from 1949 to 1951. At that time, at least, the navy had no separate training
for navigators; all midshipmen and navcads in multi-engine flight training were
taught celestial navigation

My 1953-1954 Pensacola memory exactly. The additional nav (including
celestial) and carrier ops probably explain why Navy cadets took 1.5 years to
graduate while the AF people did it in one. (Either that or fundamental
sloth/stupidity.)

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