Show With Our Boys In the Service I Construction Engineers Are n Fighters Too Special to T I tel ter s c of the Eur European European Theater of OperatIOns AvIatIOn engineers and general serVIce engIneers are I the United States army s specialIsts But they are fighting men too They are traIned to fight If need be wIth a pIstol m in one hand and a shovel m in the theother other othel Proof of Just ho how capable they are ale as fighters was as drs che ph played ed recently during a ser er series Ies of games held m in the Fur Theater of OperatIOns These games w ere not play ed edWIth edwith WIth balls and bats but vItha a series senes of machine gun nests booby trip minefields incendiary bombs I Second George Herbert N New e ell ellof of Moab l Utah conducted one phase of the games or 01 maneu elS m in which the construction engin Deis showed they could fight like old campaigners just a as the they had already proved theIr ability to produce highways ays and aIrdromes wIth assembly line Ime ron and speed The games were devised h by Colonel J I E Vollmar of St StLoUIS StLouis LoUIS Mo 10 and conducted one of the numerous ous new an air airdromes es drom-es now being built by the army engineers To determine how well tl ti awed amed the engineers s were ere as combat men several hundred of them w v ere selected at ran random random dom from units scattered a wide area All competing mg ing squads w em el e a the same SIze and had equal numbers of sates vates corporals an and ser sergeants Squads moved from one to another of 20 dIfferent te tests ts m in the large circular testing area They were scored by ex experts experts at each sIte At one site eIte an enemy machine gun some dIstance away vay opened fire on the squad Officers m in charge watched the squad go into actIOn to destroy detroy the ma machine chine gun nest and the unit was scored accordingly A mme mine field was indicated te at another test site u d the squad was vas ordered to breach bleach It At another place a con construction assIgnment ii 1 is gIven and the squad was as e ex- ex examined for proper use of en en- en engineer tool tooN m in the executIOn of the task Another Job was wal to clear an area of traps Made Flight Officer SpecIal to T I South Plains Army All Au FIeld Texas Aug 20 Loys Duncan son of Mrs s Leona Dallmus of Moab has JUt just been appointed a flIght officer at the Home of the Winged at Lubbock The graduating officers have completed intensive training m in large cargo and tl troop carr carry ing gliders SPAT SPAr IS the largest glider school chool in III inthe the country HIS wIfe IS the former MISS LoIS LucIlle Lammert of San DIego They have two child ran In cIvIlian life Flight Of Officer Duncan a was an all aircraft craft mechanic Peter Eberle who IS in the army field artIllery and has been stationed at Camp Rob Roberts Roberts erts CalIf spent the last laet of the week at Moab vIsItIng hIS parents Mr and Mrs C J Eberle He left Monday for Silt S Lake CIty where he will take a specIal SIX weeks course COUlse of InstructIon at the Urns of Utah Neldon Day son of Mr and Mrs N A Day of Moab who whore re recently enlisted in III the nav navy r is Ie no now statIOned in III Virginia HIS address M M N eldon Day Platoon 72 12 Ava D 10 Camp Peary Peary WIlliams Burg Vu Collin Collm A Loveridge and Mrs Loveridge are here from Camp Cook Calif for fOl fOla fora a VISIt wIth home folks Collin Collm IS on a short t furlough Superintendent of Schools Helen M l Knight IS In receipt of letters from three former students of the local hIgh school who are no x N in III the armed forces All three are applying for assignment as aVIatIon cadets TheIr rimes and addresses R D T S S Scott FIeld Kansas Howard M l Wi haws hams 2474 Tr 2nd I-2nd C R RT RT T C Fort Kiley Kansas Marvin C C A A Camp Callan San DIego 14 Calif Orley Everett Taylor who IS m in the air corps sta- sta stationed honed at a base In CalIfornia IS home on furlough I IDale Dale Peterson has spent the past week at Moab visiting home folks He IS on furlough from the naval training sta statIon station tIon at Farragut Morris Morns A Johnson was an arrival the last of the week from Camp Carson Colo for fora a VISIt With relatIves HIS wIfe and son w ho had been hEen vIsItIng relatives relatIve m in Provo joined hun him here where Johnson WIll spend hIS fur fur- furlough furlough lough w |