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Volume 5 Issue 2 Winter 1999

ll~tl!liii."P II . .. ,. The Year Ahead-Museum Events for 1999 ...... 3

Author of The Nightingale's Song Coming to Norfolk ...... 4 ~

I The Navy's Greatest Team ...... 6 ~------~===------~ Features The Director's Column- About The Daybook HRNM Staff SIGN-ificant ...... 2 The Daybook is an authorized publicationoftheHampton Director Roads Naval Museum (HRNM). Its contents do not Becky Poulliot necessarily reflect the official view of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy or the U.S. Curator Marine Corps and do not imply endorsement thereof. Joe Judge ::·~ The Museum Sage looks at Book reviews are solely the opinion of the reviewer. Education Specialist 1 Chesapeake's first War The HRNM is operated and funded by Commander Bob Matteson Navy Region Mid-Atlantic. The museum is dedicated to ~ of 1812 cruise and the study of 220 years of naval history in the Hampton Exhibits Specialist U.S. Navy peacekeeping Roads region. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to Marta Nelson 5 p.m. Admission is free. The DaybooKs purpose is to Museum Technician operations ...... 10 educate and inform readers on historical topics and museum Ofelia Elbo related events. It is written by the staff and volunteers of H M OIC the museum. RN, Questions or comments can be directed to the Hampton Ensign Rod Hartsell Book Reviews ...... 12 Roads Naval Museum editor. The Daybook can be reached HRNM LPO/TPU Admin. at (757) 322-2993, by fax at (757) 445-1867, e-mail at RMJ Kenyatta Gant A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign [email protected], or write The Day book, • Naval M!seum, One Waterside Drive, Suite Edttor of The Daybook by David Curtis Skaggs and Gerard T. 248, Norfolk, VA23510-1607.Themuseumcanbefoundon Gordon Calhoun Altoff. Reviewed by Chrylser Museum the World Wide Web at http://naval-station.norfolk.vaus/ Director, HRNHF archivist and HRNM volunteer writer Joe navy.html . Maj Gen. Dennis Murphy ' 7he Day Book is published quarterly with a circulation U.S~ _~C fR 11 Mosier. of I ,200. Contact the editor for a free subscription. JVJ' 1• et; Hurricane ofFire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles A. Robinson Ill. Reviewed by HRNM curator Joe Judge.

Cover Photograph: legends Bob Feller and Fred Hutchinson in 1938. Both men played on the Rear Adm. R. T. Ziemer Norfolk Naval Training Station baseball team in 1942. Commander Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Photo courtesy of David Eskenazi Collection and the '------1 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

1 The Daybook Winter 1999 SIGN-ificant The Director's Column by Becky Poulliot

everal weeks after receiving this issue The year 1999 got off to a great start with of The Daybook, drive past the the 2"d Volunteer Recognition Awards SNauticus building and look at the Dinner held January 28. Special thanks to front fa<;:ade. There you will see a 7' sign those interpreters who dressed the part: that identifies the Hampton Roads Naval Gary Abrams, Jud Hill, Hunt Lewis, AI Museum together with its USS Cumberland Petrich, Ralph Preston, Sally Tobin, and logo. Special thanks to the Hampton Roads Preston Turpin. Also, thank you to the Naval Historical Foundation for its volunteer committee that made the party perseve~ance in making the sign a reality. possible: Gene Hanlin, AI Petrich, Betty The Foundation has been steadfast in its and Gurley Ritter, and Sally Tobin. efforts to work with the City of Norfolk to Museum members were saddened by the approve another sign on the Nauticus loss of Foundation Vice-President Jackie building. The Foundation is also funding Smith, who passed away January 27, 1999. the construction and installation of the sign. Jackie had served as a member of the Make sure you also note our improved Hampton Roads Naval Historical interior directions. Nauticus and the Foundation since April, 1992 and as vice­ Hampton Roads Naval Museum staff have president since April, 1998. She never Mrs. Jackie Smith, former vice-president of the Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation. (Photo worked together to fund an entrance sign missed a meeting and was a most courtesy of Dr. B.L. Smith)

The museum 's new indoor sign now located just outside the museum 's main entrance. The sign was carved by Ed Cobb. that clearly spells out location, hours and board member in personal fundraising. A expanded articles on Hampton Roads' rich visiting Navy ships. Once inside, visitors great honor has been bestowed on Naval history, and color pictures. We have can look up into the atrium and view the Foundation board member and Museum scaled back the frequency of the publication new 15 ' Museum sign -a work of art by volunteer Dr. Charles J. Devine, Jr. An to a quarterly format. We hope you like master carver Ed Cobb. For visitors that EVMS endowment honors him along with the new look and that you enjoy reading take the elevator, please note the sailing ship his brother and father, all innovators in the future Daybook's in the months ahead. and directions to the museum. All of these field of urology. signs allow visitors to understand first, that Finally, you made have noticed that The the Museum resides within Nauticus, and Daybook has changed. The publication has once inside, to find our exhibit gallery on been enlarged to 16 pages and includes the second floor. exciting new features Ilke book reviews,

2 The Daybook Winter 1999 What's in Store For 1999 at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum

The Hampton Roads Naval Museum has a big menu for you to choose from in 1999. For more information or to make reservations for Dunderfunk or the Lecture Series, please call 322-2992. For education programs call322- 2986 and for exhibit information call 322-2993.

he Museum has a wide variety of education programs for several Education and Tdifferent grade levels. In addition, the living history group Ship Company ofthe CSS Virginia will make several appearances at the museum Living History throughout the year. Group tours of the museum's exhibits are always available. Lecture Series Dunderfunk -Robert Timberg, author of n the last Thursday of every other month, the the highly acclaimed book The OMuseum sponsors an informal get together at Nightingale's Song. March 9 lunchtime to discuss naval history. This year's topics at Club Pier 26. (See page 4 include Pearl Harbor, ship model building, military art, and new maritime exhibits at other museums. for more details.) This year's program begins on February 25 at 12:30 p.m. Cost for lunch is $9. -Veteran WTKR TV-3 anchor and reporter Ed Hughes speaks about the 1967 attack on Exhibit the Hampton Roads-based ax Americana: The US. Navy in the Era of Violent Peace. intelligence ship USS Liberty POver the last 15 years, the U.S. Armed Forces have been (ATGR-5). June 6 at Club called upon in increasing numbers to provide forces for Pier 26. humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. This exhibit showcases artifacts and photographs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during these operations. Opens April 12. -Royal Navy veteran and commentator Alexander Wooley speaks on the future of the NATO alliance. August 11 at Club Pier 26 ;/I~·--," ~ ~~ - ~~ ""---.\ ,_/ -Adm. Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations. Place and time TBD. Marines of the I st MEU on patrol in Somalia, 1993. (Photo courtesy of the Joint Combat Camera Command)

