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Show AMERICA IN ACTION MOVIES TEACH AAF STUDENTS Detailed, first - hand accounts, movie films, and still photographs, all direct from battle zones, covering cover-ing combat activities of air force technicians are now being made available to instructors and students in AAF technical training command schools throughout the country. The technical training command's widely diversified curricula for the training of 15 main categories of specialists have always been based on combat experience whenever possible. pos-sible. Previously, however, the information in-formation was presented verbally to students by instructors in the technical tech-nical school laboratories and work shops. Few movie films or still pictures pic-tures were obtainable. The new program, now in effect, provides for the establishment of technical intelligence information libraries at all the larger schools. Sources have been set up overseas through which technical information from combat areas is obtained. Technical school libraries now under un-der construction will have student reading rooms, instructor reading rooms, and storage rooms. Movie screens and projectors, or automatic film viewers; similar to the coin-operated coin-operated type found in railroad stations, sta-tions, hotel lobbies and other public rooms, are being, installed. Library walls will be covered with maps, charts, and portfolios of still photographs. photo-graphs. One of the basic principles of the technical training command program pro-gram has been to turn out technical specialists who can start performing perform-ing the duties for which they are trained the day after they graduate from the technical schools. It is believed be-lieved that the new system of tech-nfcal tech-nfcal libraries, providing a steady flow of practical information from combat zones, will make the transition transi-tion from technical school to combat com-bat zone advance airdromes easier and shorter. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |