BTC 10-Shun [November 12, 1943]

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Vol. 2, No. 15. Greensboro, N. C, Friday,- November 12, 1943. FREE DISTRIBUTION
Soldiers In
Armistice
Day Parade
By PVT. RICHARD ORR.
Soldiers of BTC 10 marched yes­terday
in memory of that day a
quarter of a century ago when the
First World War came to an end.
Paced by Maj. Arthur G. Huppe,
CO of the 301st Wing, the parade
marshal, one mass from each train­ing
group, comprising approximate
l y 1,500 men, formed the nucleus
of the parade which started at 9:30
a. m. from gate No. 5 and marched
through downtown Greensboro. The
post band accompanied the march­ing
columns down town and other
units joined en route to the O. Hen­r
y hotel where the parade officially
formed.
Air-WACs Parade.
Marching with the men of this
post were the 50 piece Army Air
Forces band from Maxwell Field,
Ala., and 18 Air-WACs here on a
recruiting mission. World war vet­erans
from the Henry K. Burtner
Post "No. 53 and Spanish-American
war veterans participated, as did
units from Oak Ridge and A. and
T. college. Also included were Red
Cross, and Boy and Girl scout
groups.
As the men of this post swung
past the reviewing stand set up in
Jefferson Square before the Secur­i
ty National Bank, they were scrut­inized
by a group of military and
civil dignitaries including Maj. Syd­ney
R. Traub, assistant executive
officer; Maj. Arthur G. Huppe, pa­rade
marshal; Maj. L. Edward Von
Buelo. Col. Earl Holt of Oak Ridge
Academy, Capt. Elmer Aslinger of
t h e State National Guard and Judge
W. M. York, local legion com­mander.
Line of March.
After forming on Summit Ave­nue,
the paraders proceeded past
t h e O. Henry Hotel on Elm Street
to Edwards Place, west on Edwards
Place to South Greene Street, and
north on Greene Street to Belle-meade,
following which the units
from BTC 10 returned on Summit
Avenue to the post.
Men of BTC 10 also took part
in the civil ceremonies during the
day, participating in the official
observation of the holiday at the
Carolina Theatre after the parade
had ended. A musical unit from the
Band Office was present to play
t h e national anthem and provided
t h e background for other com­munity
singing by the audience.
Saturday Night
Dance Schedule
I n order to give everybody
who wants to attend the Wake
Forest game tomorrow evening
the chance to do so, the regular
schedule of Saturday night
dances has been revised.
There will be no dance at the
Service Club tomorrow night—
the next College Dance will be
on the college campus next Sat­urday
evening. The usual VSO
dance in Greensboro will start
at 9:30, meaning that those who
want to make a night of it have
a real opportunity to do so.
Tech-Hawks To Get Stiff Test
Against Wake Forest Deacons
Saturday Night In Stadium
It's Air-WAC Week In Greensboro
New Patches
Go To ASTP
Soldiers who successfully com­plete
their work in the Army Spe­cialized
Training Program will now
be awarded certificates, the War
Department has announced. These
certificates will be signed by ap­propriate
authority of the college
attended and will be issued to the
soldier by the commandant of the
ASTP unit in which the soldier is
Stationed at the time of his final
Separation from the program.
It is also anticipated, that appro­p
r i a t e college credits will be grant­ed,
enabling the soldier-student to
complete his work for a college
degree if he returns to college as a
Civilian after the war. Certificates
will be forwarded to all EM who
tiave already successfully completed
their work in ASTP.
Production has been started,
meanwhile, on a new arm patch
design selected as the official em­blem
of ASTP. The sword of valor
against a lamp of knowledge in
blue is depicted on an octagonal
background of yellow. The patches
conceived by artists of QMC and
Special Service Division, will be
ready for distribution next month.
How To Stop
Dependency
Check Fraud
The United States Secret Service
has launched a campaign to stop
the theft and forgery of Army de­pendency
checks.
A "Know Your Endorsers" drive
has been opened involving a set of
rules and regulations which sol­diers'
dependents should follow to
safeguard allotments and allow­ances.
The rules are: '
1. Be at home, or have a member
of the family at home, when your
Army check is due to arrive. If you
remove it from the mail box imme­diately
it cannot be stolen by a
check thief.
