Vol. 3—No. 33
U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
Friday, May 4, 1945
Navigators’ Wings
Approved, School
Is Set Up In Okla.
Wing insignia for Naval air
navigators — designated “Naval
Aviation Observer (Navigation)”
"has been approved and, con
current with the authorization
for navigators to wear the wings,
the Navy announced that a Naval
Air Navigation School has been
established at Clinton, Okla.,
Which will graduate approxi-
rnately 300 men monthly.
First presentation of the gold
Wings with a silver compass rose
Set on crossed anchors was made
by Lt. Comdr. William J. Cat
lett, Jr., USN, Canton, Miss., and
Annapolis, Md., to Lt. E. E.
Packard, USNR, Homita, Wis.,
3nd Lt. Paul Stoner, USNR,
Orange, Calif. Lt. Comdr. Cat
lett is in charge of the Navy’s
l^avigation Training Section at
Annapolis.
Navy Recognizes Role
Eligible to receive the wings
9re 618 Naval officers, including
six WAVES, who have graduated
from previous Naval Air Navi
gation Schools. All are assigned
to duty involving flying.
Students for the new schools
^ill be drawn from Naval avia
tion cadets (separated from the
flight training program) and com
missioned Naval officers under
27 years of age. The aviation
Cadets will remain in cadet status
'^ntil graduated, at which time
they will receive both wings and
Commissions as ensigns.
Upon graduation from the
Clinton School, the navigators
''^ill be assigned to further op-
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25,000 Military Pilots
Get Private Licenses
Washington (CNS) — The
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion announced it has been
granting more than 2,000 ci
vilian pilot certificates a week
to flyers still in military serv
ice. More than 25,000 military
pilots have obtained private
licenses in the last five years.
The CAA has been examin
ing the flyers at Army and
Navy airfields. Applicants
must pass a simple written
examination on the civil air
regulations. The certificate
entitles a pilot to fly privately
While still in uniform as well
as afterward.
WHICH WOULD YOU BET ON?
SY^tMATIC
BOND BUYER
Navy^s Show Contest So Democratic
Even Chief Bosun^s Mates May Enter
All Naval personnel of this Pre-Flight School are urged to par
ticipate in the Navy Show Contest which opened May 1 for all
officers and enlisted personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and
Coast Guard. Sponsored by the Writers’ War Board, the contest
offers $2,700 in War Bonds for the 41 best manuscripts submitted
prior to August 1.
Details of the contest appeared in the Cloudbuster on April 20
and are available in the Public Relations office, Navy Hall.
One of the judges will be George S. Kaufman who writes of
the contest as follows:
By Georg^e S. Kaufman
The Navy’s sketch and song
contest is completely democratic
—even the Chief Bosun’s Mates
are allowed to compete. Who
knows—there may be an un
happy chief whose ambition it
always was to write a gay and
lilting song, but who is reduced
to bounding the sailing main, or
is it the other way around? Now
he has a chance to gratify his
ambition and win a $500 war
bond at the same time.
My guess is that the $500 will
go to a sailor or a marine who
has had a dramatic or amusing
experience in this war, and who
is able to set it down on paper
simply and effectively. After all,
that is all there is to vvritmg,
and don’t let anyone tell you
otherwise.
The contest has a wide range
and you can write anything you
want to. As I’ve said, you can
write something out of your own
experience. You can also write
something out of someone else’s
experience. Or you can write
something completely out of
your own imagination. It can
be short, it can be medium, it
can be long. It can be in the
form of a sketch, or a short play,
or a monologue, or merely a con
versation between two people.
It can also be a song. Good
songs, like good sketches, are
likely to be absurdly simple.
Who would think that one of the
best songs of all time would be
based on nothing beyond the
fact that it’s a nice day—and not
even a whole day, just a morn
ing. What I’m talking about, of
course, is “Oh, What a Beautiful
Morning!” from “Oklahoma!” It
doesn’t even talk about a girl,
that song. Just says it’s a beau
tiful morning and lets it go at
that. The whole trick is in the
way it says it, and the way it
sings it.
Crack 65th Grabs
Fifth Regimental
Crown Since Dec.
Athletic teams of the 65th
Batt won championships in box
ing, wrestling, and track during
the Sports Program finals held
on Fetzer Field last Friday to
clinch another regimental title
for that battalion. It was the
fifth triumph for the 65th in
eight periods of competition in
which it has been entered since
reporting here last December.
Entering the sports finals with
a 25-point lead over the 67th
Batt, the 65th rolled up 118
points in the Sports Program
against 48 for the 67th—to win
regimental honors by a 95-point
margin.
Boxers Nose Out 67th
Its overall total for the period
of competition was 280 V2, while
the 67th finished second with
185%, and the 66th third with
117.
Teams of the 65th defeated
the 67th in boxing, five bouts to
four; the 11-week refreshers in
wrestling, 42 to 29, and the 64th
in track, 42 to 32.
Other sports finals found the
French Unit trimming the 66th
Batt in soccer, 6 to 0, and the
64th defeating the 11-week re
freshers in swimming, 5IV2 to
27 V2.
Final results of competition
for the last period are shown
below:
64 65 66 67 68 69
Mil 10 75 50 25 0 0
Acad 0 25 10 50 0 75
Cl. Ath 25 621/2 10 621/2 q 0
Sp. Pgm 70 118 47 48 25 5
Ti, “7 1851/2 25 ^
Ihe llRs compiled a total of 47 points,
all gained in sports program.
Rear Adm. Pownall
Visits This Station
Rear Admiral Charles A. Pow
nall, USN, Chief of Naval Air
Training, visited here on Mon
day with members of his staff.
Several months ago Rear Ad
miral Pownall was awarded hon
orary membership in the Distin
guished Service Order of Great
Britain for “outstanding gal
lantry and leadership” in the
Gilbert Islands campaign. He
also has been honored with the
award of the Distinguished Serv
ice Medal for his work as Com
mander of the Carrier Force
Central Pacific Forces, in opera
tions for re-conquest of the Gil
berts in November, 1943.