Vol. 1 No. 45
SEYMOUR JOHNSON HELD, N. C.
October 23, 1943
Holiday Furloughs Cut
5 Per Cent This Year
‘Air-Wac’ Recruiting Drive Opens
As AAF Seeks Qualified Workers
operators, communications workers
automotive electricians. motor-cy
cle mechanics, motor vehicle dis
patchers. photographers, phot- la-
boratmy technician:, blueprlnter*.
Post Theatres Celebrate
First Year of Operation
(Army Times) Furloughs and Dec. as nor later than Dec. 36.
passec up to only 10 per cent jf Passes granted to men autho*
strength, instead of the 15 per cent rlsed by paragraph 15. AR glS-STS,
permitted last year, will be grant- will be Issued to exceed 10 pe*j *'Alr-Waca ^ recruited in a sne-i
**** ^ for New Y^‘s cial nation-^e drive beginning, tobs which WAC’s'mlghf perforin
War Departmttt has ruled. Day unr will tMulre enlisted this week, are being sought by the here at teymour Johnson Field,
From Nov. 35 (Thanksgiving) to tpen to commence travel not la'er Army Air Forces to replace and Colonel Smith said, were: telegranh
Dec. 10, 1543, furloughs may be.lhgn DW. 31, ai^ to return not suppiet lent existing personnel now — •—** •---
autbcTlXM in accordance with pro- earaer than Jtm. 2. (engaged in numerous capacities. It
visions of Arm'y Regulations. ihe period Dec. 11 to Jan was announced by Coloel Donald
. Froi.i Dec. 11 to Jan. 11. Inclu- H Inclusive three-day passes b. Smith.
slve furloughs of 14 days may be ’'rante.i to enlisted men authorized! Directed from the headquarters - -
authorized provided not more than by ^ragrajA 15, AR 615-375- will of the AAF Training Command at photo-interpreters, telephone ic-
10 per cent of the strength of any not be granted over week-ends to Fort Worth, Texas, the drive wUlipairers. drafters, cartographers
post, camp or station is on fur- exceed 10 per cent of statloa allow women with sufficient quail-'crypt analysts, and flnger-orinters’
Kvgb at any time during this pe- strength. Week-end passes will notYicatlons to enlist In the Women'si More im aaf jobs In 18
riod. No furlough will permit eo-^ authorized for Thanksgiving, Army Corps and designate the AAF idlffereot fields have been listed
listed men to commence travel Christmas or New Year's Day. l as tbelr choice. I but no effort will be made merely
from,.either tbelr station or home
Deo. 2-. or 25.
One-dsy passes only may h e
granted to enlisted men not to
exceed 10 percent of the station
•trength for Thanksgiving Day.
Passes granted to men author
ized bv paragraph 15. AR 015'275
•15-275, be Issued to not ex
ceed 10 per cent of the strength
of the station for Christas I^y,
and will be so Issued as to require
enlisted men to commence their
travel not later than Dec. 34 and
return to station not earlier than
Flight Of The
Bee Brings Honey
To793dLadclies
* "What's doing,” said the boys in
toe 793d T. 8. 8.. 'Roney?"
Diey weren’t trying to snag
themselves a date for that night.
Merely checking up on toe pro
gress of the 8quadrm's bee-hive,
which Is ripe to overflowing with
the luscious, golden sweet.
Under the aUe eye of Cpl. John
P. McCarthy, the little insects
have been busily bussing about
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Amwg th^ various specialized to get a large number of volunteers
The campaign, however, will stresa
the fact that qualified women with
S JF Student Engaged
To Hometown Beauty
Customer 1,190, 964
Last week, as
suitable background In tbelr field
are to be accepted.
Women who enlist will, through
on-the-Job training and experience^
become integral parts of a smooth
ly functioning war machine, it was
believed. On the basis of a close
study of Army jobs. It has Iwen
found that women are as Well, or
better, fitted for many positions
as men. And increase In the genei^
efficiency of AAF posts is tber^
fore anticipated as a result of this
new drive.
During the course of the recrulU
ing campaign, it was stated. in«
terested women will be given the
opportunity to visit AAF posts srd
see for themselves bow Jobs they
may qualify for are being handled.
They will also inspect WAC bar-
n.cks, mess facilities, and recrev
tion rooms. Interviews with women
now working in the Air Forces
have been scheduled, and women
will be able to get first-hand in
formation on Army life.
Women volunteering under the
new program wUl be subject to
the same rules and regulations of
other branches of the WAC, wlU be
subject, to overseas service, sM
have the same ^portunlty for
CCS training.
At least half the specialized
Jobs for which qualified women are
being sought will be clerical ones,
but in addition to the already name
cbuuiflcallons. such posiUens as
Link Trainer operator, air me
chanic, weather observer, and c«-
trol tower operator, are also open.
