The Archive, Vol. 56

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Excerpt from The Archive, Vol. 56: September, 1942Biggest job during the nine days' training period and on the cruise was gun drill and target practice where the boys fired everything from 30 caliber to 5-inch guns.One of our thirty cruise men was Sammy Gantt who was recently ap pointed commander of the Duke battalion. Like the rest of his cruise mates, Sam was assigned to each station on the ship. Most of the time he was stationed with the gun crew, Sam played position number 7, or plug man. Sam can place a basketball with perfect accuracy, but they found out that he wasn't so good as a gun-loader. He could push the charge in all right, but his hand was so big that he couldn't get it out afterward. At his favorite position, he opened the breech, so that the hot shell could drop out of the gun. Sam was captain of his eight-man gun crew: the pointer the sight-set ter, the trainer, first loader, second loader, plug-man, and the hot-shell man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.