heMocR-Up Naval Amphibious United States Training Basetreasurecoastgenealogicalsociety.org/Navy_Seal_PDFs/Vol_4/V4N11.pdf · Ponce Pas der Fleurs, Intermezzo from Naila, Delibes Washington

United States Naval Amphibious ~heMocR-Up Training Base

VOL 4-NO 11 FORT PIERCE FLORrDA 16 MARCH 1945

Amphibs Three Years Old Today AWARDS AND CITATIONS

AT PUBLIC CEREMONY Presentation of awards at the

Friday afternoon Amphib annivershysary ceremony at Jaycee Field inshycludes a Navy and Marine Corps medal three Bronze Stars Purple Hearts commendation ribbons and presidential unit citations The awards in detail

W M Vaughn Cox NCDU Navy and Marine Corps medal Lt (jg) Albert S Bynum Lt (jg) Thomas J Mullins NCDU and Ens David H Schaper NCDU Bronze Stars

Lt Carl P Itagensen NCDU Utah Beach commendation W J Buckley Cox Camp Four comshymendation R D Council Cox Flotilla 72 L A Hanis Cox Floshytilla 72 and Charles W Dietz SM3c Camp Two staff pool Purple Hearts

C C Bernard Stm3c NCDU John P Bretherton Jr EM3c Camp Four and J C Minter EM 3c Camp Four Presidential Unit citations

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Band Concert Sunday Afternoon al Park

Another public band concert will be given Jy the USNATB Band Sunday afternoon from 1500 to 1600 at Riverfront Park The band is under the direction of L J Breaux CMus USN

The program will include The World Is Waiting for the

Sunrise Concert Marche Milshyitaire

Barber of Seville Overture Rosshysini

Fleurette Novelette Victor Hershybert

Estrellita Mexican Serenade Ponce

Pas der Fleurs Intermezzo from Naila Delibes

Washington Group March Grashyfulla

Maytime Selection Romberg On the Trail From Grand Canyon

Suite F Grofe Wedding of the Winds Waltz Hall U S Field Artillery March Sousa

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

Nurses Add Touch To Amphib Anniversary COMMAND OBS1ERVES OFFICIAL ANNIVERSARY As the Amphibious Training

Command of the U S Atlantic Fleet observes its third annivershysary alumni of this base in Florshyida waters are in action in war

1 theatres around the world Capt Clarence Gulbranson USN Comshymanding Officer of the USNATB said today

Underwater demolition teams trained here cleared Japanese placed obstacles from the beaches at Iwo Jima and assault boat offishycers and crews from flotillagt trained at Fort Pierce were among those that successfully put the

bull 1 Marines ashore there Capt Gulshybrranson said

There was word too that other assault boat forces trained here at Fort Pierce were participating

middot in amphibious crossings of the Rhine as General Eisenhowers massed armies pressed for a final decision in the war with Germany

The Amphibious Training Comshymand that has trained more than 400000 officers and men who have already spearheaded 35 mashyjor invasions was set up by Rear

These Navy nurses members of the only NNC contingent Admiral Roland W Brainard assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Atnphibious Training ConrrtOYfd USN acting under dispatch orders obviously enjoy the duty and are observing the ~~hib third on March 16 1942 at Norfolkanniversary today Gcthered here aroiind the insignia of the Va amphibioiis force specially erected for the occasion at their qtLarshy The Fort Pierce Base was comshyters are Ensigns Lillian Yoksa Helen Zak Nan Vanderbeek and missioned by Capt Gulbranson shyEdna Wireman

who has been its only Commandshying Officer - on January 26Commissary Store Flotilla 68 Best 1943 and has trained thousands of assault boat personnel togetherHas Busy First Week Boal Crews Named with demolitionaires scouts and raiders and other combat specialshyistsApproximately 600 customers The three best crews of Flotilla Likewise all except two of thevisited the new USNATB commisshy 68 have been chosen by Lt C C 12 Atlantic Fleet beach battalionssary store on opening day Monshy Payne Lt C S Redline Lt (jg) that have gone out have had theirday Mrs Lydia Shepard wife of H W King and Ens R H Wessshy training within the continentalMilo Shepard SF2c of M amp R ner Prizes were awarded at the limits here The two exceptiomwas the first customer Administration Building the Second and Fourth battalionR

The store is located at the corshy The first prize of $25 went to were trained at Camp Bradford ner of Indian River Drive and Atshy the crew of C T Ross Slc W V Valantic avenue opposite the Fort Womack S2c G W Chandler The anniversary day is beingPierce Hotel and Lt (jg) R E Slc and R Seklock Flc observed here with a public cereshyLynch is in charge of the staff of The $15 second prize award was mony at 1500 at Jaycee Field ut16 enlisted personnel which opershy given to L C Rollins Slc L L which awards and citations will be ate the new store Pearson Flc and J T Turner and presented to men who have earned bull

+USNATS+ R Jones both S2c them in action and are now on The first 300 women to attena The third prize award of $10 duty here

the Saturday night Legion Hall went to R G Justice A G Evans Capt Gulbranson veteran of 36 dance will receive St Patricks Day and E E Collier all Slc and W C years in the naval service estabshyfavors Moulder Flc ( Continued on Page 5)

PAGE TWO THE MOCKUP 16 MARCH 1945

THE MOCK-UP United States Naval Amphibious Training Base Fo1middott Pierce Fla

Vol 4-No 11 16 MARCH 1945

COMMANDING OFFICER CAPT c GULBRANSON u s Navy EXECUTIVE OFFICER - bull - COMDR PERRY M FENTON USNR EDITOR - - - - - - - LT C HERSCHEL SCHOOLEY USNR NEWS EDITOR - ENS ROBERT L EBERT PHOTO EDITOR bull 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 Service)

Amphibious Forces Heres To You

Amphibs Three Years Old Today the banner headline on Page one says Actually they~are much older

Officially the Amphibs were established by Navy disshypatch orders just three years ago today and they have written a glorious story in aetion on battle fronts around the world middot

Historically however amphibious warfare known as Combined Operations in England is centuries old

The Greeks had a word for it and the Persians taught it to them with amphibious invasions of Greece between 499 and 449 B C

Drakes expeditions in the West Indies in 1585 Essex and Howard at Cadiz in 1596 the storming of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759 all were amphibious operations So were the unsuccessful British operations at Gallipoli in 1915 and the German occupation of Crete in 1941

Since 1942 beginning with Guadalcanal in the Pacific and with North Africa in the European theatre Amphibious Operations 35 times successfully repeated have taught the enemy that war is just what Sherman said

Appropriately then an anniversary day to honor the Amphibious Force for its role in shortening the war They hit that foreign sand before the rest could land Amphibious Forces heres to you

Charles Kennedy Another specialINDIAN RIVER USO sports show is scheduled for Wedshynesday 21 March Special

Nearly 200 servicemen attended Recognition Service for Volunteers the Java Club free breakfast Sunshy who have given over 50 hours of day morning Nagel Mahan and service in the club was held ThursshyMrs L W Halbe entertained with day night Miss Mildred Gleichagh songs during the morning bull bull of the New York offices of the The Square Dance on Monday night USO made the awards with Capt continues to be one of the hits of C Gulbranson Base Co guest the week Pop Byers does the speaker Sunday night 18 calling and a real hill-billy band March the servicemen are invited entertains Byers recommends to attend a special attraction feashysquare dancing for all hands turing Juan De La Cruz a Philipshyaboard USNATB Ih~ Tuesshy pine midget who is only 38 inches day night dance was well attended tall Juan will entertain with some with the USNATB eight-piece orshy fancy tap dancing and will be asshychestra furnishing dancable tunes sisted by his sister who is 21 inchshy Wednesday night was a big es tall and weighs 34 pounds night featming boxing bouts arshy On Wednesday 21 March the Vero ranged by Lt (jg) Don Ahern and Beach High School Band under Chief Williamson Those performshy the direction of Frank Lorwick ing included James McDonald will give a concert from the Patio Elmer Tucker Kenneth Matteson of the club The program will inshyJames Foster Robert Ridings Patshy clude standard numbers overtures rick Heffernan Frank Frazier and popular numbers and novelties

