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PAGE2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945
Diplo~as Attained at Red Cross in
G T. I. Frontier Base New Location
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Official Treasure man enters the Naval Service in the are varied in nature; family in-
* * Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted pe1·sonnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and ranks of its enlisted personnel and quiries about health and welfare
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department, s so long as he or she remains in the
Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. Phone: EXbrook 3931, Extension 69. of sons, husbands, brothers, family
Navy in the enlisted status, the bu- allowances and allotments; difficul-
COMMODORE R. W . CARY, USN Did You Know That reau (Enlisted Training Section)
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center ties with arrangements for care of
Since July, 1944, the Navy has is interested in his or her naval
parents, children; emergency leaves;
LT. COMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR built, armed, supplied, fueled and education. personal needs of men themselves,
Director of W elfare and Recreation .sent to sea 10,300,000 tons of ships; Coxswains, Machinist's Mates,
eye glasses, dentures, etc. All these
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR Built, armed, fueled; and launched Gunner's Mates, Signalman, Car- matters come up daily for consid-
Editor 62,000 planes; penter's Mates, Cooks- all are· pre-
eration by the professional mem-
Built and equipped 300 advance pared, trained, tested for, and ad-
ROBERT E. JOHNSON, Y3c, USNR, Associate Editor bers of the staff.
bases. va;nced under the eye of this divi- Red Cross is ready to carry on
Rex. N. Olsen, Y3c, Managing Editor Robert H. P erez, Cox, Sports With the Navy in existence on sion.
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, ,vaves E ditor as usual. The entire office force is
July 1, 1940, these new m en and A large number of the enlisted
willing and anxious to assist Navy
Reporters - weapons add up to the World's personnel "joined-up" before finish-
Sidney V. Smith, Y2c Frederick Drimmer, SK3c personnel in every way possible.
Largest Fleet. ing high school ·and they have found
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Service Material) that inability to say, "I have grad-
* * * Technical, Mechanical, Industrial,
U. S. Subs Scuttle Foe uated from high school," as a dis-
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F. CALIF., SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945 Thirty-three enemy vessels were tinct disadvantage. Liberal Arts, and Engineering fields.
An hour of spare time now and
knocked to atoms in the P acific Most high schools accept Navy
then will soon show results.
and Far East by American sub- Training Courses and experience
EDITORIAL marines, according to a Navy De- gained in the service for academic
partment communique. credit. No matter when or how the
Striking with crushing effect, subject was learned. Enlisted per-
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undersea raiders sent tottering to sonnel, who have been to service ~ ~ SEA~RONTIER
Davy Jones' Locker 33 en,emy ships, schools or "made their rates the
including 12 combat vessels, a light hard way" can sometimes receive ~5:C~~~
cruiser, three destroyers, six escort as much as two full years of high
Treasure Island seagoing bluejackets whose nightly bouts with and
vessels, a mine weeper and mine school credit. LOCAL DEFENSE
the Navy's traditional hammocks leave them still want for rest layer, two medium cargo trans- The following letter is one of
and ·very unhappy, and whose the-blessings-of-home lists are ports and three small cargo vessels. many received by the Educational
* * * Officer at Frontier Base: Fifteen years aboard the same
headed "that good ole bed with an innerspring mattress" will Naval Honor
ship and progressing through every
find little comfort in the recent prediction that hammocks will For outstanding assistance and DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC rate from seaman to Chief Warrant
cooperation during salvage opera- INSTRUCTION
lift us by the ears out of this bedridden era just as the automobile Officer, is the unusual record of
tions in Tunisia, an officer and two County of Comanche Chief Carpenter Thomas E. Fla-
took us out of the horse and buggy stage. enlisted men of the United States Lawton, Oklahoma, debo, USN. He served on the U .S.S.
Navy have been honored by Great
December 14, 1944 Saratoga and firmly believes that
In an article in the December Esquire titled "So Now I Sleep Britain with appointment to the Lt. George F. Dyer "CV duty" is the best duty in the
Order of the British Empire (Mili-
in a Hammock," Bob Brown says goodbye to the lumpy, bumpy Educational Officer Navy, and of course, that a CV is
tary) . U. S. Naval Frontier Base
mattress as he hangs himself up under the nearest shade tree. the most valuable part of the fleet!
* * * Treasure Island But after 15 years aboard one ship
Brown, a civilian writer who has been laboring in the sweltering Navy Decorates San Franciscans San Francisco, California he was "getting in a rut" and de-
equatorial regions, is an incurable hammock-addict, and believes Recognition for Navy construc- Re: File No. NB36-Pll/ J:K cided to put in for transfer. Ad-
tion work "beyond normal require- Dear Lt. Dyer: miral H. M. Mullinix, who was Cap-
that the mobility and comfort of hammocks, as well as their ments" has brought the Navy Meri-
This is to acknowledge receipt of tain at that time, signed his re-
housework-saving qualities, will endear them to the American torious Civilian Service Emblem to enclosures A, B, C, and D concern- quest and he was soon on his way
Ernest J . Kump, architect, and ing the Navy courses that my son, back to the states. Part of the trip
public so solid~y that soon the bed· will be little more than a
Mark Falk, structural engineer, E. L. Scott, completed in the Navy. was made on a Liberty that seemed
museum piece. both of San Francisco, for aiding The high school officials h ere in to crawl, after the speed he was
in the design and expansion of air Lawton, Oklahoma, accepted his used to on the "Sara." H e was as-
Before going into his rave about what he considers the world's bases and other facilities involving work completed in the Navy for signed to the Industrial Depart-
perfect way to spend the graveyard shifr, not to meµcion siestas $35,000,000 worth of construction. credits, which permitted him to ment, Frontier Base and has served
The award was made by Vice Ad- graduate with the high school grad-
there for over a year.
