The ORD news [July 14, 1944]

              1060TH AAF
BASE UNIT THE ORD NEWS FORMERLY
BTC 10-SHUN
VOL. NO. 3. NO. 10. Greensboro, N. C, Friday, July 14, 1944. FREE DISTRIBUTION
Blue Ribbon Winners
PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS will be presented Saturday by the
, post commander to these veterans shown above offering congratula-
I tions to each other. S/Sgt. William J. Crisp (left) was a waist gunner
With the 99th Bombardment Group in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, while
Pvt. George W. Ford (right) was a mechanic with the 11th Bombard­ment
Group in the Southwest Pacific.
Presidential Citations
Awarded Two Veterans
Presidential citations earned as members of AAF
combat units by two returned veterans now awaiting new
assignments at this AAF Overseas Replacement Depot
will be presented Saturday by Col. Converse R. Lewis,
post commander, as part of the garrison review.
The presidential ribbons will go
to S/Sgt. William J. Crisp of Sec­tion
O, and Pvt. George W. Ford
of Section R.
Sgt. Crisp's citation was awarded
members of the 99th Bombard­ment
Group, with which he served
' for 10 months as a waist gunner and
observer in Tunisia, Sicily and
Italy, while the citation to be pre­sented
Pvt. Ford was earned by the
11th Bombardment Group for serv­ice
in the Solomons campaign. Pvt.
Ford served as an airpltane me­chanic
with that outfit for nearly
two years.
Holds Air Medal.
Sgt. Crisp, who hails from nearby
Lenoir, N. C . completed 50 missions
with the heavy bomber outfit be­fore
returning to the United States
last February. He already holds
the Air Medal with nine opk leaf
clusters, and. wears the European
and Middle Eastern theater ribbon
with battle stars for the Italian,
Sicilian and Tunisian campaigns.
Although his group was stationed
in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy and
gave support to the campaigns in
those areas, -the majority of the
sergeant's missions were over
enemy-occupied Europe. They in­clude
bombing runs over strategic
centers in Germany, Austria,
France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia,
France and Greece.
Among the "hottest" of his 50
missions, Sgt. Crisp reports was a
bombing run over airplane factories
in W e i n e r-Neustadt, Austria,
where both fighter defense and flak
were exceptionally heavy. "In that
case," he reports wryly, "the enemy
fighters were reially coming direct
from the assembly line—it looked
as though some of 'em hadn't
waited to be oainted."
Sergeant Crisp entered the serv­ice
June 3, 1942. and went over­seas,
in April, 1943, landing first
at Oran. He left the 99th in Janu-
Seetions Appoint
Special Service
Representatives
Section commanders will appoint
A special services representative for
each section to perform the follow­ing
duties:
Supervise all entertainment with­in
the section.
Maintain day rooms and other
facilities made available to the sec­tion.
Control and distribute recreation-el
equipment.
Distribute tickets to enlisted men
for dances, dinners and other func­tions.
Direct participation by the sec­tion
in Post entertainment.
Supervise sale of tickets to en­listed
men of the section for Post
events, such as baseball games.
ary of this year, returned to the
United States the following month,
rnd spent three weeks at Miami
Beach, Fla. He arrived at this
ORD July 3 from Oklahoma City.
Pearl Harbor Vet.
Pvt. Ford was stationed at Hick-am
Field, Hawaii, when the Japs
unleashed their peace-pipe blitz in
the Pacific, and experienced other
bombings by the Nips while sta­tioned
in the Southwest Pacific.
He entered the Army in Septem­ber,
1940, and went to Hiekam
Field in December, 1940. Serving
with the 11th Bombardment Group
as a mechanic from April, 1941 to
January, 1943, he moved from
Hiekam Field to New Caledonia,
the New Hebrides, and back to
Caledonia again before returning to
the States in September of last
year.
The group citation was made for
its participation in the Solomons
campaign, and its flyers made many
other raids throughout the South­west
Pacific theater.
