Word: messman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November...
...weeks who have lived in a world populated by out stalwart hero, J. A. Hancock, the vaguely beneficent presence of the CO, Brigham Scott, and by the more or less sinister though shadowy figure of Varnell Richardson, Julius Dortch, and bad old Luther Leinuel Green. We've figured their messman pay, their court-martial fines, their SKMC, AOD, S and FSD, and many other alphabetical sins and virtues. (Who ever said the New Deal started the alphabet on its way to fame? We think the Navy rates the distinction!). We've bitten off many a pencil point over Kirby...
...larger islands life is luxury compared to that on the little specks. The Officers' Club on one of these large, well-defended outposts has a radio, a pool table and magazines only six or eight weeks old. The tiny wooden bar is tended by a Negro naval messman who has a big electric refrigerator to keep the beer in. The bar opens at 15:00 hours-three o'clock-and stays open until 22:00 hours. Across the dirt road from the mess there is a barnlike recreation hall for enlisted men, which also serves as a movie...
...Navy's 20-year ban against Negroes for anything but the Messman Branch was lifted last week...
...announcement was no surprise. The deal got a boost on Dec. 7 when heroic Doris Miller, Negro messman aboard the Pearl-Harbored Arizona, manned a machine gun, blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. The idea speeded up when Joe Louis handed $89,00 fight proceeds to Navy Relief, was practically clinched when Wendell Willkie urged the Navy to drop its anti-Negro rule...