- Title
- Camp Lejeune: The Camp Lejeune Globe
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- Date
- January 1945 - March 1945
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- Creator
- ["United States--Armed Forces."]
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- Place
- ["Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Onslow County, North Carolina, United States"]
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- Local Call Number
- WWII 5
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Camp Lejeune: The Camp Lejeune Globe
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VOL. 1
CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1945
NO. 45
Season's Greetings
Expressing season’s greetings from Camp Lejeune, women Marines of the MCWR
Schools here form the words “Happy New Year” for newsreel photographers from Fox
Movietone and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who took this scene here recently.
Services Offered By Telegraph
Offices Outlined In Memorandum
A recent Camp Memorandum
outlined the services furnished by
the three telegraph offices on this
base. These offices are located at:
Hadnot Point — Building 233.
Rifle Range — Building 11.
Tent Camp — Regimental Head¬
quarters Building.
These officers offer transmis¬
sion of personal messages, tele¬
graph orders for flowers, and—
with the exception of the Rifle
Range office — sending, receiving
and cashing telegraphic money
orders.
Outgoing personal messages must
be paid in advance unless prior
arrangements have been made with
the Camp Communications Officer.
Authorized charge accounts must
be paid at the telegraph office on
the last day of each month or
upon transfer from the camp.
The telegraph office will deliver
incoming telegrams in sealed en¬
velopes, via Message Center, to
the organization to which the ad¬
dressee is attached. Telegrams
received after the last daily Mes¬
sage Center run will be phoned,
if possible, to the addressee.
Organizational personnel handling
telegrams are directed to deliver
them as expeditiously as possible.
Telegrams that cannot be delivered
will be returned to the Camp
Message Center together with rea¬
sons for non-delivery.
‘All Fouled Up’ Returns
To Le jeune For Four Days
“All Fouled Up" is coming
back to Camp Lejeune.
So many requests have been
heard for a return engagement
of the sparkling Cherry Point
musical revue that the Camp
Recreation Department made
arrangements to bring it back
for four shows next week. The
production won high praise in
two successful appearances at
this base in December.
The show will make its first
appearance on 7 Jan. at Tent
Camp with curtain time set
for 2000. On the following
night it will be seen at the
Rifle Range and on the 9th
it will be at Montford Point.
On Wednesday, 10 Jan., the
comedy will play a' return en¬
gagement at the Camp Thea¬
ter. Curtain time for all shows
will be 2000.
Written and produced by Lts.
Tyrone Power and Ray Heath-
erton, the fun - packed show
boasts a cast of 60 persons,
including male and female
Marines. Lt. Powers is no long¬
er at Cherry Point and will
not appear with the show.
Heatherton is the star of the
show, sharing honors with Lt.
Carl Dozer, master of cere¬
monies whose fine pacing and
comedy keeps the proceedings
bowling along at a rapid clip.
The show boasts comedy,
good music, fine dancing, and
in fact just about everything
that gives it a professional
polish tinge.
List Schedule
Of Daily Boats
Effective 10 January the follow¬
ing boat schedule will be main¬
tained dally except Sunday for
transportation of freight and per¬
sonnel:
Leave Courthous' Bay - 0830
Arrive Hadnot Point _ 0930
Leave Hadnot Point _ 0950
Arrive Peterfield Point _ 1035
Leave Peterfield Point - 1300
Arrive Hadnot Point _ - _ 1345
Leave Hadnot Point . 1405
Arrive Courthouse Bay _ 1505
Where water transportation is
required at times other than when
scheduled, request should be made
to the Officer in Charge of the
Camp Freight Service Office.
Firsts For
Year 1945
At Lejeune
Among Camp Lejeune’s
“Firsts for 1945" were:
First War Bond Purchaser
— Pfc. Irving B. Gibbs, OCA
Bn. Pfc. Gibbs practically
opened the War Bond Office
by walking in a few minutes
past 0800 last Monday and
asking Sgt. Fern J. Fish for
two $25 Bonds. Gibbs ex¬
plained he had just returned
from a New Year's liberty and
was “going to put my left over
money to good use.”
First enlisted man to report
in— Pfc. Charles M. HaskeU,
coming in from Camp Pendle¬
ton, reported in at 0005 on
1 January.
First officer to report in—
Second Lt. George A. Krohn,
reporting from Edgewood Ar¬
senal, Maryland, signed in
shortly after midnight on 1
January.
At least one man at this
base celebrated his birthday
on New Year's Day. Pl/Sgt.
Leonard J. Kowaleski of the
Provost Marshall's Office said
his 27th birthday fell exactly
two minutes and 48 seconds
past midnight of the Old
Year.
Drama Group Meets
A meeting of all personnel
interested in the Little Theatre
group here will be held Thurs¬
day evening, 4 January, it was
announced by Lt. Elizabeth
Duff of the Recreation De¬
partment.
The meeting will be held at
1900 Thursday at Building 61
in the WR Battalion Area.
MARCH ON THE RIGHT
A new Camp General Order di¬
rects that troops in formation will
march with vehicular traffic, that
is, on the right side of the road.
Camp’s Total In Sixth
War Loan Is $304,700
Camp Lejeune did its share in
the nation's ‘Sixth War Loan Drive
with purchases of War Bonds which
totaled $304,700, maturity value, ac¬
cording to Captain Helen Perrell,
Camp War Bond Promotion Of¬
ficer.
