Cascade (AD 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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OPERATIONS This department is composed of two divisions, Operations and Navigation. Operations is the team of men standing watch in CIC (Combat Informa- tion Center). During times of action, they com- pile pertinent information on movement of ships, friendly and enemy, plot all aircraft, and relay this information to gun mounts if need be, and also con- trol the ships movement during anti-submarine warfare, be it peacetime drill or wartime strategy. The men of this division also send and receive all of the radio traffic going to and from the ship. This is the radiomans job and the importance of their dah-dits are well known. Another small group of this division is the Post Office group which handles all of the U.S. mail and gives postal service to the command and men aboard. Best known are there sugar reports , eagerly awaited by all hands. LT.(jg) T. R. BRUNDAGE Operations Off. i Jl vlUFM Back Row: Ulinski, McCobe, Goodstoll, Hamlin, Lodd. Third Row: Brusco, Coffaro, Bowers, Angerilli, Voyles, Weedo Second Row: Poole, Guillot, Wilmoth, Schoenfeld, Lodsden, Mumbauer First Row: Meili, DeWeerth, Block

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NOW THIS IS A RIFLE CW02 H W. DUGAN Ship Gunner DIVISION ,, | j - fin Bock Row: Hodge, Ford, Giuliani, Antz, Kendall, Gibson, Ecker Second Row: Brown, Finnegan, Chamberlain, Feyler, DeCosto, Stegg, Perry Front Row: Richord, Capps, Taylor, Dubois, Davis, Masar.

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NAVIGATION Navigation is the other division of the Operations Department and their responsibility is signalling by any of many methods — flash- ing light, (visible day and night) and sema- phore, or flag waving visible for shorter distances. Their work gets into high gear when op erating with a large convoy or task force, and lights seem to be blinking from all 360 degrees around the ship. Their other job is navigation, and — their knowledge of stars, contour of the ocean floor, and weather is all important to putting the ship in at the right port after being tossed about across thousands of miles of open seas. LT(jg) P. B BUSH II Communications Off. ' i ' First Row:: Denton, Wilson, RounKee, Klovenski, Lodd Back Row: Baldwin, Peno, Peterson, Myers DeBruin, Murphy.