THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1943
THE BATTALION
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RUDDER
DUST
By A/S Jack E. Shaw
FLOOR SHOW
Those present at the Sunday
evening meal in the dining hall
were really busy trying to swallow
gulps of food between acts of the
floor show put on by waiters
number one, two, three and four.
Number one came blissfully upon
the scene of tragedy and threw
his tray of delicacies far into one
comer of the mess hall and in
quick succession came numbers
two and three, each slipping on
the same bananna peel. By this
time, food was piled high and cries
of the maimed and wounded could
be heard through the tumult. Wai
ters held the crowd back who by
this time had scented the odor of
food while another little man in a
white jacket kicked the offensive
peeling off to one side. Number
four saw the fate of his buddies
and warily circled the hash pile,
coming up a side aisle but alas,
he trod on the afore-kicked ba
nanna husk sending his ration of
creamed spinach and potato salad
to the havens. Words of condoles-
cense or a line of sympathy might
help those now recovering in the
infirmary.
LETTER FROM COOTER
Following is a letter from one
of Squadron Five’s editorialistic
men to Lt. Jack Norris. This is
Mr. Cooter’s report from the
(See RUDDER DUST, Page 4)
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AIR CORPS REVIEW—Pictured above is a portion of the Air Crew Training Detachment stationed
here on the campus of A. & M. College, made during a recent review of the detachment. Note
echleons of planes flying over-head.
Bonds Away
By A/S Jack E. Shaw
The attack is on! American sol
diers are gaining ground repidly
in enemy territory.
The Allies have taken the offen
sive, from Oran to Bizerte, from
Tunis to Pantellaria, from Sicily
to Rome. From Guadalcanal to
New Georgia. The toll is men and
ships and planes and guns and
bombs and bullets.
We are buying that gained
ground dearly.
The soldiers and sailors, marines
and commandos, pilots, bombard
iers and navigators are paying for
it. We at home must pay too.
It’s up to us to get the best out
of our training in every phase of
its wide scope. We must lend our
every effort to making ourselves
a superior Air Corps fighting men
whether it be one of the big “three”
or slinging lead at the enemy
from the turrets of a super B-17.
The folks at home must back the
attack with bonds and we must do
our part too!
GOOD LICKS AT AXIS
At Gallup, New Mexico, a cus
tomer stopped at a War Bond
booth.
“I’ll buy all the 25 cent stamps
you can lick in ten minutes,” he
challenged the salegirl.
He had to pay her $48.75!!
MAJOR INVESTMENT
On the eve of his departure to
new assignment, Major Harry S.
Fullwood of the Real Estate, Re
pairs and Utilities Division, stopped
in the Agent Finance Office, Head
quarters Eight Service Command,
Dallas, to become its first cus
tomer under the new setup for
selling War Bonds for cash to
Headquarters personnel over and
above their mouthly pay allot
ments for bonds. The major invest
ed in a one-thousand dollar bond.
“BANK VERSE”
“A Fairgrounds worker named
... Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Joseph E. Piatt Sports Editor
'red J. Rosenthal Associate Editor
Jack E. 'Shaw
Alan E. Goldsmith
Fred J. Rosenthal Assoi
Max Stump Associate Editor
George Martin Associate Editor
Hal Zimmerman Associate Editor
James Kizziar Editor Squd. One
les Kizziar
Max E. Stump Editor Sqd. Two
Martis E. Ismert Editor Sqd. Three
Joseph Ledbetter Editor Sqd. Four
Title Contest
Announcing a title contest
open to all of the men in the
308th College Training Detach
ment except thoise on the staff
of the ACTD News.
The contest is for the purpose
of finding a new name for our
paper. Think of something
that has to do with the Air
Corps, our detachment or avia
tion in general. Make your en
tries short, preferably not over
three words. The closing date
of the contest is Saturday the
eighth.
Write your suggestion on a
piece of paper along with your
name and squadron number and
drop it into one of the “Title
Contest” boxes you will see near
our orderly room.
The number of suggestions is
limited to three per person and
the prize to the winning title
will be announced in the next
edition of the Battalion.
PROP WASH
Squadron II
Rene Chapot tried to add a little
variety to his landings the other
day. As he was coming into position
his instructor told him to close
the throttle. By mistake Rene turn
ed the switch off! “We had better
(See PROP WASH, Page 4)
Gantz
Had a wife who rifled his pants;
But lately his slacks
Concealed no greenbacks
The rascal bought bonds in ad
vance!”
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Aero Antics
By Alan E. Goldsmith
Here is one about a tough
streak -of lightning:
A collision of a USAAF P-38
Lightning and a Japanese Zero
fighter in an aerial battle over
New Guinea resulted in destruction
of the enemy plane and but little
damage to the American fighter.
“Our right wing tips hit, spin
ning the .Zero around so , that its
prop struck the trailing edge of
my wing,” the pilot of the P-38,
Lt. Kenneth C. Sparks, Air Corps,
of Blackwell, Oklahoma, reported.
“He went down smoking and I
kept on going.”
The “Forts” can take it too
After being seriously wounded
and his plane severely damaged
by antiaircraft fire, First Lieut
enant Bennett H. Grimm, USAAF,
made the bomb run and destroyed
an enemy merchant ship in the
Mediterranean on January 23, 1943.
Shortly after the ship was hit, a
crash landing was made in the sea
without further injury to Lt.
Grimm or his crew.