Nani Lovely MaidCHAPLAINS CORNER By Chaplain E C Helmich USN

George Washiniton at Valley Forge wrote the following on a barrel head These are times that try mens souls How modern how up to date those words sound to our ears today

The conflict in which we are engaged has caused many a person mental and spiritual depression

Unrest discourshyagement and dissatisshyfaction w i t h our abnormal war time living is prevalent evshyerywhere Parshyticularly in the Armed Forces with accentuatshyed abnormal life is this apshynormal life is

E C Helmich th t1s apparen We have need for a firm founshy

dation and stabilizing influence Some men from disrupted homes are confronted with difficulties never before encountered Others from merely nominal Christian homes are finding adjustment to this utterly different manner of life extremely difficult Even those who were reared in a Chrisshytian atmosphere are not finding adjustment easy To uphold their ideals and standards is a gigantic task

In order to strengthen and fosshyter the religious lives of officers and men on this Base and to give greater opportunity for men to come to know Christ the Protesshytant Chaplains are sponsoring a Preaching Mission beginning 25 NANI one of tTte rovely FIVE March and continuing through 28 ALOHA MAIDS featured with March These meetings will be coll- Ray Kinney and his Musical Amshyducted in Gulbranson Hall each bassadolS to the Mainland will evening from 1830 to 2000 The appear with the famed Hawaiian speaker will be Chaplain Thorn- orchestra here at USNATB next ton Miller Captain USN District Friday and Satmltday Friday Chaplain of the ~eventh Naval night at 1800 a stage show will be

D given at Gulbranson Hall and a District Chaplain Miller was is- repeat performance will be gi7en trict Chaplain at Pearl Harbor at 2000 at Jaycee Field for se_middotviceshyat the outbreak of the war He dis- men their families and friends tinguished himself by his monu- At 2100 the Idol of the Islands mental task of supervising the will play at Legion Hall at a da~e evacuation of thousands of Navy for Officers their wives and girl dependents from Hawaii in the be- friends Saturday night calls for

d d two stage shows at Gulbransonginning weeks of the war _hea e Hall at 1800 and 1900 and a dance the Navy Reh~f Society m that for ~nlisted men at Legion Hall at area and earned on at the same Kinney and his orchestra2100 time a full s~hedule of religious middot have broken all existing recor~ at administrations He was also re- the Hawaiian Room of the Lexingshysponsible for planning thi ceme- ton H0lttel in New Yor~ nd tery near Pearl Harbor The visit of tTie Kiiney Ja bull

and of Nani is of particular in~ershyChaplain Miller is a most intershy sectSt to Lt Comdr K D Perkinsesting and appealing speaker and USN Base SenWmiddot Chaplain as we are confident that you will find Nani in private life MUfs Peg~yhis messages most helpful The Todd was a member of his cong1 eshy

1i E co~nr rec-first part of each service will be gation when te was pis I devoted to hymn sin_ging_ someshy tor at Hilo Hawaii Ray ~inney

too is a native of Hilo and is iuellshything everyone will enjoy kndwn to him Here is a means of developing

bullmiddotUS NATB~and strengthening your spiritual Have you smiled yet todaybeing Take advantage of it

16 MARCHJ945 THE MOCK-UP PAGE THREE

Helene Featured First Lieutenant Veteran MARRIAGE VOWS FORAROUND THE BASE Many deserved expressions of

thanks and appreciation went this week to the Base Commandshying Officer with opening of the new Commissary Store to comshyplete a combination of Commisshysary Ships Service Medical Clinic and emergency Dental

Clinic all ideally located on the same downtown corner to serve service personnel of this area With a well equipped well-staffed Family Hospital just two blocks removed

FLORIDA weather during the

Schlosser Ylc m charge of the General F~les at the A_dministrashyt1on Bu1ldmg whose wife served as the president of the Army-Navy Enlisted Wives Club here Yeoman Schlosser came here as a first class seaman in the attack boat program when there were no chow balls and no electric current Enlisted Personnel reports an unshyuual similarity of names rates and service numbers on the Base Until a draft this week USNATB had two first class firemen named Donald F Barton both of whom were MoM strikers and whose service numbers were almost idenshytical The new soda fountain at the Gulbranson Hall area Ships Service is doing a rushing business

of flavors Although only opened on Tuesday at official ceremonies attended by Capt Gulbranson and Comdr Fenton the soda jerks are already operating like old hands Under a revision of a preshyviously announced policy the nomshyinal price of 15 cents for haircuts for enlisted men has been restored

DISPENSARY reports that Ens J J Dwyer critically injured in a highway accident late last month is much improved and is being transferred to the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville Added to the list of promotions from ensign to junior grade lieutenant announced

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~~qft~~~~l~~J1~i~j~ m Whitehorse nothward During the AlCan winters the mercury Helene the girl with the radio-dropped to 72 below for the 18th mind will be one of the features and the engineers cut their own of the USO Camp Show YOU wood for their Sibley stoves lived SAID IT scheduled for 22 March in tents without floors and moved at Gulbranson Hall The raven-camp an average of once a week haired beauty instantaneously Lt G H Putnam Jr Asmiddot identifies personal possessions of sistant to the Executive Officer people in the audience the minute returned from leave spent in and her partner Tommy La Rose near Baltimore with the comment touches them Even though blindshyeverything was fine but the folded she w1ll read serial numbers weather bull bull bull of Social Security Cards and dollar

A veteran of 25 months at U~- bills This is only one of seven top NATE departed this week for flight acts to be presented duty outside the contiriental lim-1 -tbull u s N AT a+ its of the United_ States He is Don 1neservat1on Caused

IK Delay 1n Rmiddoteturn

A member of Flotilla 70 some 45 days AOL on a 48 wins a special Oscar with this message from New York to Lt C S Redline Flotilla OinC Will arrive Tuesday Reservashytion postponed trip sooner

+ U s N AT B + The average sailor likes a girl

with a good figure - physical or fiscal

+USNATB+ She was a perfect photograph

of her father _ and a pretty good phonographmiddot of her mother shy

1 d t L ta d d d middot thCamp Ellis (Ill) News an mgs a 1ca an a1 e m e unloading of transports and supshy

ficer Personnel this week include ply ships off Gela on the south

of Amphibious Warfare On duty as

the First Lieushytenant of USshyNATE since the middot first of the year is Lt Comdr James W Bakshy

er a veteran ofamphibious war -middot fare in the Eushyropean and Afshyrican theatres

In civilian life Lt Cdr Baker Lt Comdr Bake1

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~l~~G~ifii~~~igf~sity of Pennsylvania Before going into business for himself in 1936 he taught landscape architecture in the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts

In July 1942 Mr Baker entered the Navy as a senior grade lieushytenant going through indoctrinashytion at Northwestern University Entering the amphibious program he was made commander of a group of LCTs and went through training at Little Creek Va In January 1943 just six months after leaving his civilian pursuits Mr Baker headed the first groupIof LCTs ever to enter the Meditershyranean Sea

