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CONNECTICUT M E N of the United States Navy CONNECTICUT MEN of the United States Navy Demobilization, Lido Beach Separation Center October 31 to November 6, 1945 STATE OF CONNECTICUT EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS HARTFORD RAYMOND E. BALDWIN GOVERNOR To Connecticut Naval Veterans of World War II: Connecticut has a great seafaring tradition. In every war her men have fought gallantly for freedom. In days of peace her sons have officered and manned ships that have carried our American commerce everywhere in the world. Connecticut people are proud of that tradition. In this greatest of all wars just ended you, as a- son of Connecticut, have courageously and faithfully maintained that tradition. Indeed, you have raised it to new glorious heights. You have added to that enduring list, started when Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning of Stonington took part in the historic encoun• ter of John Paul Jones' Bon Homme Richard and HMS Serapis in 1779 > immortal names - Macassar Straits, Java, Guadalcanal, Savo Island, Coral Sea, Santa Cruz, Midway and Lunga Point. To the lot of some of you fell the burden of the train• ing and supply services at home and in ports, great and obscure, the world over. In fact, there are now new ports for the air arm and for the fleet, some of which will endure as monuments to that new arm of the Navy, the Seabees. Your fellow citizens in Connecticut are proud of your service. Yours very sincerely, Governor HERE ARE THEIR STORIES War correspondents of World War II frequently embellished and often overwrote the action stories of modest sailors. The aggregate result pleased editors, made headlines, and, on occasion, embarrassed the sailors. In retaliation, the correspondents and their victims were labelled, in characteristic service language, "Joe Blow". Actually, the "Joe Blows" were few and far between in this war. The purpose of these stories is to record without embellishment, the mood, the impressions, the exciting events, of the worst and best of the great days, before time blurs memories with resulting confusion as to events, dates and places. These are Navy men's stories, here recorded as near verbatim as possible in their own words—The Editor. Bailey, Gordon K., MM 1/c, 107th Bn., BussolinU Peter J., S 1/c, USNAS, Seabees, Hartford. Lakehurst, N. J., Avon. "The Seabees are sent in to do a job "You can quote me as saying I had and they do the job, and 10,000 snipers the best damned racket in the Navy. I won't stop them. The men driving the was stationed about 19 months down at bulldozers, trucks and scrapers are the Lakehurst working on blimps. Most of my guys who should get the credit and they work consisted of repairing the structures, never will. At Tinian the snipers fired at fins, and so forth; never touched the en• them every night but they kept on. They gines, we left that to the mechanics. Then worked such long hours we never saw we had to moor and let-out the blimps. them at chow. They got up before day Just a few weeks ago one of our blimps and came back after dark—15 hours a crashed into a hangar due to terrific day was nothing, and seven days a week. winds. Although the blimp was a total It was a race with the Japs to build wreck, no lives were lost." bomber strips. When a Jap bomb hit the Cerino, John G., SF 1/c, Seabees, New strip, one of our carry-alls with 18 yards Haven. of coral would start out to fill the hole "If I had to be in service again, I again before the plane was out of sight would still choose the Seabees. What an and snipers never let up." outfit! I've been in the South Pacific Blesso, Frank A., BM 2/c, 570th Bn., most of the time building up islands that Seabees, West Hartford. we had retaken from the Japs. We built "I served a four-year cruise about 20 airstrips, huts, shops and cleared the years ago, when I was coxswain for Ad• islands of debris. As a matter of fact we miral Hart, then captain of the Mississippi. built up the first island retaken from the When the war came along and I joined Japs, the Island of Majuro. That was on up again I thought my previous service Jan. 31, 1943. It was on Majuro I experi• should let me go overseas. I was sore about enced my biggest thrill. There we were that, I tried every which way for sea duty, working on the airstrip and had about 100 but no, they sent me to Florida. At Fort yards completed when a crippled B-25 Pierce we built underwater obstacles and carrying plenty of 'brass' asked per• saw how they stood up against 'invasions.' mission to land. We radioed back the Everything was secret. They said the information that we had only 100 yards maintenance work at the amphibious completed, but they decided to land any• training base was important—I thought way. One of his engines was out and his it was a waste of time for me—it didn't left tire had blown. We all held our breaths seem important when you carried a sack when he came swooping down on such a of cement." short strip. He made it, a perfect landing." 3 D'Angelo, P. J., MM 1/c, U.S.S. bat to some extent the intense cold, rain Tarbell, New London. and snow. I am glad to be getting out; "I don't know whether I hold any re• but if it happened again, I would be right cord or not, but in four years in the Navy back in the Seabees. That's a red hot out• I have been three years and nine months fit." on the same ship, the Tarbell. We were Hainsworth, William C, PhM 1/c, used for about everything—convoy duty YMS-17, Bridgeport. in both the ETO and South Pacific. One "When I joined up I asked for gunnery, experience I will never forget was on con• but I found myself down in Portsmouth, voy duty from South America to New Virginia training as a PhM. After finish• York. We were just about 275 miles off ing school, I was assigned to an LST as a the coast of North Carolina when the member of a team of two doctors and 20 tanker Dixie Arrow, headed for Texas, was pharmacist mates. Our job was to unload hit squarely by a torpedo. The flames troops and supplies on the beachheads reached to the sky. I was ordered aboard and then evacuate the wounded. We hit the lifeboat as engineer and put out to the beaches of Normandy on D Day, un• pick up the survivors. I'm telling you right loaded, then evacuated around 1000 now I never saw anything like it in my casualties. We were also in the Italian, life. Here were these men swimming in African and Southern France landings. the water just covered with flaming oil. The big trouble about evacuating wounded They were trying to get as far away from on an LST was that we could not fly the the burning ship as possible, but the heat Red Cross flag and were therefore legal was so intense it was drawing them back to bait and could be shot at." the ship. We picked up a few survivors Hill, Paul, AOM 3/c, U.S.S. Yorktown, covered with oil. They were yelling in Hartford. pain. One man asked for something to "I had carefully gone round the ship, wipe his eyes with and I handed him a picking out a nice well-armored place to rag, but got hell from the MD for doing take cover in in case of attack. The favor• so. We got them aboard, washed them ite I chose was a little compartment under down and gave them all the spare clothing the flight deck, reached by the catwalk and we had. I don't think I will ever forget a hatch near the forward gun turret. Well, that as long as I live." there were several torpedo bombers Fredrickson, Oliver R., CM 1/c, 23d Bn., Seabees, Hartford. "After 16 months in Dutch Harbor THE SHIPS and Attu, I got a break and was returned to the States. Four months later, I was USS INDIANA — One of the Navy's newer on my way to Guam. That was some battleships, (top), commissioned in 1942 took part in many major Pacific Theater operations, in• sort of cycle—going from cold and fog to cluding Tarawa, Naura and Kwajalein. tropical rains and heat. Our battalion USS BALTIMORE — First of the post-treaty built installations, docks and hangars, and heavy cruisers, (center), a well armored 13,000- tonner, carries nine eight-inch guns and twelve the work in Alaska was very tough as we five-inch AA's. had to buck the weather as well as the USS BROOKLYN—Light cruiser commissioned terrain. We worked with face masks and in 1937, (bottom), carries half a dozen seaplanes in below deck hangars, and her topside bristles goggles on all of the time in order to com• with AA's of three calibers. 4 attacking, and when one made a run on us was a cook in the Navy. It would be hard the captain ordered us to take cover. By to chef for 4000 men. I'm glad I had a the time I got to my spot it was filled by chance to do something for the United others.
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