Word: uss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAVES are about to come ashore again. For eight weeks we've struggled bravely--although sometimes it looked like a losing fight--with the pay accounts of the USS California. For eight 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...
Directly in charge of the unit, is Lt. Commander Ernest C. Collins, a veteran Navy man and Annapolis graduate. Lt. Comdr. Collins, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has seen service in many waters including disbursing duty aboard the USS Nevada and with destroyer divisions afloat. Other tours of duty included the Naval Air Station at Cocosolo, Canal Zone, the Naval Supply depot at San Diego and as Supply Officer on the USS Savannah...
...introduction let me state that I am a graduate of Harvard College, Class of 1925, who is now on active duty as a Chaplain of the United States Naval Reserve. My present assignment is as Chaplain on board the USS Solace, the newest and finest hospital ship of the U. S. Navy...
...matter of getting the books to us would be a very simple one. Simply send the books and magazines contributed in a wooden box or boxes to The Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., for further transfer to Chaplain C. D. Chrisman. USS SOLACE, by first available Government Transportation. I am counting on the Harvard undergraduates to stand by us at this time of national crisis...