Albany (CA 123) - Naval Cruise Book

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N» OS ' Divi tatt m R. Mizell, ET2 Little Rock, Ark. R. Desrochers, ET3 Lowell, Mass. A N. Seidle, ET3 Washington, D. C. D. Fraser, ETNSN Palmyra, N. Y. A. Petersen, ET2 Fort Lee, N. J. L. Gullings, ET3 Great Falls, Mont. J. N. Carozza, SN New York, N. Y. C. Harrell, ETNSN Norfolk, Va. E. Jennings, ET1 Fall River, Mass. R. Buttofoco, ET3 Harvey, III. W. Husman, ET3 La Cresent, Minn. R, Carter, SN Perrysburg, Ohio J. Howard, SN Albany, Ga. W. Bartlett, Jr., ET2 Burlington, N. J. D. Cornellier, ET3 Pittsfield, Mass F. Jacobs, ET3 Akron, Ohio n D. Flippo, SN Sayre, Ala. V. Cubilette, RMSN Bronx, N. Y.

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OS ' Divito K OE DIVISION If those radios, so important to a tactically efficient Navy, give out, OE Division personnel are called in on the double to diagnose and minister to the injury. The patience of a doctor is indeed necessary to the ET ' s or Electronics Technicians, not only as concerns the receivers and trans- mitters of radio equipment, but as regards such gear as the three radars (the surface search, the air search and the height-finding), the ECM (Electronic Counter-measures), the AEW (Airborne Early Warning) equipment, the loran and the fathometer. Much of the equipment to which they attend is in the Secret category and demands of the ET ' s the great- est security. A great deal of their work is done in conjunction with the men of OR Division who keep logs in their radio rooms designating which pieces of equipment need curing by the ET ' s. As you can see, maintenance is a full time job in OE Division, their job in peacetime closely approxi- mating what it would be in time of war. And a hard one it is at all times V ss: SAOS 6A 5 6 » L S - - ' . f V. :■ . « 0 ' - ' .-.run „rwiiW ... xa. rv ( ■ v . ■■■■ ' • ' ■ ' vjsp»m ■ - ' — 6VOGT 6K6 T IS ' - •• ■ ■ Si -V 4 ift» 61 BO L-.. • .... I H. L. Palmer, ENS Braintree, Moss J. P. Frank, ETC Lexington, Mass. JT F. Hill, ETC Quincy, Moss. G. Reading, ETC Seagoville, Texas A. Nopoli, ET1 Worcester, Mass.

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OS DiwtAi M Signalmen, as the name implies, take care of all communications of a visual nature. And even though most of the signalling by flags, sema- phore and flashing light is visible to all of us if on deck, it is still a ' foreign language to the majority of us. In wartime, as in WW II, the job of these men is of primary importance; the communications which are primarily handled by voice circuits have to be sent visually due to the increased security of the latter method. The visual traffic became so heavy during the Med Cruise that the division had to go on a port-star- board split to keep up with it. The men in OS have to be sharp to do their job effectively; they seem to enjoy the strain. In addition to those on the Signal Bridge, the yeoman in the Operations Office, the aerographer and the photographers are organizationally linked with them in OS Divi- sion. All in all, an interesting group and a necessary one. J. G. Kahrol, LTJG Boston, Mass. D. Horvath, LTJG Cleveland, Ohio A. Persons, LTJG Canandoigoa, N. Y. T. Cunningham, SMC Lawrence, Mass. W. Boyd, AG1 Belleville, N. J.