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Show Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Hansen, Han-sen, 2652 Kenwood St. have enjoyed an especially happy holidays this year. Their son CapL Harold M. Hansen arrived ar-rived on Dec. 20th. Capt. Hansen Han-sen was stationed in Fursten-feldbruck, Fursten-feldbruck, Germany, as Aca-remic Aca-remic Instructor for the new German Air Force for the past three years. Capt. Hansen graduated from South High School in 1942. His service career began when he entered aviation cadet training in March 1943. He served as a flying officer until 1946 when he regained civilian status and went to school for two years at the University of Utah. In 1948 he rejoined the Air Force after applying for meteorology me-teorology training. He was immediately im-mediately sent to forecaster's school at Chanute AFB, HI. After finishing school he specialized special-ized in radiosonde work at Hill AFB, Utah; Itazuke, Japan; and K-14, Korea. He was in charge of the radiosonde section at each of these bases. The radiosonde ra-diosonde is a baloon carried et of instruments and radio which measures and transmits important im-portant meterological data aloft. From K-14 Capt. Hansen took command of the MATS weather station McChord Field, Tacoma, Washington, in 1952. Shortly thereafter he was moved to the position of officer in charge of the ADC weather station in which capacity he served until his departure to Germany. At the conclusion of his farlough his State Side assignment is Suffolk County Airport, Long Island, New York, as a metero-logist. metero-logist. He left Salt Take City on Jan. 13th, by air to Detroit, Mish., where he will purchase a new car and drive on to New York. |