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where Hawkeye Kircheval has just spotted another ship. A battery of signal lights blind everyone in sight, signal flags race up to the halyards, and the engine room co- operates by laying down a black barrage you can cut with a knife. In the midst of the action, Mr. Harper calls up for a visual bearing on the ship. L.A. being a southerner is not easily excited. Chief Darnell tactfully suggests that we stop improvising and do it the way Texas and the U. S. Navy indicate. VVe carry out the new plan and everything just about clears up when Vining arrives, requesting a despatch be sent ordering a new horse for him. At this point we call for a boat, wanting to head for the beach. That is a good plan, if you can find a boat that works, and a Swaim-trained man to operate it. This of course is an introduction to the L division. The boat group was put aboard to man the boats that hit the beaches . . . this they did, from the time they left the ship, till the moment they arrived at fleet landing . . . they charted Guiuan Harbor that first night, reef by reef. The boat group started out as the biggest division on the ship and ended up that way too . . . look at Dead Fred who is accused of internally seeking a bigger and better life belt. They have all sizes in this gang, NVilkerson and VVilt being the long and short of it. Burke is the big gun of the outfit, moving it right along despite his arguments about the prowess of the ball team. The division did supply 60f? of that hot basketball combination at Samar . . . Webster, Fredericks, and Schold. Fort Pierce was all we heard about when they first came aboard, but now they have mellowed under the happy infiuence of the Marquette. Even Jenko, the bombardier - fistically and otherwise - has quieted down. The division can claim to have the luckiest man aboard in Swann, who has won more anchor pools than we can lift anchors. 'l'hat's a small part of this big outfit . . . Starkey building them up so everybody else can tear them down . . . Reed willing to be a Motor Mach, if he's not plucking a guitar or being an M.A.A. But now our pump suction is fouled and this end of the VP is getting ready to sink, so we will hop up onto the main deck. If you believe the men of the lst and 2nd divisions, this is where the Navy really begins. Here is what they have to say for themselves . . . lf you recall seeing a smiling sailor, broom in one hand and swab in the other, chipping hammer, paint scraper, and wire brush tucked in his belt, a pot of paint hung on his left ear and a bucket of slush on his right, a paint brush protruding from his mouth, a G.I. can on one shoulder, and the bitter end of an eight inch line pulling on the other, that man is undoubtedly a deck man. The deck gang take credit for all that goes on from foc'sle to fantail, main deck and below, the sides included. Up forward the boss is C. H. Hoar, jr., a Boston man, famed for sun- glasses at Samar and his baseball prowess. Back aft, and you can't miss his back, aft, is Columbia's gift to the ship, A. Pashayan. Taking over from here are Bunn and Hubler . . . they make sure the boys greet the dawn over the handle of a swab . . . get the dope at quarters . . . and carry out the days routine. The Crown Prince of the foclsle is the famous coffee boy, Fiedler . . . he of the salty swagger. Matching him as the Fantail Jester is, It sure is a fine day Dungan. They tell lots of stories fore and aft . . . Paul, the man who loves the sea but who is allergic to rolls and pitches . . . Bacon, who can't see why the custom of southern leisure hasn't spread to the sea . . . the one-man derrick back aft, known as Long John, who is claimed to have held a thirty ton boom in one hand while drinking his Joe with the other . . . or the happy seaman of the 2nd, who was given the order to throw out a boat lineg this he did, bitter end and all. As we leave this happy group, the 1st division lays for- ward to hoist the Captain's Gig while the second goes aft to handle lines from a garbage C589
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SNAPSHOTS AROUND THE SHIP Life aboard ship and life on the beach are very different. In fact at sea, the sailor lives in a little world which is, sometimes, all his own. To the uninitiated, daily routine at sea is without meaning, but to the old salt, it is something he gets used to and even likes no matter how much he seems to gripe about it. Lets take one last laughing look about the ship, starting topside and working down to the never-never-land of the engine room. We get underway with the Captain at the conn the 'Commanding Officer of the Mighty Mark is john E. Gabrielson, Captain USN. He's probably the -only man on the ship who has wrung more salt water out -of his socks than we've sailed over. Without a doubt, the Captain is the championing raconteur aboard . . . Now lets see, 25,000 miles around the world, at 14 knots . . . On special sea detail there is no better man around than Little -I-oe Ciaccio, Lt., UfSNR and Executive Officer. Joe is an ex-merchant mariner who has now just about x'ed the ex. 