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Show destroying the enemy. During darkness or bad weather the pilots may never actually see the aircraft they shoot down. Guardsmen to Train In Hawaii, Japan Some Utah Air National Guardsmen will , train this summer sum-mer as far away as Hawaii and Japan, and two more of the huge aircraft that will help them do it arrived this week at the Air National Na-tional Guard's Salt Lake City base. The arrival of the two C-97 planes makes the Utah Air National Na-tional Guard's conversion from fighter aircraft to heavy transports trans-ports nearly complete, pointed out Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. With the scheduled acquisition of two more C-97's one May 24, and the other June 14 the Utah Air National Guard will have its full allotment. Used all year round, the planes will see heavy duty during two weeks of summer camp training flights of the 191st Air Transport Trans-port Squadron, 151st Air Transport Trans-port Group, based in Salt Lake City. Transition to the new-type aircraft will be stressed with flights to Hickam Field, Hawaii, and Tachikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan, in the Air National Guard's new worldwide world-wide flying mission. Summer , camp will be June 10-24 for the transport group. Another Utah Air National Guard unit, the 130th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, will be the first to go to summer camp, with dates scheduled June 2-16. The squadron will train at the Salt Lake Municipal Airport, although al-though some controllers and technicians will go to Reno, Nev. with the Reno Air Defense Sector, Sec-tor, said Maj. Roy Stapp, commanding com-manding officer. Maj. Stapp pointed out his unit has the capability to locate enemy aircraft, alert and guide our fighters by instruments to a point where visual or radar contact con-tact is made, and then return the fighters to their bare after |