Leyte (CVA 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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ODEIQA oN5 OF VITAL importance to any naval vessel is her ability to sustain a practicable means of communication. This is especially true of an aircraft carrier. It is in this capacity that the Operations Department performs a tremendously important job aboard the LEYTE. The Operations Department is responsible for the collec- tion, evaluation and dissemination of combat and opera- tional information required for the assigned missions and tasks of the ship, and for all other matters related to the operations of the ship and designated airborne aircraft. The department is made up of approximately two-hundred officers and men and is headed by Commander G. Anderson. The Operations Department, under the direction of the Executive Officer, is charged with the coordination of the ship's training schedule. This department might well be termed the ship's planning agency, for planning and sched- uling is one of its major functions.

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Upper Left: Fowler maintains the air status board in the Air Plot Room. This board provides a handy check on all planes that are in the air. In addition, it contains other pertinent facts such as the number of the plane and the name of the pilot. Fowler gets information from Flight Deck Control. I Center: Lt. T. Goodwin, CIC Watcli Officer, is seated at the main communications console. Before him are panels indicating the movements and positions of each aircraft and surface craft within the ship's range. As Watch Officer he must coordinate and utilize all information received. Upper Right: Lt. Bouldin keeps traffic pattern in line and gives landing instructions to planes. This is another function of Air Plot Room. , Below: Bordner maintains watch at sky-forward. All look-outs receive special instruction through departments training program. Lower Left: Savage plots on vertical plot in CIC. This board serves as an up-to-the-minute check on all activities of the division. After courses, air speeds, and other pertinent data are computed they are placed on vertical plot to aid the Watch Officer in his duties. Center: Radar has demonstrated its incomparable value in many ways. It is the main-stay of CIC. Ross and Shanahan are two of the many men who must maintain a twenty-four hour watch on CIC radar scope. There are eight other watch stations which must be continuously manned. Lower Right: Kaczmarek, Lovely and Peterson are busy at work on the DRT QDead Reckoning Tracery. Here, courses are com- puted and relayed to the 0.0.D. CIC keeps a complete record of each computation made and it is logged into a book with exact t11'1'1C. TO AID in the performance of the many and varied func- Assisting the Air Operations Officer is the CIC Officer. tions of the department, the Operations Officer has His Specific duties include: Q15 The maintenance of several assistants. One of these, the Air Operations Ofhcer, heads a division known as the O-I or Opera- tions Intelligence Division. The O-I Division consists of a Combat Information electronic equipment used in procuring combat and operational information. C2j The distribution of all information acquired by means of assigned radar and Center, an Ann plot Room, an An- Intelligence unit, 3 1 associated equipment. The control of all aircraft and photographic laboratory, and the aerological laboratory. their assigned missions. 33 4