at any old hour, he explains that he was not convened without a miral Moree!, Chief of the Navy's uating class May 17, 1944, here in
Carpenter Fladebo recalls the
bit of a struggle. Swinging in anything has made him seasick Bureau of Yards and Docks, Wash- Lawton, Oklahoma.
ington, D. C. My wife and · I appreciate your time in 1942 when the· Sara was in
since early days in rural Illinois when the other kids got a kick kindness and assistance you have trouble and they built a concrete
* * * bulkhead to keep the water out of
out of sitting in one of those barrd-stave contraptions that Navy Squadron Bombing Record given him in the completion of his the fire rooms. Another time the
creaked on the side porch by day and squeaked by night. Navy Patrol Bombing Squadron high school education for which we ship was hit, he was thrown 45
115, known as the "Bulldog Squad- are most grateful. feet and landed with a pile of mess
The writer claims he has seen squads of returning Yanks, who ron," has carried out searches that We wish for you and yours a tables and about 15 chi,efs on top
ext ended as far west as Borneo, all very Merry Christmas and a Happy
had become incurable hammock addicts while building vast mili- through the Philippines and well New Year. _ of him. H e picked himself up as
tary aviation fields and hospitals around the bulge of Brazil, into the China Sea. Respectfully submitted, one chief, 175 pounder, walked up
one side of him and right down the
The squadron's primary mission / s/ CLARENCE J . SCOTT,
buying hammocks to bring back to the States. The modern house other!
was search and reconnaissance, but County· Superintendent.
will have "S" hooks in every wall. Just think of being able to the airmen also shot down 18 Jap- If you haven't sufficient experi- Carpenter Fladebo enlisted in the
hang your bed wherever the breeze is best on hot nights, and in anese planes, destroyed 17 more in ence, _or you lack a high school sub- Navy in Mt. V;ernop, Washington,
the water and on the ground, sank ject that is not covered by Navy in 1928 and had his boot training
the :warmest spot in the house in sub-zero weather, or California's or damaged 92 enemy ships and training, consult your Educational in San Diego, where he was as-
peerless winter. participated in 22 bombing strikes Officer for an Armed Forces Insti- signed to the Saratoga as an ap-
against Japanese bases and instal- tute course. prentice seaman, ship fitter.
lations. Over- seven hundred high school Anxiously awaiting his 17th
and college courses are offe':red to birthday in January, Thomas, Jr.,
Navy Bond Sales Pearl Harbor Na.vy One of the squadron's greatest choose from. You can obtain in- is set to enlist in the Nayy and fol-
feats was made by Lt. Hamilton M.
struction in: Business, Scientific, low his father's Navy career.
Top 30 Million Yard Needs 3,200 Dawes, Jr., who destroyed a six-
ship convoy near Cebu, Philippine
Dollar Average Skilled Workers Islands. He wiped out six freighters
by bombing and strafing, shot two
Exceeding 30 million dollars in Rear Admiral William R. Fur- enemy planes out of the air and ,
bond sales, a better than 30 mil- long, Commandant of the Navy sank three troop-laden 'barges, a
river steamboat, a lugger and a
lion dollar average was m aintained Yard, Pearl Harbor, Territory of
naval auxiliary.
in Navy War bond purchases dur- Hawaii, revealed that this Pacific
For his actiens, Lt. Dawes was
ing the month of November. The Island base has expanded to such awarded the Navy's Distinguished
figures totaled $32,097,049, for a proportions that an additional 3,200 Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
28 per cent increase over the No- skilled workers from the mainland
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vember, 1943, figure of $25,008,506. are needed to man its faciities and Quote-worthy
The grand total through November, to render maximum service to the Japanese radio: "The enemy fleet,
1944, was $861,790,461. U. S. Pacific Fleet. despite the fact that it had been
annihilated in the waters off For-
O'f the November, 1944, results, The scope of work which the ;,,osa, has continued the execution
$17,483,738 were civilian purchases Yard is called upon to do is great, of its plans ... without making the
under the payroll savings plan; varying from major structural re- slightest change in its strategy."
$12,817,238 were allotment pur- pair jobs resulting from collisions,
chases by uniformed personnel, and grounding, etc., to highly technical
$1,796,073 were cash purchases. shop processes.
"Pearl Harbor Navy Yard is now
The Naval Training Centers led
the bond program for the 11th con- one of the greatest sea-fortresses
secutive month, with 95.3 per cent of the world," said Rear Admiral
of their civilian personnel investing Furlong, "and the number of m en
14.2 per cent of gross·pay in bonds, .needed to keep it at full produc-
followed by the Naval Air Stations, tion is astounding-but must re- THOMAS E. FLADEBO, Chief Carpenter, USN, kneels beside the chest
that was presented to him when he left th,e U.S.S. Saratoga after serv-
with 94.7 per cent investing 11.8 main untold for security reasons." ing 15 years aboard her. The chest is made -of inlaid woods picke_d u!'
per cent. For the entire naval es- Persons interested should apply on the South Pacific islands. It took three men 1000 hours t.o build 1t
tablishment, 93.7 per cent of the to the nearest Civil Service Com- and all hands had a part in its c-ompletion and safe delivery to the
civilians invested 11.5 per cent in mission Office or Office of the states. On the front panel is inlaid the silhouette of the "Sara" with her
plan-es coming home. The monogram of its owner is on the cover of the
bonds. United States Employment Service. cedar lined chest.