Sheliak (AKA 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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NAVIGATION DEPARTMENT The Navigation Department is comprised of quartermasters, radarmen, radiomen, signalmen, yeomen, mail clerks, the combat photographer and the combat correspondent. In port, some, of course, are on liberty. The rest are busy getting ready for sea. Underway, quartermasters, the Officer of the Deck's right hand men, record each change in the weather,.correct charts, and clean and repair sextants and binoculars. The radarmen report ships, buoys and aircraft long before they can be seen by the lookouts. Radiomen, with a constant watch on the Fox', schedule, receive coded orders and reports no matter how far we may be at sea. The signal gang, when we are in a task force, spots the flag-hoists from the Commodore and relays his message to the OOD. Thus, the ship can send or receive messages and still maintain ,radio silence. Yeomen wade through piles of official correspondence, distribute and file it, take shorthand and tirelessly bang the type- writer. The mail clerks are probably the most indispensable men on the ship.,Everyone expects a letter Cwhether he has written one or notj. At Guadalcanal we received letters mailed six or seven days before in the states. At Okinawa we went without mail, but made up for it when we rated 72 pouches upon returning to Hawaii. V . N DIVISION, SECTION I e e Front Row: left to right:,Lt. Carmen A. Izzo, Marvin M. Rothstein, RM3c, Lawrence Cooper, SM2c, Paul Clanney, SM3c, Lee Edwards, RM3c, Walter V., Corteg, CREJ, Lt. fjgj Michael Horgan. Second Row: Lt. Douglas Whittier, William T. Day, QMIC, Glen Searfoss, SM3c, M. Kopper, Slc- QQMJ, James Keck, S'P2c, Robert Higgins, RDM1c, James Carl, RM1c, Gor- don Johnson, CY. Third Row: Ray Pruitt, YM1c, J. W. Brown, RDM2c, Jack Tinelli, Y5c, William Arnold, QM3c, Joseph Larday, Jr., SICCRMJ, Dale M. Schafer, RM2c, ,Frank Delano, RDM3c, Elmer E., Batten, RM3c. r ikvikiiri N DlvlsloN I Front Row: left to right: Morris Israel, SICKQMJ, Frederick Mientka, RDM1c, Mike O'Halloran, SICQRMJ, Edward Nee ham, SM2c, Clyde Green, SM3c. Second Row: Lt. fjgl John J. Long, Earl A. Loos, CRM, David Rowand, QM2c, Paul M. Kowalk, SM2c, Roger M. Lilledahl, SICCSMJ, Charles Terwilliger, RT2c, Donald Hudson, RDM2c, Joe tLeeJ Villari, SICKSMJ, Clayton, CQM, Lt. fjgj William E. Hoover. Third Row: Louie fSmokeyJ Haydel, RM3c, Stephen O. Hunter, RM1c, Malcolm fStinkyJ Shearer, RDM3c, William Jaffe, SM1c, Bennie Clere, SM3c, Marshall Lesser, RDM3c, David Roberts fShip's Artistl, Christian H. Grube fPhotographerJ.