2. Be sure you have a deep,
strong mail box, with your name
clearly printed on it. KEEP IT
LOCKED.
3. If possible, arrange to have
your mail carrier signal when the
delivers your check.
4. Notify your Postmaster if you
change your address.
5. Cash your check at the same
place each month. This will make
identification easier. Secret Service
is cautioning merchants to insist
upon proper identification.
6. Do not fold, pin or mutilate
yo"ur allowance or allotment checks.
This is very important to you.
Shoe Repairs
Saved $10,500
Uncle Sam, the biggest shoe cob­bler
and general repairman in the
world, saved over $10,500 during
the month of September through the
operation of his reclamation and
repair shop at the Army Air Forces
Training Command's BTC 10, a re­port
just completed showed yes­terday.
The shop is operated by Greens­boro
civilian employees under the
direction of an Army Service Forces
officer and repairs anything a sol­dier
wears from a necktie to shoes,
shirts, underwear, clothing, over­coats,
or equipment he uses such
as cartridge belts, te'ntage, bedding,
even to chairs and other office
or barracks furniture.
During the month 8,059 items
were repaired or altered. These in­cluded
4,620 pairs of shoes; 1,856
articles of clothing, textiles and
miscellaneous; 140 pieces of canvas
and webbing with 1,443 alterations.
Total expenses for the operation
of the shop, including salaries,
amounted to $5,482.99 for the month
and the value of the items, counted
at half the original cost of each
item, was $16,020.43, the difference
being a saving to the government
of $10,537.44.
THE AAF NEEDS AIR-WACS. BTC 10 Is part of the Army Air
Forces. BTC 10 is in Greensboro. Greensboro has been celebrating
Air-WAC Week. Pfc. Wilma Hugenta is an Air-WAC recruiter who
has been helping recruit women in Greensboro. Get the connection?
Super-Bomber, B-29,
Ready To Hit Enemy
Fighting airmen of Uncle Sam's
Army Air Forces will soon have
a new super-bomber with which
to carry death and destruction to
the enemy, it was officially re­vealed
this week in a War De­partment
announcement that said
the latest sky-giant has been
designated the B-29.
Details of the new super-plane's
performances were w i t h h e ld
pending its final test in combat,
but Gen. H. H. Arnold, com­manding
general of the Army
Air Forces, declared that day
"not far distant."
Comparing the bomber with the
B-24 Liberator and the B-17 Fly­ing
Fortress, currently rated as
super-bombers on the basis of
their superb combatTecords, Gen.
Arnold said the B-29 was "as far
ahead of those two aircraft as
they are out in front of pre-war
bombers."
"This battleship of the air is
armored heavily with multiple-gun
and power turrets," Gen.
Arnold said. "It can fly at very
high altitudes.
"Its performance will not be
discussed before it enters com­bat.
However, the B-29 will have
a range substantially greater
than the maximum effective
range of today's longest range
heavy bombers and it will carry
quite sizable loads for that dis­tance.
When it enters combat, to­day's
long range will become
medium range and today's heavy
bombers will consequently be­come
light heavies."
Gen. Arnold emphasized that
increased production of B-17's
and B-24's will not be affected
by advent of the B-29\
From Drillf ield 3 To Foreign Landing Field
Visitors Boast
Fancy Record
In Recent Tilts
The mystery team of the
I South—BTC 10's own Tech-
Hawks—faces its first maj-%
or test of the season tomor­row
night at Memorial Sta-
|dium against Wake Forest's
Demon Deacons, a young,
swift-charging team that has
rolled 136 points and four
straight victories, and now
has its eyes wide open for
a bowl bid. It is a clash
that rates with the best in
this section of the country.
A large, soldier-civilian crowd is
expected to attend the game, which
starts at 7:30 p. m. under the
stadium lights. Officers and en­listed
men of this post and Sedge-field
will be admitted free, as usual,
and the admission price for thei*
guests is $1.10.
Four thousand seats have been
set aside for civilians, half of them
in reserved sections at $2.20, and
the others general admission at
$1.10.
The Tech-Hawks are little known
outside of the immediate area. Even
on the post there 4s wide specula­tion
as to their real ability. Opin­ions
range to both extremes on to­morrow's
game. Some think the
Hawks can trounce Wake Forest
soundly, as they won their first
two games—against Camp Butner,
56 to 0,~and against Wake Forest's
army finance school, 59 to 0.
