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1 'Skippy" and Sailor Pals-First Met in N. Y. Bowery
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officers, enlisted men, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department, s
Treasure Island, Ban Francisco, California. Phone: EXbrook S931, Extension 59.
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U. S. Naval Training and DistribJ,Ition Center
The problem of leaves for Navy
LT. OOMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR personnel overseas was realistically
Director of Welfare and Recreation spoken of by Admiral Nimitz re-
STANLEY SOLOMON, Y2c, USNR cently. For every man that is
Editor brought home, he pointed out, a
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR, Associate Editor replacement must be sent if the
Robert E. Johnson, YSc, Managing Editor Rex N. Olsen, YSc, Feature Editor war is to be continued. The ship-
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, WAVES Editor George J . Schechter, YSc, Staff Artist
ping necessary for such a large-
scale movement of men is n,ot avail-
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1944
able. "The quickest way to get all
EDITORIAL- the men back," the Admiral says,
"is to fight the war to a victorious
conclusi,on as speedily as possible."
P1iepaM, ~ d/-«twie 1//Wauo.m ... selves have accepted this necessity
He reports -that the men them-
and retain "their enthusiastic will
1~a 1n . .,(/meJu,e,a to win." Admiral Nimitz seems es-
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pecially concerned because the men Daniel Mungoran, EM2c, of Worcester, Mass., and Roy Ferris, RD1c, of
The casualty lists are coming in- more and r.r,iore each day. _fighting the war in the Pacific have Sanford, Maine, are two of the sailors who picked "Skippy" off the
· d dl · • . . . been and are more isolated fr.om any Bowery in New York, gave him his boot training and joined him in a
Th ey come with a ea y impact and brmg a stunnmg realization semblance of civilizati-on than those i-ound-the-world battl,e cruise.
of what war costs. Ahead lies invasion of the Philippines and of any other theatre ,of warfare.
Left On the Beach at Guadalcanal
other important islands in the South Pacific. With these various
If we have the world's greatest
invasions the cost of war will soar in heavy multiples. It will be Navy, we should be powerful enough He Refuses to Eat Until Rescued
to "pin" the Japs' ears back and "Skippy", Now in
priceless treasure. It is a price paid for the freedom of mankind have cast Nazidom into an abyss 1·ne~:::1:;;· Ship's Company, Has
the blood and death of our young manhood in its prime and it
finish off Tojo's homeland in time
can never be repaid. This human outlay is not a squandering of to join in dancing to the "Victory
Polka" · with the Yanks who will
and the re-establishment of decency on the earth. of defeat. Seen Many Battles
. By J. B. Roberts, Jr., S1c (RDM)
Such is the expression of many a /'
However, war has another cost, and unless met by all, these seaman "Joe Mac." But there is Home From the Sea He is just a mongrel dog. With
doubt that such an expression holds The smiling Irishman you see pic- the shaggy coat of an airdale . . .
fighting men of ours go unsupported to their deaths. We have water despite the largeness of the tured below is Paul W. Murphy, body of a shepherd and minx eyes
Navy-although it is not that large. PhM2c. Don't let the Navy blue de- of a terrier. But "Skippy," -picked
been asked before, we shall be asked again, and each time it may It is true that we have the world's ceive you, however, for Paul is also up on New York's Bowery in 1942
be a little harder to respond. Yet time after time, too, our men largest and greatest fighting fleet, a member of the Navy's fighting by sailors of the seagoing tug
but it is also true that we have not Fleet Marines. Enlisting in May, YP-419, has been in the thick of
over there will be asked to suffer-and they will not refuse. attained the full size required to 1941, he received his "boot" train- the South Pacific campaign ever
"lick the daylights" out of the Nips. ing at Great Lakes and later under- since. I
We are1 not urged to give. We are exhorted to lend and Secretary Forrestal admits this fact went the rigorous Marine training He has had breathtaking battle
and strongly advocates a continu- in American Samoa.
share in the best investment in the world-the United States of experiences too! Left on the beadh
ous program of naval expansion. Paul looked through his first at Guadalcanal as his ship moved
America. Buy that bond today without fail. When the war in Europe ends, porthole in February, 1942, when out fast while under Jap attack-
according to Secretary Forrestal, he was transferred to sea duty after "Skippy" refused to eat for three
An oil operator in the Russian Baku oil fields by the name there will be a time lag while war- going through the hospital corps days until rescued by his sailor
equipped men and war-equipped school at San Diego, Calif. His tour
of Badashev recently pledged 150 per cent of his month's income of duty subsequently took him to pals.
