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Show Women's Club Rolls Bandages Test Pilot Is Veteran of 45 Missions' "Know Your Supervisor OATSC Supervisor Serves 13 Years in same Air D 6 I sub-divisio- " ... OFFICERS' WIVES AID WAR EFFORT By rolling bandages and sewing hospital articles for Uncle Sam's fighting men. Shown wrapping bandages above are "(clockwise): Mrs. E. B. Bayley, Mrs. Paul W. Wolf, Mrs. Ronald Gamble. Mrs. Walter Clark, Mrs. Karl Tube-sin- g, Mrs. Cletus McCormish, Mrs. G. W. Shipley, Mrs. Gordon Kaufer and Mrs. Howard S. Leach. Hospital Supplies Are Made By Red Cross Army Wives A total of 42,000 bandages to bemeeting every Tuesday in their used by U. S. hospitals in the own building - immediately north treatment of war wounded were of the base exchange, is rolling rolled in a little more than six roughly 1600 bandages weekly. Ormonths by the Red Cross army ganized about three years ago the wives auxiliary at the Ogden air ladies began meeting in the offilecnmcai service command in audi- cers' club, later were able to move tion to the preparing of scores of in a small frame building of their own. other hospital items. Besides the bandages, which During the week many members were rolled from June, 1944 to knit sox and gloves for service Jan. 16, 1945, the approximately men. On Tuesdays the group works 35 wives of Hill field officers, who from 10:00 a. m- to 4:00 p. m. After compose the small group here, have 75 hours of service members remade scores of pajamas, utility ceive a Red Cross Volunteer pin, jackets, binders, draw sheets, Grey Mrs. Zehrung said. To speed production of hospital Lady bags, hospital slippers and ' into many other articles for use in articles the club is divided and a bandage II. a war of World casaulties group sewing treating Mrs. Paul W. Zehrung, newly group. All wives of officers on the elected chairman of the group for field are cordially invited, even 1945, said the women have also urged, to attend meetings and thus made many pnuemonia jackets and render a real service to the war eflayettes. "We have bolts of ma- fort. Members travel weekly from terial for pajamas," she said, "and Ogden, Salt Lake and intermediate we'll concentrate on them for points. Majority of members reawhile as the need is urgent at side on the field, however. The Red Cross group is merely the present time." part of a larger Hill Field Women's Meets Every Tuesday organization headed by Mrs. Eugene Today the small organization, B. Bayley. , - Job of Repair Grows With Influx From Fronts P-4- 7 One of the jobs of growingfThis consists of seat covers and p nones, as wen aa tuiixiucnum importance at OATSC is that equipment. This may be radar of the overhaul and repair of equipment and other secret dewhich are removed and sent 7 Thunderbolts. These vices to the proper department for refast fighter planes are being pair if this is needed. are sent here Thunderbolts used on battlefronts all over forSome D. I. R. (depot inspection and In all cases workers in the world, and several AAF repair). the flieht test branch start the eninstallations in this area are gines and decide on the extent of engines wnicn repairs necessary, or have been specializing in have been run over 600 hours are Thunderbolt training. automatically overhauled, but have seen less than those P-4- When one of these planes reaches the field to be repaired (they arrive on their own power or on flatcars) it first goes to the receiving and delivery branch, test section, maintenance diingnt vision under Foreman Don Foutz of Ogden, Utah. Workers in this branch strip the plane of all removable equipment and check it against the time when the' repairs on the plane are completed and it is ready to fly again. which this number of hours in service are inspected as to repairs needed, At the same time workers from sheet metal shop go over the plane to find what repairs their shop will have to make. The airplane repair branch does likewise and reports made by the two sec lions are consolidated into one sheet and pasted on the side of the plane. The last thing done to the plane before it goes to the air craft repair branch is completed den Air Technical Service Command. During all the time he flew on these dangerous missions, not one member of his crew was wounded, although their ' plane came home a number of times with numerous holes in it from flak and fighter opposition. While returning from one