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Show Battle Serve Front Division Helps Supply Has 170,000 AAF Items In Storage Hill Field Shows Amassing Progress in Three Years O frogram For Prisoners PrTlvnT The bloodstream of the Air Service Command is its sup ply system through which our fliers and planes all over the world get the, supplies f W0WBWBMWV4V they need. Bolts and bomb ers, bullets and bombs, fuel and lubricants, flying suits and jungle kits, radio sets and medical supplies - all are made available by ASC to our Air Force combat units wher ever they fight. Wvi ' W-m- ! 4 ' A . Prisoners serving sentencs in Hill Field guardhouse will no Ion, fall behind on their army traini thanks to a prisoner training gram recently developed by Harry J. Mrachek, base plans training officer, and Lt Q. T. ling of the 880th Guard squadi Under the program, both ti and transieni garrison prisoners , U .U ueen appreneni musei. wuu nave in tnls area but wha are statioi A.1 x-- trail t. ' "h ,,p m, AGP Established As Supply Branch Assembly ex'amDle. For pons epot be given will similar to that received by trainees for one hour each dav the exception of Saturday. It uatiing and supervised by ried out by Cpl. Ben Smithson. The program was instituted make the prisoners feel more use! as soldiers when returned to thi squadrons, and according to Gatling it is proving a definite cess. "Not much change was not after the few first days," Ltd ling said, ' but after a week or the morale of the prisoners improved 100 per cent They api elate the personal attention of trainers and take a great deal interest in their training. Prisoners are given close extended order drill, manual arms, sras drill, and training li which cover practically every fiei Thursday is reserved lor reiipobis services and counselling by nUanloIno an1 nn SflhirdAV CW ninsra the men's time is their mi i . Expected to Speed Processing Of Parts Bequests hnnoh A in SUDDlV divlB known as "airplanes grounded t re parts" branch (AGF) was who established in compliance dera from headauarters, ASC tain Martin H. Imholt has been pointed chief of OASCs Aur. UUU C H Oanfnln Tmholt Stated how lrnnwment has been in tuted In order to expedite we Mulnr nt reniilsition M 6VH - for airpl - j i .....a tn a minimus, numhr nt extractions, DO YOU REMEMBER SOME OF THE SCENES PHOTOS ABOVE REPRODUCE? . . . Top picture, maintenance hangar in process of construction; second from top, the operations hangar, soon comafter row of pletion; third photo, barracks, with un paved road in foreground; lower picture, the narkinr lot. newly-complet- warehouses were complete, but they were full, so the Philippine supplies had to be stored outdoors under tarpaulins. When the division's new frame warehouses were nearly complete, 7,000 truckloads were moved inside, out men it still had to be disassembled, sorted, labeled and inventoried. At the peak of this operation intensive recruiting was necessary to keep enough people at work, but after it was over the emphasis was shifted to fewer and more efficient personnel. Sup ply, once had about 5100 men and women working for it, but now gets along smoothly with 70 per cent of . that, number. A new supply branch, called AGP or Airplanes Grounded for Parts, was activated at Hill Field less than a month ago. This branch sends out men called "expediters," who are specialists in various categories of parts, visit warehouses, check stock levels, and requisition parts to get grounded planes back in the air in the shortest possible time. When are at subdepots planes for parts grounded available at Ogden, it is required that the parts be shipped within 12 hours of receiving the requisition. Shipping fgures show how the supply organzation has grown at dumped on the Ozden Hill Field. In January, 1941, three carloads were handled for the en- ur montn; in a recent month, 24-ho- ur 1 elsewhere er ce Morale Noted After Week of Policy "To Get the Right Thing to the an ASC depot re cently received a teletype order at 6 p.m. for 300 carburetor parts. Deadline for shipment: midnight The parts were not in stock. An quickly emergency crew was launched on the job of dissembling 300 carburetors in order to obtain the 300 needed parts. Half an hour before the midnight deadline they were on an airplane headed half way around the world. 170,000 Items Here ' The supply division at Hill Field keens in stock 170.000 items of tha Air Force total. The business of handling all this material might seem . dull and routine at first glance. It might seem so to the typist who prepares a shipping ticket in the Property Accounting Office; to the junior storekeeper in the warehous selecting a part from the endless rows of bins; to the packer following minutely detailed instructions for shipment; to the pick-u- p delivery employe who tikes the part from the packing bay to the shipping room; to the woman in the stenciling line who paints- takingly marks the package for exBut all these are vital link port in the chain of "Getting the Right at me suing to tne mgnt Right Time." Early in 1941, Hill Field's supply division was brought