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Show World War 11 Vets in Fight at OATSC More Than 100 Former GI's in Fight Here; Served Overseas Many Elizabeth By Pvt. ' Depew mi Approximately 100 World War II veterans have stored away "the 'khaki' and 'blue uniforms of the army and navy along with campaign ribbons and medals and donned the uniform of thousands of other war workers here at OATSC. Through their combined efforts, the very tools of destruction which they used while serving overseas are now being forged on the home front by their own hands. " Harrison L.. Bean, a veteran submarine patrol duty in the- Car- ibbean and the Pacific, who was discharged from service early in December, has been chosen for the placement of just such veterans. He served four months during 1943 with a heavy bombardment particigroup in the South Pacific of mispating in more than a score on Rabaul sions including raids and other ' points in the New Guinea area with between two" and three thousand flying hours to his of- - f va i A-wma- II -- vv - r' 1 I in ri ii '" ' New Farm Jobs Awaiting GI Joes Veteran Agency Now Able to Assure Loans GI Joes wishing to take up credit. farming when they have completRepresent Cross Section "The jobs which these veterans ed their jobs with Uncle Sam will n are doing represent a good be able to do so now as the result cross-sectio- of practically every skill imaginable nere at uat&u, saia Mr. Bean. "A few of the veterans employed here perhaps were only in service a very short time and were discharged by reason of some while others physical disability have served on foreign soil for two and three years and were discharged because of wounds re- uncompletion of arrangements vetThe der the GI Bill of Rights. erans administration now is in a position to guarantee Joans up to $2,000 to veterans for the purchase of farms or farming equipment. Following consultations with heads of the department of agriculture and other interested groups ceived in action.1' as bankers, farmers and inThe field has been engaging vet- such the administrasurance erans since its activation several tion hascompanies, the necessary compiled years ago. However, at the pres- regulations for making these farm ent time there has been a decided loans. increase in the employment of in-Arrangements have been made who have recapacitated veterans to protect the veteran from- buyto states the returned after cently worthless land or land which having served overseas for long isingpriced too high. Two veterans of time. periods in buying a farm, thereby can join Veteran Typical ' A the amount of the loan typical World war II veteran doubling be guaranteed without doubling employed here at Hill field is Gor- to liability of either party in case don Cilley, who after having spent the default. approximately one year with the of Further information can be obin Africa and Italy, has infantry the veterans adonce again fit himself into a ci- tained by writing ministration for .a pamphlet on vilian occupation. available is a A mechanic in the minor repair these loans.on Also the pamphlet? guarantee of of branch maintenance division, home loans bill. the under, Mr. Cilley was a private when he received his medical discharge Nov. 23, 1944, after having been confined in Bushnell general hospital for a period of eight months recuperating from injuries sustained while serving overseas. He is a native of Los Angeles, Calif. Unable to wear the Queen Department Heads medal he received from the Dutch government and the May Assemble numerous other ribbons he now posses, Steve C. Johansen is now Library working as a ' mechanic ofin the aircraft repair section mainteThe base technical library is of nance division. a new service for super fering was a member of the Johansen and department heads encombat crew on Java that volun- visors them to build "on the job" teered to fly wounded sailors to abling Australia. Their plane was strafed libraries. The army air forces will furnish and bombed and they had to retechnical books desired for use main at Jogiakarta, Java, to re- all on the field if ordered through it after the evacuation last pair 1 J ' base library. Such books may be Doai naaJ aepariea. obtained on memorandum receipts Member of 19th to the officer in charge of Johansen was a member of the issued a project and shall be re' such 19th bombardment group, the high- tained indefinitely. est cited air group operating in Supervisors are urged to visit the the South Pacific. He received the library and see the AAF cata citation with three oak presidential Books ordered from the loaf nlnctorc fhroa Vtattla etoi-- fsti logue. will be available within 10 the South Pacific campaign ribbon list days and those not found in the and a bronze star on the American AAF catalogue may be obtained defense medal for being outside required evidence of such tne continental limits when war after a need is shown. These books was declared secured within one month A native of Logan, Utah, he en- may be order. tered the service in 1939 in the from the date of the emphasis is being placed army air forces and in 1941 was onSpecial radio, meterorology, industrial sent overseas to the Fiji islands and the Netherlands East Indies management, supervision, physics, aircraft metallurgy, He arrived on Hill field last month. medicine, Alden Spencer, junior machinist maintenance, chemistry, electricity on a turret lathe in the machine biiu engineering. The base technical library is lo division, spent shop of maintenance in building in civil eight months on the' island of cated Oahu, Hawaii, with the seabees ian training area. where he did construction work which involved the pumping and Victory Containers of coral rock from the Type "C" rations are being crushing ocean for the construction of land shipped overseas in rugged victory containers. These coning strips. Approximately two fibreboard months following his discharge tainers have withstood as many as Mr. Spencer returned 100 handlings while en route to Sept. 5, 1944, to Hill field to resume the same tneir imal destinations. position