Point Cruz (CVE 119) - Naval Cruise Book

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. . . But not all was work, for no matter what the ship was doing or where it was, there was some good deal going on aboard. This spare time ac- tivity came under the chaplain's department-it lone could call one otticer and three men a department. Actually it just went under the heading of administration-kind ot a catch-all tor any odd jobs. About halt the time Father Riley spent conducting the religious services and talking t-o the men either about their problems or just about themselves and the ship: the other halt he spent thinking up some new gimik-some- thing to keep the men out of their sacks during their oft hours. This didn't Q 4-

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J aw , .J First row llett to rnghtl Maletta Sandy Norton Jr Carper Russell Eugene Jones Dale Eugene Mai Eugene Weldon Molstad Robert Lee Second row Wright Peter Eugene Christie Walter Armstrong Christie Ronald Arthur Meyer Paul Theodore Black George ONeil JE Third row Sparkman Houston Ray Manclnho John McConkey Robert Leroy Lee Joseph Lloyd Looney Richard Joseph Anderson Donald F Fells George Peter clministration i . . . And in the end I 'Finally made I it to the ship's ottice. This was the best. I made second class, too, just in time to wear the new crow back to the states. And now, l've got my transter orders ott the ship . . . and right back on again with the statt ot Com- mander Carrier Division I7. But, that's the Navy . . . at least l'Il Q know every-one aboard.

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the ship . . . twelve hundred men away from the soap operas, advertisements, disc- jockeys, and music . . . but aboard, the recorded music from the states, or the live music from the ship's band . . . and on the after mess deck hillbilly music . . .