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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 47 act 'Boxcars 945th pave Lid hardly a dry eye but the personnel AOth Troop Carrier to (Reserve) bid goodbye L t r8imple ceremony thi, WATC was Ttte crowd, FivinDr Box- - 11Q Meglits said that tte AVfl. nniin's orieinal to the Squadron Troop Carrier Wnte KJEHKrrf US K Kerve) at Youngstown Mu-fifp- FOR THE al Airport, Ohio. There they hours of Viu Continue to rack up SRiATEST time. rflving- The colonel said that the t.m received seven four- - Globemasters the so far as replacements for and the Roxcars" vi.,tnr to last two are programmed arrive by the end of uciODer, C-1- engined I Tho W in rhanceover " is aircraft . , AUTOMOTIVE nf the overall new mission f- it for the reserve group, un wet. x, ha 045th will be redesignated as r-- W oiwh Military Airlift Group SENSATION (Reserve) and placed under the Military Airlift Commana. I ftolonel Meriitsch said that the mission of the 945th then will become global in nature in air IN HISTORY lifting cargo ana personnel. a The twin-taile- d familiar sight in northern Utah skies, have a history. Built by Fairchild Aircraft the stay during C-1- 19 Corp., operations. One of the first cifically desicmed SEPT. 3 COM IN was a mainKorean airlift aircraft spe for a cariro- - fcarrying job, the dates back to 1947, which was built with a boxcar-squafuselage in . . . the of space maximum pinch C-1- 19 J re could be utilized. Hence the name "Flying Boxcar." were first assigned to the 733rd Troop Carrier ron (now a part of the Hill AFB in 1959. Squad 945th) a (P Dunne the naaf pvn voom has ranged from air topping hay to starving cattle aunng the Montana blizzards o their usage iec. 1964 in nirUfft materials during the Cuban and crisis. the recent Dominican j "isis, 45th aircraft were in action weekly for thre mnntf.. carrying material into Santo o. During Do-Jing- One weekend alone during tjat tife, there were 11 crews shuttling the w me Dominican C-11- 9's from Hill Republic. III! ARE WUSORETMIS ZOCK S ""-- r oi INCHES HIGH Y ' j ii ii 9. I 3230 WASHINGTON BLVD. OGDEN |