Isherwood (DD 520) - Naval Cruise Book

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SECOND DIVISION FRONT ROW, Leii lo Right: :. :ii, Hernandez, Swain, Shephard, Wells, John- son, Jasmski, Beajiey, ' vVuuunis, SiiuiU-i. SECOND ROW: Davis, McCann, Bournes, Gannon, Dubose, LTJG Keenan, GMC Jungnilsch, Carter, Bernard, Juba, Oualle, Reidelbach, Lemaster. REAR: Snow, Bailey, Anderson, Hyslop, Aliano, Hawlhorne, Lyons, Boiler, Rhodes. The Second Division is about a half and half mix- ture of deck-force and Gunner ' s Mates, but that doesn ' t stop each group from having a spirit all their own. Any morning about six A.M. the red-headed throat can be heard calling his gang up on deck. Shortly thereafter the curtain of first-class quarters is drawn back, and out steps Dad Carter. (Not to be confused with Pop Moss) By the time Squirrel and his gang hit the deck, another day is well underway. The Gunner ' s Mates, far above all this, more or less sit around and phil- osophize. At least it looks that way, until inspection time comes around, and they turn up with the best looking mounts you ' d ever want to see. Now that we are back it looks like a motorcycle club might spring up back there. Led by Mr. Keenan, Second Di- vision is a pretty sharp bunch of men. IT ' S GOOO OAD ' , BUT CEpLftCt MT a,si

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FIRST DIVISION Ensign Mitchell calls his boys ' The Fighting First ' and they did their best to live up to their name. Fueling at sea got to be a touchy subject, especially when talking to those ' guys back aft. ' Blanco soon proved himself to be a capable Japanese interpreter, but Burnham just kept his mouth shut — and turned in his overnight chits. But there ' s no denying that the work always got done, and done right. Wheeler, Rose, and Davis soon showed the seamen what work was. All this time the Gunner ' s Mates were busily working, and showed up with two of the cleanest mounts in the squadron for the admin. The gang all did a good job. FRONT ROW. Left lo Right: Oualaker, Rudy, Wheeler. Hoover, Collins. Burn- ham, Morrison, Holcomb. Dcuqlas. SECOND ROW: Sixt. Vallie, Galberlh. Cain, Mr. Mitchell Bench, BMC, Harris, Beeman. HEAR: Hue, Rose, Emmell, Jenkins. O ' Donnell, Hubbard, Thomas.

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THIRD DIVISION ' :i -.. FIRST ROW. Leil lo Right: Ftcsl, Ellridge, Carllcn, Lalhiqee, Leland, Ve!, ; :i, SECOND ROW: Hise, Aims, Denurais, LTJG Frankfcrl, Chief Collins. Orqill. Bradley THIRD ROW: i iumloe, Smilh, Gunn, lensen. Renner, Dawscn, Ernesle Third Division is more or less made up of all the homeless small groups that are found on any ship. Composed of Sonar- men, Torpedomen, and Fire Controlmen, they represent three separate phases of ship- board activity. They still man- age to stick together when it counts, however, and a new man is always happy to get in the division. Led by the Abso- lutely unshakable Mr. Frank- fort, calmness seems to be the keynote of the group. Things may be breaking down right and left, we may have to shoot torpedoes tomorrow, but ' as long as no one gets excited we ' ll be all right. ' The strange thing about all this is that ev- erything usually does come out all right in the end. No one can ever say that any of them have an easy job, and they always do it well. SOHAB CONTACT....