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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Saturday, December 4, 1943 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 2—No. 12 Sat., December 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 CNS, 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 0//i?ert Islands By Ens. W. 0. Shanahan, USNR Academic Department With the stakes far greater than any we have played for in the Pacific, the Navy’s open ing gambit in the new offensive phase of the war brought the Gilbert Islands under Ameri can control. Although the Navy had assembled one of the greatest armadas in modern war fare, the fanatical I'esistance of the Japanese Imperial Marines warned that the road to Tokyo is long and hard. Our amphibious forces were obliged to pay a heavy price for the oc cupation of Tai’awa, Makin, and Abemama, but the strategic value of these low-lying coral atolls warranted even greater sacrifices. The Gilberts were an outpost of empire that the Japanese could ill afford to lose. Our naval forces now control more than two-thirds of the Pacific and the road is open for an assault upon the mandated islands lying to the north and west. In the Carolines and Marshalls lies the heart of the Japanese system of naval de fenses. At Truk in the Carolines the Japanese have a Pacific, stronghold comparable in power to Pearl Harbor, The conquest of these possessions will not be easy. The enemy’s fortifications in the Gil berts had been built in a little more than a year and a half since those islands were seized from the British. If the Japanese garrisons resist as desperately and as resourcefully in the Marshalls, fortified by the Japanese since 1919, we must be prepared to accept very con siderable losses. Moves to the north and west from the Gil berts-are almost inevitable now that the die has been cast for a great naval offensive in See GILBERTS, page 4 Sunday Divine Services Protestant 1000 Memorial TT«M Roman Catholic 0616 Gerrard Hall 1000 Hill Music Hall Jewish 1000 Graham Memorial ♦ • »- Chaplain’s Office Hours: Daily, 0830-1700; Monday and Wednesday, 0830-1800. Father Sullivan will be in Chaplain’s Office on Tuesdays, 1845-1930. Confessions: Saturdays in Gerrard Hall, 1900- 2015. On the Lighter Side Plenty of Time In Naples, a daring young American blue jacket stopped a German ofl5cer to ask him the time. “Twenty minutes to twelve,” the German replied, none too politely. “Okay,” said the sailor, “at twelve sharp you can go jump in the lake.” After which the bluejacket tore down the street, the Nazi at his heels. Rounding a corner too sharply, they ran into an Italian policeman, who stopped them. “This American sailor told me that at twelve sharp I could go jump in the lake,” panted the German officer. The Italian calmly studied his watch. “Well, what’s the rush?” he asked. “You still have nearly 20 minutes.” Last Hope The squad of recruits had been out to the rifle range for their first try at marksman ship. They knelt at 250 yards and fired. Not a hit. They moved up to 200 yards. Not a hit. They tried it at 100 yards. Not a hit. “Tenshun!” the chief barked. “Fix bayo nets! Charge! It’s your only chance.” * * Signs of the Time Mother; “Daughter, didn’t I tell you not to let that strange man come over to your apart ment last night, you know things like that cause me to worry.” Daughter: “Don’t be ridiculous, mother— I went over to his apartment. Now let HIS mother worry.” * Bright Idea The Lieutenant and the Ensign, on board a little sub-chaser, had unfortunately fallen for the same girl and, as a result, missed no op portunity for scoring one another off. Each took a turn at making the day’s entries in the log book. One day the Ensign, about to make his entry, was very surprised to find in the Lieutenant’s handwriting, the words “Au gust 14th; Ensign drunk.” He stared at the entry ruefully a moment, and then a slow grin broke over his face. Tak ing up his pen he wrote deliberately, “August 15th; Lieutenant sober.” Male Call You’re Ridin’, Now, Red! by Milton Caniff, creator of “Terry and the Pirates” _(cnsi IT AIN'T X ^IV-VIU-VUN5 COULD Rmrl J (SET TH' WeON<3 IDEA lA A50UT TM' 4RMV... !/ r BATTLE 6TATI0N$/ CONVOY COMIN' UP/ WHAT5 WITH THI^ «a?e CORPORAL 5AN60WE-ALWSEZ D)?AW)W' UB 6.1/5 LOOKIN' LII^E Y^OLFS? VEAH - MY 6U)?L IS WOK0EP THAT I'M MEP&E 6BTTIN' POINTED AN' A POIMANENT PIVE O'CLOCK 5HAP0W/ 0 Mihc/eep WOLP — I I ^opff'gkt 1943 by Milfon Caniff, distribufed by C»mp Newspjper S«nfiee
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