Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 7, 1945 Page: 2 of 8
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PIN-UP PICTURES BOOST
GI MORALE HIGH AS KITE
I’in-up pictures—war-born mo- j
rale boosters—have at last reached
an official standing. At least
they’re mentioned in War Depart-
ment pamphlet 20-3 as follows;
“It is not one of the primary
functions of Army information
channels to provide beauty for the
adornment of dugout walls. Fur-
thermore, within the continental
limits of the United States this
general subject is already so hand-
somely exploited by civilian period-
icals that for the military to enter
the competition would be like car-
rying coals to Newcastle.
“However, one cannot refrain
from quoting briefly from a
lengthy editorial salute by an
Army' newspaper at an isolated
post in Alaska to a New York
strip-artist who has posed for spe-
cial pictures for their small publi-
cations. “You are the bear grease
on our lupin-root cakes. You are
the real blubber in our bowl of sal-
mon berries. You are the liver of
the caribou, the egg of the stur-
geon, the young gizzard of the
spring ptarmigan, etc., etc., is a
touching acknowledgment of the
fact that in the life of this isolated
garrison, the likeness of the oblig-
ing young woman was more warm-
ing to the quonset hut than any
mere coal fire.”
At Pecos, too, pin-ups are pretty
widely-accepted morale pick-me-
ups. The post theater has a col-
lection unequalled on the post and
the lobby display there plays to a
bigger audience than most Satur-
day night double features. Quietly
challenging the theater lobby’s
claim to fame is the PT shack on
the south athletic field. Their col-
lection is growing daily.
Since the conception of “Flying
Time” as a printed newspaper, the
Pecos pin-up program has been
boosted to the extent of 150 super
barracks beauties.
Favorite of all has been Gypsie
Stell, local girl who made good in
* Editor’* Not*: Thi* U the flr»t in •
teriee .•( 3 article* on the performance
of American combat weapon* baaed on
an interviewr with Col. Geotv* G. Eddy,
Director of the Ordnance Keaearch and
Development Center. Aberdeen Proving
G ourd. Maryland.)
11) Camp Newspaper Sertice.
The American Army has a com-
plete line of weapons of superior
quality and far exceeding in quan-
tity “anything the Germans ever
thought of.” •
That is the answer of Col.
George G. Eddy, Director of the
Ordnance Research and Develop-
ment Center, Aberdeen Proving
Ground, to critics who claim that
some of the guns and tanks the
Germans are using on the West-
ern Front are superior to our
own. It's the phrase “line of weap-
ons,” that's important in Col.
Eddy's view.
“You wouldn't play 8 holes of
golf with a putter and expect to
win, and you can’t expect to win
a war with one or 2 excellent
guns—you can’t point out any one
gun or any one tank in any Army
and say this weapon is going to
win the war,” is the way Col.
Eddy puts it.
"You must have a complete line
of weapons to give you superior-
ity of fire power not on a few
targets, but all over the battle-
field,” he declared. "For instance,
the German bulge in Belgium at
the time of its deepest penetra-
tion covered many square miles.
"Within that area there was a
great variety of targets. To men-
tion only a few, there were per-
sonnel, fortifications, light and
heavy bridges, armored vehicles,
and communications.” In attack-
ing any of these targets, he point-
ed out, the American Army was
not forced to rely on any one gun.
“If the tactical situation doesn’t
permit use of one gun, we have
SOMEU HERE l\ FR 4SCE—V. S. soldiers fire a 10}-mm Howitzer, one
of the many weapons available to Gl Joe in his fight against tyranny.
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others that can do the job,” he
said. “We try to give our soldiers
maximum firepower under all sit-
uations.”
He conceded that reports from
correspondents with the armies on
the Western Front that the Ger-
mans had tauks with 8-inch armor,
and that sometimes our shells just
bounced off without doing serious
damage could be true.
“You’re not going to knock out
a tank every single time you fire
a round from any weapon,” he
asserted. But he pointed out that
no tanks now in use are complete-
ly covered with 8-inch armor, that
all have large vulnerable areas.
“A man equipped only with a
rifle and an M9-A1 grenade can
knock out any tank,” he declared
firmly.
Indicative of the variety of
weapons the American soldier can
bring to bear against enemy tanks,
Col. Eddy cited:
The 37 mm anti-tank sun.
The 57 nun anti-tank gun.
The 105 mm howitzer.
The high velocity 8 inch gun,
mounted on wheel carriage and motor
carriage.
The 90 mm, Belf-propelled. high
velocity gun, now being uaed by com-
bat troope*. s
The bazooka.
The calibre .50 machine gun, the
75 mm gun and rocketa mounted on
a' -craft.
“It’s performance, not talk, that
tells the story of whether weap-
ons are performing satisfactorily,”
Col. Eddy says. “If the critics of
American weapons will take oc-
casion to examine losses of Ger-
man material as compared with
losses of American material, they
will find the losses of German
material far exceed our own.”
9 Generals
Promoted
To Four Star
866 COMBAT FLIERS COMPOSE
PART AAFTC PRIMARY COURSE
Hollywood, who has appeared four
times. Other four-trmers include
Anne Gwynne, also a Texan, and
Dolores Moran.
Runners up with three appear-
ances on these pages include Rose-
mary LaPlanche, the “Miss Amer-
ica” of 1941, Ramsey Ames, Leslie
Brooks, Yvonne de Carlo and Lana
Turner.
