All Hands Naval Bulletin - Apr 1943

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BUREAU OF

INFOAPRIL 1943

REARADMIRALRANDThe Chief of N

REAR ADMIRAL LTh e Assistant Chie

Table ofThe Navys Growth in Excerpts of SecNav Fis.One Subs War AgainThe U. S. S. OregonGuarding the Navys Solomons. Battles Ge t Action in the South PaV-Mail Gets Through-AEighty-Three Days onCombat P h o s Unit SeThe War Around the WLegislative Matters. ..New Navy, Coast GuarThe Navys Short-WavQuarters and FamilyScrap From the Battle The Destroyer Escort.Casualty Figures. . . . . .Medals, Decorations, anBuPers Bulletin Board.

This magazine is publiD . C., by the Public Relatof Naval Personnel for t


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IN FISCAL 1942, Secretary Knox eported,nearly$7,000,000,000 was appropriated for aviatiom . . . . . . while theNauy superprogram, half of whiThe Navys Growth in Fisc

Secretary Knoxs Annual Report RevealsFleetT E Navys seven-sea fightingforce will be in active servicebefore the end of 1945, fully 2years ahead of schedule, Secretary ofthe Navy Frank Knox revealed i nMarch nhisannual eport o hePresident. Previously it had been ex-pected that a t lea st some of the newwarships might notbe ready for com-bat until 1946 or 1947.Under thempact of unprece-dented war, theSecretary of th eNavy said, fiscal 1942 (period of timecovered by the report ) dissipated allpreviously conceived beliefs that atwo-ocean Navy would be enough.

will Be Permanently Enlargednew aircraft carr iers gave promise ofth e realization of these plans-theachievement of the strongest strikingforce in the istory of naval warfare.

The StatisticsThe Navy, during he fiscal yearending June 30, 1942,pent or com-mitted itself to spend $31,890,136,780,

Navy ordnance alone spending morethan $2,000,000,000-a 550 percent in-crease over the previous year, thereport stated.Private yards building Navy shipsincreased from 108 to 293; theau-thorized quota for planes was jumped-

on ordelivered Aboumentaryshoreons$1,871,7431,000contraclegislatipending

ThUnde000,000a $3,900most of


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. . . and tw o more 35,000-ton battleships of the classof the Nor th Carolina (photo) were aunched . . . . . . as the Nauys efforts were a n amphibiouswar.Photo:Gthe Massachusetts, Indiana, andSouth Dakota, with theAlabama rap-idly nearing completion.TheSecretary of the Navy notedthat the 1942 fiscal year had markedthe end of the first six months of war,bittermonths in thechagrin overPearl Harbors disaster on December7, 1941.He went on to relate how the Navyhad won the victories of the CoralSea and Midway Island and how theJapanese had lost their big chanceto establish themselves closer to con-tinental United States at he battleof Midway. The enemys osses, in-cluding fouraircraftcarriers, werecrippling, he stated.It would not be possible to over-emphasize the value and the valor ofnaval aviations contribution to thesefirst six months of the war, Mr. Knoxcontinued.

Swept into asubmarine warfareof unprecedented viciousness, Secre-tary Knox said,theSeaFrontierforces fought with every availableweapon and laid the oundation nnew building and new methods for thetime when enemy submarines wouldbe forced far out to sea and our coast-wise traffic lanes would be almost im-mune from attack.

Looking toward the post-war era,Mr. Knox stated that the Navy didnot plan to shr ink back to pre-wardimensions.He said thathe civilian forcewouldbe reduced to a level compa-

rable w i t h th e needs of the depart -ment n he exercise ?f itsnormalfunctions, but his is not to infer thatwe shall be able to return to the oldlow levels of 1938.Thedepartment must be guidedin its plans for post-war retrench-

proved by CEuropean waThe overgram was sin 1947, he up constructous records,

that, except which workt o material sof time requauthorized tcommissioneservice beforIn t he earthe Atlantic

Navys abilitaxed to thetion providedsubmarines on coastwiswaters.These hig


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Excerpts from SecNav Fiscal 1942The following are direct quotationsfrom Secretary Knox's report:The average age of new recruits forthe Regular ,Navywas 18.69 years.The average age o f enlisted men ac-cepted for theNaval Reserve was 24.17years.An adequate supply of pilots forthe growing air force was supplied by

theestablishment of aviation pre-flight schools at four colleges, and theoperation of 15 naval reserve air basesproviding primary flight training, twointermediate flight training stations,and 14 operational raining centers.Sixty-five million words were sentor received during the fiscal year byNavy radio, Washington,22 percent of

which was for other Government de-partments . In viewf the critical. materials needed in the telephone in-dustry, every effort has been made toeconomize on he number of newlyleased telephone and teletype lineswhich war conditions have necessi-tated.

During th e year arrangements weremade with other Government depar t-mentsand agencies to provide in-struction in onversational Spanish toNavy officers.

During the coming' academic yearstudy of the Russian andJapaneselanguages will be added to thecurric-ulum of the Naval Academy.The outstanding work of the navalradio stationat Corregidor should notgo unnoticed. Unti l captured by theenemy it provided continuous com-munications between that place, the

United States, and fleet units.The war hashrown upon theHydrographic Office such ademandforairand navigation char ts ha toutput or one month now xceedsthat for any two former years in thehistory of the Navy. Th e Officeprinted more than 13,000,000 chartsand miscellaneous publications dur-ing the fiscal year.

The commissioning of officers fromcivilian life has been speeded up bychanging the method by which appli-cations rehandled.The procure-ment program was removed from thesupervision of thecommandants nthe naval districts andlaced directlyunder the supervision of t he Bureauof Naval Personnel. Naval officer.pro-curement offices were established ineach naval district inaccessible loca-tions in the centersf population.

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CARRYING the flag that bears replicas of Japanese flags for each enemyship suak by is sub, Lt. Comdr. ucius H . Chappell grins upon reachinghome port.CommanderChappell etired ohiscabin and went to bed.Early in the morning, while it wasyet very dark, thebluejacket on watchcame down to the officer of t he decksstation and handed that officer a dis-

first weeks must have been fierce. Be-yond the bare knowledge tha t hewar was on, and he basic instruc-tions necessary to carry out his mis-sion, he knew nothing whatever ofwhat wasgoing on. The exigencies

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A few nights later, a procession ofthree ships came out under the watch-ful submarine periscope. An aircraftcarrier,with the cruisers guardingherflanks. The submarine closed in forthe attack. But the carrier, like thetransport of a few days before, waschurning the sea with all the mightof her huge engines, and before thesubmarine could move into positionshe was safely by. . But one of the cruisers swept by ineasy range,nd Lieutenant Com-mander Chappell put his bow towardher and launched is fish. The explo-sions shivered the submarine as two ofthe torpedoes connected. The cruiserdidnt go down, but she was clearly indeep trouble as shemade off.rrAs a Hound Poimts a Pheasamt

Lieutenant Commander Chappell,watching through the periscope, no-ticed that the threebig ships, insteadof taking after him, scattered andledin different directions, clearly anxiousto get on their way. This, to a navalofficer,was significant. It meant anoperation was under way of suchmagnitude that a lone submarinecould be wri tten off as relatively of noimportance.The submarines skipper nosed hisboat back toward the harbor entrance.He didnt have long to wait. A de-troyer soon came speeding out of theharbor, henanother,andanother.There were six of them, all in a row.Lieutenant Commander Chappellthen committed what he considers agrave strategical error. Heclosed infor an attack on the destroyers, andthereby missed a chance of the kindsubmarine men dream bout.

He was getting ready to pick off oneof the destroyers when it spotted him.The destroyer pointed him s a houndpoints a pheasant, and the hole packof destroyers bore down on him.The submarine ubmerged.

got to the surface, the fleet was gone,and the bay was empty.The submarine moved on toan-other position, surfacing by night,skulking about by day with just thetip of the periscope out of the water ,watching and waiting and hoping.They saw a n occasional small craf t,nothing worth squandering orpedoeson.One day a power line went dead-snapped in two by vibration. Thetrouble was located in a live-wirecontrol panel. There were two endsof a live wire dangling loose, ready tospit 240 volts of jolting current oncontact.But emergency repairs had to bemade immediately, Lieutenant Com-mander Chappell said. Somebodyhad to go in there and work on thatlive circuit. Theman who volun-teered was myhief electriciansmate, John JosephPepersack, 42 ofBaltimore, Md. Withouthe leasthesitation he hopped into that pan-

though everthing a blusnap out. cuted, Ill nefixed up, anof work, he petty officerThere follnothing excitime. Theytorpedo, anstock, came oa convoy of one and leftcal conditio. LookoutA few dayin the Soutwas calm anof three shipder themidaderseas craft,put a coupllead ship. Th

her side butel-went right into it bodily. I was ~ The submariwatching all he time. It looked as (Com

BEARDS were worn after submarines long voyaTM2c, Tacoma, Wash., left;G . H .BOOS, Ml c


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Back t o the wars: Th e U. . S. rrOregon/ famed10,000-ton battlship of the Spanish-American War, as she Oreg., t o Kalama,Washwas owed by two stern-wheelers from Portland, mantled for scrap. Belo


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ABOARD SHIP: Good eyes meansafety. "offic

Guarding the Navy's EyeAb ove, and O n-Even Under-the S ea,2 0 /2 0 V i s i o n Is a P r i c e l e s sA s s e t

