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

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Cadets get expert instruction in the use of he .45 Caliber automatic pistol at the firing range.

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GRITUNIT SCHO0L 0FFICEHS LIEUTENANT J. D. LEITH, USNR LieuTenonT J. D. LeiTh, USNR, Officer in Charge of Ground Training School, N.A.S., and also Officer in Charge of Ground Training Schools, N.A.T.B., oTTended The Naval Air NovigoTion School 0T Coral Gables, Florida, ofTer enTering The Navy in January 1943. When he TirsT reporTed aboard N.A.T.B., LieuTenonT LeiTh was assigned duTy 0T Coboniss Field, TirsT 0s 0 NovigoTion Instruc- Tor, 0nd IoTer 05 Officer in Charge of The Ground School There. He assumed .his presenT duTies as Officer in Charge of Ground Training School and The oddiTionol supervisory dUTies 05 Officer in Charge of N.A.T.B. Ground School Training, losT March. Prior To enTering The Navy, LieuTenonT LeiTh was 0 sTudenT and also 0 sToTT member of The UniversiTy of NorTh DokoTo; Uni- versiTy of Chicago, UniversiTy of Michigan and Columbia UniversiTy. As a sTofT member of These various universiTies, Lieu- Tenont LeiTh ToughT moThemoTics and served in odminisTroTive copociTies. During World War I, he was 0 Second LieuTenonT of The CoosT Guard ArTilIery. LIEUTENANT L. K. MARQUIS, USNR Lieutenonfl. K. Marquis began his Tour of duTy os ExecuTive Officer of The Ground Training School in July 1944, offer having served wiTh ThoT uniT in various copociTies. He arrived aboard The Naval Air SToTion in May 1943 To assume dUTies as on insTrucTor in novigoTion 0nd lCITer become NovigoTion Officer of The Ground Training School. 1 He enTered The U. 3. Navy Through The V-ll program in SepTember 1942, and served TirsT wiTh The Naval IndoctrinoTion School 0T lThaco, New York and Then wiTh The Air NovigoTion SchooT 0T Coral Gables, Florida. LieuTenonT Marquis was groduoTed from Harvard UniversiTy in 1930, 0nd loTer become a Teacher of moThemoTiCs and science. Prior To The war, he was Headmaster and Vice PresidenT of The Graham-Eckes School at Palm Beach, Florida. it i sit sk sir i!

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xxxxwzrv x mxmw um. Practice in actual gunnery is obtained by firing these .50 Caliber machine guns. New radio equipment allows the code? 10 record his voice and later check it for de- fects . . . This link trainer operator shows the cadet 1he errors that he made in u similated instrument hop.