Upon arriving in North Africa Rear Admiral Richard L Conolly who visited USNATB on March 1 appointed Mr Baker as his repshyresentative in supervising the unshyloading and comm1ss1oning of LCTs at Oran Algeria As the North African battle progressed his LCT group moved hundreds of miles east to Bone and after the fall of Bizerte an LCT ferry service was established between Bone Tabarka and Ferryville by Mr Bakers group

Taking part in the invasion of smiddot middot1 th LCT ad1c1 y is same group m e

on sodas and sundaes in a variety Capt J W McColl USN JANET coast Upon the fall of Palermo in Lt T S Slade Attack Boat Staff the north the LC group moved Lt (jg) 0 F Dowd Disbursing in to establish a combat ferry Ens E A Guilbault Dispensary service along Sicilys northern and R A Lytle CPC Supply coast Before the fall of Messina Receipts include Lt G W Win- the LCTs made three successful kelman Dispensary and M W all-important night end runs be-Serk APC Disbur-siJlg hind the enemy lines to transportI I badly-needed artillery to our sol-

Year Ago This Week 1 diers As commanding officer of A contest begins to name the the group Mr Baker was award-

new recreation hall The an- ed the Army Legion of Merit and nual Red Cross drive gets under- a Navy commendation letter for way at the Base Chester Par- these successful journeys The LCT is S2c wins the checker tourney at the Tenth St USO Elvin E Akey SClc of Camp One capshytures the Fort Pierce golf chamshy

last week is the name of Benja- pionship William M Biggs min W Carmichael of DRU CCM of CB 1011 is promoted to Recent transfers reported by Of- ensign in the civil engineer corps

group then completed its piirt in the Mediterranean campaign by taking part in the landings at Sashylerno Italy

In October 1943 the LCT group commanded by Mr Baker was the first group to leave for England

THREE BASE COUPLES -Three men of USNATB took

marriage vows during the past week

On last Friday evening at the First Methodist Church Miss Eula Holmes daughter of Mr and Mrs M L Holmes of the City of Fort Pierce became the bride of Lt (jg) Edward J Finley son of Mrs A F Pawlik in a formal nuptial ceremony performed by the Rev J B Culpepper pastor

The bride was attended by her sister Mrs Charles Heacock as matron of honor Miss Mary Bickshyley was maid of honor and Miss Virginia Johnson was bridesmaid Charles Heacock was Lt (jg) Finshyleys best man and Lt Comdr Jack White and Lt (jg) Stuart OHara were ushers Mrs Finley was rladuated from local schools and is secretary to the Rev J B Culpepper Lt (jg) Finley an alumnus of Ohio University is base photographic officer at USshyNATB

Miss Helen Maryanne Quinn of Brooklyn N Y became the bride of Thomas Cunningham CBM of NCDU at a nuptial mass said by Chaplain W J Walsh in St Anshyastasias Church last Saturday morning Mr and Mrs Joseph Bennett were the attendants of the bridal couple

Miss Juanita Louise Privett gtf Richmond Ind and David A Freeman S2c of the Receiving Unit were united in marriage at a ceremony performed by Judge Flem C Dane at the courthouse last Saturday arriving there in December to take part in all the Normandy invasion exercises

Several months later however Lt Comdr Baker was detached from his LCT group and made a member of a far-shore service task group to be a port director for one of the proposed American beaches in Normandy Thus it was thmiddotat from D-day until October 1944 Mr Baker was port director of the Utah Beach area which was cleared of enemy obstacles by Nashyval Combat Demolition teams trained here many of whom have received awards for their work there since returning to this Base

Just as he was being detached from overseas duty Lt Comdr Baker was promoted to his presshyent rank and awarded another Nashyvy commendation letter He reshyported aboard this Base to serve as First Lieutenant and head of the C amp R Department at the conclusion of his overseas leave

Lt Comdr Bakers wife and three children are residing in the family home at Avondale Pa alshythough Mrs Baker has been visitshying here in Fort Pierce recently

PAGE FOUR THE MOCK-UP 16 MARCH 1945

IOur Letter Box USO Volunteers Receive Service Pin Awards Five Nurses On Duly Dear Gully shy

Congratulations on your awa_rd of the Legion of Merit Have _just seen it in your Base magazine It was a long time coming through and I think it should have been a DSM Mrs Johnson was delighted when I showed her the notice You certainly have done a grand job at Fort Pierce without your enshyergy and imagination the Base would never have reached the prominence and value it has today Congratulations again and best wishes

As ever Lee P Johnson Captain USN (Ret) Naval Ordnance Plant York Pa

Capt Clarence Gulbranson USN Commanding Officer USNATB Fort Pierce Fla Dear Capt Gulbranson

The members of the Staff of the Tenth Street USO deeply appreshyciate your presence on the evening of March 8th Expecting to see you in the near future we are

Sincerely Marguerite Kelleher Assistant Director

Capt Clarence Gulbranson USN Naval Amphibious Training Base Fort Pierce Florida Dear Gully

We enjoyed the Mock-Up and congratulate you on your well deshyserved award You certainly did an outstanding job in getting the Amshyphibious Base organized and runshyning so smoothly You should be proud of your Base paper as it is unusually good

L LHUNTER Captain USN Naval Ammunition Depot Crane Indiana

Capt C Gulbranson USN USNATB Fort Pierce Florida Dear Capt Gulbranson

Once more I find myself indebtshyed to you for courtesy extended to one of the agencies with which I have connection

This time I want to express the appreciation of the Recreation Dishyvision of which I am chairman

USO Service pins were awardshyed to members of the Senior and Junior Service Carps last week at the Tenth Street NCCS-USO In the upper right photo Capt C Gulbranson congratulates Mary Sowinski president of the Junshyior Service Corps as Mayor 0

G Nanney Rev Patrick Mille1~ and Kay Coggin applaiul In the lower right photo the CO conshygratulates Miss Marjorie Rau lerson one of the Junior Service

and which is responsible for the management of the Service Club of Vero Beach for providing an orchestra for the dance last Wedshynesday This was a special party for the 18th Engineer group stashytioned on the North Island We had some of the WAVES and loshycal girls as hostesses It is our understanding that this was the first social event these boys have attended since their return from the Aleutians so it was thoroughly enjoyed

Yours very truly E G Thatcher Chairman Vero Beach USO

Dear Editor Please if you must use Mona

Miss Janet Sweet and Low or middot l h

other pmups can you p ace t em somewhere else than alongside tne chaplains column The other chapshy

lains agree with me in this requestE C Helmich

USNChaplam middot

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A man is getting along in years

When he pays more attention to the food than to the waitressesshy

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Corps membmiddots In the uvver left wight photo Mrs Claude Harri$ is shown being congratulated by Capt Gulbranson Approximateshyly 600 peraons attended thegt

ceremony

16 Petlv Officers Earn Rate Advance

Congratulations for a job well done have been conveyed by Capt C Gulbranson USN Base CO to 76 petty officers who received reshycent advancements in rate Those advanced include

TO CHIEF PETIY OFFICER T F Cunningham CBM J E Dittmer CMM (A) W L Graves CEM

TO PETTY OFFICER FIRST CLASS J J Bridge MoMlc J R Farrell GMlc E E Huerner PhMlc A M Long CM le D D Radcliff MoMlc J L Roberson MoMlc M T Sage Sp(C) le F N Steshyvenson BMle G M Taylor MoMlc George Trencher Pholc W H Williams MoMlc J A Yon Jr Sp(C) le

