Show Zbe Zalt Sunday )fornTng :Cakt-Ztibu- November 15 19:12 nt War School Personnel Solved Problems Through Ingenuity From (CcyratinutA Preceding Pa) manner as a football team is During the last week of instruction the reverse of the first week is true In that first how to use oxygen for high alti- During all this time students have been shooting skeet on two ranges Skeet is said to give the men the knack of leading and swinging at a target not afforded in any other manner Men aynaking lowest scores usually are assigned to salvage the unbroken targets of clay discs On the standard range students fire at targets as they are released from traps some distance in front of them On the ?pedal range the target comes at them unexpectedly from all angles By this time the student has had a taste of night firing and has learned more about external ballistics the science that teaches whit happens to a bullet after It leaves the gun Near the end of the course fire control is emphasized and the men draw sketches of planes A tail and show firing angles gunner for instance must know in degrees just how wide an area his gun will cover Elimination of blind spots is shown b:sa demonstrations in flying in formation If the enemy dives to attack a formation he meets of 50- the withering cross-fir- e caliber guns That usually ends Seldom does the the story enemy survive that hail of steel but if he does he has learned his lesson Each plane mounts five guns —top turret bottom turret two side or waist guns and the tail When three bombers position are in formation the attacking enemy is subject to the crossfire of from 6 to 12 guns That epells death in any language The bombardier also has a smaller gun but few planes are attacked from the front and he seldom has to use IL Formation for defense and attack I taught irt much the same said Also on the range are other targets and an instrument landing field all situated in an area 50 miles from the nearest mountain On the landing field pilots do their stuff ''under the hood" and learn to land and take off by instruments Already duly impressed - by the resourcefulness of the B G you come in for another surprise when Captain Keys put his ship down near the camp Here live the "Hermits of the ing platforrns at stationary targets is sufficient So far no one has stepped forward to prove the captain wrong the records of his gunners speak for them- 'No t 4 " Awarding of diplomas and wings has all the earmarks of a school graduation Speeches are made some beer and lots of food is consumed and talk of y the future in some combat group is on every tongue The Wendover bombing and gunnery range detachment is not charged with the training of bombardiers although the school maintains the targets for this work some 60 miles from Wend-ove- r in one of the most desolate regions in all the world is the bombing range From the air it is a dirty gray expanse flat as table with an occasional distant mountain that once was an island in the ancient Lake Bonneville showing up Military secrecy shr ouds much of the operation of this bombing range but it can be said that three towers are in the area When the bombers go over and drop their lightly loaded practice charges the towers forming an equilateral triangle are used to plot the hits Plotting instruments were designed and made by the B P - A :414 b - 4 14t 011' M91! : A - A machine gun class camp at which enlisted men form a military post and direct themselves without aid of commissioned officer left gets instruction on assembling Right is the bombing range 4 and 'dismantling guns - - Adoaoe :r1( t V ' Besides themselves their only companions are two dogs and a cat The cat has a specific purpose It's hard to believe but her job is to free the camp of mice Why a mouse would choose to live on the salt flats is a poser no one seems to be able to answer During the summer the men wear only shoes socks and shorts They are tanned almost to the point of being black and some of them sport luxuriant beards To sum up Wendover field with all its activities including the bombing and gunnery range detachments is amazing There 1 j a $1 11 are no "swivelt chair" experts there oPart of the field's efficiency is of course due to the B dr G but other officers and men impress you with their efficiency with their singleness of purpose in working to win the war From the standpoint of the civilian the United States and her allies cannot lose this war If Wendover is a criterion of the armed might of the nation The bombing practice is from various heights and the number of hits inside the targets is staggering One of the targets is the actual size of a battleship In the center are three cross marks The arms of these crosses are almost obliterated by the hits Another target is a huge V YOU'RE I which soldiers learn attack and defense formations of the powerful aircraft Men who will mon Flying Fortresses as gunners spend hours on range shown at left At right is a classroom In -- I -7 - : ''t ' '' 1' ! 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THOUGHT YOU RAN A RADIO JTHATS RIGHT JONESY I WALK AND k s A4' I v dot Mgr: at night & G el I ' Pole in comparison Strangely the men have volunteered for the work They comprise a complete post cooking their own meals living in their own barracks having a day room and standing retreat far-awa- $ e'f$ Salt Flats" A group of men headed only by a noncommissioned officer Sergeant Paul Brillhart perform the duties of maintaining the targets and scoring the bomb hits If you thought Wendover a lonely outpost then this camp is the North selves 30-cali- 44 It too is filled with little craters Not far froth this is the remnant of a circle Captain Keys smiled "They hit that one so many times we had to ' build a new target" he week the men were told how awkward they were In the last week they are told how good they are They learn to respect each member of the crew and attain a complete confidence in each other Wendover does not go in heavily for the firing of guns from planes The usual practice is to have gunners fire at sleeve targets pulled by other planes Captain Keys believes that firing at stationary and moving targets and firing from mov- tude flying ) circle coached are dipped in various colored paints When the bullet apasses trace through a target it leavesman of Each of the paint course is assigned a different colored paint Once adept at stationary targets the men next learn how far to lead their guns at moving targets The targets are speeded up daily Meantime they are learning classroom oftheory of fire control and care equipment such as flares liferafts and emergency kits They also learn 5 d led |