12 July, 1945 JAX AIR NEWS Page Three T Scenes. .of Operations Headquarters At._WAS acksonvl.lle. i'!. ----- : : Ww 'nt i , {,Q Y _ f2 ,..MIYk U.S.NAVAL HOSPITAL By Ens. Eleanor Baird (NC) LT. (JO) HELEN B KAOEN ?A w4 E (W) USNR is now at the Rehabilitation a School at the Naval Train .W' ing School, The Bronx Miss Eager - is well known among all hospital personnel because of the fine ; work she did here: In setting up *p 1 and organizing the Occupational Therapy Dpcartment LT. (JO) ALUT CLFMENSH 3 ( ) USNR and Ens. Barbara Duenweg (II) USNR' reported aboard this week Both Miss ,." ....1it"I> '> "" jrl jf-[" .... Clemens and Miss Duenwcg have FROM THE CONTROL TOWER, WAVE Georgene Hall, SpY) had special training in Occupa 2c, upper left, gives directions to a pilot coming in for a landing. The tional Therapy and are now assigned tower has recently been completely modernized and the equipmentin In that department. We are this photo is no longer in use. Upper right: A lone plane wings i I'Iiglad to welcome these two well through the clouds over the Operation Building, nerve center of all '-i'' prepared occupational therapiststo flying at'NAS Jacksonville The tower tops the two-story buildingat our midst and feel fortunate in the right. Lower right: Lt. (jg) Walter S. Albright, offlcer-in- -' , having them assigned here to con. charge of the Operations Control Tower, checks over the flight plan . tinue the excellent work begun by board that he and Lt. Comdr. W T. Hardaker, former operations : Miss Eagen. officer here, devised. The board simplifies the job of keeping an up INDOCTRINATION classes are to the minute record of flight information _, \ now being given for new per. ----- ,,-- -- .. --- :: N sonnel in both the Medical and Nurse Corps. Fourteen doctors Operations Is Heart Nerve -,..., "!I reported this past week and nineteen 1j The indoctrination nurses. classes began promptly and all of Center of NAS Air ActivityBy E 1<' ''- ---- -" the nurses and doctors are now a y assigned duty of the in the hospital.various The departments Arthur Staff Writer Greene, Y2c \Cecil Helldivers Woman's Club doctors have repotted for their stood at the edge of the field in front of the land- ' receive regular hospital experience internship in all the and will different plane Have hangars you ever and watched the planes take off and land Haven Put On Air ShowNavy I Holds DanceHonoring marveled and medical services. you wondered about how little confusion there was, over A MINSTREL SHOW was presented the fact that so much activity could be carried out so smoothly? Helldivers snarled over the Annapolis graduates . to hospital patients and II To the uninformed observer it seems almost impossible that the I NAAS Cecil Field last week in a I,, and all officers of the personnel Thursday, 5 July, by planes don't run into each other, that they don't all try to land at once realistic demonstration of Navy Armed Service, the Young Women , Cecil Field Ship's Company personnel and that there Is a flawless system I : dive bombing technique for memo j of the Woman's Club of Jackson- t The show was very well behind it all, silently directing of Operations---Aerology' the Utility bers of a section of the Annapolisclass ville will entertain at an informal presented and very well received. every single move. I I Units, T-l Division, ParachuteLoft of 1946, Jacksonville newspapermen dance Friday night from 9 to 12 10 Arresting Catapult Unit,, o'clock in the clubhouse, 861 River.. We are sorry that some of you The heart of this system, the and other guests of Comdr. . 1 missed seeing it. nerve center directing all land. I Navigation Department, Photographic Howard E Born, Cecil Field com I side .Avenue. I Laboratory, Naval Air Special guests: will include the officer. The latest word In entertainment based flying here, is Operations. manding on the Hospital Circuit is From the time the departmentopens Transport Service, and the Control At the controls of the powerful college members home on vacationand the brand new show called "AT the field in the morning, un- I Tower. planes were instructors who are a number of out-of-town EASE," coming to the Naval Hospital til it closes the field at night, it is New Plan Board veterans of combat fighting in the II guests on 13 July. under the/aus the watchdog that guards every' A new flight plan board, the cre. Pacific. Leader of the 35-ship air Raymond Gage and his popular pices of USO-Camp Shows. This movement of aircraft in and out atlon of Lt (ljg) Walter S Albright group, which was divided into I orchestra will furnish music for all-time variety show