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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?”
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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.
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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.
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