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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, January 19, 1945j
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 18 Friday, January 19, 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...
Teacher: Johnny, your lessons for today
aren’t done. Where did you go last night?
Johnny; To the movies with a girl,
teacher.
Teacher: Get out of this class for a week.
And you, Tommy where did you go last
night?
Tommy; Out parking with a girl.
Teacher; Go home and stay there for two
weeks. Oscar, where are you going?
Oscar: Teacher, my school days are over.
^ ^ *
Disappointed One: '"When your girl
friend said she’d dig me up a date, she
wasn’t kidding.”
Jit
A card game had been running in the
back room of a Colorado cigar store for
years. The four men were always the same
but one day, when one of the regulars was
sick, the others in desperation asked a new
comer to sit in for a few hands. The
stranger was astonished at some of the
irregularities. Finally he could contain him
self no longer and burst out: “Say, did you
see Grandpa Smith slip the ace from the
bottom of the deck?” “Well,” said Uncle
Harry Jones, “it’s his deal, isn’t it?”
Girls are like newspapers—every man
should have his own and not try to borrow
his neighbor’s.
❖ *:« ❖
Provost Marshal to new SP: “Didn’t you
hear the chief tell all you men to wash
your brassards last night?”
New SP; “Yeah, what does he think we
are—a bunch of WAVES?”
❖ * ^
MORON: A Sailor who studies all night
for a blood test.
SIR; What a cadet says to an officer in
stead of ‘Hey You’.
The 97,694 aircraft produced during 1944
raised the U. S. total during the past four
years to more than a quarter of a million,
with approximately 233,000 since Pearl
Harbor, according to figures released by
the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce in
Washington last week.
Annual unit aircraft production for the
past four years is listed as follows: 19,290
for 1941; 47,873 for 1942; 85,946 for 1943;
97,694 for 1944.
The four-year 250,803 U. S. total com
pares with 102,609 produced by Great Brit
ain since the start of the European war in
1939.
Last year was marked by increasing
emphasis on production of bigger and more
powerful planes. Average weight per plane
rose from 8,080 pounds to approximately
10,500. Production was concentrated on
tactical types—bombers, fighters, Naval re
connaissance and transports—in contrast to
the earlier period when trainers accounted
for a larger portion of unit output.
With a tentative schedule for 1945 of ap
proximately 78,000 planes, 1944’s achieve
ment may remain as the record for unit
output, although aircraft poundage output
should be greater than ever.
The 1944 production had a dollar value
of approximately $19,400,000,000, which
maintained the position of aircraft manu
facturing in this country as the largest in
dustry in the world.
Corsairs for Marine Carriers
Marine Corps air squadrons will be
equipped with F4U-1D Corsair fighters
when they go into action aboard carriers
recently assigned them by the Navy, Avia
tion News reported last week. In pointing
out that the new Corsair has been revised
to obtain better deck landing character
istics, it was revealed that during the past
year 525 major engineering changes and
2,500 minor production changes were made
in the plane, among them the installation
of a “twin pylon” bomb and auxiliary fuel
tank rack, permitting the plane to carry
two 1,000 pound bombs under its center
section.
Other changes reported were incorpora
tion of a water injection system for
emergency power; redesigning of the hy
draulic system; replacing of cartridge start
ers with electrical starters; installation of
a new clear-vision sliding cockpit section,
and modification of the tail wheel and tail
wheel yoke.
The Eastern Front
By Lt. (j.g.) W. O. Shanahan
Academic Department
The great vise which Soviet writers
talked about in 1942 when they asked for
a second front is now beginning to close.
On the Western Front Anglo-British forcesi
have regained the initiative after fighting!
defensive battles for more than a month.
The winter air offensive from the westl
is the heaviest since the start of the war j
On the Hungarian plains German forces
have been smashed back to the approaches |
of Vienna. Above the Carpathian moun-l
tains from Krakow as far north as the I
Memel the front is blazing as Soviet armies I.
begin an offensive which the Berlin radio i
admits is intended to “win the war.” j
The main Russian effort is being made,
below Warsaw by Marshal Ivan S. Konev’S;
First Ukranian Army Group. This drive iS;
moving northwest along the trunk rail'
ways that follow the curve of the Higli
Tatra Mountains. In Galicia not far from
this region the Russians crippled the
Austro-Hungarian army in 1914.
On the northern end of the long battle
line the First White Russian Army Group
under Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov hais
been thrown into the attack. This is prob
ably intended to prevent German rein
forcements reaching the threatened sector
around Krakow. East Prussia lakes and
marshes offer the defense too many ad
vantages to tempt the Russians into mak
ing their main effort there.
Soviet Strength In Poland
About three quarters of the Soviet
strength is being thrown into these offen
sives in Poland. Only a quarter of their
resources have been used in Hungary. IP
terms of divisions it may be assumed that
Marshals Konev and Zhukov have at least
225 divisions. This total may be compared
with approximately 60 American and Brit
ish divisions that have been identified in
press dispatches from the Western Front-
It is not generally realized by most Amer
icans that General Eisenhower does not
have any numerical advantage. For com
parative purposes it is worth noting that
in 1918 Foch had 220 divisions in line and
90 in reserve.
Silesia is the prize for which Marshal
Konev is driving. It is the third ranking
industrial area of the Reich with an output
only slightly less than that of the Leipzig'
Chemnitz-Nuremburg area. The Ruhr
still the main forge of German weapons-
For a campaign in Silesia there are fine
communications and a natural advance into
the heart of Germany via the valley of th®
Oder river.
“And why were you late for reveille?”
“They called the roll before I got there.’’
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