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FOUR OF A KIND
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Four of a kind is always a good hand When the four are commendations from Generals and all are received during the same thirty-day period theyre good enough to win in practically any competition
So the 82nd Battalion t oday is feeling mighty _proud about the words of praise it has received from Major Generals St Clair Streett O W Griswold and Raymond G Lehman and Brigadier General E W Barnes
In thanking the Seabees for their assistance General Barnes said uThe coopshyeration and services exhibited by the 82nd C Bs has been invaluable to the end of obtaining supplies and e quipment immediately needed at times when regula r s upply channels would have ret arded the t actica l situation s demands The 82nd has loane d its men its trucks and equipment provided messing and quarters arrangements and in every way has given aid beyond any reasonable expectation all with a r esult that it is hghly respected and admired by every member of the - - - - - - Fighter P-mma nd
General Streett added middot It is with genuine gr atification that I forward thi s commendation t o you for the cooperation afforded units of my command at a time whe n the need was great I wish t o add my per s onal appreciation for the 82nd Naval Construction Battalions praiseworthy efforts which further demonstrates the ef r
fe ctive cooperat ion between the services that is bringing about the decisive defeat of the enemy
I have had occasion to observe Commander F owler and the work of his bat shyt alion wrote Gene ral Lehman 4Not only have they performed in a s plendid manshyner the pr imary dut ies fo r which the battalion was s ent to thi s island but have rendshyered to my headquarters a splendid and sincerely appreciated service in the conshystruction work necessary to the e stabli shment of the headquarters (They) have ashychieved a fine r esult
General Gris wold in forwarding the commendation t ermed it well deserved and hard earned
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BATTALIONS D-DAY ROLE REVEALED (
Proving their hithertOuntried-in-combat Rhino ferries and barges an outshystanding amphibious Wtapon officers and men of a seabee battalion triumphed over a D-Day storm to unload tanks armament vehicles personnel and ammuni shytion in France accomplishing their mission through mine infested waters and deshyspite intense enemy fire
A report by Captain c w Coryell CEC 1 USNR OinC of a Construetion-Regimiddot shyment has revealed how the Seabees succeeded in their D-Day 0bjective although the condition of the sea and wave action previously had been cons idered too rough for opshyeration of the pontoon equipment
Duringmiddot the critical ten-day period following D-Day Captain Coryell s report continued the battalion went on to unload 16000 vehicles 25000 tons of ammunition and supplies and 32000 troops a total of approximately 138000 tons all urgently needed on the expanding beachhead
The Rhino crews many of whom remained on duty for as long as 90 hours ~ithout relief a lso distinguished themselves by rescuing wounded and drowning solshy
ars at great risk t o themselves
The open decks of the Rhinos were constantly exposed to enemy shell fire and flak splinters (The danger to the crews Captain Coryell declared was great at all times A number were wounded as the r esult of mine explosions and some deaths r esulted
All Rhino ferries he said were navigated to successful beach landings with skill and fearlessne ss and despite much damage to the units due to the shell fire and minesmiddot the crews worked continuously at their stations through long hours conshytributing immeasurably to the success of the invasion
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A bulldozer at a South Pacific island was recently stalled its tracks spinning wildly relates the Second Regi-
I t ment s The Beachcomber 11 Again and again the operator tried to move forward
- - without success 11Backing up and getting off t o discover what the doshy
zers tracks wouldnt bite into he found it to be an unexshyploded 500-pound bomb - - cap up and scarred from the do-zers efforts middot
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about that time Beachcomber advises its readers (was the operators long drawn-out sigh
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77TH TERMED ONE OF FINEST
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Terfi1ied by its last regimental commander (one of the finest Seabee battalions in the Navy the Seventy -seventh i s now taking over an assignment at a new base
Upon their detachment from their old regiment the regimental 0-in- C Cmdr WWStuddert USNR cummended the men of the 77th for their excellent perform- -ance
You contributed greatly to the most successful completion of one of the finest air and naval bases in the South Pacific area he said
The officers and men of the 77th US Naval Construction Battalion Cmdr Studdect continued in his citation through their diligence and ability to perform have won the respect and admiration of all the services stationed at this base~
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To prevent the Americans from making use of port facilities at an E -boat base in Franceretreating Nazi -demolitioneers did what they thought was a thorough job of wrecking all installations assuming that it would require months to repair the damage
But they reckoned without the Seabees