he held heres. prior to his enlistment in the CB his discharge after After having been confined in tie received spent five months in a ho. the Aiea hospital at Oahu for two naving pital at Sun Valley, Ida. Both he . and one half months, Spencer re his wife, Dorothy, reside in turned to the states in July and and was sent to the Oak Knoll ho- ugden. Although he never saw service spital in Oakland, Calif., and was tuwin ooocueiiow, air uvriseas, to a sent convalescent home later welder in hangar two, holds at Santa On. Pnlif u;hcrn ha craft an equally prominent place in the remained for one month. Mr. annais or mil field veterans. worked on Hill field for Spencer Goodfcllow enlisted in the sea one and one-hayears prior to his Dees &ept. Zl, 1943 and held the entry into service. of ship-fittranK second class On Bombing Mission upon his discharge April 21, 1944 After participation in a bombing from a hospital at Pensacola, Fla., mission over wane island. Raloh where he was confined for a period Shupe, aircraft sheet metal work of two months. Both he and his er along the 4 line in mainte wife, Mary Ellen, reside in Lay- nance division, finds his tasks here ion. His son. Edwin Charles ClnnA comparatively easy after expert encing the ravages of war over fellow, 16. is eaeerlv anticinatintf seas, wnue serving in the navy his enlistment in the navy in April irom ci. ai, isiz until his da wnen nc can take over where his charge July 18, 1941, Mr. Shupe Dad left off after approximately aiso served at xuiaway and Hawaii it monins in service. of . ? III f JJ xrtM. JLsss, kJ - I If .A. I It - ' ' ' " '''' - . Technical Library Offers New Service -- Wil-helmi- na On-the-J- ob 1 a E-1- 62 lf er B-2- , W of Wi - " vottrans REENTERING WAR EFFORT ON HOME FRONT riblUl CU tmW media beeni OATSC after having w at out for the ar effort here War II who are once more going all MrJ HM discharged from service. Mr. Harrison Bean of the em ployment section is pictured interviewing E. Point of Hibbing, Minn, (top) who has been assig ned,as an automotive equipment sieve ."rj win Goodfellow (left center) is pictured busily en gaged in a welding job while Mr.lAtirAP left! mr. on an makes minor air oup adjustments (right center) piane propeiior. nsipn an r a and Mr. turret lathe Gordon Cilley (lowe right) is repairing airpiane j eratmg W m 1 , vw. IS j - Job of Transporting Thousands of Workers Discharged Regardless of Adverse Weather Year in and year out, despite allf in the industrial area from the types of hazardous weather condi- clock house to base headquarters, tions, the wheels of the transporta- OATSC ( hospital and the larger tion unit here at OATSC continue warehouse area from warehouse to spin in order that the critical thousands of 35 to 48. duty of transporting to From the clock house to the cifrom employes place place may be fulfilled. vilian dormitory area, elephant At the base motor pool alone trains maintain a schedthere are 30 staff cars, nine "carry- ule. 12 trips are Approximately alls" used for the transporting of a total of made crews from Lake Salt daily, covering City flight d and Ogden to Hill Field; one some miles transporting bus; one 4000 passengers to and from their buses; 300 bus; two trucks of all descriptions and three places of employment. n Even the little motorized scooters trailer units, two of which are double tanker units for gas- which are seen darting from place oline containing 4500 gallons each. to place all over the field also are Staff cars are chauffeured by ap important links in the seemingly proximately 20 civilians and 10 endless chain of transportation faG. I.s. Upon receipt of a directive cilities. 90 days ago from General Arnold, Three enlisted men and two citransportation will not be furnished vilians maintain the 26 scooters civilians or officers to and frbm now in operation. Each is driven their homes, nor will staff cars be on an average of three and one-haused for any other purposes other hours and are used mainly for than official business. the purpose of delivering messages The penalty for violation of this and documents within the Hill policy will be immediate dismissal Field area. from the service in the event mili Intra-DcpTrain tary personnel are involved, and The Hill Field intra-deppasimmediate discharge from employsenger train which runs from the ment for civilian employes. clock house to the lower warehouse Staff Cars Travel Far carries approximately 2000 Some staff cars travel as high as area, passengers daily. From April 1, 200 miles per day while others 1943, when the system was travel only 10 miles per day. Each first begun, untilrailway the same date the seldom which sedan, transports less 0 year, approximately than two passengers and normally following riders benefited from this carries three, averages approxi- method of transportation. mately 50 miles each day. For those not so fortunate as to be able to commute via staff car Norden The Norden there are 12 elephant trains made bombsight,Bombsight invented in 1924 by C. T. each 'Mnrrien a rtrf waa available, tflnollv rlAval. having capacity of 40 passengers. Eight of the 12 oped and used by the Naval Air units are "doubles" connected, service and is now utilized by both schedule tne army and navy. maintaining a New Air Giants To Dwarf B-29- s and 6 M Being TestedField B-3- B-3- 5 At Langley 50-od- 20-to- . lf ot ot 730,-00- which mayd t - " the performance . irrf tests," J alreaay uno::r reveaiea rewvVcommittee, appropriations W. Lewis, a. c Oeorce . AT V "one wind - . Mj " tJ I tunnel dev Field. Va., has been pa the clusively during on two f tne make tests the 5 ana pons development of air rapidly "Jaitechni( vancing so to necessary ."tocarrJ B-3- - ments, he said. iflg j New project at an the committee .. r esu as the ing speed of I troduction missiles and spee countered at high Lewis s fU altitudes, Dr. ,o00rf time same At the ? W. A. Kitts requested to increase the "tpru0ckets M fcrceSl The navy Produces arrnen , branches of thethe j from requests crease in production Increased plant facUiw gyer-iw- "fleri t fV'J |