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Show It Officer lent to an Antonio TOASC Boosts 1 Ogden Air Service Command Wednesday, October iTT Engine Repair Rate 18, 1944 1M i Capt.Wanamaker Here Since All Records Broken! ::::y.K.v,,,,,,,,v,,, ' -- ' Manliours Per Item Cut By 25 Per Cent . July 18,1942 Capt A. B. (Banks) Transfer of When itf comes to ef ficiency and" production, the Ogden Air Service Command doesn't have to bow its head to any other installation in v.namaKer, C for the Ogden Air Service Wand, to the San Antonio Air was announced ice Command, hy Col. Paul W. Wolf, com in officer of the OASC. Here by - will be succeeded CM4-MAAi ftl In. 4n thu San Am. in AIT javirive ..runted in a lew days. At Hill Field since July 18, 1942, wanamaKer aaa ervra b Qic relations officer for what first the Ogden Air Depot n- the country. . Statistics are usually dull read ing but those are the things that pay off as far as war production is concerned ana tne proaucuoa statistics of the OASC in the past year has shown excellent results. Last year at this time, engines of all types were being repaired and overhauled at the rate of about 400 a month. Last month over 550 engines were repaired, an increase of more than 38 per cent Last year, the average total num 'P1-.- - t 4 v.- v vx6uuu'. i at .n i . : w 'jvntrnl pa mi Area Air Dnat ("laden iVia - Command. (with the activation in 1943 of V.'fisden Air Service Command, the nine states be- Nevaaa ana minneyow, vapi. ranamaker was appointed special )hich embraces Veen rs officer responsible for taformation man-hou- rs organization of a broad pub- 5c relations program which press, radio, speakers' bu- au ana ouicr wuviucs. be in-jud- ed under Capt. Wanamaker's in December, 1942, that Humemer, omciai weexiy spaper, first made its appear- It was tion - recently returned from a six- jreek stay in Washington, D. C, there he represented Air Techni-- 1 Service Command headquarters He Wright field, Dayton, Ohio, on highly important public relations usion. Prior to receiving his commls on May 25, 1942, at Miami Beach. .I i .mmmmmwmm$mwKsm OASC SHOP MAINTENANCE . . . Painters proudly display evidence of the highest safety record ever achieved at Hill Field. These men, whose work sometimes takes them to heights of 90 feet on staglnr e and scaffolding" to paint rafters in the repair hangars, have worked for 658 days without one accident The average age of these men is 45 to 50. The eldest one, Harvey King, is 73 years old. They are (left to right, standing) Enos Hollobaugh, Henry Streight, John Dean, Lawrence Schubert, Harvey King, Asa Conaway, Henry Steggell, Carl Strong; (seated) Aaron Eaton, George Johnston, Glen Cochran, Frank Fogel and Fred Avery. I. 0oo0O0C")qn00qpoq lost-tim- . Clerical Position Opens in Wash. Varied Benefits Are Offered the Forum and Time Institute He has also been Soldier Army by other advertising concerns. Capt Wanamaker was the Inc., Florida, phicago manager for Time, iiisners of Life, Fortune, hitectural s magazine. : . dated with fed I publishing ' During his stay here, Capt and an. Mae Wanamaker have made jiwir nome at 675 Twenty-sixt- h ? Ogden. They will leave Tues. St morning for st San Antonio. Publications lew I Among the books being offered the technical library delude &anrTation' the war between and photography to many others. tSn Thtiin line there 1 the Carlisle; Krh&clop,edia 5i,binM and Jet Propulsion fCSlft Mechanici, Van-- r"?.f.?d S010. 2r S!iy.Ater Made Hoyt and Easy by Burma Sur- - ntled iif 5 P"; stiUweU through J"1)81" to India. dV WarfS?1 'P?1 against books, w'? neuPatrit. Tor 7 5k thereV by Buck. enjoyphotogra- - CoPKovIe8' Eaatman Ko-fd-an a?0Atog,ra1Dhic ui Enlarging, Photosranhs Interpretation, and Educational services offered by the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) were reiterated this week in a war department cir- cular listing courses, library Gets self-teachi- ng Three Jobs Open At AAF Did You Know Headquarters correspondence courses, uni correspondence versity extension That Air Service Command has courses, class instruction service, nine men on the ground for every visual aids and educational information and accreditation services. man in the air, 22 men on the USAFI, established at Madison, ground for every plane in the sky. Wisconsin, has the following That ASC handles a bomb 32 branches: count 'em 32 times from the moAlaska branch, Central Pacific ment leaves a factory till your it Middle