Friday, January 19, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
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Cadet Regimental Commander Served
Aboard Battleship, Transport In Pacific
New cadet regimental officers from the 64th battalion, left to right,
are: Edward C. Taylor, Scarsdale, N. Y., regimental adjutant; Don
R. Koch, Milwaukee, Wis., commissary officer; Kenny C. Palmer,
Upper Montclair, N. Y., regimental commander, and Andrew R.
Jackson, Brooklyn, N. Y., sub-commander.
64th Batt Amasses
383 Points To Win
Regimental Title
With regular regimental com
petition during the past two
Weeks limited to the two battal
ions that come under the new
25-week training syllabus, the
64th Batt emerged on top with
an aggregate of 383 points
against 337 garnered by the 65th.
The winning 64th won first
place in Military, Academic, and
Sports Program competition,
While the 65th took the honors
in Class Athletics. Ahead 200-
175 going into the Sports Pro
gram, the 64th bested its 65th
opponents in boxing, soccer,
swimming, and wrestling to
niaintain and increase its mar
gin of victory.
The French Unit showed up
Well in amassing 70 points in
the Sports Program, getting 30
in soccer, 30 in gym and tumb
ling, and 10 in swimming.
The new 66th Batt will be in
cluded in the next period of com
petition. _
Exercise Period
Every Wednesday
Scheduled for Crew
A new exercise period from
1600 to 1700 each Wednesday
for all male members of the
crew was announced last Mon-
*^ay by Lt. Comdr. Burton Ing-
^ersen. Athletic Director.
, Under the program which will
be supervised by the Mass Ex
ercise department, all male en
listed personnel, except members
the band, will report to the
*^ain deck of Woollen gym in
^thletic gear at 1600. The ath
letic gear will be issued in Room
107 of the gym.
All band members will report
to their quarters in Carrboro at
the same time.
Effective last week, quarters
tor enlisted personnel in front
Alexander Hall were changed
t^om 1515 Wednesday to 1200
Saturday.
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ihe actual invasion of Tarawa.
I'^arek recalls that during the
Invasion of Bougainville his ship
^as under fire from enemy
planes for four hours. Again at
^Wajalein his vessel was under
J?J'e for eight hours. “Our ship
^ade a lot of those Nip pilots
^ish they’d never come close,
^owever,” he says.
Having survived these har-
owing experiences Marek was
y^cturned to the West Coast to
2^ard the USS Shamrock Bay.
this vessel he cruised up and
^®Wn the Pacific Coast, training
lew crews. When the ship ulti-
J^ately docked at Norfolk, Va.,
Was granted shore duty, re-
ij^'ting to this activity last Sep-
K. C. Palmer Once
Believed Missing
With Overdue Ship
Among the long list of men
whose deaths at one time or an
other have been slightly exag
gerated and who have popped
up again full of life and fight is
Cadet Kenny C. Palmer, 64th
Batt member presumably lost at
sea shortly after the Pearl Har
bor attack.
Palmer, who was recently
named cadet regimental com
mander here, enlisted in the Ma
rines in June, 1941, six months
before the U. S. entered the war.
Following boot training at San
Diego, he was assigned to the
U.S.S. Henderson, a troop trans
port carrying a detachment of
20 Leathernecks.
With war clouds gathering in
the Pacific, the Henderson sailed
for Wake Island to evacuate
American citizens, taking them
to Honolulu where it arrived on
Dec. 4. At midnight of Dec 6,
the transport left for the U. S.
with Palmer assigned as corn-
munications orderly in the radio
shack.
Jap Plane Shot Down
A few minutes after 0700 on
Dec. 7, the ship picked up the
message that Pearl Harbor was
under attack. Palmer carried
the news to the Skipper who im
mediately called general quar
ters and readied the ship for
action. In a matter of minutes
a lone Jap observation plane at
tacked the Henderson, but was
shot down by the ship’s gunners
with little delay.
The trip to the United States
from Pearl Harbor is usually a
seven-day voyage, but with the
Henderson carrying women and
children evacuees, it was decid
ed to re-route the course and
make a detour that added 11
days to the journey. This de-
lav of a week and a half nut the
Henderson on the list of miss
ing ships. Further indication of
disaster came from a passenger
liner which passed over some
freighter wreckage along the
regular route and reported it to
be the remains of the Hender
son.
