Lunga Point (CVE 94) - Naval Cruise Book

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J ' w dreams of home and beautiful girls with whom he ' d like to play. Bill he turns to ivith the rest of us when Japs are on the screen: He fights his very heart out, so his conscience is always clean. We have guys in this Division from every tvalk of life; Boys from Maine to good oV Texas, who are helping in the strife; Some from the hills of ol ' Missouri; some are College Exes, too: So it ' s quite a combination fighting for the Red, M ' hite, and Blue.

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SiKK I r % RrsiNESS Bv PiRRV Hi ATON, Sic:, •S DIN ' ISION The office i. agog these days. With rV.Q. a the lime. And that ' s the reason why our work Is always far behind. Why the hell is r, ' .a . and why the hell Are we? ril never be anyone else. Guess ril hare to he me. . fr. Moore and all the storekeepers In our hunch. By the time we eat our dinner. It is almost lime for lunch. Running here and running there ]Vhen they sound the General Alarm, And Bozzone sleeping by his gun To be sure he ' ll come to no harm. It just ain ' t right for a normal man. To be living like we do. Pd like to go and tell those Japs .A hundred things or two. So take my word, when the war is iron .And things arc going right. ] ' hen ' T ' .Q. is forgotten And you sleep all day and night Without a care or worry And fear is out of sight When things are hack to mirmal We ' ll really he all right. But until that day does come. Guess I ' ll have to fight. . ' ine months in the Pacijic Is quite enough for me Give us wine, ivomcn and II (). 1E. And the love of liberty. Rut doing their jobs in a great big iray, giving the Japs a scrappy. Aow JOE KE.SDECIIY ha ' , a natch that he keeps on the beam. With Bl R I (). fiiirn inii; (imdenwile. he never lo e! steam. . fE. ' l)() A does the oilmg and PAII.T(). icrites the log; So when they work together, they sure put on the dog. They ' re vital to our engine room and Joe ' s the Senior P. 0.; So, irilh his careful guidance, the plant (t sure to go. ROBERTSON ' S known to all as ROBIE, and he ' s the hardest worker: He is ahrays alert and on his watch, for he is not a shirker, ' Cause MLS RASMUSSE.X oils and oils ' til all machinery purrs. With Bl ' RKE ' S and LAKE ' S assistance, the natch just fairly uhirrs. LAKE is known as SPEED) ' BO) ' : he really takes the cake. And J. A. BURKE. Ihr .MI ' SCLE . I.A. . is al- ways wide awake. They make a rare combination that i vital to our .Ship, And with these four at Ihr engine, through the water we do slip. Then there ' s SELL in charge of Imn to. with FLA.XSBl RG right hand man: They change the filters, renovator and do if hat else they can. ] ' hen something breaks, they get a call, in day or late at night; So give these boys some credit, too: they ' re helping in this fight. MAIN ENGINE C;ONTROL By Self, S. L.. MM2c, M DIVISION Xoir .MAR.SHALL ' S watch. Mmhiuist First. is full of vim and vigor. EsfH ' cially when H. BARTO.VS oilin . he works just like a nigger. And BARRY writes the log up in a style you ' ve never seen. While CECIL REED, he condensates, and keeps his station clean. These boys are all 4.0 with us; just a little bit slap happy, H.ARRIS is another boy down here in this BL.ACK G.A.XG. He hails from good ol ' Texas and lie runs things with a bang. Then there ' s our PETER CIASSE. who ' s a fnetty savvy Joe; There ' s very little to this plant that PETER doesn ' t know. We have FERGi ' SO. from Missouri, who longs or home and arm. But he knows ire have a job to do, to guard our land from harm. Then there ' s FRAXK EDWARD CHOJNACKI from out Chicago way,

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rioiii il.c ■Ll NCA I ' OlNir.R : Lyon, L ) . isl Division, wjilkinj; into the Re- cruiting Station in Raleiuli and saying, (;imme lliat oF sal -s tail: attain. I ' m gettin ' cliseourai ecl. C:orhran. BMjc, MAA l ' (jrce How about a transfer to the States? I have romijat fatigue, Sir. Ollicer What gave you that?? C ' .ochran The Foist Looey tenant. One of our Steward ' s Mates, C ox. StMic. he- came very .sea sick after leaving a port in which we had been for a few days. One of his bud- dies was kidding him Ijv saying, You is just a iandlui)ber. Dcy is no argument dere, replied C ' ox. . h s jisl linding out how much Ah hibs it. Toward the end of one of the basketball games between ' C-85 pilots and aircrewmen, the play became rougher than u.sual. Finally, the referee, an enlisted man, blew his whistle, fared one of the players and harked, Just try one more trick like that, and I ' m going to throw you right out of the game — Sir! Chief Boatswain ' s Mate J. B. Oliver is always commenting on the General Mess food and the CPO food. He ought to he able to discuss it intelligently; he cats at both places. Baker, ACM — How can I save this half of my fingernail? Kramer, CPhM — Pull it out and mount it. ' Bailey, CEM — Do you know that whiskey has killed more men than bullets? Gilles. Elec. - Quite true, hut we ' d rather be full of whiskey any day, wouldn ' t we? Callicoatte, PhMic — Wash your hands. Creekmore, Sic — Both of them? Callicoatte — No, just one of them; I want to see how you do it. Jury, ABM2C, picked up a handkerchief dropped by a Va e Lieutenant at North Island and said, You dropped this, I believe. Toots, Sir. Southern, CM3C, was running the obstacle course in a Navy Boot Camp, and. after run- ning as long as he could, he stumbled and fell down. The instructor immediately harked, Hey; get up; what ' s wrong with you? Southern groaned, Afraid I can ' t run any more. Sir. Instructor Well, dr n ' t waste lim - lying ihcrc. Start doing jjush ups. Barry, CV It was all very unusual. I quit my job, sold my car, moved my wif - and kids to a small apartment, woimd up my affairs and was given farewell parties. Then the Navy accepted me. First Lieutenant — How Itjng have you Ix-en working in this Compartment? Pehan. .Sic Ever since I saw you coming dow n the ladder. Sir. wu.y SAY US irle iH.vr Flanagan. PhM2c, went to call on a young lady in .Seattle last June, and, when he arrived at her apartment house, he found it had a self- operating elevator. He rang the hell, and the elevator stopp)ed at the ground lloor level and the door ofjened automatically. Flanagan, always polite, waited for the oc- cupant to leave the elevator until he suddenly realized that the occupant was his own reflec- tion in the mirror in the elexator. Flanagan swears this actually happened, and only on two beers! Pitrc. SK2C, and Peckham, Sic, are first and second loaders on 20 MM gun No. 35. During the attack on us of 2 1 February, oflf Iwo Jima. they loaded and re-loaded time and again; yet they insist they do not recall loading even once during the attack. Funny what a little thing like a Kamikaze attack will do to people. Rhoden, SCic, and McBee. Bkr3c, nearly broke their legs getting under the galley tables during the evening attack on us at Kerama Retto. The concussion of his five 20 MM guns gives the Battery Officer of Battery III, Lt. S. L. .Smith, a fit during anti-aircraft practice, but, during none of our attacks, has he even heard the firing of his guns, let alone felt the con- cussion on his ears. In the British Na y, instead of reveille, 192