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"Synthetic" Trainer Gunners Use the Third Dimension to Improve Their Accuracy Naval Training
At Armed Guard Center Schools
Does Wonders For Aim
Live and Learn
The tall, narrow building in back Ship's Company seamen have
of the Recreation Center houses started traveling up the g-ood hard
one of the most interesting and
probably the most effective phase Road of Learning. Lt. Overstreet
is their guide for the first lap of
of the Armed Guard Center gun-
this journey. Preliminary to plans
nery c·ourse.
for ·a course of study, the group
At almost any time of the day surveyed their own situation as it
one can hear the rat-rat-tat of pertains to Navy and world sche-
anti-aircraft gunfire and the very
matics. The obvious conclusion was
realistic sounds of low-diving
reached, that it is a technical fast-
planes coming from the window-
moving world and that each of us
less structure. must gear himse)f to keep apace.
Making all the racket is the Whatever schooling has been com-
combination of a hard-working pleted in the past, it is not sufficient
sound track and a gunnery student for future needs, either in the Navy
attempting to hit the images of or in the ever-approaching post-
planes flashing back and forth war world. With this in mind, a
across the screen. purposeful and supervised course
The Mark 1_ Trainer (Polaroid)- of study is under way. One of the
BULLETS OF LIGHT make the score in this phase three dimensional effect on the screen. Shown at left
that is the name of the device- is of the Armed Guard Center gunnery course. Above is the extremely complex 35mm project.or that p;•o- first things· on the schedule is the
designed to give drill_ in tracer con- left is pictured the Mark 1 mount in operatipn. Note vides the target. The course is given either as a re- general training course for non-
the polaroid glasses on gunner which bring out the fresher or as initial instructi-on.
trol against combat targets. The rated men (and, did you ever see
gun is no ordinary gun. On the con- how much there is to learn between
trary, it is possibly more compli- MINE FORCE shown reflecting credit to himself Armed Guard Band the two covers of that volume?)
cated than the most intricate of • • • and the Naval Service." Along with seamanship, special
anti-aircraft weapons. The hub of * * * To Open War Bond attention will be given to mathe-
the mechanism is a large battery of Willis Allen, GMlc, of the Mine Manuel Rosales, GM3c, was mar- matics, a subject found to be a
telescope-like lights that are almost Disposal Unit, was awarded a com- ried to Mary Salazar in Oakland Drive At Shipyards troublesome stumbling block in ad-
human in the way they move with mendation for gallantry in action on April 22. Mine Forcers at the vancement for so many ratings.
the gun and figure the gunner's ac- wedding offering moral support to The popular Armed Guard band Distinguished Visitors
by H.K. Hewitt, Commander Unit- Manuel were Narsizo Flores, Slc,
curacy. ed States Eighth Fleet. The com- and Nello Carucci, S2c. Lots of under the leadership of Dave Lu- H. V. Kaltenborn, well-known
In bac!{ of the gunner i_n a booth gone, Slc, is playing Sunday, May news commentator, and Mrs. Kal-
is a moving picture projector that mendation ribbon was delivered by luck to Mary and Manuel. 20, at the inauguration ceremonies tenborn spent an evening on Treas-
* * *
Commander Mine Force, Lt. Comdr. starting the seventh war bond drive
flashes three-dimensional pictures ure Island as guests of Commander
of attacking planes on the special J. D. ~iner, on April 5.· The com- As we ramble through the ros- at Kaiser's Richmond Shipyards. and Mrs. Falge. They visited Naval
screen at which the gl!lnner fires. mendation reads as follows: "For ter, a few ·new faces appear and Waves from the Armed Guard Cen- Training Schools, expressing inter-
In order to see the pictures clearly, outstanding performance of duty that always means old friends have ter will drill in formation and a gun est in all there was to be seen here
the gunsight is fitted with a lens while attached to the Mobile Ex- departed for new places. Lt. crew will demonstrate their effici- and elsewhere· on the Island.