Moving in soon after the ports capture a highly specialized detachment of a battalion now stationed in France pitched into the task of reconstruction
A short time later speedy PT boats protecting shipping in the English Channel~ were putting in to refuel at the newly constructed and rebuilt porL
The detachment was under the direction of Ensign JT Barber CEC USNR ass i sted ~y CSF JC Volk
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WORTH FpoundVE BATTLESHIPS
Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
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lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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SEABEE S i SQUEEZE SAVES MATE g LIFE
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
1hink I have a re al one
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MINOR DISTURBANCE
For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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Proving their hithertOuntried-in-combat Rhino ferries and barges an outshystanding amphibious Wtapon officers and men of a seabee battalion triumphed over a D-Day storm to unload tanks armament vehicles personnel and ammuni shytion in France accomplishing their mission through mine infested waters and deshyspite intense enemy fire
A report by Captain c w Coryell CEC 1 USNR OinC of a Construetion-Regimiddot shyment has revealed how the Seabees succeeded in their D-Day 0bjective although the condition of the sea and wave action previously had been cons idered too rough for opshyeration of the pontoon equipment
Duringmiddot the critical ten-day period following D-Day Captain Coryell s report continued the battalion went on to unload 16000 vehicles 25000 tons of ammunition and supplies and 32000 troops a total of approximately 138000 tons all urgently needed on the expanding beachhead
The Rhino crews many of whom remained on duty for as long as 90 hours ~ithout relief a lso distinguished themselves by rescuing wounded and drowning solshy
ars at great risk t o themselves
The open decks of the Rhinos were constantly exposed to enemy shell fire and flak splinters (The danger to the crews Captain Coryell declared was great at all times A number were wounded as the r esult of mine explosions and some deaths r esulted
All Rhino ferries he said were navigated to successful beach landings with skill and fearlessne ss and despite much damage to the units due to the shell fire and minesmiddot the crews worked continuously at their stations through long hours conshytributing immeasurably to the success of the invasion
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about that time Beachcomber advises its readers (was the operators long drawn-out sigh
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Terfi1ied by its last regimental commander (one of the finest Seabee battalions in the Navy the Seventy -seventh i s now taking over an assignment at a new base
Upon their detachment from their old regiment the regimental 0-in- C Cmdr WWStuddert USNR cummended the men of the 77th for their excellent perform- -ance
You contributed greatly to the most successful completion of one of the finest air and naval bases in the South Pacific area he said
The officers and men of the 77th US Naval Construction Battalion Cmdr Studdect continued in his citation through their diligence and ability to perform have won the respect and admiration of all the services stationed at this base~
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To prevent the Americans from making use of port facilities at an E -boat base in Franceretreating Nazi -demolitioneers did what they thought was a thorough job of wrecking all installations assuming that it would require months to repair the damage
But they reckoned without the Seabees
Moving in soon after the ports capture a highly specialized detachment of a battalion now stationed in France pitched into the task of reconstruction
A short time later speedy PT boats protecting shipping in the English Channel~ were putting in to refuel at the newly constructed and rebuilt porL
The detachment was under the direction of Ensign JT Barber CEC USNR ass i sted ~y CSF JC Volk
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Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
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lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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about that time Beachcomber advises its readers (was the operators long drawn-out sigh
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Terfi1ied by its last regimental commander (one of the finest Seabee battalions in the Navy the Seventy -seventh i s now taking over an assignment at a new base
Upon their detachment from their old regiment the regimental 0-in- C Cmdr WWStuddert USNR cummended the men of the 77th for their excellent perform- -ance
You contributed greatly to the most successful completion of one of the finest air and naval bases in the South Pacific area he said
The officers and men of the 77th US Naval Construction Battalion Cmdr Studdect continued in his citation through their diligence and ability to perform have won the respect and admiration of all the services stationed at this base~
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To prevent the Americans from making use of port facilities at an E -boat base in Franceretreating Nazi -demolitioneers did what they thought was a thorough job of wrecking all installations assuming that it would require months to repair the damage
