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Show init Beehive aJ: Acti yi Deft, Agile Work Required in Camera Repair Scope ofWorkMakes Section Important I v Reconnaisance pilots returning from last week's paralyzing raids on Berlin by the R.A.F, reported large sections of the capital, including the Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, in smouldering ruins; hinted the city could not recover from the terrific blow. - ' In the days following the raid, military leaders charted with meticulous accuracy the damage Inflicted, saw huge swaths of the city devastated, judged unerringly specif ic targets for the next raid and were able to do it because fast pursuit ships, armed withvcameras and extra fuel tanks in place of gups and ; bombs, ranged deep in enemy territory, took pictures, trusted to cunning and speed to elude Focke-Wuland Messerschmitts, came back with invaluable photo- k fs V3B&( MU' Y 7 ? graphic maps. More than one allied victory, owes its success to photographic maps furnishing commanders with indispensable data on enemy. troop movements, supply routes, and disposition of combat units. The effectiveness of more than one reconnaisance mission has doubtless depended on the skill with which cameras were serviced and repaired by ASC units. One such unit Is located at Hill Field in the equipment repair building and is known as camera and optical repair unif, a part of the instrument repair branch in maintenance. It repairs all types of cameras ranging from small bantam models to giants using 9 by negatives. Foreman Harold H. Goates, the Headed by tall, camera and optical repair unit repairs around 200. instruments a month, services everything from navigation instruments to intricate gun-sigaiming-poicameras, manufactures some parts loads film, develops scores of pictures each day,, and is currently photographing all tools and procedures in maintenance as part of a general ASC plan for 18-in- ch a technical COLLIMATION OF INFINITY . . . Milton C. Eberhart, shop foreman, center, illustrates i m nnnn nf MmAM mnftlp MnnllVM. He I USUK a teleSCOnift mifrnmataJ . 7 AlKavt UTinfnn. Ra.lnh Jensen. Larrv West. Roland n , i.m n i us;ene Anderson. George Talbot Front row, left to right: Ellen Mahoney, Cpl, Simon Chervin, Eleaiwr ioun luroia n. uokiobi tciu vmv I . soft-spok- en 4-- vta-h.- ht nt -- t- M.l ' standardization. Accordihg to the type of work performed, the camera repair and optical repair unit is subdivided into five departments: aircraft camera department; ground cameras and miscellaneous photographic proces sing equipment department; optical and navigation instruments de partment; photographic department; and loading of A-- 6 magazines department. Six employes compose the aircraft camera department including Crew Chief Delbert W. Hadfield, native son of Clearfield, Utah, who has been at Hill Field Since May, 1942, when he started as an electrical instruments mechanic, coming from the Ogden arsenal. Photography is a hobby with him. Test Shutter Speed Aircraft camera repair is concerned with the disassembly of cameras, cleaning and replacement of broken units, relubrication, and reassembly. Next comes testing for thorough serviceable operation and performance. Shutter speeds are tested ranging from l35th to l1000th ef a second; focal length of lens is tested. Like Hadfield, about half the people in aircraft camera repair have been trained in their jobs since coming here. Foreman Goates said that three out of every six have had no previous experience other than general mechanical. Several have been employed in various commercial studios. Ground cameras and miscellaneous processing department is con cerned with the overhaul, repair, testing, calibrating,' collimating, and reassembly of all types of ground cameras and such technical items ' ' ' I g. . Zyi& ,1 i, as C-- l, and C-- 4. Calibration consists of adjustments necessary . . . to IN DARK Left right, are: Dale Pass. Randle Christiansen, and McLair Wheeler, to bring shutter speeds up to par; in collimation, the lens is checked WORK of A-- 6 magazine department, shown loading film in 6 magazines, part of gun sight aiminrj for- focal length, checked to insure that shutter posts have not been personnel point camera wmcn is usea to record accuracy of bombing and gunnery practice. This unusual changed shot was taken through ceiling opening directly overhead. T Experience Needed used in processing films. At presBruce Roberts, crew chief in ent the unit is engaged in a proj dexterity, their fingers, adroit and miscellaneous processing equip- ect that is It is the sure. In this process, one slip in ment has been here since Februof all tools, equip- threading the film through the a photographing was Salt ary, 1942, previously Lake City theatre manager. More ment, and procedure in the main