Napa (APA 157) - Naval Cruise Book

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'mrs avr is APRIL 1945-1245 Pearl Harbor again. Moored at berth B-17. 1335 Commenced debarking prisoners of war. 14100 Completed debarking prisoners of war. 1425 Com- menced debarking prisoner of war casualties. 1500 Com- pleted debarking prisoner of war casualties. 46Woe is me. States out. This is official. 1545 Ambulatory patients and Marine guard detach- ment transferred from ship. 1730 Commenced loading provisions in No. 2 hold. 18415 Completed loading p1'o- visions. APRIL 1945-1145 Cap- tain F. Kent Loomis, USN, reported aboard for duty. Radarmen to Fleet Service School for 3 weeks, Officers to Signal Officers' School, Gun Crews to Waianae AATC. 5 jo ' , 6 V X all Ufficel-A FROM Wardroom to Quarterdeck to Wardroom to the sack to muster to the sack to work to Sick Bay, the unchanging course of life follows its laborious grind. In the true spirit of cooperation, the Shipis Management fights with the Departments and the Departments with the Divisions and out of the tur- moil Lieutenants make Ensign and Ensigns rise to JG. Itis who and what you can do, and for how long that counts. If itfs a Commander-it's an insult, if it's an Ensign-it's a mistake! g From pillar to post or from more barsto less,the work of the day drops in somebody's lap. So, MChip paint, Heaven save me,'7 and back to my rack to complete the twelve hours muster broke up. Itfs a solace and joy to know what work is and to master that function with all possible ease. Three hours a day and ten out for lunch and then Club 0110 is open for business. Our club is like that in the stories you read, where brains are relaxed and tensions eased. Fours, Queens, One-Eyed Jacks and a King with an axe will do more for tinsel than that brass cleaner. You can win, if you're lucky and thereis plenty of spirit even if the color is missing and the flavor is rough. The Mess bill arrives and so aptly termed, uIt's robbery 179 uIt's brutal and more than that, it's a lie ll, The laundry comes back with collarless shirts and the buttons are missing and the pants seams are split. The decks are all rusting, weire too sleepy to see and the liberty s canceled and thereis no stock for the trip Oh' the misery we carry and nobody knows, all steaks and no bacon, all sack and no zest. In volleyball, tennis, softball and craps we lose all our skivvies and tarnish our culis. We, proud through it all for dammit, weive impressions to make and a code to keep up. It's a hare. life that calls us, WI'he Thus we stand first on the list, first at the gang- way and first in the eyes of the advertisements of the nation Who ever saw a Lux, Ponds or an Inter- national Sterling ad without a ubarw? t Q' 1 1 . I X? ! , l Q 9 J ' Call of the Sea.

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Ufficel-A FIRST ROW, left to right: Lt. fjgl D. D. Watkins, Lt. Joseph Fennerty, Lt. H. C. Carpenter, Lt. Comdr. J. O. Bracken, Commander, R. W. Harris, Captain F. Kent Loomis, USN, Lt. Comdr. R. VC. Lynch, Lt. Comdr. E. duPont, Jr., Lt. Comdr. L. R. Schroeder, Lt. J. C. Senter, lst Lt. C. N. Jackson, USMCR, Lt. M. W. Eckel. SECOND ROW, left to right: Ensign G. A. Bush, Ensign J. T. Ronian, Ensign D. F. Cebhardt, Ensign B. W. Read, Lt. M. Ashby, Lt. ijgl B. B. Wiese, Lt. fjgl D. A. Liercke, Lt. E. R. Zaworski, Lt. W. C. McCutcheon, Lt. A. E. Danzero, Lt. fjgl G. B. Higgins, Ch. Carp. W. T. Morris, USN, Ensign W. D. Taylor. THIRD ROW, left to right: Ensign D. T. Ray, Jr., Ch. Pharm. C. L. DuBose, USN, Lt. Qjgl W. T. Howard, C.P.C. E. Ballard, USN, Ensign H. R. Damon, Ensign E. F. Scott, Lt. M. Glazer, A.P.C. E. O'Neal, USN, Ensign H. J. Strand, Lt. fjgl P. Smoot, Ensign C. F. Piper, Ch. Mach. P. J. Cornmesser, USN, Ensign E. S. McDaniel. Not in picture: Lt. M. P. Corriveau, Lt. R. P. Gill, Lt. fjgl M. Baldwin, USN, Lt. fjgl W. Lewis, Lt. Cjgl W. E. Morris, USN, Lt. fjgl L. Sigunick, Lt. fjgl J. J. Willces, USN, Lt. fjgl T. E. Winchester, Ensign J. J. Burke, Ensign J. H. Hopkins, Ensign J. E. Shifller, Ensign H. F. Soule, Ensign C. F. Tobin, Bos'n S. Chicka. 67