Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 24, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 28, 1945 Page: 1 of 20
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'etwater Welcomes 2nd Air Force Fighter WingProgra
Activating Avenger Field with
combat pilot trainees who soon
will hasten aerial warfare strik-
# tag the enemy with a "one-two"
punch on all fronts, the 72nd
Fighter Wing of the 2nd Air For-
« ce takes command of the former
WASP school with Col. Harry
Weddington, commandant of
f Abilene Army Air Base, as com-
manding officer.
Sweetwater city officials and
citizens welcomed the first con-
'tigent of enliste d personnel,
trainees and officers to the field,
meeting the late afternoon Tex-
as and Pacific Wednesday where
the 590th Abilene AAF Band
heralded the arrival playing the
Army Air Corps song. R. C.
Hoppe city, manager, joined Col.
Weddington in welcoming the
troops to Sweetwater.
j Lt. Col. Eugene F. Elliott, Av-
enger executive officer Capt. R.
G. White and Lieut. George F.
i Coffey were on hand for arrival
' of the first quota of troops.
While troops were informally
reviewed by Col. Weddington,
formations of Thunderbolts
swarmed overhead in salute,
i Negotiations for the new 2nd
Air Force installation here be-
gan approximately at the last
graduation of the Women's Air
Force in December. Decision to
move a fighterpilot crew training
station here was announced offi-
cially from the headquarters,
Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, Colo, on Jan. 17.
Commanding general of the
Second Air Force is Major Gen.
Robert B. Williams, native of
Albany, Texas, and veteran of 15
months overseas service with
the ETO asa bombardment divi-
sion commander for the 8th Air
Force.
Commanding general of the
72nd Fighter Wing who will su-
pervise the training program at
Avenger is Brig. Gen. George P.
Tourtellot, a seasoned veteran
of fighter groups and overseas
veteran of World War I.
Combat-type planes piloted by
America's future aerial fighting
men are assigned to the field for
beginning of the program to be
manned by personnel of the
2nd Air Force. For more than
two years Avenger has run the
gamut in flight training. It was
established for the Royal Air
Force and Eagle Squadrons in
May, 1942 and was taken over
by the cadets of the USAAF in
September. For 2.'i months the
field was site for the nations
only women's service pilot train-
ing school. Final class gradua-
tion was held on Dec. 7.
The 2nd Air Force is largest
of the country and began in
Spokane, Wash., on .Ian. 10, 1941
as the Northwest Air District be-
ing converted four months lat-
er and activated. It was com-
posed of six bases, all on the Pa-
cific Northwest. There were
three on the coast the other at
Boise, Idaho.
Today the Air Force has bas-
es in 2*2 states, its training pro-
gram comprising an area from
the .Mississippi River to the Pa-
cific coast where hundreds of
thousands of men are trained in
bombardment and fighter plan-
es. The program now lnclu
training of pilots and crews
the Superbomber—the B-29.
Commanders serving the Air
Force have been many with
Maj. General John F. Curry, the
first. Expansion of the program
has been largely accredited to
the late Maj. Gen. Robert Olds,
who assumed command May 14,
1942. He was followed by Maj.
Gen. Davenport Johnson, Feb.
See SWEETWATER Page 8
RED TROOPS RREAK INTO RERUN HOME PROVINCE
Sweetwater Reporter
New Patch For 261 Base Unit
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
48th Year
"West Texas' Leading Newspaper"
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 28, 1945
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
No. 24
Qen. Williams, N ative Texan
Commands 2nd AAF, Avenger
Now Under His J urisdiction
Major General Robert B. Wil-
liams, 43, recently returned
from 15 months overseas in the
European theater as a bomb-
ardment division commander in
the Eighth Air Force, is the
commanding generai of the Sec-
ond Air Force with headquart-
ers in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Avenger Field in Sweetwater,
is now under command and jur-
isdiction of the 2nd AF.
General Williams replaced
Major General E. C. Ent, who
was seriously injured in an air-
craft accident.
For Major General Williams,
it is a return to Second Air For-
ce where in its formative and
i development stages he was a
Bomber Command Commanding
General.
He is a native of Albany, Tex-
I as, and has been in the Army
j Air Forces since he was com-
missioned a second lieutenant,
in the Air Service in 1923 after
graduation from Texas A and M
with a degree in civil engineer-
I ing.
