"The Elsie Item" - USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association

New Members (Continued)Sellers, Robert C., LCI 989, 844 Cascade Drive,Riverside, OH 45431Semmes, Allison (AI), LCI 992, 7104 Arrowwood Road,Bethesda, MD 20817Snider, Numa L., LCI (FF) 628, 315 Hillcrest Street,Waveland, MS 39576Thornburg, Joe M., LCI 438, 649 South 88 th East Place,Tulsa, OK 74133Toussaint, Herb, LCI 951, 953, 852 Black's Ferry Road,Pocahontas, AR 72455Wakeling, Robert w., LCI 742, 19 Cheshire Meadows,Kennebunk, ME 04043New Affiliate Member:VanDerLinden, Carmilla, daughter ofJ. Stanley Dunn, LCI 372,10857 Snow Cloud Trail, Littleton, CO, 8125each drawer contained another food course and drinks!It pays to be a good looking, young, slim fiery redhead. Sheremembers it well to this day.P.S. She lost her hat (as you remember all girls wore them then)in the channel. Cost of doing business!-Dave DorflingerLiberty in the "Big Apple"!New Members from Abroad:Devlin, Terry D., (LCI number not listed), 920 Simpson St., Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7C 3K6 Williamson, Jack, LCI 131, 4 Roomsey News, Cambridge, England CB 1 3PBFond Memories ofATB Solomons or It Pays to Have a Good Looking Girl Friend! Don't go into shock, but, yes, there is someone who has fondmemories ofAmphibious Training Base, Solomons, MD! Lastissue we heard ofthe great work detail Jim Talbert pulled whilehe was there. Now, Dave Dorflinger, LCl(L) 355, now a residentofBerlin, NJ, shares another fond memory with us!I remember one Sunday in July, 1943, My fiance was coming tosee me. When I went to the boat [to get over to the village ofSolomons from the base] I sloshed through 5 inches ofred mud.It was raining hard when we reached the dock in Solomons. Thecoxswain allowed Peg to go back to the base while I shed thewet, red set of whites. The SPs. said she could not go on thebase so she went to the OOD's office. I left her there and wentto change.When I got back she didn't care if! ever did - happy as a clam athigh tide, so to speak. There she was, sitting in the middle oftheoffice. The OD, the Chaplain, and about three other officerssurrounded her. A plate loaded with all sorts of good stuff besidecold chicken was on her lap. A file cabinet was opened andThe folder for this picture says "The Place, It's the Heart ofGrenwich Village" and proclaims it to be "The Hottest Spot inTown"And here Calvin Anderson and buddies from LCI(G) 466 demonstratejust how happy sailors can be on liberty!We're indebted to Calvin's wife Wilma for this one. She writes,"Checking into some ofour old files . .. 1 ran across this picture.1 am including a listing ofthe Navy buddies that Calvinwas enjoying on an evening out while they were in training inthe New York area in preparation for going down through thePanama Canal, into the Pacific Ocean and up to San Diego . ..before heading for the Pacific. They may not be in the properorder, but here show Calvin listed them: (l to r) Bill Kovic, FrankCharles Moranville (it could be Maranville), Morris EugeneThompson, James F Della Volpe, Calvin T (Andy) Anderson,Orville Grooms, Harold Robert Frank, Mike Kenimore, andStanley Peter Kasperczyk"Calvin and Wilma now live in Livingston, TX, and hope to be atthe San Antonio reunion.4