3 The Daybook Winter 1999 Museum Welcomes Author of The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg

e Hampton Roads Naval Museum willing to "pay any price, bear any s pleased to present Robert Tim berg, burden, meet any hardship" to 11best-selling author of the highly advance the cause of freedom acclaimed book The Nightingale's Song. around the world. Mr. Timberg's presentation will take place Cheers greeted the declaration. at Norfolk Naval Station's Clup Pier 26 at For that moment the youthful, noon on March 9. A lunch will be served vibrant new President embodied at the cost of$1 0. Reservations are required. the far-flung, seemingly limitless Please call 757-322-2992 to make ideals of the nation that had chosen reservations. him as its leader. Mr. Timberg is currently deputy chief Kennedy was wrong, of course, of The Balitmore Sun's Washington bureau assuming as he did that the He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy generation then moving toward its in 1964 and served with the I st Marine majority would be like those that Division in Vietnam from March 1966 to had preceded it, including his own, Febuary 1967. After the war, he received men and women who could his Masters in journalism from Stanford imagine something to die for University and has recieved several awards The Brigade of Midshipman, for excellence in journalism. He has worked toes numb, lips cracked, fingers for The Sun since 1971. frozen on the stocks of rifles, Mr. Timberg's talk will be centered marched in the inaugural parade. around the thesis of his book. The book Approaching the reviewing stand, itself focuses on five well known alumni of the midshipmen executed a crisp eyes right, were at first disorienting, then alienating. the U.S. Naval Academy and how their unaware that the pledge spoken minutes As they saw it, they had fought bravely experiences at the Academy and in the earlier by their new Commander-in-Chief against a resilient and implacable foe , Vietnam War affected their public careers. had unleashed forces that would soon thin innocently trusting the leadership of the Using his book as a starting point, the theme their ranks and reshape their world. nation that had sent them off to war. Many of his talk will be about the effect that the Kennedy was dead less than three years saw comrades killed and wounded. later, but the legacy of that pledge, the Thousands came home and maimed The Hampton Roads Naval Vietnam War, bruised American society themselves. like nothing else in this century. The nation They reacted in different ways. The Museum presents Robert split over the war, as did the generation that stereotype became the so-called ticking time Timherg. author of The has now come of age. Those who opposed bomb, the vet who dashes to the roof of a Nightingale's .'long. March 9. the war forged a movement that eventually building in some sleepy southwestern town 1999 at Norf()lk Naval Station ·s led to the withdrawal of American troops and guns down a dozen people with a sniper Club Pier 26. Lunch included from Vietnam and created a counter-culture rifle. Others, emotionally shattered by the that dominated much of the life of the nation war, found little meaning to their lives in at a price of $10. Reservations in the late sixties and early seventies. By the confusing aftermath of the conflict. required. Call 757-322-2992 to the mid-1970' s, unscarred by Vietnam Some became derelicts, street people, drains make reservations. combat, these former antiwar activists had of society. Still others turned against the moved into the mainstream of American war, hurling their medals at the steps of the life, assuming positions of stature in politics, Capitol. For most, anger, bitterness, and Vietnam War had on an entire generation government, education, law, finance, and distrust of the institutions of the nation for of Americans. the arts. By then many were serving in which they had fought became the Congress. In January 1993 the first of their prevailing emotions. Here is an excerpt from The Nightingale 's number moved into the Oval Office. John McCain, Bud McFarlane, Jim Song: For those who served in Vietnam, the Webb, Oliver North, and, to a lesser extent, war and its aftermath ushered in troubled John Poindexter belong to still another Tohn Kennedy primed the pump. On a times. Unlike veterans of other wars, they group, probably the largest, the one that J bitter-cold day in January 1961 , he came home to hostility, contempt, ridicule, "went to ground," as Harold G. Moore and proclaimed the United States and its citizens and at best indifference. Their experiences Excerpt continued on page 5

4 The Winter 1999 Excerpt continued from page 4 RFG IONAL JU:~Qnrn.- Joseph L. Galloway have written, waiting -~-.- SBIMcE OFFfCB patiently for America to "come to its senses." No less angry, bitter, and confused, these men were, above all, survivors. However • painful their individual wartime experiences, they knew they had to put Vietnam in a safe place, let it scab over and get on with their lives. And so they did. Before long, they were working side by side with men and women who had opposed the war, with others who avoided military service by jiggering their college schedules, marital status, or health histories. They were not immune to the occasional dark thought. They noticed, for example, that the antiwar movement lost much of its An exhibit on the Navy 's comptroller is now on display at the Regional Resources Support Office located vigor when draft calls slackened and the inside Ranger Hall at Naval Statim Norfolk. (Photo by Gordon Calhoun) white, middle-class kids who had been its center of gravity no longer felt threatened. Gallery & Exhibit Update They noticed, as well, that the officials who had maneuvered the nation into the war, hings have been rather hectic around then managed to lose it through arrogance, Tthe museum lately and we have finished deceit, and incompetence, were making a making a few changes to the permanent slick escape, like Robert McNamara, exiled gallery space. Libre! was kept open to the World Bank. For a time, though they through the beginning of the year and was were able to ship such thoughts off to the just taken down in January. As we put the same safe place where they kept other, more permanent exhibits back together, we have brutal Vietnam memories. decided to keep a few of the items used in For some of these men, though, no place Cuba Libre! for the permanent Spanish­ was safe enough. You couldn' t tell by American War exhibit. looking at them, probably not even by First and most importantly, the museum talking to many of them, but they were the has been granted permission by the Curator walking wounded of the Vietnam of Navy Ship Models to keep the 1884 generation. And down the road, there would builder's model of the Norfolk-based be hell to pay . ~ USS Maine (BB-2/c, ex-ACR-1). Maine's jack has been sent out to be Excerpt taken from pages 85 to 87 of The professionally conserved. Once this process Nightingale 's Song by Robert Tim berg. is complete, it will accompany the model Copyright © 1995 by Robert Tim berg (N.Y. in its new location. Simon & Schuster, lnc.) Used by permission Second, the model of the Norfolk-based One of the more in/resting items in the comptroller of the publisher. boat USS Winslow (TB-5) built by exhibit is a c.I960 's IBM punch card machine. This is the machine Navy payroll clerks used to complete museum volunteer Bob Comet will be put time cards. It is also a pioneer in causing the Y2K on display (promise!). Bob will soon be problem. (Photo by Gordon Calhoun) working on another Hampton Roads certificates (in lieu of real money) issued warship that was built here and then fought by the U.S. Government to members of the in the Spanish-American War, the patrol Armed Forces for use in foreign lands; tum USS Nashville (PG-7). of the century adding machines; and several Thirdly, after much thought, we have photographs illustrating the need for decided to keep the Spanish torpedo rather accountability in the Navy system. Also than send it off to storage. For those of you included is an IBM punch card machine not familiar with this item, for years the used by the Navy for payroll purposes. museum has had a torpedo taken from the Among other things, this machine was a Spanish cruiser Vizcaya. pioneer in causing the Year 2000 computer Finally, we recently installed an exhibit for bug as one can only punch out the last two the Navy's regional comptroller. Among other digits of the year. The exhibit is located in items included in this exhibit are money Ranger Hall at Naval Station Norfolk . ~