Major General Williams has
played an important part in the
development of the four-motor
i bomber since it was accepted in
the Army in 1937. In that year,
i then a major, he was operations
officer of the Second Bombard-
ment Group. Langley Field, Vn.
He commanded that Group from
May 1941 to January 1942. Dur-
ing the interim, he was an Am-
erican observer for heavy bomb-
ardment in London. During the
German aerial blitz of 1940-41,
Major General Williams receiv-
ed serious injuries when a Nazi
bomb made a direct hit on his
apartment.
He was assigned to the First
Air Force Bomber Command in
January, 1942, at Mitchell Field,
New York, and the following
September was assigned to com-
mand the 2nd Bomber Command
at Fort George Wright, Washing-
ton, at the then headquarters of
See GEN. WILLIAMS Page 8
MARCH ON
RESUMED
By UNITED PRESS
In the Philippines, the ad-
vance on Manila has been re-
sumed.
General MacArthur reports
that troops of the American 14th
Corps — after having been
slowed by determined opposi-
tion around Clark Field — are
advancing in force on the road
junction of Angeles about 40
miles from Manila. Advance pa-
trols previously had reached An-
geles.
Around Clark Field, the Yanks
are clearing the hills of enemy
forces which had made their
first determined stand on Luzon
and had been shelling the air-
strips.
In the air war, heavy bomb-
ers have made another raid on
the historic island fortress of
Corregidor in Manila Bay. They
dumped 90 tons of bombs on Jap
installations which were left in
flames. Medium and attack bom-
bers swept oyer Bataan and oth-
er planes hit an airfield where
they destroyed nine enemy pla-
nes and damaged six others.
A patrol bomber flying over
Amoy on the China Coast scor-
ed a direct hit on a Japanese des-
troyer.
In another Pacific action the
double-blow by B-29's at Tokyo
and Saigon in French Indo-Chi-
na 2700 miles southwest ap-
parently achieved good results.
But Superforts over the Japan-
ese capital ran into swarms of
high-altitude enemy fighters. A
'United Press dispatch from
Guam — headquarters of the
21st bomber command —^ says
the Japanese are going all-out
to stop air bombings of their
homeland. Nevertheless even
Tokyo admits that big fires
were set by today's raiders in
their 24th major attack on the
enemy homeland.
At Saigon, too, the enemy
admits material damage
from the attack b.v B-20*s
based in India — their first
raid on Indo-Chinn,
The increasing tempo of B-29
attacks and the threat that Sup-
effort bases may soon be set up
in the Philippines, is cause for
the enemy to worry. Japanese
broadcast say efforts arc Vicing
speeded to get vital war indus-
See MARCH Page Eight
To Their Commanding
OSfscers And Filots
w -f 4 ;
If, as we believe, Sweetwater and Nolan
County have as large a proportion of men in
the service as any county in the State of Texas,
then it may be understood why our heart-
strings are nigh to bursting with pride in hav-
ing with us, at Avenger Field, Colonel Harry
Weddington and the 261st Base Unit, Section
L, of the 72nd Fighter Wing of the Second
Army Air Force. Of course we are proud. Our
blood, bone and sinew have been given in
abundance to the cause for which they stand.
We are not as good as they and cannot claim
to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, but
in heart and spirit we are with them.
A. R. NORRED,
Mayor Sweetwater, Texas.
Five Are Held In
$2,000,000 Robbery;
$90,000 Cash Sought
CHICAGO (UP) — Chicago
chief of detectives Walter
Storms announced the arrests of
Peter Quaglia and Michael Koz-
ar, both of Chicago, on charges
of complicity in the $2,000,000
Rumboklt Real Estate Company
j robbery of last Saturday.
Police arrested Quaglia at his
j home—where officers found ap-
, proximately $2,000,000 of war
bonds and negotiable securities
i stolen from the safety deposit
boxes hidden in paper cartons.
Police say Quaglia admit-
ted thai Ivo/.ar had left the
securities with him for safe-
keeping. Shortly afterward,
police arrested Ko/.ar and
his wife at the Chicago Union
lliis Station.
