Coral Sea (CV 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 V r 1 1 . 1 l 1 g i .gl OA DIVISION the meteorology division of the ship is onsible for the collection, completion, and dissemination of meteorological data and advises the Commanding Officer, Operations Officer and other interested personnel on matters pertaining to meteorology. The meteorologist and his staff of ICSP 1 , personnel often refered to as Weather Guessers also pro. , vide service to the embarked staff. OA Division is always on 1 call to provide the latest information on weather, so that ship can operate to its fullest extent. l i 0 re M5 W 3 QM erik nn, gzgwfwq it l f Pentimonti, R. I Suhmann, I. i f Brooks, B. Casper, D. X ' X Daniel, C. l ' Drauplin, F. I Girdner, D. ' Josenhans, -I. l Kfopp, J- H I Lee, J. E E McDonald, J. I L , McKillip, G. I l Meredith, W. ' ' Pribula, G. in I x y 3 il . Strong, j. i I Swanson, M. I Williams, B. X' Zacharas, P. N 4 1 i l l 1 V 1 I l y l I l 130 I y .

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Taylor, -I L EK llllllwlllllllfgvlllllll lw OX DIVISION is the administrative support team for the operations department. It is charged with preparing most of operations outgoing mes- sages and correspondence, it also has custody and research of opords, opplans, and loi's, management of operations tad requirements, evaluation preparation and screening, also a myriad of reports and different ships instructions. Ox division is tasked with a great percent of the operations paper work and typing, often not manned fully OX division comes through with excellent results, in support of operational requirments. 31 .4 ft ,iw f -r kwin? 'J fn Qf+'f?9fQF - 'Xia -, ., . .. ,, tn., xii. 33211 run LI-5 ' 1 : 1 - 1 ,Jr Q w3s N 5-Alf 1 nd I rf' ' L u WMI wig .ga Inverso, F Tausili, K. Chavarze, F. Heanon, B. is .Rn

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Snake 102 left to the final bearing 020, 10 miles stay clean expect 8 mile dirty . Words that would have no meaning to anyone, are every day things for the air traffic controllers of CV-43. From the morning launch to the late night recoveries oc division is on call to see that all aircraft make it back safely. The controllers cover a 50NM circle around the ship, and all aircraft in this control space are handed off from one controller to another, until they are aboard the carriers deck. From marshall control to approach, and then to final control, who takes them to within 3X4 of a mile. At which time the landing signal officers fpaddelsj, takes over and follows them to the deck. Tanking of aircraft also is covered by the departure controller who is responsible for joining .aircraft to the tanker. From air operations who keep updated information on all airborne aircraft to the catcc crew who see's that the aircraft get back safely, These men make up oc division. OC DIVISION Phipps, j. Patacek, J. Revercomb, J. Schneider, F. Thomely, R. Clark, L. Kelley, M. Brassell, R. Brown, B. Dixon, K. Draper, Duffy, D. Filz, M. Goon, W. Hasley,j. Kurtzman, Linck, D. Murta, R. .mul Qualters, D. Ray, R. Rogers, D. Saulnier, P. Smith, M. Summey, K. ' 16- fi .