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baseball. Military commands across Signalman Gary Bodie. How does one the country had asked professional manage a team with so much firepower? sportsmen to form teams at their Chief Bodie knew little about the finer respective installations to entertain the details of the game of baseball. soldiers and sailors stationed there. According to Feller he "stayed the heck Even though people like Feller had little out of the way. That's what a to no experience in the Navy, the service should do." rated him and other athletes as Chief King initially scheduled 34 games for Specialist Athletic (C.S.A.). Officially, his team. In this first slate of games, they were apart of the command's NTS's opponents included college teams physical fitness program and considered such as William & Mary and the to be physical fitness trainers. The University of Richmond and minor program only lasted a year as it was league teams such as the Norfolk Tars, abolished in early 1943. NTS had a Portsmouth Cubs, and Orioles baseball team before Feller arrived, but (the Orioles did not become a Major all of the players were amateurs and League team until 1956 when the St. attracted no more attention than the Louis Browns moved to Baltimore.) All intramural softball teams. That all home games were played on the Naval changed when Feller and 20 other Station's baseball stadium offofFarragut sailors who happened to be professional Ave (see sidebar on page 9.) Tickets were baseball players arrived. required, but most games were free of The players put together a team in charge. When admission was charged, March 1942. Many of the players were the money usually went to the Navy- vy's Greatest Team Richmond-native Vinnie Smith, catcherfor the and later one of the great umpires of the Norfolk's Naval Baseball Team ofWW II , anchored the Norfolk Naval Training Station baseball team in 1942 and -43. (HRNM photo) household names along with Feller. There by Gordon Calhoun en the United States entered was the fiery personality of Detroit Tiger orld War II, Uncle Sam Fred Hutchinson. He was known by Marine Corps Relief Society. w:listed and conscripted millions many nicknames including "The Hutch" and The season started for the new team of young men to fight the Axis powers. It "Stoneface." There was Portsmouth, VA 's on April 4. By the end of the first week did not matter how famous one was as own and future member of the Pro Football of play it won the first six straight games everyone was needed. Movie stars, Hall of Fame, Clarence "Ace" Parker. Parker by a combined score of 37 runs for and entertainers, and sports personalities were was one of the first persons to excel at baseball seven runs against. The "NTS nine" sold called into action. and football. There was Sam Chapman, the out every home game and many away One such celebrity was Cleveland star outfielder and "siege gun" for the games. As many as 5,000 sailors and Indians pitcher Bob Feller. At age 22, Feller A's. Chapman was training to officers overflowed the grandstands of and his wicked fastball both had national become a Naval aviator. McClure Field to catch a glimpse of their reputations. However, two days after There was Richmond-native Vinne Smith, team. By the end of the month of April, Japanese aircraft struck Pearl Harbor, a for the Pittsburgh Pirates and future the team racked up a record of 19 and 2. Feller, the ace pitcher of the Indians staff, National League . According to Feller, The highlight of this initial was a enlisted in the . Feller Smith was "the best player on the field." In masterpiece pitching performance by dropped an extremely promising Major left field was Jimmy Brown, normally the star Feller against Wilson (an AA minor League career and comfortable lifestyle for forward for the Celtics basketball league team) where he struck out 22 a life of beans and bugle calls. "There was team. Other lesser-known players including batters. During th son and Maxie Wilson a war going on, which was something a bit Maxie Wilson and Charley Meteleski of the each struck out 15. The Norfolk Sea bag, more important than baseball," Feller said Portsmouth Cubs filled out the roster. The the official newspaper of the station, very recently in a phone call from his home in rest of these players generally had several proudly compared the station's team to the suburbs of Cleveland. years of minor league ball at the AAA level. the Major League Brooklyn Dodgers who After boot camp, the Navy sent Feller to Lt. Cmdr. Andrew E. King, the command's · themselves won 14 of 17 games in the Hampton Roads to begin training as a morale officer, assigned two career Naval month of April. gunner mate at the Norfolk Naval Training personnel to manage the team. Lt. Fred R. The Seabag's pride in the baseball Station (NTS). However, the Navy also Soltz was designated as "baseball officer." team was evident by the amount of space wanted him to do what he did best: play Managing the team during games was Chief Greatest Team continued on page 7

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; . J . '"' ... Philadelphia A 's star outfielder Sam Chapman and the legendary pitcher/manager Fred ''The Hutch" Hutchinson inspect a bat just before the first game. To Chapman 's left is Chief Signalman Gary Bodie, theoretically the manager of the team, and to Hutchinson 's right is Lt. F.R. Stolz who took care of all the team 's adminstrative functions.(HRNM photo) Greatest Team continuedfrompage 6

team was evident by the amount of space for Philadelphia A's. The Seabag reported NTS and Camp Lee, in which the sailors devoted to articles about the team. The that Feller was helped out by a great won 3-2. newspaper almost always led off the front defensive play by Chapman. Feller also Feller transferred back to Norfolk at the page with a weekly wrap up of the NTS helped himself out by getting the only extra beginning of June, just in time for a game victories. Quite often, one or two base of the game. The Sailors went on between NTS and an all-star team from the photographs would accompany the articles. to win the game 4-2. The game drew the Army. June also marked the beginning of If one only had the Seabag to read about largest crowd ever to see a baseball contest games against other commands. Feller the events of World War II, one would tend in Virginia. After the Solider-Sailors game, warmed up for the all-star game by pitching to forget there was even a war going on. NTS had a much easier time against the a two-hit shutout of Fort Story's team. NTS Little to no news about the war itself was Medical College of Virginia, Newport won 16-0 against Fort Story and then ever reported in the 1942 edition of the News, and Bridgewater College. against the semi-pro team from Winston­ Seabag. If the baseball team was to provide Fans of the NTS team were in a mild state Salem that had earlier handed the sailors entertainment and a positive distraction for of shock when they learned that Feller was their first loss. Sam Chapman transferred sailors nervous about the war, it succeeded being transferred to Newport, R.I. to to Washington to begin formal flight with flying colors. complete his gunnery training. He threw training the day after the game against In the first week of May, the NTS nine one more victory, a two-hitter against the Winston-Salem. The Seabag wrote fondly, traveled up to Richmond's City Stadium, Norfolk Tars, before heading north. Team "Here's hoping you smack those Japs as the largest baseball stadium in Virginia, to members might have been in a mild state hard as you did the baseball for us ." play against the baseball team of Fort Lee. of shock over Feller's transfer, as they lost The Army team from Fort Lee visited Like NTS, Fort Lee's team had several their next game to a part-time, semi-pro Norfolk twice and earned a split decision professionals on it. The game was dubbed team out of Winston-Salem, 3-1 . NTS had during the second week of June. Around the "Soldiers-Sailors" game and all been on a 19-game winning streak before this time, the Naval Base band began to proceeds of the match were split between the loss. But, it got back on track quickly, perform live music before each game and the Navy Relief Society and the Army as they won the next eight games, which in the stands during the game adding to the Emergency Fund. It attracted a sell-out included a 24-5 destruction of East Carolina already festive atmosphere. crowd of 12,500. Feller was matched up Teacher's College. The month of May Just as the team prepared to leave for against Porter Vaughn, formerly a starter concluded with the second game between Greatest Team continued on page 8

7 The Daybook Winter 1999 Greatest Team continued from page 7 New York to play the Army All-Stars, a after much debate, sign up with the combined Army/Navy All-Star team was Marines), , and Rudy Yorck. scheduled to play against the winner of the Much to the pleasure of the Seabag, Major League All-Star team on July 7 in Chapman did make it to the game, but Cleveland. , future Hall unfortunately the military team lost 5-0. of Fame catcher for the Detroit Tigers and However, NTS got right back to work a Navy lieutenant, was picked to manage defeating several teams in the month of July the team. He chose four NTS players to be ' and August. The Seabag correctly described on his roster. He chose Feller, Chapman, the NTS nines' games for those two months Hutchinson, and Smith. The Seabag with the headline, "Like Old Man River, recognized that Chapman might not be able NTS Keeps Rolling." The article went on to make it because of his flight training, but to say, "Just like a river on a rampage, the still hoped he would make time for the game. Station ' s star-studded baseball team The team traveled to the upper east side of continues to rush along, leaving the limp Mahattan to play the Army All-Stars before forms of victims in its wake." 15,000 at the Polo Grounds (home of the New The highlights in July included three York baseball Giants.) Feller pitched another more victories against Camp Lee, extending masterpiece and NTS cruised to a 5-0 win over the record against them to 6-1 . During this the Army's best. The Sea bag got its wish with particular series with Camp Lee, Chief Chapman. Every chance he received, he Brodie became somewhat annoyed at his traveled from Anacostia Naval Air Station players. While Bodie was happy with the in Washington, D.C. to Norfolk to play victories and for the most part stayed out outfield or . the way, he still did not like being Pictured here is the unmistakable enthusiasm ofNew The four NTS All Stars left for Cleveland completely ignored. He told The Seabag York Yankee shortstop and broadcaster Phil/ to play against the All­ at the beginning of August that ifhis players "Scooter"Rizztuo. Rizztuo played, along side Dom Stars on July 7. Cochrane picked Feller to continued to ignore his signs during a game, DiMaggio of the ,for the NTS team in be his starting pitcher. Needless to say, he would send them to signalman school 1943 before being shipped off to the Pacific. (HRNM the American League team provided stiffer located right down the street from the field. photo) competition as it included players like Joe In August, pitcher Maxie Wilson racked semi-pro team out of Washington. DiMaggio, (who would later, up his 17th victory with a no hitter against a Hutchinson also got his 17th victory that month and Feller advanced his record to 14- 3. The tandem pitched three consecutive Norfolk Seabag's Sports Editor-Mo Siegel shutouts during the month. As the NTS nine '""flle colorful sports editor for the Norfolk reversals, this hard tribe, nevertheless, won its 75th game (against eight losses), the .l Seabag was one SK2 Morris Siegel. throws the past week's mistakes into the Seabag concluded the month of August Along with writing articles about the feats hellbox and begins anew each week. Having with the comment "Soldiers, Senators, and of the NTS baseball team, Petty Officer learned the hard way that when it comes to Semi-pros all look alike to the all­ Siegel would occasionally handicap pro and calling our shots we are much better on a Conquering Naval Training Station ... " college sports games in his weekly sports shuffleboard (we had the Redskins to beat The team closed its 1942 campaign in column. He apparently went around the the Bears: score Bears 73 , Redskins 0- September with a marquee match against Norfolk Naval Base bragging about shore ouch! !) We've decided to initiate a new type the Major League Washington Senators and shots in sports gambling, but he had to eat of prognosticating: PICK THE LOSERS. games oflesser prestige against the FBI and his words during the frrst week ofNovember Anyone found wagering over two soap Camp Pendleton teams. NTS finished with 1942. His explanation went something like wrappers will be given an inaptitude an amazing record of 92 wins and only 8 this: discharge. -M.S." losses. Shortly after the season ended, many "Keeping step with the game itself are the "Mo" Siegel would later become a sports of the NTS team were transferred to ships nation 's sportswriters who, armed with rating columnist and reporter for both the or other stations. Feller, for example, was tables and good luck charms, venture forth Washington Star and Washington Post. His transferred to the battleship USS Alabama comes of battle from which they are as far writing gained a national following and he (BB-60) which was going through removed from the Himalayas from the became one of the Washington,D.C. area's commissioning trials in Hampton Roads. Rockies. Undaunted after a steady series of most famous writers . ~ Many others were transferred to Great Lakes Training Station or to commands in the Pacific. The loss of NTS 's starpower was compensated by the addition of star New York Yankee shortstop Phil "Scooter" Greatest Team continued on page 9