But they reckoned without the Seabees
Moving in soon after the ports capture a highly specialized detachment of a battalion now stationed in France pitched into the task of reconstruction
A short time later speedy PT boats protecting shipping in the English Channel~ were putting in to refuel at the newly constructed and rebuilt porL
The detachment was under the direction of Ensign JT Barber CEC USNR ass i sted ~y CSF JC Volk
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Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
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lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
77TH TERMED ONE OF FINEST
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Terfi1ied by its last regimental commander (one of the finest Seabee battalions in the Navy the Seventy -seventh i s now taking over an assignment at a new base
Upon their detachment from their old regiment the regimental 0-in- C Cmdr WWStuddert USNR cummended the men of the 77th for their excellent perform- -ance
You contributed greatly to the most successful completion of one of the finest air and naval bases in the South Pacific area he said
The officers and men of the 77th US Naval Construction Battalion Cmdr Studdect continued in his citation through their diligence and ability to perform have won the respect and admiration of all the services stationed at this base~
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To prevent the Americans from making use of port facilities at an E -boat base in Franceretreating Nazi -demolitioneers did what they thought was a thorough job of wrecking all installations assuming that it would require months to repair the damage
But they reckoned without the Seabees
Moving in soon after the ports capture a highly specialized detachment of a battalion now stationed in France pitched into the task of reconstruction
A short time later speedy PT boats protecting shipping in the English Channel~ were putting in to refuel at the newly constructed and rebuilt porL
The detachment was under the direction of Ensign JT Barber CEC USNR ass i sted ~y CSF JC Volk
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Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
1 drink some beer eat i ce cream or just lie on the
lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
1hink I have a re al one
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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To prevent the Americans from making use of port facilities at an E -boat base in Franceretreating Nazi -demolitioneers did what they thought was a thorough job of wrecking all installations assuming that it would require months to repair the damage
But they reckoned without the Seabees
Moving in soon after the ports capture a highly specialized detachment of a battalion now stationed in France pitched into the task of reconstruction
A short time later speedy PT boats protecting shipping in the English Channel~ were putting in to refuel at the newly constructed and rebuilt porL
The detachment was under the direction of Ensign JT Barber CEC USNR ass i sted ~y CSF JC Volk
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Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
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lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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Biggest morale -builder in the South Pacific is the recreation center in the New Hebries ~ built largely by Seabees and described by Admiral Chester W Nimitz as worth five battleshipsgt said Lt Cmdr Roland Logan USNR recently returned to the United States after 13 months of duty as chief oi the establishment
Interviewed by Bob Considine nationally-known sports columnist LtCmdr L ogan who was trainer of the Boston Red Sox and the West Point Pittsburgh and George Washington University grid teams as well as personal trainer for Glenn Cunningham~ disclosed that battle-scarred warships filled with war weary and restless men have been ordered in at the place -- to give the boys a breather let them play at some games
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lawns and look up at the sky
More jangled nerves were straightened out at the center more cases of battle anxiety were cured and more homesickness evaporated theret (and still does) than any spot in the ocean they call Pacific Considine wrote
we couldnt have done it without the Seabees Godblessthem~= Lt Cmdr Logan told Considine They built just about everything though some ot the fields were laid out by hard working boys in other branches But the Seabees are toos
in my book One day about seven qionths ago two admirals came by and~ s~~ they wished we had a golf course That s all Three weeks later the Seabeegt hmshed a swell 9-holer
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
1hink I have a re al one
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
SEABEE S i SQUEEZE SAVES MATE g LIFE
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When a piece of shrapnel severely wounded a buddy Richard A Darnell CM le rushed to the striken mans aid and stopped the heavy flow of blood by pinching the severed ends of a vein with his fingers He shut off the stream of blood in this manner until proper medical aid was administered
In commending Darnell Vice Admiral JH Newton USN said + By his prompt action quick thinkingf and thorough knowledge of first aid he was directly respon ~ s ible for the saving of a life
