US Naval Air Training Center - Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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- LIEUTENANT Clllrli EL RICHARD C. MA Glllllll Illlltlll It UFFICERI CHARG illlIATl0t CADET Pillllllll T Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Mangrurn, former Officer in Charge, Aviation Cadet Regiment, is one of the-lvlarine Corps' outstanding fliers of this war. I Lieutenant Colonel Mangrum has seen years of active duty with the U. S. Marine Corps and is a veteran aviator, having won his wings at Pensacola in 1928. , His Dive Bombing Squadron based at Pearl Harbor onthat eventful day in Qecember l94i, was the first to land on Guadalcanal. For his outstanding service in the Pacific, he 'was presented with the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Page 32

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UAPTAI II. T. IIWEII, ll II COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE NAVAL AIR STATION Captain Owen reported aboard in February I943 and served as Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Station. He received his flight training at Pensacola, Florida and won his wings in December, IQI7. Since then he has seen aviation duty afloat and ashore. I-Ie was co-pilot in the first naval aircraft to make a Transcontinental flight and conducted the first mass parachute jumps from high altitudes while at Anacostia, D. C. Captain Owen served as Commandant of the Naval Operating Base, Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Argentia, Newfoundland. On December 7, I94I, he was in command of USS Curtis at Pearl Harbor when that ship sank a Jap submarine. After duty- at Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to duty as Commanding Officer of Patrol Wing 5 at Norfolk, Virginia. ir 'A' ir CIIMIIIII II It Ii. It. SIG Eli EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE NAVAL AIR STATION Commander R. B. Signer, Executive Officer of the Naval Air Station, arrived here following tours of varied surface and aviation duty in the fleet. Commander Signer entered the U. S. Naval Academy in I9I6 and was graduated in the Class of I92O. I-Ie was later ordered to Pensacola, Florida for flight training and won his wings in I924. After several years of duty with a VO Squadron aboard the USS Mississippi and USS New Mexico, he returned. to Pensacola in I926 as a Flight Instructor. ' Other tours of duty were aboard the USS Saratoga and December 7, T941 found him Executive Officer and Air Officer of the USS Tangier in the South Pacific Area. Page SI

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III i if LT. lIOL. .IIIII W. IIPP, Jr., III MII OFFICER IN CHARGE, AVIATION CADET REGIMENT Lieutenant Colonel John W. Sapp returned from duty in the South Pacific to assume duties as Officer in Charge, Aviation Cadet Regiment in April I944. After graduating from the Naval Academy in I934, he reported for flight training at Pensacola, Florida, and won his wings in I937. Lieutenant Colonel Sapp served with the Marine Aircraft Wing in I937 at San Diego, California, in I94O, he assumed duties as a Flight Instructor at Miami, Florida. In I942, he was sent to the South Pacific with the second Torpedo Bombing Squadron to, be formed by the U. S. Marine Corps. They landed on Guadalcanal in February T943 and were in action at New Georgia Island and Bougainville. ' For outstanding service in the South Pacific, he was presented the Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal and campaign rpwedals for participating in several actions in the Solomons Area. iff' 'ir 'A' L'I'.xllIIMIIlII IIIIR G. S. STEPHEN IIIII EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE AVIATION CADET REGIMENT Lieutenant Commander George S. Stephenson assumed duties as Executive Officer of the Aviation Cadet Regiment in December I943. He has had various duties since first receiving his com- mission in the U. S. Naval Reserve in January l942, as a member of the first indoctrination class at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Reporting aboard in April I942, he has served in the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Battalions of the Cadet Regiment. Graduating from Princeton University in I925, he came into the Navy after sixteen years in the Bankingbusiness in New York City. CXR ,xi X . f ,fl IXAX Page 33