George Elliott (AP 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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'QL -1 x . OFFICERS OF THE ELLIOTT During the past two years there has been a large turnover in the officer personnel aboard ship, so that it is impossible for me to give an account offneach one. Therefore, I shall strive to men- tion the highlights for, after all, aren't the high- lights the most interesting? Eirstiof all, l would like to mention Captain Couble, Captain Weidner and Commander Knickerbocker who have been our Commanding Officers. We now come to Lieutenant W, Lyons who was our first Lieutenant for quite some time There was never a more agreeable man than Walt, who would say yes to any work request, then promptly forget all about it. l-le was also a great one for plenty of sack time. Commander Angrick, our first Executive Officer, will be re- membered by all who served under him. Lieu- tenant Commander l-larry Handsome l-larry l-latch then followed as Executive Officer and was quite the glamour boy with those wavy blond locks. Among the engineers we had Lieutenant Commander J. Edwards as Chief En- gineer, vvho would take great delight in raising cain with all officers in regard to censoring mail. In the islands he would board ship after a sojourn to the Officers' Club, and as soon as he had one foot on the quarterdeck Jake would start yelling for all censors to lay up to the ward- room. There was also Lieutenant ljgl A. Angell, Senior Assistant Engineer, who after many attempts finally convinced the doctors his back rated a discharge. Nor can we forget Dr. Houghton, who found out the hard way what a gun casualty was. l-le arrived on the scene of a reported gun casualty with stretcher, corpsmen, etc., only to find a miss fire. During general drills, whether they ll rirrlrrmni .lllrfsx ?

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Chief Engineer, Lieutenant G. Kramer, was thought by many to be part of the Title B equipment aboard ship, The Navy took George over with the ship in l943. Then we have Lieutenant ljgl Smith, first Division Officer, with a voice second to none in volume, and the greatest all-around athlete in the world, quote Clarence, Many adjectives could be used to describe Ensign P. Webb, but C1'oc'1fc'H. Ifns. Jlrixfcfiwoiz, CMUM, A Fiiviirl, we will merely say that he just did not give a damn. Lieutenant Commander G. Manhart, our present Executive Officer, spent half his Navy career worrying and wondering if he would ever make those ZVQ stripes. 'We are glad to say he did a few months ago. Ensign J. Carman, one time M Division Offi- cer, was stopped by the S. P. one day for imper- sonating an Officer. Lieutenant Gould, Com- missary Officer, was the ship's big operator, Old Milt, officially Commander Tabor, the Supply Officer, put several days in bed with Q Strgined back after getting down and showing some of his men how a deck should be scrubbed.