Philippine Sea (CVS 47) - Naval Cruise Book

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All the information gathered by the various divisions of the Operations Department somehow finds its way to Ai I t ll' r n e igence, where it is carefully analyzed and digested into useful items such as : the Phil Sea's barber shop clips 230 heads daily... there are 11,643 electric lights aboard and while this is being done the Operations Office does what every other oyfice d . oes ton after ton of paper-work... it was about this time that we played a new game called JFeLoHermisHnf1nng at seen... -...

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X: Ss 3 X-. X FX X s S ss. - JF 5 S Sww 'Op X KV X 5 . SS' w 3 it I ,ul 1. It's really quite simple...it's all done with mirrors. QD? diualaion, Before the ship and it's embarked squadrons can attack an enemy, much information must be gathered, doing this gathering, evaluating and disseminating are the men of Air Intelligence. They work closely with the pilots about to fly out on a mission, briefing them on what to expect from and of the enemyg upon the return of the planes Air Intelligence H debriefs the pilots, to learn what they did and saw. In conjunction with AIO, the Photographic Laboratory covers simulated and actual battles, historical or newsworthy events, Naval Intel- ligence, public information, aircraft launches and recoveries and, in their spare time, takes the pictures that you see in this book. O-P Divi- sion also supplies the Yeoman that keep up the 0Derations Department records and Who usually must be Daged on the MC to open the office. -.fa-wig, Row l: R L Esp, R L Wickes, LCDR G Johnson, R F Tellas, C E Schreiber, J G Tatum. Row 2: D E Davis, B D West, W K Rowland, G O Gillespie, C S Caudill, T R Wheaton, C H Williams, D E WQIIQCQ J C McDonald, G L Becker, D J Crooks, O V Williams, J S McKiver. Will

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It all begins one morning when a large tanker maneuvers alongside all we have to do is make sure we're both going at exactly the same speed and heading in exactly the same direcn tion, just a few minor problems for the men in the pilot-house and the engine-rooms...to make it even more complicated, a destroyer pulls along- side the tanker too...hoses are pulled across the gap between ships, con- nected, and the transfer of fuel oil and gasoline has begun our ship's tanks hold 2,000,000 gallons of fuel oil and it takes a little time to H fill 'er up ... later that same day a cargo vessel comes alongside all hands turn to and we go through the same procedure huge cargo nets send supplies over by the ton...fit must all be stored in the hold quickly...and so it goes until the job is finished.