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Show By Larry Evans y UNKNOWN to most Hill Field is the fact that this post has its own radio station, WYYO, almost as powerful as KLO in Ogden. It caters to a very special t clientele, though1, a clientele , disinterested in the comings and goings of Helen Trent or Mortimer Snerd. It s located in a small room of the operations hangar. You might as well give up trying to; tune in oh it because, in the first place, you undoubtedly won't know where it is on your: dial and, in the second place, who but a very special clientele would be interested in an interminable string of beeps and lions of dollars. Plans are all ready fo ting aaus stations in nome,. Paris, I em-plo- -- " : ' m 1 a : " - - and Tokyo. AACS manpower problem is a pert one. Aggravating :it is the fact that , cent of the necessary personnel require) ly specialized training, and men and w with high intelligence quotients are v! to sop it up. ; One occupational specialty is radii erator. He, or she, . must: receive and scribe on a typewriter 20 code erou' n -- - . . . ; buzzes" About . 22 enlisted men and six .WACs. WACs who are making a real contribution to victory. AAF-traine- He is intensely hoping that soon he will get some additional WACs to replace "some of his enlisted men who may be called to . help operate similar studios in other 'parts of the world. room stocked with,, ; The small map-fille- d ("thick, solid radio equipment, and the control y : tower, a glass-cas- e sentinel perched atop ,the operations hangar are components of-of a giant web of intercommunicating units ficially known as the Army Airways Com-- : munications System. They are bound by one unalterable obli- -' gation ; To keep every member of . their enormous clientele on the beam. Their clientele are the men. who fly the planes of the air transport organizations and of U. 3. and allied armed forces. That's an important, and vital obligation and don't think don't know it! "theyTo aid in keeping them on the beam, to supply them with crucial weather data, to facilitate in rescue operations , for those forced down. AACS operates hundreds of control towers, radio ranges, transmiters, , direction finding stations, radar beacons, . -' : instrument landing stations, ground-ai- r operoperating positions and ating positions. AACS operates 1000 stations from East 'Main' to Espiritu .Santo; its insignia is a trailing red telegraphic globe with" a 5 around ribbon its girth. "But," says Captain Baylor, "this doesn't mean that, we carry red tape around the world." Most important job of the' AACS is proand viding the ground communications operators required to guide- - our airmen p to paste, through everything from over every kind of terrain. Any moment during the day or night one of the six WACs or 22 enlisted men in AACS here might mean the difference between safe arrival or crash of an Army transport plane loaded with - thousands of dollars worth of precious cargo plus passengers and crew. With the exodus of enlisted men from the U. S. bound for the fighting fronts WACs are becoming increasingly important to the continental AACS. . point-to-poi- nt B-2- - pea-sou- 0V 1 ceptions; read. Aldis lamp code at per minute; maintain station logs sage files. Sounds easy, doesn't it? The d lor. ' code groups per minute . using a hand communicate with ; aircraft m flight code or voice; intercept signal broai of weather conditions or map signal . At night Capt. Baylor dreams of the WACs he hopes he'll get before long. Last month, says Capt. Baylor, a navy fast landfighter plane settled down for a sharp-eyed a Hill Field. at Suddenly ing noticed; something. . control tower operator V His wheels weren't down, The pilot at no time ever runs things without the aid of worrywarts on the . ground. Sometimes he balks at ground control. For instance the time when the tower man said: "If you can hear me, rock your wings." "and if said the pilot, you "Roger," can hear me, rock your tower." A few months ago TSgt. George Briggs, officer in charge of the control tower detected smoke curling up from one of the giant hangars at Hill Field. He squinted closely to make sure, then summoned the fire department and probably saved the field a tidy little sum for catching it early. NCO in charge of AACS Hill Field station is Master Sergeant Edward Fraters, to tell the world all about AACS. TSgt. Paul A. Simonean is in charge of the radio station itself. Maintenance of equipment falls to the lot of S , . , , us Sgt. William Gencen. If you add Sgts. Ralph Brecknock and Salverio C. Nuccio to the list you'll come up with over, nine and a half years of AACS experience overseas. Capt. Baylor's in Java, New Guinea and the South Pacific in general; Sgt. Frater in, the ' Caribbean; Sgt. Simonean, Greenland; Sgt. Brecknock, Labrador; Sgt. Nuccio, Panama. Aeronautically, AACS is not ready for long pants yet, says Captain Baylor, even though its equipment is valued in the mil , : . 1 Control tower operators and radio operators of AACS Army Airways Communications System) guide U. b. and allied war and transport pilots all over the world. In the upper right-han- d corner of this page, two Hill Field AACS WACs give bomber like this one in the upper left landing instructions at any hour of the day or night. In the upper picture to the right, Sgt. Saverio C. Nuccio looks on while Pvt. Velma Hay-war- d, ' ' - ' Tteflfri J PREPARE TO LAND . . . WAC, dit-daa- 's weather information to a plane flying the intermountain area possibly to the radio operator and navigator of the bomber at top, pictured in a closeup at bottom, right. .... i0$ ' " C mm ii:jh wi rate during training is around 30 pe: .AACS also needs radio mechanics, tower operators, cryptographers, a; strument landing equipment repairmi About AACS activities one radio oi said: "I really think that radio navi and communications are about the mc portant of the present and future dc ments of aviation, both military and j mercial." Pilots, flying throughout the United States have received and are i ing invaluable information and assl when in trouble from WYYO operat Hill Field. When the wind is high ar. night is dark and the pilot is lost J when AACS men and women in kha! delivering the goods when they count I ed ever-anxio- 10 am |