SBTMODR jonsai FIELD, I.C,
20, 1943
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FmM latiois
C0Btlflu«4 trcm Pag* 1
TIm PUld ration will
•varr aoldiar ■offleiont liiolaaoM
food to condition hin aa nail aa a
rariat/ to ploaaa hia palata, naaa
offieara point out, tte nona/ vaX-
oa of tha ration rwalna unehangad
and BHaa will ba praparad in fcah-
ington^ aubjaet to local ahangat to
aaat naricat and cliaatic eonditiona.
Iba Bat affaetoftta efaanga la
ainplF to Bathat aaoh aoldiar gata
aa adgquata diat at tha aana tiBa
that food la oonaanrad, Inataad of
aaeh naaa oparating aa an antitj on
funda daaoad to it for tha purdiaaa
of food, tha food itaalf ia laauad
on a naal par ci^ita baaia.In ot)^
ar norda, attandanea at tha naaa
halla aariaa for aacb naal and tha
food ia apportioned aeeordingl/, Aa
an illuatration,tha naaa attandanea
on Saturdajr nlghte and on Sunday
dre^a aa much aa 62 par cant baeat^
aa of paaaaa and daja off,
ttodar tha fiald ration ajatan,
tha Tachnical Trainlxig ConandMaa-
aa will follow the Sanriea Coaaanfa
aaatar nanu or tha Stirgaon GanaraL'a
raeonaendationa with tha raault t)^
at aoldiara will ba aa adaquataly
fad aa prarioualy but at a graatar
aavinga in total food eonouiption.
OOIBOS AKD UBDOIBGS II REPRODaCtlOI
Ey ICRRIS OLSRONSKT
Bditor'a notat Wa*ra at thair aar-
cy. After all • Reproduction printa
thia paper1
Thia being our initial eolunn,
we intend keeplaf the G.I,a in re
production ateppln* and aide-atappitf
to look out for thia reportar*a ror^
ing eye. We will dewote our talenti
to goaaip (atrletly). Little aar-
louaneaa except in extreaitiea to
keep the fuae fron blowing. We aii>>
cerely hope that too many fuaea
don't blow, (Bd'a notet we hope ao
tool)*
Here goea Little Caeaar,
aoaetimea referred to as s/sgt, Luj>>
gran ia our new barracks chief and
ia certainly keeping the boys on the
bean,,,Blackout or opaquer Prt, Bob
Monroe, has a certain young lady
bring him a quart of milk each mor
ning - it has ue gueaaing ..The
Tari-^ipe operators asked for a
day off because of being under a
serer strain for the past two weeks
- so they say,
Klngfish, or Prt, Joe King, if
you insist, has his tongue hanging
out at the very mention of the Ser-
Tioe Club, Can it ba he is trying
to gain weightrrr
Common sights in Reproductiom
The xuiholy three - Sgts. Suter, Her-
win and Lungren getting the G,I,s on
the beam in thia department. The
Erafstman, our cheese and cracker 14
end, known better as Pvt, Jake Cohsm
...The Shephard and his flock. Pvt.
Joe PinBone,.,The Blond Bomber of
Blushing Boy, we mean PFC John P,
Gallagher and his, "Don't bother mar
each time he ia appraaohed by a cm^
tain blond,..John L, Sullivan Groet
the Prt, "Whitey" Groet, earning out
of the dark room making sounds iddch
seem to be relative to the prehist
oric era of dinosaurs,
tMpiiB Tie Imp"
Continued from Page 1
Comedy la expertly handled by
tha wll-known Carroll and Howe
team and that talanted mimic, Steve
Bvana, Carroll and Howe reverse the
usual routine in their act. Uisa
Carroll la tha "fbnny" with Howe
playing straight. She also does el-
aver i^raonatlona highlighted by
a aocko take-off of Henry Armstrong
and hia tnMq>et,
A handsoma, lithe blonde star
in the dance division of Looping the
Loop, Alice Kavan'a the name of this
pulehritudinoua bundle of rhythm anl
grace, and bar clever ballet-tap
routinaa have graced the boards of
top fll^t theatre and clubs *11
over the country, Alice does a swell
Job in tha line and in a single
"spot,"
Tha show has a hundred fine
touches of real eo5oyitant and relam
ation for the aervlMaen, Every bit
waa enjoyed by the fellows who saw
tha show last night, and everyone
ia sure to enjoy tonight's final
parformanee.
