The Eagle Eye (Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 24, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. :t NO. 19
EAGLE EYE
Engle Pass Army Air Field—Eagle Pass, Texas
APRIL 21, 1945
Temporary Closing of Field Under Way
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,SU/t. Allx, I Shank IS I liar of Tin Kayh Kye
Eagle Eye Suspends Publication
After Checkered 21 - Year Career
MoKt everybody at Kagle La a t*:i11«mmi-st
Army Air Field hm thought at om- litti
time nr another during >1"' twn imc
Tini .<• ari* lus satii ic
t i• 11• h• • ami In in ij’inal i n
tiip d| “\’ii|*ic” ihat have
ami urn* half year <*:• i tenet* "I t lie*
local camp new .papci, I In* I' *
Kye, that it Won Id he p"*t'V 'hf
firult to get along without them*
cheery weekly edition .
heen kidding the (il readers of I In*
Isarle Kye fni a couple of year or
more.
As edit'll of t he Kay le Kyi . - :rJ
Albert Shank, in civilian life a
St. Louis advert n itty man, lias u
ually felt that lie couldn’t yet
along wit hit t he i ay
lie ha , t hotiy h, right up 111: miy h
this final edition. And life evi tv '
newspaper, flu* “Km refleet di ^ ^
rectly its editor’, toil and teat ‘ ' 11
disappoint men! am
coop: and flop:
The Kayh* Kye, in the opinion,
<11 it1 editor, has yone the way oil
,i rood three net drama nsiny I
sharply to a climax m the secoml i
i art and with the action dropping;
off thereafter Its evolution ha |
\ heen gusty and hectic,
Llodding alony a a ■ mewhut
mimeographed effort f«>r j
i v mont hs aft<*r it hi i t h. ’
The Fugle Kye turned hybrid or
. t , | April ii, LJl.'i with tin* addition ot
t r i ii ii i p 11 s, | '
i a rover and '•mm* illu tiatioii.* in
. , , it . c , <d et printiny, thu addiny a M
The spriyhtlv publication fir t 1 ’’
. ,,, ,i , 1 tie mole /e t to the make up.
• aw the liyht of leva tluouyh a .....
, . ii! 11, i<i On July 1!, l'Jl.i, when the I add
haze (if dll t on Ihccmbn II. Id-I... . ' , , , rf
.... ii ,i armored all the faeilitie: for oil
a mimeoyrapheil sheet, all tut*
. . , | et printiny, the papei wormed it
■ k of w hich was done on I he 1 , ,
, , .... . . c way into more elite jouroali lie
«'odl throuyli skillful juyyliny of. ■
, , , eirclc hv euminy out a an oltset
1 ’'e then meayer facilities, . , A ,
. . ,ii ! tub from cover to cover And on
\ 1though Syt. Shank started hi ......
,, , . • , \urii 1 Jh, IdII. more than a year
Work all alone, la* soon acquit eel ■ , ,
, , . , , later, the format was expanded,
i 't.aff, and thereby liany < a tale. , . ,
, . ,i enn dmy Shank to work a lew mil
While Shank wa , still wipmy the
, i i- i I aides in improvmy the make up in
left wmys of airplanes heron* he
, , i the buyer i/.e sheet,
was assigned to laoncii I he L;q le , . .
1 hen tinny began to yet loiiyh.
Kye, three other *d named ton
,, . ,, , , I In* Kay le I*,ye was growing into
tier, Wolfe and lieigeman had eon , , , ,
an exeellenf lie 111 ii I mu, each ed it ion
reived the idea of a po t newspa .
, , , , leatoriny a cracklmy, witty column
per and had already put in two , . .
1 , i hv Syt. Wiiyht, thorough «*overaye
week’s work on a dummy. , , . , , ,
' of I* add new and any number <»t
When they found that Slianl .
. . readable items, when, on Novem-
had beaten them to the punch i""1 | ( , ,, vi....., ...... ..........i ...
secured the option from ( ol. John
71 h War Loan Drive
Off to Slow Start
With the Seventh War Loan
di ivi* .till in its openiny phases,
active solicitation is now utidei way
for the purpose of siyniny up all
men a siym d here who have not
I akeii out < la i M Hood allot •
merit:'. Of the relatively few con-
tacted to date, approximately lifiO
are briny signed up, accor<liny to
Lt. < harle, Is. Hlackwcll, Lost
Holid officer.
( a h ale of bonds, however,
an* dc appointing, declared Lt.
