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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, July 6, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 42
Friday, July 6, 1945
The Cloudbuster is published weekly under supervision of
the Public Information OfSce, U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School,
Chapel Hill, N. C., a unit of the Naval Air Primary Train
ing Command. It is published with nonappropriated Welfare
Funds at no cost to the government, and in compliance with
Secretary of the Navy directive 45-526 dated 28 May 1945.
It is printed commercially at Durham, N. C.
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terial. Republication of credited matter prohibited without
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CoMDR. James P. Raugh, USNR
Commanding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. Norman Loader, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Information Officer
Lieut, (jg) Edwin W. Polk, USNR
Editor
R. D. Jackson, PhoMIc Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c
Photographers
The Lighter Side...
A reluctant draftee was asked by the
Navy occulist to read a sight testing chart.
“What chart?” asked the man. “I’ll show
you,” replied the occulist. “Just sit down in
that chair.” “What chair?” the draftee
asked. Deferred, the draftee went to a
cinema. When the lights came on, he was
flabbergasted to see the occulist next to
him. “Excuse me,” he said as calmly as
he could, “does this bus go to Cleveland?”
* *
Wave: “I’ll never go out with a ven
triloquist again.”
Second Wave: “Why, honey?”
Wave: “Last night he sat me on his knee
and you should have heard the things he
made me say!”
* >|: *
Soldier (on transport) ; “Say, come look
at the big ship!”
Second soldier (seasick); “Don’t bother
me. Call me when you see a bus.
* * *
CPO: “I suppose you wish I were dead so
you could spit on my grave?”
AS: “No sir, not me—I hate to stand in
line.”
AvCad: (sitting with a girl in moon
light) : “I’d like to ask you a question.”
Girl: (breathlessly) “Yes?”
AvCad: “Will you please move over?
I’m sitting on a nail.”
5|S *
GirVs father: “Sailor, we turn the lights
out at 10 o’clock in this house.”
Sailor: “Gee, that’s mighty nice of you.”
* s!' *
The drunk stood on the corner singing
“Amapola.”
An airdale trotted by and said: “O. K.,
Bud, you asked for it.”
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The Wolf
by Sansone
Encouraging information on the present
condition of the Japanese air force is given
in an article in the current issue of Amer
ican Aviation magazine, based on a report
by the Office of War Information.
“The Japanese air force,” the article
states, “has been so weakened that it is un
able to mount adequate strength at all
critical points of its defense area, the Of
fice of War Information has reported on the
basis of War and Navy department ma
terial.
“The total number of Jap planes now
assigned to combat is believed to be ap
proximately 4,000 in contrast to a much
larger strength by our Navy and Army.
Total Japanese air force, including ground
and air personnel, is estimated at number
ing about 600,000 persons, of which two-
thirds are in the Jap army and one-third
in the Jap navy air force.
“Japanese pilot ability, which was of
high order in 1941-42, has not kept pace
with expanding responsibilities of air de
fense, the report said. Most of Japan’s best
aviators are dead.
“Japan’s fighting planes are improving
in quality but do not yet match correspond
ing improvements in U. S. aircraft. Cur
rent production is estimated to be between
1,250-1,500 planes per month. Current
Japanese plane losses in the air and on the
ground are estimated to exceed 1,000 a
month.
“U. S. Army and Navy airmen have long
noted a lack of harmony between Japanese
army and navy air forces, and the con
temporary Japanese flyer is not in a class
with his immediate post-Pearl Harbor
brother.
“The Japs have virtually abandoned day
light horizontal conventional bombing at
tacks on Allied land bases or convoy with
air coyer, and have adopted dawn and dusk
bombing by Jap fighters, and night bomb
ing by medium, torpedo and dive bombers.”
Someone once said that a good way to
test the quality of whisky is to pass an elec
tric current through a quart of the stuff.
If the current causes a precipitation of lye,
tin, arsenic, iron slag and alum, the whisky
is fair. If, however, the liquor chases the
current back to the generator, you’ve got
d good whisky.
* * *
Famous last words: “No §*$$* J.G. is
going to make me shine my shoes.”
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Beat it. Bub—she s my governess!"
Lemonade for Thirsty Sailors
Thirsty men in the U. S. Fleets will drink
an estimated 40,000,000 gallons of vitamin
enriched lemon beverage in 1945, accord
ing to the Navy’s Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts.
This war-born thirst quencher is a new
type of lemonade base which is prepared
from dehydrated lemon juice, fruit acid
and pure ascorbic acid (Vitamin C). One
12-ounce glass provides more than half a
person’s daily Vitamin C requirement. In
the warm waters of the Pacific, this ice cold
lemon beverage is now being served as a
daily drink. The 40,000,000 gallons des
tined for the fleets alone will offset any re
duction in Vitamin C intake occasioned by
lack of fresh fruits and vegetables.
$90 Monthly to Fly Own Plane
A recent survey of the 46 aviation op
erators who are members of the Aeronauti
cal Training Society reveals that the aver
age lightplane owner after the war can ex
pect to spend $90 a month for gasoline,
oil, storage, maintenance and overhaul of
his plane, if he uses it* 20 hours a month-
Scientific Crashes Urged
A proposal for utilizing surplus military
aircraft in aviation research is being ad
vanced by the Airplane Technical Com
mittee of the Aeronautical Chamber of
Commerce in Washington. Tentative plans
call for scientifically controlled “crash”
testing of as many as 10,000 fighters,
bombers and transports as a means to un
cover new secrets in design and per
formance and to accelerate developments in
safety and efficiency. It is estimated that
more than 50 structural and performance
tests could be made.
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