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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Friday, January 5, 194: CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 3—No. 16 Friday, January 5, 1945 Published weekly under the supervision of the Public Relations Office at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., a unit of the Naval Air Primary Training Command. Contributions are welcome from all hands. The Cloudbuster receives Camp Newspaper Service ma terial. Republication of credited matter prohibited without permission of CNS, War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N. Y. C. Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, USNR Commanding Officer Lieut, Comdr. Howard L. Hamilton, USNR Executive Officer Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR Public Relations Officer Lieut, (jg) Francis Stann, USNR Editor R. D. Jackson, PhoMIc Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c Photographers The Lighter Side... A sailor met his shipmate as he entered the main gate. Friend shipmate was sport ing a variety of bandages and walking on a pair of crutches. “What in the world happened to you?” asked the sailor. “Well, it was this way,” explained the walking hospital. “I had a date with my gal last night and we were jitterbugging when her father walked in.” “But how does that explain . . .?” “He’s deaf and couldn’t hear the music.” An American resident in China re monstrated with her houseboy for taking her linen into her bedroom without knock ing. “That’s all right, Missy,” said the native, “everytime come, lookee through keyhole. Nothing on, no come in.” ^ ^ “Mummy,” asked the small son, “Daddy wouldn’t murder anybody, would he?” “Why certainly not, dear. What makes you think so?,” asked the horrified mother. “Well, I heard him in the cellar just now saying, ‘Let’s kill the other two, George!”’ * * * Willie Johnson, a sawed-off, beaten little man, was arraigned in a Texas district court on a felony charge. The clerk intoned: “The State of Texas versus Willie Johnson!” Before he could read further, Willie al most broke up the meeting by solemnly de claring: “Lawd Gowd! What a majority!” ❖ ❖ A woman went to buy a drinking trough for her dog, and the shopkeeper asked her if she would like one with the inscription, “For the Dog.” “It really doesn’t matter,” she replied. “My husband never drinks water and the dog can’t read.” s|« * Hi The average sailor is just a dame fool! Aircraft with the speed of sound were forecast recently by Rear Admiral De Witt C. Ramsey, chief of the Bureau of Aero nautics, in a report on naval aviation sub mitted to the special Naval Affairs Investi gating Committee of the House of Rep resentatives. “It is anticipated,” the BuAer chief re ported, “that in the near future the top speeds of fighter aircraft in service will ap proach the sonic range, and be accompanied by further marked increases in rates of climb and service ceilings.” However, while planes of such speed cap ture the imagination. Admiral Ramsey pointed out that most spectacular of new developments have been “the numerous adaptations of radar and other electronic devices to aircraft use. Among the most outstanding of these is the advent of the night fighter, which is responsible for the early interception of enemy night attacks. Improved aircraft communications, utilizing frequency ranges hitherto employed only experimentally, have been incorporated in fleet aircraft and have proved their re liability and effectiveness while maintain ing a higher degree of communication security.” Planes on the experimental list include unconventional arrangements of advanced design such as the use of jet propulsion. ‘Beedynamics’ Explained Take it from the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the bumblebee not only flies but does so in accordance with definite laws of flight. The airworthiness of this buzzing insect was questioned recently by a skeptical Army Air Forces private who wrote the Aero Chamber; “According to aero dynamics the bumblebee should not be able to fly. Can you give us any proof, either pro or con, on this subject?” In defense of the humble bee, the Chamber’s technical department explained: “The laws of aerodynamics as applied to fixed wings would prove the bumblebee un able to fly because of the excessively high wing loading. However, a specical field of aerodynamics, which might be called ‘bee dynamics’, would very clearly demonstrate the fact that with sufficiently rapid oscil lation it is possible for a very small flat surface to lift a much greater weight than can be expected from an airfoil shape under the laws of aerodynamics.” Parallel With 1918 By Lt. (j.g.) W. O. Shanahan Numerous comparisons have been drawl between the current German offensive o\ the Western Front and Ludendorff’s “Vic tory Drive” in the early spring of 1918 Actually these offensives are hardly com, parable, although it is hoped that future historians will be able to say that both oc curred near the end of the war. In 19l|^ Germany’s prospects for winning the wa', were far greater than they are toda> Ludendorff intended to win the war at < stroke while Rundstedt can only hope t( delay the war or, what is still more doubt ful, discourage the Allies and secure a n« gotiated peace. I Germany faced major opponents on onl) one front in 1918. Russia had been knocke( out the year previously, and in October. 1917, Italy had been stunned by the blo'\ at Caporetto. Although the United States^ had been at war for almost a year, in Feb, ruary, 1918, when the German offensive began there were few American troops if Europe. The French and British armie-j opposing the Germans had been weakened by hard fighting and serious interna* tension. | A great mutiny in the French army dufi ing 1917 had thrown the defense of tW west entirely on the British army, whicf, had then doggedly counterattacked tb^l Germans for more than six months obscure the great peril of the Allies. Thi‘( effort, which advanced the British line^j less than 10 miles, cost 600,000 casualties. Flower Of Hun Army Moved ’ Against his groggy opponents Ludendorf, moved the flower of the German army fresl’i from its victories in Russia and Italy. Mof^; important than their great numerica'i strength were the tactical innovations thaj the Germans had prepared. These includef*! a new method of artillery support, the uS^j of infantry infiltration, and extensive uS^i of shock troops. The last were hand-picke^, combat soldiers or military daredevils, meJ’j who actually enjoyed fighting and could relied upon to drive into the enemy’s de fense zones. Ludendorff struck at the joint betweef. the French and British armies with tM main blow falling on the British. Tw consequences were staggering. An entirn British army was swung around as if on pivot and a gaping hole appeared befort the Germans. But their strength had bee^ exhausted and they could not exploit if, Yet Ludendorff retained the initiative untj’, Foch began the Allied counter-offensive July. After their amazing show of strength) the German collapse came rapidly, a ci^j cumstance summed up pithily in Churchill’^ remark, “The Hun is either at your throa* or at your feet.”
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