Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 10, 1945 Page: 2 of 8
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Trinidad, British West Indies, will
Ot gram director at the Service
Club according to Lt. Blame Cool-
Saugh, Fersonnei Sen-ice* Officer.
Private Robben came to Pecos
from MarAna Army Air Field,
Tucson, Arizona Entering the
V> AO in July, 1944. at Phoenix,
\rns she had just returned from a
> ear s service overseas as one of
a sta" of ter at the Port of Spain
car.teen in Trinidad, then one of
the arcest overseas clubs operated
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S“.e worked with the Cleveland
SO* Oar.teen prior to Pearl Har-
bor and gave over a 1.000 hours
of her free time to the work.
Varl er she was a radio and recrea-
tion instructor in the Cleveland
school system.
Deciding to give her full time to
I SO work. Private Robben applied
for an overseas assignment and
w as sent to Washington, D.C., for
pass ports and organized a club
there, meanwhile working as co-
d .rector.
Submarine warfare in West In-
d.es waters was quite active when
site left and the Government speci-
fied that she should fly to the as-
signment.
Arriving in Port of Spain, she
worked in the club with nine other
USO permanent personnel and was
given charge of all musical activi-
ties, publicity, radio, etc.
“The club was a low, rambling
tropical affair,” she recalled. “In
the center was a cement patio for
dancing and the buildings housed
a restaurant, snack bar, money
changing booths and other facili-
ties.”
Private Robben remarked that
she carried 30 pairs of shoes with
her and “I wore all of them out.
There seemed to be a dance every
night and those cement floors
chewed the shoes to bits. There
were no repair shops on the island
that could repair women’s shoes.”
When her vacation came she re-
turned to the United States and
went to Phoenix, Arizona. It was
there she enlisted in the WACs.
She took her basic training at Fort
Des Moines and from there was
sent to Santa Ana and then to
Marana Army Arr Base and re-
cently was assigned to PAAF.
“Safety First”
Article By
Iniantiy Life Is Rough; Letter
From GI 'Makes No Bones About It'
excerpt of a letter from a farmer A VK
(.! who bottled up in one of those receiH
Infantry *h pments draws for ht.s friend*
that he left behind, a graphic picture of
the Infantry training being given to for-
mer A AK personnel. The word picture
might not he *kil fully drawn but you
don’t have to read between the linee to
see what Home of our former PAAFite* axe
doing these days.)
“It appears that yours truly did,
during last week, suffer the trials
of the Infantry version of Physical
Training. And this particular
branch of the service has devised
some of the most unusual methods
of “a going over” that even a case-
hardened Jap would shudder at.
The only ill-effects suffered is a
marked inability to arise when
down or to get down when up.
"Am now safely esconsed for the
time being as the left hand of a
very belligerent 1st sergeant who
seems to think that he has found
a baby gold mine in a guy who can
spell more than a three letter
word.
“There is a 6-weeks’ training
cycle here for everyone who is
eligible for training. Rank means
nothing when in training status.
The first three grades take the
original six weeks with the others,
only they go to school two nights
each week. Then they are given an
additional six weeks and sent to
POE where they are immediately
broken to a suitable grade as a re-
placement in the TO of whatever
unit is calling for men.
Rough as Hell.
“Fifty per cent of the buck ser-
geants wind up as Pfcs; the others
as Pvts. A very few of the staffs
make Op* and :>e res', •.•.-.variably
go to Vt.s Vi-.- a-.-. Masters tf
they a-e g.cd enough to gc back
to bucks
r . re s u • t s \ patrol g •-
mg ah. of the t —e here Ea:’.tire
to salute, hands ••• pockets., or out
f ur term rates a 5*. fme That.
s a bun t
and an automatic bust. It seents
the "powers to he t.....k a good
ufantrymar — ust have a courts
martial or two m order to he a
good sold or. At least one mar.
from each, batta on must he an.
offender each day The above
statement s almost verba: m from
the Company Commander's m.f.a.
speech.
Interesting.
“This * quite interest .. as c e
gets out of the mental rut they
might have been in and goes to
thinking. It puts a new zest into
iv-.rg When your hack is to the
wall you’d be surprised what you
oar. do. You use every ounce of
psychology that is possible and at
the right place and right time.”
Pyote Show
Thursday Night
Pyote Army
Air Ft eld w-;i
bring a three
act comedy to
PAAF entitled.
"Wha: A Life."
on Thursday. February 15 The
comedy will v
ay to only cr.e
audtenr.ee a-d
is sated fer
2015.
The three act
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the third such
shew the Fycte
Army Air Field has brvug it :c
Pecos. The other two were also
three act comedies each a howl-
irvg legitimate etfort that mut-
iny and civilian vers......el S re
enjoyed immensely
There Goes
That Mustering-
Out Pay
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If you got a discharge tomor-
row. hopped back home and made
a dash for the nearest civilian
clothing store you'd come out
$263.10 lighter by the time you
had assembled a modest little
wardrobe.