8 The Daybook Winter 1999 Greatest Team continued from page 8 Rizzuto. Rizzuto was, and still is, a man of McClure Field's Namesake endless enthusiasm and one of the best ever to play for the Yankees. own the road from the Norfolk Naval a natural choice for NTS, as the station was Three more professional players, Dom Station's Electronics School on the Navy's home for and destroyer DiMaggio of the Boston Red Sox, Harold D Farragut Avenue is McClure Field. This is escort training. "Pee Wee" Reese of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the field that the stars of the NTS baseball He earned two Chinese Expeditionary and Fred Collins of Kansas City, joined team played. It is still in use today by Force Medals, the Mexican Campaign Rizzuto to form a new core for NTS 's 1943 intermural teams. The architectural features Medal, a World War [I] medal, and was season. of the stadium have remained mostly the awarded the Navy Cross during his career. Rizzuto put his charismatic personality same since its construction in 1918. Bob Feller remembered McClure as "an right to work as he helped spearhead the The Navy named the stadium McClure excellent officer and a good friend." newly conceived "Pearl Harbor" war bond Field in 1944 for the commanding officer McClure would often sit in the dugout when drive which started on Dec. 7 and lasted for of the Norfolk Naval Training Station the NTS team was playing. D two weeks. With his assistance, NTS during World War II , Capt. Henry A. collected more than $60,000 in bond money McClure. A 1907 graduate of the Naval and topped the list of all other commands Academy, McClure served 38 distinguished in the Hampton Roads area. years in the Navy. He spent most of his Three more Major Leaguers joined the career with the Asiatic Squadron before team just before the 1943 campaign started. coming to Norfolk in 1941 . At age 25, he They were Tom Early of the Boston Braves, was the youngest officer ever to command Charlie Wagner of the Red Sox, and Walter a warship on the infamous Yangtze River Masterson of the Washington Senators. The patrol in China. His ship was the gunboat baseball team continued in 1943 to receive USS Villalobos (an ex-Spanish gunboat a great amount of attention in the Seabag, captured during the Spanish-American but slowly, news articles from the war began War.) to appear. McClure went on to command one of The sailors opened up the season with the destroyer groups of the squadron, before an exhibition game against the Senators. being assigned to command the ship's The Seabag humorously suggested that company of the fleet's flagship, the heavy McClure along with Adm. Simons, the Capt. Henry A. McClure, commanding officer of the cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31 .) His commander of the Fifth Naval District, Norfolk Naval Training Station during World War II experience with small warships made him and the namesake ofMcClure Field. (HRNM photo) should be catcher and pitcher for the game. The article also suggested that Clark NAS in front of a sellout crowd. The rivalry way to a 4-3 victory in a game that raised Griffith, legendary owner of the Senators, was set as NTS demanded four more games over two million dollars for the war bond should be starting pitcher for his team. The to be played over the course of three days. drive. two teams played three games, with NTS The two teams split the four game set. Throughout the rest of the season, NTS winning two of them. NTS' s national prestige gradually played almost exclusively other military On the other side ofthe Base, the Norfolk increased as it successfully organized a third teams. With the notable exception ofNAS, Naval Air Station baseball team acquired game with the Senators. This time, the game NTS defeated almost all of its opponents. some talent of its own. After being humbled was to be played in front of a sellout crowd This included a 23-0 romp over Camp by NTS in 1942, NAS Norfolk received of 35,000 at in Pendleton. Rizzuto led the team with a six players with professional ball playing Washington, D.C. Maxie Wilson led the Greatest Team continued on page 15 experience from NTS. All six men were entering aviation rates. The 1943 campaign began where the 1942 left off. NTS won six games straight in April, including a 23-0 demolition of the Norfolk Tars. The much anticipated show down between NAS and NTS occurred on April 23 and 26. The first contest was taken by NTS 6-4. The second contest occurred on a "neutral" site, specifically at Norfolk Baseball Park which was normally the home of the Tars, with all proceeds to benefit the current war bond drive. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball's unwritten "color line" extended into the Navy as well. Pictured here is the 1944 NTS "Colored pitcher Hugh Casey handcuffed NTS in ~he All-Stars. " Unfortunately, little is written about this team, except that they drew very good crowds and had a second game by pitching a no-hitter for record of 23-11 in 1944. (HRNM photo).

