| VOL. I | 28 MARCH, 1942 | NO. XL |
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The Navy Department statement follows :
"In company with two officers and several enlisted men, Miller was on the signal bridge of a battleship when the commanding officer of the vessel received a fatal abdominal wound. While the others sought to construct a stretcher to lower the captain to a safe location, a naval reserve lieutenant and Miller manned a pair of machine guns and fired upon the attacking planes until fires started by bombs rendered the machine guns useless.
------Army and Navy Register
There is an old fable by Aesop that relates the story of a man who tied a bundle of sticks together and showed his sons how impossible it was to break the sticks.
Yet when the bundle was untied and each stick taken separately they were easily broken.
We, as sticks, may be broken or led endlessly into difficulty, but, tied up into a bundle of sticks, we are impregnable to defeat.
Stick together and work together and defeat anyone who tampers with the strings of unity that tie us up in one powerful, irresistable mass.
------------The Fixit
For millions today home means only a filling station by day and a parking place at night.
The head of an alligator is 9" long. The body is as long as the head and one-half the tail. The tail is as long as the head and the body. How long is the alligator?
TWO AVIATORS who risked death in the darkness of a blackout at Naval Air Station, San Diego, to render "live" bombs inoperative and rearm them with safe fuses so four planes could carry out scheduled patrols were commended by the Secretary of the Navy on March 9.
They are Lieut. Comdr. James H. Hean, U. S. N., 33 years old, of Long Beach, California, and Congrave C. Callaway, Aviation Chief Ordnanceman, U.S.N., 31 years old of Fairbury, Nebraska.
It was on December 10, 1941, that the four planes, loaded with 600-pound bombs, returned from a patrol with their bombs in an armed condition, the arming wires having carried away during the flight, leaving the tail fuses completely armed.
The station was blacked out as a safeguard. The four planes were scheduled to take to the air before dawn for another patrol and there was insufficient time to follow the ordinary procedure of removing the tail vanes and disassembling the fuses. However, the flight could not leave in safety until the bombs were rendered inoperative.
Lieut. Comdr. Hean and Callaway hit upon a method for removing the live and armed fuses and rearming the missies with safe fuses, and carried out their plan successfully.
---------Army and Navy Register
APPLICATION BLANKS for National Service Life Insurance may be obtained in the Executive Officer's Office.
National Service Life Insurance, unlike many types of policies offered by civilian companies, protects the insured from all risks incurred in war time, including submarine, aviation duty etc. There is no hazard so great except turning traitor to one's country, for which this insurance is not in force.
The premiums are from one-fourth to one-third cheaper than the rates given by civilian insurance, companies, for peace time occupations. Every man in the service, desiring protection for his loved ones, should take advantage of the opportunity to obtain insurance without a medical examination prior to 19 April, 1942. After this date the report of a medical examination must accompany the application.
There is an impending shortage of wool in the United States. Treat your woolen garments with care, and make them last as long as you can, keeping them presentable for the maximum length of time. Proper laundering will lengthen the period of serviceability of woolens.
When they are worn beyond further use do not burn or otherwise destroy woolen products. They will be collected on the ship, boxed and sent to naval activities ashore to be salvaged and reworked into other needed articles of woolen clothing. Bring all such articles to the lucky bag where a receptacle will be provided to receive them.
Much tongue and much judgement seldom go together.
Everyone admires a brave and courageous man but it is easy to have the wrong idea of courage.
It is easy to think that the bulky form, the deep voice, and the hardboiled manner are sure signs of courage.
But they are not, by any means. They are often only fronts set up by a cowardly heart.
It takes courage, not to whine and gripe and shed verbal tears at every set-back and discomfort; but to suffer pain and humiliation and reverses of every kind with a smile.
It does not take courage to receive the cheers of the crowds and pats on the back; but rather to be generous, considerate and good-natured when you are down and out, and getting a kick in the pants.
It does not take courage to give in to sadness and idleness and self-pity; but it does take courage to carry on day by day the hard labors of a useful and promising life.
It takes courage to resist bad example, to fight unjust derision, to stand up for what is right -- even if you must stand alone.
It takes courage -- most often with the young -- to have it known that you want to develop the habits of honesty, straightforwardness and dependability, that you have high ideals and that you dare to follow them out in spite of hell and high water.
An athlete develops his body, his spirit, through exercise and competition.
You develop courage by doing at all costs what you know is right. You weaken courage when you fold up.
Why not seize every opportunity to become courageous by performing some of these courageous deeds mentioned ?
Talk across the bar may lead to time behind the bars. Be careful what you say about the Navy does not disclose vital information.
The postman whistled down the street
And seemed to walk on lighter feet,
And as he stepped inside her gate
He knew he carried precious freight:
He knew that day he carried joy--
He had a letter from her boy.
Day after day he'd kept his pace
And seen her careworn, gentle face.
She watched for him to come and took
The papers with an anxious look,
But disappointment followed hope--
She missed the one glad envelope.
He stopped to chat with her a while
And saw the sadness of her smile,
He fancied he could hear her sigh
The morning that he travelled by;
He knew that when tomorrow came
She would be waiting just the same.
The boy who was so far away
Could never hear her gently say:
"Well, have you brought good news to
me?"
Her eager face he could not see,
Or note the lines of anxious care
As every day she waited there.
But WHEN HE WROTE, on lighter
feet
The happy postman walked the
street.
Well, here it is at last. He'd shout,
"To end the worry and the doubt."
