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Show John C. Anderson Employed at Oakland Naval Supply Depot Hard at work at the Naval Supply Sup-ply Depot, largest naval supply base in the world, dedicated entirely en-tirely to the tremendous, ever-increasing ever-increasing task of supplying the fighting Navy fleets in the wide-ranging wide-ranging Pacific war against the Japs, is John C. Anderson of Mt. Pleasant, Utah. For the past five months, he has been employed at the Naval Supply Depot, Oakland Oak-land in the General Supply Branch, one of seven major branches at the Depot, whose important im-portant task it is to store and issue more than 34,000 items of general stores to be provided directly to the Fleet and various adavneed bases and stations in the Pacific. Before entering Navy work, he was manager of a ! theatre. His wife is Edith M. j Anderson, and he has a son, Scot- The Naval Supply Depot at Oakland, covering over 500 acres ! of filled-in land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, employs over 10,000 civilian workers, and nearly 4,000 Navy officers, bluejackets blue-jackets and WAVES are assigned to the giant activity, which has sprung into existance since Pearl Harbor. Hundreds pf thousands of Navy supply items, ranging from clips to new wings for airplanes, air-planes, from screwdrivers to multi-ton steel girders which pour into the depot on dozens of spur tracks, are stored in qaurter-mile-long stet ami concrete warehouses untiTshb send them forth a& V fightmg ships and c l NavV riers. Q cargo Car. J The Naval SuddIv n commanded by Rr JS lSl Arthur H. Mayo, SC iJStt mita' (0 considered one of thP 1 ' anti and strategic Navy ba vital West Coast, serving aS itn,,he the tremendous nefds 0 d2 evergrowing rampaging0 |
