All Hands Magazine - 1,500,000th Good-By - March 1946
ALL Hands
THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL INFORMATION BULLETIN
MARCH 1946 NAVPERS-O NUMBER 348
VICE ADMIRAL LOUIS E. DENFELD, USN
The Chief of Naval Personnel
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS L. SPRAGUE, USN
The Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Facing the Atomic Age 2
- Navy's Postwar Fleets 6
- Big Boom at Bikini 8
- Looking Ahead on Rates 13
- The Navy's Civilians 16
- 'Build Ye . . . ' 21
- Duty Done—PTs Retire 24
- Key to Our Security 28
- Spare-Time Hobby Shops 30
- Baffin' the Breeze on the 7 Seas 32
- Books: Battle Action Accounts 34
- Tracking the Typhoons 35
- THE WORD 36
- Letters to the Editor 38
- The Month's News 40
- Decorations and Citations 56
- The Bulletin Board 66
- Demobilization Points Drop 66
- Benefits for Reenlistments 67
- Navy Now Pays 'Shore Loss' Claims 68
- Voting Information 72
- Alnays, NavActs in Brief 78
- All Thumbs 79
- Fantail Forum 80
FRONT COVER: Halfway point in demobilization was reached with the discharge of Eugene L. Smith, FC2c, at the Shoemaker, Calif., separation center. Smith, 1,500,-000th man discharged since V-J day, is shown making his adieux.
INSIDE FRONT COVER: Enjoying liberty in Shanghai, a group of men off the cruisers Denver and Cleveland hitched a ride in an ox-drawn cart for a jaunt through the old Chinese port city.
INSIDE BACK COVER: A modern note is injected into a familiar old scene as a Coast Guard helicopter hovers over a lighthouse on the northeast coast.
CREDITS: Front cover and at left, official U. S. Navy photographs; inside back cover, official U. S. Coast Guard photograph. On pp. 40-41: Inside Front Cover, photograph from Press Association, Inc.; upper right, official U. S. Navy photograph; lower right, official U. S. Army Signal Corps photograph.
