Page Four
CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, December 19, 1942
Worthwhile Stories About Unfamiliar Names
Meet Some of Your Cadet Shipmates
(Ens. Gotirley came to Chapel
with the intention of resigning his com->
mission to enter the Pre-Flight pro
gram as a V-5 cadet. He failed to pass
the required physical examinations,
however, and was transferred for duty
at Hollywood, Fla. The following ar
ticle was urt'itten by Ens. Gourley, just
before he left the station. — The
Editors.)
By Ens. Edward Gourley
Anyone who reads the newspapers
or the current periodicals is aware of
the galaxy of sportsworld names con
nected with our Naval Pre-Flight
Schools. Former collegiate and pro-
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Khaki Blouses
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fessicnal stars and many of the na
tion’s top-flight coaches are working
efficiently together to produce a supe
rior physical and mental stamina in
tegrated with a will to win in our
naval aviators. To these instructors
much credit is due, for chances are
that medals and citations will not fall
to them, but, nevertheless, their skill
and effort will be recognized when their
pupils engage the enemy in the air.
Although the cadets in most cases
ai’e not familiar names, they do have
a story worth telling. It is a story that
falls under no single heading; its origin
is as global as the war itself. Many
have served one or more years in the
Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. Some
were at Pearl Harbor a year ago.
Others have been attending relatively
luxurious preparatory schools or uni
versities while some of their new bunk-
mates were fighting heavy seas and
subs on North Atlantic patrol. Still
others were working as shipping clerks,
commercial illustrators, aircraft work
ers, or newspaper reporters. A large
number are fresh from city and coun
try high schools. Let several cadets,
chosen at random, tell their own story.
Richard Allen Morse, a ‘veteran’ at
19, was a seaman, first class, on a sea
plane tender, at Pearl Harboro, Dec. 7,
1941. He was graduated from Ash
land (Mass.) High School and waited
for nine days to become of age to en
list in the Navy.
He left the States in June, 1941, and
was in port when the Japs launched
their initial vicious attack. When the
first wave of bomb
ers came over,
Morse, who was
ashore, made for
his battle station
aboard ship. His
first contact with
the war came when
a Jap truck driver
attempted to block
the only entrance to
the yard. This Son
of Nippon was
promptly rewarded
with a .45 slug for his efforts and the
truck was cleared from the entrance.
While anti-aircraft shells were blos
soming among the attacking planes,
Morse, ran to man his range finder. By
Morse
that time, however, the Jap planes
were inside the range scale and firing
was point blank, so he started for the
hangar deck to operate a .50 caliber
machine gun. At that moment an
enemy plane hit by fire from a nearby
cruiser crashed topside on a crane
without killing the pilot. A seaman
manning another .50 caliber gun ran
out and had a brief but successful hand
to hand fight with the pilot. Morse con
tinued on his way only to be blown
off the deck into the water by the con
cussion of an armor piercing bomb ex
ploding three decks below. He was
picked up by a small boat and put
ashore where he helped treat the
wounded survivors from other ships.
During the second attack he carried .50
caliber ammunition up to a roof until
the Jap aircraft withdrew.
In January he arrived back in the
States and went to Lakehurst, N. J.
where he trained as an aerographer
and rerhained there until his entrance
into the Pre-Flight School in'Novem
ber. Asked what assignment he would
like upon winning his wings and com
mission he replied simply, “A fighter
squadron in the Pacific. That’s where
my grudge is—I lost a lot of good bud
dies out there.” His is just one of the
stories of the cadets, told with an un-
afifected directness and with a deter
mined will to beat an enemy he knows
first hand.
Although the majority of the cadets
have not felt the fire of the Axis, there
are a number who have been in the
service previously. One of them is
Richard James Hoben of Coaldale, Pa.,
an ex-sailor. He began selling news
papers at 13 and became one of the
youngest branch re
porters for the Al
lentown, Pa., Morn
ing Call at 15. He
left high school and
worked up to an of
fice job where he
had charge of eight
correspondents in
small outlying
towns. In addition
to this he was a
photographer cov
ering strikes, mur
ders, and fires. As another sideline, or
perhaps antidote, he tried his hand at
Hoben
More Scuttlebutt
There will be a special New Year’s Eve party
at Marley’s with confetti, horns, and all the
trimmings. Navy personnel especially invited.
MARLEY’S
EVERY NITE EXCEPT MONDAY
We will be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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Duncan & Heisey Crystal
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Hand Decorated Trays
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Also large selection of the fin
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Durham, N. C.
poetry and met with some success.
Cadet Hoben obligingly reproduced a
poem, describing the antics of Mr. Hit
ler’s mustache, published in The Poetic
Voice of AmeHca, 19^0. Out of 11,000
entrants only 600 were selected. The
last stanza he added impromptu as he
handed the poem to me.
A Little Black Mustache
It wiggles quite ferociously
When the voice below it speaks.
And when it shakes, a scared world
quakes,
Wondering what now it seeks.
It wiggled at the Czechs one day
Then took a great big slice.
The world stood by, didn’t question
why.
Just mused “That wasn’t nice.”
It wiggled plenty after that
Its demands were always met.
Till Poland’s men rebelled and then
The earth with blood was wet.
Since then it’s wiggled endlessly
Beneath that Aryan nose
And mankind’s gore from hill to shore
In crimson rivers flows.
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P. S.—Chaj^el Hill, N. C., December^
19i2.
I think I’ve found that ‘barber brave’
Here with Uncle Sam’s sky-blazers;
That bushy lip he’s sure to clip
—With Grumman props for razors.
In expressing his preference for fu-
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