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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, January 22, 1944
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 2—No. 19
Sat,, January 22, 1944
Published weekly at the U. S. Navy Pre-
f^light School, Chapel Hill, N. C., under super
vision of the Public Relations Office. Contri
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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
Captain ©abtb C. I^anra^an
(met.)
It is with deep regret that the Com
manding Officer advises the Officers,
Crew, and Regiment of Cadets of this
Command of the death of Captain David
C. Hanrahan, USN (Ret.), Commanding
Officer of the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight
School, Iowa City, Iowa. The sympathy
of all hands at Chapel Hill has been con
veyed to Mrs. Hanrahan and to the Iowa
Pre-Flight School.
Captain Hanrahan was the senior
Commanding Officer of the five Pre-
Flight Schools and has been known
throughout the Navy for almost fifty
years for his courage, leadership, and
outstanding ability as a Naval officer.
His loss will be mourned by his hosts of
friends in the Navy and in civil life, as
well as the country he has so faithfully
served.
John P. Graff
Comdr., USN, (Ret.)
the evolution of designs, and the part each
plays in the fighting team.
The authors, who modestly describe them
selves as contributors and editors, have had
long experience in command of various types
of ships. Vice Admiral Taussig, writer of
the introductory and final chapters and the
chapter on battleships, was the destroyer com
mander of World War I who at Queenstown
after the grueling trans-Atlantic crossing
startled the British by reporting his ships
ready for duty after refueling. Captain Cope,
contributing chapters on submai'ines, patrol
craft, and auxiliaries, recently published
Command at Sea: A Guide for the Naval Of
ficer. Other chapters are written by au
thorities on the type of ship discussed.
Specifications in feet, tons, knots and cali
bres are supplied wherever they are signifi
cant, but the discussion is not weighed down
with such details. Relative advantages of one
element of design over another are weighed in
non-technical terms, and the presentation is
enlivened by illustrative episodes drawn from
naval history, mostly from this war.
This is a book of information, not of debate,
but the authors are ready to answer anyone
who claims that the carrier has made the bat
tleship obsolete. In action, conti’ol of the air
comes first in time and is often most spec
tacular, but the determining factor in control
of the sea, they declare, is the surface craft.
Germany once held air control over England,
but because they did not control the Channel
they landed no troops in England. Malta has
been bombed hundreds of times, but it remains
English because the British control the water
surrounding it.
The authors are doubtful that the island-by-
island approach to Tokyo, the fighting done by
relatively small task forces, can ever be truly
decisive. The main Jap fleet must be drawn
out of hiding and sunk before we can pretend
to control the Pacific, and that will require a
huge concentration of all types of United
States warships—perhaps 20 battleships, 40
to 50 cruisers, 200 to 300 destroyers, and all
the carriers available. Such concentration in
the Pacific will probably have to wait for the
defeat of Germany,
—F.E. B., E,N.S. Dept.
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Booh Review ..,
Our Navy, A Fighting Team, by Vice Ad
miral Joseph K. Taussig, USN (Ret.) and
Captain Harley F. Cope, USN. Whittlesy
House, N. Y,, 1943. 239 pp, $2.50.
The ships of our Navy, the authors of Oiir
Navy reiterate, from battleship to tanker,
fight as a team, each essential, each filling the
job it was designed and trained t(> do. Now
and then one type of ship will dominate head
lines and special articles until the impression
is created that it also dominates our naval
forces. In the same way, the star quarter or
running back will command most football pub
licity; but eleven I’unning backs wcfuld ruin a
team, and over-emphasis on one type of ship
or la;ck of full team work can sink a navy.
For “those who desire to know how the fleet
fights,” the authors devote a separate chapter
to each type of ship, beginning with the battle
ship; they discuss characteristics, stages in
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