Greensboro Army Air Forces Technical Training Center #10: 10-Shun

Front And Center There is so much good talent on the post now, entertainers, musicians, arrangers and writers, that we thought it might be a good idea to have you meet some of these soldier-artists. “Front and Center” is the result, a new column starting on page two today. Now the entertainment page tells you "What's Cookin'” and also who’s stirring up all the recreation activi¬ ties going on at the post. Vol. 2, No. 11. Greensboro, N. C., Friday, October 15, 1943. FREE DISTRIBUTION Brig. Gen. Brady Takes Command Of Post; Headed Medium Bomber Force In Europe Tech-Hawk Games Free To Personnel BTC 10 and Sedgefield soldiers will rate free admission to all post football games. Tickets will be sold to civilians at one set price of $1.10. Ample provision is also being made by Special Services for officers and enlisted men bringing guests on paid admissions to assure that they will get seats and be able to sit together. The Tech-Hawks — new official I name for the post football team — will play their opening game at. Memorial Stadium on Sunday, Oc¬ tober 24, against Camp Butner. Other contests on the schedule are with Wake Forest College Army Finance School on October 31, the University of North Carolina “White" team on November 13, Fort Bragg on November 21 and New-' berry College on November 27. Open Sections. There will be open sections set aside for general free soldier ad¬ mission at all games. No tickets will be needed for these sections, and the rule will be first come, best seated. Five sections containing 2.424 seats will be set aside for enlisted! men and their guests. The guest | tickets for civilians, selling for $1.10, | will be placed on sale at the main, PX and at the Service Club on the Monday and Tuesday before each! game. Soldiers buying tickets to | bring guests . will be given their own free tickets to make sure they will be able to sit with their guests. Officers' Tickets. The same system will be used for the distribution of officer tickets. Officer tickets will be dis¬ tributed free and guest tickets will be on sale at the Officers’ Club on the Monday morning prior to the game. Tickets for the 303rd Wing will be distributed by the Special Serv¬ ices representative in that group on the Monday and Tuesday before the game. Guest tickets will be on sale for members of the group and will also be sold at downtown lo¬ cations. . . For general civilian admission, 1,500 tickets will be placed on sale in downtown Greensboro. If any are left on the night of the game, these will still be available at the main gate of the stadium. * m • New CG, Command Pilot, Also Fought In Far East Brigadier General Francis M. Brady, Command Pilot, veteran of action in the Philippines, Java, Burma and India, and until his recent return to a hospital in the United States, commanding general of the American me¬ dium bomber force in the European Theatre of Opera¬ tions, has assumed command of this post. After a preliminary inspection of BTC 10 yesterday. Gen, Brady said that he was pleased with the spirit and eagerness with which the men of the Air Force Training Center are entering military life. He added that he was also highly impressed by the soldierly appearance ia seen in Greensboro proper. In a brief statement, he said. of the BTC soldiers he had Reminder From War Department This is a reminder from the War Department: “When members of the armed forces are off duty in civilian communities they are subject to the jurisdiction of the local law enforcement authorities.” The WD circular said the no¬ tice was given "because of re¬ ports that in many cases soldiers ire challenging the authority of civil police officials." There were no instances cited. BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS M. BRADY 16 Officers Are Promoted Sixteen promotions of officers on this post were announced last week. Promoted to tbe rank of major were Leland W, Crews, Provost Marshal, Charles Hahn, Jr.. CO, 1181st Train¬ ing Group; Robert L. Norton, CO, 1188th Training Group. Promoted to captain were Louis B. Keefer, assistant post exchange officer; Hagar L. Lawson, O/C Pay¬ rolls; Robert S. Long, Medical Service: Sherman A. Thomas, Medi¬ cal and Psychological Examination and Process Unit; Theodore B. Steinhausen, X-Ray Service. Promoted to first lieutenant were Loyal B. Curry. Plans and Training Officer, Air Raid Officer, 1184th Training Group; Stephen Kutos, of Egypt, Libya, and, eventually, Coordinating and