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Show !:" 0C Maintenance onference Gets Jnde rway Monday Vol I, No- - 14 maintenance Heads and Experts From All Parts of Continental United States at Hill Field for Two-Da- y Gather Tie first peld gets under way all-AS- C Meeting conference ever to be held at Hill next Monday when maintenance chiefs general superintendents from Air Service Command the Continental United States begin a gspots throughout r the depots and Heading the distinguished visitors to Hill Field will be Clements McMullen, ASC Maintenance chief, who personally chose this depot as the conference site following a visit six .weeks ago. Col. M. E. Tillery, head of the maintenance division here appointsub-depo- I ts. Maj.-Ge- ed n. a committee to make all arrangements for the visitors. Heading the arrangements committee is Lt. Col. John C. Raymer, assistant maintenance chief. The following officers served on the committee under .... McMULLEN Chief of Air Service Command, Maintenance Division, will lead MAJ-GE- tooussions of Maintenance chief s tram ah over U. S. during their here. meeting Sees Swim Exhibition Commander Fator Inspects JCol. ; Cmicipal Plunge a- - Under simulated conditions likely to be faced by our fighting men, Hill Field enlisted men in the functional swimming ud water safety training course Vie 35 en-toll- ed Raged a special kills yesterday exhibition of their at the Ogden Mun. icipal pool for Col. Lilburn D. fttor, base commander. The men demonstrated how to iwim through light oil or gasoline .floating on the water, to swim with from high quipment, leaping udes among Col. Raymer: Capt. A. Banks Wanamaker and Lt C. F. Mallory, Public Relations; Capt. W. A. Wiltberger, Intelligence; Capt. James T. Cline, Hill Field Officers' Club; Lt. Theodore Wherry, OASC QM, base garage, and Lt. William F. Brown, OASC Signal Corps. "The arrangements committee," Col. Raymer stated, "has spared no effort to make our guests welcome and comfortable during their short stay here." Col. Raymer's committee has provided for the proceedings, publicity, lodgings, meals and . transportation for the officers and civilians attending. Approximately 60 officers and civilians will be guests at the field. A large representation is expected from Patterson Field, Air Service Command Head- quarters. - at ffllasses altit- floating debris, swim- Announce 25 New Officer Arrivals First Time WAC Officers Are Included in List officer arrivals to Twenty-fiv- e this field were announced this week by Col. Morris Berman, commanding officer, OASC. The new officers include two majors, four captains, six first lieutenants, nine second lieutenants, three WAC officers and one warrant officer. Majors Edwin R. Page, William F. Newton. Captains Isadore Dyer, Eugene H. Swanhart, Earl W. Quayle, William G. Snyder. J. FerFirst lieutenants George L. Paul F. ris, Roger Templin, William J. Cunningham, Donald Marcus, Jesse K. Ball. Second lieutenants Franz Swart-inB. K. Moyers, Harold A. ToI bias, George T. Anderson, John Galen Black, E. John Campbell, P. Hufford, J. M. Paris, Roscoe Lb Curry. Second officer Nelle L. Jones. Third officers Mary A. L. Rogers, Katherine W. Thompson. with weapons, swimming unto water fully clothed, "shirt tail" Le saving, etc. & iwimming through oil and tuoline floating on the water the used the breast stroke because d in the recovery portion the stroke a fan of water pushed t only forward, but somewhat to M wel1- This method of Z u7e" water ahead of the swim-wi- ll extinguish flames as well th swimmer. Fol shirtpathtail"for life Jorinflated saving the duffle bags, shirts and Jn ZTJ and "sed them as life To inflat ETT shirts, utton shirt collars and pulled httu!lU ot the shirta 0" of their Chief warrant officer to Por hitting the water. Devlin, Jr. ming - i Injuries Prove Fatal to i e I "om Worker haa HanCey' Wh as an electrician 'mn?d Setter, 1942, Mond'it86 l""uun "3Pies received Saturday the automobile in "luWas rid,n overturned highway 15 miles south of h ""lea hi "W x O HiU Field ?!T employes lnor iniur in accl- - the south, Miss . 7 VJ- . V, , uj? iwanie? 