TO PETIY OFFICER SEQOND CLASS John Banyas GM2c J F Cacciola QM 2c M o Harris PhM2c Dennis Helms BM2c P J Hoffert GM2c c L Jones CM2c L P Lheureux Jr BM2c B C Mathis BM2c M T Murphy BM2c D W Ralston CM2c J A Reminger GM2c W D Schmidt GM2c Ninnan SilonPhM2c R C Smith GM2c

TO PElTY OFFICER THIRD CLASS M A Borns Cox A N Brackett GM3c J E Brooks Cox A L Carmella Cox W Degrandchamp SM3c R R Denmark Cox J J Donahue SSL3c W L Ellishyott SM3c L G Ernsc GM3c J A Feshygan Cox R P Gaillardet Cox R H Gentry Cox R C Greene SK3c E H Gross Cox J M Hanley Cox C H

Here Are Promoted Five Navy nurses on duty at

USNATB have been promoted acshycording to Capt C Gulbranson USN Commanding Officer of the Base The nurses here are the only ones assigned to duty with the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Training Command

Miss Laura Kamp Principal Chief Nurse has been advanced to senior grade lieutenant and Enshysigns Mary Kerekes Edith Colton Stephanie Kore and Frances Stines have been made junior grade lieutenants All the young women have been in the Navy Nurse Corps since 1942 and have served overseas

Lt Kamp served at the Veterans Hospital Walla Walla Wash beshyfore entering the Navy in August 1942 Thirteen months of her time in the service was spent at Kodiak Alaska and Adak in the Aleushytians

Lts (jg) Colton and Kore also served at Kodiak and Adak Both served at St Vincents Hospital Los Angeles Calif prior to entershying the Nurse Corps in August 1942

Lts (jg) Kerekes and Stines have seen service in England botli receiving the Unit Commendation ribbon from Admiral Harold R Stark Commander of U S Naval Forces in Europe and a gold star in lieu of a second ribbon for outshystanding service in the Navy evacuation hospital in England during the invasion of France Both served at hospitals in the Chicago area before entering the Navy in December 1942

These are the first Navy nurse promotions since the original conshytingent went on duty here in January

Cox A H Lindahl GM3c R B Lickshyhart GM3c J W Maycock Cox R J Miller SC3c C H Morland SSL3c A M Nelson Cox R w Nykaza GM3c Jim Parkman SSL3c A T Pasquale Cox A J Peledjus Sp(X)3c R C Pratt MoM3e F M Robbins SM3c W C Sawyer SF3c J M Schrier MoM3c G E Scroggins CM3c F F Sittig Cox G A Sommers CM3c J O N SpearSM3c H W Stiles MoM3c E H Stever SSL3c R A Stover MoM3c s A Tashy

Tl1e Beacon Gremer 1e middotS c Lanham SSL3c H D LavenderD Wright SM3c

Heustess SM3c J L Kassi~k GM3cdeu~iak Mac A M TyJei MoMSc J T W C Krumrey Cox J D Lamg CMSc Whittle SSL3c E C Wnght SSL3c W

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Sunday Worshipmiddot Schedule

Chaplains K D Perkin J C Fitzgerald E C Helmich W J Walsh W B Leonard C J Hurst

BASE SUNDAY SCHEDULE Area One at Salvage School

Protestant bull 0815 Catholic bull bull 0915

Area Two at Gulbranson Hall Catholic 0700 and 1045 Protestant 0845 and 0930

Area Three at S amp R Casino Protestant bull 0900 Catholic bullbullbull 0815

Area Four at gtator Club Catholic bull 1600 Protestant bull 0915

Protestant Divine Services are also held on North Island at 1100 and a Sunday School class meets at 1030 at the Camp Two Chaplains Office

CATHOLIC WEEK DAY SCHEDULE Masses will be held dally at 0600

at Gulubranson Hall and at 1900 at Lecshyture Hall Salvage School and at 1900 for servicemen and families at St Anasshytasia Church conducted by Navy Chap lains during the Lenten Season Confesshysions every day middotReligious instructions any time PROTESTANT iWEEK DAY SCHEDULE

Biblemiddot Classes in Chaplain Offices at 1930 Tuesday Camp s Wednesday Camp 2 Thu-raquoday Camp 4

Instruction Baptism and other minshyistrations on application

Fort Pierce Churches PROTESTANT

Methodist bull bull 1100 amp 1930 First Presbyterian 1100 amp 2000 Parkview Baptist bull 1100 amp 2000 First Baptist 1100 amp 1930 St Andrew Episcopal bull 0800 amp 1100 First Christian 1100 8 2000 Church of Christ bull 1100 amp 2000 Church of God bull 1130 Christian Science bull 1100

CATHOLIC St Anastasia bull 0800 0900 1000

JEWISH Services Fliday at 2000 in Methodist

Church Annex Christian Scientist John J Torpey

authorized wartime minister Pleasant View RFD 2 Fort Pierce Phone 184-W Special liberty (1000-1300 to attend the 1100 church servi~e 111 East Orange half block from Indian River USO

USNATB+ She laughed when I sat down

to play the piano but she got plenty scared when I moved over to the davenport

EMINOLE SAILOR SEEKS HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT

Moses Jumper 18 Mess Cook Wants to Go Overseas

A native son of the Florida Everglades Moses Jumper 18shyyear-old Seaman Second Class who is perhaps the first member of his Seminole Indian tribe to volunteer for the Navy has curshyrent duty here at USNATB but wants to go overseas for hand-toshyhand combat assignment

The Seminoles who never smoked the pipe of peace with the United States are not subject to Selective Service and tribe memshybers do not believe in fighting but Moses hitchhiked middothis way north to Jacksonville to enlist ip the Navy

After enlisting in middot September 1944 Jumper was sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Station for recruit training then to Little Creek Va where he trained as a gunner for an LSM After comshypleting his training there he reshyported here on 7 January_

Seaman Jumper a five foot-ten 170 pounder was born in the Evshyerglades 6 April 1925 From the time he was fifteen he made his living by killing alligators and serving as a guide on hunting trips through the Everglades The young Seminole received most of his education from the hunters who taught him to read and write

Before entering the Navy Jumper worked as a life guard at Hollywood Fla during the 1944

se~~~middot young Indian carries sevshyeral scars on his left arm as a re-suit of fierce battles with the allishygators when hunting them His father Josie Jumper serves as inshyterpreter of the tribe

MOSES JUMPER

Sfork Brings Five To Navy Families

Two bii-ths have been announced at the Base Family Hospital durshying the past week They are

On 7 March GM2c Thomas and Mary Huth NAOTC-Boat Facilishyties a son 6 pound-6 ounces

On 8 March Flc James and Harriett Sanders Rocket School a daughter 7 pound-13 ounces

Three births have been reported from civilian hospitals in this area

On 1 March to Lt W T Tracy Officer-in-Charge of Lookout and Recognition and Mrs Tracy a son Leo weighing 8 pounds-3 ounces at Martin County Hospital Stuart

On 3 March a daughter Lyndia born to GMlc and Mrs Earl McshyCue of NCDU weighing 8 pounds 1 ounce at the Martin County Hospital

On 21 February a daughter Kay Louise weighing 7 poundsshy7 ounces to Y3c and Mrs George