Compliance Of- all of Africa. Blondes Vie With Brunettes As Nurses Take Their Basic New Mail Rule Is Announced By CPL. ROBERT E. VOGES. Я1 blondes cadence Due to the recent re-arrangement back and forth, turning and form- of the training groups, it is the and reforming to the com- came the command and there wasimands barked by Lt. Reisman. For cou cho First Graduation a small but enthusiastic counting of j over an hour they kept at it and cadence. “All brunettes cadencelwhen the drill period was over unt” was the next order and the marched back to quarters counting orus of from one to four was cadence, swinging down the road as smartly as any group of ad¬ vanced trainees. The nurses get 14 hours of drill during their basic training period here, this supplementing the rest of their intensive course of calisthe¬ nics, lectures a'nd actual hospital duty. They drill on an average of four times a week and put approxi¬ mately an hour and 15 minutes into each session. Through Paces. Lt. Reisman puts the nurses through their paces strictly accord¬ ing' to the GI manual. They march The first group of 39 Army Air Force nurses graduated on Wednesday after completing the basic military training course set Sat the post hospital here. Of is group, 11 will be stationed on the post and the rest will be assigned elsewhere. Nurses coming from civilian life and commissioned as officers take a 189 hour course of basic military training which includes classes, lectures, drill, calisthenics, military instruction and practical hospital work. urgent request of Capt. Milton Rod- man, Postal Officer, that all mail be addressed to the Wings by num¬ ber, rather than to training groups, as in the past. The sole exception is the 1187th Training Group, for which special arrangements have been made. But all other trainees and permanent party personnel should specify in their correspond¬ ence that they are members of the 301st, 302nd, 303rd or 304th Wings, and have their mail addressed ac¬ cordingly. It is also important for the men to acquaint themselves with the ex¬ act time and place of the mail call in their wings, and appear promptly at the regulation count of 120 steps ! for mail, to avoid rehandling as a minute and learn the movements! much as possible, in the same order as does the aver- Enlisted men of the post are , ... .age trainee, starting first with the warned that the practice of sending chanted with an even more re- , position of attention and the hand chain letters through the military sounding shrillness salute and working through the . A group of about 40 nurses, tak- j facing movements, column move- •ngthe.r basic training here, were ments, rear march and obliques, dniling under the command of 2nd k there any difference in drilling Lt. M. J. Reisman. They were really | J Б drilling too, for the group wheeled (Continued On Page Three) mails is a violation of Postal Laws and Regulations and that it must be discontinued. In addition to being illegal, this practice unnecessarily burdens the military mails. Ground Crew Used Empty Beer Cans To Patch Up Planes That Hit Nazis By SGT. MORRIS DWECK. Hard-working ground mainten¬ ance men of the Army Air Forces, with typical American ingenuity, used empty beer cans to patch up planes that blasted Rommel out ficer; William A. Laine, Automotive Maintenance Officer, Army Orien¬ tation Instructor, 2061st Ordanance Company, Tire Inspector; Louis Loewenstein, Assistant O/C Ship- S, Receiving and Billeting Sec- Ralph W. Tyler, assistant classification officer; Harry E. Webb, assistant medical supply of¬ ficer; O/C Patients’ Convalescent Training Program; James M. Wil¬ son, ‘ . . “ In paying tribute to the unsung heroes of the air war, the men on the ground who "keep ’em fly¬ ing,” T/Sgt. Nicholas Hulick, vet¬ eran of 33 missions over Axis lines in Africa and now a pre-Aviation Cadet here, added: “Those boys would put in a good day’s work — then pull out the extension lights and continue work all night. The only rest they ever had was when O/C Aircraft Identification; we were jn the air.” William B. Wine, CO 1177th Train-' д radio operator-gunner on a ins Group. _ I В -25, Sgt. Hulick arrived with the first American air task force in the Mediterranean theater in July, 1942. At the time, Rommel’s Af- rika Corps was at El Alamein, at the gates of Alexandria. But the British Eighth Army held Rommel in its now historic stand, where¬ upon Allied air power went into action. “We went out on seven night missions. There was ack-ack, but nothing really