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Lieuteant (jg) Clifford Hoffman, an NTS staff officer since the opening of the school in July, 1942, has been assigned to an advanced training course at Fort Schnyler, New York. While here, Lieutenant Hoffman acted part of the time as assistant regimental officer. He taught a deck course in the indoctrination division...
...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...
...known whether single men will be permitted to live off the station. Married men will have that privilege beginning September 21. Senior Class officers who remain on the station will be required to maintain the usual rules of "silence about the deck" after Tattoo, but they will, in effect, have liberty from the last class daily until the first class the next...
...carrier with its huge flight deck the Shellbacks really go to town. As you know, each pretending Shellback and each landlubber must appear before the high court. During your stay at the school, you have been warned that it would be a good thing for you to know what Knibbling Plus were. You were told that you had not reached the proper...
...next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat fighters swooped in on the U-boat. The last of their depth bombs were direct hits on the deck; only 17 crew members survived...