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T-aining Base

VOL 4-NO 17 FORT PIERCE FLORIDA 27 APRIL middot1945

REAR ADM ROCKWELL PAYS FAREWELL VISIT Flotilla 73 Graduation

Exercises Saturday Graduation exercises for Flotilla

73 present senior flotilla in the attack boat training program here and presentation of awards will be Saturday at 1000 on the parade grounds west of Gulbranson Hall with Capt C Gulbranson USN Base CO heading an inspection and reviewing party of Base offishycials

In addition to the formal inspecshytion and dress parade Capt Gulshybranson will present cash awards to three top small boat crews of the flotilla and will present medals and awards to 16 enlisted men of other units on the Base who earned them in action overseas

The $25 first boat crew prize will go to Eugene E Butler Warshyren J Pattison Ray E Grass all Slc and William E Lewis Flc

$15 second money will be awardshyed to Lewis L Clover Slc William P Bocaccio Elmer L Wheeland both S2c and Eliseo B Valenzuela F2c

The third prize of $10 will go to Rex A Harbaugh Harland E Jefshyfers William A Bland all Slc and Alden C Wardell Flc

Top award for service overseas will be the Bronze Star medal to be presented to Hobart M Davis Jr Slc of Flotilla 77 Davis also will receive the Purple Heart award

Fourteen Presidential Unit Citashytions will be presented most of them given to men of the NCDU team on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion on June 6 1944 Recipients will be George L Logan CBM Abben C Maquire MMlc Clarence L Seibert GMlc Milton W Bard BMlc James L Barker SFlc Charles E Bledsoe MMlc James J Dwyer BMlc Lester H Baumann M2c Jack A Caldwell GM2c Jack W Choffin GM2c Edward W Cicerone Smiddotlc Richard H Coombs Slc all of NCDU Matthew D Conti Slc of Transportation and Dean J Red-eye Slc of Camp Four

Leading Flotilla 73 thlough their training hem has been Lt Vernon W Fairman a veteran of service in the Naval Reserve since he was 17 This Ohio State University graduate attained the rate of QMlc after eight years of sumshy

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1 Base Band and Soloist Give Concert Under

Stars Next Thursday Next attraction at the Welshy

fare and Recreation Music Unshyder the Stars Theatre at Jayshycee Field will be a concert next Thursday night by the Base band and featured soloist Lt Comdr B M Klivans w and R OinC said today The public is invited

Featured soloist will be John Hale well-known baritone and former Broadway musical comeshydy figure now giving his own program over Station WIOD Miami and appearing at the Clover Club there He will give semi-popular and classical seshylections The band will play unshyder direction of L J Breaux CMus USN

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Next USO-Camp Show Coming Here May 11

The USO-Camp Show Speak Up is coming to Gulbranson Hall for two performances on Friday night May 11 shows beginning at 1900 and 2100 The stage presentashytion will feature the Three Osmond

REAR ADMIRAL ROCKWELL

NAVAL ACADEMY CANDIDATES SOUGHT

Preliminary written examinashytions of candidates for the 1 Octoshyher class at the Navia Academy Preparatory Schoomiddotl Bainbridge Md will be held throughout the

Sisters lovely harmony singers Navy on 2 July 1945 according to the Six Cover Girls dancers the a BuPers circular letter D~l Martins acrobatic act Ralph I All enlisted men interest~d in Fielder and Harriet comedy and Itaking the examinations must orig-song the Miusical J ohnstons xylo- inate correspondence to the Comshyphonists Paul Nolan and Co jug- mantling Officer by 1 May gling act and Arlington Laity pishyanist and musical conductor

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Navymiddot Vesper Service ChurchAt Method ISi

Three ATE musicians will preshysent organ numbers Sunday eveshyning at 2000 at a Navy Vesper Service to be held at the First Methodist Church Fort Pierce They are C F Clow Sp(W)lc S M Robertson Sp(W)2c and W A Setterstrom Slc all atshytached to the chaplains offices Officiating at the Vesper Service will be Chaplains K D Perkins E C Helmich and A J Schutz All hands are welcome especially the families of service personnel

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toupe good running condition $250 Ens S S Ringo Flotilla 72 Whispering Pines Camp

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The law authorizes the appointshyment to the Naval Academy at Anshynapolis Md of 100 men each year from the Navy and Marine Corps and 100 from the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve

To be eligible for the 2 July exams men must be physically qualified U S citizens of officer caliber on active duty on or before 15 April 1945 and with birth dates on or later than 1 April 1925 They must have completed two years of high school or its equivalent inshycluding two half-year courses of algebra and one-half year of geomshyetry

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Navy Way Attracts Crowd An exceptionally large crowd

attended the Tenth St USO movie called Navy Way At the Sunday night movie Charles Mishyrone S2c was the lucky winner of the free call home

Thanks Base Personnel For Year Of Fine Work On his fifth official inspection

visit since he assumed command of the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Training Command in April 1944 Rear Admiral F W Rockwell USN visited the USNATB Tuesshyday and Wednesday

Veteran of several key assignshyments in World War II and wearshyer of high awards for distinguished and outstanding service during a long career in the Navy the visit here was to be Rear Admiral Rockwells final o~e before his transfer to a new command

Welcomed at Base headquarters during the early afternoon by an honor guard and the station band Admiral Rockwell inspected a pass-in-review of LCM flotilla pershysonnel and visited various Base

facilities Met at the Fort Pierce Airport

on his arrival by Capt c Gulbranshyson USN Base Commanding Ofshyficer Admiral Rockwell was Capshytain Gulbransons luncheon guest at his home before beginning his visit to the Base itself

Accompanying him here were Capt W H Hartt Jr Chief of Staff Capt D C Varian Comshymand Training Officer Capt M J Gillan Jr Comdr W B Wideshyman and Lt R F Alsfelder flag

lieutenant Lt S H Kelsey former aide to the Base CO here and Lt Horgan

In departing Wednesday mornshying after an overnight stay as guest of Capt Gulbranson Admirshyal Rockwell expressed appreciation to all officers and men for a splenshydid job well done at this Base during the period covering slightly more than a year that he has headed the Atlantic Fleets amphishybious training program

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NCDU OinC Has Heir Lt and Mirs W F Flynn are

the parents of a son William Franshycis Jr born to them at the Navy Hospital Tuesday morning The baby weighing six pounds eight ounces is their first Black stogies dispensed by the proud father NCDU OinC set some kind of a Base record for supremacy in their field

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THE MOCK-UP United States Naval Aniphibious Training Base Fort Pierce Fla

VOL 4-No 17- 27 APRIL 1945

COMMANDING OFFICER - - - CAPT C GULBRANSON U Nwy EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMDR PERRY M FENTON USNR EDITOR - bull - - - - LT C HERSCHEL SCHOOLEY USNR NEWS EDITOR - ENS ROBERT L EBERT PHOTO EDITOR LT (JG) E J FINLEY USNR Art Editor R D Force Slc Sports Editor F X McPhillips Slc Photographers Don Cummings PhoMlc R L Lane PhoMlc

