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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.
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN Commodore Cary's Feat Recalled
The USS Plunkett is once more
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center
on the prowl, seeking out Nazi po­
LT. COMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR sitions on the Italian and French
Director of Welfare and Recreation
coast bordering on the Lugurian
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR Sea and destroying them.
Editor She is back in the fight after a
ROBERT·E. J'OHNSON, Y3c, USNR, Associate Editor wound suffered· at Anzio which left
her shattered and afire, her deck
Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Managing Editor Robert H. Perez, Cox, Sports littered with wreckage and mem­
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor George J'. Schechter, Y3c, Staff Artist
bers of her crew dead and dying.
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Service Material)
Perhaps, the fate of the great
ship would have been most unfor­
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, DEC .. 9, 1944
tunate had k not been for the de­
stroyer Mayo and the cruiser
Brooklyn commanded by Captain
EDITORIAL-
(now Commodore) R. W. Cary.
It was the evening -of D plus 1
that Glider bombers made th�ir first ARMED GUARD PERSONNEL jammed the quarter deck to see The
<Jlte1ie j� Stdl ·<Jime. • • appearance off Anzio. The enemy Newman H. Kennedy of the Armed Guard. Seen in background is the
Hurricane beauties perform. Middle blonde is wife of Gunner's Mate
pilots paid their first visit in the Bond Bar and total of bonds sold posted on the bulkhead. Sales the first
There is still time to send one more gift, before Christmas, to vicinity of the destroyer, Mayo and two days were dose to the $20,000 mark.
the men and women on the battlefront. And it is a gift which the the cruiser Brooklyn. Heavy anti­
aircraft fire f r om the Brooklyn,
recipient will cherish and remember long after he has forgotten commanded by our Commanding Survivors of Carrier A. G. C. O ens Bond
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about candy and socks or genuine leather wallets. Officer, Commodore Cary, and a
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heavy rain of projectiles from the Sunk in Phili ines Drive With Sna y
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That gift is life. destroyer Mayo caused the enemy
pilots to make a hasty swing around Reach Treasure· Island Hurricane Show
The men and women, both Navy and civilians here on Treas­ for home fields, enabling the
Plunkett to proceed with her as­ (Continued from Page 1) Armed Guard Center personnel
tire Island, can make that God-like contribution simply by do­ signed mission. It was D plus 2 lined the bulkheads, crowded the
nating a pint of blood. Whole blood and blood plasma have that between 12 and 14 enemy when I hit the water my pistol gave ladders and desk tops of the quar­
me a whack that nearly sent me
saved thousands of lives in this war. Now the Naval Air Trans­ planes came back and finally put under. The only reason I am alive ter deck to get a glimpse of the
the Plunkett out of action. show put on by members of the
port Service will fly whole blood to the Pacific battle fields within * * * now is because my executive officer, San Francisco night club, The Hur­
48 hours or less after it is donated. Japs Funeralize Plane Commander Ballinger, had insisted ricane, at the opening of the Sixth
I wear my life belt."
Evidently the Japs have studied War Loan drive December 1.
Two sailors were grabbed by
'.There are some inconveniences to donating blood. It takes at American history, particularly the sharks as they plunged into the Commander Edward Flaherty
least a full mi.nute to make an appointment. Sometimes you may incidents relating to Indian war water. Their shipmates believe the started the ball rolling with a down
tactics. Finding it increasingly dif­ to earth talk on "Why Buy
have to stand and wait in line for five minutes, and there are ficult to convince the Pacific na­ flash of their white shorts as they Bonds?" Introductions were made
other similiar aggravations. tives that their fliers are "in­ jumped attracted the sharks. This by Coxswain Russ Kantor, versa­
vincible," the Japs on one occasion is one of the few corroborated in­ tile master of ceremonies and
On the other hand, there are benefits of somewhat greater im­ buried a plane which a Navy pilot stances in which sharks have killed singer.
sent blazing earthward as a result men. "It was a swell show with danc­
portance. One of our shipmates, or a very dear friend or relative The sea was full of men clinging
of a direct hit. ing and si;iging by The Hurricane's
may cheat a slimy, lonesome grave because one of us donated * * * to debris and rafts, atop which the grass skirted beauties," personnel
blood. That good friend we made in "boots" may come back_.·. Honorable Discharge Emblem injured were placed. For three days who saw the performance said.