G OD vision i.s absolutely es-sential to the efficiency ofnaval personnel. Whether it bewatch duty, unnery, computation,instrument readfng, machine work, orstudy in prepara tion for any of theseorother navalduties,ability to seequickly and accurately and withoutundue strain to the visual apparatusis an almost continuous requirement.Candidates for the Navy are here-fore carefully selected w i t h visual ef-ficiency playing an mportantpartin he selective process. To realizethe extent of this selection one needonly visualize a group of 200,000 male

This article was prepared es-pecially f o r t he INFORMATIONBULLETIN y the Bureau o fMedicine and Surgery.

mal vision perfectly possible quite lateinto life. The obvious duty of theindividual is to protec t and afeguardin every way possible the eyesightwith which he was so fortunately en-dowed, and for which the Navy hassuch urgent need.Safeguarding Against In fections

often seemsThe secondais, however,congestion, tivae with vtion of the lococci whgeneralizededges of theyes with udefinitely aburninganddemand acteyewash in clean cold hands to th


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CLOSE WORK shouldbe avoidedwhem eyes are tired.

coughed and sneezed intohe t-mosphere. A t one time we assumedthat all such moisture droplets wouldquite promptly sink to the ground orfloor and be no longer dangerous. Re-cent studies have shown, however,th at those droplets less than 0.1 mil-limeter in diameter, underordinaryatmospheric conditions, will oftenevaporate off their moisture beforefalling the height of a man. The re-maining droplet nuclei may containmany thousandbacteria or virusesand yet be light enough to float in theair for several hours or even days.Lighting upon the conjunctivae of theeye or the mucous membrane of a noseand throat such droplet nuclei withtheir contained infectious agents willbe met , it is true, by tears and mucuswhich are antiseptic in their action,but the possibility of infection is un-doubtedly a real one and points to thenecessity forgeneral observance ofthe hygienic rule to catch. all coughsand sneezes in ones handkerchief.When infections occur in theeye inspite of precautions against hem avisit to the medical officer should bepromptly made and an accurate iag-nosis established if possible. Whilemany of these infections are compara-tively benign and short-livedall ofthem call for certain temporary limit-

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FOR NIGHT VZSZON, eat carrots,spimach, fish, mi l k .of such drugs is a long one includingchloral, iodoform, carbon disulphide,wood alcohol, cannabis ndica, andothers, the two that are of greatestimportance are ethyl alcohol andnicotine. These two taken over aperiod of years in the form f alcoholicbeverages and tobacco chewed orsmoked, have been found o act to-gether in certainpersons over 35 yearsof age to cause first dimness of vision,and then loss of the red-green colorvision and eventually even more severehandicapping of vision. In view fthe fac t tha t the lcohol and tobaccotend to produce their first toxic effectsupon th at part of each retina whichis the sea t of highest visual activity,it isobvious that naval personnel,particular ly on sea duty, cannot af-ford to use either alcohol or tobaccoin large quantities or to experimentto find their limits f tolerance.Safeguardimg Agaimst Imdustrial

Eye HazardsI f we define blindness as the n-

ability to count fingers held three feetawayfrom the eyes, it has been esti-mated that there are approximately100,000 blind persons in he UnitedStates. Of these 100,000 blind, ap-proximately 15 percent are blindedas the esult of industrial accidents.

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Official U . ST h e Emd o f an Epic: Af ter mopaths of fightiwg, U. . Marimes, relieved by th e Arm y

dashed through the Jap ines, ran 500yards o he beach and swam 200yards to the destroyer to ask its com-mander o hold his fire because wewere coming through. Master Gun-nery Sgt. Roy Fowel, Kinston, N. C.,one of the best mortar men in heCorps, knocked off his destruction ofthe rice bags, an d we sailed intothem, bayonets fixed. What a runtha t was to the beach. Five hundredyards, and we made it through halfa thousand Jap s in 5 minutes.

The Colonels DogThis is a tale about a Marine ser-geant-a veteran of 11 years servicein China, Cuba, Panam a, the Philip-pines, Hawaii, Iceland, Nicaragua,Guam, and the Solomons-and about

Do something abouthat Plug- O ne at aTheergeantaluted ndeturned Soldierugly, the colonel told Graddick.tohis egular duties, considering theThis isproblem of Zarro. was taken

He had a previous reputationforresourcefulness inettinghingsdone. He went outandcaptured aJapanese truck when no other vehiclewas available, and he had been or-dered to get a truckload of gravel.And when hehad been told th atsome tents had to be put up and nomanpower was available, he roundedup some Solomon Islanders and got

them to work for nothing, fascinatingthem so with his gesticulations th atthey offered him the job of villagechief.As for Zarro:Nobody in the egiment wanted the

United Streceived rettes andimaginableforces in roundedYou haven

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How V-Mailworks:Left, stack of let tersphotographedNavy i s cocnstantly incrmakes ro l l of film he ize of that ita g i r l s hand. statioms.Right, V-Mails ecnlarged upocn reaching destination.

V-Mail Gets Through-AlwayScore of New StationsIndicatesNew ServiceHasProven tself

FACILITIES for sending' V-mail ton a v a l personnel s c a t t e r e dthroughout he world are beingexpanded,with 20 newly assembledV-mail sta tions waiting a t ports ofembarkation to be shipped abroad.At the same time means of receiv-ing suchmail at remote foreign pointshave been broadened with the devel-opment of small, portable machines,to develop andprint rom V-mailnegatives, that can be set up quicklyin isolated areas.Thegreatly increasednumber ofmen at Navy shore establishmentsand on ships has complicated theproblems of mail delivery. Appro-priate steps have been taken by the

carried by ships, trains, and Planes.To reach men overseas and on shiMthe V-letter is photographed on mi-crofilm. A roll of film that carries1,800 etters is small and easily trans-ported by air. Once overseas, the let-te r is reproduced, enlarged, and senton its way within a few hours.

W h y V-MailShould Be Used

Inanuary 1943:1,202pounds of airmail were trans-ported by steamship from heWest coast to Pacific islands;

Other nParcel-men overaccepted than 15 nin engthaone suchceptable third-clacirculars overseas.not accepImpropdiers andconfusionstraying failo rnixies


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the original letters are confidentiallyretained until a clearance is receivedfrom the receiving station. If thefilm is not received, another film canbe made. Thus V-mail always getsthrough-it cannot be lost.Another fact of importance is thatbecause these ettersare so minuteand he space and weight requiredto transport them is so small that a nunlimited volume can be handled andbecause of their size they receive pri-ority over all mail except that desig-nated as official.In certain type lanes now carryingmail overseas, approximately 60,000letters represent a normaload.These letters weigh about 1,300pounds. If 1,300 pounds of micro-filmed mail were dispatched, it wouldcontain over 4,000,000 etters andonlyrequire 24 cubic feet of the planescargo space. The 60,000 letters asmentioned above would weigh only19 pounds 6 ounces on microfilm andoccupy 0.37 cubic feetor ust one-third of a cubic foot of space.It can easily be visualized how mailtransportat ion can become almost anegligible item i f anything near to thehope of the War and Navy Depart-ments is attained on the use ofV-mail.In December, only 75 percent of allair mail from San Francisco to Hon-olulu was carried by air due to short-age of plane cargo space. The e-mainder was transported by surfacecraft . Had the entire volume of air-

mail been sent via V-mail, it wouldhave been less than a single planeload as compared with 64 plane loadsin the original form.Another comparative figure is thata mail bag filled with ordinary mailcontains approximately 3,000 letters,while a similar bag loaded with filmwould contain n he neighborhoodof 200,000 letters.Mail to the armed forces is impor-tant. It is vital to the morale of themen and it is hoped that V-mail will

?.ZCRO-FIUI. THE ROLL OF LIICRD-FILM WI C H CA.9RIES TSOL% 1800 OTHERS IS VERY SK4LI. AN3 CAN EASILY BE TRX AIR. OI!CE OVERS EAS, THE LETTER IS RE P RODUCE S I NEFEJITH AND SENT ON IT S WAY WITHIN A FEW HOUAS.

M REACH OUR LE!! OVERSEAS, THE V- MI L lETTER IS

A S V - U I L HAS FIRS T PRIORITYAFTER OFFIC IAL YIIDESTINATIONS, I T IS SURG TO BE FO~ARDHI Y FIRST AFACILITIES BADLY NEEDEXl TO CARXY ESSENTIAL ViAR SUPPTRRMSFUitTATION.AT THE W E TDlE I T SAVES FAIL, PL

YOU CAN HELP OUR WAR E F F O R T BY HELPING TO FUFV1. USE V-WLIL EORW M I L To E N N OUROVERSEAS.2. TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUTV-MAIL.

FOR THE C O I W I E N C E OF NAVX DEPARTMENT PERSONNECAN BE OBTAI NED FROMTHENAVY E4 I L ROOE. THE FOXSTATIOnRY STORES.SECURED KITHOUT CHARGEAT POST OFFI CES, OR FOR A SW

A V-Mail letter, ctual sizeNew York or SanFrancisco, it may be.assumed that the addressee is over-seas and therefore, ostage at the rateof six cents for eachone-half ounce o rfraction thereof is applicable. Ifair mail is addressed tonavalper-sonnel or otherswithin he conti-nental United States it is subject topostage at the ra te of six centsfor

10, 1942,ulletters maiarmed forcewriting of taccepted frea ,number ovelopes withthereon. Tthen issued


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. horizonof a posship ounriding othreemehad beeGerman83 days five menan Amethe longsun, theotherdanto skin aand expwhat fe25 o r 30with heiThe twomandinfirst deachs, thdeaf.ThThe mtackaftesharks, caughta20th dathe 21stbut weday thecaught trough.


