Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Friday, April 27, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 3—No. 32 Friday, April 27, 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 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... The Commissary Officer at one of the larger advanced bases, having noticed that there was a certain amount of waste in the messhalLs, studied his files and existing di rectives for a solution to the problem. Since he did not have any food conserva tion posters, he finally decided to print signs which might influence the men to be more conservative with the food. He took a sign on which was printed “FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR,” tacked it above the serving line in the Receiving Ship, and proceeded contentedly about his business. The following morning, on his routine inspection, he looked up at this same sign and found the following had been added; “HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE ENEMY TO EAT HERE?” 4: >|c « Before the war girls wanted sheer stock ings to look like bare legs. Now that they have bare legs they use make-up to make them look like stockings. * Ht * “And what did you do when he walked in and said he was her husband?” . “I started to tune the piano and, dang it, he happened to be a piano tuner.” * * * A sugar daddy is a form of crystallized sap. * * * He: Since I met you I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I can’t drink. She: Why not? He: I’m broke. * * * Just because a man chooses a woman jor a mate doesn’t necessarily make him the captain. ^ Hs H: Flight instructor: What’s the last word in planes? Cadet: Jump! Mail In The Pacific With Okinawa, far across the Pacific, in vaded by American forces, fully equipped Navy Postal Units have landed on the new beachhead and the dispatching of mail back to the United States already is under way. Even without direct word from the inva sion area, headquarters of the Navy Mail Service knows postal units will operate in a minimum of time. It has happened be fore. The compli cated logistics o f mail have been fit ted in as an auto matic and integral part of any invasion plan—skeleton pos tal equipment, enough to start im mediate operations, goes into a new beachhead with the first echelon. With the third echelon, complete mail units—in cluding Quonset huts, personnel, trucks, lights, distribution cases and other sup plies—move ashore and a full-scale postal job is under way. i Seventh Recent Invasion Okinawa is the seventh major island in vasion in the last six months—Leyte, Min doro, Luzon, Palawan, Cebu and Iwo Jima. Every one of these operations has involved the movement of thousands of men, secret movements over hundreds of miles of wa ter. And as these huge invasion operations increase in size and frequency, the prob lems of mail delivery become proportion ately more complex. More men are in the Pacific today. Rec ords of the Fleet Post Office in San Fran cisco, through which all Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard mail for the Pacific funnels, show that first-class mail increased from 52,725,000 pieces in Sept., 1944 to 73,050,000 pieces in January, 1945. The frequency and size of recent opera tions mean that ships stay at sea longer, rarely coming back to any harbor for rest, and subject to many unexpected changes in operational orders. This makes it more and more difficult for the Mail Service to ar range rendezvous and deliver mail to par ticular ships. Foodstuffs Not Recommended With air mail, V-mail and ordinary let ter mail, the Postal Service can overcome most of these difficulties and deliver mail quickly to addressees so scattered that it is difficult to visualize the task. The same, however, cannot be promised for newspa pers and parcel post packages. Consequently, the Naval Mail Service suggests: 1. Since newspapers will be months old Those civilians flying grasshopper planes near the nation’s Capital these days may be Congressmen, for the lawmakers are taking to the air in force this spring. Forty-eight from 25 states already have signed up for flying lessons and fair weather is expected to bring out more. Members of the lawmakers exclusive fly ing fraternity, the Congressional Flying Club, are learning to fly for both business and pleasure. They want to learn first-hand of the opportunities and of some of the problems that the postwar air age will bring for all Americans. Rep. Jennings Randolph of West Vir ginia, president of the club, explains: “It is not coincidental that increasing numbers of Congressmen are learning to fly at a time when Congressional decisions on more than a score of pending aviation bills may shape the whole pattern of postwar aviation. In order to legislate intelligently on aviation, we must come closer to the subject, either as actual pilots or as people who believe in flying and utilize it.” Expensive Prototypes ' West Coast engineers estimate that it I costs approximately $4,316,000 to develop I the prototype airplane of a super-bomber; $3,300,000 for a twin-engine light bomber, and $2,925,000 for a heavy long-range transport. AAF Production Changes Army Air Forces has announced a series of production changes caused by the shift in air war from Europe to Japan and changed strategy and tactical bombing re quirements, Cutbacks will not take effect immediately but will be tapered off over a period of several months. Among the changes are increased production of B-29, B-32, A-26, P-80, C-82 and C-54, and re placement of P-38 and old model fighters with P-80 and newer versions of P-47 and P-51. before they arrive in the Okinawa area, , families should clip items of news interest j •and enclose them in letter mail, rather than send a whole newspaper. 2. If a man is “guessed” to be in an in vasion area, his family and friends should wait for some time before sending any par- , cel post packages. And if he is known to | be in the far Pacific, packages with food or perishables should not be sent at all. Physi-oh-thera-beaut-ics WHAT HAPPENED? ] YOU WEEE SCKAPIN'? BCTTOM rm /M0KNINC3. I Jl)$T QUALIFIED ^ WITH THE MIA-fA-fA-OHBl >y mHton Caniff, dist^uUd by Camp Newspaper S«rvt^ ■■ [ I ■ —■■■ -opynght Male Call by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates' TA