heavy,” he said. “Early in October, we began our GI Beefs Because Girls Lack Modesty Salt Lake City (CNS)— PFC Ed¬ ward W. Lewis, who is home on furlough after a year in the South Pacific, likes American girls bet¬ ter than New Guinea damsels. Trouble with the latter, he com¬ plains, is that “they didn’t have any modesty.” T/SGT. NICHOLAS HULICK daylight raids, going in mostly for pattern bombing. We met some ME 109's on the first trip and were pretty badly damaged. But Amer¬ ican bombers are tough babies. It’s pretty hard to knock ’em out. We got back safely." When Montgomery's big push be¬ gan, the bombers went into the air often as three times a day, smashing Nazi tanks, truck con¬ voys and front-line troops. “We kept moving forward all the time,” he continued, "landing on Jerry’s airfields just after the infantry had moved in.” The Mareth line was next on their “targets for today” and was followed by Sousse, Sfax, Tunis and Bizerte. Hulick participated in the first three bombings of the island of Pantelleria. He returned to the States recent¬ ly and was an instructor at the Columbia Air Base when he de¬ cided that he would like to be in the air again— at the controls. He arrived here two weeks ago to be¬ gin his pre-Cadet basic training. Only twenty-one years old— he enlisted in July, 1941, at the age of nineteen— Sgt. Hulick wears an Air Medal and Three Oak Leaf Clusters. He is a native of Janes¬ ville, Wisconsin. “Our men are the greatest poten¬ tial soldiers in the world. They are the most talented, most adapt¬ able soldiers in action anywhere. Take any American outfit and you'll find men who can speak practically every foreign language and do any job asked of them.” “In India,” he continued, "I saw American boys land on a desert with just a few airplane crates and hand tools and, using anything available, they would have an air base built in no time. A Great Load. “American soldiers come through. I am confident that the men of this Air Force basic training cen¬ ter will also do a good job against the enemy soon. They will be carrying a great load now, for the offensive war has just begun, and we are only on the fringes of vic¬ tory.” As chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton, head of the Far Eastern Air Forces during the out¬ break of war in the Pacific, Gen. Brady led American fliers against the Japanese for 18 days. On Christ¬ mas eve, he and Gen. Brereton were ordered out of the islands to Java by Gen. MacArthur. From Java, they went to Burma and from there to India, where they organized the American Tenth Air Force. In mid-1942, with the Germans threatening to break through Russian lines in the Cau¬ casus, Gen. Brady took command of the Air Defense Command which protected the western approaches to India. Transferred to England. When Gen. Andrews was ap¬ pointed to head American land and air forces in Britain, Gen. Brady was transferred to England, arriv¬ ing in April, 1943. Following the death of Gen. An¬ drews in an airplane crash in Ice¬ land, Gen. Brady was given com¬ mand of the medium bomber force in England and personally led the first flight of American medium bombers that blasted Nazi-held Holland. Gen. Brady was ordered back to a hospital in the United States in August of this year. He originally came into service a day after the declaration of war, on April 7, in 1917. He fought in France with the Third Division and towards the end of the conflict, flew with the young American Air Corps. Following the signing of the Ar¬ mistice, he was in Germany with the Army of Occupation. Upon his return to the States, he was stationed successively at March Field, Cal., Mitchell Field, N. Y., and Langley Field. Va. He was in France as a military attache for a short period and in 1926 became an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School at Langley Field. Overseas Again. Three years later, he transferred to the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth. In 1931, (Continued On Page Three) Razor Blades Go To Salvage The salvage and collection of all used razor blades is being carried out at BTC 10 in cooperation with the WPB's salvage drive. Appro¬ priate cans have been placed in all latrines so that blades can be col¬ lected. Organization and detachment commanders will see that all used blades are saved and turned into Warehouse No. 23 on Thursdays, designated as post Salvage Day. A record will be kept of all blades turned in so that a check may be made of each organization’* cooperation in the campaign.