US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Side Boy Yearbook (New York, NY)

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rdnance Department Head LIEUTENANT COMMANDER CECIL CLARK, USNR Route No. 1, Box 111146 Mill Valley, California From the Benjamin air rifle of childhood days, with its regular knife sight and copper coated BB's, to the sixteen inch bag gun with the built-up barrel, interrupted- screw breech-block and twin recoil cylinders of today, they hold no secrets to us. We have scrutinized cams on their eccentric maneuvers, followed the breech-block in its important cycle and have even rolled up our sleeves and rammed projeetiles into the yawning cavities of the Navy's mighty thundersticks. The work in ordnance was composed of both classroom work and MP work at the ordnance gun shed. The period included instruction on guns, mines, torpedoes, depth charges, and rockets, as well as instruction on surface and anti-aircraft fire, mechanics and operations of rangekeepers, computers, directors and stable elements. Thorough instruction by the ordnance staff clarified the operation of some of the Navy's most intricate equipment. The two dimensional sketches and diagrams of operating parts in the book were also simplified immensely by a little three dimensional observation in the gun sheds. The chance for the students to exhibit some of the old college try was also had as the delta X's and Y's of calculus days were encountered on the surface and AA problems. Here again some excellent instruction on the part of the ordnance staff' kept a greatrdeal of the miclshipmen out of the tall timber. For those who have the idea there is naught to fire control and gunnery but pointing the large barrel of a mammouth gun in the general direction and firing, talk to some of the midshipmen, who, in spite of the superhuman efforts by the instructors, found themselves on the well laden tree which bore throughout the term. 46

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LIEUT. MORTIMER BERKOWITZ, JR., USNR Inxtructor Afloat Westchester Country Cluh Rye, New York LIEUT. JOHN F. CARRUTI-IERS, USNR Inxtructor Afloat I0l5 Prospect Roulcvurtl Pasadena, Culilorniu LIEUT. CMDR. ARTHUR R. COOKE, USNR Instructor Afloat 7 Surrey Road Summit, New Jersey LIEUT. JOHN B. FLYNN, USNR Instructor Afloat Washington Park Washington, North Carolina LIEUT. fjul FRED C. HESS, USNR Instructor Afloat 749 North 76th Street East St. Louis, Illinois LIEUT. fjgl JAMES F. O'CONNELL, USNR Instructor Afloat 215 East 197th Street New York, New York LIEUT. GEORGE F. PAGE, USNR Instructor Afloat 321 Melrose Avenue Kenilworth, Illinois Cl-IIEF BOATSWAIN WILLIAM J. SCI-IMITZ, USN Instructor Afloat Colonial Village Newport, Rhode Island LIEUT. CMDR. ROBERT T. SINNOTT, USNR Instructor Afloat 7442 Bennett Avenue Chicago, Illinois 45

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LIEUT. PAUL W. FRAZIER, USNR Instructor 306 Brown Street, Higginsville, Missouri LIEUT. ROBERT E. GENSLER, USNR Iuxtructor 47 Cuniherlund Avenue Shipponsburg, Pennsylvania LIEUT. CMDR. WILLIAM H. KIDD, USNR Instructor 58 Bourne Street Aulvurndule, Massachusetts CHIEF GUNNER THOMAS F. LYNCH, USNfRetJ I nstrztctor 327 89th Street Brooklyn 9, New York LIEUT. CARL S. MEISTER, USNR Instructor 3315 Pleasant Avenue Union City, New Jersey LIEUT. HAROLD H. NEES, USNR Instructor Poland, Indiana LIEUT. FREDERICK L. ONKEN, JR., USNR Inxtructor 630 - 79th Street Brooklyn, New York LIEUT. HUGH C. OVERSTREET, USN Instructor 1519 Metropolitan Avenue Bronx, New York 47