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Those At Home Will Hear About It
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Official Treasure Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. Phone : EXbrook 3931, Extension 69.
Naval Firepower-Greatest Ever!
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN Supremacy upon the sea lanes is
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center dependent not only upon the num-
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR ber of ships, but upon th~ firepower
Editor of these ships; and the U. S. Navy,
now the largest in the world, has
Robert E. Johnson, Y3c - R ex N. Olsen, Y3c, Associate Editors
kept firepower increases apace with
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor Robert H . P erez, Cox, Sports
its growth in ships.
Sidney V . Smith, Y2c - Frederick Drimmer, SK3c, Reporter s The -overall firepower of the com-
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Service Material) batant Navy has · naturally kept
pace with the tripling of the fleet,
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F. CALIF., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945 while among the total tonnage ,of-
t he Navy-including auxiliaries and
Coast Guard-firepower is nearly.
EDITORIAL- five times what it was on July 1,
1940.
This fleet of combatant ships,
(Statements and opinions herein are those of the writer and are not to auxiliaries and Coast Guard vessels
be construed as reflecting the views of the Navy Department.) can fire nearly 2,000 tons of shells,
in. a 15 sec-ond run, all conditions
being normal.
* * * MAKING THE RECORD-Erni,e Smith, Bay area radio ann,ouncer and
12th ND Constructi,on Contract newscaster, right, has the bridal party lined up so their words can be
From the spring of 1943 to Janu- recorded -on the tra,nscripti,on which will be sent to the bride's father.
Left to right, Chief Pharmacist's Mate William Stanley Thyberg, Mrs.
We are bursting with pride at the splendid, almost super ary. l, 1945, the Secretary of Navy Thyberg, and Captain C. K. Y.ou-ngkin, senior medical officer, Treasure
colossal job done by the personnel of Treasure Island in the approved approximately $182,000,- Island dispensaries.
000 in construction contracts in the
"March of Dimes" drive just completed this week. Such re,
12th Naval District.
sponse to a worthy cause has never been more widely accepted Of the total, $158,000,000 has Lo<al Wedding Pass Office Rivals
by those stationed here. The daily collections at the mess halls been awarded under 505 separate Chaplain In Hearing
contracts, the $24,000,000 difference Ceremony Re<orded
built up a sum to fight dreaded infantile paralysis-and what being accounted for by temporarily
a fight that money will make on this disease front. The boys deferred work, construction author- For Those Ba<k Home Hard-ilu<k Stories
are not only fighting a war for democracy but are also fighting ized but not yet awarded and the Lt. Commander H. A. Sohm, Continued from page 1-
difference between originally al-
a battle against one of the most terrible diseases of all time. To Medical Corps, was not pre.sent the temporary pa:ss office. It issues
lowed funds and the actual con-
Wednesday afternoon, January 24,
the personnel of Treasure Island we take off our hats and say tract price of certain contracts. passes to civilians wishing to enter
when his daughter, Jeanne, was the base, and permits for com-
"it is just another job well done by our men and women of the married in the chapel here on
Admiral Ingram Gets mercial vehicles.
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good old United States Navy." Treasure Island.
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Com- Combination psychologist, inter-
But the Navy, which has a way
mander in Chief, U. S. Atlantic viewer, and detective, Chief Wil-
Fleet, has been awarded t}le Gold of doing things for the men who liams has the sad task ·of explain-
Star in lieu of the second Distin- have done a lot for their country, ing to visitors that their sailor rela-
guished Service Medal for his serv- took care of that. It took the wed- tive has already shipped across. He
ice as Commander Fourth Fleet and ding ceremony to Dr. Sohm. must sift out those not entitled to
The other day while browsing through some material that
South Atlantic Forces, when he Dr. Sohm could not be present come aboard, like the woman who
had accumulated on Ye Eds desk we came across the line- held the rank of Vice Admiral. because he is convalescing at his applied several times for pennis-
"G ive Your Heart's Blood". This line seemed to be very ap, Other decorations held by the home in Des Moines, Ia., from a sion to visit her "husband," each
former pigskin mentor of the Na.val wound suffered during the Saipan time giving a different name for
propriate with February here and Valentine's Day not so far
Academy include the Distinguished invasion. The doctor was right up him.
in the distance. You know everyone gives away hearts on St. Service Medal from the U. S. Navy front treating American woundei:i Other Jobs
Valentine's Day. Why not be just a little different this year- and the Orden de Merite Naval when a Jap mortar shell exploded · The Pass and Communications
from Brazil in the present World nearby, wounding him in the Office also fingerprints new civil
let's give a part of our real heart this Valentine's Day-let's
War; the Medal of Honor and Navy shoulder. service employees and refers the
give blood, blood that will really mean life and a real Valentine Cross in World War I. A week ago Wednesday, his prints to the police and the FBI.
for some injured man overseas. Think about it a little and after * * * daughter, Jeanne Laverne Sohm, Many an undesirable job applicant
Navy Supply Value-$6,500,000,000 pharmacist's mate first class in the has thus been eliminated. All tele-
you have decided, go to the Treasure Island Blood Bank and
A year-end inventory of Navy Waves, wafked to the Treasure Is- phones on the Island come within
make that Valentine gift of bright red, wholesome, lif e,giving supply materials showed a valua- land altar with Chief Pharmacist's the purview of the office.
blood. Treasure Island doesn't have a blood goal for 1945 that tion of approximately $450,000,000 Mate William Stanley Thyberg, Lt. Williams is fortunate in hav-
we have heard of. Let's not think in terms of pints. We can on hand at Naval Supply Depot son of Mrs. John E. Thyberg, 5527 ing as his office manager Gloria S.
