Friday, February 2, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Three
More Competitive
Sports Are Urged
For U. S. Schools
“There is no question in my
rnind about the contribution of
sports toward winning the war,”
declared Comdr. William R.
(Killer) Kane, USN, in an ad
dress to about 35 college athletic
directors at the opening session
of the schedule-making confer
ence of the central office for
Eastern intercollegiate athletics
last week in New York.
The head of Physical and Mili
tary Training for Naval Aviation,
Under the Director of the Avia
tion Training Division, told of
his own observations in the Paci
fic war zone on the importance
of physical condition. The Navy’s
plan, he said, calls for a stiff
pompetitive program beginning
in the Pre-Flight Schools and
Continuing even after training is
completed.
The success of the Navy’s
strenuous physical training pro
gram proves the need of more
Competitive athletics, Comdr.
Kane said, and he added: “We
believe in varsity sports very
o^uch but we also believe every
individual should have a chance
to participate in competitive ath
letics.”
Fit Pilots Recovered
Compulsory military training
^ould get boys in good physical
Condition, continued the war ace,
but he indicated that one year of
training would not be adequate.
He proposed a competitive pro
gram for every boy, beginning
in grade school and continuing
through college.
“The boys who were in good
Physical condition and who made
the best marks in physical tests
^e gave aboard a carrier were
^e ones I knew were good pilots,
^hey got malaria and tropical
diseases like the rest around
puadalcanal but the boys who
i^ept in shape recovered.”
t^on’t Spread It Around:
Marines Like Bath Soap
South Pacific (CNS)—No one
^ould even suggest that the
^embers of the 4th Marine Air
Wing are sissies—but they do
'ike perfumed soap.
Reason is that the water avail
able to them for showering,
shaving, etc., is brackish and
Odorous. The odor, best describ
ed as sulphurous, made bathing
l^nwelcome until the arrival of
high-powered, sweet-smelling
Soap.
OPERATIONAL REPORT
'Arrivals
Lt. John E. Davidson, Company Officer;
yeorge G. Belisvia, Sm2c, from NPFS,
y^hens, Ga.; Carie B. Baker, Ylc, from
Bunker Hill, Ind., WAVES; Wilda Baker,
2c, from NAS New Orleans, La., WAVES.
Departures
Comdr. William G. Killinger, NAS
P^Land, Fla.; Lt. Comdr. William C. Clark,
P^'aTra, Pensacola, Fla.; Lt. Lloyd H. Lux,
SonSeven, Miami, Fla.; Lt. Robert S. Grieve,
^®val ContrTraCon, Davisville, R. L
Tojo ^Streamlines^ Lt. (jg) Barents TBF In Big
Battle But Former Cadet Here Has Last Laugh
By Harold E. Hanson, Sp(P)2c
It is highly possible that on
the eventful morning of Oct. 24,
1944, a former Carolina Pre-
Flight cadet was flying one of
the most streamlined TBF’s in
the Pacific war theater. At least
the plane’s radioman, of Spanish
descent, thought so when he
scrambled into position after be
ing knocked from his seat by
ack-ack.
“Meestair Boren,” he shouted,
noting the port elevator and sta
bilizer had been carried away,
“they hawv streemline our airo-
plane.”
With elevator and stabilizer
torn away, Tojo was off to a rip
ping start in his battle with
Lieut, (jg) Howard G. Boren but
despite these handicaps, plus
rapidly-emptying gasoline tanks,
flaps which wouldn’t work, a
stuck tail wheel and throttle,
landing gear which was frozen
while down and oil covering the
windshield, the former platoon
leader in the Sixth Battalion had
the last laugh.
Plants ‘Fish’ At 200 Feet
He put his “fish” squarely in
to the side of the Jap super-de
stroyer, Terutsuki, at 200 feet,
miraculously escaped further
flak, and headed for his carrier.
That he managed to land safely
was attested by his presence in
COMING EVENTS
TONIGHT
BASKETBALL
Cloudbusters vs. Jacksonville Naval Air
Station, Woollen gym at 1930.
BOXING
Cloudbusters vs. University of Mary
land, Woollen gym, at 2100.
SATURDAY
MOVIES
Village: Free movies, "Lady in the
Dark,” with Ginger Rogers and Ray
Milland. Features at 1315 and 1502.
"The Impostor,” with Jean Gabin and
Allyn Joslyn. Feature at 1900. (One
show only in the evening).
Carolina: "Experiment Perilous,” with
Hedy Lamarr and George Brent.
Pick: "Missing Juror,” with Janis Car
ter.
SWIMMING
Bowman Gray Pool: Sixth Annual
Carolinas A.A.U. Open Swimming
Meet, 1900.
DANCE
Woollen gym: President’s Birthday Ball
for Infantile Paralysis Fund, 2100 to
2400. Tickets SI-00 per person.
SUNDAY
DIVINE SERVICES
Protestant: Memorial Hall at 1000.