The robin on the maple limb
Began to sing: "She's heard from
him."
Her eyes with joy began to glow,
The neighbors around her seemed to
know
That with the Postman at the door
Sweet peace had come to her once
more.
When letters bring. so much delight,
Why do the sons forget to write?
Edgar A. Guest
Newspaper Reporter: "Have any of your boyhood hopes been realized?"
Millionaire: "Yes, I recall one. When my mother used to spend so much time combing my hair, I always wished I didn't have any."
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you don't care, you don't If you think you'd like to win, but you think you can't It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost. For out in the world you find Success begins with a fellow's will; It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You can ever win a prize. You've got to be sure of yourself before Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can.
Before houses had eaves troughs, the rain ran down the thatch and fell on the ground. Whenever an inquisitive neighbor clapped his face against the windowpane to hear what he could from within, the droppings from the eaves smote him on the pate and trickled down his neck. And so we still call keyhole detectives eavesdroppers.
Answer: Length of alligator - 72 inches. Body 27 inches, tail 36 inches, head 9 inches.
Establishment of a Physical Training Section as a unit of the Training Division, Bureau of Navigation, was approved by the Secretary of the Navy on March 10.
Head of the section will be Comdr. J. J. ("Gene") Tunney, U.S.N.R., who for more than a year has served as the Navy's director of physical education. Comdr. Tunney has been promoted from lieutenant commander, the grade in which he was commissioned when he entered upon active duty.
Comdr. Tunney's section will have cognizance over the development and administration of a program of physical fitness for the U.S. Navy, the establishment of personnel needs for the physical fitness program and the initiation of procurement, through routine channels, of such personnel; the maintenance of contacts with schools, colleges, and with the public on matters relating to the physical fitness program of the Navy; the handling of all other matters pertaining to the physical fitness program.
The new head of the Physical Training Section announced that applications for enlistment as chief specialist (A) (acting appointment) class V-6, U. S. Naval Reserve, for duty as physical instructor, are again being accepted, and that physical education instructors between the ages of 21 and 35 who hold degrees from recognized colleges or universities, and who have had practical experience in physical education work, are being considered for enlistment in this specialty of the Naval Reserve. They will be selected on the basis of their academic background, experience and leadership qualities.
-----------Army and Navy Register
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People who have nightmares should'nt keep a Colt under the pillow.
Rats have big ears. Be careful what you say in public places.
Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, U. S. Navy, retired, once recorded this salty tale:
"When Noah put the Ark out of commission, he was not accountable to anybody for getting the animals ashore and so, evidently, some of them stayed behind long enough to leave their marks on board, some of which have come down to this day.
"There are dogs all over the ship, ducks in the sail room, a cathead on each bow, many a gooseneck about, and a swallow in every block. The pelican hook keeps out of the crow's nest but is usually the better for a little mousing around. The little colt, or short rope's end which every captain of a top carried in his cap, handy for assisting the lagging top-men up the rigging grew up into a Flemish horse, which took his meals in the manger, so-called because near the hawse, alongside the jackasses, in the cool breeze coming through the bridle port, and supported the weather earing man after he had used the footropes in the stirrups to get out to the cockscomb. The cat fish used to get the anchor in, and a crane now gets the boats out. Sword belts and some uniform coats have frogs, the backstays are snaked down for action, and the shrouds have ratlines. Wireless has introduced a rattail and a squirrel cage. A bull ring and bull rope are ready and waiting, but we only have the bull's eyes and his tobacco. Possibly he was kept away by the wildcat and lioness which used to hang out around the capstan where she left her whelps. Neither the centipede nor the shark's mouth bites; foxes are seldom seen on a whaleback; but at a navy yard a camel may come alongside. Every one knows that the watches between 4 and 8p.m. are called dog watches because they are curtailed.
"The ship herself has a head, eyes, waist, body and bowels, a forefoot, a regular devil's claw and sometimes a heel. She prefers to wear colors by day and always celebrates in full dress. But when not particular about wearing, she sometimes gets in stays. Those fine, hardwood bars around the capstan have given place to powerful wenches, but the ship still gets regularly lit up. Now and then she gets on a slue."
An Officer of the British Navy, Admiral Mark Kerr, C.B., M.V.O., is author of a book first published in 1932 called "The Sailor's Nelson." In a foreword to the book he states in part:
"The whole world acknowledges Nelson as the greatest fighting sailor in history; and the navies of the world (I fear unconsciously) pay him a remarkable tribute, for nearly all of them have copied two things from the uniform of the British seaman. The three white tapes on the blue collar, and the black silk handkerchief draped around the opening of the sailor's jumper, over his chest, are practically universal. The three white stripes were first put on the collar to celebrate Nelson's victories of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar.
"The black silk handkerchief used to be worn under the collar, and tied in what is usually called a sailor's knot, in the V-shaped opening of the jumper over the chest. It was the custom at funerals to take the handkerchief from round the neck, and tie it round the left arm with a big black bow in the front.
"It is recorded that, at Nelson's funeraI they desired to do something different in order to mark the greatness and sadness of the occasion. Accordingly, the men were ordered to drape the handkerchief round the V-opening of the jumper, and tie it with a small tape at the bottom, to keep it in its place. The order was never rescinded, and the men continue to mourn Nelson and all that he stood for, week after week, month after month, and year after year, until it has become a permanent memorial ..."
One nice thing about a self-made man;
he never blames anyone else.
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