R J Jonas PhoM3c Sam Schipps PhoM3c

THE MOCK-UP is published each Friday for all Base personnel It is reviewed for security and is disshytributed without charge Contribushytions and criticisms invited All pictures are Navy Photos (Male Call and The Wolf from Camp Newspaper S-ervice)

CITY AND BASE LOSE FRIEND The City of Fort Pierce lost a

wartime city manager former banker and civic leader and the Navy Base lost one of its closest and best friends with the unexshypected death Tuesday of D 0 McshyDougald

One of the first local citizens met by Capt C Gulbranson when he paid Fort Pierce an initial visit on January 15 and 16 1943 to consider establishment of a Base for amphibious training in Florida waters Mr McDougald from that first day had been unfailing in his courtesy and cooperation with and solicitude for the Navy the Base and all its personnel

A capable and iefficient adminshyistrator and executive he was a fine all around manager of munishycipal affairs in addition to his special activity in promoting good relations with the USNATB A World War I veteran of duty in the Marines he well understood service problems

On his voluntary resignation a

Causeway Swing Span Causes Traffic Interlude

Several hundred liberty buses trucks and private cars were held up Tuesday afternoon for an hour when the swing span on the South Island bridge refused to close Ocshycurring at about 1645 officers -and men leaving the Base on shore leave and liberty were delayed

Pedestrian traffic was able to move but vehicles were stalled until 1800 the cars lined up in a double column as far east as CampR

The span middotapparently would not close either because of the heat exshypansion or settling of the bridge Lee Jordan Jr MoM3c and L T Spencer Flc of the Transportashytion Department rolled an acetyshylene torch out to the span and burned off a metal strap which alshylowed enough clearance to swing the span shut and resume traffic

few weeks ago he expected to enshyter the American Military Governshyment service usitg his special talshyents as city administrator during occupation days in Germany It was only when he took his recent Army physical examination that he learned of a heart condition that subsequently caused his death

Stricken with a heart attack while playing a round of golf Sunshyday afternoon it was characterisshytic of his mutual interests that he was playing with Navy and civil life partners at the time From the heart attack he failed to rally and death came to be followed by services here and burial at the family home in Statesboro Ga

As a progressive citizen and community builder D 0 McDoushygald had no superiors and few equals Before him lay many useshyful years and he will be greatly missed in the wide circle in which he had many friends and influshyence

The Mock-Up is the same as an extra letter home

Killed in Action

Like thousands of the foot-slogging Gis about whom he wrote Ernie Pyle met a soldiers death from Japanese machine gun bullets on le Island off Okinawa At the time of his death he was covering the war in the Pacific as a corresponshydent assigned to the Navy Earlier he wrote unforgettable stories of the fighting in North Africa Italy

and France

Trumans Prayer President Harry S Truman in

his first address to congress said he had in my heart a prayer and then quoted the words of Solomon (I Kings III 9)

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people that I may discern betweenmiddot good and bad For who is able to judge this Thy so great a people

Then the President said I ask only to be a good and faithshyful servant to my Lord and my people

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Has l 44th Annive1middotsary

The Brooklyn yard Rear Adshymiral Freeland A Daubin USN commandant has since the incepshytion of the Navys present buildshying program completed and sent to the fleet a total of 215000 tons in vessels of war These included the super-battleships North Caroshylina Iowa and Missouri and the aircraft carriers Bennington and Bon Homme Richard Under conshystruction in the yard at present is the super-carrier USS Coral Sea

The USS Maine blown up Hashyvana Harbor on Feb 15 1898 was built at the yard in 1895 The Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor was built and commissioned with splendor on Oct 17 1916

I Our Letter Box I Dear Editor

You must all be very proud of the great things all those lads you have trained down there are doing all over the world Amongst its

many foul asshypects there is surely one great good thing comshying out of all th i s conflict Our p e op 1es have been drawn much closel together Fact is we alshyways have been a pretty goodD uncan Hdegd

gson example to the rest of the world With kindest regards

Duncan Hodgson (Canadiamiddotn Naval Research and

Development Officer who had sevshyeral temporary duty tours at the USNATB)

Dear Captain Gulbranson In behalf of all the members of

the Navy Officers Wives Club of Fort Pierce we the members of the clubs executive board wish to express our appreciation to you for the new Navy commissary which has been opened here in Fort Pierce

We think it is a fine commisshysary It is greatiy enjoyed and appreciated by all our families

Yours very truly Margaret Mowry Alice C Morse Jeannette B Moon Janet E Iddings Veneta S McFaimiddotland Mary Moody Brown Mary D Montgomery Mary Marshall Young

Dear Editor This sea life is a far cry from

hotel and Base duty but is equally interesting Besides being flotilla communications officer I have been assigned as flag secretary and public relations officer for the floshytilla Carl Cutrer is Gunnery Offishycer aboard this ship Besides myshyself there are three other Irishshymen on the staff and we already have other members of the staff assigned Irish names or their present names modified to meet with our approval Our chief yeoshyman a Polish boy we have named Irish We get the Mock-Up and read every issue as it reaches us I would appreciate a copy of the anniversary issue Best of luck

Lt W F Healy USNR LST Flotilla 33 c Fleet Postoffice New York N Y +US NATBmiddotmiddot

COLUMN OMITTED The Chaplains Column somemiddot

times carried on this page is omitshyted this week

27 APRIL 1945 THE MOCK-UP PAGE THREE

Lt Cmdr Cook Beach Party Training Pioneer

One of the Navys pioneers in the training of beach parties for this war is Lt Comdr Byron V Cook USNR Officer-in-Charge of

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the Beach Party School at the USNATB

A native of - _ Pittsburgh Pa where he gradshyuated from high school in 1917 Mr Cook enshylisted in the Navy during the first World War and ser ved thirshyteen months in the district comshymunications of- Byron w Cook ficeStaff Headshyquarters Philadelphia

Following the Armistice he enshytered the newspaper and magashyzine advertising field in the Chishycago area first becoming associshyated with the Foreign Press Pubshylishing Co Lt Comdr Cook later represented the Capper Publicashytions the C111middottis Publishing Co and at the time he reentered the Navy in August 1942 he was asshysociated with the Western Newsshypaper Union During recent years he has maintained his home at Genshyeva Ill some thirty miles from Chicago

Commissioned a Lieutenant Mr Cooks first assignment upon reshyentering the Navy was to aid the Officer-in-Charge of Beach Party Training at Little Creek Va in getting the program organized His early days were spent in scoutshying for tents and equipment and setting up a Beach Party camp in a bean patch With this primitive beginning the first beach parties for the North African invasions were trained

The returning veterans from North Africa constituted more than 50 percent of the First Beach Battalion which was organized in Little Creek and brought to Fort Pierce by Lt Comdr Cook in Febshyruary 1943 the first month of operation of t his Base He went to Camp Bradford Va in March to organize the Second Third and Fourth Beach Battalions The Secshyond and Fourth were shipped to Africa for training and the Third was sent here From that time on to February 1944 Lt Comdr Cook remained at Camp Bradford organshyizing beach battalions equipping them and sending them here for training

Returning to the USNATB in February 1944 a s an instructor in the Beach Pary School he sucshyceeded Lt (now Li Comdr ) C R Conger as Officer-in-Charge in May

