Two JAX_ AIR NEWS, 12 July, 1945 Navy Unveils Its -New I They Issued 'Em . t ,, , Cars'alrFighter Plane"The : :.I f ; ! ___ __ ;;1'j Navy flu thrown another , new aerial weapon against the I engine gives the alieady speedy y H HMAINSIDE Japanese-the Chance Vought Corsair considerably more horsepower - F4U-4 the new Corsair, describedby both for normal flying and Leatherneck pilots who were in combat emergencies The F4U4is I the first to fly it as "one of the ''the first carrier plane to take most powerful single-seated fighters Advantage of the 'C' engine's high I In the world." horsepower MURMURS AND The Navy's fastest fighter is a Very little weight has been J\IUTTEUS..Sooo, Burma is not' composite improved model of all added, so nearly all the added power I the only place that has its rainy, . the earlier Corsairs. Its four- has been transformed into increased \season? At least, old hands say added climb of almost Jax in the bladed driven speed that is now midst of propeller, by a 2100 horsepower Pratt-Whitney radial 1,000 feet a minute, and a one, accounting for the daily downpour * ceiling high enough to give an advantage < 'long about 1630. Getting engine, measures 13 feet, two over high flying land ,, fiom work to inches from tip to tip and literally -..", -- quarters poses a based Jap aircraft, but in addition the "chews holes in the sky"'in flight. THESE ARE TilE TWOAE officers who issued NAS problem, Its speed is in the 425mileanhour : I Same Looks Jacksonville War Bonds sold during the highly'successful Independence WAVES have a separate problem class; it ;naneuvers and lands The F4U-4 has the same gen Day Cash Drive. They are Lt. {Jg) Gene Blanchard, left, War which goes on all day long, since easily and carries six: 50-caliber eral appearance and dimensions as Bond Issuing Agent, and Lt, (jg) Ruth Chennell, Assistant War the air seems to be damp from the F4U-1. Most noticeable difference 0000 right through 2400. Every Bond , machine in the wings. Issuing Agent. . guns is in the four-bladed Ham- night they make with the 111 pins, The radio equipment, second in I ilton Standard Hydromatlc pro Skipper Visits Mayor carefully winding each wisp of . importance only to the Corsalr'smechanical peller which replaces the three- hair and fastening it in place. All features, is the most bladed model used in the earlier night they sleep with the sharp modern communications system Corsair. The eneglne cowling is hunks of metal ready to pierce . currently in aerial use. The "pushbutton" different, too having an elliptical scalp so that come the dawn they twill receiving and transmitting shape with an air intake in the have a crowning glory. Outcome sets enable the pilot to change bottom arc. Also, the engine cowl the pins and swish goes the radio frequencies while engagedin I flaps are larger and fewer. I brush and the results are definitely - combat" by 'merely touching a Marine Capt. Kenneth Walsh, satisfactory. Off to chow, button. No more knob-twisting holder of the Medal of Honor, and then, and on down to work. is necessary former instructor at MFOTU and I And then what The neat curls Efficiency the NAOTC Instructors' School, a begin to sag, and flop, and blow as Marine erg.nereing officers I here, was one of the first pilotsto separate wisps in the dewy breeze. state that the design greatly increases I fly the new plane. He states Within an hour, all trace of the . the operating efficiency of I that it is aboslutely tops and night's careful do-up has disap- the Corsair at high altitudes and, leaves nothing to be wished for in peared. The individual hairs go at the same time, insures greater the way of speed, maneuverabilityor off at all angles, with as much safety for pilots because of a tighter I general performance. "The Jap j i pattern aa dried leases before a fuel induction system which re- airmen are in for a big surprise fall wind. Worst of all, the short: duces the possibility of gasolineand every time they run into a flight ( tight curls become longer and oil leaks to a minimum.The of these babies" he added. longer until they dip below the major change in the new The first Jap plane to face the fateful line of the collar Yup, plane, is the Double Wasp 2800-C new Corsair was shot down in 'tis a problem jou start out witha engine in the design. The "C" less than two minutes. strictly reg hair job neatly ar- -.