Razorback (SS 394) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 QBSON FORT WALKER DAVIS AUER

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TOP-l. to R: Rousseau, Hershman BOTTQM-L to R: Masiello, Langford

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ICE CREAM Please pass the gedunk, is a phrase heard mOI'9 aboard the Razorback than in any ice cream bar Or corner drug store you might care to mention. ln fact, during our fourth and fifth patrols, so much storage space was taken up by ice cream mix that the Commis- sary Department seriously considered commandeering personal lockers in order to stow the rest of the chow. Jack Haegen generously offered to sleep with a box of the mix, which was not amiss seeing that he con- sumes enough for four people. Until the refit before our 4th patrol, ice cream mak- ing was a strenuous undertaking, and usually an oper- ation requiring the cooperation of all hands. A repre- sentative committee of the crew approached the COOK, and after much diplomacy, extracted his promise to make some gedunk. Shortly after, all available cans, gun boats, dixies, and what have you were to be found, full of water, in the ice box. Within a week, enough ice had been frozen, An auxiliaryman, an electrician, two cooks, and a group of well-wishers gathered about to hook up the ice cream mixer. Remember the clank and rattle that contraption used to make? The soundmen tore their already thinning hair every time it was lit off sub- merged. Now, with anxious faces showing a do or die spirit, the switch is thrown, and away goes the mixer. Four or five hours later, enough ice cream was made for all hands to receive a fair portion, and also a generous allotment for the coolies who have been standing by all this time. ls it any wonder that all this had to be planned and discussed for hours? lncidentally, Nasty Brown, our ship's cook extraordinary, is the only cook in the Navy credited with mixing the brine water with the ice cream, in order to flavor it. g 'The situation abruptly changed when the new fully automatic mixer was installed. Now the cooks lift the lid, dump in the powder, water, and flavorihq, put a call in with the Chief on Watch, light off the ma- chine, and crap out in the galley until called by the messenger. Now, by the mere flick of a button, we qet rich, thick, creamy gedunk. What's more, we get it every night for supper. A NEWS Any article on entertainments and morale boosters would be conspicuously lacking if space were not given to the publishing of our ship's paper. Until our fifth war patrol, no serious attempt was made to 'establish a news sheet. However, we do wish to credit the radiomen for the efforts they did make in occasionally typing vp a few sheets for distribution. During our fifth patrol, a conscientious-:effort was made, and the crew was furnished with as oood a paoer as ever competed with the New York Times. Due largely to the efforts of G. F. Gibson, ably assisted by the others of the radio gang, all hands were con- stantly in the know, Cartoons by Skee Borny, Bill Roesch, and Rocky Prescott provided the witty side. A feature section The Main Vent gave out scuttle- butt of the crew. Captain Brown contributed a column, titled Do You Know. Last but far from 'east was a section entitled Flares from the Fantail, edited by Louis Garcia, telling all the dirt from back aft.