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Show 1 7 VJtKXII ACHX aSfeS work, At t war Its effort, in respects it sy- many and still America. It has been undergoing the pains of prodigious growth, both military and civilian personnel already discovered a stiff price must be mbolise is Sometimes Hill Field enters the second year of all paid for victory. Not the least of its co- ntributions has been personal adjustment to a new set of conditions, and sacrifice of indi vidual wishes and desires to the necessity of -- getting In on with the war. his barracks the buck private adjusts and to him it se e mi himself to routine mostly to be one of waiting. He stands in line and waits for chow, waits for mail call, waits for inspection, in line and waits for furlough, in line and waits to be classified, in line and waits for a rating. This is all part and parcel of his pattern of war. In the huge shops and production and sup p ly centers of the field and in the offices, the a new civilian workers - - men and women alike think not alone of the immediate task to be performed, but also in terms of gasoline tit -- and transportation, of butter and eggs meat, of heat, housing and tires. Soldier or civilian they all think about ioring p nd the Solomons and Tunisia, of friends and re 1 ives, of brothers and sweethearts, and how nice it is going to be when this is all over. a- -t New buildings have gone up on all sides just as they are all over America. offices 'nave been outgrown and moved just as they have all over America. The executive personnel -- all as just and parcel mode rn wa r . o f lian worker, the routine perspective For moment. tells psper bombing off Com e. with a perplexed over America. Again sometimes - - 11 part thi. i. TO VICTORY . ... all-ou- l.t e of the pattern the individual soldier or civi. his eyes focused too closely on of the moment, loses the grand But it is only for a of it all. the radio tells him and the news, him that Flying the Rhineland, Fortresses are sinking Jap destroyers in the Aleutians. He feels that Hill Field is help ing to keep 'em flying! knows -- and Buna and - and From America's long assembly lines in 1942 have come 49,000 planes. Twice this number are promised for the year ahead. The goal is in sight in the war of Production. But the war of maintenance and supply is at hand, the battle of repairs and of parts. It is the mission of Hill Field to help win this battle. Thousands of inexperienced workers have been trained and are being trained. Other thousands are needed. Housewives and stenographers, clerks and agricultural workers, students a nd mechanics come here to enlist in this war, to be won only by organisation, training, wor king. gates of Hill Field during the year just past has marched a steady stream of Out of the veil-traine- d air depot groups and more are in the pe r i od For others the waiting ind adjustments are at hand. Submerging his i e f i nt e r e s t s , the individual becomes a cog training. For those f waiting is over. 1 who have gone -- in the mighty war mechaniam that has been and is expanding and operating in all the conti n important atom in the growing mobilisation which, having won the offensive, will never relinquish it for snti of the world. the duration. He is an |