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Jack Gordon and the United States Navy in World War II

Following his Navy enlistment, Jack was assigned to the Pasco (Washington) Naval Air Station. Although only 20, his journalism experience writing for The Catholic NW Progress, the O'Dea newspaper, and the Seattle Star, gave Jack the abilities and background be be assigned to the Station's Public Relations Office.

Jack started with The Sky-Writer at the Pasco NAS as a staff writer, progressing over next two-and-a-half the years to Sports Editor and finally Managing Editor. (On his departure in May of 1945, Jack received a Meritorious Mast, an article on the front page of The Sky-Writer, and his commemoration in an editorial. Jack was reassigned to Bremerton and the Receiving Station at the Puget Sound Naval Yard where he edited The Ship's Log. He was stationed in Bremerton when WWII was decisively ended by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Jack's final assignment in the U.S. Navy during the second world war was at the Naval Barracks at Swan Island, just outside of Portland, Oregon, where he edited The Swan Islander.

 

 

Photography by F.L.Ash

Some of the men who saved the world.

Gathered outside the Supply Office at the Pasco NAS. Jack was behind the camera in this shot.

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