Vol. 3—No. 42
U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
Friday, July 6, 1945
Navy Inaugurates
NBC Radio Series
Starting July 10
The first network radio series
to be written and produced by
the Navy Department will have
its premiere in Washington,
D. C., at 2100-2130 EWT, Tues
day, 10 July, over the National
Broadcasting Company.
The series will feature the. 90-
piece U. S. Navy Symphony Or
chestra, a high-ranking Navy of
ficer in a report of the current
War news, a pickup from a ship
of the Pacific Fleet, and an espe
cially written dramatic tribute
to a particular branch of the
Service with a name guest star
and especially arranged music.
Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR,
Who will act as master of cere
monies for the first three pro
grams, is on duty as a flight in
structor at the Naval Air Station,
New Orleans, La., a unit of the
Naval Air Primary Training
Command. Lieut. Taylor also
has collateral duty there in con
nection with production of train
ing films concerning the primary
stages of Naval Aviation.
Navy Hour is scheduled to run
for 13 weeks on Tuesdays at the
time indicated above.
l^icnic for Officers to
Be Held Next Wednesday
An informal outing for the
officers and their families is
Scheduled for Hogan’s Lake on
Wednesday, July 11, starting at
1630. Entertainment for the pic-
^ic, which will be the first of
three sponsored this summer by
the Welfare and Recreation Of
fice, is being planned by a com
mittee from the Military Depart
ment, with Lt. Comdr. E. M.
Waller as chairman. Officers
bleeding transportation should
Set in touch with Lt. Comdr.
Waller or Lt. (jg) Edwin W.
J^olk. Welfare and Recreation
Officer.
J^roblems of Divorce
Kokomo, Ind. (CNS). ;The
big issue in this divorce suit is
^ot custody of the children but
Custody of an elephant. Terrell
Jacobs says he doesn’t mind los
ing his wife, Marie, but he wants
that elephant. So does INferie.
Jts loss, says Jacobs, would leave
him with only eight lions, five
tiger cubs, four leopards, and
tour monkeys. Both are circus
E'erformers.
NEW CADET STAFF—Members of the new cadet regimental staff
from the 67th Battalion are, left to right, William M. Boardman,
Gary, W. Va., regimental commander; Alan E. Rasmussen, Minne
apolis Minn., regimental sub-commander; Harry O. Walp, Upper
Darby, Pa., regimental adjustant; and Eugene E. Katz, Consho-
hocken, Pa., commissary officer.
Student Aviation Pilot Was Member
Of PBY Squadron in the Aleutians'
After a varied career in Naval
Aviation that began before Pearl
Harbor and has included several
“firsts,” Student Aviation Pilot,
K. W. Waters of the 70th Battal
ion is working to win the Navy’s
Wings of Gold.
Taking his boot training at
Norfolk in early 1941, Waters
entered the Class “A” Aviation
Machinist Mate’s School, also at
Norfolk.
Late in September of ’41, he
was assigned to VP-51, a squad
ron made up PBY’s, where he
took over duties as a “second
mech” and was taught profi
ciency as a turret gunner.
O n fateful
December 7th,
the squadron
was ordered to
Honolulu and
Waters was
there at Ford
Island until in
May, just be
fore the Battle
of Midway,
when he was
sent Stateside to bring out more
planes.
Members of VP-51 had hardly
arrived in the States before the
Japs attacked Dutch Harbor.
With a group of new planes,
VP-51 was sent at once to the
Aleutians as the first patrol
bombers to hit the Japs in that
area.
Attacked by 6 Zeros
The squadron attacked several
enemy subs in the Aleutian area,
and carried out bombing raids
on Kiska. Returning from one
bombing raid, the plane in
which Waters was flying was
jumped by six Jap Zeros and
was followed most of the way
back to the base.
“I don’t know why they didn’t
shoot us down,” declared Wa
ters. “We were just lucky that
they didn’t decide to close in on
us.”
The squadron lost more planes
to bad weather than they did
to the enemy. Take-offs fre
quently had to be made when
objects could not be seen over
one hundred yards away.
The only squadron plane lost
due to enemy action was one
that broke up and sank as it
landed at the base after being
shot-up in a running duel with
Nip fighters.
In December, 1942, Waters
was transferred to VB-101, the
Navy’s first squadron of B24’s.
This squadron was assigned to
advanced bombing patrols in the
Bougainville area in cooperation
with the Army.
VB-101 participated in the last
battle of Guadalcanal and made
heavy strikes on enemy shipping
in the Munda area. During
the first month of these daylight
raids over important concentra
tions of enemy shipping, VB-101
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Last Chance
To Take Part
In Bond Drive
The Navy’s Independence Day
War Bond sale comes to a close
here tomorrow, and as yet the
station quota has not been
reached, it is announced by
Lieut. John C. Worth, local War
Bond Officer. The Pre-Flight
School, at this writing Wednes
day, was still $24,000 short of its
goal, although bonds with $60 -
875 maturity value had been
purchased.
It is hoped that many of the
persons unsubscribed will buy
their bonds in Room 112, Alex
ander, before the sale ends.
By mid-week the cadet regi
ment had purchased a total of
$26,575 in bonds, as shown be
low by battalions with percent
ages of quotas met and total
amounts bought:
66th Batt 22.5% $1,600
67th Batt 18.1% 1,125
68th Batt 50.4% 3,525
69th Batt 35.9% 3,225
70th Batt 63.7% 9,550
71st Batt 62.2% 4,975
Refreshers 17.0% 2,575
Officers here have purchased
bonds with $30,150 maturity
value, the crew $1,300, and civil
ian workers $2,850.
Mr, Gates Is ISew Under
Secretary of the ISavy
Artemus L. Gates, former As
sistant Secretary of the Navy for
Air, on July 3 became Under
Secretary of the Navy, succeed
ing Mr. Ralph A. Bard. As As
sistant Secretary for Air since
Sept^ 5 1941, Mr. Gates super
vised^ the building up of the
Navy s air force to its present
striking power.
The new Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Air is Mr. John
L. Sullivan, a former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Pre-Flight Band Will
Open Concerts in July
The Pre-Flight Band is in
preparation for the coming con
cert season. The music will be
of a varied nature, including
popular arrangements of classi
cal and semi-classical numbers.
The season will open on Julv
29th.
Rehearsals for the concerts are
being held on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and -i^ursday afternoons at
the Band Barracks.