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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, May 18, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 35 Friday, May 18, 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
pennission of CNS, War Department, 205 E. 42nd St.,
N. Y. C.
COMDR. James P. Raugh, USNR
Comnumding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. Howard L. Hamilton, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Relations Officer
Lieut, (jg) Edwin W. Polk, USNR
Editor
R. D. Jackson, PhoMIc Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c,
Photographers
The Lighter Side...
Deb; “I wear this gown only to teas.”
Sic: “When?”
Deb: “Not when . . . whom?”
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Satan: What are you laughing at?
Junior Devil: I just locked a woman in
a room with a thousand hats and no mirror.
Sailor: That surely is a thin dress, I can
see your pink undies.
Gal; Wrong again, that’s my sunburn.
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A colored artilleryman, back from France,
was explaining it to a group of admiring
Harlemites; “Ah opens the big gun, ah puts
in a big shell. Then ah closes the gun, pulls
the triggah, steps back and says, “Mistah
Hitlah,—recount your army!”
The automobile motor pounded, finally
stopped. “I wonder,” mused the sailor,
“what that knock is.”
“Maybe,” said the Blonde, “it’s oppor
tunity.”
Prunella: “Tell me, my handsome sailor,
how did you learn to kiss so divinely?”
Sailor; “I’m the guy who blows the
bugle.”
Who comforts me in moments of despair?
Who runs fingers lightly through my hair?
Who cooks my meals, darns my hose?
Squeezes nose drops in my nose?
Who always has a word of praise?
Sets out my rubbers on rainy days?
Who cheers me up when I’m depressed?
Who scrubs my back when in the shower?
And wakes me at the proper hour?
Who helps to keep me on the beam?
And figures in my every dream?
I do.
Sweet Adeline: Bottle hymn of the Re
public.
No letup in industrial production on be
half of the Navy is anticipated with the
cessation of hostilities in Europe, the Navy
Department announced last week.
In contrast to the Army’s, the Navy’s
aviation procurement program faces only
slight modification. This year the Navy is
purchasing approximately 26,000 aircraft.
The decline in estimated eventual require
ments, due to the end of the European war,
is 941 planes, or less than 4 per cent of the
total figure. More than half of the 941 had
been cancelled before the actual German
surrender. Last month the Navy extended
its procurement program into the final quar
ter of 1946, letting orders of half a billion
dollars for aircraft.
Carrier Growth
The tremendous accretion to U. S. Naval
power between the tense days of early 1942
and the present was described recently by
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal at
the christening of the super-carrier, USS
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“In February, 1942,” he said, “we had
in the Pacific Ocean four carriers—and by
October of that same year the number was
reduced to one. That was typical of the
thinness of the line by which we held our
long extended communications in the
Pacific and it was typical of the slender
margin by which we held that pivotal point
in the Pacific war, the Island of Guadal
canal “Today we have in the United
States Navy a total of 26 carriers. We have
in addition to those a total of 65 escort car
riers.”
Versatile Helicopter
One flight characteristic of the helicopter
often overlooked is emphasized by Grover
Loening, one of this country’s helicopter
experts. The ability of the helicopter to
hover is spectacular but not too useful for
normal purposes and its forward speed is
nothing to attract attention, but, points out
Mr. Loening, the helicopter is the only air
craft yet devised whose pilot can safely
change his mind after he once gets down
near the landing strip, and back up or as
cend vertically to get himself out of a jam.
Any aircraft with that ability is considered
worth a lot of engineering headaches in the
development stage.
Postwar Air Trips
Most of the personal plane trips in the
immediate postwar era will be between 50
and 200 miles, while for longer distances it
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Photos Most Popular Gift
The most popular gift sent to Navy meii
overseas is found to be photographs of their
families and friends. And the most un
popular gift? Candy!
A survey made by the Navy Mail Service
shows that, of course, Navy men prefer
above all else to receive letters, but in the
line of gifts the ten chosen in the order of
their popularity are: photographs, canned
snack foods (such as olives, sardines, nuts,
etc.), books, writing cases or portfolios,
service watches, good pipes, pens, engraved
identification tags, waterproof wallets, cig'
arette lighters.
The list of most disappointing articles to
find in a package from home, in the order
of their unpopularity, are; candy, cake,
cookies, fancy shaving kits, and cigarettes-
The reasons given for the unpopularity of
these gifts were that the food is usually in
edible upon arrival; that there is no way to
carry and stow the fancy toilet kits, and
that the Navy men are issued an ampl^
supply of cigarettes.
Voice on phone; “John Jones is sick this
morning and won’t be there for muster.”
Chief: “All right. Who is this speak
ing?”
Voice: “This is my bunkmate.”
She used to be the belle of the town, but
somebody “tolled” on her! ^
will be easier to take airlines, in the opir*'
ion of William Burden, Assistant Secretar/
of Commerce. Mr. Burden contrasts this
with the length of auto trips, 95 per cent
of which are less than 50 miles long.
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