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 - Class of 1953

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The Working Day It Starl-s with Cold Dawn Alerts Not all our time in the Far East was spent on liberty, en- joying Happy Hours, or riding around different islands. As a matter of fact, very little of our time was spent in this manner. But that was not our purpose for going to the Far East. There is still a war on, and the BATAAN was sen t to do her port for the third time. An average day on the line began at a pre-dawn hour. The Air Department pre- pared to launch the first flight of the day against enemy after hot cups of coffee from the mess decks. Half an hour before dawn men hustled to their gun stations and lookout stations in what is termed dawn alert. They stood by scanning the pre-dawn skies in search of possible enemy aircraft. The flight deck and hangar deck became a hustling airfield. The noise of Corsair engines split the early morning silence. A man ' s arm pointed toward the forecastle. The first plane ' s engine roared to a higher pitch. The man ' s arm came down and the plane soared into the pre-dawn darkness to commence the day ' s hostilities against Communism. During all this organized confusion, some of the crew were lucky enough to be able to sleep until six a.m. The ship became olive with chow lines, running showers, and morning rushing. At 0800 all hands began the day with their special jobs. It was like a small city during the early morning rush hours. Men in blue rushed to get on important job done in a hurry so they could tackle another. On into the night the engines roared and men stood watches, scanning the skies, listening to radar instruments and radio sets. , On rare occasions we took ' ■ mail from a destroyer just out from Sosebo. Then all work ex- cept the most imperative stop- ped while we read our mail from home. There would be on idle sigh, a thought or two, then the work would begin all over again. A day on the line lasted from the time we launched the first flight on ihe first day of oper- ations until the lost plane landed a day before we headed for Sasebo and liberty. . . . and Ends with the Setting Sun — Maybe

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