Three men previously arrest-
ed — Thomas Leahy, Llewellyn
Morgan, and Willie Niemoth. all
ex-convicts — are held in $100.-
000 bond and will be arraigned
in felony court Monday, charg-
ed with the vault robber.
Police still are searching for
an estimated $90,000 in cash
which also was taken from the
vaults.
590th Abilene AAF
Band To Be Honored
With Party at USO
Complimentary to the 590th
Abilene Army Air Force
band, Mayor A. R. Norred,
working with Charles Pax-
ton USO Council chairman,
and sponsors, is planning
an. entertainment, the date
to be announced.
The group of men. who j
have consistently visited
Sweetwater in interest of
War Loan drives, have be-
come endeared to local citi-
zens, the mayor said.
"We want to entertain the
boys of the band'" said the
mayor, "to show them in a
small way that we appre-
ciate their assistance in
making our war drives go
over the top."
PANIC!
LONDON (UP) — Both Swiss
and Swedish dispatches say Ber-
lin is verging on panic. One
Stockholm paper quotes its Ber-
lin correspondent as saying that
millions of refugees from areas
threatened by the Russian ad-
vance are massing in the capital
—that an already serious food
shortage is growing worse be-
cause of the influx.
WARD WIHS;
GOVERNMENT
Will APPEAl
WASHINGTON (UP) —
Montgomery Ward has won
the first round of its court bat-
tle with the United States gov-
ernment.
Federal Judge Philip Sulli-
van ruled in Chicago Saturday
that President Roosevelt had
no authority to take over 1G
Ward plants in seven cities.
The court denied the govern-
ment's petition for injunctions
to keep the company and com-
pany officials from interfering
with the Army's operation of
the plants—which were seized
December 28th.
Tlie decision — which gov-
ernment officials have indicat-
ed will be appealed eventually
to the United States supreme
court—has a far-reaching effect
upon President Roosevelt's war-
time powers and the govern-
ment's machinery for settling
war-time labor disputes.
In fact, Chairman William
Davis of «he War Labor
board declares that the
WLB — and with it the
whole plan of peaceful set-
tlement of labor disputes —
will collapse unless the Chi-
cago decision is reversed,
or unless congress makes
WLB orders effective on ev-
erybod y.
The justice department has
not commented on the ruling—
but United States District At-
torney Albert Woll announced
in Chicago that he will take an
appeal before the circuit court
of appeals early next week. He
indicated he will seek to have
it forwarded to the supreme
court immediately.
Pending a final decision by
the high court, the army will re-
main in control of the seized
Ward properties. Judge Sullivan
provided for that today by
granting a stay to maintain the
status quo of the army's opera-
tion while the appeal is pend-
ing. The judge explained that
he did so because he recognized
the fact that his decision might
later be reversed. Company of-
ficials admit there is no way
they can ejeel the army if it de-
cides to remain in control of the
firm's properties.
Judge Sullivan said the war
labor disputes act doesn't give
the president power to seize
Ward property, since the compa-
ny isn't doing direct war work.
He also said that the pre-
sident's power as com tnand-
er-in-chief doesn't give him
authority to confiscate the
mail order firm's plants. lie
said it might if the Ward
plants were located in a war
theater—hut they aren't.
The ruling was a resounding
victory for Sewell Avery, the
militant chairman of Montgom-
ery Ward. In Arizona, where he
is recuperating from an illness,
Avery greeted the decision with
these words:
"The constitution has been
sustained, and today is a great
day for labor."
But the union whose dispute
with Wards precipitated the gov-
ernment seizure indicated that,
it considers this a dark day for
organized labor. Leo Goodman
of the CIO United Retail. Whole-
sale and Department Store Em-
ployees said the voluntary sys-
tem for settling disputes under
the no-strike pledge has been
placed in jeopardy. Several oth-
er union leaders— who declined
to be quoted bv name—said that,
See WARD Page 8
A new distinctive patch or
design that will soon be seen
gracing the field of many a G. I.
at Avenger Field, has been ap-
proved by the War Department
in Washington. The design will
be used only by personnel of
the 20lst Base Unit.
Cpl. Harold J. differ, former-
ly of the combat intelligence
hart Army Air Field, contribut-
section and now on duty at Dal-
ed the prize-winning selection.
differs drawing told best in
caricature the functioning of a
Combat Crew Training Station
for Fighter pilots.
