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PAGE2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, DECEMBEK 1:1, rn44
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Official
* * Treasure Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. Phone: EXbrook 3931, Extension 69.
Commodore Cary's Feat Recalled
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN \
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center The USS Plunkett is once more
on the prowl, seeking out Nazi po-
LT. COMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR sitions on the Italian and French
Director of Welfare and Recreation
coast bordering on the Lugurian
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR Sea and destroying them.
Editor
She is back in the fight after a
ROBERT·E. J"OHNSON, Y3c, USNR, Associate Editor wound suffered· at Anzio which left
her shattered and afire, her deck
Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Managing Editor Robert H. Perez, Cox, Sports
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor George J". Schechter, Y3c, Staff Artist littered with wreckage and mem-
bers of her crew dead and dying.
(The Masthead uses Camp Newsp&per Service Material)
Perhaps, the fate of the great
ship would have been most unfor-
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, DEC .. 9, 1944
tunate had k not been for the de-
stroyer Mayo and the cruiser
EDITORIAL- Brooklyn commanded by Captain
(now Commodore) R. W. Cary.
It was the evening -of D plus 1
<Jlte1ie j~ Stdl ·<Jime. • • that Glider bombers made th~ir first ARMED GUARD PERSONNEL jammed the quarter deck to see The
appearance off Anzio. The enemy Hurricane beauties perform. Middle blonde is wife of Gunner's Mate
pilots paid their first visit in the Newman H. Kennedy of the Armed Guard. Seen in background is the
Bond Bar and total of bonds sold posted on the bulkhead. Sales the first
There is still time to send one more gift, before Christmas, to vicinity of the destroyer, Mayo and
two days were dose to the $20,000 mark.
the men and women on the battlefront. And it is a gift which the the cruiser Brooklyn. Heavy anti-
aircraft fire from the Brooklyn,
recipient will cherish and remember long after he has forgotten commanded by our Commanding
about candy and socks or genuine leather wallets. Officer, Commodore Cary, and a Survivors of Carrier A. G. C. Opens Bond
heavy rain of projectiles from the Sunk in Philippines Drive With Snappy
That gift is life. destroyer Mayo caused the enemy
pilots to make a hasty swing around Reach Treasure· Island Hurricane Show
The men and women, both Navy and civilians here on Treas- for home fields, enabling the
Plunkett to proceed with her as- (Continued from Page 1) Armed Guard Center personnel
tire Island, can make that God-like contribution simply by do-
signed mission. It was D plus 2 lined the bulkheads, crowded the
nating a pint of blood. W hole blood and blood plasma have that between 12 and 14 enemy when I hit the water my pistol gave ladders and desk tops of the quar-
saved thousands of lives in this war. Now the Naval Air Trans- planes came back and finally put me a whack that nearly sent me ter deck to get a glimpse of the
the Plunkett out of action. under. The only reason I am alive show put on by members of the
port Service will fly whole blood to the Pacific battle fields within now is because my executive officer, San F rancisco night club, The Hur-
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48 hours or less after it is donated. Japs Funeralize Plane Commander Ballinger, had insisted ricane, at the opening of the Sixth
Evidently the Japs have studied I wear my life belt." War Loan drive December 1.
Two sailors were grabbed by
'.There are some inconveniences to donating blood. It takes at American history, particularly the Commander Edward Flaherty
least a full mi.nute to make an appointment. Sometimes you may incidents relating to Indian war sharks as they plunged into the started the ball rolling with a down
tactics. Finding it increasingly dif- water. Their shipmates believe the to earth talk on "Why Buy
have to stand and wait in line for five minutes, and there are flash of their white shorts as they
ficult to convince the Pacific na- Bonds?" Introductions were made
other similiar aggravations. tives that their fliers are "in- jumped attracted the sharks. This by Coxswain Russ Kantor, versa-
is one of the few corroborated in-
vincible," the Japs on one occasion tile master of ceremonies and
On the other hand, there are benefits of somewhat greater im- buried a plane which a Navy pilot stances in which sharks have killed singer.
portance. One of our shipmates, or a very dear friend or relative sent blazing earthward as a result men. "It was a swell show with danc-
The sea was full of men clinging
of a direct hit. ing and si;iging by The Hurricane's
may cheat a slimy, lonesome grave because one of us donated * * * to debris and rafts, atop which the grass skirted beauties," personnel
blood. That good friend we made in "boots" may come back_. ·. Honorable Discharge Emblem injured were placed. For three days who saw the performance said.