FLA Pledges Aid
To Gl Job Seekers
Washington (CNS) — Federal
Loan Administrator Fred M. Vin-
son told a press conference re-
cently that when peace comes he
would exert every effort to the
end that “the resources of our
lending agencies are made avail-
able to assist American business
in the task of providing full em-
ployment and attaining the presi-
dent’s goal of 60,000,000 jobs.”
Fort Worth, Tex.—Eight hun-
dred and sixty-six fliers who have
The senate has confirmed served overseas as bombardiers,
unanimously the promotions of navigators, gunners and glider
nine lieutenant general to the rank pilots are among the 1,821 pros-
of full general. pective AAF airplane pilots entered
The nine are: Joseph T. McNar- in the current primary flying class,
ney, deputy supreme Allied Com- it was announced this week at Lt.
mander in the Mediterranean; Gen. Barton K. Yount’s AAF
Omar N. Bradley, Commander of i Training Command Headquarters.
Having fought in aerial battles
all over the world, as air crew’
members or at the controls of the
gliding “whisper ships”, they have
requested airplane pilot training
for another go at the enemy.
These combat returnees with fly-
ing experience have priority over
regular graduates of pre-flight
school when assignments are being
made to the Training Command’s
primary flying schools.
“It is a two-fold policy of the
Training Command to utilize com-
bat returnees to the fullest possible
extent and to give them priority
&et i within the needs of the service and
the available training quotas,” said
General Yount.
They are students of the Train-
U. S. Strategic Air Force in Eu- ing Command for the second time,
rope; George C. Kenney, Com- General Yount noted. His Com-
mander of the Far East Air mand operated a nationwide net-
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Policies and statement* printed in the news columns or editorials are under no
circumstances to be considered those of the United States Army Air Forces.
FLYING TIME, an activity of the Pecos Field Exchange, is published every Sat-
urday by and for the personnel of I’eeos Army Air Field under the supervision of the
Personnel Services office. FLYING TIME receive* Camp Newspaper Service. Reproduc-
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Items pertaining to IVcoa Army Field have been cleared for general release by the
Public Relations officer.
COL. HAROLD I). SMITH
Commanding Officer
STAFF: Pvt. Jane Babbitt, Pvt. Evelyn Coodin, reporters. 8/Sgt. G. W. Murray,
artist. Photos from Base Photo Lab.
Cpl. Clyde Melton. Jr.
Lt. Chaster Rogawski. ..
....................Editor
-Advisory Office)
clency basis, which shortens the
time necessary for this course.
The 18 combat returnee enlisted
men in this class, which is desig-
nated 45-G, are being given their
primary training in the Central
Flying Training Command, but the
returned officers and former flight
instructors were distributed propor-
tionately among the Central East-
ern and Western Flying Training
Commands, as were the standard
pre-flight graduates.
RRADLEY
CLARK
RRADLEY and CLARK . .
four starsI
the 12th Army Group in the ETO;
Carl Spaatz, Commander of the
Force; Mark Clark, Commander
of the 15th Army Group in Italy;
Walter Krueger, Commander of
the 6th Army in Philippines;
Brehon B. Somervell, Command-
ing General of the Army Service
Forces; Jacob L. Devers, Com-
mander of the 6th Army Group
in the ETO, and Thomas T.
Handy, Deputy Chief of Staff,
U. S. Army.
Generals McNarney, Bradley,
Krueger and Somervell hold the
permanent rank of major general.
The others are brigadiers in the
regular army,
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, Chief
of the Ground Forces ,and Gen.
Malin Craig, a member of the
Secretary of War’s personnel
board, are others holding the 4-
star rank.
Top rank in the active service
is the 5-star grade worn by Gen.
George C. Marshall, Chief of
Staff; Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
work of flying and technical
schools to provide individual train-
ing for virtually all AAF person-
nel—not only the pilots, but the
bombardiers, navigators and gun-
ners as well, and the technicians.
The 866 combat returnees in-
cluded 848 officers who had been
air crew members or glider pilots,
and 18 enlisted men who had been
gunners. It was stated that future
primary classes will have a much
larger proportion of enlisted re-
turnees, many of whom have not
yet completed the 10-week pre-
flight course at San Antonio Avia-
tion Cadet Center, San Antonio,
Tex. The returned officers qqalify
in pre-flight subjects on a profi-
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commander
of the Army Air Forces. Gen,
John J. Pershing, retired, holds the
Army’s highest permanent rank,
General of the Armies.
Combat Badge
For Medics
In Action
A Medical Badge has been
authorized by the War Depart-
ment in “recognition of the serv-
ice rendered during combat” by
members of the Medical Depart-
ment assigned or attached to the
Infantry. It is of silver metal,
eliptical in shape, with the Medical
Department’s
insignia, the
:aduceus, and
the Geneva
Cross super-
imposed on a
litter sur-
rounded by a wreath of oak leaves.
It will be worn on the left breast
above decorations and service
ribbons.
The badge will be awarded to
Medical Department personnel
regularly assigned or temporarily
attached during combat to the
Medical detachments of Infantry
regiments, battalions or elements
thereof since Dec. 7, 1941.
Regimental commanders are
authorized to make the award for
“satisfactory performance of duty
under actual combat conditions.”
They also are given the authority
to withdraw the badge if the indi-
vidual fails to perform hid* duty
satisfactorily.
Enlisted and officer personnel
below field grade (major) are
eligible for the badge and it may
be awarded to the regimental
surgeon regardless of rank.
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