For his prize-winning draw-
ins, differ, whose home is in
Chicago, will be $10 richer.
Cliffer's entry was selected
from a field-wide contest which
drew 25 entries. Judging was by
Col. Harry Weddington, com-
mandant. and a committee com-
posed of leading field officers.
Final selection was between
Cliffer's drawing and one by
Cpl. Ed Barrett of the Field
Photographic section.
The patch is on a golden
orange disc, border ultramarine
blue, with a caricatured, gnome-
like figure wearing black shoes,
red suit, blue aviator's helmet,
yellow gloves and scarf. The fig-
ure is seated astride fuselage
of caricatured ultramarine blue
P IT aircraft with red and yel-
low cowling wing in flight to-
ward dexter chief. The figure is
carrying a black .50 calibre ma-
chine gun under left arm and is
holding aloft in his right hand
a large, red aerial bomb.
The patch does not supplant
the official 2AF insignia— the
falcon in flight—and is permit-
ted for -rear only on the pocket
of flight jackets, field jackets,
coveralls, and work uniforms. It
may be used for painting on per-
manently assigned aircraft.
From The Fighter, Abilene AAF
—
2nd AAF Personnel
Qreeted By S'water
Rainey Case Now
In Hands Of
Texas Senate
AUSTIN (UP) — Interest has
shifted to the Texas senate in
the University of Texas contro-
versy.
Three new regents — all of
whom have yet to be confirmed
by the senate — voted Friday
against re-instatement of former
President Homer P. Rainey.
The vote increases the count i
of regents who have opposed the I
former director of the American
Youth Commission's continued
tenure at the head of the state
university. Rainey received two
votes for retention when he was
dismissed last November. Yes-
terday he had one vote for re-
tention,
That vote was cast by Mrs. 1,
D. Fairehild of Lufkin whose
regency will expire as soon as
the senate confirms a successor.
Former Board President John
Bickett of Dallas — who resign-
ed when Rainey was dismissed—
is the other who voted to keep
keep him last November.
New I on rf, President I Mid-
ley lv. Woodward of Dallas
gave a personal explanation
yesterday of the refusal to
consider a petition from the
San Antonio chapter of the
American Association of
University women for re-
turn of l)r. Kidney to the
presidency. He said that it
is not a question of I>r.
Kidney's views but of his
usefulness to the University.
On the theory that the senate
will now have the final word,
future make-up of Ihe board of
regents is being scanned.
Remaining on board through
uncxpiring terms are Regents
Orville Bullington of Wichita
Falls D. F Strickland of Mis-
sion and W. Scott Schreiner of
Kerrvllle — all of whom voted
to dismiss Rainey.
On the board temporarily as
interim appointees — and re-
maining regents only if the sen-
ate confirms them —are Wood-
ward. David M. Warren of Pan-
I handle, and C. O. Terrell of Fort
I See RAINEY Page 4
Sweetwater's new Avenger
Field program has received the
wholehearted cooperation of city
officials and the entire citizen-
ship since first negotiations was
begun for the installation that
recently became a reality.
Working closely with the 2nd ;
Air Force in the field activation ;
has been City Manager R. C.
Hoppe and Board of City Deve-
lopment President P. Edward.
Ponder.
"It is with distinct pleasure."!
said City Manager Hoppe, "that
I welcome Col. Harry Wedding-
ton. his staff and men to Sweet-1
water. Their arrival marks the
beginning of a program, concei-
ved by Col. Weddington, to i
make Avenger Field again an
important training base in the
war program.
Tom Pendergast To
Be Buried Monday
KANSAS CITY — (UPi --
They're going to bury Tom Pen-
dergast Monday.
The body of the man who rose
from a humble birth to iron-
fisted control of the Kansas Cit. v
political organization —- a n >1
whose down-fall came when tie
was indicted for income tax eva-
sion — will be interred at: Cal-
vary cemetery in Kansas City
after brief services at a funeral
home.
Pendergast died of a heart ail-
ment last night at the age of 72.
His death came just ■'! months
before his five-year pmbnt >n:try
perjod for a federal prison son-
tin ce on the tax1 evasion charge
would have ended.