Under Lt Comdr Cook who was advanced to his present rank last

FIGHT AGAINST RATS 1DISCUSSED BY EXPERT

By LT (jg) ROBERT J DICKE Mosquito Control Officer

Rats are repulsive and dangerous to have around a camp Its bad enough to have a big fellow pop out of a locker but it is a serious situation when we inventory the dangerous diseases they carry By means of the fleas they are always host to rats transmit the dreaded black or bubonic plague and enshydemic typhus fever By means of a more intimate contact jaundice or Weils disease and rat-bite fever are less common but equally danshygerous

In situations such as our Base area the rat cannot be entirely eliminated Natural cover provides a nest for them debris on the beaches an ample food supply Even though local rats are disposed of by means of poison baits there alshyways will be relatives from the rural districts to take over

But we can keep them from enshytering our quarters and galleys by securing every building against their entrance boarding up holes and cracks in decks and bulkheads and securing t ent corners Doors ~houlcl be kept tightly closed at all times with a sweep or board at the bottom to secure them tightly to the sill

The narrow spaces under t ent platforms provide excellent cover and nesting spots which should be secured by banking with sand Open food containers around the quarters are engraved invitations to a rat And when clothing is acshycessible it may be chewed to shreds by an expectant female rat preshyparing a nest

Controlling rats in such an exshypansive area is a long slow fight and an endless one without the help of all hands Its up to us to keep them out of our quarters and our galleys-up to us to escape the dangerous diseases they carry

bullbullUS N AT B-shyAPPRECI A TION EXPRE SSED

To All Ships and Stations As president of the Navy Relief

Society I wish to express the apshypreciation of the board of direcshytors and myself for the wholeshyhearted response of the members of the Naval service to the recent appeal for funds

Ernest J King USN CominCh and CNO

October the Landing Craft Salvage School developed out of the Beach Pary School with Lt L G Kingshyman a s Officer-in-Charge Now heading the Salvage School is Lt A C Witteborg

LL Comdr Cook is married and has two sons now serving the Navy in the Pacific theatre Roger W Cook is an aviation machinist mate n the Marainnas and Byron V Cook Jr is a pharmacis t mate at P earl Harbor

Truman Takes OverJ

Hanmiddot11 S Tn iman stepping through the White H ouse Door at 0900 on the morning of April 13 to begin his duties as the nashytions S2d Chief E x 0 cutive H e will lead the nation in winding up the war with Germany and Japan and in vlanning f 01middot the prese1middotvation of veace all over the world

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Sunday Worship Schedule

Chaplaina K D Perld1111 J C Fltzirerald E C Helmich

W J Walsh C J Hurst

A J Schut z BASE SUNDAY SCHEDULE Area One at Salva~bull School

Catholic bull bull bull bullbullbullbull bull bullbull 0916 Area Two at Gulbranson Hall

Catholic bull bull bull bull 0700 and 1046 Protestant bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 0846 and 0930

Area Three at S A R Casino Protestant bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 0916 Catholic bullbull bullbull bullbull bull bullbullbullbull bull bull 0816

Area Four at Gator Club Protestant bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 0916

Protestant Divine Services are also held on North Island a t 1100 and a Sunday School class meets at 1030 at the Cami 7wo Chaplains Office

CATHOLIC WEEK DAY SCHEDULE Masses will be held dally at 0600

at Gulbranson Hall and at 1900 at Lecshyture H all Salvage School Confessions every day R eligious instructions any t ime PROTESTANT WEEK DAY SCHEDULE

Bible Classes In Chaplain Offlcea at 1930 Tuesday Camp 3 Wednesday Camp 2 Thuraday Camp 4

The Protestant Services held a t the Salvage School Lecture H all C at 0816 each Sunday morning have been disconshytinued and church goers are requested to attend the 0915 services a t the Gator Club

Fort lierce Churches PROTESTANT

Methodist bull bull bull bull bull 1100 amp 1930 F irst P resbyterian bull bullbull 1100 amp 2000 Parkview Baptist bull bull 1100 amp 2000 F irst Baptist 1100 amp 1930 St Andrew Episcopal bull 0800 amp 1100 First Christian bull bullbullbullbullbull bullbull 1100 amp 2000 Church of Christ bull bull 1100 amp 2000 Church of God bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 1130 Christian Science bull bull bull bull 1100

CATHOLIC St Anastasia bull 0800 0900 1000

JEWISH Services Friday at 2000 in Methodist

Church A n nex Instruction Baptism and other minshy

istrations on a pplication CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST

J J Torpey wartime minister Pleasan t View RFD 2 Fort Pierce Phone 184-W Special liberty (1000-1800) to attend the 1100 church service 111 East Orange hal block from Indian River U SO

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Chott Day

Waitll I get to Philly New York and Houston and tell Mary Edna

and Katherine about this _ ~

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Salvage School Closes Ifs Program of Training

Now officially closed is the Landing Craft Salvage School which had been in operation since August 1944 training salvage crews for the job of recovering and repairing small boats used in amphibious operations

Formerly such training was carshyried out as part of the Beach Party School but the North African ltand Sicilian landings showed the need for trained salvage crews to pershyform such tasks Thus a fourshyweeks training course was begun last August 27 with officers of the Beach Party School conducting the training

In September Lt L G Kingshyman USN qualified salvag~ and diving officer was sent here to be Officer-in~Gharge of the Salvage School and remained here through the peak training program When Lt Kingman left in December Lt A C Witteborg USNR Operations Officer for the Beach Party and Salvage Schools became Officershyin-Charge

During its brief history middot the Salvage School trained 18-man crews for 27 Navy ships and one Coast Guard vessel Thirteen of these crews began training at the same time~ October 9 while nine others were still in training A toshytal of more than 500 men and nearly 90i officers were trained in salvage work

In addition to teaching techshyniques of salvage the Salvage School has furnished salvage smiddotervshyices to the Base It has performed such tasks as driving and jetting piling repairing target boats setshyting out and repairing buoys searching for lost torpedoes bullshydozing and grading and salvaging tugs and other small craft

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Sea 1Bee Detachment 1011 Publishes Paper

The personnel of Seabee Deshytaclment 1011 have published a paper without a name for all mPmbers of the unit The paper successor to the Stinger publicashytion of former members of 1011 will receive its name from a conshytest that is now in progress The nublication is a six page mimeoshygraphed set-up and its publisher is Lt E N Powell The Editorial Board consists of J B Sickler Editor T J Finnerty and M R L a t t a Make-up Reporters Brown Minshell Green Wickshyman Smith and Covert Art Zishyvoder and Ruckert and Advisomiddot

THE MOCK-UP 27 APRIL middot1945

Historic Conference To Prevent Future Wars Begins middot s ~

INTERNATIONAL COURT GENERAL SECURITY Oi= JUSTICE ASSEMBLY COUNCIL

This cha1middott shows the framework for a World security Orgarvit-ation as outlined in the Dumshybarton Oaks Proposals-a series of r3corwrnendashytions agreed upon by 1middotevresentatives of the United States Great Britain the Union of Soviet Republics and China in October 1944 On

middotBASE ALUMNUS MISSING AFTER ACTION AT SEA

Lt (jg) F M Schnurr invasions of Normandy and southshyern France Just prior to the latshy

