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THE U.S.S. ELKHART GATHERS NO MOSS.
A recent letter from Ted T. Bruckbauer
M.M,3/C relates s a c :‘h tore sting, facts
abo-’t his' ship, t T,G.S. Elkhart”.
He writes as foil •• : : ,, >
"My ship, the ApA-i 0, an attack transport,
had its keel laid on 13 September 1944, by
the Consolidated Stool"Corporation of
Wilmington, California. -
On 15 December 1944, it was given the
title ’Elkhart”, which is the nano of a
county in Indiana. It is r~id that this
county got its name from a small island
sit# i#:iu iauuwug pu in t# <ji uiiu uia
St. Joseph Rivers.' Some Indian,with a
lot of imagination, thought the place
looked like an elk’s heart, and so he
named the island Elkhart. ‘ •
'Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Frasier,
HI,USER, took command on. 8 February'1945,
aftor Commander C.D. Snydor, D-V(G),USNR,
had placed the ’Elkhart’ in full commission.
My ship was now. a part of the. world’s
largest and mightiest Navy.
Sihee that cerdmony at Berth 90, San
Pedro, California, marines, soldiers,
sailors,fliern,Chinese, and, their equip
ment have been carried to or from twenty
two ports add thirty-throe anchorages, a
total of 34,000 nautical miles.
• Jbw-’transports haVe covered as many
miles in a-s short -a t'imc as the APA-430.
I’ve bo eh Calif of nia ’ s San Pedro", ‘Long
Beach, San Diego, and San Francisco; sun
bathed on the famous Waikiki Beafth at
Honolulu;'and anchored in Majuro,
Kwajalcin, Engobi, and Eni'wcfok of the
Marshall Islands. Maj<ir battle areas
wore visited in Ulithi, Leyte, Guam,
Tinian,Manila and Saipan. Okinawa and
Kune Shina wore still pretty ’hot’ spots
when re arrived with 6ur load of troops
and. ammunition. Then, approximately
soven months'and five days after the
Captain said,. ’Some day I hope to steam,
into Tokyo Bay’, we did just that and
unloadod at Yokohama, 28 miles south of
TokyoJ In quick succession edmo Tsingtao,
Clrna, with a load of marines} a trip to
Haiphong in Freiich Indo-China, whore v.ro
loaded Chinese troops and took'then t6
another China' part; n» d Jinsen, Korea, for'
emergency repairs to the ship’-s generators.
If wishes are'answered, our next stop will
bo the States.
Figuratively spoalcing, the ’U.S.S.
Elkhart’ has gathered little moss."
Mmvusto. ELECTRIC ASSOC LOTION MSETIFG
Five directors ftre scheduled for electior
at the next annual meeting of the Elective
Association. At a nominating comittoc
mooting held on January 21, the fallouint
were nominated:
EiCi Christenson(incumbent) Arnold Cursor.
R.B. Graham (incumbent) Henning Censor.
Konneth T. Fostor( incumbent)' " . .
Harold L. Thuma (incumbent)
Tom Lopak ( incumbent) Irving Ncwvillo