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Heavy Allied raids om th e "Fortress of Europe'j characterized the month's war meImformatiom Bulletim Chromomap.

~~Combat Photo Unit SetIn a program to obtain more com-

plete photographic coverage of t hewar, the Navy has established a Com-bat Photographic Section, a coopera-tive activity of the Officeof PublicRelations an d theBureau of Aero-nautics.Ten officers at present are complet-inga special course of training orthis work.They,will take charge ofunits consisting of three enlisted men,two motion-picture cameramen, andone still photographer. These groups,called Combat Photographic Units,will be assigned throughout the worldtocurrent or potential theat res ofoperation. Their duty will be to sup-

Station, Anacostia, Washington, D. C.To be known as the Naval Photo-graphic Science Laboratory and con-structed at the direction of the Secre-tary of the Navy to handle all photo-graphic problems for the entireNavy,the new laboratory will fill the photo-graphic requests of all bureaus andnaval establishments. Initially, itwill be staffed by nearly 700 naval per-sonnel,made up almost entirely of

IN SEVEN BATTLESJ. R. Anderson, now a cadetat the United States Navy West

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C UGHT in a barrage of 5-inchshells laid down by aUnitedStates destroyer, a German sub-marine prowling the Atlantic wascompletely destroyed.The submarinewas sighted a t nightby the flagship of a destroyer divisionand the destroyer immediately closedupon the underseas craft,herma-chine gun spraying the U-boat to pre-

vent the German seamen from man-ning thei r deck gun.A orpedo was fired by the sub-marine from a stern tube in an ffortto sink the destroyer, but by skillfulseamanship the tinish was avoided.Fk-antically twisting and urning,the submarine attempted o escape.The destroyer, however, bore in with5-inch guns blazing.Its fire took effect. One shdl toreinto he submarines conning towerat the waterline. Destruction of theU-boat was complete.Six officers and enlistedmen, in-cluding the officer commanding thedestroyer division, were decorated foroutstanding performance of duty dur-ing the incident.

1 Capt. Stanley Cook Norton, USN, 48 ,32 Sherman Street, Portland , Maine,commander of the destroyer division.He received the Navy Cross. .CommanderHamilton W. Howe,USN, 39 , 8212 GlennMyrtle Avenue,Norfolk, Va., commanding officer ofthe destroyer. He received the NavyCross.Lt. Comdr. William W. Vanous, USN,33, Annapolis, Md., the destroyersexecutive officer. He was awarded theSilver Star Medal.

Lt. Kenneth M. Tebo, USN, 23, 10

They are:

Th e War round the Worl d:

How One Nazi Sub W as Sumander of a destroyer division when marine. *the flagship of his division madea For distisuccessful attack uDon a German sub- line of his p

Richelieu to fight again -PressAn Al lied gain; a Naz i loss-The 35,000-ton Richewarship, i s guided up New Yorks East River fand will again fight against the Axis. But, below

Duple ix lists toward the calm water of Tou lontling opreventcaptureby heNazis.TheDupleixmayserviceagain. Theeight15-inchguns of thevisible. The Queen of the French fleet also has 137-mm. antiaircraftguns and twenty-four13-mShe was disabled by depth charges and later tocraft at Daka r July 8,1940.


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officer of a United States destroyer,read the citation awarded wi t h Com-mander Howes medal. With a sin-gleness of purpose, he racked,at-tacked,and completely destroyed aGerman submarine without inju ry tohis vessel or its personnel.Lieutenant Commander Vanous ci-tation commended him for coura-geous act ion and or his efficient per-formance of duty by taking stationon top of the flying bridge as soon

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Air Base BuiltOn Island of Upolu

The United States has built an airbaseon the island of Upolu in theSamoan group, it was revealed bySecretary Knox. The island is ap-

as the chase of thesubmarine wasbegun, keeping the conning tower of-ficer informed of his observations asto the movements of t he submarine,directing the training of the search-light and generally being of great as-sistance unti l the dest ruct ion of t heGerman U-boat was accomplished.Lieutenant Tebo was officer-of-the-deck and was cited for courageousaction. By his accurate conningof the ship during most of the chase,and by deeping the ship just clear ofthe submarines wake, he undoubt-edly prevented thesubmarine fromscoring a hit with a torpedo that wasfired at he destroyer, his citationasserted.Wright was lauded for gallantry inaction and meritorious devotion toduty n hecitation accompanyinghis Silver .S tar Medal. Wrightscommand of a machinegun, firingpromptly and accurately, therebyre-venting the enemy submarine crewfrom manning their deck gun, aidedmaterially in he completedestruc-tion of the German U-boatwithoutloss or damage to the United Statesdestroyer or its personnel, the cita -tion concluded.Heyman also was praised for gal-lant ry in action and meritorious de-votion to duty and his citation as-serted that he displayed .extraordi-nary heroism in coolly and quicklyspotting the shots on the target and,by securing ahit in theconning towerat the waterline, aided materially inthe final destruction of the Germansubmarine.Japanese Sub CommanderMakes Las t MistakeHow bringing his submarine to thesurface proved fatal o a apaneseskipper:

A heavily loaded Amehcan mer-chantman, carryinga valuable cargo,

gun. Thshells, alammunitshells scofrom a mthe sub. water. T

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about 150 miles from here.The radio all which led to herescue, Colonel Schneider believed,came from a military transport planewhich spotted the ra ft , fiew low Overit but could not attempt a rescue be-cause it was a land plane.He said he was unable o get theplanes number, adding:But Im certainly grateful to thepilot. He droppedomething in aMae West (lifepreserver). I hadtried to indicate th at I was withoutwater so I presume the parcel con-tained water. It sank before I couldreach it. I had read of persons dyingof thirst and I confess I didnt relishthe idea.Colonel Schneider, a 6-footer withgraying brown hair, said he waspretty woozy from a blow on thehead after his plane was forced down.I had difficulty in getting aboardmy life raft , he said. I presume Iwas more groggy than I suspected.

I had to throw away my pistol.andtwist out of my parachute pack tolighten the urden enough to getaboard.IS ingenuity In securing his lit-tle raft and making use of hisscanty equipment enabled himto weather his experience in excellentshape and to conserve his strength sothat he probably could have existed

for several more days.I hated to lose my parachute packbecause it containedan emergencykit which would have provided mesome very useful equipment, the col-onel said. I knew I needed a eaanchor o make my raft seaworthy.I tried a bucket first, but when th eline partedand I lost the bucket Imanufactured amakeshift anchorfrom my shoes, my car tridge belt, andmy pistol holster.Colonel Schneider used his ironrations, consisting mostly of fortifiedchocolate, for sustenance and to markhis name and rankon the life raft in

H What operations successfullymeans in a Navy communiquSmoke pours up rombombed JapanesepositioIsland im the New Georgia group of the Solobardment. About his raid, a Navy commumwere successfully completed and fires from exmumitiom dumps imdicated that he ememy-hburned out. U . S . repeatedly has raided KoloPacific aerial attacks on Japs continued daily.raft to scratch their backs, but I wasunable to catch them, he explained.I fashioned a hook from my fiash-light spring and baited it with a pieceof cotton. The cotton lured fish forme once in Panama but I guess thefish around here dont like medicatedbait.

natives wetheir food After acome. Thgoat to usup, hide anpot tomakemuch. W


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HEAPED-UP barges and small boats bring in food and amnzunition for Americas filz South Pacific. Boxes sometimes get rough handling.

New Containers Solve ShippingM DERN warfarenar-away places and the con-tinued submarinemenace isleading o a drastic change inmethods of preparing, .handling,and shipping of war materials toAmerican troops and their allies.

So intenseas become theproblem of logistics th atheNavy has established specialorganization to develop new con-tainersand packagingmethodsto fac ili tate he delivery of thegreatest volume of goods in us-able condition in the shortestos-sible time.Iceland, the Solomon Islands,and North Africa, with their

Smaller Packages MakeforM ore Convenient HandlingThis problem wassolved by theembossing orrinting of theidentity of th e contents directlyon the can.The absenceof docking facili-ties in all theaters f war and theusual need for extremely hastyunloading, usually a t night, hasnecessitated the throwing ofboxes of supplies overboard andeither floating or carrying themashore. Ordinary wooden andcardboard cartons could not with-stand falls from op decks andsoon disintegrated. Other typesof containers ither would notfloat or could not withstand theeffects of salt water. To cope

points, whlikely to bebut providemarines or floating or AnothereaNavys BurAccounts hmake 1 pouwork of 2,dual-purpoline contaveloped thas water cocently devgasoline cation of shestructures.T


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New Weather Suit-Testedby Coa

Harris and Ewing Photographs.Life raft: Being ested on the Poto-mac.Rjver at Washington, D. C., isthe newly approvedCoast Guardlife aft.Note he ail, iller, andotherquipmentwhichheaftscarry.

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The Navys S hort-Wave ProNews Is Their Backbone butTh ey H ave Entertainment TooT E Officeof War Information,Overseas Forces Division, work-ing incooperation with. the NavyOffice of Public Relations (Radio Sec-tio n), has developed wo short-waveprograms of interest to naval, marinecorps, and coast guardpersonnel over-seas. Each fulfills a special need-aneed best answered through the me-

dium of short-wave radio.Because it was felt to be importantthat men at sea and at shore basesoverseas receive news regularly, andhavehe opportunity of learningabouC developments a t home and in

other heaters of war, the irst ofthese two Navy radio programs ismainly a Navy news program. It isentitled Calling the Navy and isbroadcast 6 days a week, three timesa day.Callingthe Navy contains unclas-sified news of the Navy a t home; newsfrom home training bases; news fromth e Navy Department; news of devel-opments in the shipbuilding yards, a tthe recruiting centers; news ofchanges in uniforms, changes in pay,and everything else of personal in-terest to the men in blue.

