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Show 'CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT TO BE ON EXHIBIT Exhibit Opens Friday For Three Days At Liberty Park, Salt Lake More than 100 Army Air Forces Forc-es combat veterans and members of the Women's Army Corps are busy assembling Axis planes, setting set-ting up tents and building displays as the huge AAF "S hot from the Sky" exhibit of captured enemy equipment prepares to open a 3-day 3-day appearance tomorrow at Salt Lake City's Liberty Park. The exthibit will be open to the general public from 2 until 10 p. m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sun-day. Stage shows, featuring Hill Field and Kearns Field dance bands and Salt Lake entertainment entertain-ment stars, will be presented each evening at 8 o'clock, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 3:30. No admission is charged. In addition to nearly 10,000 pieces of Japanese and German equipment, exhibits from fifteen war industries and military installations instal-lations in the Salt Lake area are being set up at the exhibit grounds. Potential war workers can apply for jobs at recruiting booths maintained in connection with the industrial displays. Mechanical centerpieces of the "Shot from the Sky" exhibit, covering cov-ering more than three acres, are three Axis warplanes a Nazi Messerschmntt 109 fighter captured cap-tured intact at an African airfield, air-field, a, Jap "Oscar" pursuit ship (Army equivalent of the Zero) shot down in the South Pacific and a German Junkers 88 bomber. Besides these planes the exhib-includs exhib-includs the fuselage of a Japanese "Betty" bomber, fuselages and tail sections of Jap Zero and "Zeke" fighters and fuselages, wings, engines, en-gines, propellors and landing gears of otner Nazi planes, captured guns and ammunition, parachutes, radio equipment, life rafts, gas masks and helmets. |