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Service Record Of The 145th Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-1944-1945

25 October 1945 JHC/jdw From: Officer-In-Charge. To : All Hands. 1 . I have looked at unnumbered college and high school annuals. All of them contained a stilted message based on some pious platitude. 2. This is your book. It has been put together for one purpose only — to remind you in the future that you were once a member of the 145th "Seabees." It is my hope and the hope of the editorial staff that these reminders are all pleasant. 3. We have come a long way. We have been through some good times and some bad ones. We have gone through them together. If in the years to come this book brings you pleasant memories of your former shipmates and revives in you, at the moment, the spirit of that which was once the 145th "Seabees," then this book will have served the purpose for which it was intended. No word I might contribute could do more. JOHN H. CAIN Comdr,, CBC, USNR Officer-In-Charge Digitized by Google.

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