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audiences. This ime was, therefore,cleared and Tell It to the Marinesi s broadcast five times a week byKGEI, San Francisco, a t 0100P. W. T.on 7250 kc. (1900 South Pacific Zonetime).Actually, the first 5 minutes of this15-minute period are devoted toworld news and Tell It to the Ma-rines run s or he following nineminutes, The program features Ma-rine Corps news, ente rtainment andmessages from the folks at home.Marine Corps news embraces allphases of th e Corps act ivity at homeand in other part s of the world, andkeeps the men posted on promotions,commendations, new devolpments atQuantico, San Diego, Camp Lejeune,and other establishments.The enterta inment portion of theprogram eatures he countrys topnames in this field. In almost everyinstance a personalelement is in-jected into the program with a viewto making the Marines feel this pro-gram is really or them,and hemonly. This is accomplished by havingthe enterta iners record special greet-ings directed solely to th e Marines inthe South Pacific.Messages from he folks at homeare really the core of the programand every effort is made to have these

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field to deliver your Navy Cross toyour mother * * * just beforeChristmas.

Corporal Jones says that he willcollect that $14 from you.However,if you care to settle in another man-ner, its 0.k. with him. Fourteen Japswill tu rn the trick.Son born 3 p. m. February 7 . Allof the.grandparents present. Wifean d baby doing. fine.

The Office of War Information hasset up, through its regional officesthroughout the country, facilities forreceiving these messages. The namesof all recipients of messages ar ecleared by t he Navy Department andchecked against the most recent cas-ualty lists prior to broadcast.

The program is purposely kept ex-tremely flexible, and special speakersinserted whenever it is felt they willbeof value to he program.Thesespeakers - are usually Marines, ex-marines rmen recently returnedfrom the South Pacific area.Another fea tu re of Tell It to theMarines is special shows. JackBenny and FredAllen did one of these

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QuartersandA n Explanation of

- th e Two Programs .T E law governing payment ofquarters allowances to enlistedmen of the upper three paygrades is much more rigid than thelaw providing family allowances fordependents of enlisted men n helower four pay grades.

The differences between the Pro-grams are not always understood, be-cause they occasionally lead to unusualand illogical distinctions. Both pro-grams are administered by the Casu-alties and Allotments Section of theWelfare Division in heBureau ofNaval Personnel, in collaboration withthe Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Both laws were enacted in June1942, he Servicemens Dependents Al-

. lowance Act on June 23 and hePayReadjustment Act on June 16. How-ever, the family allowance law ispurely a wartimeprogram,whereasthe qua rte rs llowance provisions wereoriginallyenacted in 1940 as a con-tinuing system. In effect thefamilyallowance law is more general andmore liberal than he provisions formoney allowances in lieu of quarters.The family allowance law covers abroader range of relatives, includingwives, children, parents, brothers andsisters, grandchildren, and former i-vorced wives. Quarters allowancesapply only to wives, children,andparents.On a whole, too, the financial pro-visions for the families of men in t he

lower pay grades are more generousth an the rovisions for quarters llow-ances. Only one quarters allowancecan be paid on account of the serviceof one enlisted man, whereas varioulirelativesmay receive family allow-

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ALLOWANCEElzlisted mem ~ K Zhe lower four paygrades get family allowames;em-listed men ilz the upper three paygrades get quarters allowames.There i s a real dividing line be-tweelz the two.parents, however, only if they are infact dependent uponhim or heirchief support.Courts have inte r-preted chief support to mean over 50percent.

Because of these differences, in cer-tain large families a man and his de-pendents may receive more if he is inthe fourth ay grade thanf he is pro-moted to he third paygrade. Thisunusual circumstance occasionallyleads menwho are promoted to secondclass petty officer to file incorrect ap-plications for money allowances in lieuof quarters , on the assumption tha tthe program is as broad as the familyallowance provisions. Other men failto apply promptly for a quarters al-lowance, under he false impressionthat family allowances will continue orthat a quarters allowance will be sub-stituted for family allowances auto-matically.

Another important distinction be-tween the programs is more a matterof form th an of substance. Whereas

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OffiSCRAP FROM PEARL HARBOR: Left, a metal ~drslm rom the battleship Arizona; rg o down to the Arizoba o seek more salvage.

.. . *Scrap From the Battle FrontsU n d e r E n e m y s ..Nose,,N-av,al,.SupplyOfficers Gather. Materiabf&r,Armaments

U NITED STATES ships, returningfrom the war zones, are bring-ing back battle scrap at thera te of approximately 3,000 tonsmonth tobe turned intonew weapons.Scrap from Pearl Harbor,ncludingmuch of themetal reclaimed fromships, airplanes, andshore nstalla-tions damaged December 7, 1941,hasbeen a major item in the homewardflow of scrap metal. Damaged planesand other bulky materials have beenmelted down in furnaces in the Ha-waiian Islands to make solid pigs ofmetal to be shipped as ballast inNavyships home-bound from hebattleareas.

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Growth(Comtinued from page 3 )

are taking to the air inwarms to jointhe fleet.Mentioning the quota increase rom15,000 to 27,500 planes,hesaid thatthe Navy had been diligent in inau-gurating experimental projects and incapitalizingnombatxperiencefrom all sources.In addition to the increase of morethan 6,700 pilots nnavalaviation,the umber of enlistedmen with

aeronauticalratingshadrisenfrom12,432 to 31,106. Preflight trainingcenters had been established at fouruniversities, w i t h attendance at eachcenter scheduled at 1,900 students, atotal of 7,600 a t all times in 1943.Asserting that the Navy Bureau ofOrdnance had proved during theyear that it can and will provide the

guns to beat he Axis,Mr. Knoxstated that the seven-ocean fleet willget the weapons it needs, while ord-nance now in use will not only be keptfiring but will be modernized.From ourarsenals were comingweapons capable of shooting farther,higher,. harder and faster than anyyet designed, as the production ofordnance kept pace with the outpu t

of ships and planes, he added.Navalersonnelpproached themillion-mark at the end of June. TheMarineCorpsalsohadmore thandoubled its strength. Coast Guardstrength had grown to 58,632 with anadditional 11,500 volunteer yacht andboat owners supplying 400 flotillas of9,500 boats.

Excerpts(Comtimued from page 4 )

Lemme see-what did I doyesterday?sioned during the spring of 1941, andthe U. S. S. South Dakota had beenlaunched in June 1941. By the end ofthe fiscal year the U. S. S. S o u t hDakota, U. S.S. Massachusetts, andU. S. S. Indiana were all in commis-sion, ap d the U. S. S. Alabama wasrapidly nearing its completion date.

The experimentaldevelopment oflargemulti-enginedeaplanes wasfeatured by the launching and flighttcsting of th e 140,000-pound Mars.Tests to dateon this model have dem:onstrated its soundness of design andaptitudeorong-rangeatrolrtransport missions.

In addition to powered ai rcraft de-velopments, an accelerated glider pro-gram was undertaken.Included aretypes for amphibious tactical use bythe United States Marines.Lighter-than-air activities were in-tensified by legislation increasing the

cialistsorsareas.The Airprovides acollect, cformationtoward vaequipmenof the railay, accorence of oconstantlimprovemand tacticSeveralbeing builIncreasand leaththe prescrtheir firstthe fiscalfiscal yeaBy the

ment of tvoluntaryyacht and gatedapprganizationflotillas.Navy iproduced proaching

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Subs Trek(Continued f ro m page 7 )

then turned her attention to theextvessel, a big tanker. But the tankerproved a warier foe.

They had lookoutsswarmingallover the ship, Lieutenant Comman-der Chappell said. They didnt haveany trouble spotting us, and theyturned nd fired at us. We wentdown and came back up after dark.We dogged themallnight. ,Finallywe came up with the first one wedhit.Buthe was pretty ittery,andspotted us before we could get set,and chased us away.

Then we found the tanker again,and his time it was our turn. Wegot one or two torpedoes into her, Idont remember which, but e was thedamnedest lookingmess you ever saw.He burned so beautifully I let theboyscome up on the bridge and watch him.The boys swore wed broken him intwo. All I know is th at he madea finefire.

Thenextmorning one ship wasgone entirely, the second was listingso badly she seemed about o turnover, the thi rdwas still in ood shape,so the captain of the submarine de-cided to have a try at her.Buthegot tangledup n a cross-fire romboth ships and had to give it up.You Sink Ships Wit h Bow Shots

A t this point the submarine wasnot especially anxious for violent ac-tion, having only one fish lef t in herforward ection.There were plentyof torpedoes af t, but theow shots arethe one you sink ships with as a gen-eral rule.

Then a goodsized Jap cargo shipw a s spotted jus t off the entrance tothe bay. The submarine got in as

One of Those Underseas AppA story in the March issue of T H E ZNFORMATtold how Chief Pharmacists Mate Thomas AAriz., performed an emergency appendectomyPlatter of Bufialo, N . Y., when the latter wasmarine Silversides in enemy waters in the P

graph of the underseas operation. Moore, left, away from the colon. Chief Moore never hadtomy before but felt confident he could do he oinflamed appendix was removed after 5 hourson light duty after days.guesshe w as loaded with ammuni-tion.

