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Show Link Trainers Now Being Overhauled at Rate of One a Day; Line Much Improved those miniature Link trainers do everyuuns y airplanes thatreal the planes do in ground that at the air are now being repaired of about one a day at tne 4 rate repair Ogden Air Service Command. October 25, 1944 associated equipment and section of maintenance division. three Prior to this time, inonly COLONEL PAUL W. WOLF, Commanding a month s trainers were repaired constant imtime but through EDITORIAL STAFF . on the production line, provements BdltorfaU Supervision: Capt. Arthur E. Smith, VC Betty Richardson. output has been stepped up almost Editor: TSgt. Ryland M. Thomaion; Managing Editor: Larry C. Evans. unbelievably. This particular section handles AMoeUtett TSgt. Lionel H. Turner, Pvt.' Elizabeth Depew, Auguat O. Kettman, Pvt. Tereia B. Noe, Pvt. Jean McCollum. fourth echelon maintenance. Upon . Photography: Baae Photo. completion of approximately 3000 each trainer undergoes a civilian hours, and Uw military of in th intereau Th Hlllflelder la publlahed weekly overhauling.and complete Hill ..Utah, Field. perionnel of the Air Base and Ogden Air Berylco Command, There are five trainers on the the facllitiaa and through la distributed free each Wednesday. If to printed-witline with 23 employes engaged in The miner. Opinions expressed to this paper the cooperation of The Ogden Standard-E- x disassembly and reassembly. are those ot the Individual writers and members of the staff, and do not is broken down into five staline redisreflect the attitude of the army or ot the commanding officer.1 It U tions. The first is complete withremoved are or All published 1U not eoicmns be parts assembly. questei that articles appearing in out the sxpresa consent of the Public Relations Office at Hill Field. The Hlllflelder ' from the trainer, sorted and placed East on 'parts carts,", inspected and are receive material supplied by Camp Newrpaper Service, War Department, 205 without permission then sent to the second station. be sot publUhtd material Credited may 42a4 street. N. T. Here they begin assembly step from Camp Newspaper Service. the third station, the by step. isOnmounted and a portion fuselage t of the mechanical devices. isFinal takmounting and en care of at the. fourth station and by the time it arrives at the fifth station it is calibrated and made ready for shipment Approximately 65 employes are now engaged in the installation of to Augthe automatic pilot. Prior ust 10 Link trainers were minus f . .j .. ; ., Link Trainer Repair - : h . neces-ari- ly mmmmm a Vreteran and Early Edition sub-assemb- ly 11 i L ... of the associated eqnlpnat . THE 23 EMPLOYES are pictured abave at division maintenance of section repair process of reassembling a Link trainer. Miss Polly Thomas, metku is shown at the controls, while Jack Llnkersdorfer, mechuie (W Jack Bridgeman, inspector, and Austin Mangelson, snpervbiMi FOUR OF final assembly, make the automatic pilot Since that time they have been installed for the last-minu- adjustments. te New Rank at Hill Field purpose of acquainting pilots with its advantages and to let them know just how much to expect from this device. When a plane is in level fight, the automatic pilot takes the place of the pilot and enables the plane to continue on true" bearing. Some time ago when the automatic pilot was still in its infancy, pilots fought controls constantly from the time they left their bases on a bombing mission until the time when ' they returned with exception, of course, of the actual bomb run.. To date, installation of automatic pilots in Link trainers is only being done in five other air service -- ; k, V 1 command .. . : Freestone Fought In Three 1918 Engagements Ex-Mari- ne Cast Vote many whirls toward a climax, .Freestone finds himself reminiscing every once in a while over' a November 12, 1918, copy of the New York Herald he purchased in Nevers. The headline is splurged across the top: The War Is Won. .".I hope we don't have to reminisce again," he said. Freestone took part in the battle of St Mihlel, Soissone, and helped mop up after He was bloody Chateau-Thiesrwounded during the : engagement-- . He also holds French regimental citation.. During The - wild, uncontrollable bedlam that, followed :the signing of the armistice Nov. 11, two of his. buddies, each with, an amputated lower limb, dared each other to throw their crutches in the canal ne Meuse-Ar-gon- ne Meuse-Ar-gon- ne y. -- ; Xteb XpH V MY. V . ert Perkins are foremen of the entire section. Miss Eleanor Teats is in charge of the instrument unit; Mr. Perkins, head of trainer over haul unit; W. W. Peterson, head ot radio and electrical unit, and Miss leucine smith, in charge of sub assembly unit ve ViUagers Will . 4 J including Fair- depots field, Ohio; Sacramento, Calif.; San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma City, uKia., ana our own ugden air service command. The total cost of a Link trainer alone is $8,000. Approximately $10.