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...week, as the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill increasing the Navy's authorized man power to 300,000, the Navy's new officer-training program was well under way. For an output of 6,720 airmen by 1942 it had training stations at Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi (TIME, Feb. 17). For its 5,000 new officers a year for ship and shore duty, the Navy had lined up 5,600 candidates for its first group. Specifications: single men, 21-to-26, with at least two years of college. Through the summer and fall...
Purpose of this routine: to weed out the impossibles before students go on to more advanced training at Pensacola or at the Navy's two new training bases at Jacksonville and Corpus Christi. Since it costs the Navy some $15,000 to educate a pilot for officer duty with the fleet, it pays the Navy to pick & choose...
...Fighting Eighth, popularly known as the "Hell Cats," is the classiest outfit in the U. S. Navy. Rookie Bob, the boy-wonder of Pensacola, is received with all due suspect by the veteran laddies. Things go steadily wrong for two reels, and then Bobby runs true to form by saving the commander, proving the new landing-in-fog invention, and clearing his name of an ugly connection with the commander's wife--all in one breath-taking flight. The only sour note is that they wash out first-line fighting planes faster than we're building them. But Ruth Hussey...
...remainder of the program is a well-assorted collection of war propaganda featuring Christmas in London ad dive-bombing at the Pensacola Naval Flying School. To relieve that grim note a style show is included which displays, as the announcer succinctly puts it, "the latest dresses with bags to match...
...Navy and saluted by Secretary Frank Knox as "an old, old friend and one who carries with him a punch in the minds and heads of young men," Gene Tunney, onetime Marine and heavyweight champion of the A. E. F., took charge of physical education at the Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi stations...