Completely out ofbow torpedoes,Lieutenant Commander C h a p p e 11sta rted his submarine back toward arefueling base. The rip home wascompletelywithout incidentexcepttha t one night they ran into a convoyof a reighter, a tanker,and a de-

destroyer aquarry witdestroyer pin for a figand escape

Night wcialty, andseas craft,many of heescapades.

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Make Japs Fire om Each OtherThe destroyer heard the commo-tion and turned around and cutcrossthe column ahead of the tanker, ook-ing for us. Meanwhile, the other de-stroyers which had been protectingthe head.of the column came roaringback to see what he trouble was.They knew the direction the torpedoeshad come from, but when they lookedout there,all they saw was th e silhou-ette of a destroyer. So they openedfire on her.We scooted ou t of there as fastaswe could, but the irst destroyer heardus, and tartedafter us. We wereabout to dive, but I kind of hated to.We were in a mood for a race, so westayed on the surface and ran for it.He kept misjudging our position, andhis shots were always well astern ofus. He kept it up for a long time, but

finally gave it up n disgust. Thatchase w a s the most fun of th e wholeparty.A little later, the submarineas or-dered to eturn home again. Lieu-tenant Commander Chappell was will-ing, being down to his last four tor-pedoes. On the way he made contactwith a small cruisernd couldnt resist

the emptation. He tossed a singletorpedo, which he thinks must havescared the Japs half todeath. Itmissed the ship by 10 feet but it wasso close th at th ewash from the pro-peller exploded it, andhe blasthoisted the stern out f the water andlet it drop with a splash.The Japanese ran around, scanningthe air for lanes. Seconds later , theylearned he direction of the danger.A second torpedo struck them amid-ships.But the Japs still had fight left inthem. We thought hey were gon-

h l d i in Th e Ho i s tDoes honorable admiral wish toreport slight damage?succession of hair-breadth escapes in-terspersed with weeks of inactivity,suits the submarine man o a T, somuch so that hes intimidated at th emere suggestion of other duty.

Depth Charges? N o WorYy? .If they ever want to scare me to

d e a t h , Lieutenant CommanderChappell says, they just have to putme on one of those surface ships.Up there, you often find yourself go-ing in with 5-inch-guns againsta guywith8-inch guns. Tha t would ter-rify me, honestly. Down here, weresafe.Depth charges? Nothing toworry about at all. Did you evertry to hit a fish with a rock? Samething.

As for he enlisted manon heship, his attitude is fairly exemplifiedby the man on the submarine who,

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-0fNAVY GETS A REST CENTER IN BERMUDA: Madeavailable fo r $1 Q yeaMcLealz, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of Washington,D. ., th

of a relaxatiolz center or maual personlzel.

Navy's Eyes(Continued from page1

100 footcandles may be found neces-sary.Under all circumstances the directillumination should be directed fromabove and inback of the worker. Un-der nocircumstancesshould brightsources of direct or reflected light be

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and reflect directly into the eyes thusproducing eye strain. Floor stand orhanging lampswhich can be placed i nback of the worker are much to bepreferred where their use is possible.GlareWhen one is directly exposed tovery bright or tropical sunshine, ex-cessive light may enter theeyes eitherdirectly from the sun or by direct re-flection from snow, sand, bright pave-

and opticacause of eyare worn fIt shouldlight contable rays,m

and infrarelengths of The vitreosorbs all sothe wavelea millimete

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wavelengths between 1,100 and 770millionths of a millimeter; (c) to theultraviolet rays between 35 0 and 390. millionths of a millimeter. But heabsorpt ion of excessive amounts ofradiant energy even in this narrowbandmay give rise topermanentdamage of the ret ina as if by a burn.Viewingof an eclipse or a welderstorch for an extended period withoutgoggles or smoked glass may give riseto this type of retinal damage andeclipse blindness.

N i g h t VisioeWhen one goes directly from abrightly lighted compartment t o adimly lighted compartment or to thedark outdoors at night one can seelittle or nothing at first. After about10 minutes of adaptation to the darkthenormal eye begins to see verymuchmore clearly and progressiveimprovement in functionmay benoted with prolongation of the stayin the dark up to a maximum of 40minutes.Playing an importan t part in thisadaptation is the pigment in the ret-ina known as visual purple. Thisvisual purple is composed partly ofvitamin A and when the diet is de-ficient in vitamin A for an extended

period dark adaptat ion is both slowand incomplete. Since rapid adapta-tion odarknessand a keen nightvision are so essential to naval per-sonnelon watchdutyand similarduties, the prevention of vitamin Adeficiency becomes of extremem-portance.Vitamin A is foundnlarge mounts n he fat of milk(whole milk, cream,butter,and icecream) , in colored vegetables such ascarrots,spinach,and tomatoes, andin eggs, liver, kidney, and fish. It isvery abundant n fish liver oils. Ifforany reason the diet cannot bemade to provide about 4,000 Inter-

will fall upon theperipheralretinaand be noted even when nothing canbe definitely visualized upon directingthe gaze straight to the suspectedspot and thus placing th e image onthe central area of the retina.

Fatigue a d Visual R eserveIn viewof the fac t tha t in doing

all close eye work the ciliary musclesof the eye must be in almost continu-ous activity, it is evident t ha t exces-sive fatigue of these muscles must bevery common.- To reduce the wearand tear on these muscles and in-crease their reserves, the followingsuggestions will be found helpful:(a ) obtain as far as possible an ade-quateamount of sleep; ( b ) do notexpect your eyes to have their normalvisual reserve when you are physicallyovertired or have been forced to re-duce markedly your hours of sleep;(c) in doing close eye work arrangefor proper illumination (adequate inintensity and directed from behind)and restyour eyes by looking up fromthe closework an d looking away ata distance, if possible, a t frequent in-tervals; (d ) be moderate in the read-in g of newspaper print or other dim-cult print at night when you are al-ready tired.Naval T ransportNamed Lejeune

Secretary of t he Navy Frank Knoxhas approved the naming of a trans-port the U. S. S. Lejeune in honor ofthe late t. Gen. John Archer Lejeune,World War general, who served asCommandant of theMarine Corpsfrom 1920 to 1929. The Lejeune wasformerly named the U. S. S.Windhuk,a vessel acquired from Brazil. She isbeing refitted at an eas t coa st navyyard.

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(Corztirzued from page 15 )soldiers wanted to surrender, but ereafraid to do so because of their of-ficers, an officer asked him whetherhe would broadcast an appeal to hiscomrades. He agreed.

The nextday the loudspeakers wereplaced ona ridge at he front.Inthe ravine below Ja p snipers and ma-chine guns peppered away as soldiersse tup heapparatus.The shootingstopped thenstanthe prisonerstarted speaking. Not a bullet wasfired as he spoke.

Standing by the microphone was aMarine officerwho knew Japanese.He was ready to shut off the mikethe moment the prisoner showed anysign of treachery. But the prisonerspoke faithfully.The debates among theJap sol-

diers in the ravine cannly be guessedat. Not a shot was fired t hat afte r-noon. In he morning, as day wasbreaking over Guadalcanal,ightJaps, their hands .up an d th e Palmsforward, walked up to our ines.Within the hour American soldierscaptured anothereight who put U P noresistance.

Sitting on a LogThinking he was going to the rearof his own lines, Pvtlc Bernard Lin-quist, USMC, 20, of Albert Lea, Minn.,wandered nearlya mile and a halfinto enemy territory.Linquist wasworking w i t h another- company, andwhen its objective was reached, he

left to report to is own section.Its easy to get lost in the ungles ofGuadalcanal. So Linquist did notknow he was heading in the wrongdirection until hecame upon a Ja pleisurely sitting on a log.

to take any waterlong. I didnt evenhave any grenades. All I had was myrifle.Istarted back cautiously. I heardsome Jap voices and ducked behind a

tree, holding my breath for feartheyd hear me. It was a party ofJapscarrying machine guns. I de-cided to lay low till they passed. Icouldnt knock off many with my riflean d if I tried, Id never get back.Linquist returned to his section ex-hausted. He had been in Jap er ri-tory for 5 % hours. The battalion in-telligence officer told him: Goodwork, Linquist, but dont get lostagain.

Porky & Co.Back home the Hospital Corpsmen,who are ttached to every Marinecompany, are called swab jockeys

by the Leathernecks.OnGuadalca-nal theyre known as DOC.The usually hard-shelled Marinesmake no attempt to conceal their ad-mirat ion of the men.

Here are tories of some of thecorpsmen :Hospitalpprentice First ClassRichard H. Painter, 18, of Detroit,Mich., was with a patrol pinned downby Ja p machine gun fire. Whenman was seriously wounded, Painterran through the hailf bullets to stopthe flow of blood and apply bandages.Thecorpsman was shot n he leg.Without ending himself, he carried

In nighran hrouga big Jap pany of Msix. In daexploded shoutedandshell casesfiringand htion, the cThey gaveused thei r helmets netection wcorpsmen Third ClaDetroit, MRrst Classchilla, CalMossyrock

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The words of Maj. Ewart S. Laue,Sea ttle, Wash., tell the story of theheroism of Pvt. Lewis F. Franklin,Beaumont, Tex., againstapaneseforces on Guadalcanal:

When the other members of thecrew were hit and out of action, thekid manned the machine gun single-handed. From his position, it was im-possible to work a traversing field offire, so he picked up the gun, alancedit on his thigh,and sprayed lead.When theorder came to fall back o anew line, he was still ighting madan d had to be forcibly restrained.

