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PAGE 2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1945
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Official Treasure Island publication distributed ever y Saturday without cost to the
officers, p,n!isted personnel, and employees of Treasure H.land. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Recreation and Entertainm ent Di-
vision, Treasure .Island, San Francisco, California. Phone : EXbrook 8981, Extension 69.
Valuable Farms for Navy
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center The Navy now reaps a valuable
harvest from the captured Pacific
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR islands.
Editor
Primarily, the harvest has been
Robert E. Johnson, Y3c - Rex N. Olsen, Y8c, Associate Edit ors food-$ 00,000 worth of vegetables
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Carolyn N. Brown, Ylll, Waves Editor Robert H . P er ez, B M2c, Spor ts
a month that are being turned over
F1:ederick Drimmer, SK8c, Reporter to the ar-med forces-but nickel,
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Ser vice Material) chrome and copra in "substantial"
volume have been _coming in for
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1945 American war industries .
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J~to-Equipped Mariners
(Statements and opinions herein are those of the writer and are not td fiii -vy flying boats equipped with
be construed as reflecting the views of the Navy Department.) Jato--jet assisted take-off- were
able to take off from the rough
EDITORIAL- waters at Iwo Jima before the is-
. land's airfields were operative and
" ~ imp6rtant protective searches to
within 100 miles of the Empire.
u. s. JI~ stu,u '41ze, The Mariilers" searched the seas
to spot any a ttempt by Jap fleet
q.~ ,4/Joai. remnan'ts to cha-Henge our hug~
armada of ships at Iwo Jima. As
Task Force 58 was occupied off
The sick and wounded of our armed forces are feturning Tokyo and as Jandbased planes
home - coming home in American ships- the finest ships of from _the Marianas could give
meager coverage so far north,
their kind to be found anywhere in the world. these Mariners were the "eyes" for
Many of these ships were famous. luxury liners of peacetime our vulnerable amphibious forces
which have been converted into floating hospitals in American until th e Iwo fields were rea dy for
use. BEFORE AND AFTER-Navy and civilian personnel of Treas·ure ls-
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shipyards. Similar luxury liners which once belonged to Germany 'k, * * land (bottom) combined ingenuity with mechanical skill to build a truck
and France are now serving as hospital ships_.· Others were spe- Future's iri' ... t'b~ S'fars a,nd trailer, 47 feet long, from metal scraps and salvaged parts of
broken down vehicles. The trailer, 32 feet long, was built by enlisted
cially built in this country. "The decisi,on is very near," personnel attached to Public Works Garage on this base. The truck
portion was salvaged from some old bullet-riddled equipment (as shown
· C pr,opagand~: minister Go.ebbels said.
Th A e rmy T ransportat10n orps now operates twenty-two above) brought back fr.om the Aleutians.
"Let us siake oui hopes on our
floating hospitals and the Navy has five. More are being built in lucky star.'' porting heavy material, particular-
this country at the rate of two a month. They are built to bring If he'( is an ast~onomer of any Gigantic: Truc:k-Trailet ly on long hauls."
husbands, sons or sweethearts back home in comfort - and in repute, a.II he has to do is look Majority of the work was done
around and obs~fVt ihat S·ome un- Built From Metal Scrap by W. E. Griegoleit, MM3c; Rocco
better health than when they first arrived on a floating hospital. usual stars are moving up the Nazi Denefrie, Jr., MM2c; Glenn D. No-
They are fine, cheerful ships. horizon-from the we·st a galaxy By Island Mec:hanic:s lan, SFlc ; Miles L. Hodg-es, CSF;
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The exterior of a typical hospital ship is painted a glis_ten- oofn-e. atr.i·,ds. fr.om e eaS a I-one r-ed Created entirely out of metal Frank Szmiet, MM2c ; and Arthur
. 1 doubtful, however, that B. Clark, MoMM3c.
ing white and the hulls and decks are brilliantly illuminated at ,Goebbels' · lucky star is among scrap and salvaged parts from
,,> broken down vehicles, a 47-foot
night. ,them; long truck and trailer, designed and
The Geneva Red Cross is prominently displayed on the * ·· * * ,.- fabricated here by Navy mechanics, A Bluejacket Goes
It's a Fact . . . is now on the road in the Twelfth
sides, on deck and on the stacks, and a five-foot green band ruris
• The total number of Nava.I per- Naval District hauling loads rang- Home-To Guam
around the entire hull. There is not a weapon aboard and hospital sonnei retired to civil life December ing up to 20 tons.
