Oriskany (CV 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Dental Department HE Dental Clinic on the Oriskany proved so elhcient during the Med cruise that CDR Walter B. Lett, DC, USN, Dental Officer, predicted it might serve as model for clinics aboard similar carriers in the future. A large compartment aft was divided into three operating rooms, each equipped with a reclining chair, the most modern devices and X-ray facilities. A clerical office also fitted into the layout. CDR Lett, LT Gage Colby, DC, and LTJG Robert Morstad, DC, with their assistants, handled about two hundred patients each month. That meant between 700 and 900 sittings. Records of the depart- ment showed the staff filled more than 5,000 cavities in the first six months of 1951. The two Assistant Dental Officers had received training as V-12 students. LT Colby earned his B.A. and D.D.S. from the Univer- sity of Minnesota by 1911-6. LTJG Morstad received his D.D.S. from the same school in 1949. Dr. Lett graduated from the School of Dentistry, Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, with the Class of '33, RIGHT: D. G. Rickert, DN, P. D. Marquis, DN7 H. D. Du Bois, DT2p G. Colby, LT: W. B. Left, CDR, R. J. Morsiad, LTJG. CDR W. B. I.ETT Dental Officer WOHC Charles E. McKay handled clerical administration of the Division until August 25, when he was transferred to duty with the Marine Corps. Enlisted assistants were DuBois, who took technician training at Bethesda, Md., Marquis and Rickert, who attended Dental Technician School at Great Lakes, and Bongiorno, who studied at Great Lakes during the summer. 5 s s f fri . ..... QS

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CDR C. S. OSBORNE, JR. Supply Officer ANY Oriskany sailors met up with the Supply Department only when getting paid, or wanting to draw a typewriter eraser, buy a gedunk, or pick up semi-monthly quotas of cig- arettes. A few men carried supplies aboard when the ship re- plenished. Full work of the Department was known to only one man, CDR Osborne. On the cruise, he dug up high quality gloves, perfumes, Bikini suits, binoculars, cameras, cameos, watches, leather goods, and pipes for sale in ship's stores. Assisted by LCDR Bickart, he supervised both general and avia- tion supplies, and receipt and disbursing of money for goods and salaries. LT Skirvin, as Stores Ollicer, made out loading schedules for stores required on the Mediterranean cruise. If anyone should be thanked for the top-notch chow during the summer, he was the man. An expert in finance and statistics, he made out at Monte Carlo. On one visit to the roulette tables, he calculated chances with absolute precision, won a pocket full of thousand-franc notes, and walked out the cynosure of all eyes. CHPCLK Cooper handled food purchases for general mess, get- ting steak and chicken, fresh vegetables and fruit, unmatched on other ships in the Med. He was head of S-2 Division, which in- cluded cooks, bakers, and butchers. Chiefs Nagy, Bradly, and Prescott worked in S-2. Aviation stores was managed by LT Marshall, relieved late in the cruise by LT Capko Chief McCoy supervised the flow of these .l LCDR R. W. BICKART Asst. Supply Officer stores. The efficiency of his staff helped set various squadron rec- ords during operations. Chief Van Brooklin headed S-3. This included the cobbler shop under Overcashg the laundry under Platt, Haynie, and Traversg the barber shop under Taylor, and the officers' tonsorial parlor under Graham. The tailor shop sewed on hundreds of new rating badges and the cobbler shop nailed 3,600 soles on shoes during the cruise. In one week, the crew's barber shop turned out 1,578 haircuts before an inspection. CHPCLK Hiatt, ship's stores and C8155 Officer, dealt with many foreign salesmen to obtain gift and souvenir items for ship's stores. CHPCLK Pyron, assistant stores and GSK group ollicer, had charge of loading and storing supplies. Monthly sales in ship's stores and soda fountains averaged about 340,000 ln August 46,190 cups of ice cream, 29,938 glasses Of coke and root beer, and 10,000 hot-dogs were sold. The first order of French perfume, 36,000 worth, went in two hours. AS pay-master, LTJG Dwyer managed to keep all hands supplied with money, whether dollars, francs, drachmas, liras, or kuruS, in time for liberty. It was calculated that at certain times and in certain ports the Oriskany crew poured as much money into local economies as the Marshall Plan. S-4 Division, headed by LTJG Dwyer, prepared meals f0f the r room and had charge of staterooms in oflicers country C i Neely Huff and Burroughs led the division Wa d L . , , hiefs . 9 , . . . 0 9 1 2 '-fi'