lt. Offi-

cially determined to be missing in action as of 12 December, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS ALBACORE when that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 13 December, 1945.

AUGUST FREDERICK W E I N E L , '36, Lt. Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 6 November, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS CISCO when that submarine failed to remrn from a war patrol in the South China Sea. In compliance with said Seaion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 8 January, 1946.

DAVID SPENSER W I L S O N , '40, Lt. Offidally

determined to be missing in action as of 27 March, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS TULLIBEE when that submarine was sunk during an attack upon an enemy convoy in the vicinity of the Palau Islands.

In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 15 December, 1945.

HARRY FADES WOODWORTH, '38, Lt. Offi-

cially determined to be missing in action as of 7 April, 1944, having been serving aboard the USS "TROUT when that submarine failed to remrn from a war pattol in the Western Pacific Ocean. In compliance with said Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 14 January, 1946.

ALLAN GEORGE WUSSOW, '39, Lt. Offidally

reported to be missing in acrion as of 14 October, 1942, while aboard the PBY 04509, a plane from Patrol Squadron Ninety-One, when the plane failed to remrn to

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its base after making contact with the enemy. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 4 December, 1945.

JUD FRANOS Y O H O , JR., "36, Lt. Comdr.

Officially determined to be missing in action as of 11 July, 1943, having been serving aboard the USS RUNNER when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In compliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 2 January, 1945.

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pliance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on 17 January, 1946.

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS MARYLAND The February meeting of the Naval Academy Alumni Assodation of Maryland was held Tuesday, 12 February, at the Stafford Hotel in Baltimore. Capt. P. V. H. Weems entertained the group with a desaiption of some of his experiences as a Convoy Commodore. Members and guests present were Capt. T. D. Karns, '95; Comdr. P. E Hambsch, '09; Capt. M. D. Gilmore, '11 Capt. P. V. H. Weems, '12; H. Bodfish, '15 Capt. George P. Brewster, '16; C. Demarest, Jr., '19; Capt. D. W. Hardin, '22; John T. Waldhauser; W. T. Conklin, '25; D. J. Fitzgerald, 26; W. Beveriy Bristor, '27; Harry R. England, '27; Lt. Col. F. G. Wagner, '30; O. N. Fowler, '33; F. D. Wright, '35; Mr. Louis P. Kooken.

NEW YORK The Naval Academy Association of New York, Inc., had its luncheon meeting on 19 February. The guest speaker was Commander W. T. Kinsella, '34, who spoke on "Submarine Warfare in Japanese Waters." Comdr.

Kinsella is now attached to the Submarine Base at New London, following extended submarine service in the Pacific. After the talk, picmres taken by the Japanese of the attack on Pearl Harbor were shown, accompanied by comments made by Japanese officers and industrialists as to why the Nipponese lost the war.

The next monthly meeting will be held on 19 March at Oscar's Oldelmonico.

PHILADELPHIA The first post war meeting of the Philadelphia chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association was held in Kugler's restaurant on 15 February. Joe Hoffman, 13, first vice president, presided. Rear Admiral Bryson Bruce, '07, was the principal speaker, telling the assembled alumni of the value of such organizations to the Navy and to the individ-

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ual members. Admirals Bruce and Cobb both reminisced briefly on Navy history.

"The principal purpose of the meeting was to lay plans for monthly sessions to be held in the future. The members voted unanimously for evening meetings in preference to luncheon meetings. 15 March at Kugler's was named as the date for the next session. All Naval Academy alumni stationed at the Naval Base or in Philadelphia are urged to contaa Secretary Tom Searles, '13, at the Penn Rivet Corporation (Regent 6790) to get the details on fumre meetings, submit the names and address of brother officers. All are cordially invited to these monthly meetings. More than 100 are expected 15 March.

Present were J. Ross Allen, Jr., '44; William Kelly Beard, '14; William L. Beck, '07; C. G. Berwind, '16; R. A. Bevernick, '37; W. W. Bissell, '43; C. T. Blackburn, '07; William Van C. Brandt, '11; M. M. Bradbury, '25; R. A. Brown, '40; Bryson Bruce, '07; Harry Campbell, '07; C. William Duncan, '21; E. R. Flathmann, '43; Garland Fulton, '12; Joseph H. Hoffman, '13; William Van C. Brandt, Jr.; C. H. Cobb, '11; E. A. Logan, '09; John Francis Laboon, 44; J. H. Lawson, '16; Guy Lucian, '41; P. C. Mayfidd, '11; R. Bruce Miller, '22; J. B. Rhodes, '07; T. M. Searles, '13; L. M. Stevens, '07; J. B. Wallace, '39; S. H. Ziegler, '12; H. E. Rossdl, '10; A. L. Tyler.

SAN FRANCISCO Our regular monthly stag dinner meeting was held at the Batchelor Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on the evening of 6 Ferbruary, with Haller Belt, '08, President, presiding. The attendance was a record breaking one with 97 attending.

