Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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hot — ■ S The Grabba Dim lights, a buzz of conversation, a quiet console in the corner for two. This is the atmosphere in which the radarmen of Ol Division perform their duties. Literally the eyes of the MIDWAY, it is their responsibility to organize and evaluate combat information prior to its relay to the Captain on the bridge. Radar navigation has proved its usefulness in decreased visibility, and it is here that the air controllers direct and guide the aircraft on their daily missions. Adjacent to CIC, Commander McElwee and his specially qualified controllers plan and direct each and every flight off MIDWAY ' S deck from the Air Operations Center. LCDR Passanissi takes over the task of guiding planes home to roost when restricted visibility makes visual approaches impossible from his Carrier Controlled Approach Room. All these functions, coupled with data supplied from LCDR Walt Flock ' s Electronic Counter Measures gang, form a complete unit capable of insuring a well-knit operational Combat Information Center second to none in the Seventh Fleet. operations

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FRONT ROW: ENS Schwe.n ENS R,ches, Ltjg Setlowe, Ltjg Morton, Ltjg Burke, Lcdr Flock, Lt Aillaud, Lcdr Cox, Lcdr McGrath It Holt Lt Bacheler ENS Kmgston SECOND ROW: Savoge, D.j., Leeseburg, D.C., Korte, G.H., Ertl, L.R., Dosher, A.T., Griffen, A H Pankow T R McCurdy, R L. Peters CW Curry, W.C., York, D.R., Wright, P.D., Herold, j.N., Bashaw, j.A. THIRD ROW: Coe, R Smith ' Angleton, J.L., Ownes, D.M., Williams, E„ Sorum, H.J., Thompson, L.K., Woods, R., Adams, J.R., Hair, W.H., Faulkner L Phillips L G B.R.,

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