Lowry (DD 770) - Naval Cruise Book

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F i t E i 3 2 y , E 1 5 1 I I l l x . 4 .4 1 l i 'z 1 l l 1 1,1 f This is ihe crew of No. 42 wi+h ihe 'rhree lime winner of l'he Purple Hearl' lrhe whaleboall looking on in 'Phe background. No. 42 was- 'rhe pride and ioy of Holbrook who swears he would have married 'I'he gun if she could have cooked. Here s Ll. Lall and Lf. Kelly ssfhng on lhe dlreefqr, They are undoubfedly lying 'lo each ofher aboui rhe old days in rhe Solomons or arguing like hell' as lo who had fhe nexl wafch. Clabough is siH'ing on fhe sidelines in his usual exuberani manner, The direcror, more fhan any orher perl of 'lhe ship, was the scene of many a bull session on assorfed subiecis wifh never a conclusion reached. Here's 'lhe slack ZOMM group. a none foo pleasan+ place for a general quarfers sralion. Seemed .85 rhough 'rhe engineers look some sor-I of 'riendlsh delighi in wai+ing un+il everyone was on slalibn and +hen emi++ing large gusrs of oily smoke, sool. and olher obnoxious maHer. In shorl order eve Y' one in fhe viciniry looked like fhe end man in 3 minsrrel show. In addi+ion, i+ seems as +hough H19 Wfnfl is always windier, and fha rain is diff? ramuer when you're siHing our here in The mldds of nowhere,

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L pracfice. Below lefi' is a bunch of 'rhe boys peering our on fhe wafer. Could be for any number of reasons bu+ probably someone spo++ed a beer boHle floafing by and now +hey're making befs as +o where ii migh+ have originaied. a Below righl' is an evening shof of Mounl No. 44 fhrowing some lead. Aboul' +his fime +he Lowry 'ik IQ' Here's Brown again. Whaf a man he furned our fo be-or did Lee wani fo immorfalize fhe only lime he ever benf on a signal? On lhe righf is Lf. Roberfs of Sky For- ward. He says if was a liHle rough geffing under fhe Flag bag wi+h fhe big helmef on during condi- fion I-Easy buf he usually made if all righf. Of course noi righl ai lirsl' buf only affer considerable 4 was beginning 'ro hang up her record for being one of The besf shois 'ro ever go 'rhrough San Diego. We really began fo raise parficular hell wifh The sleeves and drones 'rhey sen+ us +o pracrice on. Yes, looking back fo shakedown is when we really earned a repufaiion for gunnery, and from fhen on we never fool: a back seam' +o anyone, where i+ was concerned.

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Looks like Clphin Marlin is passing oul a lillle advice in lhis shol. Anyway il's advice of ignhzrilind. Tl1ere's Bozeman, Zarallian, Sabella ing Novak as well as Lf. Roberfs and Docior Pear- The forecasfle seemed a very appropria+e slate for Capfain Marlin fo say goodbye because 518+ was lhe place he had mel' mos? of us at one 1-img or anolher, however lhe meefing usually look lace over fhe small sland and consisfed of an Zxplanafion fhal the alarm didn'+ go off fhis morning. Here's Capiain Miller reading his orders giving him command of fhe ship. He had come lo us from lhe USS CABOT, where he had been navi- galor. This was his liirsl' command and lhe firSl ship for mosl of us so we all s+ar+ed our new, and even. We soon saw he knew his business and lhe rouline wenl' on as before We had a shor+ period ol combal' lraining al Pearl and lh9r1 heeded Olli- This is Capiaun Miller Caplam Marlin and L+ Houllhan faking a look al lhe boys in C Division Looks like all lhe girls had fheir usual long hair do They all look prel ly hallhy in l'hls picfure 'rhe elilecl of silhng in +he green cave hadnl' over laken fhem as yel' These are +he guys who operale 'rhe radars sound gear radios and so on