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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Friday, April 13, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 3—No. 30 Friday, April 13, 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 Comxnand. 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. 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... Gen. Eisenhower was telling Prime Min ister Churchill that British Tommies were a good influence on GI’s—they were toning down the GI exuberance. As Churchill teamed with pride a GI came rushing into the room. “General,” he said, “Can I borrow your jeep?” “See what I mean?,” said Gen. Eisen hower. “A year ago he wouldn’t have asked.” ❖ ❖ Waiter: All we have left are burlesque sandwiches. Customer: What’s a burlesque sandwich? Waiter: It’s a tomato without dressing. ❖ Guide: We are now passing the largest brewery in the world. Sailor; I’m not. >:? ❖ * “William, how do you suppose all those empty bottles got in the cellar?” “Dunno—I never bought an empty bot tle in my life.” ❖ ❖ ❖ SK2c: I see where a man who speaks eight languages has just married a woman who speaks four. BMlc: That seems to be about the right handicap. H: “Tommy, why are you scratching your self?” “No one else knows "where I itch.” Irritated chief: Look here, you! Are you the instructor of this class? Boot cut-up: No, sir. I’m not. Chief: Then stop acting like a fool. V K? ^ Lady: Are you the sailor who saved my little boy from drowning? Sailor (proudly): Yes, ma’am. Lady: Well, where’s his hat? by Sanspne General Electric’s jet aircraft engine not only powers Lockheed’s P-80 Shooting Star but also feeds warm air to the pressurized cabin of this new plane. The air flows from the compressor of the jet engine into the enclosed cabin. Tempera ture of the air is controlled, making heavy flying clothes unnecessary for the pilot and also enabling him to fly at high altitudes without an oxygen mask. Pilot fatigue is minimized, not only through this new tap ping of the jet power but because of the lack of vibration in the jet powered aircraft. Take-Offs On Tracks Reported in the current issue of Aviation News: “Visitors to an Army Air Forces de pot recently were shown a captured Ger man aircraft tire with a flat tread, about 20 inches wide, with an inch-deep inden tation of four inches width in the center. The tire was designed to enable planes to take off from railroad tracks. “AAF officers said they had no informa tion on the outcome of tests, but conceded that the Army has never carried on similar experimentation and that no such tires are being made in this country.” JATO-Equipped Mariners At Iwo Navy flying boats equipped with JATO— jet assisted take-off—were able to take off from the rough waters at Iwo Jima before the island’s airfields were operative and thus fly important protective searches to within 100 miles of the Empire. A conven tional take-off in the water and wind con ditions at Iwo would have sprung the hull of any plane, the Navy Department reports. JATO halved the take-off time for the big two-motor Martin Mariner flying boats, re ducing greatly the stress on the aircraft. The Mariners searched the seas to spot any attempt by Jap fleet remnants to challenge the huge armada of ships. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, com- mander-in-Chief, U. S. Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations: “Battleship fire pro vides the only gun (or weapon for that mat ter) that is sufficiently powerful and ac curate to knock out reinforced concrete pillboxes 8 to 10 feet thick and other simi larly strong land gun emplacements. . . . The new applications of naval gunfire in amphibious operations, as well as in fleet actions, have demonstrated that the battle ship is a versatile and essential vessel, far from obsolete.” The Wolf "There must be an easier way to get their attention mi 'I guess he cant stand shots. This is the third hme he s passed cut> “To build from the havoc of this war a peace that will endure is a task far beyond the strength and wisdom of any one man or group of men. It will require the active participation and support of all the Amer ican people—and of all the other peace- loving peoples of the world.”—SECRE TARY OF STATE EDWARD R. STETTI' NIUS, JR. Navy pilot over the Bonins: “I’ve got four already—and 30 more cornered.” ❖ ❖ British pilot to CO of USS Saratoga, after landing on her huge flight deck; “Sir, J feel as if I had landed in your state Texas.” Male Call by Milton Canlff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates" Snappy Story (5ENEKAL... / IkCB, THE moU&LB 15, YOU LEAP A PBLLBI2. on — JU$T WHEN HE THINK‘S yoU'EE WILLIN6 you ^AcK out! LOOK [MWH SO/V\ETUm /V\OIZE C0MF0R.TA5L& ^I6HT PUEL0D6H i Copyright 1945 by Milton Canlff. distributed by Cjmp Newspapei
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