Valley Forge (CV 45) - Naval Cruise Book

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I ,JW 2 CIC fCombat Information Centerj, above, is run by LCDR MOFFETT and is the nerve center of the ship, maintaining all contacts between the ship and its planes in the air. Anytime of the day or night you will find them in their dark air- conditioned room, lit only by multi-colored radar scopes, tracking strange little bugs across even stranger looking scopes. Fast bugs are planes, slow ones ships! TWZQTWW WW WWX AIO QAir Intelligence Ofhcej, below, is headed by LCDR LARSON. They handle the highly secret information of what targets should be hit by our planes and where. These are the people the pilots answer to on the successes or failures of returning strikes and what is best to hit next. This office you do not enter unless you have important business and a sign on the door so informs you!

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Communications, headed by LCDR SMITH, left, gives the VALLEY FORGE its all imporant link with the rest of the world. They guard all vital frequencies, getting news direct from the states for the VALLEY FORGE PRESS, picking up official messages from ComNavFE, ComAirPac and Com- SEVENTI-IFlt, and, occasionally, personal messages notifying worried husbands, that are all at sea, that their stay-at-home wives have pre- sented them with bouncing babies. They are also responsible for up- keep of all radio circuits aboard ship. SF It ofliiiims GC J T 4' 4-L- A 1 moo ws Youa mast Dew-- - mo ue mu mme mistakes .I