Rabbit We certainly know ter invasion he met his brother how to multiply Carl in the Naples harbor Since

Snake Im a tricky little adshy that time the Naval careers of the der myself two boys have coincided

Wednesday at San Francisco representatives of more than 40 United Nations convened to conshysider these vrovosals and to draft a charter for the W ortd Security Organization The Oaks JJrOJJosals are not binding and may be amended by the delegates to the San Francisco Conference

INDIAN RIVER USO A main attraction of the Club

this past week was tle visit of Lt Comdr Seabury C Mastick USNR (Ret) The retired Navy officer

Last December a photo and [claimed he felt right at home story about the Netz ~rothers two among the sailors and proved so Californians who met rn the Nap~es with his salty tales This harbor took part in the same rn- coming week Miss Katherine vasion returned to the States on Vaughn USO-YMCA food consulshythe same ship and served together tant will be at the club If you as instructors at NCDU was car- have any gripes or suggestions to ried in the Mock-1Jp make stop around and see Miss

Recently a clipping from the Vaughn Winners at the FrishyGrass Valley (Calif) Union was day night Bingo included Drevshyreceived at NCDU which stated ler Markle William T Hall Anshythat Lewis G Netz CMlc is imiddote- drew Golmic Frederick Collengo ported missing at sea The item Raymond Harryman Theodore stated that the Navy Departme~t Mally Glenn Campbell and Joe

1telegram had been received by his Hughes The roll call at the parents Mr and Mrs Ludwig Java Club Sunday morning showed Netz of Grass Valley there were boys from nearly every

Records at NCDU show that the state in the union present brothers shipped out together on The free breakfast is always popshya special assignment in January ular and all are we~come he after having served as instructors square dance contmues to draw here since November 1944 one of the biggest crowds of the

middot week The Tuesday mghtLewis Netz entered the Navy m dance with the new ATB band

October 1942 and fJrst went needs no build up More girls and overseas in June _1943 with an good dancers draw the crowd middot amphibious ~emol1tion um~ ~o ~ake A new Thursday night feature will part in the rnvas1on of S1c1ly He be Singing Stunts with Mrs Frashyreturned a month later only to ship out again in December for England where he spent months in preparation for his role in the

zier and Mrs Matheson heading the GSO project

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reduce the number of divorces by tacking this sign on his door Meditate well before deciding to divorce him girls for alimony is little comfort on a cold night

Navy Sets Dales For Cash War Bond Drive

The Navy is already planning an

Extra Cash War Bond campaign for the Independence Day period and the sale to include the 22 June to 7 July dates Capt C Gulbranshyson USN said today in urging all hands to make their plans to supshyport the drive

The Navy recommends a goal based on the purchase of at least one $100 bond by each individual and without exception the Bases that set such goals made the outshystanding records the Base CO said At all bases however purshychases are necessarily voluntary in keepitg with Navy custom and tradition

The Treasury already has set the Seventh War Loan for the entire nation to begin on 22 April but all purchases made through Navy offices between 22 June and 7 July will be credited both to Navy sales and the Seventh War Loans Ens R F Beck Base War Bond officer explained

The USNATB has always comshypiled a fine record of purchase of war bonds with purchases by alshylotment now approximating 85 pershycent of all personnel and the Deshycember Pearl Harbor Day camshypaign set such a mark that full support for the coming drive will be needed in order to surpass it Capt Gulbranson said

27 APRIL 1945 THE MOCK-UP PAGE FIVE

NEWS FLASHES ABOUT PERSONNEL AROUND THE BASE Lt Comdr B M Klivans Welshy

fare and Recreation OinC has late word from Lt Comdr R B LashyPorte former Executive Officer of the Tenth Beach Battalion and now in the Navy Office of Patents and Inventions New York Lt Comdr LaPorte visits frequently with Capt George Currier Comshymander when CO of the Tenth Beach and now on duty with ComThree at 90 Church NY Lt (jg) Oliver Allen Amphibious Scouts officer who is the authorshyity on snakes spoke to the Officer Wives Club Tuesday Latest addishytion to the Allen Zoo is a fourshyfoot gator captured the other night when It (jg) Allen stopped a car looked over a bridge rail and saw the crocodillians eyes shining bright against the darkness of the stream bank

Lt (jg) William M Jenkins recent recipient of the coveted Navy Cross has been spending a few days on duty at NCDU where he received his demolition trainshying Now attached to the Chief of Naval Operations s taff in Washshyington as liaison officer for unshyderwater demolition Lt (jg) Jenshykins is here on official business

ALL SINGLE officers are inshyYited to attend the Officers Dance this Saturday at 2030 at the Soshyciety of the Four Arts Royal Palm Way and Ceiba Avenue Palm Beach

Transfers during the past week included Lts (j g ) C J Hurst Chaplain Joseph Stillpass Base Training Staff J B Harder J M Beckerman and J A Warren Jr all of the Attack Boat Staff Ensigns V F Duggins Post Ofshyfice and A R Adams Billet Anshyalyst

ONLY newcomer aboard is Lt George F Beneke who will soon replace Lt (jg) Jack B Foster as Postal Officer

H E Pond BM2c formerly of Scouts and Raiders is shipping out after the longest tour of duty of any man yet known about ~rivshying at the USNATB on Jan 17 1943 he has been here ever since 271h months

A poem Proud Lady by Adelshybert Moseder MaMlc formerly of Ships Company and now adshy

dressed Navy 232 FPO New York is acknowledged and will be printed when space permits As will another The Amphibious Man widely used but contributed here by Harry Miller Slc on duty at the Main Gate Wgttch

I Year Ago This Week Georgt V Bulick MM3c Anshy

thony Licursi MM2c both of CB 1011 Alfred G Merritt PhoMlc Photo Lab and Richard A Walch SK3c Disbursing were the four winners in the contest to name the new recreation hall (Gulbranson Hall) The 10th Beach Battalshyion under Comdr G C Currier USNR was commissioned Eight enlisted men were chosen for the V-12 college training proshygram Six SPARS anived for duty at the local Coast Guard ofshyfice Barn dance at the Tenth Street USO was enjoyed by many Base personnel Otho K Carshymean Slc and John Mehok S2c of Camp Two hooked a shark weighing nearly 300 pounds

TWO YEARS AGO The April 30 1943 edition was

dedlcated to six USNATB ensigns who were awarded the Navy Cross John J Bell Jack A Byrom Robert Halperin Robert F Hershyrick Kenneth E Howe and John R Tripson Enlisted personshynel softball league gets under way The Red Cross Field Office opened in the Burston Hoshytel

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Navy Bond Purchases Pay For Landmiddoting Craft

As the Amphibious Training Command observes its third annishyversary with a ~leet of over 60000 craft powered by 80000000 horsepower it is interesting to see just how many of these landing craft or ships could be bought by the War bonds purchased by Navy personnel civilian and uniformed

To date Navy personnel has inshyvested over $105600000 in War bn11ds enough to buy 528 LSTs or 30183 LCMs of 105000 LCPs (L)