Corp. Oliver G. Cruickshank, o fBear Valley, Mariposa County, Calif.,told of some other phases of the fight-ing. His squad was in a raiding partywhich was to knock out eight J ap fieldpieces.

Caught in pocket of fire, only Corp.Cruickshank and two others of hissquad werent hit , but hose who couldfought on.

The number three gunner of mysquad, said Cruickshank,was hittwice in thechest, but he helped otherwounded out of the way, then set uphis gun and, cool as a cucumber, Aredaway until he used up twoboxes ofammunition. I know he knocked outonegun, maybe more. Hes Pv tlcDonaldCarlson, of Minneapolis. He

-walked all the way back to the hospi-tal without help.

Chop Down TreedJapsA Marine egimental ommandercommended his ank-destroyer pla-toon for action as assault artillery ina three-day operation west of the

Matanikau River.

A battle-scarredJapanese ioat -ty peZero, shotzone, i s unloaded at Alamed

cleared the way with a barrage, and,accounted for two moremachine-gun emplacements and a 40-milli-metergun. Thebarrage was so ef-fective that theegiment suffered onlytwo casualties in its advance.

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enemy positions. West s also cred-ited wi th killing five enemy snipers.Honolulu

Thoughts of PearlHarbormusthave led him to shout Honolulu asthe squad he was in killed two Jap-anese, says Sergeant Russell Stanley,.of Maynard, Iowa, and so Honolulubecame a Marine war cry.Second Lt. John Priestly, of Pontiac,Mich., was n charge f the patrol, andw i t h its battle yell of Honolulu itwas credited with killing at least 12Japanese, capturing five machineguns, and as many 47-millimeter and77-millimeter guns duringa 45-minuteoperation.Cooks T o u rPFC Leland B. Simpson, 22 , of Win-netka, Ill., decided tha t he couldnt

fight this war from a galley all thetime.Without a word, he laid aside hisladles after serving morning chow,picked up his rifle, a bandolier of am-munition, and hree hand grenades,and slipped off toward the front.I was going along the side of a cliffin the jungle, he said, when I no-

ticed a movement in he bushes. Icrawled up quietly to within 20 feet ofthe place and yelled: Get the hell outta there.A Ja p stuck his head up. He still.had a look of surprise when I shothim dead.Simpson shouted again: Any morethere?Hearing no reply, he pulled the pinfrom a grenade, counted up to fourso that no Jap could possibly toss itback at him, and threw it into a cavebehind the bush.

TurbansThe WAVES will wear turbans with

their aviation coveralls. The urbanwill be a protection to keep stray, fly-ing locks in place. It willbe wornwhen working around motors inplants or factories.M arriage R egulationsFor WA V ES Changed

Changes in regulations will allowwomen reservists in theNavy, MarineCorps, and Coast Guard to marry enin theirown branches of the service a tany time except during indoctrinationand training courses. Under the for-mer ruling, women reservists had toresign upon marrying men in heirown branch of the service.

The marriage regulations still barwomen marriedo Navy, MarineCorps, and Coast Guard personnelfrom entering the same branchf theservice as their husbands.

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World(Corntirnuedfrom page 23)

with the depth charges on her sternexploding as she sank.Sighting the enemy patrolhipearly onemorning, th e submarineopened fire at a distance of 2 miles.The sub was not materially damagedin the ensuing battle.The attack cost the life of one ofthe crew members, Herbert AndrewCalcaterra, MMMlc, USN,Stoneyford,Calif. Calcaterra was awarded theSilver Star medalposthumously forhis part in the engagement. Five ofhis shipmates also received the SilverSta r medal for conspicuous gallantryandntrepiditynhe encounter.They are Daniel James Schultz, CGM,USN, Waseca, Minn., Chester Phipps,M l c , USN, Beardsley, Kans., LloydF. Hern, GM2c, Brownville, Nebr.,Robert F. Case, TM2c, Tenino, Wash.,an d Joseph Matthew Petrovsky,EMlc,USN, Johnson City N. Y.

Shooters-Not TootersBalboa, Canal Zone.-Sixty yearsold-too old to flght, he says he wastold by th eMarines-Capt. HoraceTalbot, USMC (retired), has one to seaas an ordinaryMerchant Marineseaman. His object: To Geta coupleof Japs, knock them cold, and bringback a necklace of teeth.Captain Talbot, whose home is inBoston, served over 30 years with theMarine Corps, including more than10 years as bandmaster at SanDiego,Calif.He sayshe is findingexcitementinheMerchant Marine.For in-stance, last August the small boat onwhich he was standing while rigginga sternanchor on a disabled shipwas sunk from under him. He spent

Music was fine in peacetime, butin wartime, shooters are needed morethan tooters.My intention when I signed upwith theMerchant Marine, saidCaptain Talbot, was to make a cou-ple of trips, see some action, and thencome back and etire on my pen-sion.But,I wouldnt quit now for all hemoney in the world. Im in this warnow and Im going to stick it throughto the end, because they cant keep agood Marine down.Axis Bomb Helps-Us

The story of how enemy bombersactuallyided invasion forces inNorth Africa is told by Chief Boat-swains Mate LloydM. Morris ofVallejo, Calif., who was awarded t hePurple Heart for wounds received.Two supply boats, used in the land-ingoperations, had been unloadedand were high and dry on abeachnear Casablanca. It wasChief Mor-ris problem, to get them afloat.Enemy bombers appearedpverheadand a bomb landed directly betweenthe two heavy boats. A arge craterwas blasted in the sand and quicklyfilled with water, gently floating th e

boats. The enemy planes had savedabout seven hours work.

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CASUALTYFIGURESI I

Casualties of the U. S. Naval Forces(Navy, Marine Corps, and CoastGuard)rom December 7, 1941 toMarch 20 , 1943, nclusive, total 24,522,including dead, wounded, and missing.

During the period from March 2 toMarch 20, inclusive, casualties re-ported tonext of kin totalled 686,including 79 dead, 118 wounded, and489 missing.

A break-down of the casualties byservice and classification follows:Dead Wounded issing Total

Navy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5,340 2,189 10,766 18,295Marines _ _ _ _ _ 1,522 2,431 2,027 5,980Coast Guard- 519 177 247

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DECORATIONS and CITATIOMavy CrossBrig. Gen. Laverne George Saun-ders, USA, of Washington, D.C., forleadinghisgroup of bombers in adaring daylight raid on enemy ship-ping in the face of severe ant iai rcraftand enemy fighter opposition in theBuin-Tonolei area of th e SolomonIslands, November 18, 1942. A t leasttwo 1,000-pound bomb it s were scoredon enemy vessels and 12 enemy air-craf t were destroyed. After his ownairplane was badly damaged and itbecame necessary to landhis plane inenemy territory, he skillfully accom-plished awater landingnearshoretherebyermittingheemainingmembers of his crew to reach safety.a

Capt. Cassin Young, USN, of Coro-nado, Calif., who was killed in action.and who had previously been awardedthe Congressional Medal of Honor;Commander Thomas M. Stokes, uSN,.of Meridian, Miss., and Lt. Comdr,Jack W. Wintle, USN, of Shreveport,La., who was killed in action, for ex-traordinary heroism in he ine oftheir profession duringactionwithenemy forces. The forces to whichthey were attached engaged at closequartersnd defeateduperiorenemy orce, and theirdaringanddetermination contributed materiallyto the victory which prevented theenemy from accomplishing its I pur-poses. a Put. Albert A. Schmid, USMC, receives a Navy

in three days while making repeatedtrips into thehazardous area in orderto deliver much needed supplies. Onin lieu of a second NavyCross, forsinking 15,250 tons of enemy shippingand seriously damaging an additional

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one occasion, wi t h full knowledge th atpowerful enemy surface forces werein the icinity, he returned to Guadal-canal unescorted, wi t h a cargoof sup-plies urgently needed ashore.aCommander Henry C. Bruton, USN,of Lit tle Rock, Ark., whb received aGold Sta r in lieu of a second NavyCross, for accounting for 56,000 tonsof merchant shipping and torpedoingaconverted aircraftcarrierduringtwo war patrols of his submarine.

aCommander Peter M. Money, USN,of Cochran, Ga., for his action as com-manding officer of awarshipwhichwas attacked and damaged, in order-ing all hands to battle stations heinstanthe observed theattack wasimminent, thereby reventing numer-ous casualties. He also maneuveredclear of the formation, at the sametime capably directing damaged con-trol organization in correcting listandrim. By hishoroughness ofpreparation, skill, and leadership, hewas able to abandon the area of th eattack and bring his ship safely intoport. a

Commander Carol B. Jones, uSN, ofDevils Lake, N. Dak., for leading hispatrol squadron in repeated bombingandtrafingttacks on Japaneseships inKiska Harbor, despite adverseweatheronditions and fire fromantiaircraftnd shoreatteries.With hisown plane pierced by shrap-nel andighter caliber projectilesfrom enemy fire, he was forced to flyblind pull-outs, avoiding the perilouscloud-obscured mountains.a

Theirubmarines credited withsinking 54,277 tons of enemy mer-

5,750 tons, while commanding officerof a submarine. His first Navy Crosswas awarded for sinking24,227 tons ofmerchant shipping and a warship.aLt. Comdr. Willis M. Thomas, USN,of Fresno, Calif., commanding officerof a submarine, for inking a destroy-er, a 9OO-ton patrol vessel, and 6,900tons of merchant shipping.a

Lt. Comdr. Leroy CoardSimpler,USN, of Harbeson, Del., for leading hisfighter squadron against overwhelm-ing ormations of enemy Japaneseaircraft in the Solomon Islands area,thereby contributing to the destruc-tion of 17 Japanese planes, and Per-sonally shooting down one Zero-typefighter. *His squadronaccounted fora total of 35 enemy planes duringservice in the area from. September11 to October 6, 1942. (See also Dis-tinguished Flying Cross.)

