After joining the service Henry Crosby presumably was sent to the Naval Training School (indoctrination) at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. After completing indoctrination, he likely attended the Air Combat Information School there also.

"An important outlet for the younger Quonset men especially was the Air Combat Information School, which was also established at Quonset. This was a two months' course that trained ground officers for necessary duties in combat areas or at coastal operational fields. These were the men who briefed the pilots before and after flight, kept them abreast of operational data, and collected intelligence information both for the pilots and for higher echelons. Hardly a history of a naval squadron has been written without tribute being paid the willing and effective contribution of these men. Much of their entrenchment cannot be measured by any tangible gauges, but by the intangible factor of personal relationship. The ACI officer, though often some years older than the pilots, ate with them, and when occasions permitted, drank with them, worked with them, counseled them, and all in all acted as a leveling influence on young men living under the terrible uncertainty of modern war."

-From Bill Thayer's website: The Navy's Air War, Chapter 28, pg 317

"Aircraft Action Report" #1 for June 12th 1944 (pg1)

"Aircraft Action Report" #1 for June 12th 1944 (pg2)

"Aircraft Action Report" #1 for June 12th 1944 (pg3)

"Aircraft Action Report" #1 for June 12th 1944 (pg4)

Aircraft Action Report #1 (pg5) for June 12th 1944

Among his duties as the squadrons ACI Officer Lt Crosby prepared and signed all "Aircraft Action Reports" (documenting each combat sortie flown by VT-1 while deployed aboard USS Yorktown). Above is Report #1 for the first combat hop flown on June 12th 1944 (one plane shot down and three squadron members killed).

Henry Greene Crosby