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...Navy's Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. two white-faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker...
Quarter-Deck. New as it is, Jacksonville is already acquiring a character of its own-a character that reflects the personalities of Commanding Officer Captain Charles P. Mason and the officers of his staff. At older Pensacola, one of the Navy's other air training stations, cadet life is stricter and discipline more sternly professional. At Jax, military formalities are reduced to a minimum, and habits are more casual, friendlier. The thermostat for this temperature is Lieut. Commander Roger Cutler, a tall, ruddy Bostonian, who left the textile business to take command of the Cadet Regiment. Known...
Airmen's Admiral. There are two schools of ranking naval airmen. In one are "the Pensacola Admirals"-oldtime surface officers who transferred to the air service late in their careers, eased through the naval air school at Pensacola, then took seniority and position over younger airmen. Such an officer is Admiral Ernest Joseph King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet (TIME, June 2), who used to have Jack Towers...
...miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within a 15-mile radius of the main station...
When Corpus Christi swings into peak operation in July, its 800 instructors will get 300 raw cadets every month. By that time the Navy's new air station at Jacksonville, Fla. will be at capacity (200 a month) its third air training station, Pensacola, up to 300. But Corpus Christi will be the only station where the full flying course (primary, basic and full advanced training) is given...