Vol. 2—No. 10
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Friday, November 19, 1943
USS Card Awarded Presidential Unit Citation
AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE USS CARD, an escort aircraft carrier which performed sensational exploits in the Atlantic in the war
against Nazi U-boats. The Card was converted from a merchant hull. Last Friday a football team representing the Card visited this
Pre-Flight activity and played the Mariners, leading Sports Program team. The latter won, 13 to 0. A complete story of the heroic
Vv^ork of these men will be found on pages 5 and 6 of this issue of the Cloudbuster. (Photo courtesy of Duiham Sun.)
Cadets To Have
Afternoon Liberty
On Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day, next Thurs-
will be observed as a work day
this station.
In the morning, the Saturday
Schedule will be substituted for
usual week day routine, and
'^adets will have liberty in the af-
^srnoon. Evening meal formation
''"ill be at 1805 and liberty will be
Si'anted from after evening meal
*-0 2130. Tattoo will be at 2155 and
at 2200.
“The Sky’s the Limit” with Fred
Astaire and Joan Leslie will be
®hown at the Village Theatre on
'thanksgiving Day.
Card Football Eleven Defeated
By Mariner Squadron, 13 to 0
A football team representing the USS Card was defeated, 13 to 0,
by the Mariners here last Friday, but the score of the game was
incidental in comparison to the background of the men on the visiting
eleven.
On Wednesday, prior to the game, newspapers throughout the
country carried front page stories about the loss of the Bone, an
four-piper destroyer.^’
down.
In announcing the recent loss of
the Borie, which took Nazi U-boats
with her the night she went down,
the Navy also revealed that presi
dential unit citations had been
awarded to the Card; to the Card’s
task unit, composed of the “baby
flat-top” herself, her aviation
See CARD FOOTBALL, page S
over-age.
And the Navy, revealing with un
concealed pride a story which an
official spokesman termed “one of
the great epics of the war,” doffed
its hat today to the glorious rec
ord which the old destroyer and
her running mate, a squat “baby
flat-top” called the USS Card had
achieved as a reckless pair of U-
boat killers before the Borie went
Adm. Buckmaster
Will Command
San Diego Base
Kansas City, Kan., Nov. 14—
(AP)—Rear Admiral Elliott Buck-
master, former commanding officer
of the aircraft carrier, Yorktown,
at the Battle of Midway, has been
ordered to assume command of the
San Diego Naval Air Base, effec
tive within the next two weeks. He
succeeds Rear Admiral Ernest
Gunther.
The above news item appearing
in papers around the country last
Monday announces an imminent
change in duty for Rear Admiral
Elliott Buckmaster, USN, Chief
See ADMIRAL, yage 3