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Show Stoiry Cana El nv off BomIbngM Famed Norden Invention t Overhauled Here at Rate of One Every Bay First Photos oaiF r Be XJi fr'CTiii v1!31.1': ; JHTir 0 By Pvt. Elizabeth DePew The famous Norden bombsight, reputedly capable of dropping a pickle in a rainbarrel at 30,000 feet is being completely repaired and overhauled on the average of one y bombsight building loevery day in the sleek, two at Hill Field. cated north of repair hangar has The Norden '. long bombsight V 7 : one-stor- 4- been one of America's triumphs of skill and ingenuity and the envy. of the enemies of Democracy. The extreme accuracy of the Norden' may be accredited to the overhaul it receives in air technical service commands all" over the county where bombing problems are solved through computing Two $1,000 bonds were pur-- , mechanisms and tolerances which chased last Thursday by Mrs. Sylare adjusted and tested for perfect via Alley, Hill Field worker, of Salt Lake City, in accuracy. observance of the Details Just Released ' Although ' the status of the Norbirthday of "her den bombsight was changed from husband. Capt. "confidential" to "restricted" in Alley was killed May of 1943, the details have just approxi m a t e 1 y recently been released to the pub one month ago lic for tne first time. Prior to this time every precauwhile piloting a tion was taken in order that no inB - 29 in t h e formation seep out regarding the China-BurmInas bombsight. While still classified theatre. dia "confidential" the bombsight was 1 Mrs. Alley pre- the responsibility of the bombard had pur viously dier alone, who upon his arrival Svlvis Alley chased' a $500 at an air base, completely disman- bond the Sixth war loan tled the bombsight from the plane drive during has allotted almost 20 and bomb-sigto took and it personally cent of her salary each pay repair section where it was per to Dona purcnases. day "run-up", disassembled, assembled, rechecked and put in tip-to- p shape Francis L. Barclay, mechanic at for further use. base garage, hasn't heard from his On a "restricted" basis, the son in the Southwest Pacific in bombsight is removed from the two years and a to the taken plane by mechanics, half. Minute Man bombsight warehouse and from there ia goes to the Norden unit for base garage, of the bombsight repair branch. Fred" Lovitt, conAir Conditioned Rooms Bar tacted i clay andMr. Upon completion of all- repair him sold work the bombsight is then taken ten $100 bonds back to the warehouse where it is rooms stored in in OATSC drive which are kept at a constant temlast week. perature serving as a rust preEmployed here m ventative. since 20th Octo The Norden bombsight is comprised of two parts . . . the upper unit containing a vertical gyro Ravi&v Barclay staiea which affords stability to a sightVia didn't knOW if HIS SOU, a and computing ing telescope, L. Jr., was missing in ac- mechanism of gears, cams and Francis what. nr His son . is in. t ir tinn w. " springs. The second is a lower unit fnrKK, ornund ana im nersonnei. or stabilizer containing a direcfiirhtinff throughout Austra tional gyro. To assure a stabilized platform lia and New Guinea territory. for the bombsight during the Tfcfa ia the least I. can do when bombing run, the automatic flight three nephews and two control equipment becomes most I have lost .to the toughest enemy in brothers vital due to it's extreme sensitivthe world," said ity. Lottie L. Robin Constant Improvements son, mechanic of The ATSC with the aid of the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator airplane' repair company are making constant im section last week new provements and developments as she gave $787, to increase the accuracy of this 50 for war bonds autopilot, which electronically regMrs. Robinson ulates the control surfaces of the airplane, through signals transmit of Clearfield, ted from the gyroscopes with the Utah, has been assistance of the vacuum tube. employed here The lower unit, or directional I for 16 months stabilizer, keeps the plane on a . true course without deviation to ana inB aur,n Robinson left or right, and through a simi been has approxibuying time lar procedure as the autopilot, each maintains azimuth control of the mately $100 worth ofofbonds five chilmonth. The mother optics. Were the bombardier required to dren, who she takes care of in addition to working at the field, figure the bombing problem on pa she now has her entire pay check start could he before the per bomber took off and still be deep put into bonds. in equations when it returned to Its home base again With the aid of the Norden bombsight he can, in a few seconds set in trail (the distance the bomb lags behind the airplane at point of impact); correct for wind dis"That 4,000,000 manned Japaplacement of the bomb; level the nese army will be destroyed, but vertical gyro; synchronize the will come by a three-wa- y crosshairs on the target and take that attack land,only sea and air in time out for a cigaret while the the greatest strength we can de. bombsight automatically releases liver." This statement was made the bombs