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

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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!

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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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