Moses has a sister Laura Mae Page at Fort Pierce Hospital+USNATB+

who is going to high school at the The Navy Officer Wives Club Cherokee Indian School in the members will turn over $12 to the Smoky Mountains of North Caro- Red Cross drive realized at bridge lina played Tuesday at the Tenth Street

Jumpers family travelled with USO shows for several years his father + u s N AT s + being a headline attraction wres- Uncle Sams war bonds are toshytling with alligators Moses was days best buy with his father at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1933 and at the New York Worlds Fair in 1940

The husky youth is working as a mess cook at the Receiving Unit but wants an assignment where he can use some hand-to-hand comshybat He would like to encounter the Japs with a Demolition or Roger outfit In that way he thinks he can use his special knowledge to serve the Navy best Jumper likes all sports but preshyfers basketball and swimming His hobby is handicraft and his favshyorite pastime is dancing He is enshygaged to Miss Nellie Deaton a Cherokee Indian from North Caroshylina

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Forty honr tlJCTek-hell

Amphibs Observe Third Anniversary

(Continued from Page bulll) lished the Base here after serving as commodore of a transport divishysion during the North African landings

He has remained in command at the USNATB during its expansion and growth during which it has become much larger than the St Lucie County countysea1 that is its official host The intensive Base training program is carried on at North and South Island camp sites just offshore and isolated for more than two years

The Navy Legion of Merit was recently awarded to Capt Gulshybranson for exceptionally outshystanding service in training inshyvasion boat crews for overseas amphibious operations against ebullshyemy-held shores

The Amphibious Training Comshymand itself has been headed sucshycessively by Rear Admiral Brainshyard Rear (now Vice) Admiral H K Hewitt Rear Admiral Alan G Kirk Commodore Lee P Johnson and Rear Admiral F W Rockwell who came to the command from a like Pacific Fleet assignment

Other major bases of the Amshyphibious Training Command are at Camp Bradford and Little Creek Va and at Solomons Md

For the past year LST training has been carried on at Camp Bradshyford with the training of crews for LSMs a task for Little Creek and LCT and LCI training at Soloshymons Training of LCM and LCVP crews is centered here

Additionally the command inshycludes bases such as Panama City Florida Galveston Texas and Ocracoke North Carolina estabshylished for shakedown activities

Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal recently disclosed 1hat 60000 landing craft already have joined the fleet with more to folshylow Too numerou3 to have inshydi~idual names 20 different types of landing craft are assigned numshybers

The LST or landing ship tank is 328 feet longmiddotand is the largest and crosses the ocean under its own power Training given here is principally devoted to manning the 50-foot LCM or tank lighter used in unloading transports and in carrying m e di u m equipment ashore and the 36-foot LCVP or LCPR that takes soldiers or mashyrines ashore in assault waves

+USlolAT B+ FOR SALE Deluxe automobile

radio middot in A-1 condition Perfect reception used very little Good as new in every way A rare buy Write K Public Relations office

+USNATSJo A fool and his money are some

pa1middotty - Belvoir Castle Ft Belshyvoir Va

PAGE SIX THE MOCK-UP 16 MARCH 1945

Entry List Closes Sunday For Base GoU Tourney 18TH fNGINEER GOLFER 37 GOLFERSALREADY I Sports Chaffer About Athletes From Here and There I CAPTURES CITY CROWN

SIGNED FOR wmiddotEEK By FRANK x McPHILLIPS S1c Orville A Crawford of Flot 67 Pc Le Roy Godfrey of 18th Upon the arrival of Lt Charles played centerfield on the baseball Engmeers captured the Fort

Deadline for entries in the USshyNATB Golf Tournament has been set for Sunday 18 March Ralph Lang pro of the Indian Hills Country Club announced today To date 37 men from the base have entered the tourney sponsored by Welfare and Recreation

The players will have one week to complete their first round of matches which will consist of 18 holes The tournament will be strictly match play and the finals will be played on a 36-hole basis

Among the entries are several of the leading contestants and winshyners of the Fort Pierce Public Golf Tourney held earlier this month They include CSp(A) Add Warshyren Curt Mitchell Slc Lt (jg) J B Harder Bert French SK3c and Pfc Le Roy Godfrey public tourney champ

Among the other entries are Lt P L Baffes Lt Charles Rishyordan Lt W W Seale Lt C G Allen PhoMlc D L Cummings PhoM3c J S Yurof Slc William Blakeney PhoMlc R L Lane Lt (jg) E J Finley CM2c W C Mankins Ptr3c J W McCreary MoMlc E V Keehan MoM3c C V Ordorisio CPhM W R Miers EM2c A K Gluesing Ens W R Brown Pfc E B Anderson SC2c C J Utz EMlc J E Lacrosse SFlc W F Klemm Ens T M Gattle SK2c E E Woodson Ens G A Beck Ens C R Morris Lt J W Hamilton Slc N G Kupsce Lt (jg) D H Schaper Flc J F Paleic Lt Charles Barshyber Lt S M Townsend Lt (jg) W H Wallenstein and Bkrlc Jake Evans

All matches of the tourney will be played at the Indian Hills Counshytry Club and is open to all officers and enlisted men of USNATB Mr Lang stated that there will be flights for all players regardless of experience

+USNATB+

Central School Team Challenges All Comers

The Central School officer volshyley ball team led by Comdr T Blanchard is looking for compeshytition Undefeated to date the team is sure it can remain so and wants to take on the best

+ U S N AT B + A sailor who fancied himself

a great lover was returning from overseas duty As his ship passed the Statue of Liberty he remarked Put your torch down honey Im home _

Geliringer aboard the Jacksonville Naval Air Station interest turned to the coming baseball season One of the Jax mentors first acts as coach of the baseball team was to contact USNATB to arrange a meeting of the two clubs in a

team of St Olaf College North field Minn Lt (jg) Charles R Hall of Chemical Warfare was on the wrestling team of West Virshygm1a University in the 175-lb class Lt (jg) Warren J Marshyquiss Chemical Warfare was all

home and home series Apart city and all state on high school from the immediate pressing probshylems pertaining to 1945 operation of the major leagues Gehringer said in an interview that he foreshysees headaches and heartaches for the pitchers now in service when they attempt to regain their preshywar status in baseball

The hitting stars will experience little trouble in picking up where they left off but the same does

football and basketball teams while attending Benson High Omaha Nebraska He also starreJ on the University of Nebraska bas-

Pierce City Golf championship last Sunday at the Indian Hills Country Club when he snatched the bunting from Bert French Sk3c of Disbursing 1-up on the 37th hole Mrs Ralph Lang won the womens championship 4-3 fqim Mrs Stuart M Townsend wife of Lt Townsend Officer-inshyCharge of Attack Boats

Private Godfrey was pressed all the way through the 36-hole finals

ketball squad Hard hitting by the hard driving French and Dom Dallesandro 31-year-old Chi- only bested his rival on the 37th cago Cubs outfielder was inducted with a par 5 after the lad from in the army last week He hit 305 Disbursing had shot a bogey 6 for the Cubs last season Jim- Godfrey carded an 83-77 while my Wilson and Hank Gowdy wio French turnedmiddot in a pair of 80s coached the 1940 World Champion Lt (jg) J B Harder of Attack

not hold true for the chucker~ Cincinnatti Reds- are united with Boat Staff took top honors in the says Gehringer Gehringer regt- the 1945 club Gowdy fir~t mens first flight with a 1-UJgt vicshyported to Jacksonville from St major league player to enlist in Marys Pre-Flight where he the first World War now is a vet-coached the baseball team and eran of the second Ohio State served in the general sports pro- Universitys basketball combine gram bull bull have accepted a bid to compete in