$7Lt. Comdr. Willford M. yman, USN,of San Pedro, Calif., who was com-manding officer of the U. S. S' . Sims,destroyer lost in heBatt le of theCoral Sea, for skillfully warding offthe irst aid of a hostile aircraft

attack on his vessel and he shipwhich it was escorting, and,. in thesecond raid, when the Sims lay deadand crippled in the water , foreepingher guns blazing away until the lastZapanese plane had disappeared,then coolly directing salvage and .re-pair operations unt il the bridge of thesinking vessel was completely awashand hewent down into thesea. He islisted as missing in action.A

Lt. Comdr. Thomas ' B. Klakring,USN, of Annapolis, Md., whose subma-

ular, on Shis squaddrawal of boats n complete

Lt. Comof Narberlarge apaning 21,136submarine

Lt. Comof Kirkwofighter sqsault on Solomon Iseven eneplanes. Tlocal air ogreatly co,occupationcan grounmander Sfour Japanplanes.

Lt. ComUSN, of Bescouting bombing ations on tgust 7-8,of a n enemproach ofcontributiof the islain single cmaneuveranese sea

Lt. PauBrunswickof a seco

officer or man while flying from thepartially completed Guadalcanal air-field, frequently under extremely ad-Lt. (jg) Kenneth M. Willett, USM,of Sacramento, Calif., commandingofficer of an Armed Guard crew

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verseweather onditions;or con-tributing to the repulse of Japaneseassaults by makingsuccessful aidsupon enemy shipping and troop con-centrations. A largeransport wassunk by their bombs, and hey par -ticipated in attacks which sunk threedestroyers nd emolishedargeconcentration of landing barges load-ed with enemy troops attempting t oreach Guadalcanal.*

Lt. William B. Mcfiacken, II, (MC)usm, of Berkeley, Calif., senior med-ical officer of th e landing orces ofthe Marine Raider Expedition againstJapanese-held Makin Island, for per-sonallyarryingm a n Y of thewounded toositions of greatersafety, hereby enablinghimself toadminister early and ffective aid, fol-lowing the irst enemy air ttack.When his boat overturned, endanger-ing he ife of aseriously woundedenlisted man during th e first attemptat evacuation, he risked his own lifeby holding the helpless .man's headabove water and swimming shorewith him.Afterreturning to hisship, Lieu-tenant McCracken performed six ma-jor operations under most difficultcircumstances and, as a result of hisskillfuland irelessefforts,he uc-ceeded in- bringingall of his casesback to base in excellent condition.

513Lt. ( jg) Robert H. Benson, USNR, OfSan Francisco, Calif., and Lt. (jg)Philip W.Cobb, USNR, of Saginaw,Mich., received Gold St ars in lieu of

second Navy Crosses for launchingat-tacks against an enemy aircraft car-rier, ontributing effectively totsprobable destruction, despite antiair-cra ft fire and fighter opposition. Theactionccurreduringperations

aboard a merchant shipwhich was at-tacked by enemy raiders in the SouthAtlantic, who is isted as missing inaction, for manning his station as hefirst shell struck, and opening fire onthe mostheavilyarmed of th e tworaiders.Although seriously woundedalmost immediately, he kept up a sus-tained and rapid fire a t close range,hitting his targetalong the water linewith most of the 35 shells fired. Hemaintained the defense of his shipuntil forced by the explosion of amagazineo cease Aring. Hewentdown upon the deck and was las t seenhelping tocast loose life raf ts n adesperate effort o save the lives ofothers. Before his ship plunged intothe sea, her guns had inflicted seriousdamageonboth enemy raiders andcaused the probabledestruction ofone of them.

7kLt. (jg) Jack P. Barnum, USNR, ofPoland, Ohio, andLt. (jg) Eddy L.Fayle, usm, of Jersey City, N. J. , forcontributing to the coring of a directhit on an enemy cruiserwhile partici-pating, as pilots of planes in an aerialtorpedo raid against a Japanese taskforce in he Solomon Islandscam-'paign and pressing home their attack

through a bursting hail of fire fromhostile antiaircraft batteries.*Lt. (jg) Aaron Katz, USNR, o f Cleve-land, Ohio, pilot of a torpedo planeduring an attack on a Japanese taskforce in he Solomon Islandscam-paign, for contributing to the relent-less fightingpiritnd aggressive

courage which enabledhisgroup to

Lt. (jg)Santa Pauto ascertcaused byagainstapantwice renmaking hisheat andopartments of life, he vestigationsteps towa

Ensign BWashingtoparticipatious attackvasion fieedefying anopposition

Ensign Randolph,ing in actiotorpedo-plwithering attackagaithe JapanMidway, tsuccess of

EnsignTof Perkinhome attainvasion fduring thtack .of ouflying at forces whibecause of

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chairm& loo.& on.exposed to requenthorizontalanddive-bombing a ttacks by enemy Jap-anese air forces. His actions. c-curredduring the period March 18,1942, o April 9, 1942,hile aboa rd aUnited States warship.

7kEnsign Wilhelm G. Esders, uslo, OfPensacola, Fla., for his actions whileparticipating in a torpedo plane as-sault on Japanese naval uni ts in the

Battle of Midway.Upon observingh i s squadron ommander rash, inflames,EnsignEsders took the leadof the squadronand pressed homethe attack toa point where it becamerelatively ce rtain that the successful

eight othervessels despite antiaircraftfire and aircraft opposition.aMachinist Leland L. Davis, USN, ofHattisburg, Miss., for flying under ex-tremely adverse conditions nd facingheavy antiai rcraft ire from enemyship and shore batteries t o repeatedlybomb andstrafeJapaneseships nKiskaHarbor. He failed to eturnafter making his usualattack on June

11, 1942. .D I S T I N G U I S H E DS E R V I C E M E D A L

Col. GerGreenville,tions officinhe TLimited as difficulty owidely scating force, pletely suctional plansbarkation osubsequentthe seized

Commanweaver, USNhisservice Officer to tthe UniteMeeting tchangingcoriod prior break of Linaweaverment, tact,lat ing of efmaintaininbetween thcommandsStates Armtive the vital to opeair, despitenemy airvolving inament, and

Lt. Col. Pasadena, Cof the forwAircraftGroGuadalcan20-30, 19lishing thehead heldcanal,after flight of


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. The men:Albert C. McCullough, CBM, USN,of San Diego, Calif., for taking chargewhen the port battery officer was in-

of mind and heroic conduct undoubt-edly saved that portion of the vesselfromdamage and possible destruc-tion.

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juredand directing the fire of theguns so skillfully that a damaging hitwas scored on a Japanese destroyer.Subsequentlyunderheavyfire fromthe enemy, he tirelessly directed thecrew of the battery n fighting firesstarted by hits scored by enemy ships.

Edmund E. McGuire, CFC, USN, ofGreenup, Ky., foroining the firefighters in the after part of the shipaft er his own battle station had beenshotaway, and rescuing one of hisofficers who had been criticallywounded, thereby saving his ife.Willard C. Cannaday, r.,BMlc,USN, of Hopewell, Va., w h o was incharge of the upper powder room,and who, when a shell hit rupturedthe sprinkling system, deluging him,his crew, and the powder, wiped offthe powder bags with rags, and driedthem n order hat he ammunitioncould be used. Later, when the lowerpowder room was flooded, he organ-ized fire-fighting and rescue partiesand contributed greatly to the pres-ervation of the ship.

Robert J. 'Perry,BMlc, USN, ofJackson, Wis., for his inspiring cour-age in taking charge of the starboardbattery after the fficer in charge hadbeen injured; rushing ammunition tothe gunnersunderheavyshellfire;fighting fires star ted by enemy hits,and caring for the wounded.Charles L. Kinney, Jr., Cox., USN, ofKansas City, Mo., for disregarding asevere wound caused by a shell burst,and the heavy enemy fire, and per-sisting in attempting tooad a projec-tile he held in his airms, until forcedto desist by his injuries.Ralph H. Snell, Cox., USN, of Chow-chilla,Calif., whowas wounded byenemy shell fire, and had to be car-ried romhisgun tation.Despite

Temple T. Thornton, r., PhM3c,USN, of Fordyce, Ark., for working un-aided in he face of heavy enemyshelling,despiteabadscalp wound,and organizing a secondary dressingstation where firstaidand surgicaltreatment were administered o hewounded.

John R. Nichols, Slc, USN, of Den-ver, Colo., posthumously, for eavinghis own gun to act as a replacementon a five-inch gun battery during theheight of thebattleand ater pro-ceeding to he forward part of theship to assist in fighting fires.

