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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Friday, March 23, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 3—No. 27 Friday March 23, 1945 Published weekly under the supervision of the Public Relations Office at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. 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. CcxMDR. 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... Two gents sat in their hotel room and consumed a quart of spirits. One of them had an idea and raised the window. “I’m going to take off and fly around a bit,” he remarked boldly. Leaping from the win dow sill, he buried his nose in the cement three floors below. The next day his friend went to the hospital to see him. “I certainly made a fool of myself yes terday,” said the patient. “Why didn’t you stop me?” “I should have,” replied the friend meek ly. “But damned if I didn’t think you could do it at the time.” * * « The beautiful young thing, breezy and peppy, dashed into the florist’s shop. She looked around the shelves for something she wanted. Spying an old man puttering around a plant in the corner, she ap proached him: “Have you any passion poppy?” she gushed. The oldster looked up in surprise. “Gol ding it!” he exclaimed. “You just wait ’till I get through pruning this lily.” * * * An aged mountaineer was asked if he wanted to take a plane ride and gave a definitely negative answer. “Oh, come on,” teased the pilot. “There’s no danger. You know, when your time comes the Lord is going to call you ajiy- way.” “Yassur, Cap’n—I’se ready when the Lawd calls me, too. But iffen us was up in the air and den de Lawd called you in stead of me. I’d sho be in a fix!” * * * Stop worrying about the butter shortage. You can make butter from grass. All you need is a cow and a churn. * * * “I had an awful pain in my arms last night!” “Yeah—I saw her.” Although 6,286 airplanes were accepted by the military services last month, aircraft production in February was nearly three percent below schedule—the fourth con secutive month that production failed to meet its goals. The War Production Board points out that the seriousness of the continued below- schedule output was “further magnified” by the fact that actual military requirements in many instances exceed working sched ules. WPB’s Aircraft Production Board has re leased the following breakdown on Febru ary output; Bombers: scheduled 2,346; produced 2,- 262, or 4.3% under schedule. Fighters and Naval reconnaissance: scheduled 2,940; produced 2,873, or 2.3% behind. Transports: scheduled 600; produced 604, or .6% ahead. Trainers: scheduled 207; produced 207. On schedule. Communications and special purpose: scheduled 343; produced 339, or 1.2% be hind. Total production: scheduled 6,454; pro duced 6,286, or 2.6% behind. Varying reasons were advanced for fail ure to produce the planes as scheduled. The Grumman plant at Bethpage, Long Island, failed to meet its schedule of Navy fighters for the first time in many months. Slow subcontract delivery of parts hindered production, the WPB reported. The critically-needed Navy patrol bomb er, manufactured by Lockheed at Burbank, experienced a production lag with only 40% of the scheduled planes accepted. Again, part of the difficulty here was as cribed to slow delivery of subcontracted parts. Production of the Navy F4U Corsairs at the Chance Vought plant at Stratford, Conn., missed schedule by a wide margin for the second successive month because of design changes, the WPB stated. The overall working schedule for March calls for a total of 6,937 airplanes, 483 more than scheduled for February. Flying Lab Converted Having served its original purpose as a flying test laboratory, the Douglas XB-19A, still the world’s largest plane in the air, will emerge soon in a new role—that of cargo carrier for the Air Transport Command. A major task in converting the huge "Any seconds on cheese?" Leaves . .. Did you ever walk along the street And kick the leaves that crunched and rustled ’neath the tramping of your feet? I did, not so long ago—when I was home; And not just a visitor. I saw them fall from all the trees That formed straight rows along the wal^- Like soldiers standing “inspection arms”— Afraid to move, afraid to talk. Guess I never felt the way I do ’bout trees and leaves, and all the things I used to know. Guess I never thought—or never knew What all of Nature’s dress could mean to me. 1 wish I could pray for all my buddies And all the fighting men I’ve seen: That all those things we used to know Aren’t just a hope, or just a dream. And we can walk along thru all the leav^^ Like we belonged — and weren’t jv^^ visitors, c^det A. J. Weber, 63rd Batt. bomber, which never dropped a bomb or fired a shot in combat, was removal of th^ test panels and recording instruments which have provided Wright Field engineers witJ^ much valuable information about big plan^ and big engine performance. Originally designed for a 7,750-mil® range, enough to fly a non-stop round trip between the United States and Europe, the big plane has never yet flown any longei' distance than its delivery flight from Cali' fornia to Dayton, Ohio. Male Call by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry ancJ the Pirates" Personnel Officer, Female, Civilian^ Hep^ i'll have THE REEL CHANCjEP IN A A/llNUm $0N.. Ml^$ LACE, I'fA SO WoeRIED ABOUT fRAN<...W£ TOOK THESE HOME MOVIE^ ID 5H0W HIM WHEN HE 60T BACK—AND HE POE^NY SBEtA TO ENJOY THEM AT ALL. I THINK I KKIOW AN^WEK,MA'AM,' JUNIOE./WILL you DO ME A PAVoe ? OICAV. opyright 1945 by Milton Cantff. distributed b)r Cimp Newspaper
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