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named Volunteer. The British vessel was carrying dry goods from Cork, England en the seven officers ahead route to Brazil. The cargo was valued at of him, a list that over $700,000. Keep in mind that Evans, includes the likes of as a captain of a 36-gun frigate, was paid a Stephen Decatur, John little more than $1 ,000 a year. Evans put a Rodgers, Charles Stewart, and young midshipman named John Yarnell in Thomas Macdonough, had to charge of this fortune and ordered him to capture their valuable prizes by sail for Portsmouth, NH. defeating the British in combat. Making Out Like a Bandit Two days after the capture of Volunteer, So we can now rest easy that Chesapeake came across and captured our frigate Chesapeake did Aboard the Frigate Chesapeake another British merchant, Liverpool Hero, something positive for at least he· Sage has something that is which was carrying dry goods and jewels. one person. We can not, quite astounding. He has found After she was "divested of valuables," she however, say the same for Tsomething positive about our was burned and sunk. Chesapeake's next Evans' crew. It has been pointed beloved frigate Chesapeake. You know the two prizes were both found to be Spanish out to The Sage that warship I am talking about: she was vessels and were released without further Chesapeake's crew had a sit . involved in an unfortunate incident off the incident. down strike shortly after Capt. James coast of Virginia with the British frigate For the next two months, Chesapeake Lawerence relieved Evans. The crew was Leopard, all seven of her captains either failed to capture any more ships and by angry over the fact that they had not been died a horrible death or were forced to leave April, Evans decided to cash in his chips. paid their share of the prize money. the Navy involuntarily, and was finally put At this point in the cruise, Evans' eye, which Lawerence begged and pleaded with the out of her misery by the British in 1813. had been injured in combat while serving Secretary of the Navy and with his crew to But we naval historians have found one as an officer aboard the brig Argus during remedy the situation. Lawerence eventually positive note about America's most cursed the Barbary Wars, became infected. Evans took matters into his own hands and settled warship. One of Chesapeake's seven decided to head back to Boston. But, before it. The poor morale and lapse in training, captains was a relatively unknown officer he and his frigate made it home, however, were some of the major reasons by the name of Samuel Evans. Evans' Chesapeake struck gold one more time. In for Chesapeake's defeat at the hands of career was like many military officers. He early April, Chesapeake captured two HMS Shannon. See Joe Mosier's article on did his job committed to his country and schooners; one was carrying $17,500 worth Chesapeake for more information on this duty and caused little controversy. His of luxury items. part of the frigate's career.~ record as an officer goes down in history as In all, Chesapeake captured only seven a person of quiet competency. While he ships over a period of four months. Evans may have died in obscurity, he most determined that two of these ships were certainly did not die poor. neutral vessels and released them both. The Evans was promoted to the coveted rank Secretary of the Navy granted Evans a shore of captain in mid-1811 and placed in charge billet due to his eye infection and made him of the Gosport Navy Yard here in Hampton commandant of the New York Navy Yard. Roads. Shortly after Congress declared war Even though Evans would never again sail against Britian, the Navy transferred Evans another war cruise as he eventually went to the Charlestown Navy Yard (located just blind in the one eye, he was not going home north of Boston) and gave him command a poor man. of Chesapeake. He was to outfit and According to Christopher Mckee' s prepare the frigate for her first wartime master work of naval history, A cruise. Preparations were finished by Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession, December and Chesapeake put to sea in Evans' short time at sea netted him $10,290 search of British warships and commerce. in prize money, or over eight times what he After successfully pulling away from a received in annual salary. While Evans' British battleship, Evans and his crew hit prize money amount was only the eight Capt. Samuel Evans-quite obscure, but quite rich. the mother lode on January 14, 1813. highest total netted by an American Naval Evans commanded the Gosport Navy Yard before On that day, Chesapeake intercepted and officer during the War of 1812, it was taking Chesapeake to her most successful cruise in the captured a 400-ton British merchant ship probably the most easily earned. Most of ill-fated frigate 's 23 year history. (HRNM photo)

10 The Daybook Winter 1999 The History of Peacekeeping Operations

he following paragraph was part of a very recent Washington Post story Tabout the current situation in Somalia: "In the end, the thousands of Somali lives saved were overshadowed by the deaths of 18 U.S. soldiers in an Oct. 3, 1993 firefight with militiamen loyal to a warlord UN officials were determined to arrest. When an American commando's stripped corpse was dragged through the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, the endlessly televised spectacle precipitated not only UN withdrawal, but also a profound international reluctance that six months later let genocide in Rwanda proceed unchallenged." It made The Sage think just how little we as historians have studied peacekeeping, and other low-intensity operations, and the impact they have had. Usually the first thought about such operations is that we should not be involved in them because they A U.S. Navy doctor examines a baby in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope, 1992. (Photo provided by the do not have an immediate impact on Joint Combat Camera Command) national security. The truth of the matter obsolete. We can not use Jutland or Leyte attack. It is time now for naval historians to is that the U.S. Navy and its Marines have Gulf as our models anymore about how to find historical examples to provide the been involved in several humanitarian and use naval power. Even the Battle of Atlantic wisdom to help make the modem doctrine other " low-intensity" operations over the of both World Wars has become somewhat work. Official historians, in particular the last two hunderd years. To be fair, policy of a dinosaur since it does not look like we Marines, have begun this process. But more makers in the 19th century criticized these will be battling Soviet submarines any time work, specifically from civilian historians type of operations with the exact same soon. We must find other historical must be done. arguments that critics in the 20th century examples. We talked about one of them in In April1999, the museum with the help make. the last issue: The Africa Squadron. To a of several different organzations will open For naval historians, however, these lesser degree, the Spanish-American War a new exhibit about some of these peacekeeping operations force us to look at is a good model as it was an all-littoral operations, and how the U.S. Navy and non-traditional historical examples for conflict [i .e. the fighting occurred near the Marine Corps are involved in them . wisdom. In the past, naval historians enemy's coast and the Navy's mission was to Specifically it will look at not only Somalia, preached the works of Alfred Mahan to support a land attack.] but Beruit, Bosnia, Haiti, and the convoy budding young Naval officers. Mahan's The In a sense, the Navy has already operations in the Persian Gulf in the 1980's. Influence of Sea Power TU · h " " · 1 b ll" Upon History: 1 660_ rr e now must recognzze t at sea power zs no anger a out contra zng 1783 af~ected several the oceans in the sense that Alfred Mahan argued. The teachings of generations of naval thinkers world-wide. It Alfred Mahan have become obsolete. We can not use Jutland or Leyte argue~ . that the reason Gulf as our models anymore about how to use navalpower. the Bnt1sh controlled the world was because they were able to control recognized the need to change. The Each one of these operations was labeled th ~ oceans. Influential politicians such as " ... From the Sea" doctrine, which was "controversial" at some point. Teddy Roosevelt took Mahan's arguments written in the late 1980's, focuses on littoral It is The Sage's hope that you will come to heart and successfully argued for the warfare and not on sea control. The doctrine see this exhibit and learn from it. Because construction of a large American fleet built somewhat correctly assumes that we will more than likely, the United States will be around . already have control of the oceans in any involved in more operations like Haiti and However, we now must recognize that "sea future conflict. New weapon systems, such Somalia in the future. Ultimately, however, power" is no longer about controlling the as the next generation ofTomahawk missiles, what is really needed is a history of low­ oceans in the sense that Alfred Mahan argued. the Joint Strike Fighter, and a new vertically intensity operations on the same par as The teachings of Alfred Mahan have become mounted 155mm gun, emphasize land Mahan's work. ~