Joseph P. tark, Slc, SN, of Alham-bra, Calif., who is listed as woundedin action,forremaining a t hisgunand keeping up a steady blast of firein an effort to destroy an enemy tor-pedo plane which was already aflameand heading toward his station.William Gastelum, S ~ C ,SNR,of Su-perior, Ariz., posthumously, oren-tering a burning compartment to as-sist in rendering first aid; in remov-ing the wounded, and in fightingires.Whileengaged in his rescue work,he was killed by a burst of shrapnel.William E.Gilcrease, S ~ C ,SN, ofEl Campo, Tex., for his action in car-rSring wounded shipmates o afety

althoughhe was seriously woundedand in great pain.Joseph J. Pastor, S ~ C ,SNR, of Pana,lll., posthumously, orvolunteeringto lead a hose around a gun urretwhich was firing and into a hangarwhere a fire was raging. He lost hislife nan effort to extinguish theblaze.Lewis Tarpley, GM~c, S N, of HighShoals, Ga., for remaining at his gunstation and keeping up a steady blastof fire when a hostile torpedo plane,alreadyaflame,plunged owardhisshipneadlong dive. Tarpley

DISTFLY

Lt.Comdr.USN, of Harbfighting squan enemy aour' surface mon Islandhis squadronplanes and dHe also reof a seconCross for easquadron inmachine-gunenemy landtions, therebsilencing Japsuring the cing operatioties on AuguCross.)

For servicetrol planes inese shippingplishment ofthrough clouand strafinglow altitudfrom antiairbringing thet o base:Lt. ComdrPontotoc, MLt. (jg) RWaterville, MLt. (jg)Port ChicagoLt. (jg) ESeattle, WasEnsign WiSt. Louis, M

Ensign Herbert W. George, USNR,ofMissoula, Mont.r?l:

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Milwaukee, Wis., for leading his scout-ing squadron in a vigorous and pre-cise dive-bombing assaultagainst aJapanese naval task force in the faceof antiaircraft fire and ighter opposi-tion, pressing home is attack and re-turning his quadron ntact o tscarrier after contributing immeasur-ably to he severedamaging of anenemy aircraftcarrier n the Solo-mon Islands campaign.

72Lt. Clark A. Hood, Jr., USN, of Na-cona, Tex., who was killed in action,for voluntarily accomplishing he firstbombing against Japanese vessels inKiskaHarbor, naddition to flyingall-night patrols in contact with theenemy during the Aleutian slandscampaign. aLt. Jep. C. Jonson, USN, of Green-rille, Ky., who was killed inactionduring the Aleutian Islands campaign,for participating in bombing attackson Japanese vessels in Kiska Harborin he ace of ant iai rcraft fire andfighter opposition, and for flying all-nightpatrolsn ontactwithheenemy. aLt. Arthur L. Jacobson, USN, of Ta-coma, Wash., and Lt. James A. Mas-terson, USN, of Berkeley, Calif., forbravingextremeweatherconditionsto car ry out attack missions againstJapanese ships in Kiska Harborwhile-commanders of patrol planes in theAleutianslandsampaign.heywere forced by low ceiling to fly

throughhe clouds,eliver theirbombing and strafing attacks andullout into the clear at a very low alti-tude.Theirplanes were pierced byshrapneland ighter caliberprojec-tiles by fire from shore and ship bat-

But, sir, my girl insisted. that I br ing he r wounded. His superb airmanship andunyielding determination enabledhimto bring his crippled plane back to itsbase. a

Lt. ( jg) Henry M. McDowell, USNR,of Aberdeen, Wash., for participatingin persistentbombing and strafingat-tacks gainst enemy forces in heBatt le of Midway, while faced wi thtremendous antiaircraft Are.7%

Lt. ( jg) James C. Clark, Jr., USNR,of North Hollywood, Calif., for brav-.ing xtremeweather onditions tocarry out dive-bombing and strafingattacks gainstapanesehips inKiska Harbor. He was forced by lowceiling t o fly through clouds and, afterhis attack, pull out into the clear ata very low altitude. He was subject toantiaircraft fire from ship and shorebatteriesand hisplane was riddledw i t h shrapnel and lighter aliber pro-jectiles. In one such attack, 350 milesfrom base, his plane captain and sec-ond radioman were killed,his firstradioman wounded, and his port en-gine and aileron completely disabled.

planes wlighter cacraft Arteries.EnsignOreg., wparticipathe Japacampaignight paantia ircEnsignmette, Ilhis bombing and ing enemway, obton an enmendouJay W

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Charles Tilden Grenat, ACRM, USN,JohnHailBates, RMZc, USN, ofJohn Melville Blundell, ARM~c,Wilburn ForrestGlenn, ARM2c,John Udell Lane, R m c , USN, of Es-Harold Francis Littlefield, ARMZc,Edwin John Mushinski, ARM2c,Gregory osephDurawa, ARM3c,

of Cincinnati, Ohio.Hebron, Ind.USN, of Ft.Wayne, Ind.USN, of Austin, Tex.mond, Ill.USN, of Bennington, Vt.USN, of Tampa, Fla.USN, of Milwaukee, Wis.

72For succeeding in defending their

planes against fierce assaults of en-emy fighters by skillful and timelyfire of their free machine uns, there-by aiding their pilots to escape, aftersafe pull-outs from dives while par-ticipating in he irst dive-bombing

achievements as gunner of a plane intheBattl e of Midway. While par-ticipa ting in three dive-bombing at-tacks, he shot own one enemy fighterand drove off others w i t h accurateand timely Are from his free machineguns. a'For endering valuable assistanceto the ir pilots while gunners of planesin a scouting quadron during heBattle of Midway, by detailing con-tinuous Specific and comprehensiveinformation concerning the disposi-tion an d movements of enemy units,the following, all of whom aremissing :Bruno P. Gaido, A " l c , USN, of

Milwaukee, Wis.Thurman Randolph Sw i n d e 11,ACMlc, USN, of Engelhard, N.C.Louis Dale Hansen, RM2c, USN, OfAmerican Falls, Idaho.David Bruce Craig, RM3c, USNR, Of

David DKingston, WDawn, ARMfor disregartense antiapatingn against eneMidway, anof their plamaterially forces. Boners in bommissing in

Richard Mo f San Josthe dangewhile .parttorpedo-squagainst eneBattle of Mrepelling ovthereby aiding home t

Lt. EdwarJamestown,through hesurf to the ened and inplane whichAlthough afrom cold aon the islaoperation, land crew obeen remov

Lt. HenryYork, N. Yfrom drownBay on Nov

onds aft er the man had been struckunconscious and thrownover the sideby a marker bouy, Lieutentant Post,although hampered by heavy winterclothing, dived into thewater, rescued


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the injured man before he could godown the second time and supportedhim against a strong tidal current un-til, with he aid of a line, he wasbrought alongside a lighter.aLt. David R. Bell, USN, o f Washing-ton, D. C., for sighting a 19,600-tonenemy tanker during the mid-watchwhile serving as Officer-of-the-Deckon asubmarine, andy expert maneu-vering enabled his submarine to sinkthe tanker. *Lt. Joh n B. Currie, USN,of Washing-ton, D. C., and Lt. John H. Cunning-ham, Jr., USN, of Brookline, Mass., forextremelyeroic and courageousconduct during a highly successfuland aggressive submarine war patrolin waters occupied by enemy com-batant forces. aLt. (jg) John S. Burns, Jr.,usm, ofadlands, Calif., for rescuing fourmen from a stranded boat while serv-ing aboard a warship. When a smallpatrol boat with crew of four becamelost in the darkness and was tossedupon an isolated oraleef, Lieu-tentant ( jg) Burns risked his life byswimming throughhehark-in-fested waters to carry a lighter linefrom the rescue boat which, becauseof the dangerous surf, was preventedfrom approaching the stranded men.

Lt. ( jg) ThomasP. Lawton, usm, ofNewport, R. I. , for rescuing Joseph C.Sumner, Slc,SNR,of Fort Myers, ma.,from drowning when he fell from aUnited States warshipon May 21,1942. Not knowing thextent ofSumners injuriesand realizing thedanger of his being sucked in to theturning propeller blades, Lieutentant

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the central station. . He then madehis way to the bridge and .gave thecaptain the first report of conditionsbelow decks, furnishing nformationof vital importance in the control ofdamage during a most crucial periodof the battle. aCommander Douglas T. Day, Jr.,

USN, of Warrenton, Va., for leadinga division of his squadron to theAleu-tian Area, and, immediately upon ar-rival, engaging in mpor tantsearchand attack missions, with but scantadvance notice or time for prepara-tion. Under his skillful leadershipand direction, the continuance of ag-gressive and determined attacks onthe enemy Japaneseconcentrationsin Kiska Harbor was made possible.

aLt. James H. Davies, USN, of San

Lt. MaCalif., whtion, for task forcthe nformcommandthe Battlthe task fceeded toof antiairsition. Hports cothe intelltion of Usubseque

Lt. WinAmesburtrol planup severnothave He was osighted a

heavy squall. While n patrol hesighted burningnd abandonedmerchantmanand began an imme-


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diate search for survivors. Upon lo-cating a boatload, he effected a pre-carious landing on a choppy sea.When unfavorable surface conditionsan d he squall prevented the boatfrom pulling alongside his plane, hewas compelled to float a lineandrescue the 13 survivors one by one.After they had been taken aboard, henegotiated a successful take-off -fromthrea tening swells, despite the ext raweight, and flew back safely to hisbase.1IR MEDAL

Lt. Sumner E. Atherton, Jr., USNR,of West Lebanon, N. H., for carryingout a hazardous scouting mission.Flying over enemy-occupied territory ,within therange of Japaneseanti-, aircraft batteries, Lieutenant Ather-ton was attacked by three enemyseaplane fighters. Turning on hisattackers,LieutenantAtherton suc-ceeded in inflictingdamageononeof theplanes; probably caused th edestruction of another, then success-fully completed his scouting mission.

7%Lt. Gordon K.Ebbe, USM, of Wau-paca, Wis., for his part in patrol andbombing operations, and for his twodaring rescuesof otherNaval person-nel. On one occasion

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