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

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SQUADRON 15B Kingsville Field Lt. C. W. Lindsey, USNR Executive Officer Lt. R. V. Wilhelm, USN Commanding Officer kl AV Lt. F. E. Francis, USNR Chief of Flight 4 We The SNJ is used throughout This Training because if is such a versatile oiwum. The syllabus contains acrobatics, fixed and free gunnery, navigation formofion flying, strafing and lost, but The most .mportont, is dive bombing. The Time will come when any enemy of our country will realize Thor cur llyers are not To be foyed with. Dive bombers will frusfrofe many such beliefs. x3322;

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SQUADRON 15A Kingsville Field Captain A. R. 8009, USMCR Gunnery Officer Lt. W. T. Harding,USNR Commanding Officer Captain J.W. Zuber Operations Officer Captain W. W. Womel, USMCR Chief of Flight Located at the Kingsville Auxilior Air Station ' S ' ' ' ' ' given more emthSIS on Dive Bombingy, , IS quadron 15. Similar to the fighter syllabus, cadets ot ngswlle are shi sCocljfefLotlgn 1;? thef efentiol p.0int. stressed in teams of flyers. If one of 0 group fails to work, the others suffer the hard- in Eligahfs e'oih SvifESSi: stmedetrlzet ginmlgfut meEnhdIsoster to one pilot. At Kingsville's Squadron 15, cadets are grouped together quickly. 9 g roug t e program together. They are taught to perform as a team and to think

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