29 Petty Olficers AremiddotAdvanced In Rate

These twenty-nine petty officers have recently been advanced in ratshying according to Capt C Gulbranshyson USN Commanding Officer who congratulated them on their promotions

TO CHIEF PETTY OFFICER G K Chappell CPhM

TO FIRST CLASS PETTY OFshyFICER J F Baker Ylc L H

Three USNATB Couples Take Marriage Vows

Miss Ruth Nelle Crucius daughshyter of Mr and Mrs E 0 Dahlberg of Fort Pierce was united in marshyriage to Lt (jg) George S Reushyter Jr son of Judge and Mrs G S Reuter of Folden Mo at the First Baptist Church on last Friday evening with Chaplain C J Hurst officiating MT Reuter is stationed at Gunnery Training

Baumann Mlc J L Confrey quarters MMlc R A Helfrich GMlc E V LaPan MMlc W E Lott GMlc P W Nelson CMlc J W Prefontaine MoMlc F H Stolp MaMlc Robert Waddell bullMMac and W R Wren SKlc

TO SECOND CLASS PETTY OFFICER C R Bray CM2c E W Manning SK2c and J H Strickland Jr BM2c

TO THIRD CLASS PETTY OFshyFICER M Adams MM3c J H Anderson SM3c P T Benton Y3c Joe Blandford Jr SK3c R M Eversole SF3c W A Hess Cox R B McColloch MoM3c J L McDowell MoMi3c A G Mc-

Miss Barbara Melton was maid of honor and Lt (jg) Oscar N Wiley was best man Ushers were Lt (jg) W V Engles and Ensign H L Cottrell

On Tuesday afternoon in a doushyble ring ceremony at the First Methodist Church Miss Mildred Engles daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Engles of Bridgeport Conn became the bride of Russhysell Pearson PhMlc son of C N Pearson of Bloomfield Ind Wilshyliard Nobel and Dorothy Albee were the attendants

In a quiet ceremony solemnized by the Rev E Y Campbell in the

Means SK3c C L McPherson Presbyterian manse Saturday Miss Jr SK3c R A Owens SF3c Eunice Carver of Orange Ave Gene Vola Sr SF3c W C We became the bride of Floyd M Mashyher MaM3c and R J Zampardi har HAlc son of Mr and Mrs EM3c Floyd Mahar of Portland Me

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Vncle Sam now makes provision so that monthly income payable to beneficiaries under the Nationshy11 Service Life Insurance Act may now be made for life in addishytion to the monthly payments for 20 years plan already in effect Directives have been issued and the Disbursing Office at the Ba~e hag additional facts

Arkansas Highlander No I wouldnt think of chargin you for the corn Thatd be bootleggin and praise the Lord I aint come to that yit The peck of tatershdcen Topics ltCamp pound111oltt San Diivol will be $25

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Next Home AMPHl18S LOSE ONE

Bymiddot Frank X middotMcPhillips S1c Madison in the Three Eye LeagueWIN TWO IN wE1EK The sports world which was batting 397 At Nashville in 1943 behind President Roosevelt almost ihe batted 358 and fielded _l94

The Amphib baseball nine will play host to the Sanford Naval Air Base team at Jayshycee Field Sunday afternoon in a game starting at 1430

Next Wednesday the Amphibs will entertain the Pinecastle Army Air Field nine of Orlando in an arc light contest at J middotaycee Field scheduled to start at 2015 Bill Siders and Moss will probably be the battery for the USNATB

Lt (jg) Nick Wazylik Officer in Charge of Baseball has taken over the coaching assignment of the squad since the departure of Mizell Platt A shakeup in the line-up is expected for the third home game of the season

Sauthpaw Doswell Olson is slated to start in his first game before home fans with Jack Steive behind the plate

Paul middotSwaboda heavy hittiing first sacker will be at the initial sack Jim Poole will replace Wiley Brown at second middotand Ed Keehan first string shortstop will return to lineup after a stay in sickbay

Pat Murphy stocky Irishman will cover the hot corner to round out the infield In the outfield Ray Goolsby the teams leading batter will stay in center while Gene McCarty former right field-

to a man lost a fast friend with his death Baseball in particular was deprived of the best friend it ever had

A month before his death the President told Clark Griffith moshygul of the Washington Senators that he was the number one baseball fan

Despite the worrisome duties of his office FDR found time on nine occasions to throw out the first ball when the season opened in Washington During the war he backed baseball as a recreational aid to the nation and twice gave the game the gieen light it needed to continue in business This he did without sanctioning draft deferments for ball players

The Jafe President was a fight

fan too He was an enthusiastic fisherman and swimmer and in his youth an expert tennis player and horseshoeman While at Groton he played football and at Harmrd managed the ball club He loved sports and sports loved him - the champion who won his title four times without a defeat

AMPHIBS LOSS The Amshyphib baseball received a severe blow last week when they lost the services of their center middotfielder and coach Mizell (Whitie) Platt Platt

er will move to center to replace played in his last game with the the detached Platt Wazylik will fill in the right field slot left open by the McCarty shift to center

Tmiddothe Amphibs met with their first defeat of the season Sunday at Orlando when they practically landed a 5-3 victory to the Orlanshydo Fliers The Piercemen had a string of five victories before the Sunday tilt and Saturday aftershynoon had defeated the Orlando team 5 to 2

Errors proved to be the differshyence between victory and defeat

Piercemen last Sunday at Orlando garnering three triples in four trips to the plate

-Whitie a former Chicago Cub outfielder deserves the thanks of all baseball fans for ihis untiring efforts to give USNATB an outshystanding ball club He had charge of the crew who put the field in playing condishytion and did all in his power to i mp r o v e the

for Amphibs in the second inning playing of all of Sundays tilt when the Fliers countered four times on two hits and four errors

In the Saturday game Bill Sidshyers limited the Fliers to five hits to gain his second win of the young season Doubles by Swoboda and Platt and a single lgty Goolsshyby countered the first two runs of the game for the Piercem~n in thl first inning Two walks and singles by Brown and Goolsby acshycounted for the other three run~

members of the team

Platt started playing ball at W e s t Pa Im Beach wiliile in high school and played with the high school team that won the state championship After completing high school the atlete started to play with the American Legion team in West Palm After winning the Legion

in the top half of the fifth in- State championship in 1938 he was ning

A rejuvenated Amphib team played erroriess middotball behind the five hit pitching of Curt Mitchell Wednesday to win over Buckingshyham Field at Fort Myers 8-3


selected to tour England with an All American Amateur team

The heavy hitting outfielder

Whitie established a record in 1943 when he drove in 13 runs in a double header In the Southern Association he holds the record for total bases and runs batted in While playing for Great Lakes Naval Training Station last year he led the team in batting and Mickey Cochrane former Detroit Tiger luminary claimed him as one of the outstanding players in the country middot

With thEL Amphibs this season Platt has got his share of base hits In twenty-four trips to the plate he has garnered twelve hits for 29 total bases 8 runs s~ored and 6 batted m And leaves ~th a batshy

middot tmg average of 500 In six irames PIatt has helped himself to five triples three doubles and one ihomer

