Summary of Anne R. Keene's The Cloudbuster Nine

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The baseball game on May 11, 1943, between the Cloudbuster Nine and the Tar Heels was the talk of the base for weeks. It was the most popular sport in America for civilians and millions of men and women in uniform. But the best players didn’t wear jerseys for the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the 1942 World Series.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Military
• United States
• Civil War
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544161
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Anne R. Keene's The Cloudbuster Nine
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The baseball game on May 11, 1943, between the Cloudbuster Nine and the Tar Heels was the talk of the base for weeks. It was the most popular sport in America for civilians and millions of men and women in uniform. But the best players didn’t wear jerseys for the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the 1942 World Series.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The V-5 Naval Aviation program was the first step in training to be an officer, and it was here that Ted met his best friend, Johnny Pesky. The baseball squad was joined by Alex MacLean, a sports reporter who filled in for columnist Dave The Colonel Egan when he went on benders.

#2

Ted’s hernia forced him to take a month off from Amherst, and the media caught wind of it. They followed him back to the infirmary, where he was confined to a month’s bedrest in a hospital gown.

#3

During the war, more men were being trained for battle and other wartime jobs in North Carolina than any other state. People adhered to orders to stay off the roads, and blackouts were frequent.

#4

The Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was the hardest training program in the world. It was created by Naval Academy graduates for one purpose: to get pilots in the best physical and mental shape of their lives.

#5

Tom Hamilton, the head of physical training at the naval academy, had a gift for aligning with the right people. He was able to get the students to do whatever he wanted, which allowed him to create a pre-flight training program that was extremely brutal.

#6

The Cloudbuster varsity baseball team had a lackluster season in 1942, but they were able to build a new concrete dugout for the baseball diamond in 1943. They were also able to frame benches and a roof to shelter teams in the future.

#7

The crowd that showed up to watch the game was record-breaking. It was not just students and employees from the base, but people from outside of the village who came to see if the rumors were true about the best baseball team ever to hit North Carolina.

#8

During the war, the bright leaf industry thrived. Companies like R. J. Reynolds Tobacco supplied free cigarettes to troops and sailors around the world, and Philip Morris’s Little Johnny Roventini, the four-foot-tall mascot dressed in a red bellhop suit, was a constant at Pre-Flight games.

#9

President Roosevelt wrote a letter in 1942 that kept major-league baseball alive for the sake of the nation. He rallied to raise dollars for the Bat and Ball Fund, supplying equipment for troops to play baseball on battleships, carriers, and camps behind barbed wire fences in Europe.

#10

The Cloudbusters, a major-league service team, were scheduled to play the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill on May 11, but the game was canceled due to rain. The Tar Heels finished with the best record in the Ration League.

#11

Isaac Emerson, a chemist, naval officer, and baseball-loving alum, donated $30,000 to build Emerson Field in 1915. It was used for baseball, football, and track events. But its glory was short-lived. By 1927, at the peak of a peacetime America, the field received stepchild treatment.

#12

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the University of North Carolina was selected to host one of only five regional V-5 Navy Pre-Flight schools. The baseball field also served as a hub for one of the most critical training labs.

#13

The Pre-Flight program was designed to train cadets for baseball, but it was also used to train pilots. The players were heroes in America, but some parents felt like their sons were being used as cannon fodder in Europe while celebrities such as Ted Williams got the star treatment at home.

#14

The top Pre-Flight brass, including Hassett, was a natural-born athlete with a rare gift of complete ambidexterity. They were not only the fastest team on two legs, but they could beat most kids to the finish line running upside down on their hands.

#15

The first in his family to graduate high school, Kidd was elected captain of nine athletic teams through high school and Duke.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

My father, James Plummer Raugh Jr. , died of emphysema at age 79. He had been in palliative hospice care for three years before he died. He had a habit of not going to the doctor, and when he did, he never complained.

#2

My father had cycled in and out of the hospital that year. He miraculously pulled through illnesses like double pneumonia because his body was conditioned from years of athletics. But he was never a physical man, and as he got sick, he asked me to scratch his back with a wire hairbrush.