Davis County Clipper | 1942-02-06 | Page 8 | Parachutes Packed at Hill Field

Parachutes packed I At Hill Field I One division at the Ogden Og-clen air Hill Field where skilled craftsmen dally daily are arc responsible for forthe the lives of others in the air corps whom the they may never see if the thel l parachute division II Here ere a large larg-e crew of trained attention in inspecting inspecting in- in workers devote full to repairing repairing- and amI packing of parachutes Because mens men's lives Ii nt m may ty y depend upon pon these white silken canopies every inch is i minutely examined before be he before fore the chutes arc are packed parachute In Ini the Held is b inspected at nt ilay iD-ilay intervals interval In 11 addition fil every clinic chute is returned for fur n re-pack re every M ro days whether whet whether t ther her it h has been heen I used ed or tint not An example lle of the care taken with paral parachutes hute i. i is is seen een in the work of C C. C C C. Crowe non Hon noncommissioned commissioned officer in ill charge e of chutes for the Eighth tr transport at nt 1 Hill dill ill Field It is il his duty to make the day 10 inspection inspections tion for Iris his squadron He l is il the man who inspected and issued chutes to a transport crew of four which h several weeks week ago bailed out of a plane over Iowa None Nom of the four was wall ill in- in injured thank thanks to the care with which their chutes chIllIs had hall been tell land land- Uil News