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Show PUBLISHED FOR HILL AIR FORCE BASE. FRIDAY, MARCH VOLUME I and Crews Train For 'Vittles' Pilots at Groat Falls; Ogden Duty First Man-of-the-Mon- 4, 1949 NUMBER 21 Trophy Presented To Comptroller Man th Helps FALLS, Mont Six thousand miles from Berlin on the Awarded Bronze plateau of north central Montana, the United States Air re- Force runs an .",. lining tecnniques . Vittles. For Planning juired by Operation for crews in the Berlin airlift preparing assignments U. S. air Air Depot Activities think of this training school not as the Great Falls Air Force Base The follow in flying procedures pilots but as Berlin. landing their The first of twelve uu me vireai f ans heavily loaueu iuugiao nauuiu Month trophies to be awarded to much as on as if were perspiration just they runways bring actually employees of Ogden outstanding coming into Tempelhof. Air Material Area was awarded to Darrell W. Anderson, methods and The students, comprised both of.. commissioned pilots ana eniistea procedures examiner in the comptroller office. Brig. Gen. William M. mechanics training for duties as aerial engineers, realize the signi Morgan presented the trophy and certificate of award to Anderson ficance of the assignment ior wnicn last Monday. they have been selected and they 10 ausoro show marked eagerness The certificate which accomthe intensive training that is a mouse is better Building the award commended Antrap panied crammed into three short weeks. not the only way of having the derson thusly: "Without benefit of world beat a path to one's door, of detailed instruction or established Talking to instructors and stu d dents here you get the same feeligaining recognition, or precedent, he prepared a plan of of adding to the bank roll. Just ask ng of urgency that existed in wartioperation for the an Air Depot. The plan established me. Students fly or attend classes Jack C. Schofield of equipment a feasible time schedule to Insure service branch, maintenance divi six full days and several evenings sion. each week. that each activity would become operational with a minimum of deEven the facilities reflect the Jack is a machinist. You guessed lay and duplication of effort." emergency nature of this "Little it . . . he's one of the boys who the Berlin." At this base that almost Anderson has been employed at Brig. Gen. William M. Morgan presented helps repair and replace machines V. Anderson for outstanding acto Darrell straddles the continental divide, in maintenance. He did his share of Hill certificate and approximately 8 years, attended trophy classrooms are temporary one-sto- grumbling at the workings of a vise complishment. Witnessing the ceremony were Colonel James S. Sutthe University of Utah 2 years, the UCLA for 2 years and served 2 ton, Major Arthur A. Brackett and Mr. Michael A. Niland. tarpaper covered structures, and block which took more than heated by stoves that two hours to operate, and also took years in the Navy Air Corp. He are usually makes his home at 969 39th street, going f ull blast to a toll of equipment damaged and Air Force Show Now Date of Civilian overcome the wintry climate. Ogden, with his wife, Edna, and destroyed needlessly. small son, Stephen. Great Falls is nearly ideal' "for Jack decided something should Heard Over Dance Set Back training airlift crews. The base is so he did it. be done about it Outstanding accomplishment nec well off major airways, an adv- A to win the award is interand which of dance essary civilian welfare The lot. planning, Salt Lake Station thinking antage since widespread instrumwas previously announced for the preted to include any exceptional put ent flying could not be conducted with a dash of common-sensy or not service on the right track for desafely in an area of heavy air Schofield Mark this hour, day and station night of March 18 has been postwhich has furthered the mis MACHINE March until DEVALVING a 25, traffic. Except that the according poned vising radio on guide: down listening your temperatto Carl Seideman, welfare presi- sion of the AMC, or has resulted DRIVE HEAD, which paid him ure is on generally lower in