With his transfer from this base it is believed that Whitie v~iJl reshyjoin his former coach at Great Lakes Lt Comdr Gordon L (Mickey) Cochrane somewhere in the Pacific to tour the islands playshying against other major leaguers Without further ado well say farewell to a great ball player say thanks for everything and smooth sailing

-- USN ATSbullbull In middotthe parlor there were three She the table lamp and he Threes a crowd there is no doubt And so the litt le lamp went out

bull ENS C R MORRIS of NCDU is shown m aking putt middot that gave

signed his first pro contract in the him a bull6middot5 win over Ens G A spring of 1939 with the Toronto Beck in the fourth flight finals of Maple Leafs His best year at bat the USNAiB Golf Championships was in 1942 while playing with held at Indian Hills Country Club

The return feature bout of last weeks boxing show sponsored by the Physical Training Department at the Camp Two Arena was called a middotdraw between A Berard Flc Faber Cove mess cook and D C Shannon S2c of Demolition both 135-pounders

Results of other fights 120 pound class A draw beshy

tween E H Kelly Slc of Flotilla 73 and R S Bagrowski F2c of Flotilla 77

140 pound class bullA draw beshytween F 0- Zazueta Flc of Floshytilla 73 and D J Ryan Slc of NCDU

155 pound class G L Hershkoshywizt Flc of Flotilla 73 over H L Watts S2c of Flotilla 7 4

160 pound class E L Gorman Flc of Flotilla 77 over B J Duke Flc of Flotilla 73

150 pound class a draw beshytween J B Bishop S2c of Flotilla 77 and H A Royal S2c of Floshytilla 73

175 pou11d class C Santill S2c of Flotilla 77 over G F Maack Flc of Flotilla 77

2 0 0 poullil- class L Andrade Flc of NCDU over J A Ebinger S2c of Flotilla 77

220 pound class E E Hixson Slc of NGDU over W L Stall Slc of Flotilla 7 4

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The first round in the upper bracket of the enlisted mens softshyball double elimination tournament has been completed under auspices of the Physical Training Departmiddot ment Correcting last weeks leshysults the Attack Boat team deshyfeated the LCM (1) aggregation in their first game

Scores were as follows Attack Boats 5 LCM(l) 2 Pharmacist Mates 8 Boat Facilishy

ties 2 Amphibious Scouts 10 LCM (2) 6 18th Engineers 2 DRU 0 SAD 11 LCM(3) O CB 1011 5 LCC 3 Radiomen over FlotHla 77 (forfeit) Signalmen drew a bye

All losers will nomiddotw participate in the lower bracket thus having anshyother chance at copping the tourshyney Play in the first round of the lower bracket and second round of the upper bracket is now getting under way middot

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Swimmers Take Fourth I OK OKINAWA Rhine Naval Operations AT THE MOVIES At Pan-American Meet Strange But Successful

GULBRANSON HALL Although Comdr William E J Ihe Amphib swimming team Friday and SaturdayWhitesides Naval Task Group

took fourth place in the Pan Amshy FLAME OF BARBARY COAST which operated with the Firsterican Swimming and Diving Sunday and MondayThird and middotNinth Armies in a sucshyChampionships at the Biltmore in EVE KNEW HER APPLEScessful crossing of the Rhine was Miami last Sunday ia a field of Tuesdaynot in the largest combined opshyentrants which included the top DIAMOND HORSESHOEeration of the war it certainly was performers in Florida Wednesday and Thursdayin one of the oddest according to

A second place in the 150 meter ENCHANTED COTTAGESgt Ed Cunningham YANK staff medley relay and a fourth in the correspondent SUNRISE THEATRE 50 meter free style followed by a Heres one of the examples Cunshy Friday and Saturdaysecond and third in the 100 meter ningham gives of the mixups that SUNDAY DINNER FORbreast stroke accounted for the resulted when the Navy took to A SOLDIERUSNATB total of 12 points the land in order to reach the washy Sunday and Monday

The relay team included Bob ters of the Rhine HERE COMES THE WAVESHaines Sp (A) back stroke Ens As a group of LCMs was naVishy Tuesday and Wednesday Tom Jackson Breast stroke and gating through one German town DARK WATERSEns Ted Salmon free style Dave they reached a narrow street ThursdaySchaper took fourth in the 50 meshy where they didnt have room to UNSEEN ter free style and just missed nabshy a cornertum Ironically enoughbing first place as the six finalshy one of the few relatively undamshy RITZ THEATRE ists finished as practically one Friday and Saturdayaged houses in the village was sitshyman FORTY THIEVESuated right on that corner blockshy

Ens Jackson and Ens Jack Unshy Sunday and Monday ing the boats passage There was derhill pushed the winner in the NIGHT CLUB GIRLno alternative route through or 100 meter breast stroke in finishshy Tuesdayaround the village So the ArmyAlmost on the J aps doorstepsing 2 and 3 respectively convoy officer with the Navy crews I LOVE A MYSTERY

The team places were Jacksonshy are Okinawa and the Ryuku Islands Wednesday and Thursdaydid the inevitable He knocked on ville NAS West Palm Beach Recshy where a gigantic armada of 1400 the door of the house that was GRISSLEY MILLIONS reation Club Miami NAS and ships put Americans ashore in the holding up the Navy When its TENTH STREET USO USNATB rather timid German owner an- Friday

bullbullUSN AT B boldest stroke of the Pacific War swered the Army officer said THE GREAT AMERICANComdr T Blanchald How do you do I just came to BROADCAST ETO y nks H O ten you youll have to evacuate SundayToProfessonal Duty a ave wn immediately We gotta blow up STEP LIVELY --- GI I SI ng your house Shortly afterward a INDIAN RIVER USOComdr Theodore Blanchard I ossary 0 a combination of dynamite and a

Saturday and SundayUSNR Officer-in-Charge of th~ bulldozer cleared a channel for CLAUDIAGunnery Training Department was Here are some comments from the Navy Wednesdayrecently detached for duty as pro- 1 the glossary of slang used by GI Cunninghams storyen of one of

1 BUFFALO BILLfessor of Naval Science and Tac- Joe and Mac in the European thea- the screwy but successful Navy tics in the NROTC program at ter of operations opera~ionsJs featured in the April IbullOUT PIEHCE B 0 lt Brown University Providence Aviata-Show off while flying 27th issue of YANK Army Weekshy

Browned off-Burned up ly on sale at the Ships Service Monday-2000 Rholtle Island Blitz buggy-Ambulance h B STEP LIVELYA graduate of the Naval Aca- Blowing qut your B (barracks) bag- stores on t e ase

Too much unnecessary talk ~- U S N A T B bullbull Wednesday-2000 demy he served a year on active Big wheels-Powers that be NEXT HOME GAME GREAT MOMENTduty with the Marine Corps be- Big picture-Overall situation Friday-2000middot t middot middot1 lif Aft Brass-High ranking officersf ore ret Urnmg 0 CiVl e er Bucking-Striving for promotion or gain (Continued from Page 6) PARACHUTE BATTALIONgraduating from the Harvard Burp gun-German Schmeisser machine Smart heads-up baseball proved School of Business Comdr Blan~ pistol OFFICER CLUB to be the Amphibs greatest helpCan-Tank Tuesday-2030chard became associated with the Chair borne division-base personnel in this game Sacrifice plays set National City Bank and later with Character-Reference to anybody up runners in scoring positions GREAT MOMENT

