Lake Champlain (CVS 39) - Naval Cruise Book

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CE When that queer-looking electrical gadget you operate doesn't Work, and you've about torn out your hair in desperation . . . in Walks an Electronics Tech- nician from OE Division. He looks over the problem, picks up a screwdriver, set of earphones, and a device called an oscilloscope and begins working. During the next 20 minutes he says nothing. Then, packing his gear, he leaves. You are about to curse him for quitting the job, when you disgustedly reach and flick on the switch. It works! This is the fashion in which ET's Work. A highly- trained group, they handle every job quietly and con- fidently. And as long as its impossible and electronic, they'll fix it! T Z 5 5 2 2. S xg

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M' A 3 l 31 1'-. R lb -Q. l u 1:2 3. it if I OP What a job we say when we see the men from OP Division headed for the beach, loaded down with cameras and accessories. ' F ew realize the duties of a photographer's mate are far greater than picture-taking of monuments and gals in bikinis. t Under the Division Officer, LTIG. RT. Shirley, the 19 men of OP shoot hundreds of rolls of film each year on subjects of a much more technical nature. Charts, documents, identification photos, portraits, and pictures involving damage to ship's aircraft or equipment must all be recorded by the camera's eye. Aerial photography is another important task per- formed by OP Division. Intelligence photos of ships and shore concentrations are vital, and the photo- graphers mates have to take to the air to get them. These pictures, which can determine the course of an entire operation, may well be Worth a thousand lives.

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O.A. OA Division deals with the unpredictable little devil called WEATHER. Headed by LTIG C. C. Brown, OA has a complement of 10 men who often refer to themselves as Balloon Busters. These aerographers receive information in the raw by radio teletype, decode it, analyze it, and prepare forecasts for the ship's Task Force operations, Fleet Weather Central, Port Lyautey and to the weather bureau in Washington, D.C., for use in long range forecasts. In preparing its data, OA also makes hourly ob- servations of clouds, weather conditions, visibility, pres- sure, temperatures, humidity, Wind direction and sea conditions. Every 12 hours, a gas filled balloon is released to take readings of the upper atmosphere. Attached to the balloon is a small radio transmitter which relays back information. With ship's movements and flight operations de- pendent upon its forecasts, OA is one Weather bureau which can't afford to be Wrong very often. -,NMAXY JH ,.,.. . . 1-I --A xg .gang -use-f,,. C T9 9 it 'S , T .. ,,. t ' , ,.,- . X I ' Q if X g tx 1 , S fl ff fp f ff fr ,fwg f - . -X K vt 4, W- A ' t ' f ?7 w ' : X' s?R of . 'ff f 295 X' t . . , .s Q ,s M- , V ,s .r W , V - 9 sv .Y f ef f f ' . f is ' r 1 , ,Q m g , sr , N- f a A :tlfqhsl f ,Q fswsw Q 3.6 1.6 . S Zi X W 1-V 4 l.,'..ff 14'-N . , I - x' il' 4 .4 .. .,, f M . 'E -Wsk. 'L 5 X 2 ,jf k Q .- if 1' f. ,, .. r K ,Wh 4 ' 'fe -, as ffii - ff -. A ' . f--W9 QM, 5 - W f V 5 Ryu, Wzfggg-' Qs, 4, v-in A L Q A ' fl X I ' Ry... Z ff: S i'i' i M f' ft t t . , 44.1 , T i .Ty T x,X' 7 V L rr A V if ,VZ ,, . , .Af ,,.,,mYw.:u is A M , .X giggr :.,m-gs I - :ff S K:-,wwf H X Q. j'r,,,M,-Y1fN...ebg ,L f, V j'v:fw,::gg1 'ff ,,,.r.:.,,, f X f ' :gif V , H E