Pvt. Ford was stationed at Salt
Lake City air base upon returning
to America, and later attended
Armament school at Kearns, Utah.
He served at Colorado Springs,
Tucson and Pueblo, Ariz, before be­ing
transferred to this post last
month. He wears the Asiatic thea­ter
ribbon, with two bronze stars.
Bond Sales
May Double
Initial Quota
Drive Brings In
$205,811.38 Here
With post War Bond
sales already totaling $205,-
811.38—a figure that does*
not include sales of the cur­rent
w e e k — officers in
charge of the post-wide
Fifth War Loan campaign
expressed confidence today
that the self-imposed goal of
doubling the original quota
of $150,000 w o u l d be
reaohed by the time the cam­paign
closes July 31.
Of the $205,811.38 reported to the
Post War Bond officer early this
week, $177,810.75 represented pur­chases
by military personnel, while
the remaining $28,000.62 comprised
bond purchases by civilian em
ployees.
Three organizations climbed over
the top since the previous reports
were made, to bring the total to 15
military organizations which have
attained the quotas set for them
The three newcomers are Section V
with sales amounting to $2,756.25,
compared with a goal of $2500, Sec­tion
W, with sales of $1823.75 and
a goal of $1500. and the 725th Band
unit, with purchases totaling $1028.-
75 compared with a goal of $750.
Section B has reached 97 percent
of its large quota of $7,000, and
Section S recaptured the lead
among all groups in the number
of individual purchases.
Allotment Drive.
Particular emphasis is being
placed ' by bond officers on the
Class B allotments for bond pur­chases
by all assigned personnel.
Assigned officers of three sections
have records of 100 percent enroll­ment
in this phase of the campaign,
including the Wacs of Section D,
and also the officers assigned to
section I and F. Among assigned
enlisted personnel the "Permanent
Party" sections hold a noticeable
lead, with the Wac unit, Section D,
leading all others with 75 percent
enrollment. Other leaders are Sec­tion
E, which has 64 percent partici­pation.
Section AA, with 61.5 per­cent,
Section A. with 51 percent,
and Section C, 50 percent. Of .the
training sections, the assigned per­sonnel
of Section P holds a lead
with 47 percent participation.
At the conclusion of the post cam­paign,
special awards are planned
for those sections making the best
records in Class B allotments.
Two Officers
Are Promoted
Promotions listed this week in­cluded
the names of two officers,
one from Section A and the other
from Section E. Promoted to cap­tain
from first lieutenant was Louis
W. Sander of Section E's medical
service, and upgraded to first Un­tenant
from second lieutenant was
Robert T. Giles, assistant insurance
officer of section A.
CO Speaks
COL. CONVERSE R. LEWIS
Absenteeism
Of Civilians
Decried By CO
Greensboro's war workers this
week attended a production rally
held in the Carolina theater un
der the joint sponsorship of the
AAF Overseas Replacement Depot
and the local war production com­mittee.
An audience of some 1,500 heard
addresses by Col. Converse R.
Lewis, post commander, and Mayor
W. H. Sullivan of Greensboro and
saw the premiere of "Army Air
Forces Report," a documentary
film showing the development of
the AAF and its dependency on
civilian production.
In the opening address, Mayor
Sullivan spoke highly of the past
record of Greensboro workers, but
pointed out that a survey in June
had revealed that man hours lost
due to absenteeism in Guilford
county represented a monetary
loss of some $28,000. He continued
to say that while in the last two
weeks there had been a decrease
of 15 to 20 per cent in unau­thorized
absences, the increasing de­mand
upon industry makes it im­perative
that absenteeism be red­uced
to an absolute miniumum and
production be stepped up to the
maximum.
Col. Lewis in his talk brought
home to the audience the supreme
importance of the civilian's place
in the war effort. He declared,
"Now that our air, ground and
naval forces are battering at the
gates of Hitler's Europe, your role
becomes increasingly important.
Behind our fighting forces must be
mountains of supplies and equip­ment
piled in invasion storage de­pots."
