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Show W.dn June There 'QQXJG3 Bound for San Antonio mmmmimmmmmm mmmmmm ' ' yrswf&g ' - - V 1 7 , THE GENERAL AND HIS FAMILY . . Pictured above are Brig. Gen. Merrla Berman, OASC commanding g eneraV and Ids family as shewn In a recent photo taken at their quarters on Hill Field. Left to right: Mrs. Jean Horfan, Catherine Berman, General Berman and Mrs. Berman. He kas just been transferred to commanding general of San Antonio Air Service command, largest ASC area . command. Past One) participation for an overall deduction from cross pay of 16.1 per cent. Lt. Murphy said if such a large group could make a record of this kind, other smaller ones should be able to do likewise. All figures quoted on percentage standings were compiled by the bond officers In the competing divisions, he explained. Maintenance warn as h records division Maintenance mem nnt Riiffinientiv comolete yes provide a detailed report terday towas inaicaieu vnai but it campaign the inception of the and allot aeon's of new increases ments have been effected. Personnel and training division rennrted cash sales totalling 10.9 goal. per cent of its entire Supply division casn ofsaies the week $52,637.50 by the end or 31.9 per cent of its $165,000 ingoal.. The former does not clude any credit for salary deductions. Lt. Ash reported that 18 nmnlv. tirannhM have 95 DeT Cent participation or better, 12 having luu per cent, ne saia nine nave 12 oer cent or more allotted for bonds. Several departments in the army reair base bond division were exported over the top. The postbond change under- Lt woEdwards,xz. xne ana officer, stooa at fire department reported 98.7 and 11.8. There are 82 civilians in volved. The provost marshal section with 99 mmiIikm nnnrfwl OA 0 and 13.1. The dispensary with 38 workers reported 100 and 11. A number oc workers on tne base have already purchased $1000 lumili T.f Unmhv aaiH Those re ported will be listed in another part of tne paper. To Command at San Antonio (CoeUaued from Pa si Om) the thousands of civilian employes and the military personnel of OASC nor the high esteem with which he is held by the citizens of near-b-y communities. For to most of Utah General Berman's name is synonymous with the Ogden Air Service command. So long has he been identified with the activities of this installation, both in planning, build it . . . mat to ing ana operating use the name "OASC" or "Hill air depot, where he was stationed until 192S, In the interim he also served as commanding officer of Kindley Field, Corregidor Island. Returned to States Returning to the states, from December, 1925, to November, 1926, he was stationed in the supply division, office of chiefC.of the air corps, Wsahington, D. His next assignment was as assistant chief, field service section, material division, Wright Field, from Field" became almost a personal November, 1926, until November, reference to its commander. 1929. " San Antonio Largest Until 1931 he was in command of Randolph Field, Texas,, superGen. Berman, now on seven-da- y leave, will assume the duties of his vising the layout of one of Amerinew command on or about July l. ca's greatest air fields, whose de San Antonio is the largest of the sign was unique in this country. 11 area air service commands in An administrative hub is the cen this country, from the standpoint ter from which streets and run of number of civilian personnel ways radiate as spokes in a wheel, personnel, with cross streets forming concenemployed, and supply output, tric circles. maintenancemilitary His next appointment was as air servand number of corps supply officer at Kelly Field. iced. he remained until March, He will be accompanied to San where From then until August. Antonio by Ernest W. Dossey, his 1934. he was executive officer at chief civilian administrative as- 1937. San Antonio air depot He the sistant. and In one sense the transfer to San studied air corps maintenance and became Antonio will be a homecoming to supply as problems, an expert on these sub Gen. Berman, as more than half known of the 32 years of his active mili- jects. This prepared him for the spent in complex administrative problems tary service has been Texas stations, and several tours which he has faced in the past few years. of duty at San Antonio itself. As chief of the personnel branch. Gen. Berman was born in New materiel division, at Wright Field, York City, Aug. 10. 1891. In Au- from 1937, until October, August, the reguin enlisted he 1912, gust, Invaluable expert 1940, he as Y N. gained Fort at Slocum, lar army was the beginning ence with the training of civilian private. That career and a long and military personnel and saw of a long army him the tremendous ex climb upward through all the en- ahead ofwhich would come to the listed grades and the officer ranks pansion s air forces in event of war. until his promotion last year to army On Oct 22, 1940, he was ordered brigadier general. to Hill Field, then a lieutenant Was Enlisted Man to act as first com colonel, Gen. mending officer of the Air the Following his enlistment. Ogden Berman spent the next five years Depot, which was activated by orthe his way up through in- der dated Nov. 7, 1940. pushing non-coratings of the 28th The development, growth and ha was a corporal, acomplishments First of this huge war fantry. then sergeant, then mess sergeant installation are directly attribut and regimental supply sergeant. able to his leadership and took Thim on June 30. 