Leyte (CVA 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 C Y 5 l 1 5 E E The Carlton and Miramar Hotels stand out as two of the landmarks on the French Riviera, a part of the opulence of this magnificent - ' E 1 French Fishermen tend the menial tasks of repairing Fishing equipment. Multi-colored boats specked this harbor. Schooner Masts and Rigging, parts of beautiful yachts anchored in the harbor of Cannes, form a spider web foreground for houses. ' N f

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The Fire Control Division is essentially the brains and nerves of the gunnery on the Leyte. From the towerino' radar eyes of sky forward and sky aft, a search for the enemy, down to the seventh deck in Plot where the nimble mechanical brain of the computers is handled by members of the Fox Division. In radar rooms and forty mm. directors, the fire control shack, the armory, and the torpedo workshop, the highly skilled men of Fox Division are to be found. Their job is not only one of technical skill, but the less romantic one of .upkeep and cleaning, both of which are handled efhciently, as the record of downed target-sleeves gives testimony and the ravings of the zone inspection parties as they emerge from the magazines. Headed by LTJG Hebden, and assisted by Ensigns Laubach and McGeahy, Gunners Brahin and Noble, and TMC Ray, GMC DeVVitt, and FCC Gorman, this division can rightly be proud ol its record. ' Upper Left: Seaman Ifeterson and Blizzard, TMS, elated on discovering the workings ol the little machine. It's a gyro unit and one ol the many technical and highly complicated pieces of machinery which must be mastered by the members of the Fox Division. Upper Right: That's a Computer in the foreground, and by turning the cranks on top you set in various inputs which are divested by the machine, and the fire control problem is solved. Gathered around are Redden, FCSN and Reed, SN who are demonstiiating the proper procedure used to make it work. A serious look is often helpful. Lower Left: Rheinhardt, YN2, positions an incoming bogey on the control officer's status board in Air Defense Forward. Bv glancing at this plot, the Gunnery Officer can evaluate the enemy attack and determine how to split his battery, to destroy the most planes. r ' ' Center: Lieutenants Popko and O'Sha'1ghnessey with McCellen, PN3, and McLaughlin, YNSN, the Gunnery Liaison team in CIC, study the radar scope for enemy planes which they plot, and send the data to Air. Defense Forward. It looks like a good comic book. Lower Right: One of the many directors that control the 40mm quads throughout the ship. This is number ll quad director, which has more target sleeves to its credit than any other. Seamen Dowlin and Lane demonstrate the correct technique. p

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1 r coastline playground. The Bikini girls may be seen on page 126. O1dtimer's Sport bowling on the beach with aHFTCHCh v21f1f1f10H Of lawn bowling, requires all the body Cflgllsh 0116 can muster' A 125 NNES Located on the southern aspect of the Golfe de la Napoule with the Esterel to the west. Previous to 1834 it was an ancient little hill- town built on Mont Chevalier, which projects seaward and is today crowned by a seventeenth- century church. Twice destroyed by the Saracens in the eighth and tenth centuries, it was re- colonized from Genoa. It is one of the most fash- ionable resorts of the Riviera, the new town QLa Boccaj having grown up on either side of the old city. Among the many activities while the Leyte was in Cannes was the celebration of United Nations Day, October 24th. With the support of some French and the stellar performance of our local shipboard talent the Leyte presented Encore Cafe, a two act musical comedy. Encore Cafe was presented for the beneht of the French Blue Sickness Fund. See pictures on pages 140-142.