-. -- ------- ranged under a carefully squaredhat and by the time you get to Gates ReportContinued Air AwardsContinued work you look like a civilian strik- ing for the late of GG (glamor girl, Mac!) From Page One From One ..... ___ rape !I"n'" : ... '''' >A\'V PERSONNEL Germany surrendered, U. S. Naval rescuing survivors of a plane CAPTAIN ANTHONY R. BKADY, left, new commanding olticer to standing in are line.accustomed Be- Aviation in the Atlantic had about crash. Lt.. Garrett also receivedthe of the Naval Air Station, made his official call last week upon cause there are so of us always - many 100 squadrons at more than 100 Air Medal for a successful attack Jacksonville's Mayor C. Frank Whitehead, right, in the City Hall. I at the same place at the bases and was deployed over almost on an enemy convoy in the Lt John R. Perry, center, administrative aide to Captain Brady, was same time, we have long taken it the whole ocean from Greenland Bismarck Sea. He is now an instructor also present as many problems of mutual interest to the city and the I for granted that line-standing will to Africa, from Iceland to with VPB2-1. Air Station were discussed during the visit take up 95% of the time necessaryfor Brazil.In Francis G. Larkins, AMM2c, any given deal. We stand for addition to meeting the Jap USNR, was awarded the Presidential I Dennis Wows I coffee, cigarettes, malts, etc., in I carrier planes, our planes have Unit Citation with bronze star Ship's Service, to get our laundry, served in di ?ct support of the and a Gold Star in lieu of a second __ Y or for the movie, or for chow, or island landings from the early Navy Air Medal for anti-shipping for pay The list of things to line strikes in the Marshalls right up attacks in the Bismarck Sea. up for is as endless as the lines the list to Okinawa. Naval planes Two Oak Leaf Clusters in lieu I_ themselves. have been the spearheads for the of second and third Air Medals Most of the time, we find it annoying - major campaigns such as the re- were awarded to Lawrence I. but we accept it becausewe taking of the Philippines. During Wentworth, ARM2c James E Raf- realize it has to be, It really these operations in 1944, naval aviators ferty, ACRM, Curtis M. H. Stone- burns us, though, to be unable to shot down 54 percent of all lake. ARMlc: and Ensign William get to the counters in our own planes sent against them. W. Wooden. The Air Medal and WAVES ship's service store because - Our long range big planes have three Oak Leaf Clusters was the civilian patrons are served the five starred purposes sented to Eugene K. Wiar, ARMlc pre- r1"ti1'A'E stacked three deep. Ladies, we do cf patrol, weather and photo- not mind sharing with you the graphic reconnaissance, rescue, in- Clusters stock of hard-to-geV items, but cidental bombing and as hospital Oak Leaf Clusters in lieu of a you've no idea how much we'd appreciate planes. More extensive use of sea. second Army Air Medal won while I it if you could do your planes has been made possible by serving in the S. W. Pacific with shopping at hours other than noon the addition of new seaplane tenders forces under the command of Gen- time or at 1700. It's right dis- to the Fleet. Equipped to eral MacArthur were presented to couraging to swallow chow wholeor handle a full squadron, these ten- Lt. Lloyd H. Johnson, Lt. Herbert skip it entirely in order to shop, ders have operated all over the McPike, Lt (jg) Edward R. Stell, during our noon hour and then not war theaters, moving in with the John S. Roberts, AOMlc, JosephA. be able to get near the counter. amphibious forces to send out long Schramm, ARM2c, George L. After we've worked All day and range searches even before newly Thompson AOMlc, James C. Stirrup hurried to the store after being captured air strips could be reconditioned AMMlc and John P. Yuhas, secured, it really irks us a bit to for use. Off Saipan, AMMlC stand and wait and wait while :year for example, a tender kept a patrol Gold Stars in lieu of a second consider what you wish to buy. We squadron flying for more than two Navy Air Medal were awarded to can't shop any time except noon weeks in the open sea, under the Robert A. Cobb, ARM2c Virgil F or after work so jou'd be doing very noses of the Jap guns. Wolf, ARM2c and P D. Bishop, *j UMI i w :J' yourselves and us' a mighty fine IJL\tKLY H. DEALS of Portland Oregon, manages a Marine! AviationThe ARMlc favor if you could arrange to shopat employmeiflT' of Marine smile as glamour boy Dennis Morgan, movie idol and star of "Christmas some other hours.NAASMayportls. Corps Aviation has expanded ma- The following men received the in Connecticut" which played at the