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plined your emotions are it is difficult to keep them to achieve this victory with such relatively
V-E DAY, M<Uf a, 191/-5 them under control at this time. Our fighting small casualties against such a formidable en-

A short but impressive program at 1300 men and our Allies-our Mr. and Mrs. Civil- emy. We should pray that He will continue to
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Tuesday was the only observance · held on ian who keep our war machine supplied with its grant equal wisdom to our leaders in the Pacific
Treasure Island for V-E Day. The observance of material needs, have succeeded in putting Hitler to the end that they may achieve a quick and
the memorable day was a tribute to the thou- * and his Nazi brutes out of business. * decisive victory with a minimum casualiry list.
* * Secondly, all of our countrymen and par-
sands of brave men who have sacrificed their We have heard a lot about V-E Day and we
lives in defense of our country. There was no * have been anticipating its arrival for several * ticularly those of 'us here at Treasure Island
cheering. The Treasure Island band played months pa·st. Now that it is actually here-- should turn our faces to · the west-where
while the chapel choir sang and short talks and * What are we going to do about it? Well, to my * thousands of our shipmates are helping to de-
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prayers were made before thousands of blue- way of thinking there are two things to do in stroy the Japanese empire and we should make
jackets who gathet"ed on the mustering field of observation of this day: a pledge-a very simple pledge. This is it:
the Receiving Ship Barracks. As the gathering First of all, we should thank God for "I promise myself that . on this day I will
stood at ease Commodore R. W. Cary, Com- blessing our Allied armies with victory over the return to my duty station and by my individual
mande1', U. S. N aval Training and Distribution German armies thus ending loss of American efforts, do everything in my power to hasten
Center delivered the following message: and Allied lives in European battles. We should the coming of final victory. I will remember
Today, May 8, 1945, is a great day for free thank Him for giving to our Naval and military that the hardest part of the war is still ahead of
men everywhere. No matter how well disci- leaders in Europe the wisdom that has enabled Continued on Page 5-

U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center

VOL. IV - No. 13 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. MAY 12, 1945

