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...spring baseball schedule, announced yesterday by Carroll F. Getchell, includes eight games including contests with four service teams and four college teams. The opening game against Quonset Naval Station will be played Saturday, April 29 at 3:15 o'clock...
Some of the delegates came from such far places as Chico, Calif, and Quonset Point, R.I. Among them were some of the most famed hot pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
Last spring Hobbs and Comstock discovered that the Army was shipping heavy steel huts all the way from Quonset, R.I. to the Arctic. These huts were not too satisfactory. The partners at once thought of making plywood and Masonite huts right in Seattle. In 21 days they designed their round, spruce-ribbed hut, sold the Army an educational order for 85. The first ones turned out so well that by September they had Army encouragement to build a new plant. They raised $100,000 to buy an abandoned shipyard and an adjoining gas station, built...
When Derry was commissioned, only a handful of Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...
These civilian recruits will hold jobs that the Navy seldom entrusts to civilians. At Quonset they are boning up on Naval custom, procedure, tradition, by the time they don their stripes should be able to tell a fid from a marlinspike. The first class now at Quonset is scheduled ultimately to include 500 men; and the Navy expects to train many another in the future...