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Show First Lieut. ? C. Hinton Making Fine Progress HURRICANE, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Hinton still receive re-ceive good news from their son, First Lieut. F. C. Hinton who left Hurricane on Mar. S, 1941. Following Fol-lowing his induction at that time he was sent to Santa Maria, Calif., to train as a flying cadet. In May, he, with two other cadets were chosen from among a class of 200 boys to go Lowry Field, Denver, to study photography. photog-raphy. This opportunity was accepted ac-cepted by him glady, as he declared de-clared that he would rather shoot pictures than bombs. At Lowry Field he made rapid progress and was chosen class leader over a class numbering 139. On June 19, 1941, he was moved up to the rank of corporal. He was graduated from the school with high honors on Sept. 23. Following his graduation he was sent to the photographic department depart-ment of the Midland Army flying school. This post not being ready, he was sent to Kelly Field photography pho-tography laboratory at San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas. When the Sloan Field was ready, he was returned to that field, where he has built up a name for himself. This laboratory lab-oratory was rated by an Army inspector in-spector as one of the best Army laboratories he had visited. In Jan. 1942, he was commis sioned a Second Lieut. On May 2nd he was married to Miss Daur-thy Daur-thy Harst of Sangar, Texas, Aug. 4, he was advanced to First Lieut, and at the present has 83 men under his command. They are working three eight-hour shifts daily, developing 1 miles of films daily. Before volunteering for the Army he was a forest ranger on the Pine Valley district of the Dixie for one year. He was graduated grad-uated from the USAC, where he majored in Forestry. |