Woodrow Wilson High School - Campanile Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Pitts, 'lov '56, Sgt. Army Signal Corps Sli illt-nhei'ger, Tom '36, Lt. Q, M., Foreign Serviic Harris. Willai'd '56, Army Postal Dept, Died in N. Y. W:ii'l1ter, Ralph '36, Navy 4 years, 4 major hattles liirlilvlli-. Stewart Bus '57, I.t. Air Corps, Clark Gahlc's Roommate, liingland Cravath, john '37, lx. Air Corps 'k'k'k'ki'irir'kt'kir'kt'kir'k'A k1k'k'k'k'A'i k'ki k'ki'i'1 Guard. Boys think of P-40's, B-l7's, homhsights, tanks, guns, armament, uniforms, wings, commis- sions, ships, promotions. Boys think of Guadalcanal, heat, jungles. Boys think of Kiska, ice, cold, fog. Hoys think of Australia, China, India, England. Boys thing of Africa, sand, Nazis, blistering heat. Boys, now undergraduates, drill . . . drill . . . drill . . .study military organization, radio and code, naviga- tion, meteorology, trigonometry. Boys in Aviation are working in metal, shaping, overhauling, weld- ing. Boys learning. . . hoys learning. . . hoys ahsorhing more math . . . advanced math, physics. Pro- tractors, slide rules, Compasses in eager use. Each hoy a cog in the great working order, doing his part to hring ahout a quick victory. Drilling . . . marching . . . learning. . . studying . . . thinking . . . listen- ing . . . moving forward. joe, Bill, Jim sign up today. Class of 743 are all gone to war! I-'o-rry pllul Im-ull-s plum- by 1-hurling stars. Navigation inns lnrl-nllllc-ss I9

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Loder, Bruce '34, 1st Lt. B 17, Missing Solomons Lochridge, Jack '34, Naval Lt., Los Alamitos Long, Stanton '34, Lt. Artillery, Pearl Harbor Lester, Jimmy '34, Sgt. Finance, Chanute Field, Ill. McCrate, Art '34, Lt. Coast Guard Mclntyre, William '34, Lt. Marines tittttiiirtitittt'k'k'k'k1k'k'k'k'Ir'k'k'A A k'k 'A' BOYS . . . BOYS . . . 18 year old boys . . . Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores. Draft calls 21 year olds . . . boys go to war. Draft lowered to 18 year olds . . . President calls 18 year olds. Enlistments closed . . . enlistrnents open again . . . 17 year olds for Army Air Corps . . . 17 year olds for Navy Air Corps . . . 17 year olds for Marine Corps. Flying Fortresses drone overhead . . . drone . . . drone . . . drone. Khaki clad, olive green, navy blue . . . all come back to Wilson. Sixty-nine 18 year olds leave Draft Board 271 on Wilson campus January 11 . . . Wilson gives them her blessing . . . God speed ahead . . . they give Wilson their blessings . . . every day boys come back. Undercurrent of tension rocks Wilson . . . under- graduates plan their part in the Great War Machine. Dick signs up in the Air Corps, then Loren, then Jugi, then Stewart. Gus joins up with Navy, so do Don and Lee . . . Steve and Gene go to the Cosat Senior boy vhange vollege training and a vivilian job for uniform I8

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Look out, Japs, the shop men are armed f PRE-INDUCTION CLASSES-Two periods daily for the IZA Seniors were given to pre-induction courses necessary for preparation of war. College prep training which had been life long ambitions was suddenly scrapped, delayed, till post war times. Since military authorities placed great empha- sis on physical condition, every senior boy spent two hours daily in physical conditioning and mili- tary training. Twelve weeks were spent in formal military drill and six weeks at the lagoon in swim- ming including night encounter if forced to abandon ship in battle. Pre-induction classes include short courses in hygiene, military organization, nutrition, first aid, occupational information, and an elective nine week course chosen from radio and code, blue print reading, nurses' aid, navigation, meteorology, wartime office training, review math, occupational crafts, and auto mechanics. QFACULTY, reading from left to right-Industrial Arts--Thomas, Mori-ison, Blanton, Johnston, Make peace. Library-James, Iredell. Math--Bakken, Putnam, Buck, Meeks, Stewart. Science-Stewart, Dun Denman, Shallenberger, Lowry, March, Voisard. UI!