is jam- of NAS Jacksonville. offlcer-in-charge of the three squadrons, was Lt. John D. dancing and during the evening packed with talent, offering blues Operations Control Tower, and Lt.. Bridges, Cecil Field chief flight punch will be served on the riverfront - singers, monologists and singing i [supervises Flying Comdr. W. T. Hardaker, former instructor and holder of the Navy terrace. guitarist Shows will be presented Operations supervises all flying, operations officer, has recently Cross. ------ ----- i ,\ for bed patients on various wards establishes course rules and sees I been installed and put into opera. The bombing demonstration was Red Cross Assisted/ 12JNAS .. during the afternoon and one show to it that they are carried out, directs part of the general Navy indoctrination y will be presented in the auditorium all rescue facilities in the I tion.The better ( training being given lax Men In June at 1800.f event of crashes other than sea- board provides a 1| Naval Academy graduates. The ,; DEPENDENT UN IT personnel, ward, and in the latter case helps I check on planes and flights, and Annapolis officers also were takenon \Vil/i/ Gianf ami Loans Doctors Nurses and Waves, celebrated the air-sea rescue unit at Mayport I cuts down the number of steps and 1 a tour of Cecil Field ground in The American Red Cross office Thursday, 5 July with anti co-ordinate the search. personnel required to keep a log stallationsWEDDINGS. I here rendered financial assistance. ti. outing at the beach. The group It is the responsibility of the of flight information up to date at ____u_ -_ to 125 men stationed at NAS late in the aft all times. Under the system in use left the hospital Officer to coordinateall I Jacksonville durinb the month of ; ernoon by bus and proceeded to Operations flying within the areas assignedto I previously, all flight informationwas June with loans totaling $4,561 Mack's Shack where delicious the training units based at this written down in long hand in \ and grants of $147. it was an- chicken dinners were prepared. station to assign outlying fieldsto : a log book and later transposed''I, nounced in a report this week by Following dinner many of the the ,units for training purposes, I to a blackboard. Because of the: I The following weddings were I Field Director Allen G. Scar- while of the work load, it was surf bathing, I pressure group enjoyed to assign land and seaward: tar- I conducted at Station Chapels: brough. others spent their time dancing to schedule target boats, often impossible for the dispatcher I July 2nd: Arthur R Gabel and I In addition to financial assist- x gets It was a grand evening and much targets, and field carrier I to keep the blackboard up to date,' Veda E. Bower; Franklin G. Bouch ance, the field director's office strafing ,r enjoyed by everyone.TlnL arresting to establish and and flights could not be listed ir.I'I and Sara Jane McDivitt; Karly B. I verified 609 emergency leaves, assisted ' I.m'tSn K, PhM maintain pear and course regulations I chronological order on the blackboard Kemp and Clara Marshall Snow. I and counseled in 740 per lc and Gladys Luntz PhM Ic have to guard flight aircraft movement i I I July 3rd: Robert M. Casey and sonal problems and 1,254 family f been appointed chairmen in chargeof reports to clear flights, to assign I The new board is constructed in Janet Dorcas Vogel problems, and 15 dependency discharges - plans for the Wave's Third Anniversary aircraft in the Aviation Training I such a way that flight progress July 6th: ancis Lamont Bal . on 30 July. We can't to recall aircraft in I strips can be shuffled or moved naves and Shirley W Clements ----'- i '- tell too much of the proposed pro the Department event that weather closes in, from one rack to another in proper July 7th: Robeit H Lewis and Chaplain Bell( Speaks gram at present, but they are arranging and to direct the crash system. I time order, providing at a glancea Marjorie J. Lewis; Clayton E for Open House for all complete picture of the situation. Parcell and Evelyn Patterson. To Jax Church Club staff and their families 1930 to Other units are a composite part I The racks used In the board were I July 8th: Adee Floyd Thompsonand Lt. Sheridan W Bell Naval Air ,. 