47 ScV's!!? - w- - r!"d.W: iured Four Crew Members Lieut. Brown Honored Escape Injury In Belly Landing In Ceremonies For Combat Valor meeung. purpose of the meetings is to Four crew members of an army coordinate control methods in an bomber escaped injury Monday effort to streamline operation of l two-da- y Wednesday, August 4, 1943 Field, Ogden, Utah Hill Bomber Makes Honored for Valor Flying Cross, Crash Landing Air Medal Here in Safety Given Airman iwu-ua- y V ' JWl 0C9QOXPR rlvin Skidmore. Mr. the car- - A,o Mrs- - Nettie ?ere Tm are emp,oyed a survived by Mrs. HonWo dauhters, Mrs. f UgM and Hanccy 'r0? a Hol-com- b, g, Philip Lieut. Eager W. Brown, Jr., assistant base operations officer since July 7, was awarded ; the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal in a formal citation ceremony on Hill Field Thurs- night when the pilot, Lieut. Robert R. Siegel of Rapid City Air Base, made a crash landing on Hill Field after one wheel was lost and the landing gear damaged when the plane took off from Rapid City, spl . f , - - f' jj S. D. Emergency crews cheered as the plane made a belly landing on the ground between the concrete runways at the air base. Firemen, ambulance crews, salvage crews all had been standing by for over two hours when the plane came within range of the operations control tower, circled slowly over the field several times, and finally made the successful landing. The bomber left Rapid City with a medium load of practice bombs. After the landing gear was damaged in the takeoff, and a crash landing was imminent, the bombs were dumped overboard on the Rapid City bombing range, and the ship was instructed to proceed to Hill Field. Besides the pilot, the crew mem bers were: Lieut. Verle H. Lusk, Sgt. Thomas E. Doyle, engineer, and Cpl. Hilario G. Men doza, radioman, all of- - the 602nd Squadron, 398th Heavy Bombard ment Group, Rapid City. Notified Here Immediately Hill Field officials were notified of the condition of the bomber immediately after its takeoff from Rapid City by Brig. Gen. Walter R. Peck, commanding general of the' 17th bombardment wing of the Second Bomber Command at Walla Walla, Wash., and also by Col Frank P. Hunter, Jr., commanding officer of the 398th bombardment group at the Army Air Base, Rapid City. All emergency crews were or dered at once to stand by for the crash landing. The plane was in constant touch with the radio tower at Hill Field, receiving instructions from operations officers there. Capt Irving C. Eells was in charge of operations at Hill Field during the tense hours that pre ceded the forced landing. Also in the control tower at the time of the landing were: Col. Morris Berman, commanding of ficer, OASC; Col. Lilburn D. Fator, commanding officer of the air base; Col. M. E. Tillery, and Lieut John C. Raymer of maintenance division. The pilot and his crew returned to Rapid City Tuesday morning. The Diane was considerably dam aged, and a board of qualified air force officers is investigating the cause of the damage to the landing gear in the takeoff. co-pil- ot; " day, afternoon. Col. Lilburn D. Fator, commanding officer of the Army LT. EAGER W. BROWX, JR. . . Recipient of Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal at ceremony on field last Thursday.. . Two Employes Get ASC Merit Award Chandler, Clabaugh Commended by Maj.-Ge- Frank n. Air Service Command Awards of Merit were presented Tuesday morning to two Hill Field civilian employees by Col. Morris Berman, commanding officer of Ogden Air Service Command, for "unselfish effort which aided materially the war effort of the United States of America." Recipients of the awards are Everett M. Chandler, chief of occupational standard unit in civilian personnel, and Ross A. Clabaugh, chief of area activities section in supply division, who are the first Hill Field employes to receive such recognition from the Air Service Command. Mr. Chandler was recommended for the award by Maj. Gen. Walter H. Frank, commanding general of the Air Service Command for "in dustry and efficiency" displayed in carrying out a recent assign- ment. He was one of five civilians who were assigned to prepare replacement schedules for practically all Army Air Force installations in the United States. The task entailed over 10,000 miles of travel by air to visit a large number of the installations in order to prepare the schedules. Assigned to Hill Field for more than a year, Mr. Chandler was attached to ASC headquarters at Patterson Field, Ohio, for 13 months prior to his permanent assignment at the air base here. He is a graduate of the University of Californa, where he received his B. S. and M. A. degrees in economics. He was employed for a year and a . half with the California State Personnel Board. Mr. Clabaugh is chief "trouble-shootefor supply division, ' and his duties include the coordination of many and varied problems of supplying the ASC installations in the Ogden area, In presenting the award to Mr. Clabaugh, Colonel Berman commended him for "outstanding