maze of cogs and slits means than an average amount of prior tenance division in a move toward trouble ahead for- somebody. But experience is preferred in this de- standardization throughout the ASC there aren't any slips. These fel partment with a mechanical, elecEmployed in the photographic lows really know, their business trical, or radio background par- department is Grace Carney who and are making an extremely im ticularly desired. has had worlds of experience, is portant contribution to the war Their work is a fine exThe optical and navigation in- the person who knows where ev- effort. of placing the right man struments department services and erything is when someone else ample in the inright job. for various 27 has asks She had it. years Randle Christiansen type navigation repairs came here struments including such highly photographic experience in Ogden, vr ',?. ''"V technical and delicate assemblies has been at Hill Field since Sept, last August as a mechanic helper. wife His works at the naval sup as binoculars. 1942, handles all filing, shots, procCrew chief is Frank Giles of esses, and is generally indispens ply depot. His home is in Fountain Green, Utah. Dale Pass has been Bait Lake City, here since April, able. . 1941 a real veteran. Before, he Rhoda Torsak, also employed in here since October coming from was employed by the U. S. Bureau this department, comes from Salt the Ogden arsenal. His home Is ef Fisheries, and did scientific in- - Lake City, was a housewife be- in Salt Lake City. McClair Wheeler, here since last vestigation work of different kinds fore arriving here last June, did on payrolls, files, vouchers, and photographic work for studios September, is an Ogden resident V. Carlson, of Ogden, came property accounting. He was there previously. Another expert Arnold trained on the job here, started in is Phyllis McLain, here since last here last August from the ar the identification unit when it- September, employed before by the senal, started, like the rest as a was doing all photographic on the signal corps at Fort Douglas, and mechanic helper. Vern Penrod, of Goshen, Utah, also came from the field. witn lb years experience. ' ' . arsenal. Together they can all load The repair process includes dis Blind Are Efficient 300 in about a magazines assembly, cleaning, replacement of A-department is double shift. damaged parts, relubrication, re unique magazines camera in in that Assisting foreman Goates in the assembly, cleaning and polishing it employes five blindrepair people. Crew management of the camera and lenses and prisms, testing for Chief Doris makes the optical erpair unit is Milton C parallax of lens assemblies, and sixth member Gillespie of the She has Eberhart of Ogden, here since checking for zero setting and for been here nine monthsunit. and comes January, 1941. He started in the scale error. Just as it sounds, the from Stanley, Idaho, where she supply division, went to the quar job is no easy one and demands was formerly a high school stu termaster corps, then to camera , deft workmanship. He is an amateur photogrepair. About five persons are employed dent. A-magazines department loads rapher. In the photographic department in the gunsight aiming-poiTypical of the younger employes headed by Weldon Burnham, aco live film camera (used for gunnery are: juarry west and Roland Morphotographer and artist Photog- practice the accuracy of gan, both from Salt Lake City, recording had Burnham has years rapher Cj Domo nits.) Because tife film must West has been here since May, of experience operating his own be In loaded total darkness, blind 1942; Morgan since last March. studios in Ogden and other cities, are as efficient as any West was an order clerk at the has taught photography at Weber employes one else in fact, more so due Graybar Electric company in Salt college, and is considered an out- to the d sensitivity Lake City; Morgan an engineering standing portrait artist or tneir ringers. student at U.S.A.C. Move to Standardise The blind employes are: Randle Foreman . .. before coming IP ipvivn K.cfm . , , nie1 Main function of this depart- Christiansen, Dale Pass, McCJain here, servedGoates, uumen scnuitt, """"" urf eofneiy and four an as years department employe, shown at tnrlc.hnh. ment Is to process documentary Wheeler, Arnold V. Carlson, and electrician in the U. S. resM";"n two a motor-dnavy, aiming-poiramerm. is a compart pnotogmpns for UR reports and Vern Penrod. All of them load live and a half years as a sound mo 16 guntlght to mm movie camera. Mlm HchulUThis maKe various chemical solutions film with incredible speed and tion comes from Wisconsin, picture operator. Hill at Field only two weeks. I - x . o . J 1 ifrr- - C-- S, A-- - . ASC-wid- e. - - v - 16-ho- ur 6 - .... ... f 6 nt 4 highly-develope- av-rha- uls nt "' "' N |