Continuing, the Colonel warned,
one of our big problems today is
the fact that most of us feel that
the war is practically won and
it is just a matter of a few days
before the enemy will surrender.
We in the Army wish it was that
simple. We know the fight has just
started."
They Hear And Solve GI Problems
UNIT COUNSELLORS have been appointed by
each section commander to help enlisted men solve
personal problems. To prepare them for their jobs,
counsellors have completed a special course of in­struction
under Capt. M. H. Adler, director of the
Post consultation service. Capt. Adler is shown
lecturing a counsellors class. The program is new
to AAF posts and bases. Story above.
Base Adopts
Counsellor
Plan For EM
Non-Coms Picked
To Offer Aid
What's your problem,
Joe?
Got a gripe? Feeling
blue?
Tell your story to the unit
counsellor. He can help.
A counsellor program—something
new to the AAF—was initiated on
the Base this week by Col. Con­verse
R. Lewis, commanding offi­cer,
to help the enlisted men solve
personal equation problems.
One specially-picked counsellor
has been named by Section com­manders
for each 250 attached men
with leeway to give advice, in­formation
and general help to any
EM who seeks it.
Most counsellors are non-coms
who know the Army ropes. All
have been given special training
for their new job and they will
relieve first sergeants of many
problems not properly catalogued
as Section or unit business, al­though
it may have a bearing on
group morale and discipline.
Every enlisted man who has a
problem, or thinks he has one—
whatever it may be—is urged to
lay it before a counsellor and ask
his help. If the counsellor can't
furnish the help himself, he knows
where it can be found.
Acts As Clearing House.
Supported by every resource and
facility on the Base, the program
is a clearing house for any con­ceivable
type of request, complaint
or ailment that can worry a GI.
Through the counsellors, the prob­lem
is routed to the one facility
or auxiliary here which has the
right answer and which can supply
the help needed.
Linked to the program are the
services of the Red Cross, chap­lains,
section commanders, classi­fication
officers, medics, special
services, personal affairs and legal
aid offices and the Base consults*
tion service. '
Work of the counsellors is su­pervised
by the consultation serv­ice
of which Capt. M. H. Adler is
the director. Counsellors, Capt.
Adler said, have been selected on
the basis of their AGTC scores,
interest in personal problem work,
their ability to make common sense
decisions and their appreciation of
the viewpoints, problems and diffi­culties
of others.
All problems brought to coun­sellors
by GIs and all discussions
relating to the problems will be
treated as confidential matters.
There will be no kick-back on the
GI for laying his case or his squawk
before a counsellor.
A similar program has been con­ducted
in the Army ground forces
for several months with notable
improvement in discipline arlcS mo­rale,
it was said. The ORD'is one
of the first AAF bases to adopt the
plan.
Bombing By B-29s
Over Japan Told
By 'Yank' Writer
NEW YORK. — "We are over
Japan now. Through breaks in the
clouds I can see the ground below.
The Japanese blackout is perfect.
Then dead ahead, a faint white
globe — Jap searchlights over Yaw-ata,
the target city . . . our bomb
doors are swinging open . . ."
This, is the way Sergeant Lou
Stoumen, 'Yank' staff correspond
dent, begins his description of
thirty seconds over Japan aboard a
Superfortress. Stoumen's eye-wit­ness
account of the borhbing of Yaw-ata,
Nippon's Pittsburgh, is featured
in the July 21st issue of "Yank,"
The Army Weekly, on sale at the
Pbst Exchange today.
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Two Air Forces,
Fifth And 13th, Led
By Lt. Gen. Kenney
AUSTRALIA — (CNS) — Gen.
MacArthur's great new air arm, the
Far Eastern Air Force, combined
two battle-wise outfits, the Fifth
and Thirteenth AAF and is head­ed
by Lt. Gen. George C. Ken­ney.
As its name implies, the Far
Eastern Air Force will have as its
field of operations the Philippil
and the East Indies.