Clobber-To straddle with bombs orAnaconda Copper in New York shoot down three times during the fray with C P 0 CLUB Since reentering the Navy in 1941 Clobbered-To be ehot down Nick Wazylik laying down three

Dim view-Regard poorly Thursday-2000he has seen service as commanding Dogface-Infantryman perfect sacrifice bunts The heavy

FOLLOW THE BOYSofficer of a group of LCI ( G) s in Doughs or doughfeet--Infantrymen hitting of Pat lunrphy Paul SwoshyEager beaver-Soldier bucking for someshy +l+USNATB+

the Marshalls and Marianas cam- thing usually promotion boda B C Moss Ed Keehan and paigns He has been on duty at ETO happy-Result of being too long Ray Goolsby was outstanding for TENTH STREET USO

in ETO (European theater of operations) the winners Goolsby hit his firstUSNATB since January 1 of this Flak happy-From efflaquots of flak (antishy Hundreds of enlisted men their aircraft fire) home run of the year in the sevshyyear wives and families attended theGrease gun-M-10 folding stock autoshy enthSucceeding Comdr Blanchard as matic weapon reception in honor of the fourth

Hershey bars-Overseas service stripes +-U S NATBbullbullhead of the Gunnery Training Deshy birthday of NCCS-USO at theHardware-Insignia of officers

partment is Lt R C Shenk Iron lung--Nissen hut Tenth Street Club on last ThursshyPneumonia buggy-JeepBefore their departure Comdr day night bull bull The Rev Michael 0 my aching back-General disgust

and Mrs Blanchard were honored Pub crawling-Touring pubs Beerhalter pastor of the Church at a party given by members of Rigger mortis-Useless aircraftsman of St Anastasia cut a large birthshy

stupid typethe department at the Indian Hills Rat race-Aerial battle melee day cake for the occasion Among Country Club Roger-Okey (from royal air force the notables present were Judge

adopted by all allied air forces as partbullbull U S N AT B bull- of radio lingo) Angus Sumner president of the

Then there is the wolf who is Snake charmers-Dance band USO Couvcil and Mrs Sumner too broke to buy etching-s so he Section 8-Nut or mental case Lt J C Fitzgerald Chaplain atStripe happy-Overbearing non-com oralways asks his girl friends to eager beaver bucking hard for stripes USNATB Mr Cay Coggins and

Suedes-New service shoes with unfinshycome up and see the handwriting Mr Juliette Dieckhaus members ofished side of leather outside on the wall Spamlancl--England the Advisory USO Committee

Spam ribbon-European tlleater ribbon Squart Knot ltNTampOC Camp Wallaco Tu) and Lt Col Jack Baker and memshyZebra-Noncom with lots of stripes such Belay 1ha1 order lo muster 011 the Have you smiled yet today as master sergeant bers of his staff and wives bull bull ~ _ail~ shy

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Downpour Washes Away Busse Open Air Concert The largest turnout ever to welshy

come a visiting name band playshying for USNATB personnel and families at Jaycee Field hurried away in a downpour Tuesday night that came just as the Henry Busse orchestra concert under the stars was to begin

Permanent stands and special sections on the field were filled to overflowing when the rain in a deluge just after arrival at the field of Rear Admiral F W Rockshywell USN Commander Amphibishyous Training Command who was to have been special guest of honshyor with Capt C Gulbranson Comman1ing Officer

For the first time in the series of open air concerts the general public had been invited augmentshying the overflow throng

After the rain the Busse band played for dancing for enlisted personnel at the Legion Hall and there was music for dancing by a Base orchestra at the Officoer Club Earlier before the openair concert the Busse troupe played for a standing room only show for Base personnoel at bullGulbranson Hall

Next name band attraction to play at the Music Under the Stars Theatre will be Al Trace and His Silly Symphonists May 8 followed by Stan Kenton formershyly with Bob Hope May 14 and the Stork Club Scandals and cial stage show May 19

Five Girls Four Boys Arrive at Hospital

Nine births have been recorded at the Family Hospital for Depenshydents in the BurstoR Hotel since April 18 They are as follows

April 18-Girl (8 lbs) to Lt (jg) and Mrs Charles Hall reshycently detached from the Chemical Warfare School Boy (8 lbs 2 oz) to Maj and Mrs John Decker NAS Vero Beach

April 19-Girl (6 lbs 7 oz) to AMMJ and Mrs Richard Webb St Marys (Calif) PreFlight School Girl (7 lbs 7 oz) to AEMlc and Mrs Orville Prudhomme NAS Vero Beach

April 21-Boy (6 lb 3 oz) to Lt and Mrs Talbott Walker NAS Vero Beach

April 23-Girl (6 lb 13 oz) to Lt and Mrs Robert Iddings Classshyification Officer USNATB Boy (6 lb 8 oz) to Lt and Mrs Wilshyliam Flynn 0-in-C of NCDU USNATB

April 25-Boy (6 lb 13 oz) to Lt (jg) and Mrs Jordan Sheppard FPO San Francisco

April 26-Girl (5 lb 8 oz) to Ens and Mrs Arthur Callahan Outgoing Draft Officer USNATB

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INSPECTOR GENERAL STAFF PARTY HERE

Commadore Paul F Foster USN Assistant Inspector General paid a recent visit to the USNATB with h~s staff and middotis shown with Capt C Gulbranson USN Commanding Officer at left as they visited BclSe activities and facilities

A sailor walked into a restaurantComdr D L Kauffman on payday and after looking at the menu ordered a $350 dinner TheFirst NCDU OinC Here waitress looked at him and asked

Comdr Draper L Kauffman Do you want that on white orUSNR original Officer-in-Charge ryeof NCDU training here who has

been engaged in combat action in the Pacific was welcomed aboard again by friends at the Base this week

Direct from successful amphibshyous operations in the Marianas at Iwo Jima and at Okinawa Comdr Kauffman praised NCDU and UDT teami trained here for their fine records in action

Promoted to rank of full comshymander since his duty here Comdr Kauffman also earned a gold star in lieu of a second Navy Cross for his heroism in Pacific action

The Blues (NAS Lambert Fitld St Louis Mo) War Bonds are the best buy in Fa rnsworth certainly makes friends eosilyl the world today ~

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Flotilla 73 Graduation Exercises Saturday

(Continued from Page 1) mer cruises on the Great Lakes

A n~tive of Columbus Ohio he finished timiddot University in 1940 then resigned from the Naval Reshyerve to go back into it again via the V-7 route Lt Fairman was in the first V-7 class aboard the USS Illinois now the Prairie State battleship used as a training ship in New York City

Obtaining his commission as an ensign in November 1940 he was stationed aboard the he-avy cruiser USS New Orleans in the Pacific serving a year middotas 5-inch battery and airplane catapult officer

On Dec 7 1941 Mir Fairman had left Pearl Harbor only 24 hours before enroute to the States for a new assignment

