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Noms de Guerre. In Fort Lewis, Wash., one Arthur Admiral signed up for service in the Navy. In Pensacola, Fla., Chester O. Ensign Jr. was commissioned a Naval ensign. At Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway...
Anticlimax. The rest of Belle's life was anticlimax. Arrested, she fell in love with the Yankee ensign assigned to guard her. He became the first of her three husbands. In England she was a social success for a time, fell into poverty, had to succor herself by writing her guarded memoirs...
...when a friend (we assume she was a friend) asked him by phone how long she was going to have to play solitaire before he took a hand. This one almost matches a certain answer in Company 3. To Mr. Lindsay's question on the length of the certain ensign's navy service, the reply came back, "Eight semesters, sir." Mr. Lindsay is still convalescing from this one. He has many disappointments these days...
Honors and Fogies. Out of 40 outmoded TBDs which had taken off from U.S. carriers that day, only four came back. Smitty's battered bomber was one of them. Mom got her picture. Smitty got 1) a commission as ensign; 2) a Navy Cross and a citation which read in part: "His extreme disregard of personal safety contributed materially to the success of our forces...
With the first World War, routine instruction duties gave way to other serv- ice, and an appointment as Ensign (PC) (T) was accepted in October, 1918. The following July 1 is listed for date of commission as Lt. (jg) in the Supply Corps. After two years more Lt. McKee was given an honorable discharge, but he soon re-enlisted and was rated CSK (PA) early...