Hl.ickwell, altliotiyh no compilation
has been made of bonds bouyht for
rs b i.tIn*r at tin* Lost. Office, the
Finance Office, or elsewhere off
the Field. Lei omul buying bonds
foi ea h an* ay.on uryed to re-
eord such purelia <• by reporting
“* them to then squadron orderly
p.om o that they may he propei
|y credited toward the Field quota
I Of $ I :u.
One fact which may not be ful
1 |y under lood by personnel lien* it;
t bat < la M allotment fm enln ted
j per rinel carry on from post t-o
I post in cases where personnel are
j t rant,fetred, as opposed to otticep'’
allotment which mu* t be renewed
at each new station.
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(TT< Dead Promoted
To Major (ieneral
Lpituotion ot Htiy. Ken. Waltet
F. Kiaus, eoinniiindiny yem tal of
the A tiny Air Forces Central Fly-,
my Traininy Command headquait
i ted at Kamh.lpb Field, to the tank'
of Majoi (ieneral wa announied
leeently by the War Ih*partnn*nt
The mw Majoi (ieneral, whose
i;7 yeat army i'an*ei include i*»
vice in the eoi p of etiyineei and
artillery prior to ho entiy into'
the au lop es in I'.I'JO, ha directed (
t he I I st ate pmyi am of t he < ett
tr,*il Flyiny Tiamiiiy Command
nice May, 1 hi 1
(ieneral Kram command one of
the three yeoyraphieal divisions ot
the A A F Traininy Command’ m*<
Hoik of flyiny schools, diieetiny
II aminy at u hools fm pilots, bom
bin diet ., and nnviyatm located in
Texas, Oklahoma, l.oui iana, New
.Mexico and Kan as.
(ieneral Krau became rhief of
staff fm Lt. (ion. Hatton K.
Yount, eommandiny yeneral of the
A \ F Tr aininy ( oinmand. in Jan
miry, I hi:;, and retained that posi ,
t ion tint il he wa a siyned to com
(S>, "i’i;<>M<<)
Exodus of Field Military Personnel
In Progress Before May 15 Deadline
With the official announcement la. t Tfiur-ilay of thr*
temporary inactivation of Kayle I’a • Army Air Field about
May 15, Col. John II. P.undy, (onimandi.'iy ol’l'n er, further
told t he (*n I is ted per -of Hud of the I- eld that tie . will nerve on
to new assignment ;i »k>n a. tle*ir |oh - here are completed.
Jii addtcs.iiny an emhly of all . ado have p . . .. ! La jc train-
enlisted personnel ovei the held me at the I .eld.
public addle sy: tern late I hur ( donel Handy :.n*l i staff arc
day after iiou,, ('•donel Lundy p prliciilatly pto-.d of the out stand-
vealed that a majority will prob my afety i <• >rd achieved hy this
ably he reresiyned t.< -ta’i* n. with Field. For eiyht and one half
IL Hundy, always a staunch up
porter of The Kayh* Kye, they
deseended upon the fledyliuy edi
tor in a wrathful body. To pari (S<
fy them, Shank made them thej
nucleus of his staff, after which;
they were sat isfic’d and promptly j
forgot about the paper.
Syt. (then Lvt ) James Kspinosa
formerly a commercial artist eon
neeted with an advertising agency
in Denver, niniu to the “Kye" soon
after its inceplion. II is Army
training for the job of tuff artist
on The Kagle Kye was several
weeks’ experience painting mini
Ihth on AT (Vs. No one will gain-
say the ability of Syt F.spinyut as
] p I t, Shank was forced to
change the format again, and it
wa not a change foi the better.
A directive from higher head-
JAPOLOGY
• i(,/./■: /;> /*:’ raw u
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Red C ross War Fund
( limbs to $4,066.66
A dona!mn of $(i.T!h’l ic*piesent-
iny a nnseellancous contribution
from Officer Instructors of the
Field lias been turned over by
Major Andrew (’. Anderson to the
l'.llfi Red ('mss War Fund.
Tin brings the final count in
contributions from Kagle Pass Ar-
my An Field to $1,0(MJ.fi(5.
___ap soldier loves to practice decep
tion and is very adept at employing
ruses. Japs sometimes conceal them
selves near our lines and listen for the
names of individuals. They then call
(out the name of soma soldier nnd. when
he shows himself, shoot him
m t he* A A F ( c-nt i id Fly i ug Tram
iny; Command.
Step: arc* ahead;, under wa) t<
ieduce the number
the- minimum required l a te mp*,i
ary inactive • t.it u . ail 11 an l•• r
will be* made ;i , f;i'-t. ,c p< lb.1*
Jn the meantime, all Inrl uyh
leave . and pa- <••. ha • ........ < .m * I
t • c 1.
