Point Cruz (CVE 119) - Naval Cruise Book

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Front row Cleft to righti: Thompson, D. C., Helsel, W. E., Magee, W. W., Smith, F. G., Davis, J. E., Eckhardt, J. L., Guzewich, R. G., Radke, W. L., Dianni, J. J. Second row: Hopkins, D. E., Nowak, E. F., Patterson, R. C. l3elair,LD. L., Bellamy, R. K., Hoffman, D. C., Ames, R, K., Zielenski, J. E., Urbanc, J. C., Portteus, J. N., Bo- ine, .P. oa division . . weather charts and balloons, sometimes they break sometimes they get away without instruments . . typhoon Lola and the track on the myriad maps . . symbols . . . tomorrow's flying conditions . gunnery practice tomorrow, and without charts the predict is rain.

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operatrons round was the sound of morse code and back In a lIttle closet the watch offlcer smoked a crgarette whIle he encrypted a message to be sent out There were so many spaces that seemed busy the aerographers out on the forward elevator fIllIng up bal loons to carry up Instruments to check the weather or back In aerology they would be drawrng long lmes across the charts the postal clerks down In the post offIce sorting out the latest mall brought over by helrcop ter or the slgnal brIdge The slgnal brldge was nIce the perennlal coffee pot and fresh aIr The slgnalmen were up there too but they were a qulet sort Hour after hour theyd stand up there and talk to them selves In semaphore n between runnrnq up flag slgnals sent up from the brIdge below Sooner or later l d grve up the one way con versatIon and go back to the offrce and the Inevrtable operatron plans to mrmeograph would stIll be waItIng X w vt if V ' Qsikifilsf - . . ' 3 X . K ,E . flaw 5 . . wr I My . . - . . . . . , . - I . I Q . . . ! , . .

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oi division combat intelligence . . tv watchers in port and at sea the ppi scope . plotting boards and dead reckoners . . . contact bearing 260 degrees, 24000 yards . . . cpa . . . course and speed . . . navigation in fog when no watch can see, but the green scope tells the way. Back row lleft to rightl: Lizette, W. E., Gibbs, J. D., Logan, E. A., Du nn, J. J., Newcomb, H. J., Knight, C. W., Sellers, D. R., Bradstreet, W. R. Brien, P. O., Sorenson, H, L, Hostetter, A B., Miller, P. l.., Jacobs, H. J. Second row: McGahee, B. F., Homola, J. G., Hull, G. E., Olson, W. E. Moffitt, R. H., Bigson, C. T., Zaccaro, S. A. Front row: Sinclair, V. R. Jr., Bonner, C. H., Loesch, R. H., Freeby, W. J., McBride, P. R., Simmons D., Lane, D. K., Van Dore, R. W.