Friday, March 16, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Three
ALL-NAVY wedding—Rev. Edward Sullivan is shown perform
ing the ceremony last Saturday in which Miss Irene Contois, HAlc,
became the bride of Charles E. Walter, HAlc. Left to right are
I^ev. Sullivan, Alva Parsons, PhM3c, best man; the groom and
bride, Marilyn E. Scholl, HAlc, bridesmaid, and Capt. Deane H.
^ance, USN, senior medical officer who gave the bride away.
Wave, Corpsman
In Station’s First
Enlisted Wedding
In the first all-Navy wedding
enlisted personnel aboard this
station. Miss Irene Contois,
^Alc, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Contois of Essex Junc
tion, Vt., became the bride last
Saturday of Charles E. Walter,
^Alc, of Bethesda, Md.
Rev. Edward Sullivan of
Chapel Hill performed the
Rouble-ring ceremony in the
Catholic rectory and, following
Wedding breakfast at the Caro
lina Inn, the couple departed for
Washington, D. C., to spend their
*^oneymoon.
. Best man was Alva Parsons,
PhM3c, of Tipp City, O., while
Capt. Deane H. Vance, (MC),
(Ret.), senior medical offi-
gave the bride away. Mrs.
y^ance was guest of honor. Mari-
E. Scholl, HAlc, River
“ouge, Mich., was maid of honor.
The bride wore a white satin
toule net wedding gown and
^nger tip veil with orange blos
soms. The maid of honor wore
Powder blue satin and toule net
§own, and dubonnet hat.
—^Ens. Foye—
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^truck by flack and the flyer’s
l^st words over the radio were
Jnat he was heading for the
fountains.
Squadron mates wondered and
^orried over Ens. Foye. Had he
^^ashed and died? Was he a Jap
^^isoner? No word came, four
^onths passed, and the air group
^as coming home,
i The ship carrying them was
days from Pearl Harbor
P hen the skipper of Ens. Foye’s
^§hter squadron, Comdr. Fred-
Ji'ick E. Bakutis, USN, had a
^’^'eam. He had been thinking
worrying about the lost flyer,
dreamed that he came back
^ us, safe and sound,” said
|“Oindr. Bakutis. “And what’s
l^ore, I dreamed he claimed that
^ had shot down 201/2 Jap
Cadet Chakmakian
Of 64th Battalion
Was B-24 Engineer
Cadet Carl Chakmakian of
Dearborn, Mich., a former hy
draulic layout engineer on B-24
bombers, is the new regimental
commander from the 64th Batt.
Others on the regimental staff
are Cadets Frank A. Derby, sub
commander; Albert W. Seeley,
adjutant, and Douglas K. Dillon,
commissary officer.
Cadet Chakmakian, who at
tended Fordson Junior College
and the University of Michigan
before entering the service, also
has participated in national
model airplane contests with
success.
Cadet Seeley, from Brook
lyn, enlisted in the USCG in
January of *1942 as a BM2c and
transferred to V-5 last April.
Cadet Dillon, from Bloomsburg,
Pa., attended Bucknell in 1943.
Huge Gasoline And Food
Supplies Landed At Iwo
With ships of the initial land
ing force at Iwo Jima went a
complete floating supply and re
pair base, furnishing enough
fuel oil to make up a train of
10,000-gal. tank cars extending
238 miles—enough gasoline to
run 30,730 automobiles a full
year—and enough food to feed a
city the size of Columbus, O.,
for 30 days.
planes before he was shot down.”
Dream Not Quite True
The ship docked at Pearl Har
bor. The airmen lining the rail
saw a khaki figure on the wharf
waving at them and a roar went
up from them. It was Ens Foye.
He had bailed out over the
mountains, and for months elud
ed the Japs. Once they came
within 20 yards of him, but he
hid in the brush. The Japs set
police dogs on him, but a for
tunate rain came and washed
away his scent.
The dream didn’t come en
tirely true. Ens. Foye claimed
only one Jap plane.
New Battle Film
Shows Intensity
Of Jap Fighting
The ferocity of the war against
the Japs will be brought to mo
tion picture screens around the
country on March 22 with the
release of “Fury in the Pacific,”
produced by the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps, and distrib
uted by the War Activities Com
mittee of the Motion Picture In
dustry.
The 20-minute film, which will
be shown at the local Carolina
Theatre on March 27-28, is
packed with action and depicts
the intense struggle necessary to
wrest from the Japs the tiny but
important islands of Peliliu and
Angaur. The picture is timely,
since it is of an operation against
a small land mass, and is some
what similar to the Iwo Jima
operation, and, as the film’s fore
word states, “demonstrates the
effort required of a typical mis
sion in the Pacific.”
Peliliu, 1980 miles from To
kyo, is a tiny dot of sand five
miles long and two miles wide.
Six miles away is Angaur. Both
islands have excellent airstrips.
Nine Photographers Fell
As in the case of Iwo Jima,
tons and tons of steel were
poured into Peliliu and Angaur
from off-shore bombardment and
from the air. The picture shows
the terrible punishment inflicted
on the islands prior to the land
ing, and then depicts the now-
historic battle of “Bloody Nose
Ridge.”
The camera crews who took
the pictures were in the thick of
the fight from start to finish.
Nine photographers fell record
ing the battle. Through their
camera lenses the public will see
close-ups of Japs picked off by
sharp-shooting Marines, and the
close-in fighting resulting from
flushing out caves with flame
throwers and grenades.
The amphibious forces were
commanded by Vice Admiral
T. W. Wilkinson, USN, Comman-
Navy Construction
Program Increased
By 84 More Ships
Assuming no interim losses,
completion of the old and the
present extended combatant ship
programs would give the Navy
a total of 1,532 combatant ships
by the end of 1947, the Navy De
partment announced last week.
This would represent a total
tonnage of 6,485,823.
The extended combatant ship
program, comprising 84 ships
displacing 636,860 tons, was
ordered by Fleet Admiral Ernest
J. King, USN, Commander-in-
Chief, U. S. Navy, and Chief of
Naval Operations. The program
would be in addition to 288
combatant vessels remaining on
the construction program on Feb.
1, 1945.
Included in the extended pro
gram are large aircraft carriers,
escort aircraft carriers, heavy
cruisers, light cruisers, destroy
ers, and submarines.
Play maker s T o Give
Musical Program
For Cadets, Mar. 28
Designed expressly by Robert
Douglas Hume for camp touring
by the University of North Caro
lina Playmakers, a musical va
riety show, “Playmakers’ Poly
phonic Pastimes,” will be pre
sented to the regiment of cadets
on Wednesday, March 28. The
show will replace the usual
Happy Hour in Memorial Hall.
Shows varying in length from
30 minutes to an hour and a half
can be presented with complete
unity in any location.
After showing in Chapel Hill
on March 21, 22, 23 and 24 the
“Pastimes” will be taken on the
road before the musical returns
for presentation to Pre-Flight
cadets.
der. Third Amphibious Force,
while the expeditionary troops
were commanded by Maj. Gen.
Julian C. Smith, USMC.
NEW CADET STAFF—Members of the new cadet regimental staff
from the third section of the 64th Batt are shown above as follows:
Carl Chakmakian, regimental commander; Frank A. Derby sub
commander; Albert W. Seeley, adjutant, and Douglas K Dillon
commissary officer. ’