1917. at Kelly place under his guiding hand. It the same has been said that Gen. Berman Field. San Antonio M he now returns to as com' personally has passed upon and sehe became a lected the site of every one of the mending general second lieutenant. And shortly more than 350 buildings now com was transferred in prising the Ogden Air Service 4hHaftrtheh aviation section of the command, and the physical to grade layout was the here is . . . which Corps Signal recognized military au AAF of its day. Inter to become thorities as one of by finest any the Army where in the Unitedthe the air corps and finally tSates. deter-wintransfer This Forces. Air ih later career of Gen. War Brought Growth With the coming of the war, Hill Berman. who has been identified Field and the Ogden Air Depot ex with the air forces of the United panded at a terrific rate Thou state Armv ever since. He first served as an instructor sands of employes were added to of Technology, the payrolls, thousands of mechan t Georgia Institute Ilinois and the ics and supply workers were the University of com- trained for war work, the probwas He of Texas. University missioned a first lieutenant in De- lems of transportation, housing of war-tim- e per cember, 1917. while World War aI and the multitude was still under way; he became plexities were faced. decisions in a The and the in 1920, major plans July, captain March. 1935: a lieutenant colonel were those of Gen. Berman. when ll over-aa colonel in the in August, 1936, and responsibility for JurOctober. 1940, and a brigadier gen isdiction over air service command activities in nine states was oral in September. 1943. Gen. Berman brought with him added to the already heavy duties to Hill Field a wide and varied of tne commandant here, Gen. . technical and administrative back- Berman activated and organized ground in military aviation. In under the direction of Paterson 1921 he completed the airplane pi Field, the existing Air p lot course at Carlstrom Field. Service command set-u- Ogden which is 1922 in the bombardment serving the regions of the inter Florida; course at Kelly Field, Texas. He mountain west received his airplane pilot's rating Last May Gen. Berman, on orders from Air Service April 20, 182Z, and a rating as technical observer and command command headquarters, made an Dilot in Aoril. 1939. Mm' been a e tour of the Pacific war theaters and subsequently reported flying officer for 21 years. Among his many tours of duty nis findings and recommendations. was that as adjutant at Kelly Field While in the South Pacific he saw in December, many evidences of the splendid during 1923. he went overseas as com- work being done the supply dimanding officer of the Philippine vision of OASC by In keeping the . Gets Recognition ... ... H -- . 18ZZ-Z- 3. ra.OOO-mil- I' 7m ) f - r K. In i: - la Gl J n n vt n BtinmDV newly-appoint- OASC acting ed snapped by the cameraman at riant: uavia, i; snxa. , Awa nl commanding officer, PamI ,ir ... and his fas their quarters on Hill Field. - their pet Daschsnnds. . Left i one Successor Has Distinguished Record of Service in Army (Continued from Pas methods. The personnel of tup nas oeen reaucea almost liny cent in the past twelve moo: while its actual production j terms of orders processed i filled for AAF installations in country and overseas has inert, thirty-thre- e per cent This ce only have been accompli through managerial and organ! tional ability in an excepts j degree. CoL Wolf has always taker keen interest in the welfare j his division personnel. He brwf about the organization of the R Civilian club in the supply divis to achieve a closer relation between the employes and man raent A hard worker personal CoL Wolf spends an average! 12 hours per... day more. than . i ir I ma aui nis uesK since euwiuniun at the Ogden air depot and t assumption of still larger respr sibilities with the activation of t One) until Jul v. 1933. he attended the Air Corp Engineering School at Wricht Field, and was subse quently assigned to the engineer ing section, materiel division. Two years were then spent at March Field, Calif., from December, 1933 to September, 1935, inwhen the he retired from active duty grade of captain. One of the most interesting of Col. Wolfs experiences was participation in the first Arctic patrol the United States army's air by forces the first mass flight of the Air Corps to test existing equip ment under conditions of extreme 1A32. cold. Recalled to Duty In October, 1940, he was recalled to active duty, and assigned to Lowry Field, Denver, Colo., where he served in various assignments, including that of base engineering enofficer, and later, gineering officer of the 59th Ogden air service command. ) Later he was made com The methods and the thinki manding officer- of the 59th sub- used by CoL Wolf in bringing depot Later he was made com- ever increasing degree oi emar to the supply division of OK manding officer of the Lowry when the Air Service, Com cy is indicated by the panel whr mand assumed Jurisdiction. stands on his desk. It reads: r. In December of 1942 be came the Right Way to do It 1 here as depot supply officer of Reasons Why It Can't Be Doe the Ogden Depot His appointment Among the many