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Star Staff Correspondent

ABOARD CARRIER ROOSE

VELT, South of Haiti, May 13.—

The 8th Fleet, under command of

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, today

was steaming toward the desolate

Island of Culebra, off the east coast

of Puerto Rico, for a full-scale aerial

assault based on lessons learned In

the Pacific War.

Primary purpose of these first

peace-time maneuvers in five yea^s

Is to train the combat ships to the

level of efficiency under which they

operated during the closing months

of the war, according to Capt.

Charles D. Griffin, fleet operations

officer, whose home is at 3610 Idaho

avenue ,N.W.

Radical personnel changes, owing

to rapid demobilization, have so

badly dented fleet efficiency since

V-J day that it is necessary to train

officers and crew almost from the

ground up. The peace-time fleet

complement is only about 70 per

cent of its combat strength, and

many crew members are compelled,

to perform double duties on the

guns and the flight decks.

Third of Crew Newcomers.

Roughly one-third the present

complement of Admiral Mitscher’s

flagship, the new carrier Franklin

D. Roosevelt, were newcomers to the

fleet when the first phase of the

maneuvers began off the Virginia

capes on April 19. When the ship

reaches New York on May 27, again

a little less than half of the crew

will be discharged.

Despite personnel difficulties, the

current Caribbean operations are be

ing carried on to indoctrinate the

combat vessels in the mobile tactics

Which were developed the hard way

in the Pacific.

'Hie Eighth Fleet, comprising the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1946). Washington, D.C., 1946-05-13. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1946-05-13/ed-1/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1946-05-13.