Columbus (CA 74) - Naval Cruise Book

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FRONT ROW: Ferrar, R.B., Giampetro, P.J., Trahan, A.J., Benson, J.D. SECOND ROW: Saunders, E.J., Veneziano, J.F., Basco, M. L., Creeger, J., Knutson, R.G., GMC, Busch, I.G., Bailey, R.A., Walters, E.W., Goodman, C.E. THIRD ROW: Edwards, B.J., Komara, R.J., Maschal, J.R., Smith, J.J., Debozy, J., Ferris, D.P., Bryson, J.F., Fulton, J.L., White, D.C. FOURTH ROW: Torbert, J.E., Grispon, R.J., Thompson, G., Tolbert, R.E., Ermi, J.F., Tomlinson. G.W., Chvilicek, R.L., Buchholz, G.A., Romans, R.E., Guttrung, R.A. LTJG Hill Get that rust ! When the Second division turns to on the port side of the forecastle, you can hear Creeger ' s whip cracking all the way back on the fantail. Campbell, BM2, is the strong boss topside, and what he doesn ' t know about seamo would almost fit on the point of a needle. Bailey, BM3, is another good man with a line and helps keep the boys turned to. The second deck is in the able hands of Jones, BM2. Besides making sure that officers ' country forward of the wardroom is spotless, he ' s a good man under the backboards on the Columbus basketball team. Way down on the fourth deck there works a portly gentleman named Veneziano, who is in charge of the House Beautiful boys, otherwise known as compartment cleaners. This is where people come to see how a compartment should really look. In the middle of all this deck space there towers a huge steel castle, commonly referred to as Turret II, where Prince Charming, alias Chief Knutson, and his little elves make merry. Busch, GM2, is the Ichi-ban elf in charge of making the 8 inch guns work. He gets a lot of help from Basco, GM3, and Goodman, GM3. The showplace of the ship and, If it works as well as it looks we ' ll be the best ship in the Navy : these are just a few of the comments made by some of the distinguished visitors who have taken the weekly grand tour of Number Two.

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Division PO ' s and a tourist ALL HANDS WORKING PARTY

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