to birth in a little wooden shanty on the west Ma f th finlf a aVi antu whloh it shared with the post cafeteria. In May about 30 civilians trained at other military installations wer: brought in to form the nucleus of the supply force. In July the di vision moved to larger quarter the first of several moves necessitated by constantly increasing sonnel. Supply had a hard time in the winter of 1941. In the uncrtainty following Pearl Harbor, it was necessary to maintain vigilance over the storage areas. On top of that, unusually heavy snow and cold slowed down operations, especially since the . warehouses were not yet heated. Another headache came along in 1942 when the PhillDDines fell. Shipments of material en route to tne Philippines were snatched back to the west coast, and much of this plus other material lying In the were in Pick-U- p yZZZTp., 6, Start Training IT Fliers, Planes Serviced All Over the Globe Right Place at the Right Time" is the supply diivsion's motto, and it represents a tall order. ASC handles about 400,000 different items, which is ten times as many as you will find in the catalog of the bighouse in the coungest mail-ordtry- In a slnele day the ASC supplies enough gasoline to army planes ina the United States alone to run fleet of 100 automobiles irom xsew York to San Francisco, with for a little enough gas left over Los in Angeles. driving pleasure Ait- - Vnrcpi careo sunk on a hin ia reolaced almost instantly. The ASC has a record of every item of Air Forces eauipment on every ship leaving our ports. Replacement is a matter of hours. Parts are withdrawn from the depots closest to the port of embarkation, bled at the port, and loaded on the first ship due to sail. Naturally considering the total of 400,000 items, there are times when needed parts are not in stock. Then, either the needed part is in a maintenance . manufactured shop or it ia "borrowed" from an Saturday November ed - A nearly a thousand carloads were received and dispatched. Shipments, inbound and outbound, are in charge of the traffic section, which, though now an independent agency, used to be incorporated in supply and still finds in supply its best "customer." The section operates i3.4 miles of railway on the field, and has five crews to run its three locomotives and man the switches. The present locomotive "fleet" consists of one n n oil burner, one oil burner and one coal burner. It is expected that the coal burner 70-to- 80-to- 80-t- on will soon be replaced toy a new oil burner, thereby enabling the traffic section to standardize on oil as a fuel. Handling inbound freight, the rail dispatcher and yard checkers determine where to "spot" cars for unloading, and keep all needful records on arrivals, releases and demurrage. Close liaison between the rail dispatcher and the supply division has eliminated demurrage entirely for the past two months. The outbound branch starts shipments onfreight their way to destinations all over the United States and Canada. All forma of are utilized rail commercial motor truck, government truck, rail express, commercial air express, govern ment air pre nd parcel poet. transport freight, QPA Announces Mileage Changes The main reason for the recent OPA cut in the value of gas coupons in Utah to three gallons is to equalize the personal driving mileage allowed B or C book holders with that for holders of A books, Laura T. fichiff, supervisor of transportation and rationing unit, pointed out this week. , Under the previous .ruling, an automobile owner having only an A book was permitted to use all his coupons for 240 miles of pleas ure or driving. Hold' ers of B or C books were required to use 150 miles of the A book for essential or preferred mileage, and were allowed only 90 miles of personal driving. ' With the change In the value of gas coupons came a change in the amount of personal driving al lowed. The holder of only an A book Is permitted 180 miles of non essential driving per month. B or C book holden are allowed 130 miles of personal driving and now contribute only 60 miles per month of the A book toward essential driving. non-essenti- al T 1 10 Wj th numow minimum end that the. planes grounded for parts mu attained. as soon as possiow. a ntt 4 , "t v iu .J1 parts were oiien service comma to air other ing depots. AGP is starred wiw in ills nrivm every P supply who will exhaust source of sible filling requi," before extracting elsewhere. organised somewhat on bly line basis since w-Jwill be concerned only w tain parts and sources w ing sucn pans. Formerly, requisitions weT T'; A the various ceived in warehouses stocking out fromJJg sought and senthandle aU will AOP Nor, accelerating thus tions, P",, tribution ana Keepw in the air. It will i ssv- - CanniW" viaassvssj it .Mwiirv. consists in supplying parti ping other planes. Hr Returned Xmas Parceb tfnv fitlll He Mailed Hill Field emP'rSeTt eels or Christmas wm ' service men overseas returned to them advw ficient address are wu cards such parcels or will reeled addresses for mailing even though IB deadline nas However, satisfactory wiU Mu4mia nailing tb Jq J, JJ PJ5 |