Oakland, it was disclosed by Sec- Chicago avenue, to climax a ro- Smith, SK2c. Gloria has been with
do better than that-let's make it gallons. If we all pour in, it retary Forrestal. mance th~t began when the young the office more than a year, and
will be a cinch to give every man in need the blood to make The subject was mentioned in people met at their duties in Dis- has her fingers on its many pulses.
him well again and send him home to his family. Give Your connection with the growing logis- pensary No. 1.
tic problem in the Pacific-and a While the ceremony was going
Heart's Blood- make it a Valentine really worthwhile.
year-end overall Navy inventory of on, a Navy technician from the Sailors, Don't
$6,500,000,000 in supply materials. Welfare and Recreation Depart-
ment, Lawrence R: Croxen, CEM, Try This One
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310 Vessels Named for was busy making a transcription
A total of 310 transports and record of the rites. A Navy photo- When the . librarian at Flora
cargo vessels of the Navy now bear grapher, H. V. Mitchell, Sp(P)lc, ASFTC Ordnance Plant, Miss., sent
the names of counties of the United likewise was busy. out a card for an overdue book, it
States. The majority of these ves- Shortly afterward, the record came back marked "S o 1 die r
sels have been launched, and many and the photographs were sent to AWOL." Title of the book: "Fare-
of them are already in service with Dr. Sohm and his wife in Des well to Arms."
the fleet. Moines.
Names of counties were selected The Navy even came up with a Mary had a little lamb,
for assignment to transports; trans- proxy for Dr. Sohm to give the.
SHODDY ports attack; cargo vessels, and lovely young bride away, Captain Its fl,eece was white as snow
SAVINGS cargo vessels attack, in keeping C. K. Youngkin, senior medical But everywhere that Mary went,
PROGRAM Her calves would steal the show.
with the Navy custom of assigning officer in charge of Treasure Island
names of places in the United dispensaries. The ceremony was
States to many categories of Naval performed by Chaplain Charl-es J. American lines. Evacuated from
vessels. Diemer. • Saipan, he was returned to Treas-
* * * Narration for the transcription ure Island hospital last July where
"Turkey Shoot" record was handled by Ernie Smith, he met his future son-in-iaw.
Escort carrier airmen seldom get Bay area newsman and radio an- The new Mrs. Thyberg enlisted
c_; .. -.i ... ~ 4:,1 1\\U a chance to participate in aerial nouncer. two years ago at San Diego where
"turkey shoots" like the larger
The bride wore a period gown of her father was then stationed. She
carrier-based fighter pilots but Lt. heirloom satin and carried a prayer took her training at Great Lakes
K. G. Hippe shot down five Jap book and shower of butterfly and was assigned to Oak Knoll
~ 4:,I\\'\ '\ ~\. planes in a single combat action orchids. Following the ceremony a hospital in Oakland. She came to
during the Second Battle of the reception was held in the Treasure- Treasure Island in February of
Philippines. Island Hostess House with Mrs. 1944. A former student at St.
\~ ~ GET SQUARED AWAY.! Flying target ar,ea combat patrol Virginia Nielson, Hostess House Mary's of Notre Dame, South Bend,
in support of General MacArthur's director, and Mrs. Gloria Brammer, Ind., Mrs. Thyberg was well known
invasion of Leyte Island, Lt. Hippe secr-etary, as hostesses. in women'_s golf circles in Des
Let your War Bond Officer and three of his squadron mates Dr. Sohm was wounded on his Moines prior to the war.
check your War Bond ac- intercepted a large formation of second invasion. He had previously The groom was assigned to
Japanese Army twin-engined bomb- gone through the Namur invasion Treasure Island several months ago
count for maximum b~ne- ers and saved a group of Army while attached to a Marine unit. after 28 months of duty in Central
fits to you. transpo·rt ships and Navy vessels He distinguished himself for his and South America.· He is a gradu-
from destruction by destroying 12 bravery "up front" on Namur and ate of the University of Minnesota,
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of the enemy planes. The division once had to drop his medical kit and class of 1941, and was a well known
was also credited with two "prob- pick up a rifle to help the Leather- .commercial artist before joining
Navy War Bond Cartoon Service ables." necks repel a Jap unit infiltrating the Navy.