HERE’S THE NEW MORRIS CODE!
MORRIS
VOL. 1
MORRIS FIELD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945
NO. 1 1
MORRIS FIELD IN FIRST AIR FORCE
NO IMMEDIATE CHANCES
ON BASE ANTICIPATED
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of 0001 hours, 1 February 1945, Morris Field was transferred from the
command of the Third Air Force to that of the First Air Force under Major
General Frank O'D. Hunter, whose headquarters are at Mitchell Field, Long
Island, New York. The new designation of the Mo.rris Field Base Unit will be
the 119th AAF BU (CCTS-LB). Thus information was supplied by Lt. Col. Ed¬
ward M. Fairfield, Deputy Commanding Officer of Morris Field, in an inter¬
view last Friday afternoon for the CODE.
Colonel Fairfield went on to say that
Major General Hunter has directed that
HI THERE ! Let me introduce myself. I'm the new MORRIS CODE. I
belong to each and every one of you at Morris Field — Enlisted Man, WAC,
Nurse, Officer, Civilian employee — I hope you become my friend. I want to
serve you and it is my duty to serve you, but I must have help if I am to suc¬
ceed. I’m not going to be one bit better than you, or my writers and Editors
make me.
If you have something that will make a good news story, let me know
about it. I can be reached on four different phone extensions, 230, 285, 314,
or 447. On the other hand, if you want to see me in person or bring your
.news items in, you can find my Editor's desk in the Personnel Services (for¬
merly Special Services) Building, located between the Hospital and Gen¬
eral Mess.
This is my first issue, and I would like to know what you think of
me, be it good, bad, or indifferent. If you see my Editor let him know, for it
is only by your expression of opinion that he knows what to include in
forthcoming issues. Remember, you and I always have room for improve¬
ment!
GREMLINS HITTHE ROAD
Barracks B-8 contained until last
week, a squadron known simply . as
“FB,” more generally as the Third Air
Force Gremlins football team. Cloaked
in the usual secrecy of military travel,
off they went. For Morris Field they are
no more.
Your ever-diligent CODE reporter
inspected B-8 shortly after their depar¬
ture, hoping to find a leftover football,
a discarded perspiration blouse (sweat¬
shirt, lugs), or just a fifinella. Instead
the following was found inscribed on
the walls, up to and including a
thorough Gling of the barracks:
Squadron FB is pulling out;
So long, good friends. Without a doubt
Kelleher, Lopp and other hunkeys
Caused more trouble than a barrel of
monkeys.
Personnel Service Activities.
Watch the Bill Board
Theater 1.
Thursday, Feb 8. — Dance at
Belmont, 8:30. Convoy from
Theater No. 1, 8:00.
Sunday, Feb. It. — Concert
Mint Museum at 8:30. There
will he a convoy.
Wednesday, Feb. 14. — Dance
at Mooresville, N. C. By card
only; secure at your Orderly
Room. Convoy.
So Jong, Jim Hunter, Rickey and Mac —
— You spared us becoming part of our sack.
Farewell good colonels, Fairfield and Miller,
We were lucky to have you tending the
tiller.
To Traynham, Alpert and your medical
men,
Thanks and adieu — 'til we meet again.
To Daly and Regan, to all at the gym,
Carry, on. (Gosh, can't farewell be grim!)
Goodbye to the martyrs
Handling us at headquarters.
Goodbye and God bless
All who worked in our mess.
To Special Services — Kornechuk and
Keim — •
Let’s meet again most any old time.
Goodbye to Archie, to Sergeant Judy,
To Waters, Bensene, to Maggi and Eudy.
Stiff upper lip — let's all be jolly;
Let s say so long to Joe Fragale.
Goodbye Post Office and Corporal Monette;
Farewell Fifinellas and Betty Threatt.
In bidding adieu somebody save us
When it's Rachel Ross or Mary Davis.
Whether you're Gremlins, dukes or earls,
You’ll admit Charlotte has the prettiest
girls.
So goodbye to the WACs
From the Gremlins' four Jacks.
To the Lab and George Hall —
Goodbye, you all.
To every private and pfc
Farewell from Trippi and Kennedy.
To every floncom — adieu to you — -.
We enjoyed your club and company too.
Where are we going — Our orders are sealed.
Farewell you officers of Morris Field.
To Public Relations, to the lads in Supply,
From Piskor and Granltz a fond goodbye.
To crewmen and gunners, everyone on the
line.
Brown, Brogger and Brandau wish you ev¬
erything fine.
To the guards and their prey, to every last
barber.
So long from Schwartzkopf, Karmanzia
and Varvir.
Rodis, Rosselli,
Barnes and Bonelli,
Cannon and Mott,
Friedlander, Scott,
Decker, Van Sistine, Here, Donovan and
Haden —
— We assure you their hearts are partingly
laden.
A farewell and best wishes to Capt. An¬
dres J. Kornechuk who is leaving with Capt.
Decker and Lt. Here. the last of the Gremlio
contingent. Capt. Kornechuk is an old timer
of Morris Field. Since his arrival in No¬
vember, 1942, with one of the tactical out¬
fits, he has been transferred to base work to
become Athletic Officer, then Special Serv¬
ice Officer.
MAJOR GENERAL FRANK HUNTER.
SQUADRON, SIR?
Expecting to find myself (Sgt. — male
type) in a barracks full of WACs, I
wanted to learn what the service gals
were going to do in Sq “A.” So I rushed
over to Base Personnel to learn the new
squadron designations. Here’s the line¬
up:
Before After
Sq A, Enl. Men . Sq G
Sq A, Officers . Sq F
Sq C . Sq C
Sq W . Sq A
Sq D . Sq D
the policies under which Morris Field
has been working since October 1, 1944,
will be carried on for the present and
will probably require very little change.
There is no immediate cause for shifting
of personnel beyond the normal trans¬
fers to fill a shortage on another base or
correct an overage.
Morris Field was rated as being one
of the best air bases in the Third Air
Force and it is believed that with the
same continued effort by all personnel,
it will earn the same reputation with
the First Air Force. This headquarters
has received - letters of commendation
from Brigadier General Joseph H. At¬
kinson, Commanding General, III
Bomber Command, and Major General
Westside T. Larson, Commanding Gen¬
eral Third Air Force for its past efforts.
All operation and training activities
will come under the direction of the
56th Combat Crew Training Wing, com¬
manded by Brigadier General Robert C.
Oliver and the I Bomber Command,~un-
der Brigadier General Caleb Haynes.
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Shown above is the winning day room of the month. Sq
В
(Medics) came through
in the second month of competition for the neatest day room on the Post. The banner
will change hands from Sq V. which had the honor for the month of December, to be
installed in the Medics’ Day Room for February. Runners up, though they were such only
by fractions, were Sq W and the Guard Section, being less than one 'point from first
on the grading scale.