Tbe plan of toe entire drive Is
such that womiffi with sufficient
qualifications will have a change to
know precisely what will be expect
ed of them after they have enlisted
In toe Corps. In Avery case, the
suitability of toe' woman for toe
available Job win be toe fundamen
tal fact which decides htf ac^cep-
tance.
At Project
Ticket Number ipr#jM«tatinn« __
1,190,964 passed through tbe cash- One of the earliest in a long line IjAV NllTCOIV
wktoow. the Post ThMitreslof recreational faculties made
Field. (Johnson Field, theatres have kept
1.. 8. 8., laid down his wrench out; test at toe Curtiss-Wrtgkt Airplane since then has n»t8onB theatre acheduiM i»» v •'Johnson Field Housing Project just
In 1-4 a few da-s and smUed ■co^raUon. some of ^ ^t that the.JS^^Si wStoSuy. ^to nl^ off^fleUL it ^nn^rt t^
proudly as he received toe news Pl*ed from a crowd of 60 daz-,?®**®® picture industry has belnc added to nmniv week. He^ed by Mt«a Florence
to ^ Buffalo, sling workers In the airplane ** yunUess U. 8. O. current demand ^)Faison, a social worker at the proj-
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,/"• .. . Icommand of 1st Lt. Dwight H.'of smaU chUdren’belonging to fami-
It wu toe picture My Sister McCracken, toe theatres built up Ues in war Jobs—oo or off toe
meem ^t open^ the thea-,a staff of experienced men. Capt. field—and soldieds living In town
P'** customer William J Seevers took over as with their families.
M 4? tos^ Flesh (Post Theatre Officer and. shortly Careful, expert supervUloo wlU
??? F«tasy, ^ thus bribing toe , before toe theatres' first anniver-ibe given to aU childrwi enroUed in
tola year's! (Ooptioued on Page ‘Three) i — - — —
eM> between last and
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Gain Ten Miles In Italy Push;
Nazis Crack On Dneiper Front!
Pursuing toe retreating enemy
too close to permit him to eetab-|
Ush new defense positions, Amer
ican troops of the rath Army cap
tured toe Important road junction
town of Allfe In a K^mlle advance
and beat rff a furious German
counter-attack, Oen. Dwight D. El-
eenboi^er's Headquarters said Fri
day.
The town of Pledimcmte D’AUfe
near Allfe also fell before toe
American assault while on the
Fifth Army's left flank British
troopa beat off a massive Qe''-
man attack aimed at Cancello on
toe north bank of toe Voltumo
eight miles n from! the sea.
Allied fighters and fighter-bomb
ers swept over toe battle area n
force, bombing and macblne-guu-i
ning.
Balk one Nerveas
Fearing Allied attack from three
laldes on the 'Under-Belly'' of Eu-
wpt, the Oennana were twMng
frantic anti-invasion prepaxisUons
Friday fai tbe elreadgr rtervoun Bail-
kans.
I Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
has established headquarters 1 n
Zagreb, and a Bern report to toe
troop trains were rolling contin
uously across northern Italy from
Prance with troops to bolster Ger
man defenses in Yugoslavia where
the Patriots are plajdng havoc with
Nazi forces.
A Zurich dispatch to the Aftonid-
ningen said the Germans were
looking for a possible Allied at
tack on Yugoslavia's west coast ori
through Albania, nwH also were
n epamg for a nossible com
bined Soviet-Britlsh offensive
through the Black Sea against Ru-
j- ania and Bulgaria.
Nazis Retreat
German positions north of Kri-
vol Rog, iron ore center In the
great Dnieper Bend, have lost all
semblance of j line before a
massed Red Army Drive, and the
retreating Nazis are fighting hast
ily Imorovlsed actions from first
one point and tboi anottaar. a Ben-
tors dispatch from tcoaeow aald
Friday.
German broadcasts said German
naval forces were bombarding So
viet positions on tbe north coast
of tbe Sea of Azov In an effort is
halt toe squeeze offensive toward
the throat of the Cj^ea.
The Swiss radio reported that
Dnlepropetrovsk at toe Dnieper
Bend was now completely enciT'
cled by Russian forces.
Seathwest Paciflo
Japanese soldiers, imperiled by
Australian forces on two sides, tn
toe Jungle northwest of Flnschhaf-
en are battling savagely In an at
tempt to rea^ toe New Guinea
coast, an Allied spokesman at Al
lied Headquarters In to« Soutb-
west Pacific, said Friday.
Australians on the Ninth DMtkm
' experienced in battles both in
North Africa and on New OulDea.
have thrown back frontal atiacki.
but tbe Japanese have achieved
some progreeg by nlgtai btiUtnh
tioQs Of acall patnda,