scrappy, hasot, been at sea longer than us.ome of the mystery that has been hanging over us is lifted when we enter the panama canal. of unprofessional nervousness about whether or not we are too big to get through the lock. by using lines is that offenders, we do get through. as the naval constructors new all along that we would. >> climb along. we are going places. now we stand out into the pacific. life aboard settled down into monotony. here are aircraft pilots, officers all. ships company called them the grammar boys. they are the men who fly and fight our planes. all the efforts of all the rest of us are concentrated on putting these people into the air and getting them back. most of us are hiding a certain amount of nervousness and anxiety. many of us are johnny-come-lately. reserve officers who only recently learned to fly in corpus christi and jacksonville. specialists.us are reserves are called by the regulars, in a friendly way, 90 day wonders. the turn the enough -- annapolis regulars are called to the trade school