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As a quartermaster on our ship (LCI 222) I was in charge of sending and receiving messages from one ship to another. I had to be good at sending both light signals and semaphore in Morris code. This was the means of communication between ships in the early part of the war. On ship we communicated by means of voice tubes that carried the sound of our voice from one place to another. For instance there was such a tube from the conning tower down to the pilot house below so we could communicate. This photo was taken at Empress Augusta Bay, Boogainville, Solomon Islands. We had just landed a group of marines, and there was a great deal of enemy fire and shoot going on over on the island just behind me.