~---- . - -- . or .THE INTREPID i • ~·~$111 %~~-&liT :1· C~ptain Giles Jlt· llioi't, USN, Cbmmandinl OffiC1ft-. • "; , 1n the last two .~ont!is .'w~1y~ ·Jr~~~ently asked Commandet W~ E. Ellis, USN, Executive Officer i1 i the silnple questiort: How :s .the-chow?' And it has ~~-----~----~~~--~-----------------~~--~--~~-(! beenav«y rare occasion wh~n th.e. answe'r'has b.een ~-· ~· V~o~l~~tn~e~a._ N_.u~m_be._r_.6_________ ~~ .. wD._•_ceam~ _ Mbe~r~l~~--~. li ·•v•n c:lo s e ··to· printable. That''S'wt,iy we've selected -11% ' ) ' (¢¢ • '* ~'!?&* $11 : -.~· ' ! .as thl}sub~title for this ed- ! Lt. Comdr. R. Gray -- Communications Officer ! it:orial. · · : · ·. ! Ens. l». S. Keiieher - - Co-Superviaing Editor I Now it's·not dur purpose to "carry the torch" ! Ens. N. W. Curtis - - - Co-Supervising Editor , · for .the INTREPID'S'chow. Neither do we say that it's I E·ditorial Staff I as bad as some of Ulose unprintabie remarks might indicate. What we do say is that if the chow is as bad Nuabaum, Jr. RdM3c - -- News Editor ~ B. S. ! as you think it is, you're not going to do yourself or j Norbert Carne ARM2c ---- News Editor :!, the chow one bit of good"by saying "1%) (~~**- / ? Lt. (jg) B.. E. Gates -- Photographic Editor I ~." to the guy Sitting neXt to you and by Chipping Ens. M. Pelosi ---- Engr. Dept- Editor . your teeth to the guy in the bunk below you. :1 Contributors •,' This, however, doesn't mean that your hands ! Chaplain McGann The Engineering Dept. l,l . <>retied--that you've got to take the food and like it , I G. F. Pavitt, AOM8c Lt. (jg) R. H. Smith , .'There has been outlined for all hands, in an Execu­ ' L. X. Hundeshimer, USMCR Dick Himes, USMCR I, tive Officer's Memorandum, an accepted procedure ! for s tating your feelings about the food, and your off­ , Dick Blough, USMCR Lt. Co~dr. L. J . Barr ~ icers encourage you to follow this procedure. And I Photography , thats the purpose of this editorial--- to outline that i J. E Krueger PhoM2c H. F. Krasin PhoMlc j procedure again. If you have· a .complaint to register, j P. M. Jones, PhoM2c T. H . Fredrickson, PhoM3c do this: : Printers 1. Go to your Division Officer and discuss the l matter with him. If possible take him a V. J. Lenzi,Prtrlc H. J . Stoll, Prtr2e • sample of the food in question. • D. R. Aleto, Prtr3c J. w. Black, S2c 2, Your Division Officer will then discus s the l___________ ~---~~-------------------~~~~---~------- 1 matte rwiththP.SupplyJ )f! icer. If your com­ l Lt. J. B. Kirsch -- - Publication Censor plaint is justified, step% will be taken to ~ . 11 ·fhe U.S.S. INTREPID reeeiv• Camp Newapaper Serviee material. remedy the situation at once. ! Republication of credited matter ,prohibited without permi.uion of CNS, 2061~!: 3. Your Division Officer also has the alterna­ lI E. 42nd St.. N.Y. c. 17. tive of taking the matter up with the Exec­ t -·-------·-----------·-----------------------------------------~ ... utive Officer. Cover: Photo overlay by Krueger and Kraain In other words, any officer ( not j'ust the Off­ icer of the Deck, one of whose duties it is to sample the crew's rations at ea(;b mealtime) can be of help Presenting the Engineers to you. But following the 'above outlined ·procedure is the only method of r egistering a complaint and at Gentlemen, we present the Engineers. These the same time being sure that it will reach sources are the guys who get you where you want to go. These that will definitely take action. Adhere to this pro­ cedure and your complai.nt will be heard - - - an d are the fellows still referred to as the "Black Gang," you'll be helping bothyourself and your shipmates. even though our modern shiny boilers of today bear not even the slightest resemblance to those old coal - ---- - 0 - - - - -- furnaces of yesteryear. These are the guys who run our main engines and keep· them in running order, provide e 1 e c t ric a 1 power for the ship, make our drinking water ,keep our elevators running, and per­ form many other jobs too numerous to mention. These ar~ the same guys who, during battle, OUR PROBLEM work below in the sweltering heat of the firerooms and the engine rooms, standing ready to answer all With deep r egr et for the pas t system of dis­ bells. Their only conception of what's going on top­ tributiOn, the editors have devised a plan which ma y side is the varied reports coming down through the prove s uccessful if full cooperation is given. phones. The sound of the five inch guns going off can Future