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A Navy Baker's Navy to Aid War Vets supply stations, air bases and other training they will need upon their
activities, already has placed on its return.
Get
Woes - Cakes Fall; ~~~ Naval Employment employment rolls more than 15,000 In this manner, it is hoped that
war veterans and the number is definite plans can be made to ab-
Pies Turn tl> Pancakes 111111 11'11tl IE 1111 IE \'t\'f S The Navy has taken steps to growing monthly. sorb vets who have reemployment
assure discharged vets of their
"The Department recognizes .the rights, and to properly employ
Navy cooks and bakers; like all rightful opportunities as civilian
Action came early for Johnny importance of proper planning to those who through injuries may
cooks and bakers, take special employees in naval establishments.
Lane, RM3c, who has yet to see his assure the best possible placement, have become handicapped.
pride in preparing the delicacies second year of Navy life. And there A recent lette_r to all Navy shore utilization and adjustment of the
which give crewmen and officers establishments, Rear Admiral F . G.
is good reason for the early hostili- large number of returning veterans
welcome relief from standard fare. Crisp, Director of Shore Establ"sh-
ties because his enlistment at Knox- who will be added to the forces of And We Thought the
Fluffy, light rolls and biscuits ville, Tenn., while still a school boy, ments and Civilian Personnel, di- all shore stations," Rear Admiral
which melt in the mouth; firm, rected personnel officers to study a
gave early indications of a hazard- Crisp said in his letter. Navy Was Alphabetized
flavorsome lemon pies with thick, ous bellbottom career. plan for the appointment of a The program calls for the study
V quivering meringue ; cakes with The wiry, blond-thatched Lane, Civilian Veteran Placement Advisor
and preparation by the Veterans' This is the Army . . . PDQ, or
creamy icing; these are the things veteran of 10-months overseas duty in each activity. Advisor of plans for absorption of the saga of a GI in "apsule form.
which the Navy baker prepares in the Marianas, Saipan, Guam, The division of Shore Establish- vets as civilian employees. He will · A couple of soldiers in the In-
with the care and pride of an artist.• Carolinas and the Marshalls, looked ments and Civilian Personnel, which determine the experience and skills fantry Repl. Cent. of Camp Croft,
There are conditions with which much older than the 19-years he administers the employment of ap- of vets entitled to reemployment, S. C., inspired by the alphabetic
they have to contend, however; claimed ownership to. Johnny didn't proximately 750,000 civilians in and to ascertain as far in advance abbreviations used by the Army,
conditions with which any house- waste much time Navy shipyards, ammunition depots, of their return as possible by com- worked out this history of a sol-
wife, who has seen her cake "fall" after boot camp and munication with them what addi- dier's career in the Army, using
when Junior, or several Juniors,
radio school. Duty in less time than it takes to play a tional qualifications they have ob- every letter in the alphabet:
have galloped through the kitchen,
aboard an ill-fated quarter of a football game. tained during military service. He 1-A, RC, IQ, PX, KP, TS,
as lightly as a herd of elephants,
A.VD sent Lane scur .. Lane is pretty happr about the also will determine what type of SNAFU, IRTC, BN, ITB, GFU,
at the wrong moment, can sympa- rying to the South 32 days leave accorded him. All his work the vets now desire and be- AWOL, MP, CM, JA, PBY, POM,
thize.
Pacific. Here he thoughts run in one trend, "full lieve they are fitted to perform, POE, APO, V-1, CDD, PH, DSC,
For instance. speed ahea d." and how much training or refresher Zl, USA, HOME.
spent a moderately
Ronald C. Hoover, Baker, Sec- quiet time, patroling
ond Class, was a baker before the the area until his recent journey
war in Lancaster, _Penn., the city to the battle - scorched Okinawa
' where his wife, Mrs. Sadie Hoover, sector.
and daughter, La Verne, now live. "Japs really live up to all stories
In the Navy he was assigned to a about fanaticism," states Lane.
landing ship in the Pacific. "This one baby that crash-dived
Until it went into battle off Lu- into the bridge of our ship never
zon Island in the Philippines, Hoo- had a chance and he knew it. The
ver had been very happy, baking body of the suicide pilot was never
the things which made his ship- found, but the parting gift he left
mates reach for "seconds." The behind will never be forgotten in
night before the invasion, Hoover my mind."
baked biscuits for morning chow. The sinking occurred about 120
That morning he was baking cakes. miles off the beaches of Okinawa
Suddenly there was an explosion with casualties relatively light.
to the port side of the ship. Al- Twenty minutes was all it took for
though Hoover was wounded, his the ship to sink to its watery grave.
only expressed regret was that he One year's toil had been destroyed
hadn't been able to serve his bis-.
cuits and that his cakes all came most continuous Jap aerial bom-
out with a port list. bardment without suffering a cas-
Richard K. Schwarz, Baker, Sec- ualty-except for Schwarz' pies.
ond Class, ·of Long Island, N. Y., Schwarz divided his time between
formerly with a pie company in his battle station at a fantail gun
New York City is another who feels and the galley bake shop. "Every
that a landing ship during an in- time our 40 millimeters'd go up,
vasion is not the place for a baker my cakes'd go down," Schwarz - - - - --
to produce the best in cakes and commented. "And those 40 milli- -- ~: -:-.. -.; -: .. . -_: ;. -~:; -:..=-~~-:.::; = .: --
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pies. Schwarz didn't have too meters were really hot those days. . - ·- .- - --
many complaints until his ship par- I was serving pancake pies most
ticipated in the invasion of Leyte, of the time. And when the guns ffe8 PATT£RSotl
in the Philippines. weren't going, the ocean was. THE HOIST t/.S'IVl'c
During the D-days at Leyte, the Rough water- wavy cakes. Whatta
ship underwent seven days of al- life for a baker!" "FIRE ONE!"

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