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PAGE 2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, ·1944
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Official Treasure Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted men, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, Ce.lifornla. Phone: EXbrook 3931, Extension 59.
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center In four of the bloodiest South
LT. OOMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR Pacific campaigns - Guadalcanal,
D!rector of Welfare and Recreation Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan-we
STANLEY SOLOMON, Y2c, USNR have read about the daring feats ,of
Editor the Marine "leathernecks" who
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR, Associate Edit~r st<>rmed the beachheads and were
Robert E. Johnson, Y8c, Managing Editor Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Feature Editor the first to dispatch the report,
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, WAVES Editor George J. Schechter, Y3c, Staff Artist
"The Marines have landed and have
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1944 the situation well in hand."
Y<>u can imagine the surprise of
the leatherneck assault waves who
EDITORIAL- were greeted by a sign that read
"Welcome Marines" during their
storming of a Guam beach.
No ,,(/ ,un;,d;,ce A,Pi .ike This time it was the Navy who
landed first and the sign was
planted in the sands by a Navy
Ju,u;Ju oJ New. Quut,ea gunner's mate. A Navy lieutenant THE GOAL IS BERLIN. War Bond Officer Ens. M. A. Pa.bia.n shows Chief Yeoman
said that premature landing of the Putnam how his bonds a.re helping to buy guns and tanks for tile boys to reach their
goal, as Mary Wood SK2c hands him $750.00 in bonds.
gunner's mate was n<>t exactly
From the trend of recent events in the European theatre of r-egulation and said the bluejacket
war it appears to be a logical assumption that within the not too had been "disciplined". Chief Yeoman Putnam Buys
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distant future this phase of the global conflict will be brought Apparently, the Balkans will $750.00 Worth of War Bonds
to a successful conclusion. soon be sealed off from Hitler's de-
fensive system leaving him to make "I'm saving to build a house when this war is over. War
Unquestionably, the day the peace is signed will be a momen- a futile attempt to keep his back Bonds are my best investment." So says Chief Putnam. His
tous one. Many communities throughout the nation are planning door closed by staging a successful twenty months in the South West Pacific have convinced him
V-Day celebrations. Our civilian workers, iri ammunition fac- defense against Austria, Hungary more than ever. "Out there amongst the swamps and jungles 1
and Czechoslovakia. close to no mans land, everyone has an allotment in War
tories, in airplane plants and in shipyards, have done a magnifi- The life-or-death battles waged
on the wide Balkan fronts threaten Bonds. There is no trouble convincing the boys about the
cent job, and to them particularly, European V-Day will be the
to cut off many Nazis from the best investment in the world."
signal for nation-wide rejoicing. Reich. With the new combined Al- It was hard to stop the Chief --------------
The answer to Berlin and Tokio
However, there is an aspect to the situation which is cause lied offensives on the ground and with that air of Texas still about nd
the air aimed at the key German him after sixteen years in the may not be sou ed here on Treas-
for considerable alarm to our.military and war production leaders. industrial center, it seems as Navy, once he got started on the ure Island, but it is being thundered
There appears to be a growing belief on the part of the nation's though the yoke of victory is grad- subject of War Bonds, at the by our fighting men around the
ually tightening around the neck of Treasure Island War Bond Office. world. There would not be much of
workers to consider the war as "good as won." The result has the "Holy soil" ot Germany. Per- So it goes every day when the an answer without your co'ntribu-
been ·a migration away from war plants back to enterprises of a haps Hitler's only hope is to yell men in the service drop over to see tion to the best investment in the
strictly civilian and peacetime character. "sanctuary"-although it is doubt- Ens. M. A. Fabian and her charm- world-A UNITED STATES WAR
ful as to whether or not the Yanks ing assistant Mary Wood, SK2c, to BOND.
The fireman doesn't roll up the hose with the blaze half out. will refuse to commit the sacri- buy War Bonds at their new lo<;a- Drop in at the new War Bond
legious act of blasting Nazidom tion in the New Post Office Build- Office and make your stray dol-
By no stretch of the imagination can anyone who has intelli-
asunder. ing. lars FIGHTING DOLLARS today.
gently followed the progress of the war assume that the war is * * '*
as "good as won." Taking this attitude is simply indulging m Fr-om the N a v y Department
comes a great story of heroism and PEIIONlll./1/EI
wishful thinking. ·
quick thinking on the part of a
Those of us -who have been in the Pacific theatre of war rear seat gunner who used teleg- In Ille NEWS
raphy to warn his pilot of a Navy
know that we have a long way to go before we bring to his
Curtiss-Wright Helldiver to elude
knees in total defeat the most cunning, the most treacherous and the pursuing enemy during a raid California Thrush
· deceitful foe the world has ever known. on a Jap-held island. Nancy Payne is a yeoman in the
A group of zeros attacked the Armed Guard Center Personnel Of-
We know Japan isn't quitting. Helldiver and the gunner, W. 0 . Editor's N<>te: Remember, if y<>u fice, having forsaken a chance in
Haynes, Jr., Chief Aviation Radio- have any questions <>r problems, the bigtime name band circles for
We know there will be no armistice signed in the steaming
man, exchanged fire with Japs large or small, just jot them down a wartime career in the Navy. She
had her chance when the Don Kaye
jungles of New Guinea; no "cease firing" order sounded along until he was shot in the jaw and and send them to the Questi<>n and
the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad where even now our valiant Chinese shoulder. Answer Editor in care of this news- band, then playing engagements in
The jaw wound was so severe paper. We will do our best t<> San Francisco hotels, offered her a
allies battle for their very existence; no respite from bomb and that he could not speak on the in- answer all questions as soon as. spot as soloist.
