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JAP SOUVENIRS TELL THE STORY
ASTHEAD

Official Treasure * *
* * ~sland publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treas11,re Island. AU communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department.
Treasure 1sland, San Francisco, California. P hone: EXbrook 3931, Extension 69 .
. COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN V-3 A-comin', They Say
Commander U. : S._. Naval Training and Distribution Center
Another menace weapon, the V-3,
LT. COMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR will be ready for use again.st New
Director of ,v el fare and Recreation York City before the end of De-
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR cember, says Albert Speer, Ger-
Editor man Minister of Munitions.
Reliable but unauthentic reports
ROBERT E. JOHNSON, Y3c, USNR, Associate Editor
say that V-3 is a giant rocket
Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Managing Editor Robert H. P erez, Cox, Sports which weighs 50 to 70 tons and
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor
carries a ton of explosives for a
Reporters
Sidney V . Smith, Y2c Frederick Drimmer, SK3c warhead.
The "oh-yeah" attitude surfaced
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Service Material)
itself in the New York circles but
Mayor LaGuardia frowned at what
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1944 .
seemed to be harbored hallucina-
tfons and asked the volunteer pro-
EDITORIAL tective services to take
courses.
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Foil-ed-Nazis' Daring Grab
A small Naval task force of four
PICTURED ABOVE is Lt. Commander E. M. Moore, USNR, of Oakland,
Coast Guard cutters smashed California. He is the newly appointed Personnel Officer for Training and
l 1 f b h h h 1 d h through bleak, ice-packed waters Distribution ·center of the Navy at Treasure and Verba Buena Islands.
There are many pat 1s in i e ut t e pat t at et s to ome only a few hundred miles from the The odd ash tray and cigarette lighter on Mr. Moore's desk has as its
base a shell case from an American 90 milli,:neter projectile which suc-
is the one we all love best. May 1945 bring to the personnel of North Pole to break up a deter-
cessfully downed a Jap Zer-o. The steering wheel is from a Jap Captain's
Treasure Island the ·path th~t leads in that direction. May it- mined Nazi effort to establish forti- Gig which was smashed and driven ashore at Vella LaVella. The 50
, . . . . fied bases on the 'northeast coast calibre shell in the center houses the cigarette light~r.
bring to you and yours health, prospenty, more JOY of bemg. This of Greenland, capturing 60 Nazis,
is the sincere New Year wish of the Welfare and Recreation sinking one armed trawler, cap- New Personnel Officer
turing another tank, taking and Naval Training
Department of this command. destroying a mined German radio
station, and fighting off a two- Schools Has Seen Much Duty
In publishing "The Masthead," it is the idea of t_his depart-
motored bomber attack, it was
Congratul!:ltions to three of our In Pacific Warfare
ment to edit the news of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Is- disclosed by reports from the Navy
men who have been selected for
land for the benefit of the enlisted personnel stationed here and Department. advanced schooling. J . D. Atkinson, The new personnel officer for the
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being processed on this naval base. We endeavor to publish Waves Flight Orderlies Jr., S2c and Edward F. Camic, S2c, Training and Distribution Center
students in the Fire Control School for Treasure and Yerba Buena Is-
clean, morale building news. We are always open to sugges- Navy Air Transport Service have been selected as candidates lands is Lt. Commander E. M.
plans to use Navy women as flight
tions in publishing this newspaper, for it is only in this manner for Annapolis, and will report to Moore, USNR, of 285 Lenox
orderlies on all continental trips
the U. S. Naval Academy Prepara- Avenue, Oakland, Calif. He suc-
that we can be more certain of the type of publication desired just as soon as special courses now tory School at Bai<nbridge, Md. ceeds Lt. Clarence S. Smith who
by 01;1r readers. in progress are completed and ade- Frederick Laverne Hite, of the has been detached·to assume duties
quate personnel have been tr;;i,ined. Visual Aids Department, will report as vice president of the Officers
Another important item in the Welfare and Recreation De- At present, Waves who under- to NTS ( Sound Motion Picture Mess Organizatio1:1.
went a course of instruction similar
partment is the· entertainment of those here, both in transit and to that given transport airmen are Technician School) in San Diego. Lt. Commander Moore is a
Our best wishes go with you for veteran of World War I and has
stationed here. It is the policy to have the very best entertain- standing instructional watches in success in your new endeavors. 30 years distinguished service • in
squadrons based at Patuxent River,
ment available at all times, in the way of Hollywood pro- Surprised? the Navy. Appropriate is the fact
Md., and are gaining practical air ... that's putting it mildly. On
ductions, other stage shows and moving pictures. Knowing that transpo,rt experience prior to Christmas Eve at 2100, all of the that he completed his nearly third
of a century Naval duty on Armis-
nival personnel comes from good homes and proper environ- assignment to actual flying duty. men in the duty sections of the tice Day, November 11, 1944.
ment it is my sincere belief that we have a high standard in en- Naval Training Schools were called The new "Tadcen" Personnel
Mercurial Planes for
* * * Carrier Duty to Building "G" for a "muster".
tertainment for officers, Waves and enlisted men. The fastest shipboard fighting They were very pleasantly sur- Officer recently returned from a
year and a half duty in front line
planes in the world, Chance Vought prised to find that the Welfare
fighting areas in the South Pacific.
