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Vol. 2—No. 14 U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C. Saturday, December 18, 1943 Xmas to Be Observed As Holiday Here Christmas will be observed as a holiday on this station, with a modified Sunday schedule in eifect, it was announced by Executive Memorandum during the past Week. Town liberty will be granted to cadets from 0830 to 2400 on Christ mas Day. While cadets must at tend all meal formations, dining cut privileges will be granted for the noon meal (Christmas Din ner) and for the evening meal. On Friday, Dec. 24, the Satur day schedule will be observed, ex cept that town liberty in the even ing will be extended to 0130 Christmas Day. In keeping with the holiday Season, there will be Christmas Eve Midnight Services in Memor ial Hall and Hill Music Hall for Protestants and Catholics respec tively. The public is invited to at tend both of these services. Dining See XMAS, page U Pre-Flight School To Give Christmas Parties for Children Two parties for elementary School children of the Chapel Hill <iommunity will be given by the Pre-Flight School during Christ mas week, it was announced yes terday by Comdr. John P. GrafF, ^SN (Ret.), Commanding Officer. First of the Christmas parties, for white children between the ages 6-12, will be given in Navy Hall on Monday, Dec. 27. The second party, 'for colored children from 6-12, will be held at the Navy Band Center in Carr- boro on Tuesday, Dec. 28. Both affairs will be in the afternoon from 1480 to 1630. Ice cream and cookies will be Served at each party, and gifts ^ill be given out to all of the youngsters. Vice President Henry A. Wallace Visits School c DURING HIS VISIT to the Pre-Flight School last Saturday, Vice President Henry A. Wallace (extreme right) chatted briefly with cadets and visitors in Navy Hall, including Mrs. John H. Mottola, from Brooklyn, N. Y., Cadet Charles E. Mottola and -Cadet Robert Forsberg, both of the 37th Battalion. Cadet Regimental Leaders NEW CADET REGIMENTAL officers chosen from members of the 36th Battalion are shown above, left to right: Thomas J. Hynes, Parkersburg, W. Va., regimental commander; Ben K. Leathers, Jr., Donora, Pa., regimental sub-commander; Arthur J. Adams, Brooklyn, N. Y., regimental adjutant, and Melvin A. Feher, Lansdowne, Pa., regimental commissary officer. Lieut. DeBell Detached Lieut. Wilmot T. DeBell, USNR, navigation instructor, has been de tached to the regional office of the NAPTC, New York, N. Y. Japanese Sea Power By Ens. W. O. Shanahan, USNR Academic Department Although the Japanese possess sea power in considerable strength, their naval history is quite un like that of the western nations. Recent studies by Alexander Ki- ralfy which have appeared in Foreign Affairs and in Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton Univ. Press, 1943) have revised our naval analysts’ prophecies of great sea battles for the control of the Pacific. Kiralfy maintains that the Japanese have no doc trine comparable to Mahan’s “bat tle fleet supremacy” idea, and that their fleet will never fight for mas- See SEA POWER, page S
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