After training an armed euroUard crew at San Diego he served as assistant personnel officer at the Armed Guard Center Treasure Isshyland San Francisco Lt Fairman then served as an armed guard officer aboard the SS Wyamia on the San Francisco to Honolulu run

Moving over to the Atlantic in June 1942 he headed an armed guard crew aboard the SS John Hathorn which spent many months on a shuttle run between England and North Africa This was at the time when the German submarine menace in the North Atlantic was at its height Lt Fairman was in one convoy in which eleven ships were lost one night

Following several months of schooling in the summer of 1943 the Flotilla 73 Commander went aboard the USS Henry R Kenyon a destroyer escort as gunnery ofshyficer This craft served as the esshycort flagship on the Guantanamo Cuba to Trinidad run until the sumshymer of 1944 then went to England and North Africa

After being detached from the Kenyon in November 1944 Lt Fairman came to the USNATB to serve first as a group commander in Flotilla 69 then in his present capacity His next tour of duty begins next week when he enters the volunteer Amphibious Scout program

Lt Fairman is manied and has a month-old son he has never seen back in Columbus Ohio

Pleased with the results obtained in the training of his flotilla Lt Fairman pays tribute to his three boat group commanders Lts (jg) J H Vawter W C Bartlett and N Mandelbaum

A party for the flotilla was given in the Faber Cove area last week featuring contests prizes and reshyfreshments

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THE MOCK-UP United States Naval Aniphibious Training Base Fort Pierce Fla

VOL 4-No 17- 27 APRIL 1945

COMMANDING OFFICER - - - CAPT C GULBRANSON U Nwy EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMDR PERRY M FENTON USNR EDITOR - bull - - - - LT C HERSCHEL SCHOOLEY USNR NEWS EDITOR - ENS ROBERT L EBERT PHOTO EDITOR LT (JG) E J FINLEY USNR Art Editor R D Force Slc Sports Editor F X McPhillips Slc Photographers Don Cummings PhoMlc R L Lane PhoMlc

R J Jonas PhoM3c Sam Schipps PhoM3c

THE MOCK-UP is published each Friday for all Base personnel It is reviewed for security and is disshytributed without charge Contribushytions and criticisms invited All pictures are Navy Photos (Male Call and The Wolf from Camp Newspaper S-ervice)

CITY AND BASE LOSE FRIEND The City of Fort Pierce lost a

wartime city manager former banker and civic leader and the Navy Base lost one of its closest and best friends with the unexshypected death Tuesday of D 0 McshyDougald

One of the first local citizens met by Capt C Gulbranson when he paid Fort Pierce an initial visit on January 15 and 16 1943 to consider establishment of a Base for amphibious training in Florida waters Mr McDougald from that first day had been unfailing in his courtesy and cooperation with and solicitude for the Navy the Base and all its personnel

A capable and iefficient adminshyistrator and executive he was a fine all around manager of munishycipal affairs in addition to his special activity in promoting good relations with the USNATB A World War I veteran of duty in the Marines he well understood service problems

On his voluntary resignation a

Causeway Swing Span Causes Traffic Interlude

Several hundred liberty buses trucks and private cars were held up Tuesday afternoon for an hour when the swing span on the South Island bridge refused to close Ocshycurring at about 1645 officers -and men leaving the Base on shore leave and liberty were delayed

Pedestrian traffic was able to move but vehicles were stalled until 1800 the cars lined up in a double column as far east as CampR

The span middotapparently would not close either because of the heat exshypansion or settling of the bridge Lee Jordan Jr MoM3c and L T Spencer Flc of the Transportashytion Department rolled an acetyshylene torch out to the span and burned off a metal strap which alshylowed enough clearance to swing the span shut and resume traffic

few weeks ago he expected to enshyter the American Military Governshyment service usitg his special talshyents as city administrator during occupation days in Germany It was only when he took his recent Army physical examination that he learned of a heart condition that subsequently caused his death

Stricken with a heart attack while playing a round of golf Sunshyday afternoon it was characterisshytic of his mutual interests that he was playing with Navy and civil life partners at the time From the heart attack he failed to rally and death came to be followed by services here and burial at the family home in Statesboro Ga

As a progressive citizen and community builder D 0 McDoushygald had no superiors and few equals Before him lay many useshyful years and he will be greatly missed in the wide circle in which he had many friends and influshyence

The Mock-Up is the same as an extra letter home

Killed in Action

Like thousands of the foot-slogging Gis about whom he wrote Ernie Pyle met a soldiers death from Japanese machine gun bullets on le Island off Okinawa At the time of his death he was covering the war in the Pacific as a corresponshydent assigned to the Navy Earlier he wrote unforgettable stories of the fighting in North Africa Italy

and France

Trumans Prayer President Harry S Truman in

his first address to congress said he had in my heart a prayer and then quoted the words of Solomon (I Kings III 9)

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people that I may discern betweenmiddot good and bad For who is able to judge this Thy so great a people

Then the President said I ask only to be a good and faithshyful servant to my Lord and my people

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Has l 44th Annive1middotsary

The Brooklyn yard Rear Adshymiral Freeland A Daubin USN commandant has since the incepshytion of the Navys present buildshying program completed and sent to the fleet a total of 215000 tons in vessels of war These included the super-battleships North Caroshylina Iowa and Missouri and the aircraft carriers Bennington and Bon Homme Richard Under conshystruction in the yard at present is the super-carrier USS Coral Sea

The USS Maine blown up Hashyvana Harbor on Feb 15 1898 was built at the yard in 1895 The Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor was built and commissioned with splendor on Oct 17 1916

I Our Letter Box I Dear Editor

You must all be very proud of the great things all those lads you have trained down there are doing all over the world Amongst its

many foul asshypects there is surely one great good thing comshying out of all th i s conflict Our p e op 1es have been drawn much closel together Fact is we alshyways have been a pretty goodD uncan Hdegd

gson example to the rest of the world With kindest regards

Duncan Hodgson (Canadiamiddotn Naval Research and

Development Officer who had sevshyeral temporary duty tours at the USNATB)

Dear Captain Gulbranson In behalf of all the members of

the Navy Officers Wives Club of Fort Pierce we the members of the clubs executive board wish to express our appreciation to you for the new Navy commissary which has been opened here in Fort Pierce

We think it is a fine commisshysary It is greatiy enjoyed and appreciated by all our families

Yours very truly Margaret Mowry Alice C Morse Jeannette B Moon Janet E Iddings Veneta S McFaimiddotland Mary Moody Brown Mary D Montgomery Mary Marshall Young

Dear Editor This sea life is a far cry from

hotel and Base duty but is equally interesting Besides being flotilla communications officer I have been assigned as flag secretary and public relations officer for the floshytilla Carl Cutrer is Gunnery Offishycer aboard this ship Besides myshyself there are three other Irishshymen on the staff and we already have other members of the staff assigned Irish names or their present names modified to meet with our approval Our chief yeoshyman a Polish boy we have named Irish We get the Mock-Up and read every issue as it reaches us I would appreciate a copy of the anniversary issue Best of luck

Lt W F Healy USNR LST Flotilla 33 c Fleet Postoffice New York N Y +US NATBmiddotmiddot

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