Block Island (CVE 106) - Naval Cruise Book

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Q V E FOREWORD Now Hear This: This volume is prepared as a fitting memorial to men who have served their country in a great and terrible war. Some of them were trained in the Navy. Others have left their homes, schools and work benches but the trained and untrained have worked side by side to defend their country against the Germans and Japanese who delivered that terrible air attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. Nothing we can put into pictures or words can fully express the earnest- ness of these men, their skill and their courage. To catch the patriotism, the fearlessness, and the devotion to duty characteristic of them, it is necessary to read much between the lines. Nor can we fully narrate the hard work, the long gruelling hours of training, the tiresome loading and stowing of supplies, and the tense drawn faces at General Quarters Stations ready for any eventuality. Captain Wallace M. Beakley has been anxious to have this book pre- pared for the permanent record of the Navy and all men who have served aboard either or both BLOCK ISLANDS. Many of our personnel have spent all their Navy careers in one or both of these vessels. Without Captain Beakley's interest, effort and assistance, the book would have been impossible. We, who have worked upon the story, know that many names have been omitted, It has not been possible to give every man his full account. Only incomplete records are available because of the sinking of CVE 21. The book is a story of a team and not a man. To have prepared a full Who's Who of our gallant crew would take more volumes than we can afford to print. Many men whose faces fail to smile back at them in these pictures may well claim their share in the glorious record of CVE 21 and CVE 106. . The illzcstratiofns in this volume are oiicial U. 5. Navy and Marine Corps photographs and may not bc' reproduced 'willxout permi.x-sion. The landing signal ofifers were drawn by Frances Mead.