Vol. 2—No. 52
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Saturday, September 9, 1944
Members Of Survival School For Instructors
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THE GROUP OF 45 OFFICERS who just completed a two-week instructor’s course in survival training at this station
are pictured above, along: with officers who supervised the course.
First row, left to right: Lt. Henry Leucht, Iowa City; Fred C. Mills, Boy Scouts of America; Lt. (jg) John J. Craighead,
Chapel Hill; Lt. George D. Kepler, Chapel Hill; Lt. Patrick M. McIntyre, St. Mary’s; Lt. (jg) Robert E. L^, Jr., Athens;
Lt. (jg) Leonard T. Blackburn, Chapel Hill; Lt. (jg) Sven O. Rosengren. Chapel Hill; Ensign James W. Glassford, Chapel
Hill; Lt. Stuart P. Brewbaker, Officer-in-Charge.
Second row: Lt. (jg) Alfred E. Nogi, Ottumwa; Lt. Earl S. Oster, Miami; Lt. (jg) Carleton R. Crowell, Athens; Ensign
John Bateman, Athens; Lt. Emil H. Messikomer, Corpus Christi; Lt. (jg) Forrest R. Jordan, Norman; Lt. Joseph J. Crowe,
Ottumwa; Lt. George N. Allison, Athens; Lt. James J. Jensen, Dallas; Lt. (jg) Dudley Hare, Iowa City.
Third row: Ensign Oliver M. Olson, Iowa City; Lt. (jg) Howard P. Keebler, Chapel Hill; Lt. (jg) Harold Hunt, Iowa City;
Lt. (jg) George J. Wurster, St. Mary’s; Lt. (jg) Norbert W. Muench. USCGR, Biloxi, Miss.; Lt. (jg) George S. Warner,
USCG, San Francisco; Lt. Warren F. Ott, Athens; Lt. James A. Collins, Athens: Lt. David R. Beaver, Corpus Chnsti.
Fourth row: Ensign James P. 'Flessas, USCG. Miami; Lt. Ben B. Dameron, USCG, Elizabeth City; Lt. (jg) James P. Kes
sler, Jacksonville; Lt. Bernard McCashen, Jacksonville; Lt. Maurice A. Baumgarten, Memphis ; Lt. Dale M. Burnett, Alameda;
Lt. Bennie C. McWilliams, Alameda; Lt. Russell H. Paugh, Chapel Hill; Lt. Joseph A. Bisso, USCG, St. Petersburg.
Back row: Lt. (jg) Thomas J. Pierce, Ottumwa; Lt. (jg) Harold W. Soffe, Whidbey Island; Lt, (jg) Frederick J. Keller,
USCGR, Elizabeth City; Lt. Comdr. Donald .M. Morell, USCG, Salem, Mass.; Lt. Norman R. Cole. USCGR, Port Angeles,
Wash.; Lt. Clarence E. Bishop, Norman; Lt. (jg) Ernest F. Bortz, Norman; Lt. (jg) John B. Thune, Memphis; Lt. (jg)
Carlos C. Ratliff, Iowa City; Lt. Timothy J. Carey, Jacksonville; Ensign Fielding Simmons, Jr., Chapel Hill.
Sports Program Wednesday Night
Movie Schedule
Sat., Sept. 9—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “Show Business”
with Eddie Cantor, George Mur
phy, and Constance Moore. Fea
ture starts at 1907 and 2048. Com
plete show one hour, 39 minutes.
Sun., Sept. 10—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “Up in Arms”
with Danny Kaye and Dinah
Shore. Feature starts at 1310 and
1502. Complete show one hour, 52
minutes.
The last outdoor Sports Pro
gram Championship of the year
will be held next Wednesday at
1830 on Fetzer Field.
During the fall and winter
months, competition between the
various battalions will be held dur
ing the regular Sports Program
period. The early hour of dark
ness during this period was the
reason for the change, but spec
tators will still have an oppor
tunity to see Cloudbuster teams
perform during the varsity foot
ball schedule during the fall, and
the basketball, wrestling, and box
ing competition during the winter.
As usual, the Navy Pre-Flight
band will be on hand this coming
Wednesday. The only change in
the program is the time being
moved up to 1830.
45 Officers
Receive Survival
Instruction Here
A fortnight of realistic survival
training for 45 Navy and Coast
Guard officers from all over the
country came to a close here yes
terday.
Beginning with a series of
classroom lectures, instructional
movies, and short field trips dur
ing the first week of training, the
course steadily increased in tough
ness and realism, reaching its cli-
A touch of the real thing was
added to the instructor’s course in
survival last Wednesday morning
when a twin-engine Beechcraft pi
loted by Ens. Huxtable from the
Elizabeth City, N. C., Coast Guard
station, and carrying Lieut. Brew
baker, circled the Haw River
Camp Site for the better part of
an hour.
Distress signals were practiced
as though between lost-in-the-
jungle pilots and would-be res
cuers.
max with a six-day living-in-the-
rough field trip which came to a
successful conclusion last Thurs
day.
Officer-in-charge of the In
structor's School in Survival is
Lieut. Stuart P. Brewbaker from
Athens, Ga. Head instructor for
the two-weeks’ course at this sta
tion is Lieut. G. D. Kepler, as
sisted by Lt. (jg) Frank C. Craigs
head and Lt. (jg) John C. Craig
head.
Purpose of the special survival
course is to broaden the back-
See SURVIVAL, page 4
Band Concert Sunday
The seventh Sunday afternoon
concert of the season will be giv
en by the Pre-Flight School band
tomorrow afternoon in Forest
Theatre starting at 1630. Every
one is invited.