Pendergast. s outstanding pol-
itical protege was vice-president
Truman, whom the Kansas City-
boss backed in a career that led
to the United States senate and
eventually to the nation's second
highest position.
The vice-president expressed
sorrow today at news of Ponder-
cast's death. He said simply:
"He was mv friend, and I was
his."
Bulletin
PARIS (UP) — Berlin br-v.1-
casts report that American for-
ces have opened an offensive in
the Moselle Valley east of the
Luxembourg border. These
troops are said to be striking
for the Rhine in the vicinity of
the manufacturing city of Ko-
blenz, 70 miles away.
' AH negotiations in ponnec-j
tion with the establishment of'
the 2nd Air Fcr"e installation i
has been most pleasant and I
wish to extend a cordial welcome
to the entire unit."
"The Board of City Develop-
ment," said President Ponder,
"is happy to welcome the 2nd
Air Force fighter training pro-
gram to Avenger Field and
Sweet water. We salute Col. Wed-
dington, his staff and men for ;
their part in aerial warfare.
"The coming of the 2nd Air ■
Force to Avenger Field is going
to complicate further a very cri- \
tic.d housing shortage. We hope
that the good people in Sweet-;
water will sense the responsibi- j
iity and seize the opportunity of!
sharing their housing facilities
with: personnel of the field"
Loses Hand !
Belgium Battle
Mi'-. Kay Tolliver has been no-
tified by the war department
that her husband, Pvt. Edwin
Tolliver, serving in Belgium
witli the U. S. Infantry was seri-
ously wounded January 2.
I'iuHghl back to t li c
t nited Slate- Pvt. Tolliver
ti P phoned. his wife from
New York on January 22 and
;dd I hut Id- right haixl was
amputated as the result of
the wound. He thought he
was being assigned to Me-
Closkey General hospital,
I u 1 was sent to Utah and ex-
press a furlough home.
Mrs. Tolliver and her mother,
Mrs. Josie Foy went to Temple |
in ; ■ attempt to visit the wound-
< d veteran before they were in- •
fermtd his orders were chang-
ed for Utah.
60,COS Tons Of
Shipping Sunk
In Formosa Ports
PEARL HARBOR — (UP) —
ttO.OOO tons of Japanese
ing in Formosa ports was
uyed and 65.000 more tons
ged in attacks by Pacific
carrier aircraft last Satur*
r war bulletin says 20 en-
vessels — including three
overs and one large troop
port — were sunk of dam-
in the attack.
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NAZI RADIO
APPEALS FOR
DEA1H S1AND
MOSCOW (UP) — The Red
army tide rolls on.
Here are the rapid-fire deve-
lopments on the Eastern Front:
Russian troops have captured
five major Silesian mining cities.
They've further squeezed the
200,000 Germans in East Prus-
ia—into a 3200 square mile
pocket. They've captured a Czec-
hoslovak town. Spisska Nova
Ves, some SO miles southeast of
Krakow in Poland. Most import-
ant—by Nazi admission the Rus-
sians have broken into Berlin's
home province of Brandenburg
90 miles from the great German
port of Stettin.
Berlin says the troops of Mar-
shal Zhumov's crack First White
Russian army—plunging toward
Berlin beyond by-passed and be-
siezed Poznan in Western Po-
land—have been checked on the
Ohra river line. Just where the
Soviet break-through has occur-
red, Berlin doesn't say.
The Obra, however, reach-
es points 75 to 127 miles east
of the (iernian capital which
may mean the closest ap-
proach yet to the avowed
Soviet goal.
The Russians are said to have
I broken into Brandenburg pro-
! vince at a key transport center,
Schneidemuebl, 50 miles north-
west of Poznan and 135 miles
northeast of Berlin. This place
is on the direct railroad and
super-highway from Danzig to
Berlin and is the southwestern
anchor of the Polish corridor.
Herer-Weriin reports the Soviet
troops are advancing up the Po-
lish corridor toward Danzig and
the Baltic coast of German Pom-
erania on a "0-mile front.
To the northeast, a stream of
Soviet artillery, tanks and infan-
try converges on Konigsberg,
the capital of East Prussia. The
city now is under heavy shell- j
fire. And Moscow triumphantly
announces that the German for-
ces isolated in the Junker prov-
ince are completely disintegrat- j
ed. that their Masurian Lake de- ]
fenses — once thought impreg-
nable — have been shattered, j
Nine more major strongholds
have been seized in a 16-mile j
weep through East Prussia.
