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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, April 20, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 31 Friday, April 20, 1945
Putlished 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
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.
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...
A gunner’s mate, home on leave, was
sitting with his cat before an old-fashioned
stove. His wife, who had to go out and
visit some relatives, warned him to keep
his eye on the fire.
She went out. The gunner’s mate fell
asleep. The fire in the stove died out.
The wife returned. She took one look at
her husband snoring before the dead fire
and screamed, “Fire!” The husband leaped
to attention, tore open the door of the stove,
rammed in the cat, slammed the door and
cried, “Number one gun ready!”
* * *
When a guy claims a gal is cold he should
remember that so is dynamite until you
start fooling around with it.
* * *
Cadet: I dreamed I got a commission.
Second Cadet: Selling what?
Hi * *
Soap ad in a New York paper: It makes
a bath that refreshes, relaxes and stimu
lates, You step out of your tub ready to
meet all comers.
* * *
As the bombers flew over the city and
began dropping explosives an alert house
wife cried to her lagging spouse to hurry.
“I can’t find my false teeth,” answered
her husband.
“False teeth,” snapped back his wife.
“What do you think they’re dropping, sand
wiches?”
^ ^
Bus passenger: “Madam, wbuld you like
to have my strap?”
Another passenger: “No, thanks, I have
one.”
First passenger: “Then would you mind
letting go of my necktie?”
He: Pardon me, dear, I believe your hose
are wrinkled.
She: You brute! I have no stockings on.
Germany’s Plans
Flying 20 scheduled trips into the Pacific
and two test hops, the Mars—world’s larg
est flying boat—shattered all previous rec
ords for monthly operations in March on
its regular Naval Air Transport Service run
from Alameda, Cal., to Pearl Harbor.
The 72-ton craft carried a total of 419,332
pounds of cargo and 473 high-priority mili
tary passengers during its 290.3 scheduled
hours of flying. In addition, a full crew of
13 and two trainees were carried on all
regular flights. Thus the Mars had the im
pressive utilization total of 9.4 hours per
day during March, a record high per diem
use for trans-oceanic operation of the flying
boat.
“More than ever before does this month’s
record point up the value of the Mars and
similar types of flying boats, such as the 20
JRM sister-ships now under construction by
the Glenn L. Martin Co., in assisting Amer
ica to take first place in the air,” reports
Capt. C. H. Schildhauer, USNR, coordinator
of the JRM project, the unit supervising the
training of air and ground crews for similar
aircraft.
Insignia for Flight Nurses
Navy flight nurses in the near future will
be wearing a newly-authorized wing insig
nia on a newly-designed uniform. When
the insignia and uniforms are ready toward
the end of this month, 84 flight nurses will
be eligible to wear the wings, and 24 more
will complete the necessary training for
flight nurse duty each month.
The new insignia will be gold-embossed
wings with a center oval bearing the an
chor and oak leaf symbol of the Navy
Nurse Corps. The flying uniform, which is
being tailored in a forestry green for win
ter and gray for summer, will consist of
trousers, shirt, battle-jacket type of coat,
and a garrison or visored cap. It will be
worn only when the nurses are on actual
flight duty.
Reseeding Cheaper By Air
Using a Piper Cub to sow five tons of
grass seed in 26 hours, a coal company near
Canton, 111., planted 1,200 acres of stripped-
over coal land in pasture grass recently.
Five men were used, including the pilot,
and the cost, including the seed, was $3,850.
The stripped areas are too rough for use of
mechanized surface seeding equipment, so
the alternative was sowing by hand. Cost
per acre of the hand sowing is $5 to $6 as
compared to $3.20 by plane.
By Camp Newspaper Service
The State Department has made public
evidence of German plans for continuing
the fight for world domination even after
total military defeat. The evidence was col
lected by various Allied governments, and
is based on reliable information, according
to State Department officials.
Here are some of the things envisaged,
or already under way, in the German blue
print for World War III:
“Nazi party members, German indus
trialists and the German military . . . are
now developing post-war commercial proj
ects, and are endeavoring to renew and
cement friendships in foreign commercial
circles and are planning for renewals of
pre-war cartel agreements.
“An appeal to the courts of various coun
tries will be made early in the post-war
period through dummies fOr ‘unlawful’
seizure of industrial plants and other prop
erties taken over by Allied governments at
the outbreak of the war. In cases where
this method fails, German repurchase will
be attempted through ‘cloaks’ who meet
the necessary citizenship requirements.
Agents, Technicians Have Plans
“German technicians, cultural experts
and undercover agents have well laid
plans to infiltrate foreign countries with the
object of developing economic, cultural and
political ties. German technicians and
scientific research experts will be made
available at low cost to industrial firms and
technical schools in foreign countries. Ger
man capital and plans for the constructioii
of ultra-modern technical schools and re
search laboratories will be offered at ex
tremely favorable terms since they will af'
ford the Germans an excellent opportunity
to design and perfect new weapons.”
In addition, German propaganda will be
directed at removing Allied control meas
ures by “softening up” the Allies through
a subtle plea for “fair treatment” of Ger'
mans and later the program will be inten'
sified with the object of giving rebirth to
all Nazi doctrines and furthering Germa^^
ambitions for world domination.
“Maybe your boy’s buddy was name^^
Dervishian, or de Franzo, or KnappeH'
berger, or Dutko, or Petrarca, or Caluga^^
or Sarnoski, or Bjorklund. Do you recog'
nize these American names? Each of thoS^
men won the Congressional Medal of Hon
or, and most of them died winning it.”-^
GENERAL STILWELL.
“The racial state must not concern itself
with the interests of other states, but
battle for its own people. The future
not be guided by international sentimieii'
tality, but by German soldiers fighting
our nation.”—HITLER, in “Mein Kampf-
Male Call
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