Pine Island (AV 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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A DIVISION A Divisi0n-the A standing for auxilaries-is responsible for all machinery outside of the main engine rooms. This includes in part, the air compressors, galley equipment, laundry equipment, anchor windlass, Steering gear, airplane hoisting gear,.boat Winches, four fire pumps, emergency generators, and 15 gasoline and diesel boat engines. t The division also operates ia full scale machine shop, the ship's refrigeration plant and is responsible for the heating and air conditioning system aboard the PINE ISLAND. The division numbers 32 men. Among. the problems encountered, at our first duty station, Iwakuni, was that of keeping 15 boats operating on .a heavyschedule which took alot of our attention, also the bitter cold and seemingly endless shortage ofispare parts were the most aggravating factors.- Heating the ship was one of our problems, it seemed we could never find the correct temperature to suit everyone. We considered running the temperature up until the outdoor fiends had been suffocated and then turning everything off until we had frozen the bug-in-a-rug type. In all probability, we could then have- satisfied the remainder. KP. S.: We didn't.J Among the outstanding jobs performed by A Division was the manufacture of a replacement cylinder wall-liner for one of the engineer's pumps. The big hitch-no material. Then one day the main propulsion assistant, Ltj G. Stepho Stringos, came back, with a piece of cast iron pipe he found while inspecting- heads, and sewers on the beach. Our own Johnny Rensimer turned this piece of scrap into a perfect liner which is still giving satisfactory service. After a brief jaunt to Manila, where Sampan Curtis made a down payment on a local taxi with his wrist- watch, we took up our second duty station at Okinawa. Here our problems were largely keeping up with boat propeller fatalities. It seemed the White Beach reefs and wrecks attracted our boats as did the sirens of old. The cost: five propellers andshafts, all of which had to be replaced during holiday routine. We are happy to say the crew never missed -a liberty for want of a boat to take them away. The Supply people had fortunately procured enough beer to see us through, the months at our next station, the Pescadores Islands. To the sturdy men of Able Division went the job of removing the cure from these cans of brewed nectar. On our own initiative we foraged thru the Okinawa salvage yards. It soon became Chief Sessa's pet project and with the refrigeration genius of MML2's Chase and Fox, the ship was Soon to boast of a servicable field refrigerator, completelyrebuilt from assorted bits. s ' Personnel inspections were becoming quite frequent, with a mad scramble for work assignment on Saturday mornings. Any task, no matter how dreary, was preferred to donning whites. It was during such an inspection that the Commodore of Fleet Air Wing One remarked, The Hot Water Division . Hot water is one Of pur responsi- bilities, but we still wonder whether the Commodore was referring to the water we regulate, or the hot water we are sometimes in, up to our necks. 51

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A DIVISION Fourth row left' to right R C Fox MM2 J A Gigoux MRFN G W Goldsborough MML2 A E Goade FA I L Williams, FA, F. L. Barrows, FA, andij. Contro MRI , V . , Second row: B. B. McFarlin MML2'J B Carr 'FA' L N Fannin FN' M 'G Kirchoff FA D A Vess MML2 P P k , , ,.,, . . , , . . , , . .' ey, ' , II. . assic .MML1, I. L. Klein, FN, D. E. White, FA, E. H. Woolsey, MML2' and R. E. R ' k FN. I iss reenwood FN A P Sessa MMC leading chief, LtJG. Johnson, Damage Control Assistant LtjG MaCDonald, Division Officer, F. Hawkins, ENDCA, R. S. Terrell, ENC, C. A. Marcott, FA, J. R. Rensimer MML2 ' . First row: I. D. Whitehead, FN, C. G. Williams, FN, R. D. Sumner, FN, G. S. Cummins, MR3, H. W. Murry, FN, W. E. Washington FN, and B. B. Shattog FA. ' ' I I A Not shown: -C. V. O'Keefe, FN, W. R. Kreuger, FA, and K. E. Chase -MML2 , : A . l. , , .I . 'P , , . . ' , A , .- . . , , . , . U , . , emic , I 4 I ,Third row: J. Covrl' ' , FA, R. A. G I A , , '. . , , ' ' ' , ' g G a ' I 1 . 9 . - - - I I A , O . ,

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EDIVISIONV - Fourth yew. left to right: W. Fueling, ic1, J. F. Hensley, FN, c. H. Honseman, EM3: A. L.Schil1y, icPN, N. Tansey, FA, R. s. Zander, FAQ E. R. Hxlbert, FA, H. B.fHarr1son, FN. e ' . Third row, left to right: W. L.- Malone, EMI: B. L. Rogers, EM35 T. L. Allen, EMI, P. Martel1e,.EM33 O.. P. Jones, EMPBQ D. Slnart, EM33 'R. A. Edgin, FN, R. J. Hoffman, FN. ' R V' Second row, left to rightt M. R. Buckner, FN, J. E. McClure, EMFNQ D. Wo. Rose, lCFNg L. F. Timnxerman, EMCg N. E. St. Claire, -ELEC: 29. D. VVhife ICC: E. O. Nichols, FNg J. W. Hubbs, FN' IF. M. Oakley, FA. ' ' Front' row, left to righti I. R. Sedgewlck, EMP2g H. L. Nissle, FNQ F. D. Austin, FAQ J. W. Gallow. EM3g and W. D.- Washington, ICFN. ' t