station movie here last -- .. -- terially and they are now operating Air Medal with Qak Leaf Cluster: week, raises his voice in song and serenades her Morgan made a from first line carriers as a Lt. William C. Beach, Lt. (jg) tour of the wards at the U. S. Naval Hospital here Saturday night ,e component of carrier air power. It William R. Pope, Walter G. Smo- and Monday. The WAVES who were well enough to give way to struck a particularly high level enskl, AMM2c, Robert V. Snyder, their emotions went wild when the flikker hero entertained in their during the Philippine Campaignand AOM3c, Glennon P. Corcoran, ward. Here AOM2c, James T Thomas AMMlc ToStayRepresentative . assisted greatly in securingour -- -- landings in Luzon. In addi.I I and Richard W Holloway, ARMlc Ccmdr. Winters Decorated I Air Medals Emory H. Price, aviators ------- tion the Marine ------ -- Corps of the Second Florida District, have proved especially effective in Air Medals were presented to I x dicted in Washington this week pre- the neutralization of by-passed Lt. Alex: N McInnis Jr, Lt. (jg) that the Naval Auxiliary Air Sta- enemy bases in the Marshalls, Walter A Quinlan, Lt. (jg) KarlL. 71 tion at Mayport will be a post- Carolines and Marianas E. Roese, Harold G, Little, war carrier base. One of the most spectacular AMM2C, Edward A. Willis, ARM2c, Price, a member of the Naval Marine achievements came when Robert L. Wilcox' ARMlc . JosephR cm Affairs Committee, would not elab- Marine pilots, flying two Navy Buscio, ARMlc, Ferdinand orate on his forecast, but said that Liberators from the Solomons, battled Lago, AMMlc, William C. MacIntosh he has every reason to believe that tropical stwms for 1200 miles AMMlc, John F. O'Connor, the Navy intends to keep the May- and returned with photographs of AMMlc Robert P Bradshaw, port base in operation after the the Jap bastion at Truk. ARM3c, James A Tibets, ARM2c, war The Naval Air Transport Serve and Ross A. Vanderkolk, AMM2c. with . Simultaneously Representative ice has steadily expanded to meet Presidential Unit Citation rib- Price's prediction came the the needs of far flung battle fronts. bons were received by Charles A announcement by the Navy of an [ 1944 NATS flew 77,000000 ,- During Carrithers, CCS, John E. Coggin, allocation of $387,000 to make ad. plane miles, carrying more AMMlc, Robert E. Murray, dltfonallmpro\'eml'nts at the lol y- than 55,000 passengers and 76,121 AMM3c, and Edward M Danilczuk .. port base. tons cf Transcontinental cargo. AMMlc. Carrier and facilities for piers . operations have been Intensified to the point where six: daily trips in Lt. John H, Hutchinson, USNR, """"" unloading planes from lighters, - received a letter of commendationfor and to strengthen existing bulk- each direction are now flown, and his open sea landing and res. ="'" RCOMDR heads on the south side of the I. NATS in the Pacific by / keeps pace routes the cue of the crew of a ditched B-29 turning basin, will be built with . establishing new as J the funds just allocated. forward. The most super-bomber. !, '- -- - troops move ''' _._ . recently scheduled service IHJbODOKE \\lNTlmS, VF type combat training - goes daily from Guam to Okinawa. tion. During 1944 for example, officer on the NAOTCstaff, is shown above, right, receiving the tOSS BASILONE 1 Technical Progretts the new Grumman two engine Gold Star in lieu of a third Silver Star Medal from Rear Admiral Sgt. Lena Mae Basilone, USMC Technological: improvement continues '"Tiger Cat" (F7F) was released Ralph Davison, chief of NAOTC. Comdr Winters' medal was awarded Women's Reserve, widow of Gun- to deserve a large part of to squadrons. Swiftest and most for gallantry and intrepidity as target coordinator and pilot of a I nery Sgt. John Basilone, USMC, the credit for our successes, Mr. powerful of all the Navy fighter fighter plane last 5 November [in the Philippines area. He directed winner of the Medal of Honor, has Gates poins out. Improvementsare planes, the Tiger Cat can climb strikes that resulted in the sinking of a heavy cruiser and a destroyer been designated by the Secretary , constantly: being: made on our steeply at better than a mile a and personally strafed the destroyer and shot down one of the Navy to christen the destroyer I standard aircraft and in addition, :minute and h.s capacity for a 4000) intercepting enemy- aircraft. He has been on this station since 27 USS Basilone, named in yew types are being put into acI, I pound bomb load. April. honor of her Jte, husband, >,it hasPage t .