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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Comedian Bob Hope now making a tour of bases in the Pacific sought out a few souvenirs when he stopped at aNavy camp in the Admiralties recently
I got an enemy flag 1 reported Bob The Seabees have been making up Jap flags fr om a piece of bedsheet with some mercurochrome to sell t o the suckers like us but I J
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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For Lloyd E Herman of the 36th Battalion we propose a new rate MU Ma~ter of Und~rstatement
Writing of his experiences over seas Herman said Jap shell fire demolished two tents while I was in them This I found a bit exciting
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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TWO SPECfALTfES ~
JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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The chance every seaman dreams of = ~ t o take command - - came to George A Taiol Slc of the lllth Battalion during a recent c ombat operation
The Rhino of which he was a crew member was attempting to complete a middot marriage with an LST while operating in a heavy sea The officer- in=charge went out of action with a broken leg and a CPO took over Heavy waves snapped several cables One cable struck the CPO knocking him out
Taiol Slc then took charge and successfully completed the ( marriage
His cool and decisive action saved the Rhino and the crew s aid an official report of the incident (and was in keeping with the highest tradition of the US Naval Service
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
TEAMWORK
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Seabees ashore on the Normandy beaches during the first wee~s of the inv3 -sion used even their own free time to help speed the movement ot ships and supplies Typical of this after-hours effort is the work of a party of Navy construction men i~ treeing a Coast Guard vessel which had been beached by the storm which devastated the beachhead late in june
~During the s ix-day period this vessel was beached in an apparently hopeless situation these men worked unceasingly to dig channels and clear obstructions unshytil she finally floated with the help of your warping tug and an LCM wrote Lt(jg) V_B Meyer~ USCGR to a Battalion 0-in-C (Much of this work was performeddurshying the men s free time and such a spirit of cooperation and unselfishness is indeed praiseworthy
At the present time he continued this vessel is undergoing repairs to prepare her again for sea This might not have been possible -if not for the untiring efforts shown by these men
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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AWARDED NA VY AND MARfNE CORPS MEDAL For rescuing a drowning pilot Robert E Cochron wr3c has been awarded
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Admiral William F Halsey USN
Disregarding his personal safety when a fighter plane crashed into the sea nearby~ Cochron swam through extremely rough surf for approximately 100 yaru Although thrown against a reef and forced back once by the heavy breakers he sue middotmiddot ceeded in reaching the pilot and bringing him safely to the beach
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JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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TOUCHY BTTSCNESS
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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TWO SPECfALTfES ~
JJ Gunner s Mate F irst Class KE Vielmetii eVer tells his battalion cook J can de better myseli he probably wont be tooling
VieJmetri_ who did a hitch in the Army before enliStlng in the Seabees holds two expert s ratings middot - as a machine gunner bull and as a cook While in the Army he pur in Juur months atcCook~ and Bakers Schol one moth at Mess Sergeants School eceVed a First Cooks diploma a Mess Sergeants diploma ran an Army ofticers mess and also a mess tor enlisted men and civilians
How come hes a gunners mate VieJmettl explains t hat when he joined up he Jigured the NaY needed expert gunners most But now he says hect like a change He wants to run a battalion megts
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
was in kee9ing with the highest tradition oi the Naval Ser vice middot-----middot- - -------
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
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19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
TOUCHY BTTSCNESS
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No place for a man with an overlyvviVid imaginadon was the spot Roger M WiJliamsr SF2c found himself in on the night ot June 6th
The Rhino fe r ry on which the Seabee had crossed U1e Engiish Channel on D shyDay had grounded about fifty feet oit a Normandy beach The fir at buJldozer to leave the terrys r amp had struck a mine and b1ucked the wav ashore
The ferrys cargo of tanks ammunition and equipment had to be landed quickshyly but bet ore that could be done someone had to pick his way through the blackness of the night and the mines hidden in the sand t o clear the disabled tractor from the r amps
Degtpite the obvious per il the Seabee waded ashor e located another bullshydozer and cleared the wrecked machine Then he continued to tow ashore the eshyquipment on the Rhino
