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Show (3 Hill Field, Utah thad Instrument Repair Takes i . Wednesday, February 23, 1944 EDITORIAL SUPERVISION " Captain A. B. Wanamakei Speelal Information Officer Publle Relations Officer, Ueutenant Benno C. Levy Speelal Projeeta For Special Services Major Robert Aenfro Can tain Carl S. Menger Thomason Editor TSgt. Kyland If. Cpl. Sylvester Adessa Managing- Editor . , .Sgt. Ttaomaa Borlght Reporter Vf?. . - - ?J -; ,- Reoorter Larry C. Svana Marge Fernlmen Reporter Photography. . . .Sgt. George L. Kinney and Base Photo Section The Hiilfiemer is pubiisned weemy in tne interests ot the military and civilian Field, personnel ot tne Air Base. Ogden Air Depot and Ogden Air Service Command, Hill Ogden, Utatt. and is distributed free eacn Wednesday, r.it ts printed with the facllitlea Opinions expressed and througn tne cooperation of The Ogden In this paper are those of the Individual writers and members of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect tne attitude ot tne army or of the commanding officer. It or published la requested that articles appearing In its coiumni be not without tne express consent of the Public Relations Office at Hill Field. The receives material supplied by Camp Newspaper 8ervlce, War Department, without 205 east 42nd Street. N. U. C. Credited material may not be republished Standard-Examine- ' Hltt-field- er irom Camp Newspaper permission Do You Know a Service. "Saboteur? he common impression is that a saboteur is a masked nan in a black cloak stealing through the darkness to plant dynamite in the hangar, to damage a railroad trek and destroy a troop train, or to ruin vital equipment necessary to in the war. : Webster defines "sabotage" as "by law, a course of malicious destruction or of injury to the property of an employer with intent to injure him." However, for all practical purposes, the careless worker rho damages equipment or makes mistake is the greatest "saboteur" of all, and he may be the man who works at the :nachine next to you, or the woman who rides to work in your car. An problem of any nation at war arises through the employment of new and inexperienced person-;ie- l, some of questionable character and background. Every war installation and production plant must have its complete organization to provide its security. At Hill Field the Intelligence office, under the direction of Lt. Col. Gordon V. Holcomb, directs the activities of the Auxiliary, Military Police, the Guard Squadron, the base provost marshal and the fire marshal, to prevent both wilful nd careless destruction of property. More than a score of times the fire department has been called upon to extinguish fires that began when a careless vorker threw burning cigarettes or matches into an inflammable trash container. Fortunately, no serious damage esulted, but that was due to the firemen's prompt action ;he careless worker had done his worst. "The careless worker is a worthy substitute for the vilful saboteur," Colonel Holcomb said. "Take the case of the driver who took a corner so fast that he threw a $20,000 airplane engine off the truck, almost demolishing the engine. All the constructive effort he may have put forth to win the war was more than nullified by his one careless act. It only took a few seconds to ruin that engine he'd have to work . many years to .make up for its loss." Most "saboteurs" by carelessness become that way through one of four reasons: they are careless, lazy, revengeful or disgruntled sometimes all four. The Hill Field worker, who unthinkingly damages a machine in the shop, the mechanic who carelessly loses a tool, the clerk in the office who unwittingly makes a mistake in typing orders they are all "saboteurs by carelessness." That is why sabotage, like sedition, is another enemy that must be battled individually by each Hill Field worker. Your employer is Uncle Sam, and his property includes not only the tangible equipment at Hill Field, but Hill Field's operations and its morale. Due to the vulnerability of the aircraft industry to sabotage and the opportunity afforded for damage or destruction with little risk of detection and the possibility of camou-fagin- s actual sabotage under the guise of carelessness, each individual at Hill Field is strongly urged to report to the Intelligence office any suspicious action or flagrant evidence of carelessness. W w5?