This is the highest figure at¬
tained by the camp during any of
the War Loan drives, said Captain
Perrell in extending congratula¬
tions to all personnel, officer's, en¬
listed and civilians, who helped run
up this record-breaking sum.
The total includes the sale,
through the Camp War Bond Of¬
fice. of $50,000 in Series “C" Bonds.
The purchase value of War Bonds
bought by Camp Lejeune personnel
during the Sixth War Loan Drive
—20 November through 30 De¬
cember — totaled $244,025.
A number of .organizations
achieved outstanding results. Cap¬
tain Perrell’s report of unit stand¬
ings (given below) shows that the
Service Battalion, with $26,150,
ranked first among military or¬
ganizations. Infantry Training Reg¬
iment placed second followed, in
order, by the MCWR Schools and
the Officer Candidate Applicants
Battalion. The civilians came in
for special commendation with their
grand total of $35,775.
The unit standings are listed be¬
low. Figures given represent ma¬
turity value of bonds purchased.
UNIT STANDINGS
Civilians . . $35,775
Service Bn. _ 26,150
Inf. Trng. Regt. . 22,725
MCWR Schools . . 20,450
OCA Bn., Schls. Regt.— 17,925
Medical Bn. . . 17,725
Naval Hospital _ 15,450
Base Artillery Bn. _ 14,800
WR Bn. . . 12,600
Recreation Dept. (“G'’
Bonds)' - 10,000
Signal Bn. & H&S Co.,
Spec. Trng. Regt . 9,850
Guard Bn. _ 7,600
Qm Bn. Tr. Com. _ . 6,825
Inf. Schls. Bn., Schls.
Regt _ _ ...... 6,150
Coast Guard Detach¬
ment . 4,975.
Headquarters Bn. ...... 4,300
H&S Co., Schls. Regt .. 4,200
War Dog. Co. - - ..... 4,175
Headquarters Bn., Tr.
Com. . 4,025
Engineer Bn . 3,875
Montford Point Camp .. 3,200
Range Bn. 1,925
Over Million And Half Pieces
Of Mail Handled Here During
Deluge On Christmas Week
By SGT. JACK HARMON
Over a million and a half •
pieces of first class mail *
(letters) and 140,000 packages
with record speed were shunted
through Camp Lejeune’s Dis¬
tributing Branch Post Office
during Christmas week, it was
announced by Captain Fred
Bove, Officer-in-Charge, last
week. The personnel of this
hard-working office, located in
building 213, worked like bea¬
vers on a 24-hour schedule
during that week, said Captain
Bove, and by Christmas morn¬
ing there was not a single
piece of incoming mail left to
be distributed.
It is through this office that
every bit of mail coming into
camp is distributed. In order
to meet the gigantic task of
handling the truckloads of mail
rolling in day and night, all
liberty was cancelled for per¬
sonnel from 15 December on,
except in case of emergencies.
This meant there were no
Christmas leaves for any of
the force, who worked up
’til Christmas Eve. The night
crew reported in Christmas
night to again take up their
labors. Had the quantity of
incoming mail warranted it,
the whole office would have
worked Christmas day. But
their eye on that day as a
holiday, the Captain said they
worked a little harder and a
little longer the preceding week,
with the result that Christmas
Day saw the office cleared.
The Captain further stated
that- the personnel headed by
M/Tech Sgt. John W. Mulhol-
land worked up and delivered
on the same day all mail re¬
ceived. This prevailed up to,
and including, December 24th,
Directly responsible for t$e
forwarding of mail addressed
to transferred personnel in
camp, the Directory Section
was immensely busy forwarding
mail to correct addresses. Mail
for replacement drafts, the
Captain said, was shot out right
away. As soon as it came in,
it was put through the direc¬
tory process and went out
again on the next dispatch.
Conditions of this holiday
mail was fair, he said, esti¬
mating that approximately 300
packages daily were re-wrap¬
ped. He added, smiling, that
the laundry would verify the
fact because the extraordinary
number of packages requiring
re-wrapping necessitated draw¬
ing upon them for twine.
Thrice they were required to
call upon the laundry for
string after their supply and
that of the Quartermaster had
dwindled away.
Summing up the record-
breaking efforts of M/T Sgt.
Holland and his crew, Captain
Bove declared that no one
particular individual was re¬
sponsible for the efficient way
the mail was handled. All
hands co-operated to the full¬
est to insure good and correct
delivery of all pieces.
USO Tabloid
Unit To Give
Shows On Base
Another USO Tabloid Show
will make its appearance at
Camp Lejeune Thursday and
Friday, 4-5 Jan., it has been
announced by the Recreation
Department.
The unit will make four ap¬
pearances at this base, opening
at Onslow Beach at 1830 on
Thursday night and then mov¬
ing to Mess Hall 1209 in the
Industrial Area for its second
show of the evening at 2030.
On Friday, 5 Jan., the tab¬
loid will appear at the Naval
Hospital at 1430 and at 1830
at the War Dog Training Com¬
pany.
The show has a cast of five,
featuring Harvey Dunn, ma¬
gician and master of ceremon¬
ies. Trudy Chandler, song¬
stress; Anna De Luca, accor¬
dionist and pianist; George
Schreck, musical novelty act
and Doris Hudson, dancer,
complete the personnel of the
troupe.
69 DIVISIONS CAPTURED '
FRANCE — (CNS)— At least
691,989 prisoners — the equivalent
of 69 German divisions — have been
captured by Allied armies on the
Western Front since D-Day.