Sure Ill play some for the Jax the NCCA basketball tournament navy nine this summer unless in New York on the 22nd theres a better second baseman Phog Allen one of the countrys a ound said Gehringer grinning leading college basketball coaches Its this scribes opinion the forshymer big leaguer will be the mainshystay of the squad from the northshyern part of the state

Four of the 12 officers recently promoted have been active in sports before reporting to USNshyATB Lt (jg) Joseph A Cleavinshyger of Flot 69 was athletic dishy

has now entered the political field The University of Kansas mentor won the Republican nomination for city councilman at Lawrence Kansas and will be unopposed at the general election in April Mike Garbark No 1 catcher of the N Y Yankees has been reshyjected for service and will don

rector and coach at Stanley (Kan glove and mask for the- boys from sas) High School before entering the Empire State Corp Billy

tory over flashy Curt Mitchell Slc of Welfare amp Recreation CSp (A) Add Warren of the Physhysical Training Dept was a 4 and 3 winner over C J Utz SC2c of CB 1011 in the second flight In the third flight Allenmiddot Walker was a 3-2 victor over Gerry Campbell

Lt (jg) Harder defeated Mitchshyell on the 18th gieen while Chief Warrens short game proved the margin over Utz whose driving game was a standout

+USN AT B +

MampRCagers Capture Mens T1tl O LCMe Yer

The mighty M amp R basketball team defeated the LCM quintet

service He played guard on the football and basketball teams while attending Baker University at Baldwin Kansas Lt (jg)

Officer Cage Meet Play Begins Thursday

The Physical Training Dept will conduct an elimination basketball tournament for officers beginning next Thursday and eight teams that finished in the officer league will participate

First round pairings show Demoshylition vs Base Training Flotilla 70 vs Staff Heaquarters Camp Four vs M amp R and Flotilla 65 vs Flotilla 73

All games will be played at the Fort Pierce Hotel Court Tuesdays and Thursdays The first round of play is scheduled to be completed on 19 March The championship game will be played on 27 March

+ u s N A T 8 9 And then there was the mounshy

taineer who put a silencer on his shotgun because the daughter wanted a quiet wedding

Conn leading heavyweight before 27-23 last Friday night to capture entering service is reported fully recovered from a case of lumbago at a military hospital in England

Flotilla 7 6 Issues Softball Challenge

The Spirit of 76 Flotilla a cocky crew has thrown a chalshylenge to all comers in officer softball Headed by Lt Edmond R Goodlow flotilla commander and first sacker who used to play for William and Mary the combine says the best of compeshytition is none too good and is looking for that kind

In a recent fray Flotilla 76 whitewashed Flotilla 75 12 to O and his mates declare that Enshysign Pappy Joachim ace hurler twice filled the bases apurpose with one out then fanned a pair

~ U s N AT B 4 LEAVING March 2-8 for Lubshy

the championship of the Enlisted Mens Double Elimination Tournashyment sponsored by the Physical Training Dept

Twenty championship-minded teams entered the tournament but the Ml amp R combine proved too st~oig for the rest of the loop wmmng seven games out of as many starts

The champs were trailing at the half way mark of the encounter t 3-9 but put on a scoring spree in the third stanza to pull abreast of the hard fighting LCMs at 17 all The final quarter was the payoff with the M amp R contingent provmg too strong for the boysfrom LCM

Angus lanky center of the M amp R outfit was high scorer for the winners with 12 points Keenan and Self tallied six each while Pat Murphy registered three to round out the scoring of the champs Dixon led the LCMs vain

M bl N 0 - attempt for the bunting with 14bock Tex VIa o 1 e ew r points leans Houston D~llas Want par~yI + u e NAT B + to he~p dnve Wnte _J care Pubhc A ~ates letter from the South Relations Pac1f1c Long time no she

16 MARCH 1945

Cross Country Tryout Deadline Next Tuesday

Trial runs for the Cross Country finals to be held on Saturday 24 March will be conducted over the week-end at 25 units on the base The deadline of Unit eliminations has been set for 1500 Tuesday 20 March

The course for the final race was selected today by the committee and is approximately two miles in length The race will start at the south end of the Physical Trainshying Field on Shore Road and conshytinue north to Causeway Road then west on Causeway Road to the Faber Cove Road east of Gulbranson Hall

The runners will continue southshywest along Faber Cove Road until they reach Causeway Road just below the Camp No 1 mess hall They will then travel east on Causeway Road to the finish line in front of Gulbranson Hall

Welfare and Recreation is sponshysoring the run as an added feature of the special Easter celebration Special cash awards will be made to the winners in the elimination

trials as well as in the final run +USNATlll+

Hillers Have Big Day In Intra-Squad Clash

The Amphib baseball nine held its first intra-squad game on Sunshyday afternoon at Jaycee Field

Ens Nick Wazylik Officer-inshyCharge of baseball and Coach Whitie Platt were highly elated with the showing of the squad that has been training the past three weeks

Ens W azylik was high in praise for the pitching team of Curt Mitchell and Chubby Neugin Also the fine fielding and heavy hitting of Paul Swoboda left handed first baseman and Herman Hatfield stocky third baseman Slim McshyCarty was the first man to hit a ball out of the park this season when he drove one over the leftfield fence at 345 feet

THE MOCK-UP

CLASSMATES MEET FIRST TIME IN YEARS

Comdr W S Heald USN Base Training Officer left and Comdr Shirley Miller USN on the staff of Rea1middot Adm R L Conolly are members of the U S Naval Acadeniy class of 1927 and talked over many things including the famed Army-Navy tie game 21-21 in Chicago in 1926 when both were first classmen when they met here last week for the first time in years

WHAT UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER MEANS I Here in President Roosevelts words to Congress is

what unconditional surrender means for Germany 1-It means the temporary control of Germany by

Great Britain Russia France and the United States 2-It means the end of Nazism and of the Nazi party 3-It means the termination of all militaristic influence

in the public private and cultural life of Germany 4-It means for the Nazi war criminals a middotpunishment

that is speedy and just ~ and severe As for the people of Germany We do not want the German people to starve or to beshy

come a burden on the rest of the world Our objective in handling Gerimany is simple - it is to

secure the peace of the future world

TENTH STREET USO The winner of the telephone call

home donated at the Wednesday

nights Bingo was William A The team is in fine shape and Joyce SFlc who called his mother

the officials of the club are not in Berwyn Ill He was able to comshyworried about the opening game plete the call within five minutes which is tentatively schedueld for from the time he was announced Easter Sunday as winner The Bingo parties are

+ u s N AT e + 1vry popular and special prizes of $50 REWARD For return of cigarettes are offered along with

lost or strayed puppy male Ger- home-made pies Pol Van Geel man short-haired pointer four completed free caricatures of the months old liver and white ticked following men who had the drawshywith bobbed tail Please be on the ings mailed to their parents Henshylookout for this puppy as he was ry J Weshalski S2c Henry L to be a birthday present for my McCutcheon Slc Malcolm R son Puppy is valuable to owner Manns Slc William D Titze Slc middot only Oscar Sobol FlcMoMM Fa- Al Ullrich Slc M T Sag~ S~ her Cove Flot 70 (C)lc Emilio A Molina Slc -and

