Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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K l ,ml--y .X 1 1 C.P.T. men on the field and hangar flying. ' 734 V lui '1 iQ? '63 fl, -QI Iii: Qt ---'T W' 'X CTVILIAIXI PILCDT TRAINING OUSED in their newly constructed quorters Withrow Court ore IViiomi's fledgling pilots. Professor Eugene first closs of fifteen student pilots, which he orgonized in 1 steodily until todoy the troinees number eighty. Lost sum- ond Novy Deportments ossumed control of the C.P.T. unit lph J. McGinnis wos mode commonding officer. ot wor these ombitious young wing-wobblers , os they oilly live flying. Little George Doles, physicol edu- the pilots, sounds reveille ot 6:00 AM. in the borrocks by odministering o holf hour of exercises. Holf of the doy is devoted to flying ot the Middletown oirport, ond rest to ground school instruction on the compus. Time is token off for dinner ot 6:00 P.Ivl., ofter which closses ore resumed from seven till nine. All this seems like o very full schedule, but the boys ore more thon equol to it. Neorly oll the 450 men troined os pilots ot Miomi ore serving in the ormy or novy oirrforces. All of them ore moking creditoble records in militory life. These outstonding oirmen once cimbled olong slont wolk, studied dero- noutics under Doc Albough, ond flew those little Aeroncos ot Middletown.

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NAVAL RADIG TRAINING I-IE UNITED STATES NAVY commissioned the first Ndvol Rodio Troining School in the history ot Miomi University, Moy 4,I942, ot Oxford, Ohio, under the commond ot Lieutenont G. L. Doslond. This school, os roted by the Novy Deportment in Woshington, D. C., is ronked os the number one Closs A Rodio School in the United Stotes. Similor to mony other institutions throughout the country, it troins young men to toke their ploce in octive seo duty or in the Novy Air Force os etti- cient rodiomen. The U. S. Government hos Ieosed two of the older dormi- tories, The Pines ond Fisher, on the beoutitul Iviioumi com- pus ond is instructing 6OO men in the Rodio School ond 54 men in the Cooks ond Bokers School. At the comple- .i..D S