Vol. 1—No. 20 U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C. Saturday, February 6, 1943 A Double Dose for the Axis V-5 Instructors Complete Indoctrination Training ^ The group of some 120 new V-5 officers who came aboard last Public Invited month for naval indoctrination completed their training today and To Inspect New will take up duties shortly as in­ structors in the naval aviation Naval Hospital training program at Pre-Flight The new Pre-Flight Naval Hos­ Schools and naval stations around pital will be open for inspection the country. by the public from 1300 to 1700 In addition to physical condi­ tomorrow, it was announced dur­ tioning, the one-month course in­ ing the week by Com dr. John P. cluded instruction in naval cus­ Graff, USN (Ret.), commanding toms and traditions, military drill, officer of this station. Patients and general training designed to will be admitted and the hospital prepare the new officers for the placed in operation on Tuesday, job of instructors in the Navy’s Feb. 9. rapidly growing air program. Comdr. Deane H. Vance, MC- Twenty of the officers have been USN (Ret.), senior medical of­ assigned for duty at this station. ficer of the Pre-Flight School, is Among the nationally known in charge of the hospital, while sports figures who completed the Lt. Comdr. Clark E. Brown, MC- course and will take up duties USNR, has been designated as elsewhere are Lieut. Charley Geh- executive officer. ringer, former Detroit Tiger sec­ Occupancy of the new structure, ond sacker, assigned to the Pre- which is located behind the Uni­ Flight School at St. Mary’s, Cal., versity Medical Building at the and Lieut. Hal Schumacher, ex- corner of Raleigh and Pittsboro New York Giant chucker, who will TWIN TROUBLE for the Axis is promised by this Mike and Roads, will represent the answer report to the Memphis Naval Ike pair, soon as they sprout their Navy wings. to a need that has been present Training Station, Memphis, Tenn. Stowing away their sailor gear to don that of aviation cadets since the Pre-Flight School was Ensign Dick Todd and Ensign are Jack (left) and Laurence Terrio, 18th Battalion twins from commissioned last spring. Navy Ed Cifers, former professional North Quincy, Mass. patients have been quartered in footballers with the Washington Both lettered in cross-country, indoor and outdoor track in the University Infirmary, while Redskins, remain teammates, but high school, both attended Northeastern University, and both the medical and dental offices have in different places, with Todd go­ served a one-year hitch as aviation machinists at the Squantum, been housed in the administration ing to the Pre-Flight School at Mass., Naval Air Station, before becoming aviation cadets. building, Alexander Hall. Iowa City, la., and Cifers report­ And both are itching for a chance at the Axis—together in ing to the Pre-Flight unit at Del the Pacific. Movie Schedule Monte, Cal. Another former pro­ fessional football player, Ensign Feb. 6—Free movie at Village Raymond Bray, Chicago Bear Exodus of Pre-Flight versity, Hamilton, N. Y.; Lieut, Theatre, “Who Done It?” with star, also goes to Del Monte. (jg) N. J. Pierce, USNR, assistant Abbott and Costello. Feature starts The 20 new instructors joining Officers Continues football coach, and Ensign Leslie at 1340, 1520, 1930 and 2105. the Pre-Flight staff at Chapel The exodus of Pre-Flight officers R, Casey, USNR, assistant in la­ Feb. 7—Free movie at Village Hill are: Theatre, “Jackass Mail” with other naval stations continued bor engineering, to the NFPS, Lieut, (jg) Theodore Bleier, Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. during the past week with 10 of- Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute, former supervisor of health and Short Subject, “Eyes of the ^^ers leaving this station for Troy, N. Y.; physical education, Dade County Navy.” Feature begins at 1327 'duties elsewhere. Ensign Herbert H. Maack, Public Schools, Miami, F la.; Lieut. and 1517. Those transferred include: Lieut. USNR, platoon officer, to the (jg) Otis Douglas, director of ath­ Cover C. Emerson, USNR, NFPS, Wooster University, Woos­ At the Carolina letics and head football coach from Ensign Frank J. O’Hora, ter, 0.; Ensign Robert F. Daugh­ Feb. 6—“The Powers Girl” with the University of Akron, Akron, assistant coaches of mass ters, USNR, and Ensign Earl B. Benny Goodman and orchestra. 0.; Lieut, (jg) Donald Edgar, ®Xercise, going to the Naval Flight Ruth platoon officers, to the NFPS, Feb. 7—“Arabian Nights” with from California; Ensign Jerome ^^eparatory School, Colgate Uni­ See DETACHED, page U Jon Hall and Maria Montez. See V-5 INSTRUCTORS, page U.