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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, July 24, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 1—No. 44 Sat., July 24, 1943
Published weekly at the U. S. Navy Pre-‘
Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., under super
vision of the Public Relations Office. Contribu
tions of news, features, and cartoons are
welcome from all hands and should be turned in
to the Public Relations Office, Navy Hall.
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CLOUDBUSTER receives Camp Newspaper
Service material. Republication of credited
matter prohibited without permission of CNS,
War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N.Y.C.
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CoMDR. John P. Graff, USN (Ret.)
Commanding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. P. 0. Brewer, USNR
Public Relations Officer
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Editor: Lt. (jg) Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Associate Editor: Orville Campbell, Y'Ac
By George J. Grewenow
Chaplain Corps, USNR
The order of our day is the meeting of
standards, measurements, and tests. We put
forth strenuous efforts to become qualified, to
remain qualified, and to improve our qualifi
cations. We do this to determine how we
measure up in the eyes of those with whom
and for whom we live and serve.
There is need also for determining how we
measure up in our own eyes. For
“1 have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able, as days go by,
Always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I’ve done.”
Erich Remarque, in his telling account of
life in the first World War, writes this dis
turbing line, “I often sit over against myself
as before a stranger,” It takes courage to do
so. For this “judge and jury” is relentless
in its questionings, accusations, and chal
lenges. There is no evasion.
How do you measure up in your own eyes?
.. go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife.
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The feller whose verdict counts most in
your life
Is the guy staring back in the glass.”
A good many “obstacle courses” must be
run before you can measure up to that “guy
staring back in the glass.” But it can be done
—not, however, without strenuous effort and
exercise. Others have done it, and have been
able to say, “Herein do I exercise myself, to
have always a conscience void of offence to
ward God, and toward men.” Acts 24:16.
Over 9,000 Planes Produced
No good news for the Axis was the report
from the Navy Department last week that sub
stantially more than 9,000 planes were pro
duced for the Navy during the first half of
1943. This is as many planes as were accepted
by the Navy in all of 1942, and two and a
half times the 1941 Navy production.
However, production has merely kept pace
with the demands of war, for, as Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox has said, ship con
struction this year will be distinguished by
its emphasis on aircraft carriers, and airplane
production must keep in step with the Navy’s
increasing need for carrier-based and land-
based planes.
The more than 9,000 planes produced in the
first six months of this year do not represent
a net increase in the Navy’s combat air
strength of that amount, for the figure in^
eludes trainers and utility planes. Moreover,
some of the Navy’s new combat planes were
transferred to the Army or lend-leased to for
eign governments, and a part of the new pro
duction was offset by battle losses and ob
solescence.
In spite of these factors, for every dozen
combat planes in the Navy’s air arm on Dec.
31, 1942, there are now more than a score.
When the United States entered the war.
training planes accounted for nearly half of
the total Navy production, reflecting the em
phasis on training a huge new Naval air arm.
Since then, the percentage of trainers pro
duced has declined and that of combat planes
increased until last month 70% of the Navy
planes produced were of the combat variety—
fighters or bombers.
Nearly four times as many torpedo bombers
were produced in June, 1943, as in June, 1942.
Dive bomber production was multiplied six and
one-half times, fighter production more than
three and one-half times.
On the Lighter Side ...
Out of Uniform
At Great Lakes the OOD’s phone rang the
other night, late at night. It was a sailor on
watch in one of the battalion offices. “Sir, we
have a mouse in our office,” he reported. “What
color is it?” demanded the irate OOD. “Grey,
Sir.” “All right,” snapped the answer, “put
him under arrest, he’s out of uniform.”
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Don’t Push
A Pre-Flight cadet was on his way to meet
formation, and as he hurried, he prayed:
“Dear God, don’t let me be late—please, God,
don’t let me be late.” Then he happened to
stumble, and: “Well, you don’t have to push!”
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