torpedo down the lonely reaches of the Philippine sea. tercommunications microphone to possible, so drop us a line, won't Not that she did not want the job,
his pilot, Lt. Commander R. B. you? but there was a war on and Yeo-
We know the flag of the "Sons of Heaven" still flies m Wood. However, Haynes devised a man Payne, a native of Berkeley,
Q. Is Treasure Island personnel
hollow mockery over our once great bastion at Corregidor. means of communication. When an allowed to attend movies on Verba thought a wartime
intercommunication mike is turned career in the Navy
Buena Island? If so, is it necessary
We know how well entre~ched the Japs are on countless on, it makes a slight electrical
to wear dress blues? would not hurt her.
hundreds of islands in the Pacific and we know that every last click in the pilot's ·earphones, So s h e joined up
rather like the sound one hears A. Yes. If you plan to go often, fourteen months ago
Jap has to be blasted off the very last island before we even dare when somebody picks up a tele- you can arrange for an undress and in June ar-
think of victory. phone receiver at the other end of blues pass with your barracks or ranged a transfer
the line. So, by turning the mike on division officer. Otherwise, you'll from San Pedro to
1?is is no time for slackening the war effort. and off in morse code, Haynes have to wear your dress blues.
Treasure Island and thereby near
managed to tell Lt. Commander Q. In what year was fl<>gging
Rather it is a time for every man and woman, no matter her old stomping grounds in the
Wood that he was still alive and outlawed as a corrective measure east bay ·region.
how small his or her contribution to the cause of victory may be, also to warn him of the pursuing for enlisted personnel of the Navy? Her reputation as a singer soon
Jap fighters. A. In 1850.
to pledge redoubled effort to speed the day of total and lasting overtook her. She has appeared
The ingenuity and stamina of Q. I bought a car recently. Where several times with the Armed Guard
peace. Hayn~s enabled the pilot to lose the do I go to arrange for a rati-on Band, to the delight of the mem-
enemy planes and return to its car-
Commodore R. W. Cary, commander, U.S. Naval Training book? bers of that organization and oth-
rier. A. Rationip.g and ration books ers who frequent the Armed Guard
and Distribution Center, announced this week that "work will are handled at the Pass Office, lounge during the noon hour.
POST WAR LEND-LEASE
go on as usual" in activities attached to his command. which is located on the first deck Nancy first made her appearance
Look for an early stiffening of
of the Administration Building. with a· name band when she was
The men and women of Treasure Island, striving as they Senate opposition to postwar Lend- Q. After wh<>m or what are sub- vacationing at Lake Tahoe one
Lease. Influential senators w h o
. have for victory, have an excellent record. They can better that marine tenders named? summer. She had been winning sev-
have never criticized the program eral amateur contests near there
record by doing an extra.good job on the day Hitler tosses m in wartime are definitely opposed A. Pioneers in submarine de- and one night Ansen Weeks asked
to carrying it over into peacetime velopment and also for characters
the sponge. in mythology. her to sing with his band, and in
to help restore ravaged countries. spite of a pair of violently shaking
Let's go! They propose to demand that Q. What is the d_ifference be- legs she complied.
appropriations to aid the fighting tween a medical survey and a And after the war? Nancy still
Allies be cut to a minimum when medical discharge as applied to en-
call for the AEF's Stars and Stripes listed perSQnnel? has her sights aimed in the gen-
The literary World to be printed in The Paris Herald's Germany surrenders. One highly eral direction of the entertainment
plant when it opens Few on the· placed senator has said privately A. A medical survey is a report field. First off, though, she wants to
· · · that there'll be no postwar Lend-
The New York Herald Tribune home front are aware The Satur- of a board of medical survey. A continue her study of dramatics
has completed plans to repub1ish day Evening Post has started free Lease for• Britain, and none for A medical discharge is a separation along with a radio school training
its Paris edition with Eric Hawkins, distribution to servicemen overseas Russia, after Germany falls, unless from the Navy by discharge based in San Francisco.
the Soviet joins the Pacific War.
the former managing editor who of a tiny booklet (3 by 4½ inches) He predicts a study of Lend-Lease on the report. of a board of medical
has been attached to the London called Post Yarns, containing three operations this winter with a view survey that the person in question Commander: Yeoman, where did
bureau since 1941, now awaiting of- full-length fiction or feature articles is physically disqualified for reten- you file those discharges? They're
ficial word to proceed to Paris; in- to tapering off appropriations even tion in the naval service. not under the "d's."
and cartoons from the regular edi- though Germany . continues to
cidentally, present arrangements tion. fight , Yeoman: I filed them under "c"
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