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Show DJnostic Clinic Is Essential to Q cient Repair of Planes at Hill Field Line Located Center Diagnose Engine Trouble QQXJU3 rW y 7 , . ' V:-- Go East OASC's engine diagnostic clin-i- s operates in the heart of the engine test block enveloped in tne muffled roar of the great powerhouses of the air as they receive a final check in aration for their return to duty. General foreman Harold D. Hor rocks, a veteran of 17 years en gine experience, has not had a man resign on him since the department was organized. He's been here since December, 1941. His 12 aircraft engine reconditioners he considers the best- mechanics at . OASC. They have to be good. Suppos ing an engine in one oi the test cells flunks the final examination excessive oil consumption, improper timing, any one of a hun dred things. It's jerked off and routed downstairs to the clinic or rejected engine branch as it is officially called. A couple of Horrocks' men hoist it up on an engine stand and eo to work. They'll strin it down to ine nub if necessary to discover wnats wrong. And it s not only test block rejects they're concerned with. in flight test, They trouble-shooperations hangar and engine re pair building. Horrocks is continually being summoned in for consultation on this or that phase of engine overhaul. A resident of Salt Lake City, he worked sev eral years as a mechanic with the fabulous Tommy Thompson, famous world war I flier. Every job done in the branch is carefully recorded in a for future reference. Reject me chanics stacked together would probably -make a tidy total of exHis men have all the perience: work they can handle and then some. Rarely will you see an empty stand. Above is a heavy chain hoist for boosting the monstrous power units about. Day shift foreman in the department is big Ricy H. Anderson, known in World war I days as the Idaho Giant. He reported to Fort Douglas for induction a mere strip ling of 220 pounds, strung along about six feet, four inches. He .was an air mechanic in 1917 and '28. Other hift foreman is Neal ' Id 1 I . 5 & j zi September 20, 1944 . Two OASC employes, sisters, transferred to the war department in Washington,, p. C. and left Monday, it was announced from civilian personnel yesterday. The two sisters, Peggy Bott, clerk in processing records unit, and Norma Bott, clerk in com nave win munications brancn, been employed here more than two years. They will report to the famous Pentagon building for their sometime next week. assignments nro natives of OCden Tka crir-land until their transfer were re siding with their parents m inai is city. One brother, Glenn Bott, at Pearl working as a civilian arbor. Lt. Paul W. Bott is servunit at ing with a quartermaster William Guadalcanal. Seaman Bott, Jr., is stationed at Camp o - , Foreman Horrocks checks the cause of internal Mure in a rejected engine entering his department. ( log-bo- S't Kf '"J H. Hauri. Nearly all of the men are veterans as veteran here go. Horrocks has- only lost two or. three men and those to the armed forces. The dearth of resignations is a tribute to the general foreman's supervisory finesse. Here's an idea of the length of service in the department: Paul Shields, since December, 1941; Leon F. Laursen, since January, 1942;E. N. R. Painter,, since E. Tischer, November, May, 1942; 1942; D. C. Voorhees, November, 1942; C. W. Stout, February, 1942; William R. Stokes, February, 1942; H. E. Boelter, February, 1943; M. L. Keller, recently transferred to the branch of another department. These men know airplane engines like a typist knows the keyboard on her typewriter. That's for Horrocks. why they're working Their job is one of the most important on this field, for without expert diagnosis of the quirks and wrinkles constantly apt to ocencur in Uncle Sam's aircraft stathis gines, plenty would leave as when they tion as came in. - . . j Shewn ahoe eheckinr the rear cones for awiiif in an airplane engine are Leon Laarsen, aircraft netaiitioner: Ricv n. Airimm. shift foreman, reject enrine ai Harold D. Horrocks. general foreman,, reject engine CCON , . , branch. '' :': 9 war-wea- J I' ry Meat Expert at OATSC Tomorrow " 'III - : v noN . . . paa gaMds, aircraft engine reconamoner, Installs a cylinder la a huge engine. n Than Million Employed War Dept., Report