OR Division
(later became CR Division)
OR men keep HELENA in touch with the outside, no matter how many hundreds or thousands of miles away we may be. Dit-da-dit-dit goes constantly down in Radio Central, where OR personnel are sending and receiving messages by teletype, Morse Code, and radiotelephone. The expertly-trained radiomen tune transmitters and recievers, breakdown, write up, and deliever all messages not sent or received by visual means. In WESTPAC, this usually comes to many hundreds every day.
The ship's biggest morale builder comes under OR Division-----the Post Office, which is a regular licensed United States government post office, providing all the services of those at home. Her personnel accomplish a mountainous job when, say, several hundred pounds of mail come aboard. It is quickley sorted and delivered, usually in less than an hour.
Radioman
Teleman
OR DIVISION . . . . .
from their efforts comes our
contact with all outside
our own boundaries
From the 1958 - 1959 Helena cruise book |
From the 1959 - 1960 Helena cruise book
From the 1956 Helena cruise book |