Duty On Battleship
Two days before Christmas,
however, the Henderson docked
at San Francisco where Palmer
phoned his anxious parents that
he was very much alive and
well.
After four days the ship
shoved off again for Pearl Har
bor, but this time in a convoy.
Two more trips on the transport
convinced Palmer that he should
get on a fighting ship, if he
could, and in February, 1942, he
was transferred to the U.S.S.
Colorado.
During Palmer’s 10 months
aboard that battlewagon, the
Colorado participated in the
Coral Sea Battle and Battle of
Midway. In December of 1942
he left the Colorado for the
Naval Academy where he
studied for nine months before
entering the V-5 program.
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Primary Training
Phase To Increase
In Size and Scope
“Plans for general expansion
of the pilot training program of
Naval Aviation, as announced
by Washington, logically will re
sult in increasing the scope and
size of the primary training
phase at units of my command,”
Rear Admiral O. B. Hardison,
USN, Chief of Naval Air Pri
mary Training, stated last week
at the headquarters of his com
mand at Glenview, 111.
“We are proceeding with
plans for enlarging the aviation
cadet training classes at the
units now in operation. New
prospective Naval aviators will
come largely from eligible ma
terial among the several thou
sand aviation cadets who were
dropped from training last sum-
rner. . . . Also from qualified en
listed men who have never pre
viously failed in flight training,
the Navy will obtain additional
aviation cadets.
“The increased aviation cadet
training will result in need for
a larger number of primary
flight instructors and it can be
expected, therefore, that there
will be some increase in person
nel and in the program at our
flight instructors’ school at the
Naval Air Station, New Or
leans, La., where instructors
now are being developed largely
from returned fleet aviators, and
recent graduates of intermediate
training.”
Lt. Comdr. Speidel Now
In Command Of Island
Lt. Comdr. Charles Speidel,
former head wrestling coach
here, is now in command of an
island in the South Pacific.
In reporting that Lt. Comdr.
Speidel is doing a good job in his
present assignment, a correspond
ent who visited the island re
cently wrote “The boss of the is
land is a lieutenant commander,
the only Naval officer I have seen
out here who has cauliflower
ears.”
OPERATIONAL REPORT
PROMOTIONS:
Lt- (ig) Robert M. Stein to Lieut.; Lt.
(jg) Alvin C. Brinson to Lieut.
ARRIVALS:
Lt. Comdr. Robert P. Crow, assistant den
tal officer; Lt. Kenneth M. Whitlow, mili
tary; Lt. Burket E. Graf, recognition; W. F.
Plawfield, CPhM; H. E. March, SM2c; A.
R. Trexlar, HA3c; H. O. Smith, RM3c.
Lt. Kenneth M. Whitlow: W. F. Plaw
field, CPhM; H. E. March, SM2c.
DEPARTURES:
Lt. Walter R. Brownback to Comdr, Serv
ice Squadron, South Pacific . Force, San
Francisco, Calif.; Lt. Comdr. Earle H.
English to NAS, Dallas Texas.; Lt. (jg)
William H. Steward to NAS, Minneapolis,
Minn.; to Naval Hospital, Great Lakes,
111.: H. Tipton, PhM2c; E. A. Walton,
PhM2c; to Quonset Ppint, R. I.: C. H.
Brooks, EM2c; to Comphiblant, Norfolk:
M. J. Padvic; N. W. Hildreth, PhMlc;
to NAS, Pensacola, B. L! Chonicki, PhM2c;
to 144 C.B.’s, W. O. Dahlgren, HAlc; to
NAS, Bunker Hill; J. I. Dailey, Y2c; A.
P. Dufualt, Flc (EM); W. E. Fisher,
Flc (EM); to NAS, Norman, Okla., Jack
Boyd, Ylc; to NAS, Ottumwa, la., A. J.
Wadner, Sp (P)lc; to Shoemaker, Calif.,
Orville B. Campbell, Ylc; to NAS. Glen-