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Show JSpecUd Service War maps or me AW If, J'll'lfl U Hill Field, Utah March 22, 1944 Wednesday, EDITORIAL, SUPERVISION Csptals A. B. WUMUkti ' Special Information Officer Fublle BelaUoas office, Lieutenant Benno - For Special Servleee Captain Carl 8. Monger Editor Editor Managing : Beporter Reporter Beporter Photograph?. ., .Bgt. George ? . O. . Levy Employe Major Robert Ryland M. ThomaeoB Cpl. Sylvester Adessa Bgt. Thomas Borignt ' Tt. ......... ........... ........ ................. vrgn .V ",0" enlro lrry Marge JBvana C. Fernlmen I Kinney and Baie Photo Heeuon The HiUHetder i pubiianed weetny in the interests of the military and clTtltan Command, Bill Field. pereonoei of the Air Bate. Ogden Air Depot and Ogden Air Benrlee It U prinud with tbe facilities Ogden, Utah, and w distributed free each Wednesday. standard-fisamine- r. Opinion expresses and through tise cooperation of The Ogden In uui paper are thoee of the individual writers and members of the stair, ana do not necesiartly reflect the attitude of the army or of the commanding officer. K or pubiisnea articles appearing In its columns oa not ' la requested that wttnout the express eonsent of the Public Relatione Office at Hill Field. The receives . material supplied by Camp Newspaper Service. War Department, wltnout O. Credited material may pot be republished '205 Bast 42nd Street. N. permission from Camp Newspaper Service. Hin-field- er and Booth for Hospital Projector mamtmmmmi in nmnyjmi irn in in im 6 25 lOOgC R xVrVl:::::::::::::::::::: 75 SO NAZIS STUNNED . . . Shaded area on map Indicates area regained from Nacls along the souther Russian front within a period. Southwest of Uman Red troops have crashed across the Bug River, and have closed the harbor of Nikolaev, which leave s Odessa aa the only remaining port in south era 10-d- ay Newer Type Link Trainer Is Used 171 "'i rl kt - . Msni: i I ;..- . Russia available to the Naxis. f pityilu M 1 INSPECTING . . . The new booth end equipment provided the base Bergeson, Red Cross hospital by the Red Cross are (right) Sheldon field director here, and (left) L. Raymond R. Wlllehan, convalescent training officer and registrar of the hospital. the equipment there in accordA new projection booth is near-tai- n reAAF at the ance.with Red Cross policy. ing completion gional station hospital at Hill SinCe June about 50 soldier-pa- rLs-1tienta have attended each how, - a gin.- - JTL .' v.- IK JI1UVIC ujcviui, The local Red Cross has provided Red Cross organization, here. Movies have been provided pa- the hospital with much of the matients three nights a week since, terial ; necessary 'for the extensive last June, but because no booth rehabilitation training conducted was built for the projector and there. .Many different classes : in other equipment necessary, the handicraft have been . functioning ' . hospital was not allowed to re- - with considerable sucess. i - s? wa Ua " LOS NEGR0S ISJ IS&r newer type of Link Trainer, the stationary "plane" that teaches pilots blind flying, has replaced an obsolescent model in the base transient hangar, and is now lo cated in room 111, in the southwest corner of that building. Called the type 18, this more cheaply constructed model features an automatic radio compass which mechanism enables the pilot to practice maneuvers such as let down, boxing procedures, interception problems, movements not possible with the machine's prede- iv;ii milL'l Hyone Hbr. A - rrl?H f Obsolescent Model Now Replaced By Latest Machine i Biitjo Luo - ifc" M0M0TE AIRSTRIP mm 9ivRoboul to v. VM ADMIRALTY EL. Miles S at 10 ' V TANKS GAIN . . . American troops advance swiftly on Manus Island, largest of the Admiralty group, to within half mile of Lorengsu airfield, main Japanese base. Earlier they occupied islands to the north, off Los Negros, which was seised a week ago. cessor. The Link Trainer operators, Sgts. Donald Winchell and Kenneth Moore, are confident that the new Link, designed specifically for ad vanced type training, will prove immensely valuable to Hill Field flying officers. Sure, Pll Take One Practice What You Preach That's Pitts! . Hill Field's effervescent and apparently indefatigable bond salesman, Cpl. Walter Pitts, Just can't help being news. He left 482nd Squadron comofficer, MaJ. Benjamin manding Sahara Dance Anderson flabbergasted during the recent Red Cross drive when Colored Saturday he plunked $50 on that amazed officer's desk with the explanaSaturday In the Sahara village tion that it was his personal recreation hall, - all colored em contribution. Almost full month's pay for ployes and soldiers of Hill Field benevolent CpL Pitts, the $00 will dance to the music of the Sec contribution is simply a continond Street Depot jive band. uation of a charitable bent he uetung unaer way at 8 p. m., has always possessed. To Hill the dance is sponsored by the Wei Field employes who dug deep for rare Association and is free to war bonds tinder the pressure of Pitts "aalestalk," it should be those with passes or badges and proof that he practice what he their guests. preaches. - - - - . for. Former Employes Here on Furlough Two former Hill Field employes were spending furlough in Ogden A. 2c Melvin J. Dewey and S. 2c Forrest M. Green. Green was employed as an electrician at the time of his enlist- last week. H. ment. He is stationed at Farra-gu- t naval training station. Is stationed , Dewey at a base in San Bruno, California. Alolo Call by Milton Caniff, cr ator of Tarry and rfva SEE YOU THERE . . . Above, CoL John & RtacTaggart, pACV onnel and training division chief, . pqrohasee a ticket from Link, recreation unit aecretarv. for. the gate civilian perwiur on dinner party to be held Thursday, March SOth. Hq'U Havo To Piratot " YOb -- PO VOU AUOW wTWP POKEZ IN THB ARJWVf mar what i THEYteft POINO i"'t ? 1 KWii LACS ...YOU WOUtDNY WANT get too CL09B s to TO TW6M ) . . TWEy-Ar- l- lJftCiri X;l7 Al0rl1 rSHItR r . i d vav a an ' a uaJ X""' or uV'.:.? TO ,r" ww i nv 7 1 biii I Co Thrcurrh Chsnal's nin V,'"mT .H3 WOUtPNT ssa - aaaiaua "'"-If-' WAN! m mm ssaaaaaaaw I I I I |