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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Saturday, September 4, 1943 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 1—No. 50 Sat., September 4, 1943 Published weekly at the U. S. Navy Pre- Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., under super vision of the Public Relations Office. Contri butions of news, features, and cartoons are welcome from all hands and should he turned in to the Public Relations Office, Navy Hall. ★ CLOUDBUSTER receives Camp Newspaper Service material. Republication of credited matter prohibited without permission of CN S, War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N.Y.C. ★ CoMDR. John P. Graff, USN (Ret.) Commanding Officer Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, USNR Executive Officer Lieut. P. 0. Brewer, USNR Public Relations Officer ★ Editor: Lt. (jg) Leonard Eiserer, USNR Associate Editor: Orville Campbell, Y2c BuAer’s Anniversary The Bureau of Aeronautics’ 22nd anniver sary last Wednesday recalls many historic highlights in the development of the world’s mightiest naval air power. For 21 months of the present war, the 21 years of peacetime aviation development car ried on by the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics has been tested under fire—and proved sound. The qualitative superiority which was al ways the goal in materiel and personnel has Rear Admirals MoflFett Ramsey already inflicted great losses on our enemies. The quantitative superiority which American resources make possible will annihilate our foes. BuAer’s peacetime triumphs count today for victory in the skies all over the world. There is both sentiment and hard experi ment connected with its history. Just as it was the famous “T.R.” (on whose birthday Navy Day is observed annually) who gave the order which sent Admiral Dewey steam ing into Manila Bay on that historic May morning in 1898, so it was his son and name sake, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who signed Gen eral Order No. 65 establishing the Bureau of Aeronautics in 1921. President Harding completed organization of BuAer on Sept. 1, 1921, by appointing the late Rear Admiral William A, Moifett, USN, as its first chief. Admiral Moffett was des- See ANNIVERSARY, page 4 Instructors Here Ranked High at Navigation School The group of navigation instructors who recently reported here after completing the 10-week course at the Navigation School, Hollywood, Fla., ranked well-up in their class of 156—attaining an average of 3.71 compared to the class average of 3.62. Top honors among the 156 who qualified as- air navigators went to Ens. W. Strasbaugh, USNR, of this station with the near perfect average of 3.893 for the course which included air navigation, flight navigation, and aerology. Runner-up with an average of 3.853 was Ens. John R. Smithson, USNR, while Lieut. Charles W. Trigg, USNR, another instructor here, tied for third with 3.836. Personnel Changes New arrivals during the past week included one officer and five enlisted men. The officer attached was Lieut. Howell T. Hollis, USNR, of dxford, 0., who will serve as platoon officer. The new crew members, all HA2c, reporting from the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., are Joseph S. Deptula, Michael Dudik, Leonard Greenberg, Joseph F. Lunari and Frank H. Machiaverna. Lieut, (jg) John D. McConnell, USNR, in structor in ENS and Aerology, was detached and ordered to Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Also detached were Ens. George R. Hughes, USNR, going to the Naval Supply Depot at Scotia, N. Y., and Ens. Floyd V. Turner, USNR, transferred to the Section Base, Tomp- kinsville, Staten Island, N. Y. Both Ens. Hughes and Ens. Turner were former store keepers who were on temporary duty here after receiving their commissions. Enlisted men detached included Robert E. White, PhMlc, going to the Receiving Station, Jacksonville, Fla., and Joseph H. Waite, SK2c, leaving for NACSB, Dallas, Tex. Ode To The Waves There’s lipstick on the scuttlebutt. There’s talcum in the head There’s coldcream on the bulkhead, Hand lotion on the lead; “Evening in Paris” scents the air Where once the sea-air smell I just picked up a bobby pin— Believe me, war is hell! -Quonset Scozit. Male CaU Slight Snaf in Cupid’s Path by Milton Caniff, creator of “Terry and the Pirates” — (CNS) UmA6TAHD CHOfZQ BRUN6 rmK ^IN6IN ■Cl!"-';: 4-%- CMIFP Newspaper Service Milton Camff. disfribufed
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