Induded in the attendance were a score of our brothers in arms from the Army, several Marine Corps officers including highly regarded Col. MacNulty, who was capmred on Guam and thereafter spent 5V2 years as a guest of Hon. Japanese, our distinguished

guest—Dr. Frans A. Van Woerden, Netherlands Consul General,—half a dozen admirals, many high ranking officers of the Armed Services, a goodly number of young officers, and a fair representation of civilians whom we always are glad to have as our guests.

The chairman expressed the regrets of Commodore Bob Cary, through whose courtesy we are enabled to hold our meetings on Treasure Island, that a case of the flu prevented him from attending. Through his aide, the chairman sent the Commodore our condolences and our best wishes for his speedy recovery.

Another of our 100% attenders—Captain Stanford E. Moses—was absent, but not through illness, we were happy to learn. Instead, it was just a conflict of dates. We'll look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Captain.

A superb roast-beef dinner was enjoyed by all. The feminine touch of Mrs. King, the new Manager of the Treasure Island Officers' Mess, was observed in the candles and the blue and gold spring flowers. We liked it.

The ceremonies of the evening were opened

by Captain Tom Hamilton, who will try again to build a Navy football team strong enough to defeat Blanchard and Davis. He noted the presence among us of the graduates of many great colleges and commented how strong other alumni associations are. Then he pleaded for us in the Naval Academy Alumni Association to get together wholeheartedly and support the Navy team to the best of our ability.

Then, Vice Admiral Greenslade, in wellchosen words, made a brief but excellent introduction of our modest guest speaker. Major General Frank D. Merrill, U. S. Army, West Point '29, who has just reported as Chief of Staff to General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commanding General, Western Defense Command.

Gen. Merrill's subject was "Merrill's Marauders in Burma." As background, he related some of the problems in China faced by Gen. Stilwell, whose mission was to improve the combat efficiency of the Chinese army. There were 285 Chinese divisions versus 6—later 20—Jap divisions. From the Chinese army, six most-inadequately equipped divisions were sent to Burma. Then, a small contingent of 3,000 American volunteers was organized in Burma and Gen. Merrill took command of them. Composed largely of hardened regular Army veterans, the Marauders hacked their way into the Burma jungles in March, 1944, and cooperated with the Chinese army. The Marauders fought several major engagements and half a hundred minor ones. In May, they capmred the strong Japanese airbase as Myitkyina and held it against intense enemy counterattacks. General Merrill wound up his talk by telling us about his proudest possession, a phonograph record,—a testimonial in forthright language from 600 of his men.

Throughout his talk his audience sensed that here was not only an Army officer but a real leader.

Guests present were the following: Maj. Gen. Frank D. Merrill, USA, Guest Speaker; T. N. Arnett, Georgetown '39; B. Baldwin, USMA '22; Lt. W. E. Beedy, SC, USNR, Stanford '40; Jas. Q. Brett, USMA '30; F. E. Buck; Harry B. Caldwdl; Ralph Cain, Major, QMC, Ohio State '32; Porter Dunlap, Stanford '16; Edwin M. Eddy, Yale '99; E. J. Erddatey; M. C. Fitzgerald; R. T.

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Forsberg, USNR; James H. Foskett; Col. H. H. Galliett, USA, CO Presidio of San Frandsco.

Henry Gibbons, Lt. Comdr., MC, USNR, Stanford '27; Dr. Maurice M. Glazer; B. D. Goodwin, Major, USMC; F. B. Harwood, CG 01; Gordon W. Hay; Elbert V. Higgins, Major, A.D.C. to Gen. Stilwell; Perry C. Hdl, Jr.; Bill Hine, Sewanee '03; W. S. Holloway; W. D. Horner, Capt., USNR; Wm. Penn Humphreys, Harvard & UC; W. M. Kays; Wallace Kelly, Centre College '96; Wdliam Kelly, 1st Lt., Army Air Corps; G. A. Kesseler. Captain, Netherlands Army.

Earl F. Knoob, USMA '17; John G. Levison, Calif. '18; H. U. Linkins, Comdr., USNR; D. A. Lord, Jr., Lt. Comdr., USNR, New Mexico Military Instimte '40; Col. MacNulty, USMC; W. P. McDonald, Univ. of Nebraska '32; C. W. Muelenburg; W. H. Nigh, Dartmouth; Major Richard B. Ott, Univ. of Iowa 19; John V. Pearson, USA; J. L. Pixley.

