Belleau Wood (CVL 24) - Naval Cruise Book

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.6-,- NSW. .Kiwi 1 UIVIQIU As general rcpairmcn R Division members turn to at all hours of the day and night to unstop a drain, repair a leak in a tire main, weld a broken brace or damaged catwalk, or seal a light leak which is betraying the ship on a dark night. Wheiiex'er a plane makes a nosefover landing there usually are several planks on the flight deck for the carpenters to replace. During Ceneral Quarters the First Lieutenant an sistants are in Central Station and are responsible for mendf d his asf ing and controlling damage occurring in battle. They are in constant communication with the bridge and other parts of the ship. This station is a maze of controls, including telef phone switchboards, fire signal boards for all magazines, conf trols for flooding these magazines, and a few instruments of navigation such as the main gyro compass. Battle stations of R Division men are the repair lockers, each of which has a squavvkfbox connected with Central Station and the other repair lockers. Damage is reported to Central Station which notifies the nearest repair lockers and directs the firefighting and damage repair by the repair locker parties. The following members of the Division were detached before the group picture was taken: OFFICERS: Cmdr. R. R. Lyons, Lt. T. L. Horner, Lt. H. Kaye, Bosn. S. J. Le- narski, Lt. G. W. McFetridge. MEN: Bivin O. Abbott, NVilliam P. Ahern, NVesley L. Arwood, Charles R. Bal- lard, Linwood R. Barlow, Thomas B. Barnes, Sidney S. Basinger, Burl T. Bates, George Blankenship, Melvin F. Bullock, YVilliam M. Cagenek, William A Cargile, Joseph Carlucci, Joseph H. Cascarino, Armand E. Blanchette, Wesley C. Brady, William E. Chadwick, Clarence V. Clark, Jr., Everett F. Coers, James M. Collins. James B. Cowart, Sr., Albert C. Cox, Cincent J. Cupuwich, Peter Delliquanti, James W. Dodd, Michael G. Fannick, Laverne S. Farncomb, Frank C. Forsyth, Frederick J. Fox, Fred K. Frantz, Horace G. Freeman, Robert D. Gale, Thomas J. Gallagher, Anthony Gambelli, Charles H Gartner Lawrence J Gill N . . , . ey, as- cienzio M. A. Grande, Robert D. Guyer, Sandy G. Halbedier, Douglas Hill, Thomas? Hilo J I H if . s n, ames . u man. C. C. Hughes, NValter E. Jaques, Martin J. Jarosz, Louis J. Johnell, Jr., Arthur W. Johnston, William S. Jones, Walter J. Kazerierski, Russel E. Kelley, Gerald P. Keagh, George M. Kennedy, David M. Kingery, James P. Koisa, Philip Lanza, George F. Lawrence, John W. Laycock, Thomas A. Littlejohn, Jr., Clyde A. Lucore, Otto E. Mangless, Frank D. Man- ning, Edmund J. Markt, Jr., George J. Mainick, Clarence C. Martel, Melvin E. Mess, Jared C. Millan, Samuel NV. Miller, Jr., Milton E Missman, Carleton H. Moffit, Horison O. Moore, Joseph Myzykowski, Louis Gi Nanio, Bruce A Nave, Arie O el K th P ' ' p aar, enne ayton, Edward C. Pawlowski, Raymond E. Parnell. Wilfred C. Riley, Carl Rodatto, Lyman A. Shelton, John J. Skelton, Peter S. Smerno, Cecil Smith, Sidney Sommer, Stanley J Swiecki Howard B Swing, Eugene F. Taylor, William O. Terrill, Anthony Pi Versage, William Ward fhomas F. Weaver, Charles S. West, Herbert A.NVigg'ins, Myron D. WVright, l The Boatsiuairfs Locker Cruise boxes and storage cabinets are turned out daily in the Carpenter Shop Sliipftter Shop blaeksmitl1s forge a piece of round stock One of the jive repair lockers located stratef igirally Lliroicglmut tlie ship for damage control l7l

