September 19, 1942
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Five
BACKWARD LOOK
(Continued from, first page)
Quadrangle in the middle of March.
The Lower Quadrangle was still oc
cupied, but the occupants had the
strained and careworn look of one
whose mortgage payments on the old
farm were sadly delinquent.
Alexander Hall, being centrally lo
cated in the area which was to be
taken over by the Navy, was desig
nated as the Administration Building.
Since it had been simply Dormitory
“K,” a vast amount of work was neces
sary to convert it into the well equip
ped, efficient administration building
which our incoming Cadets now see.
Caldwell Hall was to be an academic
building, but no work was started on
Caldwell, since the University was
utilizing the entire facilities of this
building.
Near the middle of April, the com
manding officer, Comdr. O. 0. Kessing,
USN, arrived for a few days to inspect
the work program and direct the fu
ture organization. A group of about
a dozen officers who had just finished
their indoctrination course at Quonset
Point also arrived, highly enthusiastic
over the prospects of helping to organ
ize the new post. A medical officer, a
chief pharmacist’s mate, and a dental
officer arrived next. Incidentally,
although the station now had a den
tist, there was no dental equipment.
No one had time for tooth-aches any
way.
As more and more men arrived to
take up their duties at the new station,
an acute housing problem arose in the
village. There was now no question in
the minds of the townspeople that they
had entirely underestimated the mag
nitude of the new Navy project. The
twelve officers who had reported from
Quonset Point found it necessary to
quarter themselves in the field house,
where they lay awake nights writing
regulations, working up fire and air
raid drills, black-out plans, figuring
out ideas for regimental organization,
and a myriad other details necessary
for the complete organization of a new
post.
Supplies were now flooding in from
everywhere. These supplies came by
truck and by freight car, and arrived
at all times of the day and night. It
now became necessary for everyone to
pitch in doing the work of first-class
stevedores. Dungarees or shorts be
came the “Uniform of the Day,” and
officers and men labored side by side
unloading materials, setting up desks,
building shelves, storing bunks and
mattresses, and driving trucks back
and forth between freight depots and
commandeered storage spaces.
(To Be Continued)
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competitive athletics as a means of
conditioning American youth.
“Competitive athletics make men
tough, instill a fighting spirit, build
morale we need in our fighting forces,”
the Manassa Mauler said, “We need
more schools of the Pre-Flight type to
teach our boys how to fight. Give ’em
football, boxing, and the other body-
contact sports to make ’em rough, and
we’ll slap the Japs to kingdom come.”
In a question and answer session
with the cadets, Lieut. Dempsey was
asked to pick the winner of the com
ing heavyweight fight between Sgt.
Joe Louis, the current heavyweight
champion and Pvt. Billy Conn. With
out hesitation Dempsey called Louis
the winner “by a knockout in the fourth
or fifth round.”
When asked how he would go about
fighting Louis, the ex-champion said,
“IVe always believed a good offense is
the greatest defense. If I went in the
ring against Louis, I’d knock him out
in the first round—or get knocked out.
During the discussion of former
It would be a short fight, you can bet
on that.”
fighters, the name of the Italian giant
Primo Camera was mentioned. Demp
sey dismissed him with “Camera
couldn’t whip any cadet on this sta
tion.”
Experienced Thug Handler
Like many an Irishman before him,
Cadet William J. P. O’Sullivan, of the
7th Battalion, was a plainclothes
policeman in Harlem, and aided in a
vice-cleanup, before he joined naval
aviation in the hope of “cleaning up”
the Axis. O’Sullivan is from Flushing,
Long Island, N. Y.
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Six Academic Instructors Are Detached
During the past fortnight, six aca
demic instructors have been detached
from the station and transferred to
duty elsewhere:
Lieut. Richard H. Robinson, going
to the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at
Philadelphia, Pa.;
Lieut. Vincent C. Tompkins, Jr., to
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