branch, European branch, Pacific son or your brother presses the East branch, Southwest Area branch, bomb release over Berlin. branch, That Hugh J. Knerr, commandbranch, South Pacific Panama North African branch, ing general of ASC in Britain, was Canal department branch. a retired colonel, U. S. army, in Detailed descriptions of cor- '42, a colonel on active duty in '43, in early "44 respondence courses and ad- and brigadier general salute. and now rates a two-stcourses; names and dresses of colleges and universities That there are 5561 Smith, 2349 offering extension correspondence Jones and 632 Cohens in the air courses and the courses they offer, force here. That to date, ASC has supplied and procedures for obtaining inChina-Burma-Ind- ia self-teachi- ng ar including over 310,000 tons of bombs to our outfits. That one ASC depot known as (second edition), and in catalogs the "Willow Run of the ETO" is issued by branches, USAFI, which so huge it has its own G. I. operare available from Information-Educatio- n ated railroad, with three' king size officers, Army librari- engines. -, ans, education officers, or from That, at this same depot, 200 enUSAFI and its branches. gines must be kept "in work" on Those eligible to take courses its engine overhaul line at all times include military personnel on ac- to maintain normal production. tive duty, excepting those engaged That, although the average numin basic training. Certain of these ber of parts in each plane is 27,500, services are also extended to per- not one of our combat aircraft in sonnel of the Navy, Marine Corps this theatre is grounded for lack and Coast Guard. of a spare part And that, speaking of parts, there are 190,000 different items of supif ply used by the air force (andare any one is missing aircraft for grounded and howls are heard miles around). That every time Flying Forts atroar off on a thousand-bombService Air sec Germany, tack against the of disposal chief must provide 200 tank tion. He comes nere irom nura, Command aviation gasoline, 800 tons cars of training Miss., air service toforces frorn the of equipment to overhaul and prethat center and prior for the mission, OCASC in Okahbma City, Okla. pare the engines to service the of tons parts 15,000 Standley at base. this Capt While the raids, and after before as training planes military was engaged in the per- and thousands of soldier mechaniand operations officer ordnance worksonnel division and also as assist- cs, truckers and ers to handle the immense assign-meant area ordnance officer. E. Higgins has been at(everybody up for breath).efCapt toW.this two thanks to the untiring years, for field That tached di- forts of Brigadier General Malcolm In quartermaster base working 1942. In Grow, ASC's chief surgeon, cases vision since December of activated of frostbite among flieri has been year he September of this Just recently he slashed from 250 in 1WW0, 18 truck outfit. was assigned as assistant chief of months ago, to two in 1900 tons of ASC supplies quartermaster branch. on JS0That calibre ammunition to our Lt. Roger M. Wills reportedhere aerial gunners each month, for Imthe field September 2, coming Service to the Air from the Middletown as traf- mediate Command, where he served He has ""That (danger, big number bead) fic officer for 17 months. dip up 18,400,000 been assigned as assistant of the ASC engineersdirt for air force incubic yards of traffic section. Britain in (enough to stallations the build a pyramid three times monu-tnM- L Washington the of Ford height bMter. pr.fcr.bly with a base equal to MVta CASH. PoM Will materials, texts, for classes or group study are given in the USAFI Catalog structional bomb-droppi- ng . New Officers Sent to upply, Two From Overseas ive new officers to.. tinrfn have been . ... eek. two of which Hers; afte Bruce ,rom rservio. nr.v rtrlbution ... . . ar-- WnJl'edirtributlon cen- - Sh Vh.e e,,ht monthJ h & 11 "ea. Lt bS Av,auMlnedto In (fji Snter Sda. y " h.ere H ?a SeptemhLiift Lr MacKen-- W the air nd hJe' from redistribution Bao t Miami, Fl, now assistant the from Au- - f&Mng - . er nt VwhVr.v Stant chlrf of branch act as liaison of- - In rf iif,"1 November untU ffnber of i?nd In Italy from untfl July of ber oi man-houexpended on 4 engines was 229 hours; this year the average per engine has decreased to 169 hours, a decrease of 25 per cent. "These records are due to many things," explained Mr. M. C. Bar. nett, supervisor of production