John Bole (DD 755) - Naval Cruise Book

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I-LR, Garza, LM. Gilbert, D. W. Freeman, LT. Welsch, LL. Opperman, E.L. Holt . . .To Chief Welsch, who stood a twenty-four hour watch on his pad. Also, to the men who disassembled the air-conditioning three times , re- moving 3,400 nuts and replacing l,,247, we have no comment to make. D.G. Knoke, R. R. Bowling, D.R. Clark, G. G, Gregg, D.W. Dauenhauer We would like to dedicate this picture to I-Iatchetman Clark, our ship's special entertainer. These are the men who gave us plenty of hot water for the showers, kept our air-conditioning functioning properly, insured the ice-cream machine always worked, and fixed all of our plumbing Cespecially the after crews head which always seemed to give a lot of troublej, It was a hard and thankless job but they did it well.

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43,691 engine orders were rung up on the bridge. Of these, 43 ,690 were answered in main control. We seem to be approaching that pier awful fast Captain. fFront Rowj D L Coyer, B S McDonald T Turner T L Henhne QBack Rowj D.C. Sm1th, W F Kosler, O W Golden I J Bertholf E A Hocken brock. A D E GI ERCDOMS fFront Rowj D. F. Lawrence, W. Holhngsworth J L Thomas, I-I jefferson, G.R. Sanborn, QBack Rowj P. M. Pavlak, A M Keyes, M G Barrera chan, T. c. Little ZQAQQ4

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ff .mmm D5P'f'yf'KLeftJ Ens. William C. Faris is from San Leandro 1 if? .Q . 45255: lJix!AVYQ XgQg2'fCalif. He serves the ship as DCA, R Division Officer and Welfare and Recreation Officer. fRightj Ens. John R. Fleming is from Mount Plea- sant, Michigan. He is our MPA Officer and Catholic Lay Leader. ,1 l i These are the men who kept our lights Working, power to our Weapons systems , a continuous pinochle game going in the machine shop, 400 cycles to the NC-2, a four degree bearing error in the gyrocompass, the refrigerator singing Hound Dog, and the radio making ice-cubes. Were else, except in the Navy, can you find men like these? fFront Rowj C G Marzahn D C Virtue R E Strait C T Whitaker D E Wend ling, C D Geisert S J Maynard fBack Row M Van Buren T R Mize T E Porter F H Lancaster JB Harness J H Pritchett L I Sundby C C Clifton A sincere tribute to Chief A father image to the men in R Division Well liked and respected by the crew Ens Robert D Little is from Charlotte N C He is the ship s new Electrical Officer but at the present time he 1S filling the capacity of 13 Lancaster who took a deep interest in his boys both on and off the beach FT O l , I D . , 0 U , 3 I , I O 1 . . , . . I , J . , . . , . . , . . , . . , . . , . . , . . . . V. . 7 4 - ' ll if u. . 1' - - 1 . 0 gl i 1. . I Q GEORGE . 512151383 ML, I s.,W sr -QW 7 K if