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ships are given protection by all civilized nations at war. 7 1941 , r-oug h F b · 1945 : The huge vehicle- the trailer Thousands of American fighting
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Navy 313,?05; Marine Corps, 55,- alone is 32 feet Jong- was built men have returned from the .Pacific
The doctors and surgeons have an abundant supply of drugs . 4 366 fighting fronts to see their families
432 C oas t G uar d 2 , . by enlisted personnel attached to
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and other items, many of which cannot be found in civilian life. • The total number . ;of_ Navy en- Public Works garage on Treasure and the old home town-but on~_
· 1 • t d h h • ·, · d f -~ American fighting man will reverse
1s e men w o ave marr1e as o Island, . some of the work being
Each ship carries a dental as well as an optical unit. · · ·' t· t d t the procedure soon . . . heading out
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D ecem er 31 1944 , 1s es 1ma e a done in the men's spare time. Lt.
into the Pacific to his "home town,"
, C. ·C. Febiger was in charge of the
Patients and the crew reach any of the six decks by means 848 798 •
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of a smooth-running elevator, and a bedfast patient is easily • Th e au or1ze s reng th f th e project. Agana, capital city of Guam.
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N avy is ma •eria ,zing. w h e n The truck portion was salvaged It is believed that Jose "Joe"
moved to the sun deck.
reached the figures will read: Navy, from old bullet-riddled equipment Salas Fejarang, StM3c, is the first
For the patients who can enjoy them, there is a recreation 3 389 000 . Mar·1ne Corps 478 OOO· of Uncle Sam's blue1·ackets to. be
' ' ' ' ' ' brought in from the Aleutians. It
room, a library, sun decks and other facilities, including a spot- Coast Guard, 173,165. was filled with salt and sand from granted leave-and transportation
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-to a South Pacific home town.
less, attractive dining salon. · laying in the water along some Joe will be flown by Naval Air
New Honors, for Navy lonely northern island. The rear
By May of this year the Army Transportation Corps expects Former motion picture star Lt. unit of the trailer was salvaged Transport Service to Guam, for his
first visit with his family since his
to have twenty-nine ambulance-type hospital ships in operation, Commander Do_uglas Fairbanks, Jr., from another old truck which had . enlistment in the Navy May 1,
and Lt. Commander John D. Lodge been taken out of service. The metal
with a total capacity of more than 18,000 sick and wounded. 1941-and at the conclusion of his
were presented with the Legion d' portion of the trailer was gleaned
The result of the operation of the hospital ships now in use Honneur in the degree of Chev- from sc·rap heaps .. leave time he will be flown back
to duty at his Navy base, the Naval
has amazed the Medical Corps. Sea air, sun baths, good com- alier by Vice Admiral Raymond "All of the work was done en- Landing Force Equipment Depot,
Fenard, Chief of the French Naval tirely · by enlisted personnel," Lt.
panionship, rest, good food- plus skilled medical treatment- Albany, Calif.
Mission in the United States. Lt. Febiger said. "The new unit has
have worked wonders for their patients. A quite surprising num- Commander Fairbanks was -also proved · of immense value in trans- Steward's mate Fejarang has his
presented with the Croix de Guerre mother, father, three brothers, and
ber have arrived virtually well.
with Palm. The awards were made two sisters anxiously awaiting his
for the services of the American Tell Your Fam·11y to Watc:h flying trip home. One other brother,
Antonio Fejarang, 23, was executed
officers in connection with the in-
For A was in the Insular Force, Guam
vasion of Southern France in Aug- . llotment th·1eves by Japs in July of 1944. Antonio
ust, 1944. tal t
The FB_I and Secret Service re- coas pa rol arm of the Navy and
* * * ports many instances in which continued to serve the United
Tch, Tch, Adolph-What N,ow? Navy allotment checks are being States in . underground activities
The German Luftwaffe is appar; stolen or misappropriated through after the fall of Guam.
ently not only scraping the bottom carelessness on the part of recipi- Fejarang has received only two
of the barrel; it seems to be ents. So tell your family to watch letters from his family, one in De-
scratching around in the museum. those checks. cember, 1944, and another in Feb-
U. S. Ninth Air Force fighter- Here are a few tips you can pass ruary, 1945. "I'm very happy to be
bombers recently shot down a 1918- on to them: going home to see my family,'; says
. type German biplane of World Make sure y,our mailbox isn't left 25-year-old Fejarang-and it seems
War I. alpne for several days around the hardly necessary to add anything ·
* * * first of the month. to that.''
Quoteworthy Don't endorse the checks until Enlisting in the Navy at 18, at
"There· never was a right en- y.ou are ready to cash them. Agana, Guam, he has served aboard
deavor but it succeeded-patience Don't cash any checks unless you many U.S. Navy fighting ships, in-
and more patience, we shall' win at know the person asking you to cash cluding the transport Henderson,
last."-R. W. Emerson.· it. and the USS Iowa, the great bat-
Unfortunately, there are some tleship. Shore stationed since early
people who are making a specialty 1943 because of an attack of rheu-
They sat on her porch at midnight, of stealing government allotment matic fever, Fejarang came to the
But his love was not to her taste- checks. Don't let them take yours Naval Landing Force Equipment
Navy War Bond Cartoon Service
His reach was only 36 inches, . . . you can make sure of that by Depot at Albany from the Naval
-~'When you gonna. make some War Bonds, Pop_?~_' _ __ _ And she had a 44 waist. not getting careless. Air Station at Fort Worth, Texas.