statistics, "most important factor has been better organization. The people seem to be working harder than ever before and that plus improved methods and short cuts, add up to real efficiency.". There are 751 civilian employes at the OASC directly or indirectly Mr. working on engine repair and still Barnett feels that there is room for improvement on these records. "It is possible to do even better," said Barnett, "but in order to do so we must increase our personnel The over-a- ll picture of the work of the Air Technical Service Command was released last week in a report from Patterson Field and the record is an enviable one. B-2- i 0. trans-shipme- nt pr r .1' ''ali Mtw Yotk blocks). There is an opening for one OASC female clerk-typiat AAF in Washington, D. C, headquarters F. Charles Mallory, OASC Capt employment officer announced yes terday. The position is open for a clerk However, typist CAF-- 2 or CAF-if the person is currently in a low er pay status, she may be pro moted if qualified. The person selected will leave on or before October 31st, Capt Mallory said. She will be transferred at government expense and dor mitory housing will be furnished on arrival. Women interested should report for interview to Mrs. Marie Briem at the OASC employment branch east of the clockhouse. Mrs. Briem is also accenting applications for three job vacancies to be filled by November 30th at AAF headquarand ters of a clerk, clerk-typist 3. st, clerk-sten- o. New Arrival . . . Capt Charles F. Mallory, employment officer for the OASC, was passing out cigars and candy this week following the recent arrival of an eight-poun- d daughter, Sandra Ann, in the base hosDttaL Mrs. Mauorv is tne for mer Frances Cox. Their home is in San Jose, Calif. , , January, 1942, more than been repaired, planes have overhauled or modified at ATSC a depots at the rate of 1000-140- 0 month. Engines are being overhauled in the 12 ATSC overhaul plants at the rate of more than 9000 a month and well over have been overhauled since January, 1942. In the year from July, 1943, to July, 1944, the average direct expended per stripped engine overhaul have been reduced to this extent: engines, from 683.8 to 233.5; engines, enfrom 275.8 to 89.9, and gines, from 153 to 97.2 hours. Since 35,000 150,-0- 00 man-hou- rs R-18- 20 R-9- 85 New Packing Mark Set in Branch 8 A new record has been set In branch eight of supply division. The branch packing area processed 91 shipping tickets having a total weight of 64,724 pounds. This wo-.'- : was accomplished by shift ackr3 in an eight-hoand represents an averac of 711 pounds per ticket or 2,232 pounds 29 ur per per At least half of the material mi export packed and all of it pasted rross the conveyor lines. There were no carlo " shipments p-- 1935 Pontlae, FOB MLB 6. Blu Una. Nominal prlo. a. 436. - - good coup. TlxXorntt, Call X. ,. Task of OASC Recognized By Article in New York Times The tremendous job being per--4 formed by OASC and other Air Technical Service Command installations was recognized recently in an article appearing in the New York Times stating that "the fact that an undertaking of such magnitude can be operated so effila assurance to the ciently taxpayer that hero his dollar has been well spent" The Air Technical Service Command is the world's biggest industrial organization, it stated. Its customers are the gallant men who fir and operate Army Air Force planes In ovary part of the world. The maintenance part of this vast establishment occupies soma 11.000 acres In which mora than 500,000 separata items are continuously stocked. The control in this limitless stockroom is touch and go. Landing gears wanted in Italy, goeUm required In India, online repairs for the South Pacific all are under way toward their destination, la a matter of ... The fact, the article concluded, that an undertaking of such magnitude can be operated so efficiently under the direction of Air Force officers, in close cooperation with industry, Is assurance to the taxpayer that his dollar has been well spent, and that wherever his sons may be, the Air Technical Service Command will keep them flying. Yanli Prisoners Publish Papers Two papers are published by troops in prisoner of war camps in Germany, according to word received here by the Red Cross recently. The Daoers are reproduced and tacked ud on bulletin boards. The nurthnd of rmroduction was not rlvon but It was stated that ont Of shoots contained a comic strl-- s American- to |