A shopping tour to estimate the
cost of coming out of the khaki
cocoon resulted in the table print-
ed below. Prices listed are not the
rock-botton lowest but are far
from getting into the expensive
lines.
This is the cost of good, wear-
able togs for a guy who doesn’t
want to scatter his savings on any-
f ^ •» ».»* •
2 suits $75.00
topcoat do. 00
■ si 5.00
gla -1s s.oo
Off ( r 2.00
raincoat 12.00
1 shirt* II
6 undershirts 3.00
6 pr. shorts .......... 6.00
6 pr. socks ..................
2 pr. shoes ..................
Heroic Chaplains
Are Awarded
Posthumous DSC
Four Army Chaplains who gave
their life jackets to men aboard a
sinking transport were awarded
Distinguished Service Crosses
post-huniously by direction of the
president.
They were: Chaplains George
L. Fox, Alexander D. Goode, Clark
V. Poling and John P. Washington.
War Department General Order
93, announcing the citations, reads:
“On the night of February
3, 1943, a loaded troop trans-
port was torpedoed without
warning by an enemy 3uba-
rine in the North Atlantic and
began to sink rapidly. In the
resulting confusion and dark-
ness, some men found them-
selves without life jackets
and others became helpless
through fear and the dread of
plunging into the freezing wa-
ter. These officers moved
about the deck, heroically and
calmly, encouraging the men
and assisting them to aban-
don ship. After the available
supply of life jackets was ex-
hausted they gave up their
ow n and remained aboard ship
and went down with it, offer-
ing words of encouragement
and prayers to the last.”
WA
Salt Lake City—Police here, on
the plea of an MP, arrested a civil-
ian for swearing at a sergeant.
Here's Origin of
'Rum & Coca Cola1
A favorite tune wherever
Pecos GIs convene these days is
“Rum & Coca-Cola”—and there
seem to be as many discussions
as to its origin as there are re-
quests for its recording.
So here’s the lowdown: It was
written by a Negro calypso
singer by the name of Rupert
Grant, known professionally as
“Lord Invader,” at Port-of-
Spain, Trinidad.
The song has been banned
from all four major networks
because of the free advertising
for that certain soft drink.
One more point: The lyrics
you hear have been cleaned up
a lot from the original.
belt
2 pair pajama?
3.60
15.00
1.50
.......... 6.00
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inert 1.00
Coat so far. $179.10, and that
doesn’t five you things like a
bathrobe and slippers — or any
extra shirts and underwear while
you're waiting for the laundry.
But you’ll need something heavier
than a topcoat this winter. Over-
coat . . . $45. One sport outfit-
's*.; set you back $5.00 for the
shirt, $11 00 for slacks, $5.00 for
a sweater and $19.00 for a jacket.
Total $263.10.
A noted meat-packer named Y’oung
One day when his nerves were un-
_ strung
Without benefit of wirei or switches. uith nothing but the eievtririft tAsi j '5 . ‘'•* •*•* Vk "e s n‘*’. unse€n
posses throuz his body, Mr. C. E Gluering lights a large clevfrv This Chopping machine
is another of his astounding dernonsti at ions of the nuigtc i*' fkvfnrifs te be He canned tier and labeled her
teen in General Electric's “House of Magic" exhibition. “Tongue!”'
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Tokyo <
The liberation of Luzon Island, in the Philippines, can provide U. S.
forces with the springboard they need from which to deliver the knock-
out punch at Japan. Northern Luzon is only 600 miles from the China
coast at Hongkong, only 300 miles from Formosa and approximately
1700 miles from Tokyo. The supply line from the Netherlands Indies
and China to Japan can be blockaded by our air and sea power. In
addition. Luzon can be used as a point for launching an invasion of the
China coast, Formosa or Japan itself.
General Yount '
sol
“The motto ‘Safety First’ is not
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for us. We cannot promote safety
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to the point where it might make
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our personnel timid, afraid to go
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through with their work, or neglect
col
hazardous forms of training which
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may mean their survival in com-
bat. In our schools these men mi|;t
ml
form the safety habits which will
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protect them through their train-
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rv, I
ing and in combat.”
The foregoing is quoted from an
val
article entitled “Safety First Is
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4lJ
Not For Us,” written by Lt. Gen.
ini
T 7 J
Barton K. Yount, head of the AAF
Un
Pfl
Training Command, for the safety
i II
magazine “National Safety News.”
pr|
General Yount pointed out the
opl
extreme necessity for both air and
ground safety programs by ex-
g*l
plaining, in 1943 we had more than
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1,000,000 men and women under
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our jurisdiction and over 30,000
att
airplanes. We stress the prin-
ciple that safety is knowledge.
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“In addition to our military per-
rei
sonnel, we have 500,000 civilians in
Ot
ground jobs for the AAF. Our pro-
Bu
gram follows the pattern of indus-
roi
trial organizations which have
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been fighting accidents for years,”
Bor
he concluded.
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Becker, Ira R. Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 10, 1945, newspaper, February 10, 1945; Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115600/m1/2/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas+-+Reeves+County%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .