Vol. 4 U. S. Naval Air Station (LTA) Weeksville, Elizabeth City, N. C., July 7, 1945
No. 14
Lt. Comdr. McNaull Relieves Comdr. Horn As CO
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Station Bond Sales Stand At $13,000 Noon Thursday
WELCOME TO WEEKSVILLE. — Commander H. E. Horn
(seated), Station Commanding Officer, gets Lt. Commander R.
D. McNaull familiar with some of the duties he will assume as
our new CO.
Total Mounts As
Final Day In 7th
Loan Drive Nears
Station Officers Lead List j
With Civilian Guards Next j
The Station Officers and the
Civilian Guards lead the Bond
buying list as the mighty Seventh
War Loan Drive goes into the final
two days on this station. This
statement was made after a tabu¬
lation of sales made up to and
including Thursday noon. At that
point a total of $13,000 worth of
War Bonds had been bought.
It was also announced that as
of the same time the WAVES were
leading the other four station divi¬
sions in total bond purchases.
The sale so far would be charac¬
terized as steady. Several bonds of
the thousand dollar denomination
have been sold but for the most
part the sale of bonds that size
have been sandwiched between the
See BOND SALES, Page 3
Brazilians Complete
Training in LTA
A group of Brazilians, officers
and men, have completed train¬
ing, as given at Lakehurst, in
lighter-than-air work, according,
to a statement released recently
from Lakehurst. The officers took
the Airship Training School course
for designation as naval aviator
(airship), and the enlisted men
were put through the Enlisted Air¬
ship Training School and the Air¬
ship Overhaul and Maintenance
School.
They are to receive their re¬
quired operational or field train¬
ing in an operating blimp squa¬
dron which, appropriately, will be
a U. S. squadron based in the
Brazilian area. Ultimately, they
will take over their own airship
operations and thus they will be
the first representatives of a na¬
tion other than the United States
to operate modern blimps.
Connecticut to Hold
Municipal Elections
General municipal elections will
be held in most cities and towns
throughout Connecticut on 1 Octo¬
ber, 1945. At these elections, city
•and town officers will ibe elected.
General municipal elections will
also be held in seven other cities
in Connecticut on dates ranging
from 10 September to 4 December.
Eligible servicemen, members
of the merchant marine, and cer¬
tain attached civilians may vote
at all of the above elections. Post¬
card applications for ballots will
be accepted from servicemen for
See ELECTIONS, Page 3
Captain's Message
To each Officer, Enlisted
Man and Civilian Employee:
Upon my detachment, I look
back on eight months of
pleasant and constructive
duty at NAS Weeksville which
was made so by your gener¬
ous, whole-hearted coopera¬
tion. May I wish each of you
a full measure of success and
happiness in the months and
years which lie ahead? Good
luck and God bless you!
HERBERT E. HORN,
Commander, USNR.
Navy's Traditional
Change of Command
Ceremony Observed
New CO Brings Varied War
Service io This Command
The parade ground south of the
Administration Building was the
scene today of one of the Navy’s
most impressive ceremonies. At
0920 following personnel inspec¬
tion Lt. Commander Robert D. Mc¬
Naull, USNR, read his orders as¬
suming command of this station
and relieving Commander Her¬
bert E. Horn, USNR, who has been
in command here since October
1944.
The new Commanding Officer
is a graduate of the University of
Alabama, class of 1935. He enter¬
ed the service in 1936 receiving
his commission as Ensign in the
First Battalion of the Organized
Reserves based at Toledo, Ohio.
For his training he took the usual
round of summer instructions and
cruises on Destroyers and Gun¬
boats, one of which, the Gunboat
USS Wilmington, had participated
in the Boxer Rebellion.
In 1941 he transferred to the
Battalion based in New Orleans
and soon after — in March — was
called to active duty and ordered
to report to ComOne for duty as
the Executive Officer of the USS
Ostrich, a minesweeper. The Os¬
trich was based in Boston and
took part in the North Atlantic
Neutrality Patrol in which the
Navy engaged previous to our en¬
try in the war. Later that year
the Ostrich was transferred to
duty working out of Galveston,
and it was from there that Mc¬
Naull was detached and given Act¬
ing Command of the Section Base
at Pelican Spit — in January 1942.
After several months duty at this
base he was again ordered back
to the USS Ostrich as CO.
Change to LTA
Orders for training in LTA came
through and in December of 1942
See COMMAND, Page 3