machinery are being transported to "Skippy" is "First Lord" of sea- (
to bond buying. His was a typical pledge, according to the Mos- the Pacific theatre of warfare. · Hawaii, Australia, and to the front dogs aboard his ship. He's had his
The logic is clear-there is a big lines of Guadalcanal,
cow Daily News. To earn that extra 50 per cent to go into bonds, job to be done in the Orient by the the Marianas, Sai- hard knocks there too. Once in
· Bradashev-working under an incentive pay program-produced Navy and our fleet must not only pan and Tinian. His heavy seas he slipped and fell from
a post high atop the mast to land
be equal to the task, it must sur- assignment as com-
60 tons of benzine over his usual quota. pass the task with margins to pany aide man made on the steel deck.
spare. him responsible for Result . . . slashed foot which
A certain Mrs. Harris in London employed in an arms plant' required seven stitches by the ship's
the wounded men in /'
pharmacist mate. ·
invests her entire income in bonds. She lives alone with her son, I No'-:' is the time for all _good his outfit. As a ma~- "Skippy" tangled with a marine
Amer1cans to come to the aid of ter of record, his Murphy truck while ambling nonchalantly
on the residue of his income, after he, too, invests heavily in their friends and relatives who are company received the Presidential
along a beach in Espirito Santos,
bonds, in the Armed Forces. Unit Citatian for conspicuous cour- New Hebrides, not many months
lf you are in uniform, there is no age and gallantry in action. ago and suffered a broken leg. His
A certain flanger named Smith in the Richmond Shipyard sets need to appeal to you for aid in this Murphy is just back from active mates rushed him to the hospital
worthy cause - the War Chest duty in the Pacific and is anxiously and he soon came hobbling out
aside $3.75 a week for bond buying. Lots of shipyar_d people buy Drive. It is assumed that you can awaiting a well-earned rest leave, with the aid of a grade A Navy /
and will help yourself, friends and having had several attacks of ma-
far more than that amount. But for the purpose of comparison, splint. .
relatives at home and abroad by !aria fever. - "Skippy" is one of the Navy's
that's about the way the average American stacks up with the contributing to this drive. Reared on a farm in his native few seadogs with an "I. D." card.
According to T . S. Petersen, Illinois, Paul wants only to return
average Britisher or Russian'. War bond buying is as global as campaign chairman of the San there after the war and just "pick His pals got the ·captain's okeh to
make him an official member of
the war 1tself. ·But bond buying is heaviest where_ war strikes Francisco War Chest Drive, the up from where he left off." As an ship's company.
money will be used by the War off-duty diversion, he has a secret Travels are matter of fact rou-
hardest. Chest to assist men in the Armed passion for studying people and tine to "Skippy." For he's had duty
Forces and to send vital supplies to places and writing about them-in in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian /'
In Russia during last year's New State War Loan, citizens our suffering Allies. poetry. His ambition is to one day Oceans. He has been on the beach
subscribed two billion, 561 million rubles above the original goal Your contribution to such a have some of them published, so in the Solomons, Australia, , New
worthy ca·use will be highly appre- beware, all you would-be Sand-
of 12 billion rubles. They over-subscribed this amount in the first Caledonia, Panama, and a host of
ciated by our own fighting forces, burgs, you have competition. His other far-flung ports beyond the
24 hours after the announcement of the drive. · war victims in ,our Allied Nations other love-quite in the opposite di- seas.
and prison.ers of war. rection-is sports, and to prove it Today '.'Skippy" cavorts on good
America is doing a wonderful job at buying bonds, but we This drive has already got under- he has a sizeable collection of foot- old U. S. soil as his ship awaits new
can do better. Let's improve our bond purchases today. war with a_ smashing start arid you ball letters from his old school days. orders at its Treasure Island /'
can help San Francil!co reach its Good luck to you, Redhead! anchorage. And the Captain has
quota-$3,792,742-by October 25.
given him permanent possession of
his "I. D." card.
Civilian Personnel Which in Navy terms means-
Men live · Five Days October 1st was not just an or- every night liberty!
dinary Sunday on Treasure Island.
On Rock Candy Diet· The still palm trees silhouetted
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skyline covered by the bluest of seM--* *
Four U. S. airmen, "guinea pigs"
in a new type of experiment re- skies, marked the beginning of
cently spent five days on a rubber milestones in·the lives of Miss Billie THE· MPiSTHEAD
raft in the Pacific with nothing to Jean King and David Stowe, BM2c,
eat but rock candy. Physical check- ·who were married at high noon in
ups showed that all men lost weight the flower scented chapel. As the
during the fi_ve . day candy diet, but organ began playing the Lohengrin
none were in ill health. wedding march, the lovely bride, (
gowned in white satin, walked down
the aisle on the arm of Grady J.
A far Western newspaper heads Hill, CBM, who gave her away at
its list of births, marriages and the altar to the groom iri the_ pres-
deaths briefly and to the point: ence of Miss Virginia Penny, brides-
"Myrtle! You told me a Bond-(1-Month would keep:
"Hatched, Matched and Dis- maid, and Frank Morgan, BMlc,
L the wolf from our doocl'~ -~ patched." the best man.
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