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CLOUDBUSTER
V
Saturday, October 2, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 2—No. 3 Sat., October 2, 1943
Published weekly at the V. S. Navy Pre-
Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., under super
vision of the Public Relations Office. Contri
butions of news, features, and cartoons are
welcome from all hands and should he 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, Y2c
An Editorial
Serving It's Purpose
Somehow we can’t help but admire the
Cloudbuster football coaching staff and play
ers more than any other athletic team that has
ever represented this Pre-Flight School.
They’re not world beaters by any means, a
look at the roster will convince you of that.
But they’ve the spirit and determination to
play against all odds, to do the best they can.
This war is going to be won the same way.
Spirit on the battlefield and football field go
hand in hand. Everyone connected with Pre-
Flight training, everyone in the service, must
give his individual assignment everything he’s
got, must do his best.
You couldn’t ask for a better coaching staff
than Lieut. Frank Kimbrough, USNR, and his
aides. From the beginning they’ve tackled
their jobs with a two fold purpose. Naturally
they like to win football games, any coach
would. Still they realize they’ve got a bigger
job at the moment. They are a definite part
of Pre-Flight training.
All of us are striving to make future Navy
fliers out of the cadets here now. We want
them to be the finest, strongest, best qualified
fighters in the world. A year from now we’ll
know how well we’ve done the job.
It’s easy to play on a winning combination,
anyone can and does. But to stick to the task,
regardless of what the odds may be, that is
the real tribute.
This Pre-Flight football team is sticking to
the task. Regardless of the odds you won’t
have to ever worry about their lack of spirit.
They’re real Americans, they’re made of the
stuff that’s going to win this war.
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1000 Hill Music Hall
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2015.
book reviews ... '
Japan’s Military Masters; the Army in
Japanese Life by Hillis Lory, New York, The
Viking Press, 1943, 256 pp.
Modern Japan, as we must know it if we
are to win in the Pacific, is the Army of Japan.
That is only one of several paradoxes about
Japan that baffle Americans. Without dis
torting the focus it is possible to view Japanese
life today from the vantage point of the Army,
as Hillis Lory has done in this temperate but
startling survey.
Mr. Lory became interested in the Japanese
Army as long ago as 1926 while teaching at
the Hokkaido Imperial University on the
northernmost of Japan’s four islands. In
formally he has conversed with Japanese mili
tary men in all ranks, and before 1937—when
Japan launched the attack on North China and
opened World War II—he was readily granted
access to the Ministry of War.
Concerning the personnel of the forces, the
author is informative and easily readable. We
learn how the common soldier is inducted,
trained, and paid; how he is equipped and
fed in camp and in the field. We read of his
health, his sexual morality, his fanatical aver
sion to surrender.
Officers, drawn largely from the lower mid
dle classes, are represented as low-paid, simple
in their living habits, and embarrassingly in
dustrious in the pursuit of technical skills.
Most seriously now, their training leaves them
without sound ideas on social, economic, and
political questions. In a stern final chapter
on the power of Japan at war, we are shocked
out of our complacency about the speed and
certainty of our victory in the Pacific.
Elsewhere in discussing the central organi
zation of the Army, its cynical manipulation
of deep-lying emotional instincts of the aver
age Japanese, and its stranglehold on political
power in Japan, Mr. Lory clearly shows that
in Japan, too, as in Germany and Italy, we are
faced with a social revolution fallen into the
wrong hands and gone awry.
Social and economic unrest was widespread
in Japan, and Army leaders, ignorant but
powerful, rushed in with their remedy, which
—if it ever offered a cure—is sure to kill the
patient. All three countries desired to im
prove the lot of their common citizens, but they
fatally chose the obsolete instruments of ram
pant nationalism in an age of internationalism
and the sword in an age that had slowly been
moving toward peace.
■—Reviewed by Lieut. F. E. Bowman, U.SNR,
Academic Department.
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