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U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center

VOL. IV-No. 25 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALI F .. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1945

New Fourth Street ''Sad lad'' He's 1110·119 io Flt Coast Guard to Celebrate Its 155th
Sidewalks Will Keep Birthday Today; Oldest Service in Nation

Pedestrians Off Street
The United States Coast Guard,
To confine foot traffic to the side- oldest commissioned service in the
walks in one of the busiest sections Re(ognize & Remember nation, will celebrate its 155th
of the island is the purpose of the birthday today, August 4 in a way
this Emblem the Japs won't like.
new 18-foot sidewalks nearing com-
pletion on Fourth street past Gal- Out in the far Pacific invasion
ley K and Gymnasium No. 1. fronts Coast Guardsmen will com-
'L'he need for such a project has memorate the occasion with re-
long been felt, owing to the huge newed blows at the enemy.
number of men in chow lines at Their major assignments on the
the mess hall and going to and European front finished, they will
from the gym. Heretofore, pedes- mark another year of putting their
trians not in chow lines have been It means the wearer has an fighting surfman's skill into diffi-
obliged to walk in the street, con- honorable discharge from the cult amphibious landing operations
stituting a hazard to themselves as U. S. Armed Forces against the J apanese; manning
wen as oncoming vehicle traffic. troops, assault and supply ships;
When completed, the new walks performing escort and convoy
will allow lines to form on the in- duties. Withal, they're not neglect-
board side, thus leaving ample Survivors of YMS ing their traditional peacetime ac-
space for passersby. tivities of pr,otecting life and pro-
Turning the corner on either side 50, Sunk by Jap perty on the seacoasts and water-
of the street at A venue H, the new ways, or their vital wartime as-
"super walks" will lead to the Post Mine, Arrive Here signment on Port Security.
Office on one hand and Dispensary To be sure, there will be speeches
No. 2 on the other. Much of the As part of the Borneo invasion throughout the nation by a grateful
congestion occurring on Training force, the YMS-50 was engaged in people. And there will be a glow of
Center payday will be relieved in operations when she struck one of pride by Coast Guardsmen from
this manner. the enemy underwater explosives here to Okinawa; but there will be
To, complete the project it was and began to settle by the bow. no pause in the main job.
necessary to remove a good deal of Japanese shore batteries opened up Today, the 170,000 men and
the lawn bordering the sidewalks on the sinking ship before the women wearing the Coast Guard
concerned, and Public Works De- decks went awash. Her crew was shield on their right forearm have
partment, not wishing to destroy forced to abandon ship. earned commendations from rank-
perfectly good sod, transplanted it All hands aboard were saved and
in small squares. You have prob- picked up by surrounding invasion ing Army, Navy and Marine Corps
officers, and from government,
ably seen it looking as good as new craft. They arrived at Treasure
decorating the grounds behind the NOPE, NOT JOHN BUNYA N but Seaman First Class Da n C. Roberts Island last week for reclassification state and municipal officials.
Administration Building. of t he Armed Guard Center, age 18, heig ht 6' 7" a nd sti ll growing. The and outfitting prior to going home While performing vital Port
lady in the· pi~ture is Armed Guard Yeoman Jeanne A. Miller, Y1c, who for 30-day survivors' leave. Security duties on the home front
· Part of Overall Project stopped gr,owin g at 5' 1". (See story below). - vastly increased with San F ran-
The new sidewalks are only part On the bridge of the YMS was
painted ten flags, indicating the cisco Bay now the main funnel for
of a paving and parking area pro-
When Dan C. Roberts, Slc went everything grows bigger out here. number of minesweeping opera- shipment of men, munitions and
gram instigated by the lately r'e- tions the ship had participated in supplies to Pacific fighting fronts
tired Commander G. A. Miller. through boot school he was the Sea duty brought its problems before the Borneo invasion. Com- - the Coast Guard is_ continuing to
According to the P ublic Works despair of the supply storekeepers. his way. Passageways, aboard ship missio.ned in May, 1942, the vessel write a brilliant chapter in combat
spokesman, the project will include He doesn't fit, his arms and legs, which are small for a normal per- during its combat operations had zones.
among other things a sidewalk his feet and hands are just too big son are almost out of the question shot down two Japanese planes. In every major invasion since
along the sea wall from the new for the average clothing Uncle Sam for Seaman Roberts. And how the sneak J ap attack on December
Ferry Building to the Administra- makes for sailors. He is six feet would you like to hang your feet 7, 1941- be it North Africa, Sicily,
tion Building. It would keep sight- seven and a quarter inches tall, and legs over the end of your bunk PUBLIC WORKS SHOP Salerno, Normandy, Guadalcanal,
seers off the street, ·and when the weighs 225 pounds and at 18 is still for six or seven months? Not able
water transportation set-up is com- growing, in fact he has grown three. to carry his custom-built bed RE-PAINTS TWO Tarawa, Leyte, Iwo J ima or Okin-
•pleted, pedestrians will use it on inches in the last year. around with him, he "drapes" not TRUCKS PER DAY awa- fighting men with "USCG"
emblazoned across their steel hel-
their way to the ferry. Other proj- Stationed at the Armed Guard "hits" the sack. Incidentally if any- mets have manned tiny landing
ects call for the paving of the en- Center on Treasure Island, he hopes one has an extra pair of socks size Fourteen m en of the P ublic craft darting from giant transpo·rts
tire area behind North Galley and to try out for the Armed Guard 13½ he will accept any and all con- Works Paint Shop are· assigned the to enemy shores.