Empey A. Robertson, Yale '08; Philip M. Robertson, Cal. '39; Charles E. Stafford, Col., USA; Dr. W. F. Swett; Dr. Frans A. Van Woerden, Netherlands Consul General; Herbert D. Walter, Stanford '00; R. H. Washburn, Lt., USNR. Alumni present were as follows: D. W. Todd, '95; A. F. Huntington, '98; J. W. Greenslade, '99; H. M. Gleason, '99; H. W. Osterhaus, '00; W. H. Shea, '00 & CG '02; A. B. Court, '05; H. E. Kays, '05; E. D. Washburn, Jr., '06; HaUer Belt, '08; W. K. Kilpatrick, '08; L L. Lindley, '09; C. G. McCord, '11; John Falge, '12; Neil H. Geisenhoff, '13.

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Wilson, '18; R. S. Moore, '20; John Ames, '21; L. Jessop, Jr., '21; G. C. Mdler, '21; F. A. MacGurn, '21; T. G. Murrell, 21; Jim Reisinger, '21; Elmer E. Meyers, '22; G. A. Stacey, '22; C. D. Garvin, '22; A. L. Toney, '22; E. R. Duncan, '23.

R. W. D. Woods, '23; T. F. Fowler, '25; Hugh French, '25; Hap Lyon, '25; Ray Kimbell, '26; William W. Rudedge, '26; T. J. Hamilton, '27; F. W. Hesser, '27; E. P. Burton, '28; G. J. Gundlfinger, '31.

F. U. Weir, '31; W. M. Dickey, '34; Carlyle Ingram, '34; W. N. McGill, '35; D. C. Lyndon, '35; F. A. Bardshar, '38; R. W. HarreU, '39; W. H. Worden, '39; Ralph W. Shearer, '41.

Our San Francisco dinner meetings are held monthly at the Batchelor Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every month. All Naval Academy alumni and their friends are welcome and are cordially invited to attend. For information, please communicate widi Haller Belt, '08, Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Frandsco 4, California.

Tdephone GArfield 0695.

WASHINGTON "The Washington branch of the Alumni Assodation held its regular monthly meeting on "Thursday, 24 January at the Roger Smith Hotel. This was stricdy a business meeting, and therefore we had no guests. Members attending were: R. H. Chappell, '94; C. M. Simmers, '02;

R. T. Merrdl, '10; Frank F. Reynolds, TlDan O. Root, '21; W. F. Bullis, '24; K. T! Sullivan, 27; John B. Bowen, Jr., '30; E. P. Dorner, '30; Walter T. Jenkins, '30; T J Hurd, '30; W. G. Tisdale, '30; Drury J. Burchett, '31; A. L. Mathers, '31; J. F. Anderson, '32; Harry Dreeny, '32; H. C Lockwood, '32; J. S. Mdler, '32; Gerald D. O'Brien, '33; Larry Becht, '34; J. E. Schwartz, '34; G. L PoweU, '35; L. H. Snyder, Jr., '35; T. J. Peatsail, '37; A. E. Tarantino, '35; J. L Walker '37.

"The meeting was devoted entirdy to an open forum discussion regarding the activities of the local Assodation, with a viewpoint in mind of drawing up a working schedule for 1946. It was also announced that Emory S. Land, who was recendy eleaed President of the Air Transpon Association, would be unable to fill the position of President for onr group, as was originally indicated. Mr. Land's duties wdl be so heavy that he regrets that he will be unable to accept the positioa Admiral Mills, Land's successor as Chairman of the Maritime Commission, has indicated his willingness to serve in the capadty of President, and we are looking forward to one of our best years under the very capable leadership of Admiral Mills.

There was wide-spread discussion on various points, such as the Army-Navy merger, tickets to athletic contests, etc. It was the first business meeting that our group has had for some time, and apparendy from the heated discussions which took place, it served its purpose well. There were many requests for an evening meeting, either in the form of a dinner party with the wives, or a stag smoker, and undoubtedly we will arrange one such event in the very near future.

We are anxious for alumni in this area, particularly those who are still active in the service, to attend our meetings, and give us the benefit of their thinking. You may see some strange faces that you haven't seen for some time.

The February monthly meeting of the Washington Assodation was hdd at the Army-Navy town dub on the THIRD THURSDAY, 21 February 1946, at 7:30 P. M. A group of about 50 members attended in order to see the Army-Navy Football Movies and listen to "Rip" Miller give an interesting talk on our Football prospecB. Harry England, our National Seaetary also told about the progress of our Alumni House and the new Tap Room furniture. George Powell, vice-president of the local assodation aaed as master of ceremonies and in addition to introducing the above mentioned guests.

Rear Admirals Coldough and Burkee, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy Depanment and the head of Navy's new Gvilian Liaison Division respectively were invited to talk on their aaivities in the Navy Department.

The meeting was very successful. We might have more evening meetings and alternate them with our luncheons.

Several kegs of beer were consumed along with quantities of pop corn, potato chips and pretzels.

TTie meeting broke up around midnight Anyone desiring any information on the Washington group kindly communicate with Arthur E. Tarantino, Room 715, Bond Building, Washington, D. C , telephone Ex 5297 or Ex 5207.

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