Shows Jre f wtngih of the war July, according 'm, V"'a' Personnoi reason for wizard of the Dapper Don Tyler, return to Hill boning knife, will developField to show the latest ments in scientific meat cutting and conservation. Employed by the National Livestock and Meat Board, his teachings from cutting to cooking and final serving is acas practically gospel in all ceptedmesses he has visited. army Mr. Tyler will appear in four graduated lectures at the Base beginning Thursday gymnasium, will reafternoon, Sept. 21st, and main until Saturday noon.he Sept will 23rd. During this period short-cut- s and demonstrate various mess personnel new recipes to allv of this Base. , , their iimtrf.ihmiMiKkfUMi . . .. toa re- - leaving ine aeparMW"- - transferred It the physical conditions C H. Kushnick, nluuJ director because ne wow, under wntcn 182 women wwe com20 men and of 1U health. because to leave an fi gii u pelled as many women as men Almost m Over . n left to join the ajcd orce(12 No Epidemic MaJ. 0. R. McCoy, k. nrengtn women ana ' tropicorps, chief of the In sons Interviewed, 98 changed their cal disease the division control w a of the minds and 81 ien e'mpi,d preventive medicine service office of the surgeon general of the t PProximatly Amendment An mendmt?tu?n army recently announced that is little danger of any .Wer revealed. Anm 4 Via hntlUe Of thMe S. oeen demic of malaria in the com has aaopieu uj to " w" finentel ' department get represenuKives United States traceable p' veter and malarious n. from women do; ,At ewt servlcemeri and ' at whole soWIers returned man 10 5in Ju,y when ans to purchase "Jeeps battlefronts. women gave sale prices. rJ. P'Ssr, King George VI Recognizes WAG t.vC? . Monarch Questions Women on Norma Bott Life at Home 1 rP cr? is Not only were the WACs of Hill King Field pleased to know that interGeorge VJ had shown keen est in the army work of American women, but women in khaki of the Women's Army Corps throughout the United States and the many ? are now outposts where the WACs with the were delighted serving, the recognition recently given Seven Corps by the English king. WACs, formerly stationed at OASC, are now in England. News comes from the First WAC Training Center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, tnai rung ueorge y of England had made specific inCapt. quiries not so long ago to Frances K. Marquis, who was the commanding officer- of the first contingent of WACs to be sent overseas. "What kind of training do you have? What type of families do they come from? How many WACs do you have in Africa?" These were among the many questions asked by the king at a reception held for the heads of all sections of the allied forces v " ' SHMsssHaautt I r - nwMsnJ Feggy Bott Aircraft Training Hits New High in North Africa. Capt. Marquis says the meeting of King George was by far the most exciting event of all the many numerous conferences, official gatherings and like she has experienced during her colorful army career. ' And she has had The aircraft training unit here had a total of 98,617 man hours during the month of August That record' for man is a new all-tihours during one month. many. The distribution of the hours among the departments of the unit are as follows: 6729 hours orientation (new personnel coming on to field for maintenance division or Hawaiian air depot) ; 8528 hours The employment situation at field service (inspectors, etc.); 21,- - FASC has been intensified by the 226 hours engine repair training; number of battle-scarrplanes arriving from vari30,885 hours manufacture and re ous theatres of and more pair; 31,249 hours airplane repair. workers are operation needed to repair them. Tremendous numbers of planes and supplies are needed in Invasion Tires Thirty-thre- e . FASC Employment Needs Cited ed ever-increasi- ng thousand airplane tires were in acon the 11,000 planes tion on that supported the sweep of invasion forces, according to the War Department. D-D- ay accelerated overseas operations, it was announced. Positions in practically every category are being offered to approximately 8000 persons needed. . by Sansono The Wolf Mi A. ir IT, ''Aim r. -- - - i,or t . Peary, Virginia. ok - 2c . ot XK . , , General 5 ! 1U OATSC Sisters Transferred To Bureau in Washington Of Engine Test Building ; A A 1 M sk "Ah! Safe at Ust!" |