1His initiative and courage reported the Officer -in-Charge of the battalion
was in kee9ing with the highest tradition oi the Naval Ser vice middot-----middot- - -------
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
L I~ ue ~ o 8 p t I
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
--middotmiddotmiddotmiddot----
SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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Ll FE gtAVERS
Seabees working on the beaches during the Normandy invas ion were credited with saving a number of servicemen from dr owning during the landing operations
When an infantry- laden LCI beached and soldiers attempting to struggle a shyhore with heavy packs looked as if they would not be able to make it Nicholas A Renzetti CM3cj Harold E Smith Jr S2c and Lloyd VT Spencer Slc left their Rhino ferry to go to the rescue The Seabees aided all of the men to the beach and succe ssfully applied artificial respiration to an officer who had lost consciousness
Two other men attached to the same battalion Robert G Dare MM3c and Thomas Newman1 CM3c swam approximately 200 feet through mine infested washyters t o rescue the lone survivor of a DUKW which had just been destroyed by one of t he mines
Char le s C Dorsey S2c)gt left a Rhino ferry to rescue a snlrlier who had been attempting to make shore but was being carried under by the weight of his pack
SrHl another member of the same outiit Laroy W Bishop CM2c went -r the s ide of his ferry to rescue a wounded soldier who had fallen between an L ~ r a LCVP and the Rbiro and was in immediate danger of being crushed be ~ tween the craft Bishop pulled the injured man clear and guided him past the mines to safet y
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EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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Tough said the veteran Chieplusmn laquor wa~mmiddot-i born - I was quarried
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
L I~ ue ~ o 8 p t I
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
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19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
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PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
EARN SQIDtEB S MEDALS FOR RESCUE
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Three Seabees oi th~ 7 lst Batra1ion j-_ bull rmerly stationed al Bougainville have been awarded Soldier s Medals h)r 3aving the liplusmne o1 a pilot who entangled in hi s warer sciaked parachute was in danger ot drowning in heavy seas
The Seabees V C Hoerbelt CVl Lizzt1l i and AJ Ryan all Slc towed aq intlated rubber float through the p citmchn~ seas to effect the rescue after t he flyer s plane had sunk
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WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
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T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
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T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
WRONG ONES
The guy who dusted this one off for publication in the 43rd Battalions The Duster is hiding in the brush or ought to be
Several days ago he says while constructing the mess hall a Seabee carpenter was intently examining each nail and then tossing them away Observing this the chief in charge of the crew asked the reason for the display of wastefulness
The carpentemiddotr retorted The d - - - things have the head on the wrong end
With that the chief exploded aWny you old fool those are for the other wall
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
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Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
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KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
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Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
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loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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BIG TOWN
Marking the end of their second year of overseas duty the 11th Construction Battalion estimates that it has completed enough work to furni sh housing factories warehouses power light sewers water teleph0ne airfields and water front facilshyities including lighterage and garbage barges for a city oplusmn 11000
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QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
L I~ ue ~ o 8 p t I
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During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
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SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
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1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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Lssue middotflic c
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rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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1- iSUt 38 llt t--)8
19 ue t 1914
QUONSET CENTIPEDE v
Scores of Seabees stared open-mouthed in amazement as they watched a quonset hut walk down the street in the 29th Special s bivouac area at Hueneme
The startling scene of the many-legged hut was occasioned by the desire of the battalions officers to relocate their recreation hut