when the proper drop- - recently by Undersecretary of War . ping angle is obtained. Robert P. Patterson. Removed Every St Days Mr. Patterson went on to say A government technical or that there will be no final victory der requires that each bombsight until we can put ashore, supply - be removed from a plane every and reinforce infantry, artillery so cays, tested, cnecked, run up and tanks strong enough to deground forces of Japan, and given a general overhauling. stroy themust and we be organized to bat; The main purpose for the "running , up" process is to warm up the oil tle our way to the heart of their , in tne Hearings ana see that every. country. "We will require an Army large . thing is "Roger". OATSC performs first, second enough to do this ' Job," Mr. Pat: and third echelon overhaul in the terson continued. "However, we will release men from service as bombsight building where the AAF fast as military operations will ; autopilot, the Sperry bombsight - ana permit. are gunsights also compensating repaired. In this building there is also a supply section, and building has been chosen for their . warehouse for bombsight material mechanical ability, ingenuity, charand until recently, when the bomb- -. acter, honesty and All sight branch became a part of the have been trained and loyalty. in associated equipment section, their order to make OATSC schooled one of the wn macnine snop. leading depots of the nation in the ine personnel in the bombsight overhaul of the Norden bombsight. Heavy Buyers At OATSC Aid Campaign ; - 5 ' ' J - - lllliP - r a- BOTH SKIL.li AND INGENUITY . . . Are required In ihe repair and mamtenance of the Norden precision bombsight In the world. LonsrMatnews is pictured sight which is considered the finest as sne maaes last minute i esw on we nhih Expressing the supremacy a flyers in the invasion of Lieut. Gen. Lewis Brereton AF commanding general, 1 that the groundwork of their j ing and stamina could be traced to the army air forcei cal training program. He commented on the pilot crews of Marauder and 0 1 bombers, that went out to nsk tie in the invasion with and hardly no sleep between sions; and how Thunderbolt, tang and Lightning pilots times periormea two, tor four fighting ana "cover-eacA-2- - day. New Books Arr At Base Library Kn 4.1 - : New books recently arriv are: Anthnnv Adverse, by Trmittlu1 Star. AtlEUSt: Ft tunf &inns enmniled bV B Kodachrome and kodacolor, Five Arrows, Chase; Biytne i DsliJ Coward; Hidden Faces, wind for Carolina. Fletcher! den Bough, Frazer. m RianKsnnhn lenores vr GUpa'trtc; Some of My BestF. are Soldiers, Halsey; Mysterf nibus. Hammett; i Wsisn Home, Bob Hope; "um Janeway; ioo.uuo.wju wic Meek, Kallet; Blessea areLasswelL sak; High Time, the base library FIGURING EVERYTHING BUT SIZE OF TARGET . ... The Norden bombsight after being eheeked and "run up" is then placed on a' calibration stand where it undergoes final testing and adjustments. Miss Margaret Titos, bombsight repairer. Is peering through the is "just so" before It is returned to everything "sight" to see that B-or B-- for use against the axis. either a Bl-1- 7, 24 Z9 Sweeping Chan In OCS Reveal A !f', ' , ' lib i the Sweeping changes in tions governing officer cia schools Patterson Warns Of Big Jap Army , U Air Supremacy Due to Program ht s k Jtrnv were recently annj department by the war maximum M tion of the ditlonal mental test and no' i;.i ted quotas for Finance, QM schools are numbered ' 'V, .''A. y COMPLETE DISASSESfSLT . . . Gertrude Sharp is pictured reassembling the delicate parts of a bombsight which is in the processof a general overhaul. Each bombsight must go through this "processtag" system upon completion of St days' use. now) ''candidateof must age andim least 18 years bWh have paised his 35th endi. course his the date mum age previously W U "J Four months' service minimum pri quired as a Heretofore, onVj plication. momns service w t GI Psychology Physical Ilk Now We've Got as Good ol Can Be Withheld A Robot as Nazis Subject new Gl's who get CDDs will be able to keep their physical afflictions a secret from now on, the war department has decided. Discharge certificates for men and women leaving the services will no longer mention their physical conditions under a new war department ruling. And, furthermore, any discharged GI whose discharge contains detrimental remarks about his physical condition may return it to the adjutant general in Washington, and receive the pew form. . A replica of the German V- -l robot bomb has been developed by the AAF "which can be used if and when we need it," according to a recent announcement from Wright Field, Ohio. The American robot is as good as the German model and the United States developed launching ramp is better than the nails', ac cording to ATSC. foot propelled um DicycM. 4V BMMir ai ij Among the have Just arrived at bMsj WTC cal library include. Cii and the Soldierr "Engineering Mechsm "addition to ttgrjj, also suggests for educational feaa.. w MUitary w Abraham; "BataanDie Proudly." and the Tigers j automobile and a full- - K.lon-hUp:tenTror information, cau I Elesterfleld. MB. O fr, G'fS |