publications will be issued to the Mail be better described as felt, rather than heard, down Petty Officers of each divis ion and from the different Department' Ofhces for officer dis tribution. Thes e there. copies will be obtainable in the s hip's libr a ry at a These are the guys who remained at their date immediately following completion of each edition. stations wnile the compartment slowly filled up with It will be r equired that each petty officer s ign for the smoke and the acrid odor of gunpowder, from the rag­ number of copies.he r eceives. Any p e r s on n e I not ing fires above, while the temperature crawled upward r eceiving a copy s hould report to the s hip's News ­ paper Office on the 02 deck wher e all excess copies past one hundred and fifty degrees •. shall be kept. No, their lot may not be a very glamorous one, Full. cooperation is desired so that it may be but we can still be proud when we say, "Gentlemen, certain that each man receives his copy of the news ­ we present the Engineers." pap!'!, ...,.. ·_ ··' ' . -.- . ~. 3 AIR GROUP FOURTEEN REPORTS ABOARD Comdr. Brown Leads of June the group reluctantly bid fareweli to romantic San Diego and went north to Re-formed Squadron sail with the INTREPID. So commenced CVG-14's second time out during the war. "M" Division Data The 14th of August, the end of the war, When the 269 officers and men of CAG still seemed a long way off. The "M" (main propulsion machinery) 14,without knives in their teeth, swarmed The air group was sent to NAS Kahului of the Engineering Department has cogni·· up the cargo net and over the starboard on Maui, where it was based during a three zance of reduction gears and operation and side of the INTREPID, it was the third time month period in the Hawaiian Area. In maintenance ofthe ship's propulsion plant. in five months this group had put a board­ addition to finding out that a luau in Hawa ii This includes the four main engines, their ing party upon the decks of the Mighty I. is just like an old fashioned weenie roast attached shafting and propellers, and the '14' is a lucky number, for this was 1400 in the States, the pilots and crewmen flew auxiliaries necessary for their operation. Sunday the 14th of October, and a happy a shakedown aboard this carrier , sharpen­ Each main engine unit consists of: a h. home-coming for all hands. On the 29th of ed up on bombing and gunnery, and put in p. and 1. p. turbine connected to a common last June the Air Group personnel were a few rough nights on the SARA, learning reduction gear which reduces turbine r . p. guests of the s hip, as passengers, when it how to land by imagination. Then came 14 m. to shaft, or propeller, r. p. m.; a con­ sailed for Hawaii from Alameda. The August 1945. Next morning ... but enough denser for collecting and condensing to following month the Group was aboard of that. water the exhaust steam from the turbines; again, this time for a very pleasant shake­ Within one month later most of the two lub. oil pumps, one electric and one down cruise. A third trip on CV -11 begins "tivilians" had taken off for the Old Coun­ s team, which pump the lub. oil to the bear­ a tour of duty in familiar surroundings of try, and the air group was once again on ings and r educt ion gears and two cond. which '14' has long since grown fond. the move, this time aboard the USS(Snake­ pumps, one e 1 e c t r ic and one steam, for CVG-14wasfirst formed 10 November pit) Copahee bound for Saipan. Some ctavs returning the condensed steam to the feed 1943 at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island. later a few hardy members of the outfit tank from which it is pumped back to the It was present at the commissioning of the who had survived the trip made their way boilers for feed water. new WASP at the South Boston Navy Yard painfully to Marpi Point, where they set The four propeilers with their respec­ 24 November, 1943, and went aboard as up operations and discovered new uses for tive driving engines are numbered from her first !lir group 27 January, 1944. From F4Ubellytanks. Most of the group are starboard to port so that the two outboard that date until CVG-81 relieved them, 10 stilluot very well :tdjusted to the comforts propellers are No. 1 and No. 4. The main November 1944, the original group trav­ ofCV-ll,butmembers of ship's company, engines, condensers, and reduction gears elled 80,000 miles with the WASP, VF-14 who plainly regard these thinp,ti as routine, for No.