Scorning the use of heavy equipment = - or even rollers ~ WO Mitchell Fidanze called upon 90 of his husky cargo-handler s placed them in3ide the hut after first removing the flooring and at a given signal ever y man heaved and walked - - and the hut moved down the street
The strainiqg stevedores rested only twice 1 and within 30 minutes the buildshying was resting on its new foundations having been maneuvereu around three corushyers on its 1000-foot trip
SAME THOUGHT -r~
L I~ ue ~ o 8 p t I
lJ Egt1H~ bull _ t
During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
I ~~ l sne uo ~~~
- c j ii 8 19 igte t _
A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
--middotmiddotmiddotmiddot----
SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
- --- middot----- - ------
J
I-L LJ -~ f middot1 b l e ~ 1 bull - 9 4
CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
-- ----
l EUe fo j8
TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
SAME THOUGHT -r~
L I~ ue ~ o 8 p t I
lJ Egt1H~ bull _ t
During recent military training manuevers a group of inspecting officers toured the 129th Battalions positions and expressed themselves as well satisfied with the deployment of men
A Marine officer however looking at a mound next to him remarked iThi s wou1d have been a gcod place for a machine gun nest
Hardly were the words out of his mnuth said the battalion s newspaper the middotBeacon 1 when there was a crackling nl brush al hi s elbow as Seabee machine
gunners Norman Jones and Erwin McOrnber r1~ up tf r eveal themselves -- middot--- - - middotmiddot-- - - - - -- --- - - ---- - ---
FROM MOM
I ~~ l sne uo ~~~
- c j ii 8 19 igte t _
A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
--middotmiddotmiddotmiddot----
SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
- --- middot----- - ------
J
I-L LJ -~ f middot1 b l e ~ 1 bull - 9 4
CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
-- ----
l EUe fo j8
TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
FROM MOM
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A rrwther s written rlea Li PreJidem R _ ~cve 1 t tiat h-7r gtcn a Seabee in tte Snuthwesr Pacific celebrat ~ hi Urthday wii h d cake H m Mom ) was answerej in a m bull1st saiidactnry manner when Gemiddot rge W He iJple tvlMl cj wa3 presenled the cake by higt battalions OinC Lr ~mir LR Quayle CEC USNR
In a Jette r t u the Prrsident u Mom 1 Mr o A] He tp Je cd Cunnecticut said in parL middot
J am taking the liberty t v write tu y -U and a 3k a tav1 r My only son has been in the Southwest Pacific s i nce the first par t cf Apri l 1943 We saw him abu1t 3 days since he went in November 1942 he b a Seab2e bull hl-=gt birthday i s July 4 I do wish he could have a birthday cake and T knlt bullN 1hat U 1 send hien une he probably would ne ver get it so it possible woullti you ee that he gets vne irorn his Mom it would be a little happiness for him but mostly hmiddotr me y u win tind $500 also my S tn addres s
Mr Hepples letter was rushed frcmiddotrn Washingtltin to LL Cmdr Quayle with the re ~1uest that everything pos s ible be done At lhe 3ame time 1 the $600 was re shyt-JCDed t Mr3 Hepple
Lt Cmdr Quayle receiving the letter iearneci that Hepple was in sick bay but asigned CCS W Van Seters the task oi baking the cake
The Chief had no eggs~ s o he prGcuredgt twc dmiddotmiddotbullzen he had nu powdered sugar)gt so he powdered his own the ovens were t uo mall tnr the cake he planned 30 he had them enlarged
Hepple received his cake lncibed in heavy icing were the words ~July 4 Happy Birthday from Mc1m
--middotmiddotmiddotmiddot----
SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
- --- middot----- - ------
J
I-L LJ -~ f middot1 b l e ~ 1 bull - 9 4
CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
-- ----
l EUe fo j8
TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
SPEEDSlERS ~~
Isue -~o 3B pound lt- lt lj
19 -evt 19
Given threP weeks to make repairs on a wrecked whart the dock crew of the 85th Battalion working two shifts 11f ten huurs each Ctlmpleted the j(b in nine days
The same crew recently was commended i11r ir ~ asLrance tv Army personshynel during work at another dock
- --- middot----- - ------
J
I-L LJ -~ f middot1 b l e ~ 1 bull - 9 4
CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
-- ----
l EUe fo j8
TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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CONVINCED ~
Being lost for nine hours in fog-blanketed Aleutian waters finally convinced
Thomas Kellett EMlc and four mates of the 32nd Battalion that a 3-inch compas was much more reliable than their 5900 -~to(t marker
Kellett pilot of a motor launch making regular runs between twc Aleutian i3lands had disdained the use ot a compass He preferred tu rely upon a 5900-fovt m ountain as a direction -finder
This simpJe system of navigotien wurked wen 1~ti1 the day a dense fog sudmiddotshydenly enveloped the lauYJch mountain and eie~middotything e -=gte
With no compass aboar-d KeJ lett attempted tbull middot p111t his course by using wind and tides a s his guides As the wtrn1s congttarnly ehanged direction he soon had to discard this method
Realizing he was lost and facing the prospect vi winding up in the open sea nithout fuelr Kellett reduced speed and decided t 1bull waJt out the weather vit was a 1Uestion as to which would run out first- gas or tog1 the Seabee explained
As the launch cruised aimlessly about the men sighted two rock- bound islands but these proved ton dangerous to attempt landings