+USN AT B + John F Slater S2c David A necking party is an affair Hamm of Salvage School was

that usually lasts until somebody awarded a photo by the Coleman gives in gives up or gives out Studios at the dance following the

awarding of Service Pins last Thursday night Albert C Starr S2c was winner of the free telephone call at the Sunday eveshyning movie gathering He called his mother at Warrington Flabull Miss Frances McManus was deshyclared the Queen of the Month for serving the most volunteer hours during the month of Februshyary She was to be crowned at the St Patricks Dance held at the club last night Several special prizes were awarded at the affair and the eight piece USNATB orshychestra was to appear at the Tenth Street Club for the first time

+USNATB4 Structural sections as long as

480 feet were towed to the coast of France to provide harbors for the invasion

o+USNATB+ Do you expect to be busy toshy

night That depends upon the boy I

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AT THE MOVIES GULBRANSON HALL

Friday and Saturday BLUEBEARD

Sunday and Monday SONG TO REMEMBER

Tuesday HAYING WONDERFUL CRIME

Wednesday and Thursday UNSEEN

SUNRISE THEATRE Friday and Saturday

EARL CARROLLS VANITIES Sunday and Monday

THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU -Tuesday and Wednesday

MAIZIE GOES TO RENO Thursday

TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT

RITZ THEATRE Friday and Saturday

TRAIL TO GUNSIGHT Sunday and Monday SINGING SHERIFF

Tuesday UNDER WESTERN SKIES

Wednesday and Thursday BOWERY CHAMP

INDIAN RIVER USO Saturday and Sunday-1630

KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE

TENTH STREET USO Friday-1930

HENRY ALDRICH LITTLE SECRET

Sunday-1930 TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

FORT PIERCE B 0 0 Monday-2000

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT Wednesday-2000

MEN OF TEXAS Friday-2000

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OFFICER CLUB Tuesday-2030

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C P 0 CLUB Thursday-2000

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Forrestal Motto James Forrestal Secretary of

the Navy has a new slogan which has just made its appearance on his letterheads and envelopes It is Keep the Fleet to Keep the Peace The slogan is not printed on the official stationery but on the sticker which is attached to his letters Forrestal told his weekshyly press conference

+USNATB+ Dr Give me some of tbat preshy

pared manoaceticacidester of salishycy lie acid

HA2c You mean aspirin Dr Yes I never can think of

that name

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CROWDS ENJOY ENLISTED MENS DANCES AT LEGION HALL EACH SATURDAY NIGHT

The Satiirday Night Dance is a most popular source of entertainshyment for the men of USNATB

This weekly Welfare and Recreation feature event is helcl at Legion Hall on the South Dixie Highway Mrs Joseph Baker wife of Joseph Baker CM1c of MampR left was the lucky winner of the vahiablee doltYr prize offered at a recent dance The photo on the

right shows vwrt of the cavacity crowd having a gay tine the same evening The 15-piece USNATB dance orchestra supply danceable tunes for these weekly affairs for enlisted men their wives and girl friends

Twenty Types of Amphibious Landing Craft Carry War To Enemy 1NSPECTOR GENERAL

PARTY VISITS BASE Commodore Paul F Foster

USNR Assistant Naval Inspector General of the Navy headed an official inspection party visiting the Base here Friday and Saturshyday

Commodore Foster and memshybers of his accompanying staff were welcomed aboard by Capt C Gulbranson USN Base CO and were shown the various Base acshytivities

Commodore Foster had so reshycently been promoted from rank of captain that he had not yet donned the insignia of his new rank when here but received conshygratulations on his advancement

At the same time four-star Adshymiral Charles P Snyder USN (Ret) Inspector General was ill the Miami area on a like inspecshytion tour and pinned the Navy Cross award on a son-in-lav- Comdr W M Collins USN now superintendent of training at NAS Miami

+USNATB+

Amphibious Force Official Insignia

In June 1944 the Amphibious Force adopted as its official inshysignia a brilliant scarlet and gold design depicting the American eagle with wings outspread carshyrying the Navy Anchor with a tommy gun across the fluked anshychors arm The insignia affixed to the left sleeve one half inch

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Three years ago sizes and smaller model of the LSM but the soshy f called work-horse of the invasion fleetI

shapes of landing era t were mere ideas in the minds of ship designshy

f h N D t ers rom t e avy epar men But from their dreams has grown

ht d f hb a m1g Y arma a O amp 1 lOUS attack vessels that have nuzzled onto enemy beaches over the world b an endless stream of vieshy

1 riesto These odd-lookmg craft w1tli ed soldiers to the beaches Usually used

open shoebox-like decks huge bow

doors and ramps have played a major role in every amphibious inshy

vas1on of this war Crews for these ships trained by the Atlantic

Fleets Amph1b1ous Trammg Comshymand which is observing its third

hanniversary on March 16 ave seen action in 35 different invashysions

In a recent statement James Forrestal Secretary of the Navy disclosed that 60000 landing craft have already joined the fleet and more will follow Too numerous to bear individual names these 20

middot f 1 d ftdifferent types o an era

Only 105 feet long and 32 feet wide it is transported to the invasion area atop the LST At invasion beaches it unloads merchant ships Has a crew of 12 men and one officer

LCM landing craft mechanized - Fifshyty feet Jong it is used chiefly to assist in unloading merchant ships and transports in ship to shore work Can carry one medium tank Has a bow ramp crew o four

LCVP landing craft vehicle personshynel - A troop carrier it hauls fully load-

mg gators they are about 20 feet long have been assigned numbers Ia passenger or cargo space

Here are the major types with LVT(A) lading vehicle tracked (Arshy mored) - This 1s more commonly known

official des1gnat1on for each as te Water Buffalo and is a refined LST landing ship tank _ Largest of veis1on of the LVT It amounts to an amshy

the landing ships capable of ramming 1 ph1b1~gtUs tank mounts heavy armament

in attack or assault waves Thirty-six feet long operated by a crew of three Car carry one light vehicle Ligh~ly armored mounts one Jachine gun

LCS landing craft support - Same size as the ~CI but it is equipped with much heayier armament and rockets Main igturpose is to precede waves of small boats into an enemy beach and Jay down a rocket barrage The LSG(S) is a smaller version of this ship and is usually equippedsolely with rockets

LCC landing craft control - About the size of a PT boat It is equipped with radios and other communication gear Main purpose is to direct other smaller landing craft as they approach the beach in the initial assault

LVT landing velticle tracked (Unshyarmored) - Unlike the above-mentioned ships and craft this is a vehicle that can continue once it hits the beach and use its machine guns and other armament directly against the enemy Called Allishy

have

onto a beach it is 328 feet long It can cross the ocean under its own power has heavy anti-aircraft armament can carry heavy tanks trucks and other vehicles on its huge tank deck It has two bow doors and a huge ramp

LCI(L) landing craft infantr _ This is a tro~p-carrying ve_el Le~gth 157 feet 23 foot beam Can carry over 200 fully equipped men plus a crew of thirty Originally designed with twin landing ramps the newer version has a bow door similar to the LST Weighing about 250 tons it is all steel all wellled oceanshygoing

LSM landing ship medium _ Newest of the landing ships it is a small version

and ia well armored LCR landing craft rubber - There are

two types of rubber craft One is capable of carrying seven men The other has a capacity for ten or more Used primarily for landing scouting groups or Commanshydos They can be deflated quickly and stowed m small space

LSD landing ship dock - A sh ip that is a dock in itself It is _450 eet long trnnspors small boats to mvas1on scene It cloesn t b~ach as do the other ~hips and craft but is ava1lble to landing craft for on-the-spot repairs

DUKW - This is an Army amphibious truck In th~ water i~ can go alongside merch~nt sht_PSbull unload cargo direct and

