Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-08-15 | Page 8 | Men at Utah Air Base Get Taste of Farming |

Type	issue
Date	1941-08-15
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Men at Utah Air Base Get Taste of Farming
Type	article
Date	1941-08-15
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Page	8
OCR Text	Show Men at Utah Air Base Get Taste of Farming OGDEN, UTAH. Army authorities authori-ties consider adding a general course in agriculture to training of new air corps enrollees. For men of the air corps unwittingly unwit-tingly joined a "back-to-the-land" movement when the war department depart-ment acquired 1,600 acres of farmland farm-land near here for its new Utah general depot ultimate military supply center for the entire West. Officers and men of the Seventh Bombardment Group were pressed into service cutting hay and picking pick-ing strawberries when harvest time found the army with a farm on its hands and no farm hands.
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