Saipan (CVL 48) - Naval Cruise Book

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T an ifkifuigg . LL . I ..-'-'fl QM X 5 we-so f Uhmaffbfzx .Zeke fmefzz' The Operations Department is responsible for many of the fascinating details of ship and air- craft operations. Communications, electronics maintenance, combat information, photography and aerology are its principal functions. To further these ends, the department is divided into four divi- sions. These are O-I, O-R, E-R and O-S. The work of the O-I division focuses about the ship's combat information center, popularly known as the hole or the inferno. Despite the air conditioning and the entertaining frescoes on the surface summary plot, it manages to get hot even in winter. Collection, display, evaluation and dissemination of combat information is this division's responsibility. To this end are employed radarmen, sonarmen, aerographers, and photographers. Here the hot dope is given a processing treatment to make it more digestible to those who need to know. The O-R division normally is the home territory of the radiomen whodo a grand job, including publication of the daily underway press news. This division handles all radio traflic except that which is controlled by the CIC circuits. When the fact that liquid will not flow uphill is firmly established and everything goes wrong at once with the electronics gear, the E-R division main- tenance crew takes over. Keeping up the many items of electronics equipment is duck soup for the E-R division manned by our intelligensia, the electronics technicians. l The Signal Bridge is realm of the flag waving O-S division. Visual communications is the prime responsi- bility of the signal gang, which makes up in efficiency for what it lacks in size. There it is - a thumbnail sketch of the Operations Department. QQQQB 'QQ fe fy, ,. , ZX RMK, Q f ,IX 6. X 141 x - X Ly QW- V I ,il ,jf gltfgi

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C97-ff Qzkfzisvbfz I s V . Q .k , fer' +, , -..Q ,-ff' . 5 vw WW... - 'ir-'W .. W... First row, L. to R. M. T. McElwaine, G. E. Van Dine, H. N. Nadeau, R. W. Treat, ETC., LTJG. H. W. Shonk, CHRELE L. R. Pierce, L. E. Brown, R. K. Unsworth, R. P. Hockensmith. Second row, L. to R. B. E. Touranrl, J. A. Thompson, D. V. Gonglewski, D. A. Reed, J. Kelley, R. MCfMRSt81'S, Ji. Allen M. T. Stark, R. J. Goforth, L. Worley, D. E. Zibuda, J. A. Seeley.