Lexington (CVA 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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l i l PIP' , ONLY HUMAN eye in huge forward director peers out to check his monster machine on a fine point. DOWN HATCH, inside director, two firecontrolrnen stare at scope for target LITTLE TUBES MAKE THE BIG BCQM f' F Division Electronics Aims for Direct Hits 4 t 4 .4 F l l LT. J.D. MCMAHON LTJG E.G. SPAR SURGEON WITH SCREWDRIVER probes electrical anatomy of radar. I 5, l Z 4 I i ENS. L.H. LARSON ENS. D.E. JONES The death knell for sharpshooters of the turkey-gobbling Sgt. York type was sounded years ago with the perfection of offshore naval bombardment, but never has marksmanship been so com- pletely removed from the hands of the havvkeye as it has today with the continuing development and improve- ENS. E.T. POYET CWO3? DALTON ment of electronics equipment WhiCl1 seems to do everything but talk the enemy pilot into flying a little closer. Tubes and Wires and scopes and antennae in an endless tangle have been boxed and tied with as blue ribbon of oscillat- ing light which slips itself around the target as surely as a noose.

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ll 7 SPRING COVER on fantail three- inch loudly announces its keeper. FATIGUE UNIFQRM cannot destroy effect of excellent allignment as Marines file by rv- ..eeeooo .Sr Top row: C.H. Schmidt, P.F. Seelentag, G.C. Shineovich, J.W. Slow, R.L. Smyth, C.J. Sweet, F.K. Thompson, VV,O. Victory, L.J. Waikart Second row: W.R. Wilson, M.G. Zapp, EJ. Huffsmith, J.W. Lofton, R.D. Moore, S.A. Swanson, G.E. Tarr, R.H. Tichenor, D.A. Wood ' ' ' .R. H . F th row KJ. Horjus. Third row: LM. Rosevear, B.C. Moyer, J.L. Lund, G.D. Ray, I H. Lyons, B.H. Bale, j.S.Garm1re, W usson our M. Krieger, J.C. Becker, E.A. Dyer, J.A. Prince, C.H. Rattan, R.L. Stearns, G.A. Seeling, B.D. Hulsey.

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