-"".v ' ' :- ' ' - t J f-t- i , , fit , en .. ever-prese- nt -- . Male Call by Milton Canitf, V.C ..MCat , ,,.v.vv.v,.,. - Instrument Repair Increases Production 700 Per Cent American industrial Ingenuity, fresh from victories in the shipyards, arsenal and plane factories of Democracy, has just won a new and important triumph in the instrument repair branch of the maintenance division of the Ogden Air Service Command, the highly skilled and technical organization that "repairs 'em, supplies 'em and keeps 'em flying" for the army's Air Forces. f Just as important as any story outbreak of the war when the from the battle front is the out- shortage of a certain kind of instanding industrial accomplish- strument was just as acutely felt, ment whereby instrument repair, as the shortage of as critical during a period of 30 days, has just increased its. output by 700 per a certain type of plane. The plane cent. and its crew are helpless without This means that seven times the the instruments. These parts have number of instruments, serviced to be there . . . and on time. Reand repaired and ready for in- placements have to be available in stallation in cargo, fighter and ample quantity on every theatre conbombing planes, are now available of action in this world-wid- e to the fighting units of the air flict forces from the repair department Whenever seven times the numat Hill Field. It also means that ber of instruments are available this tremendous lift in industrial within a period of time, it may be output has been accomplished said that this is the equivalent of while maintaining the same gen- multiplying our industrial power eral level of manpower. and ' our support of the fighting Most of the engines and planes fronts by seven times. and parts repaired at Hill Field are Backbone of the new industrial understood to find their way to procedure which has yielded such the south and southwest Pacific striking and important results .is theatres of action, and tremendous the process familiar to efforts are being made here to line technique, simply production known as keep ever possible plane in actual "scrambling." Standard parts on combat readiness, every possible standard instruments . are interinstrument and part in condition changeable, therefore the same to be immediately installed in tac- parts of a similar mechanism are tical planes of the AAF. hrown as they are disHow important is this victory in sembled. together production? Having taken this step, the manBriefly, here is the story: Just agement then took the nex( one of as Important as plane production specialization. Each person in the is the production of the large num- instrument repair assembly line ber of precision devices to aid our now performs but a few specific pilots, navigators, gunners and tasks. Faced with the labor turnother crew members. Just as im- over problem, it was found that portant as plane repair is the re- new workers could be trained right pair of these instruments. And on the job to take their places and there have been times since the do satisfactory work within an av creatorof "Terry and the Pirates" . H H. I. P. ( NOT OW.Y 1 NJCB-S- srwss- kte i hen. i UMUfl Pacifi mech erage time of a day and t Just compare this with the ous situation where preciskaj chanics had to spend the k to I part of a year learningknew 1 single job and then only . Job! Most significantly of , ' iblisl all, wi pan; Ser irk hours, the average time hai been reduced to one instrument nerson in an Thus, eight-hou- r faster and wea pen cam; rdin id while m pt as under former methods a il( craftsman used to overhaul ont strument in an average of fourt I th ktheiti day. more prea - bv than ever, the instrument lile t Air 8 department of the Ogden lofl ice Command is disassemK ii rt overhauling, assembling and cat the ine the scientific and compla; struments that in fact are the i core and secret of effecuw power. TVia caaiiltn nrVlIpved re- 1)7 UK nartment were not the work of man. Here again it was at er industrial democracy Kemp Bourne heads the ment and has supervised m velopment, but he emphasaaJ it was a patriotic, hard-- tt: team of civilian soldien the final analysis did wfp Surrounding himselfjr-grouof key men and woraeai women play just as tapom: part as men in today".Air K picture, at the OgdenouUtaM Command), Bourne problems, helped to analyt and assigned mento eadt tack upon specific bottlenecB. suggestions of everyone enced workers and begirnwv solicited and given every ation. It was the collectivetew an Industrial combat -. paved the way for victory. The ment are finding 'u"0," vexing problems that 7" I seemed insurmountable. Bottlenecks are giving great, open P,w";r: intfj through which flow shorten and win the war. , w ) . war-work- er forth Hi II C.C Hi IniDrOmDtU HAHK&, MA'AM H k W-,- v. THREE TIMES A GRANDMOTHER . . . And doing; jast as well t Hill Field's instrument repair tion. Here is Mrs. Leona Love of Layton, shown balancing; a delicate rotor in tne secuon where lutionary techniqnes have multiplied production seven times. I VB Ur- 2 P PrOPOSitlCnd X.'i NAME 0 Xtf |