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...Twas a balmy Sunday morning when our young disbursing officer Ensign Water Tight Drawers arose for his first day of duty. All of his specimens from the Harvard supply school were neatly stacked from the deck of the cabin to the roof ... Yes, he had this stuff cold ... The G. A. O. was just a blow ... After all congress passed a relieving bill to keep all D. O.s out of Portsmouth after the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...been paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed their husbands were on Skmc because of their own misconduct ... Ensign Drawers pulled out a special desk for them to sit on and first with the new pay clerk who had just flunked out of the Harvard supply school ... Ensign Drawers couldn't find anything in his specimens as to how to do six different things at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...receiving line, an Army nurse became flustered, told him she was wearing a Navy nurse's uniform, had to be corrected by her companion. A WAVE ensign, Mary Elizabeth Birch, 23, asked him to dance. An unidentified WAAC tried to cut in, was shooed away by Secret Service men. In the midst of the party the Duke disappeared, was found in a corner talking to a group of he-soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Lesson in Transplanting | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...worn with the lightweight Navy blue working uniform. However, most of us are wearing them with our nice warm wool serge suits for the obvious reason that the Official Outfitter of WAVES has not yet caught up with the season. Another reason is that a mere lone ensign hasn't a got of a chance with enlisted girls a four platoons strong in the uniform shop. So Service Dress, Blue, A, and Service Dress, Blue, B, and the Working Uniform have been scrambled up to produce the present outfit. The fellow who said that being in the Navy would simplify...

Author: By Ensing RUTH Wolgast, | Title: Creating a Ripple | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

Plcase make an ENSIGN out of this son-of-again

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

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