Catholic: Gerrard Hall at 0630, Hill
Music Hall at 1000.
Jewish: Hillel House at 1000.
MOVIES
Village: Free movies, "Make Your
Own Bed,” with Jane Wyman and Jack
Carson. Features at 1300 and 1517.
Carolina: "Here Come the Waves,”
with Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton and
Sonny Tufts.
Pick: "Alaska,” with Kent Taylor and
Margaret Lindsay.
MONDAY
BASKETBALL
Cloudbusters vs. Wake Forest, Woollen
gym, at 1930.
WEDNESDAY
MEMORIAL HALL
Address to regiment of cadets by
Comdr. David McCampbell, USN, and
showing of Navy film, "The Fighting
Lady.”
Home from the Pacific, Lieut,
(jg) Howard G. Boren, former
Pre-Flight cadet here, not only
addressed AFT cadets last week
but looked up an old friend. Miss
Shroy Lange of Chapel Hill,
sophomore at U.N.C. Lieut, (jg)
Boren is pictured showing Miss
Lange some of the places where
he met up with Tojo.
Chapel Hill last week, when he
addressed AFT cadets.
Flying off the USS San Ja
cinto, Lieut, (jg) Boren had
been among the pilots patroling
for nearly a week without mak
ing contact but about 0300 on
Oct. 24 he was awakened with
the announcement that Japs
were less than 30 miles away.
Before the exact position was
determined fleets of F6F’s and
TBF’s were in the air. More
than three hours later the Japs’
huge array of floating armament
was sighted.
Lieut, (jg) Boren was flying
No. 9 in his squadron—tail man
on the runs. He put his ship into
a dive on a Jap aircraft car
rier, which was turning to avoid
the attack and which finally hit
the TBF. While struggling to re
gain control, Lieut, (jg) Boren
heard his crew gunner point out
a “cruiser” that apparently had
no way on. Without port eleva
tor or stabilizer no right turn
could be made but the plane was
banked left at mast height over
the bridge of a Nipponese battle-
wagon and traveling in a pat
tern of ack-ack the young Navy
pilot lined up for a running shot.
It was not until later that he
learned the dead “cruiser” was
the super-destroyer, Terutsuki.
Return Equally Difficult
“We flew so close to the decks
of those Jap battlewagons,”
Lieut, (jg) Boren recalled, “I’d
swear they were throwing rocks
at us.”
Equally difficult was the re
turn. Approaching his carrier,
Lieut, (jg) Boren was waved off
because of no flaps and too high
a speed. He tried again and once
more was waved off. “I was mad
as the devil,” he said. “The rest
of the guys were on the deck
and each time I’d pass they’d
wave and holler and motion for
me to try again. I knew the dam
crate would only stand about
one more of these circles so I
pleaded for permission to bring
her in, crash or no crash.
“The word was passed to clear
all spectators and to man the
fire-fighting stations as we cir
cled for the third try. We came
in plenty hot, blew our starboard
tire, and prayed. The hook
caught and we jerked to a stop.
No one was hurt but don’t ask
why.”
The squadron to which Lieut,
(jg) Boren was assigned num
bered 13 pilots with nine planes
and included three other former
Chapel Hill cadets, Lieut, (jg)
Douglas H. West, Fourth Batt;
Lieut, (jg) George H. W. Bush,
Sixth Batt, and Ens. Milton G.
Moore, 17th Batt. The rest of
the squadron, with the exception
of the skipper, exec and a lieu
tenant (jg), was composed of
Pre-Flight cadets from other
schools.
Lieut, (jg) Boren, with more
than 100 hours of combat flying
in a single month, expects to re
port soon for more Pacific duty.
During his first tour his squad
ron participated in the attacks
on Wake and Marcus, the in
vasion of Saipan, strikes against
the Bonin and Volcano Islands
and against Tinian, Guam, Rota,
Palau, Yap, Utiki and Okinawa-
jima. He hails from Hubbard, O.
—Cadet Address—
(Continued from page 1)
tions reflect the highest credit
upon Comdr. McCampbell and
the United States Naval Serv
ice.”
Born in Bessemer, Ala., on
Jan. 16, 1910, Comdr. McCamp
bell was graduated from the
Naval Academy with the class of
’33 and has spent virtually all of
his 11 years in the Naval Service
at sea.
‘The Fighting Lady’
“The Fighting Lady,” which
will be shown here, was filmed
entirely by Navy cameramen in
planes and aboard seven differ
ent Essex-class carriers. The
movie contains a complete pic
ture of carrier life, plus numer
ous action shots from gun cam
eras showing Jap planes being
shot down and ships sunk.
Action stretches from the time
the carrier receives its crew and
goes through the Panama Canal
until it hits the combat zone. At
tacks on Marcus, Kwajalein,
Truk, Guam, Saipan, Tinian and
the Philippine Sea battle are
featured. It is scheduled to be
shown in movie theatres over
the nation to give the public a
ringside seat in naval aviation at
war with the Japs.