Universities for the Navy

Four universities have been leased by the Navy, which will convert them into schools for fledgling flyers. The Navy withheld the universities' names, said they were in the East, South, Midwest and West. The Navy will take over part of their facilities for the duration, use their athletic fields, classrooms and dormitories to train a total of 30,000 embryo pilots a year.

Already signing up candidates, the Navy will open the schools by May 1 and admit 2,500 men a month. Students will get a three-months' course of 1) physical toughening, including ditchdigging, jujitsu, rough-&-tumble fighting and learning to march 40 miles a day, 2) Naval history and customs, 3) military drill and seamanship. 4) communications and ordnance. Then the students will go on to nine months of flight training in Navy flying schools.

Said the Navy: "[The course is] deliberately aimed at making our sea hawks the strongest, most daring and most determined type of airmen in the world."

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