WHAT MOCK-UP MEANS Since the establishment of the

Base paper The MOCK-UP reshypeated inquiries have been made as to the meaning and derivation of the word mock-up

The word is of Scottish origin and is well known to those engaged in shipbuilding Before a ship is built the hull is projected accordshying to the actual size and plan in a mold loft These projections are usually made of either heavy paper or light wood Through this method the actual plates can be cut and shaped accurately Since curved plates fore and aft are rather difficult to shape the aid of a mold is needed

In this country the mold is known as a box mold but in Scotshyland it is known as a mock-up Thus a mock-up may be defined as a full sized pattern of an obshyject to be duplicated

All are familiar with the use of the mock-up in amphibious train-middot ing At the Base here Lt Comdr John Doyle former M amp R OinC always climed priority to the sugshygestion that the Base newspapershybe given that name

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Class Gives Play A Little Honey three-act

comedy will be presented by the Senior Class of the local high school Friday and Saturday Mar 16 and 17 at 2000 in the audishytorium located on Delaware Ave Admission for servicemen will be

of the LST Has bow doors and similar take 1t to mland supply dumps It Isbelow the shoulder seam may be 50 centsramp but has no top deck Highly maneu- whe~led ot tracked and can carry 20 worn OllY by qualified personnel verable and fast it is over 200 feet long soldiers 1f necessary +USNATB+ and authorization for its wearing carries a crew of 60 men and four offi- + U S N A T B + The Mock-Up is a good enclosure

cers First saw action at Leyteis entered in his service record LCT landing craft tank - An even War Bonds are todays best buys with a letter home

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THE MOCK-UP United States Naval Amphibious Training Base Fo1middott Pierce Fla

Vol 4-No 11 16 MARCH 1945

COMMANDING OFFICER CAPT c GULBRANSON u s Navy EXECUTIVE OFFICER - bull - COMDR PERRY M FENTON USNR EDITOR - - - - - - - LT C HERSCHEL SCHOOLEY USNR NEWS EDITOR - ENS ROBERT L EBERT PHOTO EDITOR bull 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 Service)

Amphibious Forces Heres To You

Amphibs Three Years Old Today the banner headline on Page one says Actually they~are much older

Officially the Amphibs were established by Navy disshypatch orders just three years ago today and they have written a glorious story in aetion on battle fronts around the world middot

Historically however amphibious warfare known as Combined Operations in England is centuries old

The Greeks had a word for it and the Persians taught it to them with amphibious invasions of Greece between 499 and 449 B C

Drakes expeditions in the West Indies in 1585 Essex and Howard at Cadiz in 1596 the storming of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759 all were amphibious operations So were the unsuccessful British operations at Gallipoli in 1915 and the German occupation of Crete in 1941

Since 1942 beginning with Guadalcanal in the Pacific and with North Africa in the European theatre Amphibious Operations 35 times successfully repeated have taught the enemy that war is just what Sherman said

Appropriately then an anniversary day to honor the Amphibious Force for its role in shortening the war They hit that foreign sand before the rest could land Amphibious Forces heres to you

Charles Kennedy Another specialINDIAN RIVER USO sports show is scheduled for Wedshynesday 21 March Special

Nearly 200 servicemen attended Recognition Service for Volunteers the Java Club free breakfast Sunshy who have given over 50 hours of day morning Nagel Mahan and service in the club was held ThursshyMrs L W Halbe entertained with day night Miss Mildred Gleichagh songs during the morning bull bull of the New York offices of the The Square Dance on Monday night USO made the awards with Capt continues to be one of the hits of C Gulbranson Base Co guest the week Pop Byers does the speaker Sunday night 18 calling and a real hill-billy band March the servicemen are invited entertains Byers recommends to attend a special attraction feashysquare dancing for all hands turing Juan De La Cruz a Philipshyaboard USNATB Ih~ Tuesshy pine midget who is only 38 inches day night dance was well attended tall Juan will entertain with some with the USNATB eight-piece orshy fancy tap dancing and will be asshychestra furnishing dancable tunes sisted by his sister who is 21 inchshy Wednesday night was a big es tall and weighs 34 pounds night featming boxing bouts arshy On Wednesday 21 March the Vero ranged by Lt (jg) Don Ahern and Beach High School Band under Chief Williamson Those performshy the direction of Frank Lorwick ing included James McDonald will give a concert from the Patio Elmer Tucker Kenneth Matteson of the club The program will inshyJames Foster Robert Ridings Patshy clude standard numbers overtures rick Heffernan Frank Frazier and popular numbers and novelties

Nani Lovely MaidCHAPLAINS CORNER By Chaplain E C Helmich USN

George Washiniton at Valley Forge wrote the following on a barrel head These are times that try mens souls How modern how up to date those words sound to our ears today

The conflict in which we are engaged has caused many a person mental and spiritual depression

Unrest discourshyagement and dissatisshyfaction w i t h our abnormal war time living is prevalent evshyerywhere Parshyticularly in the Armed Forces with accentuatshyed abnormal life is this apshynormal life is

E C Helmich th t1s apparen We have need for a firm founshy

dation and stabilizing influence Some men from disrupted homes are confronted with difficulties never before encountered Others from merely nominal Christian homes are finding adjustment to this utterly different manner of life extremely difficult Even those who were reared in a Chrisshytian atmosphere are not finding adjustment easy To uphold their ideals and standards is a gigantic task

In order to strengthen and fosshyter the religious lives of officers and men on this Base and to give greater opportunity for men to come to know Christ the Protesshytant Chaplains are sponsoring a Preaching Mission beginning 25 NANI one of tTte rovely FIVE March and continuing through 28 ALOHA MAIDS featured with March These meetings will be coll- Ray Kinney and his Musical Amshyducted in Gulbranson Hall each bassadolS to the Mainland will evening from 1830 to 2000 The appear with the famed Hawaiian speaker will be Chaplain Thorn- orchestra here at USNATB next ton Miller Captain USN District Friday and Satmltday Friday Chaplain of the ~eventh Naval night at 1800 a stage show will be

D given at Gulbranson Hall and a District Chaplain Miller was is- repeat performance will be gi7en trict Chaplain at Pearl Harbor at 2000 at Jaycee Field for se_middotviceshyat the outbreak of the war He dis- men their families and friends tinguished himself by his monu- At 2100 the Idol of the Islands mental task of supervising the will play at Legion Hall at a da~e evacuation of thousands of Navy for Officers their wives and girl dependents from Hawaii in the be- friends Saturday night calls for

d d two stage shows at Gulbransonginning weeks of the war _hea e Hall at 1800 and 1900 and a dance the Navy Reh~f Society m that for ~nlisted men at Legion Hall at area and earned on at the same Kinney and his orchestra2100 time a full s~hedule of religious middot have broken all existing recor~ at administrations He was also re- the Hawaiian Room of the Lexingshysponsible for planning thi ceme- ton H0lttel in New Yor~ nd tery near Pearl Harbor The visit of tTie Kiiney Ja bull

and of Nani is of particular in~ershyChaplain Miller is a most intershy sectSt to Lt Comdr K D Perkinsesting and appealing speaker and USN Base SenWmiddot Chaplain as we are confident that you will find Nani in private life MUfs Peg~yhis messages most helpful The Todd was a member of his cong1 eshy

1i E co~nr rec-first part of each service will be gation when te was pis I devoted to hymn sin_ging_ someshy tor at Hilo Hawaii Ray ~inney

too is a native of Hilo and is iuellshything everyone will enjoy kndwn to him Here is a means of developing

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