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Show THE Page 4 SEAGULL Two Servicemen Stationed At Supply Depot Relate Experiences Of Active Duty In Navy Veteran Of Africa, Attu, ] Machinist Johnson Sees Kiska Ships Supplies | Action In Three Wars A pharmacist 2/c who tended American troops wounded at the landings in Africa, Attu and Kiska, is now stationed at NSD shooting medical supplies to his buddiesstill on the battle lines. He is C. H. Peterson, a former steel mill worker from Steubenville, Ohio, who just completed his second year in the Navy. : Pharmacist Peterson went ashore with the landing party at Saffi in North¢ Africa on November8, 1942. He spent five days on the beach tending the wounded and evacuating them back to the ships. Then after the landing troops were firmly established, his ship, ing the Haiti Revolution in 1915, which was also his first year in the Navy. When America went into World War I three an American transport, headed years later, Machinist Johnson was still in the Navy and was assigned, along with fellow crew members on the U. S. Wyoming, to patrol duty on the North Sea. Here he helped keep the French waters safe from German submarines. After nine years in navy blues or whites, Machinist Johnson decided to become a civilian and went into automotive jobbery in his home town, Chicago. ed, and in August he was on hand C. H. PETERSON Three months before Pearl Harbor, Machinist Johnson once again donned the uniform of the U. S. Navy and during World War II has seen Pacific patrol activity, as well as shore duty at NSD and at the Navy Aviation Technical Training Center. Machinist Johnson used ito play semi-professional baseball back in Chicago andit’s still his favorite summer sport. In the winter he’s an ice skating fan. supplies to servicemen all over the world. Still unmarried, Pharm. Peterson likes to hunt — particularly rabbits. At home in Steubenville before he joined the Navy Eavesdropping Around D-10 By Esther Stayner With ‘‘Remembering Pearl Harbor’’ and the big rush we have had little time to write anything for the column. Many people have joined the packers, several from Remington Arms, and the Packing Section welcomes the newcomers. Although Mr. Frank Sloan was injured while at work in D-10, his hunting dogs were his pride and joy. Accounting for Accounting By IRIS Accounting’s news is made up mostly of new employes who were hired to keep the payrolls coming out on time. Ah! The payroll’s . . . getting them cut and taking them in. To that, we in the department dedicate ourselves. .The stores section has been enlarged to five with the presence of Raymond Hooker, Jesse T. Kemp, and Carl H. Woodward. Mr. M. of this section was kind enough to inform the news hungry reporter (or the hungry news reporter), that Mr. S. of same section took a well deserved vacation of four days, the first in ten months. He spent it shopping in the fair city of Ogden, and now four little S’s will be happy on Christmas. Cost and Report under Mr. Fullimer also boasts another worker, Ruby Kennedy from Idaho. Mrs. Hansen says she and her husband have a fair deal every pay day. He gives her the check and she gives him back 50 cents for spending money. Nice deal is no expression for it, plenty of girls can’t even get a husband. Mrs. C’s section is humming with the activity of training the four new workers, LaVaun Barber, Betty Blotz, Shirley Doane and Vida Hartford. Georgia’s mind is here and there, mostly there, but who can blame her for ten days is not a very long furlough. Lynn welcomed Afton and Vi with open arms to payroll. They were badly needed since the influenza epidemic has swept over the section. Ruby Peterson's help is greatly appreciated by Jennie, now she can cut down on her vitamin tablets. Communications and the Time Keeping sections of the Accounting department are now working hand in hand—but literally. Isn’t that right, Bobbie? BuickTells Tale Of Flight Not one, not two, but three wars is the record participation of Machinist Arthur L. Johnson, now stationed at NSD as assistant to the supply officer in automotive spare parts. Machinist Johnson saw his first warfare dur- for the high seas. After docking at both the east and west coasts of the United Staes, the transport sailed north for Attu. Here Pharmacist Peterson participated in another landing party on May 11, 1943. Again he cared for the woundto aid in the landing of troops on Kiska where he performed the same service he had at North Africa and Attu. : On September 1, he came ashore at San Francisco, was sent to Mare Island, then transferred to Clearfield October 28. Here he helps ship medical Saturday, December 11, 1943 we were glad to see that he recovered quickly, and he was ARTHUR L. JOHNSON RECORDINGS from | SECTION FIVE back not only working, but also buying bonds. Atta boy, Frank! Ruby O’Brien has given up riding the shipping bicycle and has taken a position at the Leadingman-Packer’s desk. Ruby’s slogan is ‘‘File and Forget.” Our condolences to Mrs. Otel Farrar who received news Tues,|day of the death of her son who was killed in an air raid over Germany. Ruby Carmen, Katherine Steed, Mrs. Ricks, and LeVell Smedley returned to Stores By G. McCLANNHAN Movement office after a long Ill admit that things were absence. They came back to a pretty quiet at D-14 at 4:30 p. m. “new set up’’ as the office has one certain day, but due to un- been enlarged and improved. known technicalities the situa- Welcome home! tion was soon