the surfacing of the grounds in the basketball team, because as a tributions. task of keeping the eight hundred
rear of Transportation Pool garage. civilian he played for Belmont and He is ready to stop growing any- official trucks and cars of Treasure With a minimum of fanfare, the
Los Angeles High schools and also time, but nature evidently intends Island in a clean condition, which Coast Guard has performed its im-
portant wartime services. Few
Lord;s, a city club in L. A. He calls to make a real man out of him and means new paint inside and out.
know that this was the first Ameri-
Navy Converts Army Los Angeles home and seems to under such conditions, what can a They must completely repaint two can service to take German prison-
prove the Californians boast that fellow do? vehicles per day to keep up with ers in this war; that a Coast
Conuete Barge Into their schedule. Guardsman, helping in the rescue
Assigned to the Treasure Island
. Floating Gedunk Parlor Entire Jap Navy Wiped Out paint locker are nine sailors and of Marines trapped behind enemy
about sixty civilians. Robert L. lines at Guadalcanal, won the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor posthu-
Somewhere in the southwestern
part of the P acific a concrete barge, By Carrier Raids on Kure Area Stone, Ptrlc, directs the sailo·rs mously; that a Coast Guardsman
while Ray E. Dunn heads the
once belonging to the Army Trans- civilian workers. Dunn estimated was responsible for the capture of
Japan this week has no navy. the Ise's sister ship, Hyuga, rested the saboteurs who landed on Long
port Service, is floating around the paint shop monthly does about
Not one major unit remained in on the bottom off tiny N asaka Island.from a Nazi submarine; that
armed only with 2,000 gallons of $15,000 worth of maintenance work
condition to fight as planes of Ad- Jima, the water washing over her a Coast Guard 'Splinter Fleet"-
ice cream. Daily it is assaulted by on the island.
miral J ohn S. McCain's Task F o•rce flight deck. made up of a small 83-footers ori-
the smaller ships of the U. S. Pa- Besides the auto painting detail
cific fleets. 38 winged back to their carriers Elsewhere both the heavy cruis- and the maintenance work, the ginally d~signed for inshore patrol
after the third strike in five days ers Tone and Aoba were left blaz- - rescued more than 800 survivors
Before this concrete floating ice shop operates a furniture repair
cream parlor came to the P acific, on Kure and the surrounding wa- ing, with the latter's stern sinking and paint office, a glass works, re- of ships blasted by enemy fire at
Normandy.
men on the smaller ships didn't ters of the Inland Sea. to the shallow bottom . An old stripes the stree~, and repaints To help in Port Security ac-
have· much ice cream-many, in With a radius of five miles of cruiser was capsized and two car- building fixtures.
fact, · had none. For instance, one Nippon':;; "Annapo'1is" at Kure, riers, the Amagi and Katsuraga, tivities, thousands of patriotic Am-
auxiliary cargo ship recently took Japan this week reaped the whirl- were blasted out of use. ericans answered the call and en-
on ice cream, which was the first wind sown at. Pearl Harbor. Three submarmes lurking in a Handkerchiefs "Best listed in the Coast Guard Auxiliary
the crew had in eighteen months. Haruna Wrecked cove in the base area of Kure were Seller" at Small and the Temporary Reserve, per-
All kinds of ships such as de- Across the bay from Kure city, bombed repeatedly and sunk. forming tasks formerly done by
regular Coast Guardsmen, releas-
stroyer escorts, minesweepers, sub- the great 29,330 ton Kongo class Four destroyers were also heav- Stores Last Month ing these men for combat duty at
marine chasers, patrol era.ft, LCI's, battleship Haruna was run aground ily damaged, one possibly fatally, It is an amazing revelation that sea. Ten thousand women have
LSM's, tugs and other small era.ft 200 feet off a small boat dock , in with her stern awash and afire, 76,374 handkerchiefs were sold to donned the silver shield as mem-
pull alongside daily, just like a the shadow of the towering ter- plus three destroyer escorts and 'Preasure Island sailors during the
"drive-in", and take aboard ice raced hills of Eta Shima. the carrier escort Kaiyo. four weeks of June. It is more bers of the Coast Guard Spars.
cream for all hands. The Coast Guard is truly living
In a little downward pointing Calamity Day understandable that over 63,000 up to its name, "Semper P aratus,
thumb of water just over the neck It was a day of total calamity for pairs of black socks were sold dur- Always Ready."
of land connecting Eta Shima to Japan, despite the toll her admitted- ing the same period; or that nearly
Clothing Allowance Boost Nishinomi Shima, the 10,000 ton ly more accur,ate anti-aircraft bat- 40,100 drawers and 39,850 unde•r-
A $3 increase in the quarterly cruiser Oyodo rolled over and turn- teries exacted. shirts were purchased. 90% to Pacific Area
clothing . allowance has been a uth- ed her steel belly to the setting On Honshu itself, thirteen loco- White hats were in demand too, Ninety per cent of the enlisted
orized for all enlisted men--except sun, her bow down in the silt, her motives and four oil tank cars were because the files disclose that ap- personnel to be assigned duty
CP Os, cooks, stewarts and band screws out of the wa ter. destroyed. Two other locomotives, proximately 33,100 were bought at afloat or overseas following shore
members, who receive a $1.25 boost. Ripped asunder by bombs, the three hangers, and gas storage fa- 50-cents each. But all in all, hand- duty survey are to be sent to the
Enlisted men formerly received $9 Ise, half battleship,. half carrier, cilities were damaged. A factory kerchiefs were the top teller. Could Pacific area and the remainder to
each qua rter and OPOs, cooks, was beached on the southern shore and a large ammunition storage it be Treasure Island's "summer" the Atlantic, BuPers announced re-
stewarts and band members $18.75. of Kure Bay. Two miles southeast, depot were blasted at Ube. weather? cently.