Philippine Sea (CVS 47) - Naval Cruise Book

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Row 2 From the looks on their faces doorman The Sk1VV16 Wavers of the Ph1l Sea stand alert v1sual Watches on the Slgnal Br1dge for twenty four hours of every day, 1nc1ud1ng hol1day routrne Th1S gang acts as the sh1p s eyes, ears and mouth Cnorseless Varretyl and the slgnal men are able to handle W1th great dextenty all types of v1sual com munrcatlons except, perhaps, smo ke slgnals In port, the S1gnal Br1dge always keeps the Offlcer of the Deck mformed of both usual actlv 1t16S golng on 1n the Water around the Shlp partlcularly the approach of Admlrals barges, and also a Weather eye on SOPA 1n order to synchronlze events such colors Row l W F Wlllloms F J Grlmord J A Welton LTJG J M Dovls JE Glover C E Keller W S Word G B Dolley M R Morowey W K Bell C P McMullen J D Germg G A Peters A J McCowen D R Emerson R E Sobln B G Herring W E Hoyt G W Crumb J C Adamson legs WW X xr

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Messages coming in...messages going out...the fellow who ran that errand for Garcia had noth- ing on these fellows...and every time we hit port the postal clerks spent two or three straight days trying to sort-out and deliver all the mail that had come aboard... they kept hoping that the next mail call would bring them some extra help in the post oyiice and sure enough, when they opened a bag one day p

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Row 7 D G Morgan F A Akers LT W L Parks, R J Roorfy, J R Porrloff, L H Rofcllff. Row 2: E D Bizef, .I R Sweet, P R Moore, M C Solomon, R E Young, J E Bullard. QDA dwimlon Aerology is the Navy term for 'meteorology, which is the technical term for the study of the Weather, the most influential ally or merciless foe of any military organization. We in Aerology gather all possible Weather infor- mation and V study itg record it for future reference. Then We apply it in accurate analysis and forecasting, a job which entails tak- ing upper-air balloon soundings Cthose funny things We send up from the flight deck now and thenb, plotting and analyzing Weather maps and maintaining accurate Weather logs of local conditions. NOTICE: 0-A Division is not responsible for picnics that are rained out or liberty that is muddy. Any how, we could have told you so. jp. Www These damn forecasts keep interrupting our game. 9 .ll