Franklin (CV 13) - Naval Cruise Book

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1, I A V 1,41-f- A lgllf deck rs a dangerous place The next day Arr Group Thrrteen began to land aboard from therr trarnrnv base at Oceana Naval Arr Statron For two weeks Brff Ben prowled through the narrow con fines of Chesapeake Bay whrle the prlots souffht to qualrfy rn both day landrnos and nrffht landrnvs The flrvht deck crew the plane pushers the entrre Arr Department gath ered experrence skrll and that subtle qualrty for wlrrclr war experrence corned the awkward but expressrve word know how Flrffht quarters naturally ceased to be a novelty but the men nexer trred of watchrnff the planes come sweeprnv rn nor of the acrobatrcs of the Flrffht Deck Officers srffnalrn ahose the roar of motors The bu y teams of men rn brrffht hued jerseys and hel mets red for hre fighters, green for ordnance people yel low for flrffht deck crews were engaged rn dangerous work The slrpstream behrnd a 500 knot fighter warmrnff up for a take off equals a tornado rn concentrated strength and can blow an unwarw arlor over the srde rn the twrnklrnff of 'rn exe The propeller blades are a fonstant deadly threat to the men who work about the planes The 9P?Tl'l1I1U safety of the ffallfry besrde the flr ht defk dr appears qurrker than a man ran thrnk whfn a llxeton plans mrs es a wrre and rounrr rn that drreftron at morf than lrfty mrlfs an hour en thfrf the hfrlarfl of hrs An axrom on a rarrrrr r r wr smokf when y u an rr an rrrplanf l'lre words Smokrng lamp r ml a ow the thrrrl fer bframf a a mrlrar clrant remrndrno all hands that planes were bernv ffassed or haxrnff therr fuel remox ed untrl therr next flrvht On March 15th B10 Ben took a breather, came rnto the Xlaxal Operatrno Base at Norfolk and rested her trred new beams and bulwark besrde Prer Sesen ,lust a breather because she came here to take on her full complement of supplres and to lrll her tanks wrth lrrgh octane and fuel orl for the slrakedowrr crurse Prlots of the squadrons came aboard to lrwe and among the slrrp s Junror Oflrcers was a mrghty w arlrng and a donnrng of sackcloth and ashes as they left the rooms rn which they had been quartered to take therr rrffhtful places rn the larve Junror Ofhcer Burrkrooms Aft rn the crew s quarters, many a w oeful seanran moved hrs belongrngs to some less desrrable berth that the Arr Group men mrght have therr places Loud were the crres but Lt D G Brllrngton the Bertlrrng Ofhcer was unrmpressed and soon B111 Ben had taken Arr Group Tlrrrteen to her bosom It was here rn Norfolk on a Saturday afternoon that Xeornan T'rrst Class .loe Norwood marrred hrs best grrl Nadrne of Mramr ltlorrda Lt Comdr lxelly Arr Oper atrons Olhcer was best man Streck Hand Prsher lxar Pederson Johnson Brown all hrs fellow yeomerr were there to wrsh hrm well and assrst rn the celebratron Lrttle Joe Norwood Hood yeoman and nrosl of those buddres are s uprn now rn the l lue lat c But Br Ben has not or gotten f ' l fl L. V ' ' ' D f 7 C L, x. I f D C L f C Ls. I C C , - ' 's ' 1 r , J - ' - . ' ' 2: 0 4 v C A N Y . . . l 7 Q . U , Y , I c O C t t Y as o c ' D Y V 'S 4 s V - s f 'Sr ' 1 l 9 ' - S C ' ' V , t , , ' t : l 1 ' - . , ' ' 7 . ' V 7 . . s , , . ' C t, . , t t . t C t l D . ., .i S t c . H . . . U . V . . . -- tn '- M c ra - ' D C ' .1 C - r T - ' t ' j t - .JH - ., , - t ' ' ' tt. C , , - J . . f t, . . . , T , r, -, , .1 ' - D lr K-K ' n L D J' , .I s. D I . , x n Y . V . . . -. . , , 4 V ' 'U 1 ' 'Q ,' Q ' V. .' . . . D. V' ' f PT ' , ' 1 rw ' ' ' ' ' ' H f ' f - 5 ' ' 5 - ' 5 his f' ' , .' , . , ' f -H ' , ' - ' lh, T15 s, f. 1 f s , ,U ff . .t 5 1- ' '7 ' .. V , ' ' 7. .' . ' rev g f 'o r-' sez' z ' 5. , f ., .l - g 1 T nh. g r 3 f - ,, . . , - as ,, Q r f lp lf , l , ck 2: 1 f - 5 .