and two nights they were in the
Even those who were not fortunate
because you did not mind putting off dinner fifteen minutes. A new Honorable Discharge Em­ sea. Some were driven so frantic by enough to get a good view were
blem has been adopted by the thirst, they disregarded the injunc­
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and entertained for nearly an hour by
Is a shipmate's life worth being half an hour late to a movie tion against drinking salt water and the South Sea Island style music
Coast Guard, under an agreement took several gulps. Soon weakened
or missing the first liberty bus? signed by Secretary of War Henry by sickness, they were among the rendered by The Hurricane and the
L. Stimson and Secretary of the Armed Guard bands.
Everyone agrees on the answer. Any blood center will be glad Navy James Forrestal. It is a cloth first to slip beneath the surface. Some of the fellows and Waves
During the night the men sent
to help make it a fact. Call or visit the Treasure Island Blood device with the same design as up flares which guided naval patrol were particularly interested in the
blonde in the middle of the accom­
Center or call GRaystone 9373 in San Francisco, to send that the Honorable Service Lapel Button boats and army landing craft based panying picture. It seems, accord­
and will be worn on the uniform
Christmas gift which will long be cherished by the recipient. of all honorably discharged per­ at Leyte to them. Twelve hundred ing to what was being scuttlebutted
men from the Gambier Bay were
sonnel. around, that she had entertained at
* * * saved. the Armed Guard Center once be­
It's alright ,to hide behind a A gorgeous blonde crowded her­ "Well D,one," Seabees fore. At that time she renewed
woman's skirts providing her hubby self into the telephone booth with The 17th Special U. S. Naval What's Wrong With Hitler? acquaintanceship with one of the
doesn't come in and open the closet the sailor and demurely asked: "Is Construction Battalion, a Colored Armed Guard personnel, Newman
door. this call necessary .. . big boy?" unit of Seabees, has received a The Answer- Plenty! H. Kennedy, GM3c. They had gone
"Well Done!" and a letter of com­ to school together as children.
mendation from Major General London (QNS) - Reports con­ Later · she married the gunner's
William H. Rupertus, USMC, Com­ cerning Hitler's health-or lack of mate and now signs h-er name Ilana
manding Officer of the First Marine it-have been as thick in this city Kennedy.
as GI giblet gravy. If all of them
Division during the landing on and
occupation of Peleliu Island in the are true, the German fuehrer is
Palaus, for helping relieve a short­ suffering from the following mala­ Draft Boards May Move
age of ammunition on the first lines dies:
during the night of D-Day. The Concussion of the brain. To Re-Induct Ex-Gls
Seabees "passed the ammunition," Coronary thrombosis.
braved the enemy front-line fire and Tumor of the throat. Washington (CNS)-Honorably
Paranoia.
brought back the wounded. Many of A broken arm. discharged veterans of this war
them took part in the fighting, man­ may be re-inducted into the Armed
ning 37 mm. guns with the effec­ An earache. Forces if they volunteer to serve
Flat feet.
tiveness of a veteran. again, Selective Service Head­
* * * striking the enemy with savage­ quarters has notified local boards.
Britain Demobilizes 2,000,000 like cruelty, according to reports The boards were empowered to
The modern history of England from the Pacific and Far East.· Re­ re - induct registrants separated
is being written with "blood, sweat ports state that our submarines from the services who did not see
and tears." The valorous achieve­ have sunk 27 vessels, including two active duty, such as former mem­
ment of her great army and sea combatant vessels, as a result of bers of the ASTP, Army Air Corps
armada is already a legend which operations against the enemy in Enlisted Reserve, Marine · Corps
the British claim with pride. Shar­ these waters. Reserve or Merchant Marine Re-
ing no lesser role in the hell-packed A Netherlands submarine, while serve.
drama of modern warfare is Brit­ operating under U. S. control, has
ain's Home Guard, a civilian army sunk 4,500 tons of enemy shipping
2,000,000 strong, which is responsible in the Netherlands East Indians
for repelling many invasion threats waters. This submarine was built 1 ,·
during the disaster-laden days· of in England. * * *
1940 and 1941.-
Veterans of four and a half years Quote.worthy
of gruelling warfare, this great Admiral Chester W. Nimitz:
civilian army has been demobilized. "The conclusi-on that we must ex­
They were paid high tribute by pect a struggle of many months
their Colonel-in-Chief, King George durati-on in the Pacific is based on
VI, at a formal parade. facts--facts of geography, facts of
* * * logistics, facts of available tonnage,
U. $, Subs Strike Savagely and facts of military and naval
Th<l U. S. submarines have been science/'