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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, February 19, 1944
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 2—No. 23 Sat., February 19, 1944
Published weekly at the V. S. Ncuvy 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 be turned
in to the Public Relations Office, Navy Hall.
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Service material. Republication of cr^ited
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War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N.Y.C.
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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
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Editor: Lt. (jg) Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Associate Editor: Orville Campbell, Y2c
On the Lighter Side ...
The big business man had died and gone
to—well, not to heaven. But hardly had he
settled down for a nice, long smoke when a
hearty hand slapped him on the back and into
his ear boomed the voice of a persistent sales
man who had pestered him much on earth.
“Well, Mr. Smith,” chortled the salesman,
“I’m here for that appointment.”
“What appointment?”
“Why, don’t you remember?” the salesman
went on. “Every time I entered your office on
earth, you told me you’d see me here first.”
* !|s *
Farmer: “Be this the Woman’s Exchange?”
Woman: “Yes.”
Farmer: “Be ye the woman?”
Woman: “Yes.”
Farmer: “Well, then I think I’ll keep
Maggie.”
*
The British aviator had just returned from
a raid over Germany.
“Why are you back so late?” asked his com
manding officer.
“I misunderstood instructions, sir, and
pushed the leaflets under the people’s doors.”
* sit * *
A sailor and his girl were riding out in the
country on horseback. As they stopped for a
rest the two horses rubbed necks affection
ately :
“Ah me,” said the sailor, “that’s what I’d
like to do.”
“Well, go ahead,” answered the girl, “it’s
your horse.”
Sunday Divine Services
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1000 Hm Music HaU
Jewish 1000 Graham Memorial
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Monday and Wednesday, 0830-1800.
Father Sullivan will be in Chaplain’s Office on
Tuesdays, 1845-1930.
Confessions: Saturdays in Gerrard Hall, 1900-
2015.
Book Review ...
Condition Red, Destroyer Action in the
South Pacific, Captain Frederick J. Bell,
U. S. N., N. Y., Longmans, Green and Co.,
1943. 290 pp., $3.00. Illustrated.
This is the story of a destroyer, one of those
aggressive bantams with a striking power all
out of proportion to their size—a triple threat
weapon, with depth charges for undersea
enemies, torpedoes for surface attack, and AA
and dual purpose guns for air opposition. “The
fightingest thing afloat,” says Captain Bell.
This is the story of the destroyer G, from
the original operation against the Solomons
in June 1942 to the end of the year, with a
short flashback to Captain Bell’s experiences
as First Lieutenant aboard the cruiser Boise.
The duties of the G during these six months
were varied and continuous, and her responsi
bilities great. She made 13 trips to “Candy”
(Guadalcanal) as convoy escort, as part of a
carrier screen, and as solitary transport of
sorely needed ordnance and stores. Once she
acted as a kind of mobile battery in the bom
bardment of Jap positions in support of Ma
rine operations ashore. Captain Bell claims
that the G made more trips to Guadalcanal
and served a longer time in an advanced fight
ing area than any other destroyer afloat. Dur
ing her six-months’ service, “Condition Red”
—readiness for imminent action—seemed al
most perpetual.
One of the excellencies of the book is its
quantity of detail about life aboard. There are
full particulars of all operations—^bridge talk,
crew talk, inter and intra-ship communica
tions, and extracts from the ship’s paper. The
Fantail Gazette, a lively and irreverent jour
nal. For the landsman, service or civilian,
there is much information on dress, equip
ment, mess and ward-room customs, and a
great deal about battle preparations—topside
and below.
Captain Bell writes skillfully, with a keen
sense of pace. Story moves fast, and com
mentary is entertaining. He makes adroit use
of amusing anecdote. To realize the difficul
ties of visual communications. Captain Bell
suggests, “To acquire a reasonably accurate
picture of a destroyer signal spotter in action,
put a small telescope to your eye, let two
people shake you violently from side to side,
while a third tosses water in your face, and
try to identify the color combinations in a
flag, three feet square, whipping in the wind
on a building three miles away.” Not many
recent books about the Navy have been as well
or as interestingly written as this one.
—G. F. H., E.N.S. Dept.
Male Call R. H. I. P. (Rank Hinders Impromptu Propositions)
by Milton Caniff, creator of “Terry and the Pirates” —(cns)
Copyright )944 by Milton CjniH. distributed by Camp Newspapcf Service
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