Congratulatory Wires Last Stop-Pacific War The Right Man In the Right Billet Is the
Now May Be Sent to
Concern of Pre-Com Classification Unit
Or By Servicemen
Domestic telegrams of congratu- Crews Are Made Up
lations now may be sent to or by a;:'''iili' Lawrence Tibbett
members of the armed forces in Of Men Qualified In
this country, the Board of War
Worthwhile Trades
Communications announced via
press and radio release this week.
The board explained its modifica- The butcher, the baker, the
tion of the · regulation against con- candlestick maker are all helping
to win this war in the uniform of
gratulatory telegrams by saying
there is "a special need for this Uncle Sam's Nayy. The chances are
type -of service for hospitalized and that the first two are still butcher-
ing and baking and that the candle-
returning veterans."
stick maker is now a metalsmith.
•western Union service for Treas-
ure Island personnel is available at Getting "the right man in the
the Western Union office, located right billet" is the major concern
of a Navy organization known as
in the Post Office Building, No. 258,
the Classification Unit of the Pre-
Avenue H., near 4th Street.
Commissioning Training Center on
Tr-easure Island. The Classification
Unit doesn't think much of those
Truman Stands firmly cracker-barrel strategists who gos-
sip about how some home town
Behind Mandate To 'Ilif/)~:;t;,:~:;:~ii;i .. :~J;1l: boy's talents are being "wasted"
in the armed forces. This is because
Disarm Japan· the Classification Unit is proud of
an extraordinary achievement in
Carrying on the war with Japan fully utilizing the civilian-life tal-
Lawrence Tibbett
until terms of Cairo Agreement are THE FINAL ROUND of the Pacific War will be fought'on the Japanese ents and experience of its men in
met was emphasized recently by mainland or in China-perhaps in both places. The above map shows the · Lawrence Tibbett, popular Amer- blue. And, still more important, is
heart of the Japanese empire-the mainland and Japanese-dominated
President H. S. Truman in a speech Manchuria. The cream of Japan's army is stationed in these areas. ican baritone, was greeted with a the Navy's success in uncovering
before Congress. thunderous ovation by Treasure hidden talents which even their
"So that there can be no possible Island bluejackets when he made owners didn't fully appreciate.
misunderstanding," declared the Extensive Rehabilitation, Physical his first appearance on the stage of The needs of the Nayy come
President, "both Germany and Theatre No. 3, Tuesday evening. first. This is · an important "first"
Japan can be certain, .beyond any Training Program Inaugurated Here Tibbett, unlike many outstanding in considering what a recruit is
shadow of doubt, America will con- artists, is no "high brow." His gay best suited for in the Nayy. It is
tinue the fight for freedom untiJ hardly likely, for example, that a
no vestige of resistance remains! New Physical Medicine patients who are not attended by personality, friendly smile and keen floorwalker in a department store
.. . Our demand has been, and it the athletic specialist, bed patients sense of humor put the audience in will continue in the same line of
remains, unconditional surrender!" Plan Helps "Salvage" who can take certain prescribed ex- a receptive mood to receive and en- work.for the Nayy. But the chances
ercises, ambulatory patients still joy any offering, whether excerpts
With Italy and Germany knocked are very good that if a man was
from the Axis' triple alliance, it lniured Veterans confined to the wards, and ambula- from George Gershwin's "Porgy an accountant in the same depart-
. tory patients who are not re- and Bess" or his opera aria "Di
can be said we have "two down The Specialist A's are the lads stricted. Provenza ii mar," from "Traviata." ment store he would find himself
and one to go." in a billet as a Nayy storekeeper.
wlilo turn flabby muscles into tough For each of the five groups there :t'{eedless to say, Tibbett's re- Classification Comes First '
weapons of war. are exercises which can be given, cital was up to it~ usual high stand- All this has to do with classifica-
Assigned duty under BuMed's once the doctors prescribe them.
"Frontiersmen Jump" Pl)'ysical Medicine Program, a lit- Usually, seven types of exercises ard, which means that the program tion, which is the Nayy art of
-though ad libbed- was a "thing
utilizing the· potential value of each
Will Be Staged At tle-known activity of the Nayy are prescribed for each group. This of beauty" and its presentation was training.for his capabilities. Classi-
man by guiding him into proper
athletic specialist at Treasure may vary upward or downward. the last word in skill, understand-
Oakland Auditorium Island is the contribution he is The primary purpose of the exer-- ing and inborn artistry. fication comes first-then rigorous
making to modern science, more cises is to prevent the crippling
The great opera star was accom- and diffictiit training. The result is
U. S. Naval Frontier Base will specifically, to medicine. effects of muscles. panied by Edward Harris, brilliant a good and useful sailor.
be host at another big dance when At the Naval Hospital on this Experiments with these exer- pianist. -· The work of the classification
colored personnel assemble at the base, the athletic specialists, under cises were first tried by the British. unit }s an important part of the
Oakland Auditorium Ballroom May the direction of Lt. Charles Kin- Later they were adopted by the huge and__ intricate machinery
16 for their "Frontie:,;_smen Jump." nard, are in charge of one of the Arrriy ~ir Force and the Nayy, the Waves to Enlist known to the Navy as "Comm;mder
The Frontier Base band will play important phases of the Nayy's re- latter beginning its first class in Fleet Operational Training Com-
for dancing which continues from habilitation program. That phase the subjec't in i;leptember, 1944, at Women to Serve · mand," under whose supervision
2000 to 2400. Refreshments will be is physical training. Sampson, N. Y. Lt. Kinnard is a all fleet training on the West
served and there will be flowers for The rehabilitation and :g,hysical graduate of the course. At Samp- In Hospital Corps Ct:>ast .. js• ·carried on. The Com-
the men's dates. · training officers divide the in- son he and . other Navy officers mander is Rear Admiral F. C.
Partners will be available for coming patients into five groups. spent a month in reviewing funda- Enlistment in the Waves here has Denebrink. It is the admiral's be-
stags, according to Scott Chapman, The progress a patient has made, mental ·anatomy, physiology, and been re.opened to an unlimited num- lief that training of any de·s·crip-
chairman. Other committee mem- the type he is, can be ascertained 0th er subjects. Also they were ber of women, to be trained prin- tion or quantity is wasted if . it's
bers are A. W. Littleton, D. W. fi::om the group number, the pa- given instructions in special exer- cipally for service in the Navy's not being used on the right man.
The policy of the Fleet Opera-
Price, T. S. Armstrong, B. R. tients who are cured and waiting cise and hospital administration, hospital corps, it was announced to-
Holmes, S. 0. Shaw, J. Green, W. E. for transfer or survey in group a nd th en sent to work and head up day by the 12th Naval District pro- tional Training Command is, .re-
. Prather and M. J . Rose. one. Other groups include those bed Continued on Page 8- curement section. Continued on Page 4-..