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MORE VALVES than men on the ship, or so this fellow Who keeps them polished must think. Main Steam Reaches 600 lbs. Pressure At 850 Degrees WHITE-FACED, DRENCHED BOILER-CLEANER EMERGES INTO LIGHT. CLOSE WATCH IS KEPT ON SALINITY INDICATOR WHICH REVEALS SALT CONTENT OF WATER BEING TURNED INTO STEAM.
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VALVES and more valves are opened and closed countless times every day. LTJG D.R. TOWERS ENS. L.W. MCDONALD TORCH IN HAND, Division boiler- Lex's eight huge boilers that produce tender is about to light off one of the the steam that propels the ship. BCIL AND BUBBLE Fire Burns, Boilers Bubble, Lex Moves Back in Shakespeareis time, the daily activities of the Lexis firerooms certainly would have been the product of witchcaft, but today we know it is just the product of a hard-working bunch of men called B division. At the beginning of this section on the engineers of the Lexington, they were called The Men Who Make the Difference. The 'L difference i' is actually manyfold, but primarily it refers to the difference of the Navy-ships-to any other military organization. This difference is mobility. The Navy can move, the others canlt. A landing field, no matter how large, or great its potential, is permanent, being permanent, it is constantly vulnerable to attack. The aircraft carriers of todayls Navy owe their existence to only one factor: its ability to move, to attack a target, and twenty-four hours later attack another a thousand miles away. The engineers-the men who make the ship move-are indeed, the men who make the difference. The men who make the steam that makes the ship move are the boilertenders of B division. They work in the hottest parts of the ship: the four firerooms that generate the steam for the power plant of a city. Their steam gives electricity and fresh water and that all-important mobility.
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7 T - -1 x ' Top row: R.A. Gay, F.H. Mietchen, A.L. Baker, R.C. Miller, A.O. Walls, C.F. Santini, Thurtle, R.H. Smith, H.R. Olsen. Second row' Lefton, J.R. Looney, H.M. Crummer, RJ. Leist, S.F. Leene, R.W. Scott, R.D. Senkint, M.F. Krueger, Schoenfeld. 71. l A 1' CRAMMED lN tightly against pipe lines, man reaches for-another valve. AND UNDER the deck plating, spat- tered with polish, a valve which opens a valve, which . ..
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