Only an hour s fuel remained when the tog abruptly litted and the Seabees enjoyed the most welcome sight uf their lives middot the 3etting sun
VThen KelJett waiked over t u his lgtoat the next morning his hands were full He was carrying a mass of charts and a compass
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TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
l EUe fo j8
TEXAS AGAlN
ln traditionai Texas manner bakers uJ 1he 99th (Ltine Star) Battalion fash~ ioned a mammoth star ~ shaped cake in comme muration ot their battalion s iirst anshynivers ary oi their adoption by the state of Texao Covered by an inch-thick red white t and bJue icing the cake me asured s ix feet acrns3 ald 40 inches thick
- - middot- middot middot--middot- - - - - ---- middot- --
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
I _ sue middot _- 8 p 7 19 I t bull 1 1-~l
KEEP HOOK ~OVtNG
The handling of approximaieJv 5000 t11n3 oj carg1middot in a 24 middot huur peri od in shydicates the proper enthusiasm and a very detinite expreoiim oi Uei r determinaticn to help wln the war wrote the cvmmander )t a Naval ba3e in the South P acific to Lt Cmdr Maricn B Or r CE C USNR OlnC lf the 22nd ~pecia1 in commendation of the battalion
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
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PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
I ~LO J_middot le L-O 8 iJ bull t
ep 9 -4middot
PER PETH Al MOTON ltgt ~
T hr ow out that old fangled electri c wa~hlng machine ~ the l29th Battalions Beacon~ advises stateside householders
Jmiddotack 0 1iver and Wgyne Qliver ~ave ju~t ~eJeaea their new A 4) 1944 vJind operate hand middot ted model the Beacon conunue
The Goldbergian cont raption complete with endless pulleysgt straps paddles wires and a six blade propeller for a windmiU was a ssembled from the par t s proshycured from a B-24 junk pile It i s so constructed that it can easily be dismantled and packed for shipment to areas where no electric power i s available
A moderate wind supplies enough power to work the machine It is estimated reports Beacon ~that two Seabees s hooting the breeze nearby are sufficient t o provide enough power for a weeks washing
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
TROPHIES ~)
l s e L 30 5 lL
1 9 e t 1 ltf
Seabee souvenir hunters wilJ envy their mates on Guam who searched Jap officers quarrers and plusmnonnd an oplusmnficial soushyveni r program of the Chicago iN9rld s Fair of 1933 a pamphshylet on the (Dragonflies of China also a home movie proshyjection machine which still had plusmnilm in it It was an old s ilent picture made in the United States the title was Barney Google
----~ - - - ---- ----
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
-~-~----- - ---- ---
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
---middot ----~-middot -
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
PLApoundN AND FANCY VlClUALS
l ~t(gt l ssa e i 1 _g
0 e 10 1 1 - ~ middot 1~4
Cooking for a battalion of hungry Seabees has its interesting moments ay Richard E Steinheim SC2c1 whose two years overseas experience dishing it out fo r the 19th Battalion should make him an authority
When the mates yelled middotfor something diplusmnfe rentt Steinheim alway s did his best t o oblige Sqmetimes it meant going on crcicodile hunts so that the next days special could be ( crocodile tail and palm tip s al ad on other occasions ~ he wuuld be an energetic participant in wild pig chases and for several months the Seabee cook actually f ound himself on duty at a South P acitic cattle ranch His job there was to kill dress and cook beef i or the servkernen and that says Steinheim was a full time job
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J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
J J I ~ J ssue 1 bull 8 1 e 1 0 2-1- e 1 bull 194L
RECOGNlZED BY EMPlRE SIATE v
Seabees of the 70th Battalion veterans oi the North African campaign and many of whom are New Yorkers and New Englanders ~ have been presented with an official New York State banner by Commiasi oner Charles H Sells of the New York middot State Depar tment of Public Wor ks
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Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
Lssue middotflic c
~e _L
rSLANU THEATRE HAS PROFESSJONAL TOUCHE~
scutdebut Junction a canvas~rooted (Jpen-air tJ1eatre -gteadrg 181 J pers(H~raquo fo the p int comribution of CBMUs 572 and 573 t bull the eme-r ta~nment d servicemen on t hec L31and x
E quipped tor stage presen~ atinns as weJ 1 as mc-vies 1 ae tneatre b_as-l a stage approximarn1y 25 x 36 feeL The lighting sytem featur e gt h1 memctcle hJbullJtJig htgt which can be tolded down irtc the f ~uorboards upper Iighr 3 aria n (middotan pr ~middot lgt v tmiddotained rrom bmh wings F J fgtodlights als o have been IDGlmie J tmiddot wa ~ re middotec12middot 1 J tne the au e Uhiminat ing the spectator section
bullrne neme-is ot many an isiand theatre i s t 0lt j Lng in r aimiddot middot wea er but ne Seabees have provided for tnat contingency by ringing 1 he erbull l e ILr riiir area vJibullr a sys~em ltgtt drainage gm ers covered with lerap stee m 21tt irg
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
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I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
----middot---
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
FIRE FGHT FRS HOT ~
l _Ts _c c
loe LL 1 Se t l iJ
