Wasatch (AGC 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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-..,,... .'........l.....!-..-,-1l,e.,..-m-n.- Y N ,-.......,,,1-9-:ere-:cds-:l-'riff-Fe.,- - .-.z. ., . .- - -'----f gn., ,A . , ..-.-me-C-.Q-ff..-e.urlrfsa :vQe:n-uct, . l..T.1 - .,..-A-,- - ff , ., . - . . From left to right first row Ahern, Bayles, Fisher, Parris, Sharar, Coleman, r Mickle, Sparrow, Gay, and Menietto. Second row Morneau, Lindheimer, Grubbs, Rivers, Macaulay, Lt.CjgD Roberson, Lt.CjgD Duda Cdivision officerl, Alvarado, Foust, Lamoureux, Friedman, and Saccente. Third row Leggs, Swanson, Cox, Manning, Blocker, Palmer, Perdue, Kessel, Dunn, Forte, Ascinone, and Scardillo. Fourth row Blum, Breen, Stout, Lutz, Perry, Simmons, Sherman, Rubino, Browne, doth, Bolak, Althoff, and Stack. Not in picture Brovm, Bollish, Lattimore, Daniels, and Smith. ' SECOND DIVISICDN The Second Division is the WOld reliablen that looks after the midships, davits, passageways, ladders, gangways, compartments, and boats. And it does it's best on the guns Where you find a tough job, you will find the Second Division, sandwiched in perhaps, but there nevertheless. , 1et's get down to cases and highlight the sidelights that make up this WOld reliablen of the deck. For instance, we have WSteakW Stack, one in a million and Second Division had to get him. iObserve VFrosty' Foust carefullyg he is typical of the Navy. Then there's WFat boyn Sherman, Captain of the Admiral's barge. WI wants get marriedn Forte is a family man first.class. G.L. Dunn is Chief of the side-cleaners. C.R. Palmer is the hardest 'working mah in the division. C. Manning is known as the mother of the boys. J.R. Breen is a sack-duty sailor. Fred Alvararado is the daddy of them all. W. Lindheimer sings the blues. F. Smith learns the barber trade in the compartment. F.J. Saccente keeps the boys' morale high. L.E. Mickle is our sick bay commando. we have M.A. Swanson, the yap yap kid, always yapping. W.A. Sparrow is the typical lonely heart sailor. N.E. Stout is the big shot of the hot spot lincineratorl. H.O. Althoff is stuck for three more years. M.F. CEager Beaverl Brown is Chief - almost. R.L. Lattimore is the lover from Baltimore. A.E. Kessel has the general stand-by for the boat crew. His ambition is to have a boat of his own.l'R. Fisher we call the sailor with the diaryp R.J. Roth is WThe big dealerU. W. Cox is a new-comer. E. Perdue, carpenter, always breaks the furniture. J.E. Gay has a sixty- mile-an-hour-horse. J. Ahern is certainly the blushing Connecticut Yankee. M. Browne is always on the ball. Rob. Blum claims to be the champion goat-roper of Kansas. D.E. Bollish's only ambition is to become a coxswain. Hy Friedman is the Wasatch Flatfoot. L.J Rubino says, 'I don't give a damnu. R.D. Leggs is the brig special, and Morneau is our sad sack. G.P. Rivers came just for the ride. Lt. Cassidy remarksn, mean - I mean I wanta go homon. Mr. J. Gascovitch is the pretender. Mr. Sommers comes strictly GI. Phil ffingersj Scardillo is the midnight rafder. Ray Lamoureux, survived a torpedoed ship. A. Ascione has been commended for saving the life of a mate. Pat O'brien is known as HchickenN'and Ncreamsn. Ed Bolak Roy Grubbs, E. Lutz, H. Menietto, Sam Parris, and J. Sharar are where you can't find them. ' P ' X . Illllllllilllll-Illlllilu:InII:nnnnn----------------ee '

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I Q 4. 3, E N M U H N M n n From left to right first row Thomas, Lawrence, Sliwa, Rineboid, Klasner, Lt-IJ85.El10t, Treadwaya Sutley, Mahah, Newport, and Collins. Second row Brinkley, Garvin, De Ordio, Zellner, Dunn, Massari, Simmons, Scott, Shuey, Rabern, Solomon, Lu pkin, Koi, LaRowe, and Lintner. Third row 5PeiFn0USe, Passori. Padgett, Sands, Egan, Carbone, Kimmell, Baccanti, Aiello, Allia, Kennell, and Mackin. Not in picture Ahern, Nonman, King, Cornfield, Aubrey, Borgerding, Kosarek, Abel, Baucher, Broomhall, Dalton, Bunner, Stefaniak, Byad, Baudreau, Garza, and Jones. I FIRST DIVISION BY v. G. ALLIA, s1C The following nam d men from the First Division assigned to the Wasatch reported at Newport, R. I.3 Klasner, Treadway, E. Dunn, Kosarek, J. Ahern, Allis, Garvin, Zellner, Broomhall, Egan, Massari, Aiello, Lawrence, Sands, Shellhouse, Scott, Sutley, Koi, King, Brinkley, Litner, Kennell, Baccanti, Shuey, LaRowe, Stefaniak, Turner, and Lumpkin. ' , At Norfolk, Va. we received De Ordio and Norman from