Vol. 3—No. 41
U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
Friday, June 29, 1945
Lt.Cmdr.Ingwersen
Leaves Station for
DutyinNATTC
Lt. Comdr. Burton A. Ingwer-
sen, athletic director here for the
past two years, has been de
tached for duty with a unit of
the Naval Air Technical Training
Command, Chicago, 111. His suc
cessor as director of athletics has
not yet arrived.
Prior to entering the Naval
Aviation phys
ical and mili
tary training
program in
February,1943,
Lt. Comdr. Ing-
wersen had
served for
eight years as
line coach of
football at
Northwestern
University.
He has been connected with
athletics since college days at
the University of Illinois, where
he lettered in football, basket
ball and baseball before being
graduated in 1920. In 1924 he
Was named head football coach
at the University of Iowa, be
coming one of the youngest
ftientors in the game. After
Coaching Iowa football teams for
eight years, he went to Louisiana
State University where he was
line coach from 1932 until gomg
to Northwestern in 1935.
Pre-Flight Crew Club
To Open Saturday Eve
The grand opening of the
Cruise Club, social activity for
the ship’s companies of the Pre-
J’light School and University
Naval Units, will occur on Satur
day evening, June 30th at the
American Legion Hut on E. Rose-
tnary Street.
At 1900, the doors will be
opened and a chicken buffet din
gier will be served to members
9nd guests at 1930. Dancing will
begin at 2030, music furnished
by the Cloudbuster Swing Band.
Members of the crew have
Spent a great deal of time and
effort on getting the club into
shape for use, and are looking
forward to a successful summer
Season. The planning and work
of putting the club into opera
tion have been under the super
vision of the club president, C. B.
Lillis, CY; vice-pres., W. F. Plow-
fteld, CPhM; and Secy-Treas.,
t). A. Ebel, CCS.
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"You'll see some REAL fireworks when your mother finds that I
forgot to buy her an Independence Day war bond!"
It Pays To Know How To Swim; That’s
What Former Cadet Learns in Pacific
How swimming ability saved
the life of Lt. (jg) Robert H.
Cron, 12th Battalion cadet here
from Worcester, Mass., is told in
a Navy Dept, release on Com
posite Squadron 85 which has re
turned to the United States for
leave and reassignment after
seven months of Pacific combat.
Shot down behind the Japanese
lines on Okinawa in April, Lt.
(jg) Cron managed to land his
Avenger torpedo bomber in a
cleared area and to abandon the
plane seconds before its bombs
exploded. The pilot and his
radioman were discovered by
Japanese ground forces and
chased into the sea by rifie fire.
The two swam through the surf
with bullets splashing around
them. They reached a reef out of
rifle range and later were picked
up by two Navy seaplanes.
During seven months of di
versified duties, which included
everything from convoying and
anti-submarine patrol to ground
support missions and aerial bat
tles, Squadron 85, based aboard
an escort carrier of the Casa
blanca class, sank 46 ships, dam
aged 40 more, destroyed 77
buildings, and blew up ammuni
tion dumps, trucks, tanks and
gun emplacements. The squad
ron expended more than 500
bombs and 3,000 rockets in its
actions.
Legion of Merit for
Rear Admiral Sallada
Rear Admiral Harold B. Sal
lada, U.S.N., 50, Chief of the
Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy De
partment, had been awarded the
Legion of Merit for exceptionally
meritorious conduct as comman
der support aircraft of the Joint
Expeditionary force in opera
tions in the Marshall Islands in
early 1944. _
High Cost of Living
“I mean weekly, just like I
said,” insisted a $46 a week Vir
ginia munitions worker when it
was suggested that he must have
meant a bond deduction of $43 a
month rather than a week.
“I live up the. creek with
pappy §0 I don’t have to pay
rent,” he explained. “I ride to
work with my brother-in-law
and I don’t have to pay him. I
grow a few tobacco plants for
my chewin’ and I bring my own
lunch in a paper sack.
“Tarnation,” he concluded,
“never could spend mor’n $3 a
week. Why should I begin now?”
$41,000 in War
Bonds Sold as
4th Week Ends
As the Extra Cash War Bond
Sale on this station finishes its
fourth week and prepares to roll
to a end on July 7th, the total
amount of bonds purchased has
continued to rise encouragingly.
Lieut. John C. Worth, local
war bond officer states, “Our to
tal cash sales at the present time
come to approximately $41,000.
We would like to hit at least
$55,000 before the drive closes.”
With a portion of the station’s
personnel still unsubscribed, it is
expected that this goal will cer
tainly be reached.
Shades of 1776, or
The First War Loan
The War Bond expert, who is
at home with statistics involving
billions of dollars of 1945 money,
would be mildly shocked to sur
vey the methods whereby the
men of 1776 raised their money
to equip the Army of Independ
ence.
Money was almost as scarce
then as a T-bone steak today,
and the young States had their
own coin values, to confuse the
issue still further.
'Among the methods used to
raise the necessary funds were
the following:
Issuance of paper money; so
licitation of loans at home and
abroad, chiefly from France and
Holland; a system of “specifics”
whereby the States were asked
to furnish flolir, meat, or other
staples for the Army; State tax
ation; lotteries, and the pledg
ing of personal credit by indi
viduals to guarantee payment of
supplies bought for the troops.
Raising money then was a
tough proposition, according to
the historians, but chiefly be
cause there wasn’t much of it in
circulation.
Today’s War of Independence
is financed much more simply
War Bonds, backed by the credit
of the United States Government
and providing 2.9 percent inter
est, are the answer of 1945 citi
zens. Navy’s “extra” War Bond
campaign from 22 June through
power to
that Nation-wide response.
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