and two nights they were in the
because you did not mind putting off dinner fifteen minutes. A new Honorable Discharge Em- sea. Some were driven so frantic by Even those who were not fortunate
blem has been adopted by the thirst, they disregarded the injunc- enough to get a good view were
Is a shipmate's life worth being half an hour late to a movie Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and tion against drinking salt water and entertained for nearly an hour by
Coast Guard, under an agreement the South Sea Island style music
or missing the first liberty bus? signed by Secretary of War Henry took several gulps. Soon weakened rendered by The Hurricane and the
L. Stimson and Secretary of the by sickness, they were among the Armed Guard bands.
Everyone agrees on the answer. Any blood center will be glad Navy James Forrestal. It is a cloth first to slip beneath the surface. Some of the fellows and Waves
During the night the men sent
to help make it a fact. Call or visit the Treasure Island Blood device with the same design as up flares which guided naval patrol were particularly interested in the
Center or call GRaystone 9373 in San Francisco, to send that the Honorable Service Lapel Button boats and army landing craft based blonde in the middle of the accom-
and will be worn on the uniform panying picture. It seems, accord-
Christmas gift which will long be cherished by the recipient. of all honorably discharged per- at Leyte to them. Twelve hundred ing to what was being scuttlebutted
sonnel. men from the Gambier Bay were around, that she had entertained at
saved. the Armed Guard Center once be-
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It's alright .to hide behind a A gorgeous blonde crowded her- "Well D,one," Seabees fore. At that time she renewed
woman's skirts providing her hubby self into the telephone booth with The 17th Special U. S. Naval acquaintanceship with one of the
doesn't come in and open the closet the sailor and demurely asked: "Is Construction Battalion, a Colored What's Wrong With Hitler? Armed Guard personnel, Newman
door. · this call necessary ... big boy?" unit of Seabees, has received a The Answer- Plenty! H. Kennedy, GM3c. They had gone
"Well Done!" and a letter of com- to school together as children.
London (QNS) - Reports con- Later · she married the gunner's
mendation from Major General
William H. Rupertus, USMC, Com- cerning Hitler's health-or lack of mate and now signs her name Ilana
it- have been as thick in this city Kennedy.
manding Officer of the First Marine
as GI giblet gravy. If all of them
Division during the landing on and
occupation of Peleliu Island in the are true, the German fuehrer is
Palaus, for helping relieve a short- suffering from the following mala- Draft Boards May Move
age of ammunition on the first lines dies:
Concussion of the brain.
during the night of D-Day. The
Coronary thrombosis. To Re-Induct Ex-Gls
Seabees "passed the ammunition,"
Tumor of the throat.
braved the enemy front-line fire and Washington (CNS)- Honorably '
Paranoia.
brought back the wounded. Many of discharged veterans of this war
them took part in the fighting, man- A broken arm. may be re-inducted into the Armed
ning 37 mm. guns with the effec- An earache. Forces if they volunteer to serve
Flat feet.
tiveness of a veteran. again, Selective Service Head-
* * * striking the enemy with savage- quarters has notified local boards.
Britain Demobilizes 2,000,000 like cruelty, according to reports The boards were empowered to
The modern history of England from the Pacific and Far East.· Re- re - induct registrants separated
is being written with "blood, sweat ports state that our submarines from the services who did not see
and tears." The valorous achieve- have sunk 27 vessels, including two active duty, such as former mem-
ment of her great army and sea combatant vessels, as a result of bers of the ASTP, Army Air Corps
armada is already a legend which operations against the enemy in Enlisted Reserve, Marine · Corps
the British claim with pride. Shar- these waters. Reserve or Merchant Marine Re-
ing no lesser role in the hell-packed A Netherlands submarine, while serve.
drama of modern warfare is Brit- operating under U. S. control, has
ain's Home Guard, a civilian army sunk 4,500 tons of enemy shipping ~~
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2,000,000 strong, which is responsible in the Netherlands East Indians WH M°tli~;(J;;
for repelling many invasion threats waters. This submarine was built 1 ,· fa
during the disaster-laden days· of in England. 6 ?V~ 3
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1940 and 1941.- * * * '3 1;''1l/J.
Veterans of four and a half years Quote.worthy 10
of gruelling warfare, this great Admiral Chester w. Nimitz:
civilian army has been demobilized. "The conclusi-on that we must ex-
They were paid high tribute by pect a struggle of many months
their Colonel-in-Chief, King George durati-on in the Pacific is based on
VI, at a formal parade. facts--facts of geography, facts of
* * * logistics, facts of available tonnage,
U.S. Subs Strike Savagely and facts of military and naval
Th<l U. S. submarines have been science."