winter, $106 7:30 at in improved or more economical evening which for and Tuesday dent. for his trouble, Every Mgher in summer, weather condi KALL (910 on your radio Station operation, or has reflected favorcommendaof a letter received he tions are similar to those in northeis held will HOUR be which able credit to the AMC or to the The FORCE dance, AIR THE dial) director C. B. Col. from Root, rn Germany, and the Montana tion beis United in White USAF. the the area balroom, this City in by aired countryside is roughly comparable of maintenance. over the facilities ing planned for Hill employees and Force Air States to that around Berlin. Now valves from the oxygen bot- of the Mutual Broadcasting System. their partners. Admittance will be Training unit buildiners are close and CO-- 2 tanks come off as It's a half hour show with drama by identification badge. tles ly grouped at one corner of the should with no breakage and and music, featuring talent of the they Watch for the next issue of the se which was established Maintenance division no during repairs. Hill Top Times for full particu the war as an aerial nort of em estimates a yearly saving of Air Force. barkation to the Arctic. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. K A L L lars about the big dance. Giant twin $3,244. nwgars house the maintenance wks where the school's un- PT-1- 3 Seventy-fiv- e trainer craft, ergo periodic Wings To Be Restored Clipped and inspections been which have in storage at this overhaul. In the lee of the twin base, have been prepared for shiprs is the Link trainer huild- to the Philippine government, ment Where pilots make simulated reports Lt. Benj. M. Sheldon, asst. trument flights. Across the road director of maintenance. are toe GREAT wind-swe- pt Star iivo v-- Men-of-th- ujiuaiu ux e- Idea Pays Off To Tune of $106 well-earne- . Man-of-the-Mo- ry pot-belli- ed ... e, (line-of-dut- line-of-dut- y) Trainer Aircraft Given To Filipinos C-6-4s half dozen airmen skilled pilots eers shacks where inrnnro and This gift of aircraft resulted after Major Osmundo Mondonedo, Attache of Air for the Philippine government, visited this station in February for the purpose of arranging delivery to his government. Arrangement was also made to supply replacement parts for the planes. The job of preparing the planes for their destination was awarded to Dade Bros. Inc., export packing and crating concern of Alameda, Calif., who sent the dismantled planes to California in box cars, after which they will be packed and crated for shipment to the toany, prospective aerial engi IUndamentflla rf tha Construction nn,l its complicated J equipment. T S!lh001 has become an Wi ne f es-W- ?djunct t0 on 3ure Operation Vittles June 26, 1948, to fly s'y$!. cssentai into the Win rTUOns Of Berlin supplies u., U jjestern allies after suspension of ana rail lino traffic u r -- western Germanv use uon, an nn virrips la -o U the Air . ii j. i eilort tn nrnnn i n the shortest possible time. T?- iitiTto; -- ae.n.al. 1 Philippines. Col. Sheldon says this type of air craft was used by the USAF in its pilot training program, and it is assumed that it will serve that purpose in the Philippine Islands. Major Mondonedo and Col. Shel don were air cadets in training to gether at Randolph Field, Texas back in 1939. engineers who airllft well deserve a ilil- - V y. drawn from their "pan iar. away as bed e7 we.re rtnein-Ma4 otho bases in western Ger- iei J.1?. wnich the Air Force into Berlin. As it. . . increninvi.. last apparent ;?v the blockade would k at sTn-- r ,r r,.as h.. ""--ouaae- m, nf..-:h- wSmed . General iSS Fcan cmmander m fr more Ber-ta- -r and more clnlcrtw.s.to them- - of ili'ying unde' Bc,h gIcal stress nours a nonth 4 heAT GIVE TO THE Lucius in Physical because T.wner require nrecialon flv- contrast, pilots on commer- (Cont n Pag 4, Col. 1) RED I ..mmmmm- - ed no and PT-lS'- s, storage in These formerly were They down to conserve miL . hangars repair the warehouse, of one in in a rcgu. later removed for storage w'fe ' further disposition where they have been awaiting since World W ar II. They are now enroute to the Philippine Islands for trainer duty. CROSS |