T w1 members ot t he 117th BattaJicn s tire 1igr~t~ng 14cti i) rad autJgt SF3c and Henrv L Gagne SF3cp have won commendatit r 5 rrraquom Nava cmiddotH ~cici~ h gtr the1r pan in exmiddotcinguishing a t i r e at an J3lana x -1t1arnmiddot
P middotiettermiddot trmiddot orn the quarry owner said Lhat $6bull1 middot-middot w bull 1J1 e 1pmeE1 wa saved __t n_ugh good fire ~fighting technique and very 5 t-J e damc1ge wa caugten b)bull the use uf excesive water _ middot
--- ----
I~ lt7 ~ llt No b bull Iilt= ll L bull i P t bull - 94it
COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
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COOK PROVfDES OWN F~SH ~v ~
T (1 Bnb Lamm SC le~ bull tishing with a s1ing -propeJlecent1 3peci-r t_a_s m2an~middot ~middoteJiei fr um bbull_redom on Ls1and X but tu bis mate the 8eabeP l bull h~ gt tave spe ea r eUet from Spam middot
Being a coo k Lamm has been ab1e to put hi3 catch ~1__ gmiddot vd use paricuJarJy when he c omegt up with something exotic Hke ec1cpu3 He pearmiddoteu at least rhlrtv of rhes e ana his mates agree tha1 after he gt prepare-i Them )r accuJdance with -che r ecipe given bim oy natives and residents ct the igtJanci F rerGJ -tried cctoshypus makes mighty good eat~ng_
The gadget Lamm used tt1~ his tishingis a gtpear plusmnuur and a ha t eer 1 ng~ wim a hinged barb whichholds it in its target harpoon ~a3hinn The syeaI- i pt bull pelled by a ltiop tiplusmn inner tube fastened at one end ot a bamboo t ube through wh5ch ihe gthaf middot~ paegt wher1 releasmiddoted_
T he weapon is powertuJ en ough t c) penetr ate c0mp1ete 1 a plusmnuurmiddot inch ihick fish at a distance ~)t 12 teeL
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SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy
SHORT SPORT StlOTS
Issie Io _8 P-ge -19 be_ -c _ 94
BASEBALL OVer-seasmiddot servicemen- wili be the Hrst to ~Jew off~cial Wor ld Series films Lew F on3eca AL promntional director wilJ have 19wman crew hooting thou3ands ot teet of film to capture pictorially series games On completion ot se
ries hundreds ot prints ot a t wo -r-eel sound movie wi11 be distributed t o the armed forces Throughout the world Dick Wakefield Tigers hard -hitLing star outplusmnielder discharged trom Navy last ]u1y notified he passed Army physical and subject to immediate calLCardinaLs temporarily lost services oplusmn St~m Musial and Whitey Kurow-JkLMusfal ho~pitalized atter coD~din~ with another player Whitey ll-l~ergo~ ing treatmerns plusmnor ulcer on right eyeDalJPuate won b(th end~ of t wc- doubLeheader t o r1m up iring ot nine c middotnsecutive wins over Cards thi $easor uMon Cooper be ~ came first NL pitcher tu win 21 game3 this 3ea3on while 13ili Veiiselle oecame tirs t Giant phcher in 7 years tu win 20 games in s ingle season Red3 Ray Muellershycracked 35 middotyear -NL recr1rd by catching his 134th cons ecutive game of eaSon Baltimore Orio)es won close st International League race in 6lcyear history no~ing out Newark by 0007 NasbviJJe wor1 Southern L eQgue flag cm la3t day ot sea0on
FOOTBALL bull Biggest new3 ot week was Lt Glenn Dodds~ USAAF t or mer plusmnootbaJ star of T ulsa U signJng two year cuntract with New York e leven of newly =plusmnbull)rmBa AH-American F ootba1J Conterence Dodl13 vcred mosr vaiuabmiddote AU= Star in game
u ~ against Chicago Beargt 1as1 momn was drdfted middot in 1943 by Nationai Pro Le~gue s
nicago Cardinals but did nut sign contran in P ru exrJbitions Redgtkins rrounced Bear 21 ~~Philly EagJes beat merged Phtsbur gh Steeler3 and Cardinals1 22~0 Green Bay Packers s hut out Bost on Yankgt 28-0 FL Warren nosed out Brooklyn TJgers Zl ~ 2iJ NY Giants bowed vver Samp3on NTS 13 -0 Yanks purchased CentershyDa]e Carmody and Halioack ()urtnev Driscnli 1Tt m Tiger Like Navy Army a~ dopted NCAA plusmn bull vear ruling Eascern Coliegiaie AA coaches dropped revied r uie whi ch wolld have permitted t orwa(d passlng tr om any point behind line ot 3cr im ~ mage
SIDELNE8~ Chalky Wrigh~ fur rner wcgtrid teatherweigh chaxnp indefinitei v su pended by D C boxing cGmmission for failure to appear t or bcut wit n jackie Wilsonlt 13 Thor1J11ghbredraquo valued at $200 0001destroyed in BeJmont Park tie Byron Nelson spcead-eag1ed tield t r middotwin Texas Victory Open Goh Gunder Hagg orrleced to can~ cet al rmiddot1mning dates when physical examinadon showed h~m -5uiteringmiddot from nver ~ exertiur1 Army vNot re Dame tootdegt)afl game at Yankee Stapium November 11 sold om 9 week$ beplusmnore
SERVICEMEN S SPORTS ~ Ro-se Bowl received firbull3t reservations plusmn0r 45 New Years Day game from 6 US Hyers now POW in Germany Passed by Jerman oplusmnficials igned regwation prLson postcard 9-ated June 8 a3ked tor bk middotck 0plusmn 12 seatd saying Due t o the heartening new 0plusmn the last weekr we_ the undersigned CaJitornians 1
feel extremely confident that thLs New Yeas Eve wili t ind u ai nome129th Bate s Redmen won Seabee Baseball CLv u1_tJ onship of Central P acitic by beat ing 6 bull) ~I l - Y J_ th Batt 3 She i backs in three om ot five series Camp Park~ Seabees beat Treasure island Armed Guard to win 12th Naval Districts title Camp Endicrt
d i 40 8 1 d B --me has recor o middot wms l osses an one t ie Hueneme 3 ees closed seaEgtim ith 43 wins against 17 losses CSpA) Gus Sunnenburg1 former t (ofba) snmiddot and
pro wrestier died ot luekemia at )3etheda N avaJ HusphaL P rr GoH champ Sm Snead received med1camiddot1 discJiarge trr1m Navygt LL T)hn J Daly jrgt captain of 37 Manhattan College eleven ld1led irt Normandy