Page Four
CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, July 17, 1943
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**Elsie says to tell you that she's dated up for some
weeks to come!**
© ESQUIRE. INC.. 1943
Reprinted from the August issue of Esquire
mASION
(Continued from page one)
vasion, like Blitzkrieg, depends
for success upon great power con
centrations built up in a very short
time on a relatively narrow front.
The time element also works for
the invaders. While it is impos
sible to conceal completely the vast
preparations of a modern army,
the exact moment when the at
tack is launched usually comes as
a sudden shock to the defense.
There is an interval of time
when the defenders recoil from
the first heavy blows. This oppor
tunity must be exploited to the
full by the attackers. Before de
fensive reenforcements can be
brought up, the beach heads must
be secured, a preliminary grip
must be fastened on lines of com
munication leading inland, and as
many airfields as it is practical to
seize must be brought under con
trol.
The time that elapses before the
defenders regroup their strength
and reestablish equality of forces
may be from two to four days. In
short, the critical moment for the
invaders is not so much the first
hour ashore as the third or fourth
day, when the enemy, having ef
fected his concentration, begins his
proper counter-measures.
Two important objectives lie be
fore the invaders: airfields and
ports with quays. Ultimate suc
cess may depend upon the seizure
of airfields by parachute and
glider troops in the first hours of
invasion. Captured fields are not
only denied the enemy, but they be
come bases for the supply of in
vading ground forces fighting in
the vicinity. The use of airfields
as centers of air-borne supply is
as important as their normal
function of sustaining fighting
aircraft.
Ports with installations such as
quays, cranes, wharves, and so
forth must be captured if heavy
equipment is to be landed success
fully. While moderate-sized tanks
and field pieces can be put ashore
in barges, heavy artillery, loco
motives, sixty-ton tanks, ammuni
tion and gasoline in quantity re
quire elaborate docking and un
loading facilities.
Troops may fight for many days
with the supplies brought in by air
or deposited upon the beach, but
final success can be won only with
equipment that is landed on the
docks of some captured port.
Until You Drop Bombs—
Buy Bonds
AIR STATION
(Continued from page three)
Sabo, USNR, will be behind the
plate. Cadet Joseph Coleman on
the mound, Lt. (jg) John A. Has-
sett, USNR, on first, Ensign Ed
Moriarty, USNR, on second and
Cadets John Pesky and Louis
Gremp on short and third respec
tively.
Cadet Theodore Williams will be
in left. Ensign Harry Craft,
USNR, in center, and PhMSc Al
len Cooke in right.
Other than the game tomorrow
the only other contest scheduled
during the coming week will be
played tonight in Greensboro.
There the Cloudbusters meet the
Carolina Victory league All-Stars
at Memorial stadium. Players op
posing the Pre-Flighters were se
lected on teams from Charlotte,
Concord, Landis and Salisbury
and they represent the cream of
independent ball in North Caro
lina.
QUOTED
(Continued from page three)
credit on the entire service and
gives the Navy a bad name in
civilian communities.
The responsibility of maintain
ing the Navy’s reputation as an
honorable and trustworthy or
ganization rests with every man
in the service.
So remember, mates, the next
time you’re on liberty or at home
with the folks, conduct yourselves
in such a way as to add to the
proud heritage of the Navy.
—The Bainhridge Mainsheet
ARENDT
(Continued from page one)
Lt. (jg) Mack, disbursing of
ficer, will report to the Naval
Operating Base at Norfolk, Va.
Along with Lt. Comdr. B. H.
Micou, (SC) USNR, former sup
ply officer at this station, Lt. (jg)
Mack was the first officer to re
port for duty here.
WILLIAMS
(Continued from page three)
med three homers into the out of
bounds parts of right field, and
the Babe, bothered by his trick
Married
ENSIGN BETTY MUNROE,
USNR, and Lt. (jg) Peter Fick,
USNR, both of whom were sta
tioned at the Pre-Flight School
here until last week, were mar
ried at the home of the bride’s
parents in Howell, Michigan, last
Sunday night.
After a short honeymoon the
couple will make their home at
Jacksonville, Florida, where Lt.
(jg) Fick has been transferred to
the Naval Air Station there.
Ensign Munroe was a Navy
nurse here while Lt. (jg) Fick,
who is a former Olympic swim
ming star, served as assistant to
Lieut. John Miller, USNR, head
swimming coach.
knee, his advancing years, and also
by a very mean foul ball which
caromed off his ankle just couldn’t
get the ball close to the boundaries.
FIRE AT NO. 1: It’s the Japanese Mitsubishi Me 20, a midwing
bomber powered by two radial engines. The wings of this bomber
are tapered to rounded tips. Nose of the long streamlined fuselage
extends forward of the engines. The tailplane is tapered and has
single fin and rudder.
NOT AT NO. 2! It’s the Douglas A-20, known in the RAF as
the Havoc, a three crew attack bomber with two radial engines.
The leading edges of the high midwings are untapered. The
trailing edges are swept forward to narrow tips. Engine nacelles
extend behind the wings, and the nose of the fuselage projects
far forward of the wings. The tailplane is elliptical.