Meanwhile, continued reports
from Berlin indicate 'hat the
plight of the Wehmacht means
-tepped-up plans for evacuation
a the capital. The Berlin radio
pieads for a fight to the death
.and tells of men being sent di- -
recti}' into battle from shops
and office.- in a desperate at-
tempt m halt thi; Red Army on- .
slaught.
While German cities in
the east arc being battered
b> (lie Russians, British art-
i 11 i - > i- (raining Its sights
en two important Rhineland
industrial centers.
British troops have plunged 15 j
rales inside Germany to within :
ag-gtui range of Rheydt and
Munch en-Glad bach. Rhedyt is a j
textile center of 70,000 popula-
tion and the other city is a ,i
foundry center of 146.000.
The Tommies and the Ninlh i
army in the Rhineland now have I
a spring-board 50 miles broad for 1
tin expected offensive toward;
Dusseldorf and Cologne. That's j
the result of the German with-
drawal—without a fight—from
their buffer line west of the
Roer River. Fast of the Roer the j
German retreat, from the collap-
sed Ardennes bulge continues.
Despite bad weather, tactical
planes dad manage to fly 1 (X) sor-
tie- today, hitting the columns'
■ i tanks, trucks and men and
destroying R4 trucks.
The bulge now is little
more than it bad memory.
Third army troops are slash-
ing through the few remain-
ing pockets and have moved
their won front to within
one or two miles of the
Reich border at all points
after gains up to three miles
which over-ran 11 towns.
By the way, the First and
See NAZIS Page Eight
Avenger 2nd AAF Officers Are Veterans Of Long Service & Fighter Qroups
At the present time, five of-
ficers have been assigned to im-
portant positions at Avenger
Field to assist Colonel Harry
Weddington, commanding offi-
cer, in getting training started
at this newly activated fighter
pilot training station of the Sec-
ond Air Force. Other assign-
ments will be Announced later.
lit. Col. Eugene F. Elliott
Heading the list is Lt. Col.
Eugene F. Elliott, executive of-
ficer, who has worked closely
with Colonel Weddington in act-
ivating Avenger Field. The ca-
reer of Colonel Elliott, who is
36, is a success story of a meteor-
ic rise from the ranks. He enter-
ed the army of the United States
in 1927 as a private. In rccent
years, he has served with the
Adjutant general's department,
assignments including Fort
Washington, University of Flori-
da, and Sul Ross College at Al-
pine, Tex. He was assigned to
the Abilene Army Air Field as
Adjutant in September 1943 and
recently had been serving as di-
rector of administration and ser-
vices. His home Is in Ausable
Forks, N. Y.
Major Charles E. Schroeder
A veteran of two years" in the
South Pacific is Major Charles
E. Schroeder, of Westlope, N. Ii„
who has been appointed director
of training. He entered the ser-
vice in 1939 as a cadet and re-
ceived training at Santa Monica,
Calif., and Kelly and Randolph
Fields. He went overseas in
February 1942 with a fighter
group and was among the first j
American pilots to land in Aus-
tralia. As a fighter pilot in New
Guinea, Major Schroeder is cre-
dited with the probable destruc-
tion of a Jap bomber and fight-
er. more than 70 combat mis-
sions and 275 combat, hours.
He wears the Air Medal with
two clusters, the South Pacific
Theater ribbon with 3 campaign
stars, and the American Theater
ribbon. For their action in the
protection of Port Moresby, the
group of which Major Schroed-
er was a member, received a ci-
tation from the president
Major Schroeder returned to
the United States in February
1944, and was assigned to the
Galveston Army Air Field, and
Fort Sumner Army Air Field
before coming! to Avenger Field.
Major Oliver Rian
Appointed as Base Surgeon is
Major Oliver Rian, 40, who was
practicing medicine in East
Peoria, 111., when he entered the
service in August 19-12 with the
rank of captain. Major Rian has
been stationed at Mather Field,
Santa Ana Army Air Base, Cas-
per Army Air Field, Scottsbluff
Army Air Field and was assign-
ed to the Abilene Army Air
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