11 The Daybook Winter 1999 Book Reviews A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 by David Curtis Skaggs and l :.: WJ ~ !1.~ '.l<•~i'~:~n 1.! t:'t} Gerard T. Altoof .'.\'- • \. J l tl \>~.1' .f.,..,lo Reviewed by Joe Mosier ... .. ,... A. } !lo ll'

was an epic victory, one snatched from American march on Montreal. To forestall he jaws of defeat. By day's end on this, Canadian Governor General Sir Eeptember 10,1813, the Battle of Lake George Prevost struck first along the Erie had resulted in the almost unheard of western lakes with forces heavily supported surrender of an entire Royal Navy by Native Americans. As American Gen. squadron. American commander Oliver William Hull surrendered Detroit on August Hazard Perry offered no exaggeration when 16, 1812, he claimed to do so to prevent an he reported, "We have met the enemy and Indian massacre of the garrison's civilian they are ours." Yet surprisingly little has women and children. Native American been written over the years to describe the involvement was critical to Prevost's battle and the campaign leading to it. success in diverting American efforts from served aboard President and Perry was a Gerard Altoff and David Skaggs have done an attack on the strategically all-important midshipman for two cruises in General an excellent job in setting the battle within Montreal. In the end, Royal Navy Greene. Lt. Jesse D. Elliott, Perry's second the context of American expansion and the commander Robert Barclay sought the in command, had served in both Essex and War of 1812. engagement at Put-in Bay to keep open Vixen during the Barbary Wars. It makes In an extremely well-researched and supply lines supporting his Indian allies at the American victory no less thorough and documented work, the authors bring new Amherstburg, Ontario. the British defeat no less stinging to admit emphasis to the actions leading up to the Skaggs and Altoff detail the growth of that both forces were led by equally both American and British naval squadrons competent, seasoned officers. David Curtis Skaggs and Gerard on the Great Lakes. With virtually no ships The description of the battle is a full T. Altoft'. A 51ignal Victmy· The available at the start of the war, both sides chronological recounting based on all were forced to draft seamen and available records. One of the traditional Luke Erie Campaign, 1812- constructors to build up their forces on the divisions among naval historians has been 1813. Annapolis: U.S. Naval lakes. Raids and counter-raids were used the relative worthiness of the two senior Institute Press. 1997. 24 7 pages. to disrupt the builders' efforts and destroy Americans present, Perry and Elliott. The illustrations. maps, appendix. ships still under construction. Once built, authors come down firmly in the camp of ISBN 1-55750-030-4. $34. 95. ships still had to be manned and armed. The Mackenzie and against views of Cooper and authors discuss these efforts in fine detail. Roosevelt.The key element in this debate Their description of the armament of the is why Elliott in Niagara did not come up meeting at Put-in Bay. In particular, they Lake Erie squadrons is especially useful. to support Perry in Lawrence while the deal thoroughly with the importance of The traditional consideration of broadside flagship was being pounded by Barclay's Native Americans in both American and weight is Jess compelling than the careful flag Detroit and Queen Charlotte. Elliott's British political maneuvering and tactical analysis of weight and range that Skaggs supporters accept his explanation that he planning. Native American tribes in the and Altoff provide. The difficulty in was acting in consonance with Perry's pre­ Northwest Territory relied on British aid in providing experienced seamen and engagement orders to maintain place in line their efforts to hold back the flow of white seasoned leadership is also recorded. of battle. Elliott' s detractors point out settlers. Help the British were willing to This reviewer takes exception, however, Perry's signal to engage their designated provide, in part, to gain leverage for to the authors' repeated claims of"woeful adversaries. They ascribe darker motives enforcement of the 1783 Treaty of Paris' inexperienc[ e] in combat operations" on to Elliott's belated and rather desultory guarantees on restoration of Tory property the part of American officers. Both entry into the fray. Indeed, the authors are by the Americans. The resulting unrest in Commodore Isaac Chauncey (in overall at their best in their fine weaving of multiple the Old Northwest in tum became a rallying command of the Lakes) and Perry were sources to recount the beginnings of the cry of the War Hawks in their demand for veterans of not only the Barbary Wars long and destructive feud between the Perry war against England. When that war came ( 1802-1806), but of the Quasi-War with and Elliott factions in the young United in June of 1812, the British anticipated an ( 1798-1800) as well. Chauncey A Signal Victory continues on page I 5