of his last missions, Captain Graham's bomber was so badly shot up that he was forced to make a belly landing before reaching his home base. However, he managed to stay aloft until he reached allied territory, and his record continued without a blemish as none of the crew was injured in the landing in what he called "rugged territory." Captain Graham, who was a flight leader on his last 25 missions, has a healthy respect for German pilots and their planes. This was gained in combats which saw his plane credited with downing eight enemy fighters. A -Nazi ammunition ship, a 10,000 ton freighter, also fell victim to his bomber and the men who flew in v ft tVJr sub-depo- ts. - r'l New Supplement Seldom Term Feb. B-2- 6. . 2. B-2- 1 ' flat-heele- Engine Is Very On Presenteeism - 22-da- Personnel Testing at pre-flig- ht ... some Thi oven Is :a :big improvement addedM . wmcr removes h r.iiwi.. pies, rrrnti D (Penn). air service command depot was the place where Faust gained this early experience. A native of Pennsylvania, he started working at this installation in July, 1928, as a laborer. He spent two years working with fabric, paint and dope, and upholstery, during which time he was advanced to aircraft fabric worker helper. The next two years saw to""' him serving first as a helper and ?y later as a junior mechanic in the airplane engine overhaul branch. From 1932 to 1941 he worked in all phases of the parachute department, advancing to journeyman parachute mechanic. In June, 1941, Faust came to Hill Field as a foreman in the parachute branch, but during the pure time he spent setting up this John R. Faust of branch, he also served as administrative assistant to the chief of maintenance. In addition he set the maintenance divisions in J In November if up a planning section at this time which was later changed to pro- he was returned to the posiWi duction control. assistant general superintendent! In February, 1942, he was. adFaust is married and the &J vanced to assistant general super- of two children, both girls it. . intendent of maintenance, a posi- hobbies are and fit Leaves School for AAF tion he held until February, 1943. ing, and he photography uses an Argus refls1 A student, in the Santa Rosa At that time he was transferred to type camera in the former, Ujt Junior college when the war start civilian chief of the maintenance their home how located in OaJa1 ed, he left school on Jan. 4, l4z, control section. In this position the Fausts hope to remain iiiS to become an air cadet. He re- his duties involved a great deal of area when the war is over, andk ceived his early training on the traveling in the seven states in hones . to continue. in. fh west coast at Tulare and Merced una vuiiiiucuiui aiu as auvuw xui uim ai me government at Hill Field. fields in California, and Williams refield in Arizona, where he ceived his commission. He underAbsent went additional training at Barks-dal- e and Baton Rouge,, La., and 12 Bear Field, Ind., before flying the North Atlantic to England in a for the winter term Registration He went to North Africa of at the supplementary training invasion. immediately .after the civilian branch will training a half he open Feb. 7, 8 and 9 from 2 to be6 During the year and spent overseas, he was awarded p. m., a schools official announced the Distinguished Flying Cross and week. New term begins Monthe Air Medal with eight clusters. this Feb. 12. He also has the ETO ribbon with day, Classes will be offered in main three stars, representing North tenance, supply and headquarters Africa, Sc ily and Italy, as well as subjects. Approximately 160 per the American theater ribbon. s sons are currently enrolled in the to the Graham returned Captain Registration will, be states in February, 1944. and program. held in room 107, building inserved for a time as a 5 will be held from 1:45 to structor at Mather Field, Sacra- Classes 3:45 p. m. for day shifts; from 4:15 mento, Calif. He came to Hill to 6:15 p. m., swing shift. . Field on Oct. 7, 1944. He was a football and rugby the ARMY CASUALTIES 616,951 player during high school and coltwo years he spent in junior Army casualties total 619,951, lege. He also played on a local according to Secretary of War Stimson. This total was rugby team. Married and living Henry L. of with his wife in Ogden, Captain made up 117,256 in killed, 356,-1- 3 in wounded, 85,450 missing and Graham plans to return to college at