Point Cruz (CVE 119) - Naval Cruise Book

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LT. D. W. Dike, MC Dental Officer ,MPMWK Z aww

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d division . . . spotless white. the lights over the dental chair . . . the sound of the x-ray . . . a filling with a bit of novocaine to help . teeth, teeth . . . extracted sometimes . . . pliers and drills . . . and the soft voice of the dentist persuading-begging-that it wasn't too bad . . . and the gurgle of the water in the dental stand. l lj: 1 il 'x by li 1 53 I 1 I. 14

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,....,..,.m,,. . - A.. ,.- , E sag 'X ff 'f 124 li . . . l used to go up on the flight deck sometimes and watch the airdales push their planes around. They had quite a system worked out. The problem was obvious: the hangar deck wasn't big enough for all the planes. So when the planes in the air were to be landed,ithe ones on the flight deck were pushd all the way forward and when they were catapulting the planes off, all the extra planes were aft be- ing warmed up. Actually it was a lot of fun chiding the flyboys. When the planes weren't flying, the plane pushers spent most of their time down in their compartment racked out. Still l secretly didn't envy them much when we were doing day and night flying. Down in my rack l'd hear the thump of a landing plane and the exhaust of air from the arresting gear machines, feel half sorry for them, and turn over and go back to sleep again. l guess the night landings weren't much fun for anyone: the pilots, the crews, or the .plane handlers. A couple of times I sneaked up on the back of the bridge to watch the night landings. At the after end