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Show FIELD'S TRAINING HILL ... INEISTRIAL REVOLI'TION. in Back 1938,- when Defense - rather PROGRAM AFFORL thanR, the Army Air Force was the nation's and maintenance dcpo to supply its expand began r four-yeaa as part of training plan to buy by-wor- America's air might A site d, second-to-non- in the e was needed in the West, far enough worlj from V coast to afford adequate protection from sea-b. . . ... r r : i DORIDing planes, yci juninciuij ixuse ana wit ample transportation facilities to readily (e, AAF needs should war come to the Pacifi o i r i i gcieciion di such a site pruvcu t u ue a siuH problem, for Ogden Valley in Utah provided all a nature necessary physical c nar ec t e r 1 s t ic s an combined with location already ej protected n a . ! z s , 1 I e a. ri tl . t ! !t If wciuct . n uecxsion Key rnxiruHu laoiunea quickly made, and Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field t ol Utah, came into being. No simple problem, however, was the secur and training of personnel to carry on the impoi I tant work at Hill Field. Compared with othe ar more heavily populated and highly industr ialiiJJ Hi sections of the country, this inter mounta in arflra I 1 a. 1 1 1 waj -- could not produce labor in sufficient numbers; agriculture and mining were the chief enterprisi available personnel lacked a background of indui trial experience and had to be trained fro scratch. Upon assuming command at Hill Field in Novet ber. 1940 Col. Morris Berman quickly sized up! labor situation, estimated that there would thousands of trained civilian employees needec it was evident that only a fraction of the-- t numi could be found in the immediate area. witn characteristic Army vigor tne coione proceded to do something about it. Working wit - H. Skidmore of the State Board of Education and Dr. H. A Dixon of Weber College, Ogden, terminal classes had long been an integral pa: of the educational set-uColonel Berman prt C- whi p, (1 E t di i- - |