'Tm not such a big guy, but I'm 100 proof. Roaring about in the background, the N division carries the load when it comes to really heavy brainwork. Bridge gangs since the era of john Paul Jones, Caffectionately known to the Radarmen as j.P.j, have been ear-marked as racketeers, politicians, and -other similar non-Hattering classifications. Why? Because it is beliefved that they never do any work. Its just that nobody understands them, hence, this marked unappreciation. Take a quick run through the bridge with us while we point out a few of its features. When we pop in through the radio-room hatch and see those two eerie-looking gadgets thr-ough the haze of cigarette smoke, remember the one that lights up is a radio trans- mitter and the one with sparks coming out of its ears is Rapp, the RT. Most of the code and v-oice blasting out of the half-dozen speakers and ear-phones is hooked in just for effect. The man to watch is Loughlin, crouched at the battered mill, typing with one hand, adjusting his ear-phones with another, tuning the receiver with his third free hand, and nonchalantly smoking a pipe with the fourth, The best way to get the latest dope is to open the door marked KEEP OUT - CODE ROOM. All you will see is young M.E. . . . and all you'll get is poetry. Of course the place we're really heading for is the chart desk, as everyone who is anyone is seen there at least once a day. Here, genially presiding over the chaos is K. A. Andersen, erstwhile Navigator and Ship's Secretary. K. A. is a firm believer in the fact that machines, QRadar and Loranj, are here to stay - if they ever get here. What we need are fewer nautical doodlers, and more USN men . After all this excitement, we need a cup of coffee to calm -our nerves, and the place to go is the topside cafeteria - C.I.C. The C.I.C. is darkened but we can hear happy little shouts by Mulholland, I've ggtXit! 'ii.,.. . or Laverty, Here's onef' . . . Then a rapid fire of numbers while Bloom artistically plots in ships and draws surrealist cartoons - all with -one set of data. just then a pot of coffee erupts in the corner, all gear is secured, and a wild scramble ensues. Out o n deck again, we fight our way to the wing of the bridge past a continuous stream of 0.0.D.'s, j.0.0.D.'s, quartermasters, boatswain's mates, and messengers who seem to be engaged in a perpetual marathon race across the bridge. We head up to the signal bridge C 57 3
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lighter Alwavs remember men, the man on deck works hardest ...A I know because Franklin told me and he's associate bnSS Ziff- If We head into the superstructure from here, no doubt we will run into a pharmaeigtfs mate as thCY are on the loose again. This gang can put out more shots in a two weekvs 1-uh than any machine gun does in a lifetime. XN'ith Str:-itfert and Doyle ramming them home, and Mattson and Gooding putting the special burr on the needles, they make quite 3 team. Wheii Doc isn't navigating, he's down tln-re too . . . thinking-up more toxins, anti and otherwise. But sickbay is more than just sick bay, tthat's a clever statementj. Sickbay is the main deck social club and literary society, as well as major scuttlebutt factory and watch repair shop . . . also in off days it doubles as a cafeteria. Ah yes, but they were a happy crowd down there . . . if they were up long enough to smile Next stop on the Cook's tour is the Galley and Supply Office, fpunj. This bunch hit their peak going through the canal when Mr. Radtke finally opened the safe to pay the fare through . . . Starnes and Carr were on hand at their special G. Q. stations, with adding machines, ledgers and Hitguns, to make sure nothing went wrong. As far as mess goes, you'll have to see the Commissary boss and extra-curricular expert, P. C. Kieffer with his chefs . . . Monsieur McClard and Mons'eur Lyddane. Probably the easiest fellow to get along with is Kent, at his ship's store . . . the gedunk specialist never has come up with Tutti Fruiti though. All in all, the S division is a secretive gang . . . what they have they are keeping and they won't give away any samples. The big guns of the ship are the F division of course. lf they don't tell you so, they are just being modest. If you have any doubts, just look up Vitamin O'Toole, slugging it out with a swab in the port passageway, the M.A.A. force on his neck . . . or Barritt - from the Salt Lake City, please don't forget this - lugging a steaming cup of joe around with him . . . or Sam Bird Dog Franks, king whip-snapper of the division, who holds the straws to see who does the work. Sam can ferret out anything with deadly accuracy, including R. Valentino Passerini playing cards. Then there are Bussell and Mersereau, who came aboard in Samar, masters at throwing coconuts and jabbering in Goof: language. A typical gunnery operation proceeds as follows: Barritt enters with his spiritual guide, Matthews, and Chief of Operations, Giggar. Barritt, grabbing a cup of coffee to ease the nervous strain, barks an order at quivering Matthews, then retires to the Armory, fatigued from over-work. Slim, getting hot on the project, holds a conference with Giggar, Chief of GUUUCTY OPCYHHOHS - Who being a striker, ends up doing the dirty work. The whvle outfit - all of whom have not been mentioned for no particular reason are held together bY the Sfeadying hand of Mr. Silent Dan. Goldcamp, the Ohio barrister to be . . - You can say good-morning to him almost any time of day. Another Of fhCSe Specialist divisi-ons, the R division, has its moments too. Here the managership is split between the lst Lt., the executive Mr. Bowman and the one man Philadelphia salt cyclone, Chief Boatswain Picciano. Their shop, conveniently out of the glay sift, is alvyays a .bee-hive of activity. A normal working day here proceeds along to Werwie are SW3PPi1'1 sea st i' asiigani the hashimark Sailor at nine months' Lug' ami he can sew some stfipes onorziesi -1 iifreil comes m about then looking for a Hd' so tha, 1100 and leaves saying Gotta Satl Oil? jumper' Crump ends hiS mflfnlngs Work abouti line is at h d wi . ge a ltt e ra,Ck duty IWW- I W0l'lCiCI' h0W long the brent om t . C . . . C 0 ay hlef Epps Staffs his day With a brief quotation from C595
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