which has the same effect as the plos_ive Investigation Unit No. Two Charles Alward, officer-in-charge ency by firing a few rounds ,from Reminder
paper-and-cellophane outfits that at Marseille, France. An ammuni- of one of our ships and division a 3.50. Commander Thomas Mack-
tion train at LaCanet railyard, commander, has left for Mine War- lin, executive officer, Armed Guard The July Fourth Navy War Bond
were supplied with the "audio- campaign is already under way,
scopic" movies of a few years ago. Marseille, France, caught fire on fare school. Lt. (jg) W. W. Bowles, Center, will inte_rview several gun- with Lt. Raab heading up the plan-
Anyone who has had the op- September 27, 1944. He ably and officer-in-charge of another one of ners to start the ball rolling. Lu- ning. He hopes that any of us who
courageously assisted in fighting our ships, has transferred to Armed gone's boys are probably the busi-
portunity of throwing a few rounds are anticipating investments of this
the blaze and aided in removing Guard duty. We are sorry to see est little group on the base. In ad-
out at a Val, a Kate, or a Betty, kind will "hold everything" until
will readily admit that these train- more than 60 tons of ammunition these two gentlemen go. Welcome dition . to standing their regular June 22, then to dash to the bond
ers are about as close to the real from the burning train during a to Ens .. Beck and Ens. Tookey. watches and duties, they play for booth with amassed vast fortunes
thing as has yet been reached. period of· two days, despite con- Lt. W. D. Allen, Assistant to members and guest of the officers' to put into safe keeping. Whether
Under the watchful eye of Lt. stant danger from explosives and Commander Mine Force, is prac- club on Wednesday and Saturday, or not there will be an early end to
John Posegate, specially schooled white phosphorous fires, and was in ticing handball so that he can be work a spot or two at the Stage the Pacific war, there is not too
gunner's mates instruct the classes a large ~easure responsible for a good basketball player, or is it D o or Canteen; and Monday, much time left to start some sav-
in the fine points of tracer control. bringing the fire under control, sal- baseball? Anyhow, he's practicing! Wednesday, and Friday, at 1200, ing for those expensive civilian
they put on their regular show in
Seaman gunners, petty officers, vaging a large amount of critically dreams of the future. ·
and Armed Guard gunnery officers needed ammunition and preventing The unanswered question of the the main recreation lounge at the
are given their initial and refresher probable grave damage to military day is, "What happened to all the Armed Guard Center. Farewell, Chief-
courses in this school and the Mark and naval installations · in the vi- bar room signs which said, 'Free According to the new regulations
1 set-up is used to determine just cinity. Exceptional courage and Drinks on the House the .Day Hitler The other day a New York lady which permit commanding officers
how good the gunner is. outstanding devotion to duty was falls'?" boarded a bus, paid a nickel and to effect release to inactive duty
then discovered the bus was going for those men over forty-two years
the wrong way for her. She de- of age, Luchien Levi Delatte, CBM,
0 500 manded her money back. ·The bus has put aside his Navy uniform and
driver wouldn't come across. So she has returned to his home in Corona,
bit him in the ear ,causing him to Calif. We wish him happy "civilian
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jam the bus into a street post. The days", well-deserved after twenty-
cl9ASi'lKi • JAPAN lady wound up in jail, one nickel eight years of active service in the
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PACIFIC PRESSURE POINTS-Numbers indicate chang and were in Foochow on the coast. (4). Brit-
some of the places at which Allied might is being ish, ol}erating from recently captured Rang-oon, were
thrown against Japan: (1). The war's largest fleet driving the enemy fr.om Burma. (5). In the Philip-
of B-29's· dropped more than a milHon fire bombs pines, U. S. troops were driving for a junct·ure on
on Nagoya's war industries. (2). U. S.- Marines and Mindanao near Davao and almost had that island EXOTIC IS THE WORD for Gene Tierney, lovely motion picture star.
soldiers fought slowly into stubbornly-held Japanese cut in two. (6). Australian troops were battling for Captivating, enchanting, and entrancing are three more. If you would
defenses around Naha, as the battle for Okinawa oil-rich Tarakan, off Borneo. (7). Other Aussies cap- like to see more of her, y-ou might be interested that her last picture
reached ils climax. (3). Chinese troops took Sin- tured by-passed Wewak, on New Guinea. was "Laura."