12 The Daybook Winter 1999 Hurricane ofFire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles A. Robinson III Reviewed by Joe Judge he largest naval armada in William Lamb, was born in Norfolk. American history was riding off the He graduated from the College of T coast. Soldiers, sailors and marines William and Mary, and after the war watched the enemy gun placements for became the mayor of Norfolk and a signs of life as the fleet bombarded the force in local politics. In late October shore. In a few moments the assault would Lamb prepared for the assault he begin - as assault that would have a direct knew was coming by calmly paying impact on the end of the war, an assault in his bills, purchasing some bonds and which many would die struggling to get selling ten bales of cotton. The scene through the surf, and more would die of Lamb arranging for his family's advancing across the beach. It was financial security is one of many Christmas Day. stranger-than-fiction scenes that Mr. While this scene might have been set at Robinson uses to advance the story, Iwo Jima, or Omaha Beach, it took place including the following: off the coast of North Carolina. The Union -Robley Evans, a young Virginian in assault on Fort Fisher, near Wilmington is the Union Navy, received a letter one of the great stories of the Civil War, from his brother, who was in the and it is the subject of Hurricane of Fire: Confederate Army on Lee' s staff. The letter fort after a day long bombardment. The Th e Union Assault on Fort Fisher, an arrived while Robley and others were failure of the operation ended the career of excellent new book by Charles M. Robinson observing the utmost secrecy to plan the Gen. Butler. Admiral Porter successfully, III. destruction of the Fort. It stated "We will if not completely honestly, blamed the poor Wilmington was a major point of entry give you a warm reception at Fort Fisher." results on the Army, and prepared to work for Confederate blockade runners. By 1865 Robley showed the letter to Admiral David with the new Army commander, Gen. the South was in retreat on every front, and Dixon Porter, the Union's naval commander Alfred H. Terry, on a second assault, set for the assault on the fort, and reported that for January 15, 1865. Charles M. Robinson Ill. .I Porter "was very indignant when he read The heart of the book is the description Hurricane of Fire: The l"nion it." of one phase of the second attack: an ill­ -Admiral Porter met his army counterpart, considered attempt by U.S. Naval and Assault on Fort Fisher. the notorious Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, Marine Corps personnel to storm the Annapolis: lJ .S. NaYal lnsitute on the James River. Butler and Porter were southern portion of the fort. Future admiral Press. 1998. 249 pages. on Butler's yacht when Porter noticed "half and Spanish-American war hero George illustrations. maps. appendix. a dozen ... cut-throat looking fellows," who Dewey was a lieutenant at the time, and ISBN 1-55750-7201. $34. 95. when questioned remarked that they came present at Fort Fisher. He commented that on board "to see how you fellers live." The the naval command had "the idea that men were placed under guard and removed storming the face of the strongest work in needed every bullet available. Huge profits from the ship, but a short while later the the Civil War was the same sort of operation were available for those willing to risk the yacht was ripped by an explosion and sank, as boarding a frigate in 1812." Porter was .. I. Union blockade, and Wilmington was filled Porter and Butler escaping in the captain's undeterred. In fact, he did not see the need ..( with such people. In fact, the city took on gig. for the Army to participate at all, remarking , an almost lawless character as the war -President Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy "I don't believe in anybody but my good progressed. Gideon Wells, and Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant all officers and men." Three hundred and nine It was Fort Fisher that kept Wilmington agreed that Wilmington had to be closed. of these good men were killed, wounded or open. The fort was a bastion on the point Because of the peculiar geography of the missing in his pursuit of maximum credit of land where the Cape Fear River meets peninsula and the treachery of the waters, for the Navy . the sea. This complex of batteries, in the fort could not be bypassed. It had to be Despite the wasted lives and effort of the conjunction with extremely dangerous assaulted, which meant that the Army and Naval Brigade, the second assault did offshore waters, prevented the Union Navy Navy had to work together in a combined succeed. The soldiers under Terry from closing the port. By 1865 the Fort operation. The first assault, on Christmas successfully carried the works after more stood defiant, still allowing blockade Day 1864, was a misguided fiasco, as Union effective Naval bombardment. The port of runners to supply Lee's army. ~ soldiers landed and then abandoned the Wilmington was closed. The commander of the Fort, Col. assault, after the Navy failed to disrupt the Fort Fisher continued on page 15

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USS Elrod (FFG-53), William H. Standley (CG-32), and Okinawa (LPH-4) escort the reflagged Kuwati Gas King to safety through the Persian Gulf war zone, 1987. (Naval Historical Center photo) Pax Americana: The U.S. Navy in the Era of Violent Peace • A New Exhibit on the U.S. Navy and Peacekeeping Operations in the post-World War II era Opens April 12, 1999 Call 757-322-2993 for more information ~~NAVAi*MuSEUM L o ~a l Hi 1 tory. Wo r l J Even Is.

14 The Daybook Winter 1999 A Signal Victory review continued from Fort Fisher review continued from page 12 page 13 States Navy. The book gives a quick (about 200 A Signal Victory is a worthy addition to pages) and straightforward account of these any naval history enthusiast' s library. and other events. The prose is clear and Skaggs, an academic historian at Bowling uncluttered, a seemingly easy feat that is Green State University, and Altoff, a ranger­ difficult to obtain. Small events jump forth historian for the National Park Service, have from the page to illuminate the drama of collaborated well. The resultant work is rich the great fort and some of the people who with detail (33 pages of footnotes, a glossary were connected with it's fate. The author of naval terms and a thorough bibliographic also exhibits a feel for the geography - one essay) and clearly written. It offers some might even say the ghosts - of Fort Fisher new insight into why the battle was fought obtained from childhood visits and family and a thorough retelling of how it was fought. stories. Those ghosts will be satisfied with Well worth the reader's time and money.D this account of their sufferings. D Joe Judge is the curator ofth e Hampton Roads Naval Joe Mosier is an archivist with the Chrysler Museum Muse um and has been here since 1990. of Art and a volunteer writer for the Hampton Roads Naval Museum since 1994.

Picture here is a 1943 exhibition game between the Norfolk NTS team and the Major League St. Louis Browns (forerunner of the modern day Baltimore Orioles) at the NTS Stadium (later designated McClure Field.) (HRNM photo) Greatest Team continued from page 9 .3 47 batting average. The season climaxed had played Norfolk NAS 28 times and had professional baseball to Norfolk. NTS's team, with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox, beaten them 18 times. Unfortunately, this and several others like it across the United which came to Norfolk in early June in front game never materialized. However, the States, was a baseball fan 's wish come true as of a overflowing crowd of 7,000 at NTS 's new commander of Fifth Naval District, it was the orginal "Dream Team." stadium. Adm. Herbert Leary, suggested a "Fifth Before the war was over, the NTS nine Another potential inter-Naval rivaly was Naval District" between NAS raised over four million dollars for crucial being suggested by sailors around the and NTS. A seven game set was set up for war bond drives and for the Navy-Marine cuuntry. Many people wanted to organize the middle of September. The series went a Corps Relief Society. But, most a "Navy World Series" between NTS and full seven games with NTS winning game importantly, the NTS nine let sailors, many th e team at Great Lakes. At this point in the seven 1-0. of whom had never left their hometowns season , NTS had a record of 51-13-1 and The NTS team began to break up again before joining the Navy, relax their minds just Great Lakes had a record of34-7-l. Some after the 1943 season ended. Almost all of a bit during World War II 's darkest hours.D minor insults and "trash talking" began in the professional ball players had completed Norfolk, as the Seabag's new sports writer their training in Norfolk and were being The editor would like to thank Bob Feller, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA) , and thought that Great Lakes did not have shipped out to the front. The club had brought the Virginia Sports Hall ofFam e and Museum for their equivalent opposition. For example, NTS together some of the brightest stars of assistance with this article.

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The Team-This is the team picture ofthe 1942 Norfolk Naval Training Station baseball team that had a record of93-8. Unforunately, Bob Feller was so famous that someone cut out his face out ofthe photograph. (HRNM photo) In Our Next Issue ....

~ The Navy Yard Under Investigation

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