- Title
- Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point: Cherry Point News
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- Date
- February 1943 - April 1943
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- Creator
- ["United States--Armed Forces."]
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- Place
- ["Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Craven County, North Carolina, United States"]
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- Local Call Number
- WWII 5
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Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point: Cherry Point News
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r> NEWS, Thunks to TIME
(Reprinted)
GLAD TO BE '.'.HONG
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In the enormous expansion of the U.S.
Amy Air Forces beginning in 1942, old-
time airmen felt sure they could see
trouble ahead. It seemed inconceivable
that inexperienced pilots could be rush¬
ed into hot new aircraft without send¬
ing accident rates sky-high. Last week
the old-timers could congratulate them¬
selves that they had been wrong.
Tho army's accident rate had gone
down, not up. It was 11
/
lower per
1000 hours flown in the first eight
months of 1942 than it had been in the
ten years from 1930 to 1940, when the
.nir Corps prided itself on being a sm¬
art, seasoned outfit. The fatality
rate had gone up, but only by a whis¬
ker*
*014/..
For keeping military flying reason¬
ably safe, the Air Forces coaid thank
close command and tho painstaking safe¬
ty education of its fledglings (TIME
Nov. 30).. In 1942's first eight months
Army airmen flew almost twice- as far as
they did in the ten years onding in 1940
AGE OF ACES !>
Husky, square-jaWod Captain Joseph
J. Foss, ranking U. S. ace, returned
to Guadalcanal from leave all ready to
better his score of 23 enemy planes.
He lost no time doing so. Before his
hard-bitten competitors in Marine Fig¬
hting Squadron 223 could say 'moss kit,*
he had knocked down three more Zeros.
On tho basis of last week's news, Joe
Foss had already equaled Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker's record of World War- It
26 aircraft.
PITFALLS OF LOVE
О
In Minneapolis, Dental Survey maga¬
zine reported that a Canadian solder
who fell ill was discovered to have
swallowed his girl's false teeth. — ^
3rd. WING OFFICERS
SPEAK TO STATION
On Saturday afternoon, February 6th,
threo high ranking 3rd Wing Officers
spoke to most of the «ir Station at the
Recreation auditorium. First to be in¬
troduced by Captain Roy A. Trevelyan,
was Lt. Col. ... G. Bayler who, who role
in this war has taken him from the '•''fry-
ing pan into the fire*. He has been
in all three major battles 'involving
the i-arinos in the Pacific* Wake, Mid¬
way and The Solomons. Lt. Col. Bay¬
ler was. followed to the rostum by Lt.
Col. R. C. Scollin who was heavily en¬
gaged in the Guadalcanal affair. He
and his fctaff worked night and day in
conjunction with the Navy in getting
much needed supplies into the- fighting
aroa after the flyers had gone ahead.
They encountered numerous difficulties.
The last speaker was America's Air He¬
ro, Major John Lucian Smith, who has
had so much well-dosorved publicity of
late. During the fifty-four days that
Major Smith operated out of Henderson
Field as Squadron Leader of Fighting
223 he took a toll of 19 Jap Zeros and
bombers. Until recently this record
stood as the best in our aviation act¬
ivities in any theater of ..orld Jar II.
Major Smith is now attached to Cherry
Point '.s 3rd ^ing.
although it was evident that all the
speakers were undor 'wraps', as it wore,
tho content of (CON'Tj ON p.8) A-
t> NEV.'S, con't.
WHO WON t> -
U. S. Marino Barnoy Ross, 33, one¬
time world's lightweight and welter¬
weight champion who recently racked up
ten Japs at Guadalcanal won a boxing
match against a native heavyweight
champion of Samoa} by a knockout in the
sixth round after flooring the 215-
pounder eleven timer..; in Samoa. For
a prize, the local chief offered Bar¬
ney his daughter. Barney declined.