- 000 worth of equipment is installed in the trainers in this particular section. The total value of each Link trainer, including installation or Domosight and all other equip ment, amounts to approximately $26,000. Mr. Wendell Bradley and RobC. . and did. Later they were picked George A. Freestone, Sr., patrol-- a man in OASC's AMP organization up by an ambulance while clinging since February, 1941, participated to one another and struggling to in four major engagements dur walk as one man. He, himself, ing World War I as' a member of spent six months in the hospital. He' has lived in Ogden since his the Sixth Regiment of U. S. Marreturn from overseas in 1919 and ines, was wounded by a shell, received the purple has two daughters in the army and heart; spent November 11, nurses' cadet corps. 1918, in a base hospital in Nevers, France, scarcely able to wiggle a toe) while fellow patients made way outside on crutches and thejr in wheel chairs to witness a French town gone mad with. Joy. As th'e present war with Ger- high-explosi- . i . . Above, George A. Freestone, Sr., patrolman In REMINISCES OASC's AMP organisation, looks over a eopy of the New York Herald he purchased on November It, 1918, while convalescing at a-. base hospital in Nevers, France. Across the top is splurged the head. linei "The War Is Won". , 'i NearLayton Residents or Sahara Village will vote In the coming election, November 7, at the home of Mrs. Chloe Harris, located at the first intersection of the Layton highway, Mrs. George Cornish, Village registrar, announced yesterday. As but one voting booth Is allowed per district, a booth at Sahara Village and Layton was prohibited by law, Mrs. Cornish pointed eat. Representatives of the two eenuaanltles elected to place It halfway between the two. The Hards residence Is a large, red -- brick building with a red roof. A sign designating It as a voting .point will be erected In advanee of election day, she said. ' Ingenuity Lures Huns Front Forts i.n:in.ou mianiry aepenos on Hi concussion psychology and lodge nazis from the massive boxes wnicn lorm tne Siegfried line. , sooner or later or concussion prevails- psychology In some sectors of the Siegfried line, the Germans have listened inside their un- NO HOUSE ' ' -Two new members have beenadded to the chevron ranks at Hill Field, in the . form of two pet skunks by the name of Andrew and . Petunia. The two stripers (not to be confused with corNew books .now being ft porals) arrived here recently from K Ohio by railway express. GIs at the base technical Because the species mephitis is include The World of Waddr apropos to things gaseous, they .by Brooks and the i are therefore proper mascots for Irving History 'of .'the U. S. by Beci the chemical warfare department Beard. . Their abode is tucked away in For those Interested far a far corner of the gas chamber there are those entitled V area and each morning finds them rents in Economic Life 0M their breakfast This Age of Kable, Stolpw) eagerly which consists of a raw egg and Background of Our Wsrjwr Pablum. Their appetite is good ment Assajsination, though an observer couldn't say World by After War, the same for their manners. of Tomorrow by Dft. They play rough, seizing: each Making magazine Pertinent other by the nape of the neck and the Nazis How dude scuttling through the straw in Airmen; Matam their cage. This lasts about five Captured Home; The JW Coming minutes after eating, after which American - Rifleman; Junf they retire. to StrjkerAK It might be well to add that Made Ready Delicing Recognition; the adolescents were at an early age. The WAC offi- Ucing Progress. cers have donated the "skunk" ... conceroea, luc,c. Please, --7 house. - TechnicallJla'iXj Offers New Bod J .3 eating im m What A SX l k Pke,f . "de-scente- h. 1 Andrew and Petunia Gladd: Ranks of Chevron Wearers ; J derground combat barracks while a xew wns oi eartn were piled in front of their exit bv a hniMn. Or while a GI with a torch welded that exit shut That generally does the trick. More often there is less effort required. For example, two GIs were looking for a place to spend the night any place that wouldn't require the digging of a foxhole when they came to a pillbox the battalion CP. It looked okay! Then one of them peered into a slit on the concrete wall and saw a Transferred . . . Capt Henry C formerly of Hill Field, alr otJ?lw QyeM looking back at Mattingly, OASC, has been transferred to him. The GIs fired a of headquarters air technical service rifle grenades inside Outcouple came 18 command at Wright Field, Dayton, Germans. Thev had w,ai at-- t iu Ohio, for duty with the quality two days and the battalion hadn't control section procurement heard them. hjm TV&tE'S ANDREW AND PETUNIA . . . Two skunks who arrlTCd kw I centjy to act as mascots for the chemical warfare section, are sr as they gobble Psbram at their cosy quarters near the gai iskl StoncKnn I aa I . J d" ri anty; tamermo Chlclkov-- s Journey, They that Take tne lashnikoff. v Um fottnd - ... rap" contact Mr. nslM j- p".v INIT1AT1V5.4 VVSRY . i .M SSaSrart OrdxiPrS fX J TH6 WAV THOSE fAZH WOKKeP VP A WkJHT 0VVN . --- ) |