Vol. 2—No. 24
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Saturday, February 26, 1944
Distinguished Visitors at Pre-Flight School
Vice admiral RANDALL Jacobs, USN, chief of Naval Personnel, (shown on extreme right, front
I’ow), and Rear Admiral W. H. Allen, USN, Director of Naval Officer Procurement for the Sixth and
Seventh Naval Districts, (shown on Admiral Jacobs’ right), are pictured above with other visiting
and local officers.
Central Pacific
Offensive
By Ens. W. 0, Shanahan, USNR
Academic Department
Spectacular victories such as
the Navy’s assault on Truk are in
variably interpreted by the Ameri-
public as signs of an imminent
armistice. While the importance
of this latest blow cannot be ques
tioned, nevertheless, it should be
brought into proper focus. By this
attack and the rapid conquest of
the Gilberts and Marshalls the
United States Navy has plunged
through the outer defenses of
Japan’s empire. It is not a ques
tion of the Japanese “withdrawal”
to stronger defenses: the enemy
^ould prefer to keep the fighting
at great distances from his home
land.
This has become impossible for
^ number of reasons. First be
cause the Japanese are unable to
See OFFENSIVE, page U
Personnel Changes
Eight officers were detached
during the past week, including
four platoon officers transferred
to NTS, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., as follows:
Ens. Clifford D. Conrad, USNR,
Ens. Stanley A. Hino, USNR,
Ens. Norman Pettingill, USNR,
and Ens. Harold F. Pollock,
USNR.
Lt. Comdr. Angus M. McDonald,
USNR, medical officer, and Lieut.
See PERSONNEL, page 3
Movie Schedule
Sat., Feb. 26—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “Dr. Gillespie’s
Criminal Case” with Lionel Barry
more and Van Johnson. Feature
starts at 1400,1539,1930 and 2109.
Complete show one hour, 39 min
utes.
Sun., Feb. 27—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “Young Ideas”
with Mary Astor and Herbert Mar
shall. Feature starts at 1336 and
1500. Complete show one hour, 43
minutes.
21 February 1944
COMMANDING OFFICER’S MEMORANDUM
Subj: Commanding Officer’s Trophy
1. The Commanding Officer has selected Cadet C. J. HEFELE,
Jr., as the outstanding cadet of the 39th Battalion and Cadet
R. J. MYERS as the outstanding cadet of the 40th Battalion.
2. The names of these two cadets will be inscribed upon the
Commanding Officer’s Trophy.
JOHN P. GRAFF
Commander, USN (Ret.)
Senior Battalion
To Dance Tonight
In Pine Room
There will be dancing and re
freshments for members of the
41st Battalion at the Senior Bat
talion Dance to be held in the Pine
Room of Lenoir Hall from 2100 to
2400 tonight.
Liberty for the 41st has been ex
tended to 0030, with taps coming
at 0045. Uniform will be service
blue, able.
Music for the affair will be pro
vided by the popular swing sec
tion of the Pre-Flight band.
A cadet committee consisting of
Richard Rutkowski, Jervis John
son, Jr., Palmer Carson, and Mor
ton Lyle is in charge of arrange
ments for the dance.
E. B. Weathers Tops
The 40th Battalion
In Academics
The highest academic average
in the 40th Battalion was made by
Cadet E. B. Weathers, 40-G-3,
with a 3.77 mark. He made 3,92
in Navigation, and 3.81 in ENS.
Weathers attended Deerfield Aca
demy, and Amherst College for
three and a half years.
Second highest average was
made by J. S. Palmer, 40-G-l,
with 3.73. Palmer, who attended
Phillips Exeter Academy and who
was graduated from Princeton,
was high scorer on the Cloudbus-
ter basketball team during the
season just ended. High points of
his Pre-Flight grades were 4.0 in
both Blinker and Code, 3.82 in
Navigation, and 3.75 in ENS.
Cadet D. W. Slingerland,
40-G-l, also a former Phillips
Exeter student and a graduate of
Harvard, averaged 3.67 in aca
demic subjects. Slingerland made
a perfect score in Navigation, in
cluding both finals and all weekly
averages, except for one grade of
3.96. His Navigation average of
3.995 is the highest ever made here.