Forster (DER 334) - Naval Cruise Book

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if CRUISE Boolc QS Editor, Artist ..... LTJG E. Division-Representatives: First Division ....... L. C. Second Division ...... D. L. OI Division .......... W. C, OC Division... .... W. T. S Division .... ....J. D. R Division.... .... G. D, M Division ........... H. E, STAFF J. BOND GOZDOWSKI, BMSN BRUNK, STGSN GOODHUE, RDSN SEYMOUR, SN ANCHETA, SK1 BRICE, IC1 GIGOUS , EN1 Thanks goes to those men who contributed their own pictures for this book,

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If -v--j Q I i mfr If X irvow mrs 15 mf-: cnpmmz spsnfffnfcs , ,, -Z This picture documentary shows the joys and the pleasant highlights of the cruise. What the cruise book cannot show: the many times that the motor whaleboat was lowered in the middle of a pitch-black night to take the boarding party to search a junk, the engineers changing a piston in three hours on a hot main engine in order to be ready on time for underway replenishment, the entire crew and officers Qompleting preparations for an underway replenishment at night with only twenty minutes advance notice, the bridge gang standing port and starboard watches and then having to turn out for a special evolution minutes after having just turned ing the laundry men working in a constant 120 degree heat in the Gulf of Siam, all hands manning their battle stations in less than three minutes at 0130 in the morning, the radio gang sending FORSTER messages and at the same time relaying messages for most of the ships accompanying the aircraft carrier near the Tonkin Gulf, the commissaryman almost crying when his bread would not rise for three nights in a row, the six-hour on and six-hour off watch in the Combat Information Center for months on endg the many other routine, endless watches - these cannot show in this book, but they gave FORSTER an enviable record. The officers and crewmembers pictured in this cruise book are skilled, professional sailors to a man. I am intensely proud of them.