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IIHENANGII HIIiHI.lIiHTS IIitlllIIIl,UEtIl - I A ' ffffff-uffffffngen-kgmrw-ks-A--if-H-ki-1r-it-A-vrvfff-H-xA-A-ff-rf-I-new-r-A-fu-iffff-kffifffffffffufffffft A BIRD'S EYE VIEW - I was sitting calmly inuthe ready room with nothing to occupy my untutored mind save an occasional glance at a dull gin rummy game going on in the next seat tl have long since given up the' game after having been severely beaten on numerous occasions by mathematical minds who appreciate none of the Ener things of life such as corn bread or mint julepsl when I spied this feeble attempt at--call it what you ,want to-I'm sure he won't mind. Anyway, as idle minds breed no good or evil las a matter of fact, mine doesn't even breedl I decided against the better judgment of my superior officers, and there are many, to project upon the reading public I in this case the good officers and men of the U.s.s. CHENANGOJ an article which could be appropriately called Some of the Outstanding Features Aboard a Carrier. Those who are left out will please, refrain from feeling neglected as there are many more such articles in the offing. After all, the good ship is not undermanned-or is it? Don't ask me 'cause l'm just a nasty old AirdaIe. First, and foremost, comes our fine Captain, who spends Long, tiuringh and often unsleeping hcuri on tap bii-idge 'tmy ome or t e next four hours on Loo out atc fl. When thinking of him I think of a keen mind, a fine sense of humor, the ever-present cigarette, night bounce at Guad- alcanal, and his brief but pertinent words when a SUWAN- NEYE pilots langeg aboard by mistake, Give him a cup of co ee an sen im home. ' Then my eyes shift slowly over to the next character and I see the man who has a' nightmare of a job, but never has any nightmares himself. Nuii1ber'7 has an oil leak? Well, wipe it off and put it on the catapult. All the time hels thinking of last night's bridge game when Scallan, his slightly bald but very worthy opponent, trumped' his only Ace while he tlfnorringl was tryi-ng to make a grossly underbid six no-trump. This article has just been interrupted by our Ace ACI, Lieutenant Booth, who gave a running comment of the news at Okinawa.'Iust who is running, or why, lihave not yet been able to determine. However, I don't mind being interrupted by this fine Kentucky Colonel because he at least appre- ciates half of the finer things of life-mint juleps. ' I can't hold off any longer on thehcentral figure of the page. Landing Signal Omcers always appear rin a pilot's mind as someone weird and unnatural, someone to be afraid of, someone to be held in awe fafter all, your fate is really in his handsl, and someone to be on very good terms with. II'Ieaven help me if he finds out who wrote this little epistlefl To say that Bodie represents all of the above-mentione-I things is a gross misunderstatement-and becomes more so day by day as the natural fertility of his chin and upper lip produce a greater abundanceof growth commonly called whiskers. Women do have their problems I guess.'l'Iow- ever, the addition to the face can be readily understood by your author because I have just learned via my many agenlS, who are stationed everywhere but the Bureau, that he was banished from the hills of West IBy Godl Virginia and could not return until' he had proven that he was a man by producing, n'ot results with the signal paddles, but a sufli- cient amount of foliage to give the desired effect. And now I come to the pilot fnee Polywogl down. in Hqe44 I ' - -- the right-hand 'corner of this priceless sheet that is to be saved for the 'sake of posterity-eif not to assist some good Boy Scout in making a fire. I'Ie is a publicity hound. He risks his life every day, fights like one obsessed,.and wants the gloryfor it. Can you imagine that? The cad! When- ever he appears above dock he is not stripped for action- brother he is laden down for action. For every new gadget he hangsuon himself he takes out another thousand in life insurance. Tests are now being conducted to determine whether a pilot, fully equipped, falls 5260 feet per minute in a regulation parachute or 5261 feet per minute. If the latter figure is proven true he will be allowed to take one less salt tablet per day tonly on flying daysi. Oh -well, you can't blame it on their families-they didn't raise their son to be an aviator. ' ' The last, but certainly not the least, figure on the sheet is the man who works as hard as any and harder than most guys on the whole ship. His is not to question why or where but to run when told to, stop when told to, and hold on for dear life the entire time. It is a known fact that one of these men, after being retired from the Navy at the age of seventy-four, ran a full mile in two minutes, thirty-seven and two-tenths seconds. However, it was never published because he died a minute and a half later. His onlyrequest was that his tombstone be made of marble, and in the shape of ia wheel chock. ' The chow call is greater than the call to write so I leave you wondering who on the ship could write such -nonsense. Knowing that I am insulted. Goodbyel ' ' f ff-rf-an-kff-nffffsffffffffffffff-kfffffffffn I . V SAIPAN SOLILOQUY As I trod on this raw battleground one building attracted my attention because it was restricted and smelled of incense. In back was a miniature garden, laid out in perfect geo- metric order. The flowers and tiny goldfish pools had sur- vived the bomb blasts better, somehow, than the building. Like a child's garden, it might have been made in half scale. I asked the RIP if I might go inside. Better let me take you in. You have no sidearm and Iaps are still hiding in some of these buildings. , Theascent of sandlewood and 'perfume was more, pro- nounced within. Silks hung in strangehanks, ripped by the' blasts. I crushed a delicate little cup with painted butter- flies and birds underfoot before I noticed that the fioor was littered with fragile china.-In the corners were sandlewood boxes and trays of inlaid wood-all smashed. Highly enam- eled black tables with gold Iiowers were cracked. and peel- ing. A graceful blue vase with narrow stem for single buds would have been a souvenir, had the bottom been intact. A statuette of a black dragon without any feet sat in the corner and looked straight ahead. The MP kicked some of 'the teacups with the blui and gold butterflies and-Went Olli- ln the street again I asked him if it-were a nursery for I had seen some copy books with neat hand-written char- acters. Hell no, he said. 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