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8 January 1943           Vol. 3 No. 1    12 Pages

Cover: Secret Weapon?
One “secret” of the speed of Richmond shipbuilding lies in the mighty cranes employed. Most powerful are the great bridge cranes of Yard 3A, with a lifting strength of 100 tons.

Articles in this Issue:

Richmond
Richmond shipyard cranes are vastly more powerful than shipyard cranes of World War I

Weight Lifters
(Bob “Peewee” Johnson, Raymond Meyer, B. N. “Slim” Goodwin)

Operating Engineers Keep Moving!
(Bill Stone, O. E. “Bud” Whitney, J. Northup, Tom W. DeCamp, Martin Kenoyer, R. J. Warley, Cal Baker, Lloyd Jarrett, Jack Brinkerhoff)

The Mighty Hammerhead
Big as a football field, this dam-building behemoth was switched to war-time shipbuilding
(Harold Root)

Overhead
(H. G. McCaffrey)

Hoisters, Hysters, Bugs and Booms
From the doodle-bugs to walking monighans, they do their business
(Jim W. McAllister, Bill Aunapu, Joe Ratkay, Don Arquilla, Cy Davenport)

Powerful Pygmies
Cranes of the large Truck family clean up after their bigger brothers
(Mace Allen, Claude Peters)

Death Missed… By 1/32 Of An Inch!
(W. D. Scott)

That Man McGee is Here Again!
(Joe McGee)

‘Tween Decks
Shipyard Miscellany
Crane-Teasers
(Harry Ebding, Kirby Smith, George Abery, Claude Sweasy, Monty         Montgomery, Dean Strain, Harry Ring, Don Arquilla, “Woody” Schmidt, Solly Schuman, “Matt” Mattingley,  George Ebery, Leo, Vern, Cliff and Louie Shragg, Bud Walker)
Trigger-Man Trembles
(Leslie M. Shaw, Tim Bedford, Mickey Thompson, George McMahon, Stanley Lore)
Flying Crane
(Carol Diane)
Soft Hatter
(Virgil Teague)
Baby Darling
(Jay Allan Darling, Howard Darling)
News From the Sick Bay
Layoff? Not for Willey!
(Sergeant Frank Willey)
Can’t Walk, But…
Victory Tax
Off to War
(Ric Casci, E. R. Bremer, Otho Bulkley, J. Goolsby, K. Murgatroyd, Hal Harris, Al Sigle, Ed Kinnard, William Gordon, James Rumsey)
Help Wanted
(Ed Phillips)
Liberty Ship Survivors
(Moses Barker, Virgil Bullock, Luther J. Ludwig, Bill Posedel)
“Three-Shift” Jack
(Jack “three-shift” Bouck)

FORE ’N’ AFT—Published every Friday by and for employees of Richmond Shipyard No. 1 and Richmond Shipyard No. 2 of the Permanente Metals Corporation; Richmond Shipyard No. 3 of the Kaiser Company, Inc.; Richmond Shipyard No. 3-A, and the Richmond …. Shipyards Prefabrication plant.

Men Of Richmond, Nation’s Tops!