The rotator [November 16, 1945]

              AAF OVERSEAS
REPLACEMENT DEPOT
AAF REDISTRIBUTION
STATION NO. 5
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VOL. 5, NO. 14. 1060th AAF BU, Greensboro, N. C, Friday, November 16,1945. FREE DISTRIBUTION
Post Units Help Celebrate Armistice Day
THE POST BAND, as well as marching troops, I veterans' organizaiions*and civic groups. The post
participated in Greensboro's celebration of Armistice band is shown here marching down the city's
Day Monday morning, together with World War main stem, with troops in the background.
Separations
Show Decline
During Week
Separation here during the last
week showed a sharp but natural
decline, with only 849 enlisted men
and. officers receiving discharges- or
release from active duty in the
week ending last night.
The unusually small total is ac­counted
for by the postponement
of regular separation ceremonies
last week-end, when no groups
were separated on Sunday, Monday
or Tuesday.
ZThis week's total included 340
officers and 509 enlisted men, who
were released at four separation
ceremonies.
Little more than one-half of the
previous seven-day total, this
week's figure contrasts sharply
with a total of 1,655 officers and
men separated here last week and
2,228 the previous week. Those to­tals,
however, were amassed in
normal six-.day or seven-day pe­riods
of operation#while the present
total was compiled in only four
days of activity.
This week's figure, which in­cludes
the group separated Thurs­day
evening, brings the post's all-time
separation total to 13,366 of­ficers
and men processed here since
the first separation ceremony was
held September 17.
Publish Rotator
One Day Early,
On Thanksgiving
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday,
and the fact that even printers
like to spend Thanksgiving day—or
a goodly part of it—around the
family table, next week's issue of
the Rotator will reach you 24 hours
ahead of schedule.
Normally printed Thursday eve­ning
and distributed each Friday
morning, the next edition will go
to press one day early and will be
distributed to post personnel Thurs­day
morning, on Thanksgiving day.
Squadron correspondents and other
news contributors are asked to ob­serve
the earlier deadline.
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Service Club No..2
Will Open Monday
m At«CottonClub"
^ ^ B A new and "different" Service
^ ^ Club No. 2 will be opened Mon­day
evening, it was announced to­day
by Special Services represen­tatives.
The club will henceforth be
known as the "Cotton Club" but
the big difference, Squadron F and
X personnel will discover Monday
night, will be found in the fact
that the new Cotton Club has
joined post exchanges and other
spots on the post which dispense
3.2 beer as well as other beverages.
New Enlisted Men's Club
Formally Opens Monday
Formal opening of the Big Top as an enlisted man's
club, originally scheduled for tomorrow night, will be held
Monday evening, instead, it was announced today by the
Post Special Services office.4
The opening ceremony will be
attended by the post commander,
Col. Paul R. Younts, Mayor C. M.
Vanstory, Jr., and members of the
Greensboro city council, after which
the newly-decorated canvas club-rooms
will be turned over for the
nightly enjoyment of enlisted per­sonnel
of the post-
Bleachers have been removed
from' the big canvas tent, and ar­tists
of the post camouflage section
are now busily engaged putting the
finishing touches to large murals of
western scenery which will dec­orate
the side walls. Although all
of these murals may not be com­pleted
in time for the opening night
party, all other work of transform­ing
the old tent arena into a night
spot has been finished.
Two L-shapeO bass have been
installed in the south corners, where
beer, soda and sandwiches will be
available, and cloak rooms have al­so
been provided. Fluorescent
lighting, fixtures have been installed
for the nearly completed murals
and the general atmosphere of the
redecorated Top wlU be in the best
night club tradition.
Following brief opening cere­monies
Monday night dancing will
be enjoyed to the music of a post
band.
Religious Services,
Planned On Post
Thanksgiving Day
Observing the day of Thanks­giving
with traditional reverence
post personnel will have the op­portunity
of attending church
services throughout the day next
Thursday at Chapels 3 and 4.