Roving Reporter Praises Work of Air Meebaaies
Air Cadet
Program
Revised
Continued from Page I
thing around a fighter bomber air-
dxtjme ia IwporiaM , but I know
nothing more Important than the Re
pair Section,"
TODRS n JEEP
Pyle who la touring the North
African battleflelda in a Jeep, wa
tched 250 Technical Training Ccb-
mand air ICechaniea graduates perfo
rm technical legerdemain on 14 dam
aged chips despite sand-laden des
ert winds and anemy bombs, Amased
at what he saw pyla wrate, " I've
never seen greater wlllin^ss to
wrtc beyond all requirenenta than
these men show," ’
Confiming the wisdom of the
Technical Training Cemmand's policy
that its graduates must be"two-fie-
ted" technlcAAns conditioned to
atand the rigors of combat, Pyle
said, "All plans work is done right
out doors, lbs only shops are tents
idiere anall machine work la done,
j The tents are three sided with one
end open. Ibe floor is sand. Beside
every tent almost within one Ji—p
distance is a deep slit trench to
livB into when the enemy bombers
come," Following ia tha complete
story, reproduced word for word ae
it appeared in the daily newspaper,
REPAIR SECTION IMPORTANT
"Everything around a fighter-
bember airdrosM is important, but X
know of nothing more important than
the repair section,
"It's vastly different from air
plane shops or garages back home,
where nothing more than a little in*
convenience results from the long
lay-up of a plane or car,
"Out here there are Just as
maiy planes. With us and Germai^
tester-tottering for air superior
ity over Africa, every single one
is as pracious as thou^ It ware
made of gold. Every plane out of
action is temporarily the sae as a
plane destroy^,
"It is ths Job of the repair
section toteke the rttot-up planes
and get them back into the air a
A eoiq>lete revision of tbs Anqr
aviation cadst program to extend the
training for cadets to fiftssn and
ooe-half months instead of the pre
sent eight and one-half was announo*
ed by hsadi^iarters. Fourth Service
Command,
The announcement said that the
new program would be made vp in the
following Bsnnsri
(1) In the first two months
aviation cadet candidates will be
processed and have basic training ki
an AJr Fores basic training center,
(2) In the next five months
they will study at a university or
collage where, in addition to pre
aviation cadet training, they will
take five academic courses, Tbsy
will have 60 hours in each of these;
modern history, English, geography,
mathematics, through trigonometry.
In physics they are to have 180
hours.
If a student successfully coi^
pletee the course, he will go to
the Air Forces classification center
to determine whether he should be
come a oabigator, bombardier, or
pilot. Than hs will beeoms ao aviat
ion cadet and follow advance acad
emic subjecta and receive advanced
flying for another eight months.
little faster than ia htmanly poasi-
ble. And that is whatthsy are d»-
ing,
MAJOR C07ERLT
"At our doa.rt olrdrcm thia
Motion ia in chargo of Itajor Chai^
iaa E. CoTorljr,of Palo Alto, Calif.
Hia nlcknam ia "Erk" and ha aa,
one of lay fallow travelara froa Ena-
land. ^
"His right arm is a quiet mech
anical genius naasd Walter Goodwin,
of Grove City, Fa., — a regular
Amy Sergeant, Just premotsd on the
field to warrant officer. The men
worship hia and every officer on
the field aecepjts his Jud^aent on
plans damage as final,
"Ths repair section operates
under a theory that seems outland
ish after cmlng from a peacetime
world. Its motto is to give away
everything itcan.
SIOWED WIDER WITH WORE
"Instead of hoarding their 8iq>
plies and yelling that they're sno
wed under with work, they go around
the field accepting every Job Imag
inable, fulfilling every pilot's re
quest, donating from their precious
avail stock of spare parts to any
line mechanic that asks for sonst-
ling. For only by doing it that w^
do planes get back in the air a few
hours sooner.
250 CRAFTSMEN
"In the repair section are 250
master araftmsen. They are h^y aid
sincere and proud, I've never seen
greater wiliingnese to moric beyoi^
all requirements than these men Bl
ow,
"let me give you en evimjilw of
how the section works. After a
cent little to-do with the en^,U
of our planes were foudd to be dM-
3oaw needed only skinp^ehee
others had waahtub boles thnnigh
the wings and were almost rebuild
ing Jobs,
■VaJ, Coverly and hbs squadron
engineers surveyed the situation ill
morning, driving In a Jeep frem one
plane to another. I rode with the^
and Bien noon came and not a plat**
had been moved over to the repair
area| I thou^t to myself this is a
^ghty alow way to win the war. But
I changed my mind a little later.
"It takes that long to estiBto
program
distribute your men and machinss
over the huge field, and get thinxs
rolling, ^
5 PUIBS RBADT
"Two days later I checked on
their progress. Five of those
wrecked planes were ready for mis
sions by that first evening. Three
more were delivered the following
day, (k) the third day four more
were Just about finished. That makss
12. The other two had been turned
Into salvage for spare parts.
Tader peacetime conditions at
home, it would have taken perhaps
two months even in the finest shops
to get all those planes in tha air.
But here they were fighting again
within three days. You can do the
Impossible ehen you have to.
dearth op spare parts
"nie field operates with a
dearth of 8pa*‘e parts, as probably
do all our fields at the far ends
of the earth. S© the field provides
its own sp'. re parts by scrapping
the most Badly demaged planes, and
using the good parts that are left.
"This happens to about one of
every 15 planes that are shot up.
These condemned planes are cowed to
the engineering section, and there
they gradually disappear. Finally
they are skeletons - immobile, pa
thetic skeletons, picked bare by ths
scavenging mechanics.
"These salvage planes sure nic-k-
named "hangar queanr". Five of then
are sitting on the line now. As you
know, every bomber has a painb*
ed on its nose. One of these hangar
queens is called "Fertile Myrtle",
Another is "Special Delivery," And
a third is "Little Eva."
tents are shops
"You'd be touched by the sight
of the repair shops here. All plane
work is done right out doors. The
only shops are tents where snail
machine work is done.
"The tents are thrae-sided.wiih
one end open. The floor is sand.
When the wind blows the men have to
wear goggles. Beside every ten, al
most within one-IJump distance, ie a
deep slit trench to dive into when
tha enemy bombers come,
"Theirs is real war work, and
you can't say they're much aafer
than the airmen themselves, for they
are subject to frequent bombing.
"They s^ their main hope is
that no experts from the factories
back hose show up to look things
over. The experts would tell then
a broken wing can't be fixed this
way, a shattered landing gear can't
be fixed that way. But these birds
know damn well it can be, for they
are doing it."