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TOP ROW: L. H. Sammons, C. E. Burke, M. D. Rogers, C. Miles, H. Hall, L. R. Clark, T. E. Alford. R. D. Williams, E. R. Barker, G. L. Hill, D. A. McClure, J. A. Jacobs, T. P. Nordloh, E. J. Ham, O. C. Philips. MIDDLE ROW: W. M. Midkiff, V. D. Rice, E. J. Kuehn, B. A. Nave, W. Chadwick, E. A. Whitman, K. T Keller, W. A. Varnell, R. O. Sprague, R. A. Mills, A. B. Mitchell, F. Read, C. L. Atkins, M. Mitchell. BOTTOM ROW: V. Rogers, J. G. Ha R. D. G ' E yes, uyei, . C. Powlowski, P. Lanza, W. C. Brady, A. Blanchette, Ens. H. R. Chandler, Ens. J. R. Wil- helm, Carp. G. E. McLean, C. R. Kristanic, A. F. Corn, A. R. Tarpley, H. Washington, L. G. Weist, K. Hatfield, G. O. Osmun. The men in Rv Division are the carpenters, painters, plumbers, Welders, and general handymen of the ship. Each man in his daily routine builds gear boxes, brackets for new pieces of equipment and many other gadgets which make somebody's Work a little easier. The Boatswain's Locker, destination for all who need line, canvas, blocks, tackles, chain, and other items ref quired for fueling, scraping, and painting is part of R Division. The Paint Locker is in charge of the ship's painter. A small but essential compartment is the Carbon Dioxide Transfer Room where a man on full time duty checks and refills the hundreds of hand fire extinf guishers placed at handy intervals throughout the ship. Watertight integrity is maintained through constant Deck crash requires patchingfup job by the carpenters checking by R Division men who stand security watches. A regular patrol moves through the ship to inspect hatches and fittings in search of leaks and cracks, this patrol also checks on the condition of repair lockers which are scattered throughout the ship making tools of every description, fireffighting equipment, shores, blocks, and lines easily accessible for emergency repair work and firefighting. Reports of leaking water mains, defective pumps, venf tilation blower failures in the fan rooms, casualties to flushing systems in the heads, light leaking out at night, broken ladders, doors, or hatches: all such reports are made to Central Station where a man is always on watch to take the reports and see that they receive the prop' er action. Central Station--damage control is directed from here with the aid of diagrams, charts, and indicating devices

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TOP ROW: S. M. Cann, E. V. Rosenthal, S. Frye, M. T. Enright, D. G. Hanson. D. D. Condon, H. L. Kendall. MIDDLE ROW: R. G. Kennedy, L. Reedy, J. Harper, W. J. Foran, J. F. Gaughan, Ens. VV. W. Baines, Lt. G. Creyke, G. D. Morrison, R. B. Martin, F. Klayda, D. W. Welsh. BOTTOM ROW: R. L. Jones, W. Dcniston, J. P. Mahoney, P. J. Bower, A.T. Trujillo, H. Ferguson, J. D. Baker. The Navigation Department is one of the ship conf trol departments, the other being the Engineering Def partment. lt can be said that the Engineers give the ship mof tion, and the members of the Navigation Department give direction to the motion. The Navigator, the head of the department, is im' mediately responsible for keeping the Captain informed of the ship's position and, when the ship is operating singly, for determining and recommending to the Cap' tain the track to be followed, noting aids and hazards to navigation. This is one of the smaller departments or divisions on the ship in number of personnel, consisting of but twenty men: quartermasters, quartermaster strikers, two ship's buglers, and a yeoman. For hundreds of years the sextant has The smile can mean only one thing- The Navigator- been used to determine ships' positions quarterrnaster plots course to Uncle Sugar Lt.fCmdr. R. E. Patterson