the end of the war and become 57,462 prisoners. These figures a dentist. did not include the casualties suffered during the recent German when the flight test workers drain offensive, Stimson said. Carl B. Seideman out all the gas. Workers in this branch com GLOVES, SHOES AVAILABLE , Mechanic pletely disassemble the plane, re Now avialable for Durchase at moving the engine and canopy, the OATSC store are rea safety fuel system, all flight control serv Strong sonably priced work gloves for ices, supercharger, tail parts, air men also duct system and other component has a ana women. The store d complete stock of parts. This work is done under shoes for women. an the supervision of Project Foreman Lou Klein, formerly of Washb (w engines aircraft and aircraft Deaths Released Army B. Seidell, It ington and Oklahoma. The United States armv has lost k..irnlin4 nt Pari engine These component parts which shift superintendent, have been taken from the plane from deaths and all other causes section. Mr. Seidemen aW are repaired or replaced. Sixty 1,357,000 men between December, pair Field in Dec., 1941, Hill men are employed in the branch, 1941, and August 31. 1944. Ninth to Hawaiian Air Depot, the Service but a changeover from the dock command headquarters re worked for the War department system to a progressive line sys- vealed recently. mechanic, an aircraft enginewas tem is being installed, and when a sergeant J he to that vious it is completed shortly after the Bazooka Most Common corps, station air the army The army bazooka rocket and the first of the year, an estimated 170 . Field, Hawaii. in k men will be put to work in this M8 projectile are the rockets most Wheeler Seideman believes Mr. branch. commonly used by the U. S. serv on the job. He did not 194i ) Sheet metal workers and others ice, according to the Ninth Service irom Oct., Oct., 1943, ntto ihe m Air vf. in this branch make the repairs command ordnance officer. indicated in the work sheets, T.hnu.i c,.hnnl- Chanute (i IK which were made out by the inAt School . . . Fred W. Farmer, Rantoul, 111., as an airplane-- it spectors of the inspectors section bombsight repair, is attending a chantc, tan says vr u y when disassembly was completed. course on Sperry turrets .tMraft oneines nis u" most of the planes in srooxiyn, . x. Although work. from overseas require extensive sheet metal repairs, little of this is caused by axis gunfire, which inWork dicates the inaccuracy of this fire Month for Overhaul It takes about 10 days for the plane to undergo a complete major overhaul on this field. Before it leaves the airplane repair branch it is given an operational test of all the instruments, electrical equipment, radio hydraulic equipment, equipment, etc. Any defective work uncovered in this inspection is redone before the plane is sent to the flight test branch for a weight and balance check to determine the center of gravity. After this has been done, the night test branch prepares it for flight by depickling the engine and installing the sparkplugs, and making other necessary changes. Before it is actually taken into the air it is given a thorough check-d- p with the engine running. If this uncovers no defective work, the plane is turned over to a flight test pilot. This pilot gives the plane a very complete flight test, after which it is placed in a restricted area awaiting the arrival of a pilot to TUBING AND CABLE UNIT EMPLOYES Are akJ"f 'g,df fly it away to a 'new assignment to oc"" under the unit of supervision testing personnel From two to five days are spent in highest skills and to enable officials to jgn: them on jpl(KT place the plane. However. iugnt power commensurate testing with sftf their earning qualifications, a iinai test is made before the to carry test are Alene r the responsibility. Conducting is over to turned new its visor of on the job testing left), and Betty Bridgeinan, piane Pilot. istrator (right) , Cafeteria's New Oven fro A supervisor who served almost bomber pilot who flew thirteen years in the same air de A 45 missions over North Africa, pot in various capacities for the Sicily, Sardinia, Italy and southern government before coming to Hill France is Capt. Harry M. Graham Field is John R. Faust, assistant of Santa Rosa, California, now a general superintendent of the airtest craft shJps mainteflight test pilot in the flight Ogsection, maintenance division, nance division. The Middletown B-2- |