The name of “Biscuit Bombers”
has been accorded to planes of the
Trooy Carrier Command, USAAF,
by American trrops in spme isola
ted sections of the New Gninea
area. These planes frequently have
dropped food and other supplies by
parachute to ground troops.
You might be interested to know
the official names given to new
ships turned out by Beechcraft;
the AT-10, named the Wichita, and
the AT-11 (Navy SNB-1), named
the Kansas.
15 years ago in aviation—War
Department authorized flights by
two PW-9 pursuits during which
landing field sites in Panama were
studied.—The Bureau of Aeronau
tics of the Navy was conducting a
series of experiments to test the
practicability of equipping dirigi
bles as airplane carriers.—Four
amphibians, equipped with machine
guns, and a tri-motored Kokker
were sent to Nicirigua by the Ma
rines. The amphibians were used
for “patrol work.”
Spotlight on Sports
By BILL PLATT
Squadron I added another fea
ther in their sporting cap before
they shipped by downing a softball
team from Bryan Field by a 10-5
count Friday afternoon. The game
was halted during the first half
of the sixth frame because of rain,
but it had progressed enough to
award it the 308th C. T. D. repre
sentatives.
The contest was scheduled for
early in the week but rain had
forced postpopement and it was
believed that the contest could not
be played until sometime this week.
The weather cleared and the play
ing field dried off and since Squa
dron I was to leave Saturday the
game was arranged for 3:30 p. m.
Friday afternoon.
Bryan Field was the first team
to score and they drove across two
runs in their half of the second
inning to take an early 2 0 lead.
In the last half of the second frame
the 308th C. T. D. representatives
lite the fuse on a barrage of hits
and jumped on the Bryan Field
hurler for four runs and a lead they
never relinquished.
Squadron ladded a trio of runs
in the third inning, a single coun
ter in the fourth inning and two
more in the fifth. Bryan Field had
managed to count three more
times during the third, fourth, and
fifth innings but were behind 10-5
(See SPOTLIGHT, Page 4)
Ceiling Zero
A/S George A. Martin
PRIVATE LIVES
“You’d better start dressing,”
his mother called up the stairway.
“The graduation dance begins at
eight o’clock and you’ve only forty
minutes to bathe, get dressed and
call for Nancy.”
In three minutes the youngster
was downstairs. “O. K.” he said.
“Pm ready.”
“Why, Frank,” his mother re
monstrated. “Aren’t you going to
take a bath?”
“Aw, Mom,” was the reply. “It
ain’t formal.”
SKUNKS
Bright and early one morning
Jeanne and Ken dashed out to
work in the family Victory Gar
den. Nestling among the carrots
and tomatoes they found a sur
prise, six baby skunks. Neighbors
suggested that upon maturity the
skunks be named Hitler, Goering,
Goebbels, Himmler, Hirohito and
Quisling. Apologies to the skunks.
SECRET WEAPONS
Few persons know that beer kegs
were an inglorious “secret wea
pon” which protected the U. S.
Navy during the critical days of
World War I.
The submarine was a new me
nace then. New ways had to be
devised to cope with it. Major Gen
eral Gardner, then a young officer
was hastily recalled from his ho
neymoon to devise the protection
of all American ports with booms
and submarine nets.
General Gardner realized there
was no time to waste. Within a
wafek he wanted to construct his
first net, a ten-mile underwater
contraption of wires, cables, and
floats which would guard the en
trance to Chesapeake Bay between
Capes Charles and Henry.
From all over the country, Gen
eral Gardner commandeered steel
wire and rope. In thirty different
places from thirty manufacturers,
he amassed his wiring material,
shipping it to his center of opera
tions. He absorbed half the output
of all the chain manufacturers in
the country for three months.
Within a few days he had con
structed 600-foot sections of 12-
foot square netting which would
almost scrape bottom to thwart
the subs. Each link in his mooring
chains weighed 75 pounds, and the
end-floats supporting his net had
to be big as locomotives. There
was the rub. How could you possi
bly float such a monstrosity f
He had hoped to use gasoline
drums, but in all New York, there
were only about 400 of them. The
manufacturers told him it would
be months before they could supply
him.
Then he remembered a familiar
sight in the New York of that day
—the thousands of kegs of beer
loaded on horse-drawn beer wagons
that were always rumbling through
the streets. So he used beer kegs,
7,000 of them. The job was com
pleted in five days.
JUST OPEN
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Circling the Field
Squadron III
Aviation Students Oscar L.
Price and Percy Prior have a
good joke on their roommate A/S
Ralph Radowick in room 259. It
seems the three use an ingenius
system to prevent themselves from
getting their week old sheets mix
ed up with the clean sheets issued
on Wednesdays. They mark the
older sheet with a “B”, meaning
“bottom”, leaving the clean one
unmarked until the next week. It
so happened Mr. Radowick mark
ed both sheets last week with a
“B”—hence he was in a delima
last Wednesday.
A/S Peter Garaffo was happily
married Saturday afternoon to his
boyhood sweet-heart from Chicago,
Miss Violet Gerber. Peter and Miss
Gerber make a splendid couple
and we wish them all the success
and happiness in the world.
There’s a famous saying which
states; “a man believes in heredity
until his son acts like a fool.”
Aviation Students John W. Ham
mett, Jr. and Paul A. Harris went
fishing over the weekend and had
such good luck, they marked the
bottom of their boat with a large
“X” so they could tell where the
good fishing spot was the next
time! But to top this, Mr. Harris
(See CIRCLING, Page 4)
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