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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 6 Octob w Air MgitdgD iiMn)(o QBbirates The Air Materiel Command can count back a husky 30 years of lively growth on October 15 thirty years of lusty life that began the day it was born. Looking through the yellowed and crisping archives, we learn that AMC's lineal heritage dates back to October 15, 1926. On that date, the Material Division, Air Corps, United States Army, came into being. Its first commander was Brigadier General William E. Gillmore, and its first headquarters was at old McCook Field, Day- ton, Ohio. In this year, before Lindbergh winged across the Atlantic on the solo flight, the peacefirst non-sto- p ful air around McCook Field was churned and torn by the mighty World War I DeHavilland DH-4it a two-sea- t, pursuit ship of 400 hp, capable of 125 mph B, open-cockp- at full throttle, and costing the taxpayers all of $4,500 to build. Top Speed 113 MPH bombers, such as the Bi-pla- ne II and the birth of thermonuclear bombs, and - through the Korean War and the cold war years since. United States Air Force fighters have progressed from the h DH-4to and beyond the 822-mspeed record set by a combat-read- y Super Sabre in 1955's Tomp-so- n Trophy Races, and from the h GMB bomber to the eight-enginh Boeing Costs per aircraft, by the very nature of advancing technological complexity, have soared from the 's $4,580 to the price tag on the The budget required to maintain U.S. airpower has risen from Fiscal Year. 1927's $14 million to the $9 billion of Fiscal Year 1957. World Wide Force Today, commanded by General E W. Rawlings, the Air Materiel Command is a world-wid- e logistics force, supplying the USAF and its 30 Mutual. Defense Assistance Pact allies in almost every major free nation. AMC s assigned person nel total 32,146 military and 195,-52- 6 civilian (as of 30 June 1956). The annual. workload accomplished by AMC would have staggered the imagination of the world s most credulous air officer 30 years ago. In 30 short years, AMC has grown from a small division of the small Army Air Corps (which still performed major overhauls on wooden airplanes until 1 January 1927) to a single-channlogistics force which does all the buying, supplying, and repairing for an Air Force whose combat units are poised for defense throughout the free world. Looking to the future, AMC's bedrock goals are flexibility and mobility a logistics system so flexible to change and capable of such rapid communications and transportation that it can meet changing or emergency Air Force requirements anywhere in a matter of hours. 125-mp- B ph 113-mp- ed B-5- 2. DH-4B- 00 B-5- 2. famous Martin GMB with which General Billy Mitchell proved the value of bomber forces by sinking General E. W. Rawlins, Commander of the Air Materiel Area. the World War I German battle still zipped Ostfriesland, ship "I've discovered the secret of the airways at a top speed along baldness." of 113 mph, pulled not by one, but "What is it?" two, 400-h- p Liberty engines. "Too much skin." Amid this setting, the Materiel Division came into being. And soon after its birth, the leather-claNothing gives you that run down helmeted and feeling like jaywalking. pilots had to Army cross-countA-Pl- ane change their courses to find the He: (at party) "Come on in home of Materiel Division. For in here and we'll play some "Pony the Division The United States Air Force an- the Spring of 1927, and barrel to Express." moved, lock, stock, nounced today the awarding of She: "Pony Express?" complex that has contracts to two companies for' the the He: "That's post office, with a further development of an air- since become Wright-Patterso- n Base. little more horsing around!" air- Air Force frame for a nuclear-powere- d Materiel Division was The entire plane. 40 trucks, 16 trailers, and moved by These are the Convair Division of Dodge touring car at a cost the General Dynamics Corporation one SPECIAL of Total personnel em$12,500.. and the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Work will be accomplished ployed before the big move o amounted to .59 military and 973 under the direction of the USAF's civilian. Air Research and Development CHILDREN Command. Total of $14 Million 'Lockheed is planning to construct for the Materiel ONLY Appropriations for the Government a plant on a Division for Fiscal Year 1927 large, isolated tract of land in the reached the total 65 c mountainous area of northern of $14 million. The funds were to Five secrets of happiness: P.M. Until 1:00 Air procure and Georgia- near Dawsonville. more modern Money, money, repair Force Lockheed and EVERY DAY scientists have money, money, leading through the fam money. pointed out that neither popula- aircraft, ous with line . of . . Souvenirs and Candy tions nor streams will be in jeo- the Curtiss-Wrig- fighters P--beginning the Boeing FREE TO KIDS pardy of any kind. 2, the Boeing the Sever-sk- y The Convair contract will be im 5, the Curtiss-WrigWorry's plemented at existing facilities in and through the bomber family .tort Worth, Texas. Key beginning with the stone, the monoplane Boeing B-(World Famous) the standard Martin 0 and Marriage is one of the united and 2. states. 41 North 1st East From this family came the U.S. Bountiful, Utah A hula dancer is a busy-bodwarplanes which were to defeat the Axis in the world-wid- e conflict which began 15 years after the birth and halfway through the life Ma of the Air the present LOW teriel Command. The peaceful first half of AMC's life was in deep contrast to the WILL YOU GO AUTO next 15 years, which saw the United States through World War FROM HERE TO A . Awards Jew Contracts For Work AF d, be-gogg- ry Two Military Complete Course Two Hill AFB enlisted se then-staggeri- S of at r erkAFB,Ala.,itwas,e TSgt C. W. Haskell, erator NCOIC 4S7SS? dar Evaluation h officer course sZ J. E. 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