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Show Lnher 5, HILL TOP TIMES 1956 Page : 7 . 7 pletely stripped fuel was poured t The 10 'iC,,-- "downed" was snowed in with C-1- LlSimVabout "arty arrived. 120,000 equipment and parts. " a ' ' j crevices in ice. Wearing white clothes to blend with the snow the Eskimo hunters stalk their prey. .They must be quick off-sho- Gerald Douglass (right) Reclamation Unit at Hill, watches Eskimos unload seals from their sleds. Eskimo dogs are well trained. Eskimos forbid anyone to pet or play with their dogs. Hill per-i- d pounds of 4 into the fuselage. Six sticks of dynamite were used to start a merry conflagration which consumed all the aircraft with the exception of one portion of the inner wing. The wing was buried. Despite a full schedule the OOAMA crew managed to find a bit of time to spend at the Jenny Lind Cafe, the Northern Construction Company Mess Hall. As a consequence of their acquaintance with Jenny each member of the group brought back to the states an ample portion of contraband in the region of the waist. When their work permitted the men watched Eskimos of the region hunting for seals through the Eskimo women and child pose in front of their home. Hill workers found the Eskimo people to be very friendly, "exceptionally honest" people. They also had natural gift for learning quickly. and silent for the seals never range far from their breathing holes in the ice. At the slightest sound or sign of movement the seals are in the water and out of harm's way. Hunting was good this season for the Eskimos. The take ranged as high as five 250 pound seals for one day's work. Returning to Hill AFB on August 12, the original crew was replaced by Rodney B. Morgan, Jon R. Wanner, Roy C. Clayton and Winston D. Calder. These men returned several .weeks ago. This project in the Arctic is not the first experience OOAMA personnel have had with the Far North. During August of lajst summer crews from OOAMA comat pletely rebuilt a crashed another remote DEW line site. a day, seven Working days a week the technicians had the aircraft in the air homeward bound in just 41 days. Their efforts saved the tax payer nearly KSSiS! Iff" vi'" JLiilj trff -- few - C-1- 24 14-hou- (left) one of the first workAFB to arrive and two employees from the Northern Construction Globe-mastCompany, stand in front of crippled as the reclamation project got Eslie Eppich ers from Hill the reclamation. rs $3,000,000. Million Worth Boyles Wonderful Values in 9 Piece ENSEMBLES EpipiiiQEft 24 Open Fridays Till 9 P.M. It's Easy to Save Now! Worker C-1- Vernon Smiley and Ray Mikesell from Hill AFB help dismantle part of the plane. Approximately 60,000 pounds of equipment was flown to the arctic site to help with C-1- 24 er )ver $1 "Home" for a time for Hill AFB workers while reclaiming parts and equipment. All men doubly appreciated their modern day homes when they returned to "civilization." re DAVE HEFFERNAN Last summer when you were wilting under the blast of 100 de gree heat a group of 11 Hill AFB workers were working in a natural freeze where it took a "heat wave" to push temperatures to ten By Save on i above zero. Easy-Budge- Save t Now All Bedroom Furniture Terms "lucky" 11 spent two months at a bleak DEW line (Distant The en solid. jEarly Warning) site in far north- The two bulldozers' went to work lern Canada accomplishing the re- - clearing snow away from the wings and landing gear. A large jacK Iclamation of a severly dam- - hammer was tried to chip ice away d when it crashed short of the from the landing gear wheels, lo site runway in 1955. More mechanized aid the May equipment six I than 120,000 pounds of aircraft in laborers from the Northern Con with shovels struments, engines and structural struction Comnany in. parts were rescued from the pitched laowned Several unsuccessful attempts "shin." This iwlnimiul were made to pull tne aircrait equipment is now at Hill and will after two days of back- but loose, m put into stock. labor the crew decided breaking the only possible solution to their Due to the extremelv short Arc dilemma --was to nlow a road from ,'c summer season all work had the DEW site airstrip to the crasn fimshed between June and scene a distance of about IV2 August. Even during the "warm miles. months" WorVinaReinforcements arrived June ..b nnnAii vvuuiuviia weie mile on the rough side. 26. The group of nine from Hill AFB included Vernon Smiley, 8 Wlnd made the ten o Mikesell. William Shumway, Blures seem even Rav .JtT Lorschieder. Richard K. Carl the worW.lew constantly to harry Rrpwator. Rm P. Wimmer. Walt er R. Anderson, De Witt Hall and First OOAMA i to James E. Kidd. rearh 4k. . Personnel The actual reclamation job was clamation Unit SRS ue .KPIcn. Main-Jun- e com nleted in about three weeks. A We. ti, en crane with a 50 foot pair arrived on large 2 to remove outboard boom was used gln aUcmPts to tow to encrines and tails sections, wines, oft." , a Bunaoie location were All tagged, identified parts in as soon and nlaced in heavy fiber boxes from Ogden." "UOn crew arrived for shipment back to the states. The o.i. Hftinir batrs were used out for the first to Pneumatic nose of the aircraft 0na.cutmen raise the proved to be to permit removal of the nose gear. fe? Vke simple Cranes and lacks raised the fuse lage while the main landing gear fcU 16 way, was Isiki, ,ArcC weatW pulled. V Globemaster was froz- After the aircraft was com- - to 25 10 Except a Few Mfgrs. Resale Items C-1- 24 Smart Budget Price 9-P- Bedroom Ensemble c. 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