Others feel that they havent
played together long enough to
beat the Demon Deacons, who are
a seasoned outfit, despite their
youthfulness, and who nave been
Lt. Senninger
New Chaplain
f-—JFather Bernard A. Senninger has
•umed his new duties as chap-
Bin on the post and will have his
Kioe in the Red Cross building at
cation Hospital.
A native of Toluca, 111., 1st Lt
Senninger has been assistant pastor
at St. John's Church, Covington,
Ky., for the past two years. He
was graduated from St. Viator Col­lege,
Bourbonnais, 111, and from St.
Thomas Seminary, Denver, Col.
Father Senninger attended Chap­lains'
School at Harvard University
and his assignment here is his first
army work. With his arrival here
t h e Catholic chaplain* on the post
again number three.
•Link Between Them
Is Pretty Direct,
Hero Reports
By PVT. IRVING KOLODIN.
There wouldn't seem to be much
connection, offhand, between Drill
Field No. 3 and a landing field in
North Africa, but Capt. Chester J.
Helsabeck, Jr., who has seen them
both very recently, thinks the link
is pretty direct.
For a week or two, Capt. Helsa-,
beck, a 22-year old veteran of the
first bombing of Rome and 41 other
combat missions in the Mediter­ranean
area, had been convalescing
at the post hospital from malaria.
He made this observation:
"I've been strolling around the
porch here at the hospital and
watched the boys exercising across
the way there. Thafs going to do
them a lot of good when they get
out there where it counts."
Two Tears in Air.
It's only a couple of years since
Capt. Helsabeck was a junior in
the University-over
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Capt. Helsabeck, Jr.,
Convalesced Here
From Malaria
fly. He began cadet training in
November 1941, and was sent to
England in September of the fol­lowing
year. As a member of a
Bombing Group, he took part in, the
invasion of Africa in November,
and from December on, h e flew out
of Algiers.
Special Targets.
"Special targets?" he repeated,
to a question. "No, we just went
after a little of everything—ship­ping
docks, airports, bridges; wher­ever
we could do our good deed for
the day."
Flying a B-25 on 42 missions, he
got a pretty good line on the work
of the maintenance men who saw
his ship into the air and were there
waiting when it came back. "Some­times
we looked a little- shabby
when we got back," he said. "But
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58 Nurses
In Graduation
Fifty eight Army Air Forces
nurses who have completed the
basic military training course at-
BTC 10 will be graduated this aft­ernoon
in a ceremony to be held
in the nurses recreation hall at the
post hospital. The class will be the
second to be graduated since the
program was started September 15.
The 58 certificates of graduation
will be presented by Maj. W. P.
Burpeau, executive officer of the
post hospital and director of train­ing.
Following graduation the
nurses will be sent to various sta­tion
hospitals and posts throughout
the United States.
The four week basic training
course at BTC 10 provides the nurse
who has enlisted in the Army
Nurses Reserve corps with her first
taste of army life. As a registered
nurse she enlisted in the reserve
corps back in her home town, was
immediately commissioned a 2d
lieutenant, and sent to the basic
training school here, where she r e ­ceived
her army nurses uniform.
"The primary purpose of this
course is to teach the nurse how
to get about in an army installa­tion,"
Maj. Burpeau explained, em­phasizing
that most of the nurses
have had a number of years of ci*.
vilian experience prior to enlist*
ment.
"The course also is designed to
teach fir3t aid as more specifically
applied to the armed forces, basic
military sanitation, and military
courtesy."
Among officers expected to at­tend
the ceremony are Col. Irving
B. March, Surgeon, Eastern Techni­cal
Training Command, Sedgefield,
who will speak; Col. Robert J.
Piatt, post surgeon; Lt. Col. Nellie
V. Ciose, chief of the nursing sec­tion
of the Office of the Air Sur­geon,
Washington, D. C, and Maj.
Ruth E. Parsons, assistant chief;
Maj. Harriet Hankins, assistant su­perintendent
of the Army Nurses
corps, Eastern Technical Training
Command, Sedgefield; Lt. Elizabeth
N. Johnson, principal chief nurse,
and Lt. Margaret Wiesner, director
of nurses training detachment «f
BTC 10.