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Show Si Official oftKeOgden Air Service mrstP47 Comes Frozen Repair Line ConwQk " v 5Xno. Ogden Air Service Command 15 . Wednesday. August 16, 1944 JnudsemL Inspects OASQ Maximum Effort 4 a.. 1 " r isitors "Urges Unity and ASC Depts Yesterday At Noon With Staff Members y 7 S - of full indi-- . r final wmstie Wed yesterday by ,Lt. detailed ... LT. GEN. WILLIAM S. KNUDSEN He inspects OASC of inspection en arrived here late ay. L - ng .rVAj'., nt m. work. (Gen. Knudsen visited the B-2- 4 lie as well as supply and main- nce headquarters. He left by at noon. his party included uen. Bennett . Meyers,, of Materiel and Serv- Lt Col. W. M. CoUins. aide the general; Lt. Col. T. E. Frank-Gel- d. 2d LA. A. I. Clnas- ,11; SSgts. H. G. Sidle and J. L. Whan. or ... 1 laintenance Wins Ward for Safety Is pre-safety v mnnthlv a trophy, the greatest Improvement OASC dt..u Ung r eijr irom month to month "warded Monday to the ntenance division for its June ency rating of 0.00 compared 'or May. ??-KI trophy was presented by O. safety engineer, to ?' Crawford, generalof maintenance,- who H on behalf of his dlvl- This is the first time main-c- e has ever achieved a 0.00 wnt England said. lequency refers to the wer of rating e injuries per "?a.'?hour8 o accident ities wa" econd high . ?f 0 00. but with a tt Yemeni S V-a- su-wnl- ent lost-tim- ex-ith- W te nefit Society mm GEN. BENNETT E. MAJOR MEYERS . . . Member of com- inspection general's manding gronp. Absentee Rate Coiitiiming To Gain Here Ahunra rato. for' all Causes. among civilians in administrative aohoinna at OASC continued to rise in June to 10.2 per cent from 9.8 per cent in May, tne analysis of administrative echelons and base activities report for June reveals. All civilians but those in supply, maintenance and personnel and training divisions are considered in this report, Col. H. M. Younger, acting OASC control of- ficer said. The report showed the Air average of absences in the new firvi Command, setting a com high of 7.9 per cent in June 7.Z per ceni in nytu pared with cent in May. and 6.9 per Miktia air service command stepped up its unusually high rate wi Climbing to li. per cent, for percentage yet recorded of any the depot since 'the initiation report, Col. Younger6.1said. cent In per San Antonio, with June continued to maintain the best record. doe oocieiy will r.m wmber n, rOI6-l- . rcausinonnced Olsen. ye'r. sec VUVJ A , si ; vs. sy w t 8nnL. AbeeV 'n Personnel mtalMBj baUd-U-PP'V?- surface of the irrigation reserve a few miles east of here. t., two iirnurnpd the preced ,,,' Marie GwwseUi - CHECKING ARMAMENT Bessie Frame. The four ... of themachine is armament mechanic guns, sunk in the leadsighted as she peers into P-4- 7 ing edge of each wing, are being bore ' the lens. - n one-tim- C ft--. sible." Since June, 1940, Gen. Knudsen has flown 168,000 hours including a recent inspection tour of the New Guinea theatre. Just Doesn't Guess Predicting no cutback in airplane he said the production at present, on 21-st- op rn One-Fiftof All Planes to Allies luonunuca woj IT READY . . . For the "great blue yonder" Is aircraft service mechanic Ira Benson making adjustments on the complicated Instrument panel of a 7 Thunderbolt while project foreman lends a supervisory hand. GETTING P-4- h Ruhiiwn date of the Lend-LeaAct, passed March 11, 1941, and April 1, 1944, more man inlvo.uuu the planes were produced United states, ., or or those. About more than 33,000 have gone to the allies either for casn or on In the first 91 days of this vear. 4.400 had been delivered to . the allies. In 94,000 sorties over Axis Eu- Balto the Balkans from the rope mnra than 118.940 tons Of !. bombs were dropped by the Army Air Force and the RAF in that area. se to ing Sunday while attempting swim across with companions. One innli rni. Smith, en- li. him but was frus save to deavored trated by fatigue. ntnniniunled the body ui. r to Washington, D. C, Opey s home. o-.- ' ' 's - ""- " one-fifth- iena-leas- " f' , e. r 'A f . ft, S at six. a.m. when it be "There is little reason to fear our production future,' 'he said, "because of the number of young men who through the war have learned to work with their hands." He ' told newsmen he believed the shift t from.:, wax to .Peacetime production could be accomplished without too much confusion, adding his opinion that automobile plants would be turning out new cars eight months after victory. Flane Production ar Peak Airplane production is at peak, he continued, and our job now is to keep new models coming and to maintain existing planes in combat theatres throughout the world. Turning to the ASC materiel e commands merger, the General Motors chief said the two are "still set up as two separate shows at the moment We're not quite through with our planning chart, so I can't tell you how divisions will be arranged or any other details of the plan. There is no time limit for the reorganization we are going to do it in an orderly way. We're trying to get as close to a business organization as pos Trouble Body in Reservoir Travel C. Spikes Party The body of Pvt. Williani nrn v! on a viat ion tkwas found last Thursday For CP Section squadron, floated to the . Which m& - ot for Latest Deaths Recover Soldier's Lciis ::: S. Knudsen, director of the AAF Material and Services Command, in a press interview last week. He has - ex-sct- ed dep-direct- ' they arise. by unity, the new cora-Wigeneral said elimination I overlapping functions will be jghed under his direction, that )th man and woman will be to do all in his or her pow- -t to help win the war. (We want a great body of work-i- s to have maximum encourage-leon their jobs, he stated. We II must work to reduce absentee-JWe want to avoid unnecessary yesterday '- try and of employment as (Declaring that the Materiel and srvices command must be charac-Size- d e W ica and in our ability to cope with the problems of indus- i-- Members of Ingenuity Answers Future faith in the future of Amer- Mond- (coming by plane, he and his Vty were greeted by Col. Paul f. Wolf, OASC commanding off p and his staff. tar Says American depression. So said Lt. Gen. William facilities. Gen. Knuds- DASC 7) post-w- ar S. Knudsen, materiel and services Wctor, at the conclusion of J ... (P-4- American ingenuity will solve the problems of reconversion and any possible Importance Mdual effort every day until .t I i i ' diows was AF TOP s A PROUD REPAIR CREW Is shown above with the first rehabilitated Thunderbolt fighter completely overhauled in the newest of OASC's maintenance division projects. Left to right, members of the repair crew are Arthur Amos, William May, Davis Folkman, Ray Yates, leal Canter, Maxine McEwan, Fred Cole, Paul Frisk, Morton Johnson and Zera Gwither. Among All WarWorkers Left William m T7 ' Lin e W s Transportation difficulties have cancelled the civilian personnel at party scheduledIn for this Friday Come Springs Morgan, the rec- reation unit announced yesterTne party was te have began Immediately after werk Friday. Ne plans for holding it later were mentioned. m f''...'.s'. , t K ' ' km lililllllii w ; - " 'JWZZZ SUPERCHARGER ... On , - INSTALLING THE the 7 is station kief Rudolph Polanshek, riding "creeper." The supercharger is lBn Jst below the AAF insignia. ) ' it was P-4- |