1 u hr- addl r ( , i i.c• 1 R ,mi)
diado.'-ed that a '.iff ! Jive "f
flCel , two ol them lilted, a kc• I«
toll crew id otiIi:-ti'd mi n, iind K,n
Civilians w ill be i etaim d at tin*
J' odd dill; ny I be [le l In 1 I lt
ludi vc* i at ci
flic* l1 icld, which y t ad .atiU it
t wenty lift ii and la d cl.c ■ d c a
det on Sunday, April I i, will i n
t itiui' under t he j ui e dict um • •! t tic-
A \ F ( i nt i ;il 1- 1;, iiu' I i n ;r.,*;g ( in
malid t "i t hr tun In ny
I liU: is ended, temp i.udv at
least, the traininy m rm d tin
l hordei'land air I c*ld, w lie t. ! t.c
and oia halt yc ai ha 11 amed
i ombat pilot t u 1 hi \ t my \ it
Force . lit t a an ;nk arid U atid
then a a ha sc f;> ing 'hoc! .f the
A \ I* < iUi 11 a I FI'- u.} Id a , I, ny ( i 'in •
maud.
Mar. of (he 11 in it t w a i a'll
who have heb'h ,i igiied hc'ie will
e v pc* t lelic r a pa i aclo v -1 c nmt i ill-
when they leave 1 he dc lie lot'
new place and i c-u experiences
will conflict with the* reluctance K
have I1 cylc La A i my Air f odd
winch, under the under,standiny 1
conmisnil ■ I < • Jonel liundv , ha
li' Cnlcie a concrete • Vmlxd < d t he
he" I A t my m t he wet Id lihn al,
gc*m*» oil' arid demon at ir
Ku.lt ami ciiininandeil dm my the
• -lit li <* pet loci of i! exit tenre |>y
<'ol Hundy, fomicT direedoi .• 1
Mammy at Kelly Field, the pil •!
< hool • ituiited jii t a fc*w mile
above the Rio (iraticle neat the* hi
telle' hoi lici t "W fl I it 1 ay Ii' La ■
has trained a total of (•. I C, l indent
officer' and a\ lat ion cadet .
(t| that total numhci of indent ,
h.KOU were yiaduated from Kagle
Lass Army An Field sc; second
lieutenant • and flight officer dm
me the- two yearn from November,
11MA to NovenilH*r, l'dlt, that il
functiom*il a an adv:mc(*d flying
school. Many of those pilots have*
dihtinguiahed them.elvi'i m action
against the enemy and w ti awards
for heroism.
On November k’2, Ld-M, the Field
was converted from an advanced
to a basic flying school, becoming
the first installation in the AAF
Training Command to use the AT-rt
Texan, formerly the standard nil
variced training plane, to instruct
basic students in the art of combat
flying. Since the changeover, P50
months, Kagle L:c Army Air
! ii'hl fulfilled it aiduou* assign-
ment of turning out combat pilots
Without a -mgli* fatal accident.
lf 1“ 1 Hetwceii July L'5, 1D11, and April
I, indent pilot, flew the remark-
able total "f 177,,TJ 1 hour , or 1!4,-
1 • fore :» fatality u,
Cut red.
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Col. Bundy Lauds
Good Jot/ Done
By Field Personnel
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ii ml i, rrt !< ny la t h
II ' t > la a // f I m III II I, n III ISl'/li
l‘a:i 1 i'll'!/ Ill' I II III, ami nnhiil
f' i 11 , i i -. /" il I ia a at i i 'I/I I >11 lu-
ll nil' ari. ' . hih my tin mi KM ion
I or h I th I x hi iran art ratrtl
A n n h. l(ttit none, of tin pn
I" th, rifi h- nrtually ramplrt
III nil I hillit ta tali' III IK ll'driH
"I adaiiiy a I nal liSiril to yau who
air at ill hrii ami tha»r who hair
ah i miy tlri>ai’ti d.
) an ham jiiMtif tml in y laith in
yau, ) an haii ilutir tin jolt on it
wan iati iiilml to In itoiii'. Our rr
rani Inn of pilatn trained, our
Knfity and • ffirirncy rrrordtt. at-
h Ht to that.
N < ci 11y all of yau arc irhnnny an
ta other xtafianii where you are
needed and where, l know, you will
continue ta da your duty and ynnke
yam iiulit’ulunl rant rihut iarm ta
wadr nch leriny ultimate and corn
fi/rS rirfaiy in thm war.
IF here re, yau ya, my heat withe*
ya oath you. Omni hye and yuod
luck.
t'ol John If. Itultdy
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