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Friday, April, 13, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three 7th Batt Cadet Aids Air Group To Big Record Among the members of Navy Carrier Air Group Three—vet eran of attacks in the China Sea and three strikes on Tokyo—re turning home for leave and re assignment is Lt. (jg) Adelard F. Landry, former cadet of the 7th Batt here from Indian Or chard, Mass. During four months of combat, the “Crazy Cats” chalked up an enviable record which included shooting down 91 enemy planes; destroying 181 on the ground; sinking 28 ships, totaling 78,550 tons and including one light Cruiser and two destroyers; hit ting 76 enemy airfields; and aid ing in the almost total destruc tion of an aircraft assembly Plant and the Tachikawa engine plant south of Tokyo. The “thrill of a lifetime,” states a Navy Department re lease, was experienced by the group on the 16th and 17th of February over Tokyo, when the “Crazy Cats” accounted for over half of the total planes shot down during their entire tour. On the 17th Lt. (jg) Landry took his big Grumman Avenger off the deck and dropped his load of bombs on the Tachikawa en gine plant. Settling A Score “I never got more of a kick out of anything,” he said. “It sort of Settled the score for having been shot down over the Philippines.” Lt. (jg) Landry had been shot down in December. He and his two aircrewmen were ber friended by guerrillas and or ganized a working party to build ^ 700-foot landing field so that the Army could fly in with a haison plane and rescue them. P’ilot and crew were back aboard their carrier 19 days after they ^ere shot down. Another former Carolina Pre- Flighter had a narrow escape during a bombing attack by l^avy Composite Squadron 81 on ^Wo Jima. I wo Jima appeared to be a barren, deserted rock from the BETTY GIRL—No pin-up col lection would be complete with out Betty Grable, the blonde lady of the movies. A favorite with GIs since the war began, Betty still ranks as Twentieth Century- Fox’s No. 1 entry in the pin-up derby, for obvious reasons. (20th Cent.-Fox Photo) t ' I air without a Jap in sight, but when Squadron 81 began its bombing run, intense anti-air craft fire spurted from every cave and crevice and riddled four of the eight torpedo planes making the attack—including that of Ens. James J. McMahon, of Freehold, N. J., who was in the 24th Batt here. Entire Crew Rescued Three of the crippled planes made it back to the squadron’s escort carrier, but Ens. McMa hon’s crashed into the sea. When his plane was riddled with flak, shrapnel set off a smoke bomb which in turn set fire to the clothing and parachute of the radioman. The fire was ex tinguished, but most of the plane’s control surfaces had been shot away, and the hydraulic system was knocked out. Ens. McMahon made a water landing, and he and his crew were picked up by a destroyer. OWI Reports Jap Navy Man Good Fighter, Well Trained Japanese Navy dead are esti mated by the Office of War In formation at 262,000 officers and *^en since Pearl Harbor. This compares with total American Naval casualties of ^2,819, of whom 35,750 are dead. „ Contrasted with more than '^>000,000 men in this country’s arm, OWI said Japan’s pres- naval personnel afloat and Ashore totals 850,000. I Because the Nipponese do not ®t life-saving interfere with ?ther operations, OWI stated it conservative to estimate that of the crews of Japanese warships sunk meet death. In a special report on the Jap anese sailor and his fleet, based on U. S. Navy and other official sources, OWI described the en emy’s seaman as “a good fight ing man well trained, well edu cated, well equipped.” It was pointed out that be cause Japan is a fishing country, it still has a tremendous reserve of manpower “disciplined to the sea.” About 1,500,000 men still can be drawn upon, about 1,250,- 000 of them fishermen and the rest merchant seamen, the re port said. COMING EVENTS TOMORROW BASEBALL Cloudbusters vs. Catawba College, Emerson Stadium, 1500. TRACK Cloudbusters vs. Georgia Pre-Flight, Athens, Ga. MOVIES Village; Free movie, "Rainbow Island,” with Dorothy Lamour and Eddie Bracken. Complete shows at 1500, 1900 and 2042. Carolina: "The Three Caballeros,” by Walt Disney and starring Donald Duck. Pick: "Overland Mail Robbery,” with Bill Elliot. DANCE Hop for the French cadets. Pine Room, Lenoir Hall, 2100 to 2345. Refresh ments, Cloudbuster band. SUNDAY DIVINE SERVICES Protestant: Memorial Hall at 1000. Catholic: Gerrard Hall at 0630, Hill Music Hall at 1000. Jewish: Hillel House at 1000. BASEBALL Cloudbusters vs. Cherry Point Marines, Emerson Stadium, 1500. MOVIES Village: Free movie, "An American Romance,” with Brian Donlevy. Com plete shows at 1300 and 1502. Carolina: "Keep Your Powder Dry,” with Lana Turner, Laraine Day and Susan Peters. Pick: "Kingdom for a Cook,” with Monty Woolley. WEDNESDAY HAPPY HOUR Memorial Hall, 1900. Music and movie short subjects. BASEBALL Cloudbusters vs. North Carolina State. Raleigh, 1600. Lt. Drexel’s 65th Batt Takes Honors For Fourth Time Lt. K. O. Drexel’s 65th Batt became a four-time winner in battalion competition when it came through with 2711/2 points to take the regimental title dur ing the past fortnight. The winning 65th took first place in Class Athletics, tied' for honors with Lt. C. A. Robin son’s 64th in Military, and placed second to Lt. William Porter field’s 67 th Batt in Academics. In the Sports Pro gram the 65th fimshed third with 84 points. The second place 67th was tops in Academics, while the third place 64th won the Sports Program competition and re ceived a 25-point bonus for be ing adjudged the best of the battalions in the regimental re view held on March 31. The 64th won Sports Program titles in boxing and swimming. The French Units made 35 points in the Sports Program. Summary: 64th 65th 67th 68th IIRB Military 6216 62 V2 10 25 0 Review bonus 25 .... Academics '0 50 75 10 25 Class Athletics 10 75 50 0 25 Sports Pr’g’m. 107 84 881/4 2OV2 45 Totals 2041/0 271% 2231/2 551/2 95 SB2C Helldiver Curtiss’ Helldiver, SB2C, is rated at maximum speed of over 250 mph., with service ceiling of over 20,000 feet, and maximum range of over 1,000 miles. Its bomb load is 1,000 pounds, while armament includes two .30 cal ibre machine guns, two 20 mm. cannons,‘four .50 calibre fixed guns, and eight rocket launchers. THE WINNER—John D. Kee gan, battalion commander, on the left, and M. L. Borchelt, batta lion sub-commander, prepare to two-block the 65th Batt flag symbolic of their battalion’s su premacy in regimental competi tion during the past fortnight.
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