Bainbridge, Md., Sliwa, Rhinebold, Collins, Solomon, Thomas, and Newport from Florida. At New Guinea Carbone and Mackin came aboard. At Leyte Aubrey, Abel, Beaudreau, Barden, Boucher, Borgarding, Dalton, Jones, Bunner, and Cornfield joined us. g A - The men worked with the skill and efficiency of a well trained unit. As a five inch crew they were second to none and showed their ability, when timed by our past Executive Officer, W. B. Tucker, by putting out twenty rounds in one minute. The twenty millimeter crews also did their share in keeping the enemy planes at bay. Coxswains Zellner, Sliwa, Rhinebold, and Dunn were instrumental in transporting troops ashore. Zellner handled the VP in which General MacArthur went ashore at Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. On the humorous side, E. V. Dunn as Wmomn, J. J. Ahern as njuniorn, Jim Allis as npopn, and Bucky Evans as Nunclen aided greatly in making things easier for this ordeal. URadarN Sliwa, WMonkeyN Sands, and Uaffablen Roc Carbone produced laughs at intervals as did also HBoatsH Baccanti, who took a lot of kidding about his aspiration to become a Boatswain's Mate. ' Their general pass-time is playing pinnochle Cnlooking at a fewn, they call itl, checkers, reading comics, and movie magazines. fThe favorite pin-up girl is a toss-up between Joan Leslie and Esther Williams... they like the buxom type, apparently. The boys thank Hollywood stars Frances Langford, Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, and the members of the road shows NThis is the Armyn and Oklahoman for furnishing the much needed entertainment to make them forget ftemporarilyj the hardships of war. The First Division is proud of the part they played in making the Wasatch a fighting ship and an accommodating one.

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v v M Aqd stories of their heroic deeds to evade this most unenjoyable work of deck divisions w in M VV ' i 1 5 i 1 2 L r A E L E From left to right first row Head, Bond, Beery, Owenby, Rankin, Whelan, Workman,- Peters, Galli, J.W. Odom, and Ross. Second row Anderson, Kucik, Ladd, Thompson, 3 Lt.Cjgl Stapelton, Lt. Wallace, Duchemin, Robertson, Slootsky, Dhein, and Haynes. 1 Third row Nelson, Miskewicz, Sadowsky, Reese, Roberts, Dent, Mendillo, Angurio, g B.R. Morgan, Austin, Riley, Englehart, and Kline. Fourth row Sterner, Scott, North, W.R. Odom, Noland, Stillwagon, J.P. Morgan, Aikins, Alonzo, Reis, Shook, and Raposa. Not in picture Atkinson, Gardner, Kalozswski, Johnson, Nadow, Nail, and Smith. THIFZD DIVISIGN l BYG L RILEY S1C8: E E NADow JR s1c up N s ' This division plays an important part in the functioning of the U.S.S. WASATCH ' It is composed of L9 men. As a group we feel we are respected by all the crew as W QQ tops in seamanship, for our many daily duties on the super-structure deck of receiv ing and transporting all types of stores and provisions, tending two boat davits and gl 'Mb booms, and keeping the deck ship-shape in regards to paint have been performed earn w estly and well V my The spirit of good-fellowship that exists in this group is an enviable one. An ,f example of this is the recollection of Roland J. Smith who was one of us from pre mb commissioning to Hollandia, where he was unfortunately injured. Our senior medical Wh officer, Lt.Comdr. Mitchell, performed what was considered a miracle in bringing mb our Roland thru with flying colors. This successful operation was achieved with the MW aid of our boys who so willingly volunteered as blood donors. Last we heard of our lm. exrshipmate was of his being in the states. All the boys wish him the best LM We proudly boast of our general quarters positions being mounts l3 and lL, the dw twin LO mm type that have proven their effectiveness in the war of the Pacific d lm the 92 five inch gun located on the fantail. Our five inch gun captain was 'On the HW balln Duchemin, our ace powder passer was WSun tann Riley, and our shell-man was W Robert M. Rankin, who was awarded the purple heart for wounds received as a result L , of enemy action in the Leyte campaign on 25 October, 19th 'md We are also proud of our sight setter Galli who was commended for creditable bw' performance of duty in action with enemy air-craft on the 6 November, l9h3, while uP servin aboard the U.S.S. TILLMAN ' my Iicidentally, these boys all do their part. Those chipping hammers and paint brushes sway in perfect cadence. Not once have we heard them tell fabulous sea i ' 5 lg c