2200 Sunday, 29 July. This anniversary -------- provided by the Airway TrafficControl Anita Frances Diani; Lee Station chaplain recently returned will receive proper celebration ChS (A) Hambrick Section of the CAA. W. Davidson, Jr., and Wilmoth I from sea duty in the Pacific, addressed - and we will hear more of the Our team is --------1 Telephone Robaits I the monthly meeting of plans at a latter date company than it did July 9th: Jack Ralph Busse and the Riverside Park Methodist AWARDS this past week were season and therefore To further expeaice use of the Elizabeth Sabochick Church Men's Club held last Friday presented by the commanding officer lot of credit. A great deal of I board, the telephone is coupled ----- _---- : night at the church. interest is displayed at all the with another in the tower wherea to two of the hospital patients I ------v-,. ----- board has also been Installed Medal smaller Dental AppointmentsAll Star The Bronze games. was presented Arthur J. Albrecht, The teams standing to date in When ATC telephones, hands were warned this week : Five Navy Air Units MM 3c USNR and the Purple the Softball League is third place both phones ring simultaneously, that dental appointments shouldbe Return To United States record of 11 wins and 4 and the information can be recorded presented Earl with a Heart Medal was kept on time or cancelled at After strenuous tours of Western J. Harnage, Pfc., USMCR Hatn- losses. Let's all get out and in the operations office and the least two hours prior to the scheduled Pacific duty, including the age received wounds as a resultof cheer-your support may enable tower at the same time. time in the event of an emer Iowa Jima and Okinawa campaigns enemy action at Tinian, Ma- the team to climb up to first place Present operations officer Is Lt. gency. carrier-based Composite riannas Islands, 4 Aug. 1944 I position. Comdr, J. V. Barry, who relieved !' Personnel officers of departments Squadrons 84, 85, 92 and 94, and PROMOTION, by appointment, Keen interest and league spiritis Lt Comdr. Hardaker on 30 June. and divisions will be notified Air Group 23 have all returned to was effective 15 June for Pharm reaching a new high in Softball He reported here from a PBlYsquadron in writing by the dental of the States for rest and reassignment Benjamin P, Wirth, USN. Mr. competition along the D Ramp in the Philippines of ficer of all personnel in their respective . Wirth has long been assigned in At the present time the first place which he was C, O. for the past 16 units who have failed tc During approximately half a the commissary and is \Vell known standing in "D".' League is tied months. The squadron served in observe the above regulation. year of bloody aerial warfare, climaxed - among the hospital personnel. with D-2 and D 6, each having 4 the Pacific for eight months after The dental office phone Is Ext by numerous tangles with DETACHFU this week are Lt. victories and 1 defeat Other 13 months duty in the Atlantic JIG. Kamikaze suicide planes, the vet- Patricia S. Pressley (NC) USN, team records are not available at A native of Webster, South Dakota ----M--- eran squadrons saw the Japanese Lt. (jg) Marguerite I* Parigan the moment. enrolled aviation pushed 1,000 miles nearer their as an Lt. ) J Archery has recently brought Barry New Overseas Rule ( ) USNR; (Jg Kitty Mag homeland. cadet in August, 1936, and won his forth great display of Interest ONC a USNR Ens. Irene NC ( ) ; - has forbidden -- wings at Pensacola in December, The Navy Department Johnson (NC) USNR and Some of the patients are even having Reminder Address' ! is married to the former the forwarding of maga- 1937. He Rita (Stammer) Harris PhM lcMM their visiting wives take partin Personnel attached to the Student . and to personnelwho LaVerne G, Marshall of Seattle, zines newspapers Harris is being permanently this clever sport Officers' Headquarters, Senior Unless transferred. pub Wash., and has a twoyearolddaughter. are Horseshoe courts are being detached from Naval service, but New and Junior BOQ were notified of the new address BOQ live aboard the lishers are They the others will report for further built In the grove area and hereis subscriptions will be stopped directed last week to advise their station assignment. another real sport. Horseshoes the publisher. The correspondents to address them at RECENT VICTORIES made by should be played more often; it subscriber immediately, and by nor the Navy or Box 27SOH Mess,. Senior BOQ the Hospital Corps team have is a game that takes little exer- Junior- BOQ respectively, and of The submarine USS Kete has Post Office Department, is responsible or . been accomplished by consistent tion, but still affords plenty and old been announced as overdue and for advising the publisher of not Box 26, which is a commissary 12 hits exercise-so you fat guys I hitting, averaging per lost. his new address. box number. f game, and the stellar pitching of timers, get out and play. presumed i