• The Welfare and Recreation Department has served you m F4U-1 D Corsairs, will soon be Officer, Lt. O'Neal, had arranged a
He was twice recipient of .the
the past to the best of its ability. Our aim is to serve you better flown into combat from the decks little party for them. E ach man Purple Heart for wounds sustained
of American aircraft carriers by received a large bag which con-
in the future. To this end we pledge our full devotion. United States Naval aviators. tained apples, oranges, candy, and in enemy air raids over Guadal-
canal.
Although Corsairs were designed nuts. Then they were all sent to
We want you to be happy this New Year's Day .. and originally for operation from air- the Visual Aids Booth where there It was in battles around Guadal-
canal, the Solomons and in the
during the weeks and months that follow. craft carriers, Navy strategy thus was all of the ice cream they· c-0uld
Admiralties that Lt. Commander
far has employed them chiefly for eat, together with fruit cake and
Moore did outstanding service in
LT. COMMANDER RAYMOND S. KIMBELL, USNR, land-based duty, a role which the cookies galore. The PA system had
gull-winged fighters have achieved been set up and the latest records directing vital operational and con-
Director of Welfare and Recreation. · struction work of American air-
spectacular successes. furnished a musical atmosphere.
Ruggedness, speed, maneuver- Said the Welfare Officer- "It's not fields.
ability, firepower and range com- much, but just thought it might "We literally carved these air
DON'T DROP THAT BONE! bined to make the Corsair more cheer them up a little." It did. bases out of jungle and mud and
than a match for anything the The Christmas eason was appro- in the face of recurrent counter-
enemy had to off.er. priately commemorated by civilian attacks and air raids by the
* * * employees and Waves on Friday, enemy," Lt. Comdr. Moore said.
Fleet Totals 51,155 Ships when all assembled for a party "It was gruelling and at times
The U.S. Fleet now totals 3,100,- during the chow hour. The ex- heartbreaking work. But the spirit
000 men and 51,155 ships, according change of gifts and the singing of and incessantly hard work of
to Navy Secretary Forrestal. Christmas carols added much to the American enlisted men and officers
A total of 1,555 .of the ,ships are festivities. was superb through it all. Many of
combat vessels while 475,000 . -of Mary Genevieve Rice, weighed in our boys gave their lives to build
the men are marin,es and 169,000 at seven pounds, two and three- speedily these 'unsinkable' aircraft
are coast guardsmen.'' quarters ounces on December 23. carriers. Today they are the
* * * Congratulations to L. D. Rice, FClc, springboards from which we are
Seabees Third Anniversary and Mrs. Rice, the happy parents. hitting the Japs from all direc-
The Navy's Seabees celebrated Completing nineteen months of tions."
their third anniversary on Decem- service at NTS, Miss Jennelle Hol- Lt. Commander Moore has seen
ber 28 with a record of having worthy, civilian employee in the two-and-a-half years of active duty
licked the toughest military con- Personnel Office, submitted her in this war. He recalls vividly the
struction job in history~ the · build- resignation last week. invasion and occupation of Vella
ing of advanced naval bases fast This week we bid farewell to _ J. Lavella and sea battles around July
enough to keep pace with _the needs E. Vandiver, CFC (PA) who was and August, 1943.
of our expanding and increasingly detached from this activity to "It was the terrific sea, air and
aggressive fleet. report to Hunter's Point for duty. land fighting around Vella Lavena
* * * that the Helena, Chevalier and
Latest Naval Development war work are growing more sue- Strong were sunk. As a result of
A water repellent for airplane cessful month by month, setting the attempted evacuation by the
windshields which turns •away inost new records in all shore station_s, Japs of Kolombangora, our bull
driving rains without a smear of Rear Admiral W. B. Young, Supply 1ozers stopped work over the airs
splashes, coursing rivulets or Corps, Chief of the Navy's Bureau field several times to dig graves
bleary film is announced as a · of Supplies and Accounts, reports. for drowned Japanese."
recent development of the Navy's * * *
Bureau of Aeronautics in collabor- GI Mail Voluminous A certain Chaplain was having
ation with the Naval Research This year's Christmas . volume his evening meal when a mess at-
Laboratory. figures for mail clearing th.roug,r ·tendant dropped a bowl of hot soup
* *· * Fleet Post Offices, New York and in his lap. The Chaplain looked
Navy's Paper Salvage San Francisco, totalled 22,966,245 around, agony on his face, and ex-
The Navy's efforts to turn its -more than three times last year's claimed: "Will one of you laymen
NaV)' War Bond Cartoon Service waste paper back into productive volume of 7,480,000. say something appro,priate? "