varied d& as colonel dates from November, performed while in the air sent 194Z. Wolf received n Col. command, Col. Wolfs broad army back orders to and modify I process ground is best attested by the proximately 80 at fact that he is a flying officer, an the outbreak of theshortly war vt infantry officer, an engineering Japan. This was accomplished I and supply officer, as well as a an short period oi aI graduate of the United States Mili- at incredibly in Denver the at West Point Few tary Academy niC officers in the AAF have had a working around the clock,ne n. and for three i days, day, background of more diversified - ? sub-dep- ot sub-dep- ot . - 1 f : sub-depo- ts m Family 0 (Continued from - ASC Orders General Berman Wol(d Col. Paul W. tFO Pace Set In frond; Drive sub-dep- ot . B-1- 7s - l j v- - - sub-den- ot Mai Gen. Dunton British Honor Dunton With High Award Major General Delmar H. Dun ton, world deputy comander of the Air Service command, has been made a member of the Military division of the Order of the Bath by the British government it was announced today. Gen. Dunton has visited the Ogden Air Service command many tiroes and has many friends here. Presentation of the award was made by Lord Halifax. Tuesday last week, at the British embassy in Washington. The honor came in acknowledgement of General Dunton's outstanding service as commanding general of the combined British and American air service in North Africa. The ASC deputy commander served in the United King dom from June, 1942, to November, 1942, and then in North Africa until July. 1943. Among those in attendance at the brief ceremony were Lady Halifax, Lieutenant General Bar ney M. Giles, representing General H. H. Arnold; Major General Clements McMullen, chief of maintenance division, Headquarters ASC, and captain . s. Mihalyka, General Dunton's aide. The Order of the Bath was created in 172S by King George L Originally open only to military personnel, the order was extended in 1843 to admit distinguished civilians. It is one of the highest awards that a subject can obtain from the United King dom. AAF equipped in all theaters of action. Gen. Berman will be accom Danied to San Antonio by his wife and daughter, Catherine. He also has a son, Robert, a captain in the AAF. and another daughter. Mrs. Jean Horgan, wife of lieutenant colonel in the AAF. non-Briti- sh son for. the urgency of this pr experience. as fi While stationed in Denver, Colo., ect later became known pare Fortresses of group Flying CoL Wolf was instrumental in de of K pated in the famous battle dec veloping the modification center way, was one of the iffw which were. Originally representing an points in the Pacific investment or szuoo, coi. Wolf saw turning in it grow to an investment of over and stopped the Japanese seize the Hawaiian! $30,000,000. While commanding of- attempt tonossiblv attack the Wet lands and ficer of the 59th at States. J , United ern coast the of Lowry-Fieldthe personnel under Among Col. Wolfs hobbies his command increased from ap- horseback and stamp proximately 100 to over 770. lotln IT riding urai twrn in KUItt Orders Kept Current attend. Upon his arrival here, CoL Wolf Kansas, April 6, 1901. He 1.0101 at faced the early problems brought Colorado college entrance J boui ay tne war, tne emphasis Springs prior to his Point. With Mrs. Wolf I upon speed and the fact that thou- West two children, he resides sands of items of supply were their stored in the open, awaiting the the field. Their permanent n.I completion of warehouses before is in Denver, Colo. 3 they could even be inventoried. Over 3000 truck laada rra .v Csiasmdatlon . . . Area actwt from the field in two weeks of and AGP personnel of supply w April, 1943, and stored in the commended by Lt. col. wiuw"; newly completed warehouses, while Shields, assistant supply chief, the supply division at all times the manner in which the number continued to keep current in fill aircraft grounded for parts B ing tne demands of the AAF in all been mHiimH In the Dast theatres of action. weeks. Indicative of the rni arM4i. of the supply division the time Col. Wolf has beenduring its chief, uk xewt mat wnen ne came there were approximately 800,000 square feet of warehouse space, WEDNESDAY today there are nearlv two minim, Jane 21 or two and one-ha-lf quare ieet, "Double Indemnity" times as much. . Barbara Stanwyck The system installed Fred aMcMurray for thewarehousing Ogden Air Service ComEdward G. Robinson mand has been recognized by ofTHUKSDAT-FKIDAficials of the Ford Motor rmn.M June $ acting as special advisers to the Air Service Command headquar"Going My Way" ters, as a model for baying, binning Bing Crosby Rise Stevens and the location of supplies for SATURDAY an air depot CoL Wolf likewise Jane 24 ant organized, su "Good Night Sweetheart the specialized depot here involvRuth Terry ing 51 warehouse moves nt um Bob Livingston training of skilled personnel in this SUNDAY-MONDAspecialized activity. All orders June 1 were processed and filled on time of Dimitrios The Mask Greenstreet curing mis major transition. Sydney Efficiency Gains Peter Loire During the oast Veap tha tiinnlv TUESDAY division under Col. Wolf has made June 27 a remarkable record in increased Man's Invisible "The while efficiency actually reducing Revenge" personnel. 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