remided. The whisNide Harris, packer, has retle blew, and in record time fire turned from a visit to his home equipment and Naval personnel in Des Moines, Iowa. were swarming all over the Colleen Hopkins has graduated place. If it had been the real from a ‘‘marker’’ to a Clark McCoy things surely would have driver. been well under control. We are Hard working, blond-haired thankful the cause wasn’t a real- David Johnson has been slaving ity and hope there never will be on pallets for weeks. He has one. only 25 others helping him. Our storekeepers are ‘‘roving’’ Bibical Names storekeepers, not ‘“‘raving,’’ as We have Hezekiah, Noah, Abrwe are sometimes dubbed, al- aham in the Packing Section. though it may be hard to de- Also there are three Marys; Dotermine at times. Just catch man, Waite, and Andrus; three us when we havea truck and no Esthers; Kifer, Leyden, and Clark, or a Clark and no truck, Stayner. and we'll let you decide for your- Fun With Names in Our self. New storekeepers recent- Time Rack ly added to our midst are: Helen No one needs to tell Betty Ashcroft, W. M. Frame, Martin Howe. Bishop, Moses Eon, Lamar Holt. How can Patrick Barrett? and Karl Farnsworth. Conversation Overhead in D-10 Saturday is the last day for New employe: How do I get Grace McAtee and Florence Hob- to G-13? son. We’ll miss them both, even Box Maker: I don’t know. though they’ve been here a New Employe: You don’t know short time. much, do you? Sally from D-14 has been missBox Maker: Well, I ain’t lost! ing since Monday. Weleft her a goodly supply Saturday eve- out when a car was brought in. ning and returned Monday with When the cat’s away the mice choice morsels, but found no will play, has anybody seen our Sally. By chance she sneaked cat Sally? Now chief inspector of construction at NSD, H. A. Buick pictured above tells an interesting tale of his flight from France before the invading Germany army. H. A. Buick Relates Story Of Escape From France During Nazi Advance An escape from France with the Germans advancing rapidly sometimes only a few miles behind, overseas action in World War I as a first lieutenant, and skirmishes in the Mexican revolution—these are only a few of the high spots in the life of H. A. Buick, now chief inspector of construction at NSD. Although he was bern ai American citizen, Mr. Buick has along the line, sections of rail spent only 15 years in the Unit- had been blown up, but they ed States. Nineteen years were traveled by detours as far as spent in France and twenty in the train could go. Then they Mexico. As a result he speaks obtained a bicycle and continued Spanish, French and English on until they were picked up by very well and knows a smat- two English soldiers in an army truck. tering of Italian. For three days and three The first high spot in Mr. Buick’s life of excitement oc- nights they tried to stem the curred when he was seven years tide of people to reach their old. At that time his father and daughter-in-law forty miles away forty other relatives were burned but finally gave up and started south. in a fire started by a Christ mas tree. Mr. Buick and his wife spent Moves to Mexico fourteen days and nights travelUp to this time he had been ing, most of the time without living in Oregon, but after the food, before they reached the death of his father, his mother Spanish border. Many times married again and his step- the roads were so crowded they father moved the family to Mex- could only makeone or two miles ico. There he stayed until the a day by truck. revolution when his mines and Trucks Blow Up properties were confiscated and The bombardment at St. Nahe escaped to El Paso. zaire where the English army At the outbreak of World War was making its getaway was I, he went to officers training very similar to Dunkirk, accordschool and served in France as ing to Mr. Buick. He describes a first lieutenant in Field Artil- the English army trucks full of lery. After the Armistice he gasoline blowing up like popcorn married a French girl and as they were hit by German brought her to West Virginia bombs. where he managed mines for “With twenty million people two and one-half years. on the roads fleeing trom the Then in 1923 he returned tc German army, the suffering of France and went into business the French people wasterrible,’’ over there importing American says Mr. Buick. ‘‘All along the modern machinery. When the way people were dying of hunFrench mobilized in 1938 he ger, too weak to go on. Oneof closed his business and went to the most pitiful sights was a work building a new Ford fac- group of nuns leading a hundred tory. or more blind girls: by ropes Germans Invade through a pouring rain.”’ When the Germans invaded At Bordeaux he stood in line France, Mr. Buick and his wife all day to see the American conheaded for Paris and a day and sulate to get papers to go into a half later the Germans had Spain, then was told to go on occupied the factory. to the border and take a chance On the morning of June 11. on getting a visa. they left Paris by train expect- Reach Border ing to pick up their daughter-inThey finally arrived on the law and grandson in Normandie. border after many more hardTheir son was with the French ships and narrow escapes. The army. For twenty-four hours German advance units were they travelled with nothing to close behind and they were neareat, the train crowded to the ly captured several times. Twice © last inch of standing rcom. 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