Protestant services will be con­ducted
at Chapel 3 at 10 a. m. by
Chaplain James R. Davidson, Jr.
In the evening a joint Thanksgiv­ing
_ service combined with the
Service Men's Christian League
will be held at Chapel 4 at 7 p. m.
Chaplain Robert B. Weaver will
be in charge.
Thanksgiving mass will be con­ducted
at 5:30 p. m. -at Chapel 3
by Chaplain Stanley M. Powers.
An announcement concerning
observance of Thanksgiving by
those of Jewish faith will be
made at a later date.
Plan Traditional Menu
For Thanksgiving Day
Carload Of Turkeys Arrives On Post;
Unable To Invite Civilians As Guests
Roast turkey-, sage dressing, giblet gravy and just
about everything else one associates with a traditional
Thanksgiving Day table will be on the holiday menu for
GIs of this post next Thursday.
The tentative Thanksgiving din-
Bond Finale
Victory Loan
Drive Opened
No Quota Set
Although no definite quota has
yet been fixed for the post, the $11,-
000,000,000 Eighth and final Victory
Loan campaign has been officiaUy
opened at ORD-RS and -will con­tinue
until the close of the national
campaign on December 8 — four
years to the day after the United
States declared war on Japan.
To facilitate the purchase of bonds
here, Map. L. B- Cannon, post war
bond officer, announced this week
that' special sales booths will be
established at post exchanges and
other points throughout the post.
Special appeals will be made to
all military personnel through vari­ous
commanders or department
heads, and Capt. E. J. FerreU,
Civilian Personnel officer, has asked
all civilian personnel to make a
special effort in the final bond cam­paign.
The Eigfith bend drive has been
officially dedicated by Secretary of
the Treasury Fred M. Vinson to
keeping the faith with those who
fought for a better world.
Speaking over all major radio net­works,
Vinson said the Victory Loan
"will pay the cost of bringing home
our boys; it will meet the cost of
medical care for our injured; it will
help our veterans pick up their in­terrupted
education or work; and
will help beat the enemy here at
home—Inflation."
SAVINGS BONDS
Washington (CNS) — The word
"war" will be off new printings of
Series E bonds and will be known
as "United States Savings Bonds."
The new bonds probably won't hit
the market until after the Victory
Loan Drive, Oct. 29 to Dec. 8, be­cause
so many of the bonds with
"war" on them are on hand.
Ex Servicewomen
Regain Old Jobs
WASHINGTON (CNS)—With de­mobilization
progressing at an ac­celerated
pace, servicewomen are
having little difficulty regaining
their old jobs, headquarters of the
women's organizations have report­ed.
Already, WAC personnel has
dropped from a peak of 100,000 to
91,000; Waves, from 86,000 to 77,000;
Women marines, from 19,000 to 16,-
000; and Spars, from 9,888 to 9,209.
net menu was announced today by
Lt. Col. C. A. Rose, Jr., General
Mess officer, as follows:
Roast turkey, sage dressing, gib-let
gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed
potatoes, buttered green peas, let­tuce
salad, mayonnaise, celery,
pickles, olives, hot rolls, butter,
fruit cake, ice cream, oranges, ap­ples,
candy, nuts and coffee.
A full carload- shipment of
Thanksgiving birds—25,000 pounds
of turkey, arrived on the post Tues-.
day morning, and post, butchers,
bakers and cooks are already busy,
planning the annual GI feast.
No Guests
... Because" mess facilities here are
already taxed to capacity, military
personnel will have to forego the
privilege, accorded post personnel
last Thanksgiving, day, of bringing
family or relatives as guests for the
holiday meal.
When mess facilities and person­nel
allow, War Department regula­tions
permit extending that privil­ege,
and men of this post enjoyed
the opportunity of inviting guest's
last year. At the present time, how­ever,
the increased activities of the
post, with its present three-fold mis­sion,
make it virtually impossible)
to invite civilian guests to already
crowded mess halls.