work r" (Continued on Pas Two I - Certain Types of Workers Still Needed at Humors Field, Col. Berman bays Denying to "It true that from time for one reason or another fail off There Is no general . intrt Aiir ooerations satisfactor olvitian urnrkers at Hill Field COn was indicated by the comCol. ily" Berman, templated or pending, of the stressed the Ogden manding officer, who calls commanding officer program the present that a fact in said Air Service Command, and inproduction for in reply statement issued yesterday creased efficiency of personnel. to direct inquiries occasioned by Col. Berman's statement follows: as well as rumors that this field, "No, definitely, there is no genthe other military installations inin its eral of war worker? at Hill lay-oarea, planned a reduction nor is one prospective at this Field, , working force. In fact, just the opposite sitIn fact, said the commandingmany time. uation exists, as we are aeeklng in certain categonex can use several hundred addi- and needhundreds of workers are still workers in specific catetional ed at this field, and can be used are we now. Particularly required sheet gFor Instance, at Hill Field laborers, more patrolmen, laborers, more patrolmen, need metal workers, typists, aircraft sheet metal workers, typists, airand mechanic learners. and mechanic some craft enginemen are wanted skills That in certain instances, These will con- learners. enployes have been andwhen they now. tinue to be released lay-o- ff all-o- ut ff ot-fic- er, en is to time effi- - ln the interest of Increased ciency some workers are dismissed from our employ. We are engaged in stepping up our production and those workmen who for one rea son or another fails to fit into our (Derations satisfactorily are re leased to return to other pursuits or fill other jobs. "Durine this period of man-noor ahortaee it is very necessary that the right man be on the right Air Base, presented " the awards from the War Department, expressing commendation on behalf of the Army Air Forces for Lieut. Brown's outstanding service in the south Pacific theatre of war. Lieut. James F. ' Love, Jr., ad jutant of the 31st Air Depot Group, read the citations. The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded Lieut. Brown "for extraordinary achievement while participating, during the period from December 14. 1941. to March 26, 1942, in 49 operational 4ir flights, during which exposure te enemy fire was probable and expected." The Air Medal was presented for 'meritorious achievement while participating, , between June S, 1942, and July 24, 1942, in 16 operational air flights totaling, over 107 hours, during which exposure to enemy fire was probable ."and . expected." . (Continued on Page Two) Officers Qualify As Marksmen Five Bated Expert With Carbines, Pistols on Range Five Hill Field officers who com pleted a course in marksmanship last week qualified for "expert" rating, it was announced yesterday by Major Robert H. Raring, chief of ordnance section, OASC. Lieut. Col. William J. Anuske-wic- z, Capt. Jess C. Hicks, and Lieut. James F. Love., Jr., qualified as experts with the carbine, while Lieut. Edward Urbanski and Lieut. John E. Weir rated higheat in pistol shooting. Fifteen officers qualified as sharpshooters with carbines, and three with pistols. They are: Lieut. Col. Heber With carbine Scowcroft, Lieut. Col. D. P. Thom as, Major L. A. Johnson, Capt. B. C. Baumgartner, Clyde S. Bugbee, James T. Cline, H. J. Ritter, E. D. Taysom, E. M. Wright, Lieuts. Fred L. Harris, Jr., Lloyd C. Shanline, Edward Urbanski, John Hazen, Hyman Sachs, and Nathan Wilan-sk- y. With pistol Capt. Elvin D. Taysom, Lieut. James F. Love, Jr, Lieut. Bruce Pickett. An additional 27 officers qualified as marksmen. Lieut. Dave Parsons, ordnance officer, was in. structor of the class. Former Governor Visitor on Field Leslie A. Miller, former governor of Wyoming, who is now director of the Ninth region of the War Production Board, with Ralph E. Bristol, WPB director for the state of Utah, were informal visitors on Hill Field Monday afternoon. fab. They were accompanied by Mr. "To summarize, we still have jobs Bristol's son, Chatin Bristol, who for many types ox SKiuea neip at is a naval officer, and who is on Hill Field. Likewise, when we feel leave from his station in San that the worker could be more use- Diego. ful elsewhere, we are srivino: him The visitors were accompanied his release. Let me reiterate there on a tour around the field by N. is no general lay-oaffecting any C. Hopper of Maintenance ol our civilian employes. w ff |