The WD. regulation permitting
admission of civilian guests on
Thanksgiving and Christmas pro­vides
that such authorization "is
subject to such limitations as may
be imposed by the commanding of­ficer
of the post or station, based
on availability of local mess facili­ties."
Every effort will be made Col.
Paul R. Younts post commander,
promised this week, to solve the
mess problemMiow confronting post
authorities in time to make it pos­sible
to invite civilian guests for
Christmas dinner.
Thanksgiving: Dance
Highlighting Thanksgiving festi­vities
at this post after the final
turkey leg has been stowed away
next Thursday wjll be the enlisted
men's dance at the Big Top to the
strains of Shorty Sherock's orches­tra.
Dancing in the newly decorated
post "night club" will begin at 8
p. m.
Shorty's aggregation, which has
appeared on the Spot Light Bands
radio show, recently completed a
successful engagement at a popular
Miami Beach night club. The
same band was heard on the post
last month when it played for
dances at the Big Top and the of­ficers'
club.
Army And Navy Leaders Voice Wide Difference Of Opinion
Over Wisdom Of Single Joint Command For Military Forces
By Camp News Service
The proposed merger of the
Army, Navy and Air Forces under
one unified command has brought
about sharp differences in opinion
between high-ranking Army and
Naval officers, and has raised ar­guments
among Congressmen, sol­diers,
sailors and civilians.
In general, high Army- brass—
led by Gen. George C. Marshall,
Chief of Staff—approve unification,
while the Navy opposes it. Fleet
Adm. Ernest J. King, Chief of Na­val
Operations, has been an out­standing
opponent of the proposal.
Gen. Marshall has stated that
he is "strongly convinced" that un­less
a single department was formed
to iron out "the different and num­erous
complexities^' there can be
little hope that this nation can
maintain a military posture that
will secure us a lasting peace."
forces as advisers to him. Assistant
civilian secretaries would superin­tend
unified scientific research,
procurement, industrial mobiliza­tion,
legislative affairs, and public
information. The Joint Chiefs of
Staff—with power of recommenda­tion
only as to military policy, stra­tegy
and budget requirements —
would be maintained. War Depart­ment
plans, as outlined by L/Gen.
J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff,
AGF, also includes a single mili­tary
budget and a single committee
in the Senate and House to act on
military legislation.
On the other side, Adm. King
thinks that a single commander of
the armed forces would increase the
threat of military dictatorship, and
that unification might mean domi­nation
by the Army.
"I am apprehensive that such an
organization," he said, "would perl
The War Department has pro- mit reduction in maintenance and
posed that the Army, Navy, and
Air Forces be placed under a single
civilian Secretary of the Armed
Forces with a civilian undersecre­tary
and a chief of staff of armed
use of our sea power by individuals
who are not thoroughly familiar
with its potentialities."
Much of the discussion was,
caused by a merger bill currently GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHAL!,
before Congress^ submitted by Sen­ator
Lister Hill (D, Ala). It calls
for the appointment of a civilian
Secretary of the Armed Forces, to
take over duties of and under him
a joint command setup similar to
that proposed by the WD.
Among the proponents of a
merged sconjmand are:
Henry L. Stimson, who shortly
before his resignation as Secre­tary
of War, wrote the Senate Mili­tary
Affairs Committee that "the
War Department strongly favors the
establishment of a single depart­ment
of the armed forces and rec­ommends
the enactment of meas­ures
which will accomplish this ob­jective
in an orderly manner";
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, com­mander
of the AAF who told the
same committee that creation of
a single national defense organiza­tion,
in which the air arm will have
co-equal strength with the Army
and Navy is essential if this coun­try
is to be prepared against pos­sible
future aggression;
Both Gen. 'Douglas Ma'cArthur
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