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1060TH AAF BASE UNIT (ORD) THE ORD NEWS fKc STAMP MAILS NEWS HOME VOL. 3. NO. 50. Greensboro, N. C, Friday, April 20, 1945. FREE DISTRIBUTION Launch Drive £ l or Bond ? Sales To GIs Seventh War Loan Campaign Started Lt James L. Beavers, assistant Personal Affairs officer, has been appointed officer in charge of the Seventh ( War Loan drive which opened at ORD this week, it was announced by Maj. L. B. Cannon, Personal Affairs officer. The ORD campaign will continue through May 7 as part of the nationwide drive, which ends on that date. A tentative outline of the post's bond-selling campaign was announced by Lt. Beavers yesterday, at which time he urged all personnel to take an active part in the drive and help the post attain the goals set for it. Due to the fluid situation of post personnel it was decided to set a goal based on percentage figures rather than on dollar total. However, it was stated that civilians are urged to purchase bonds in the amount of 18% of their salaries for the three month period. A large poster will be erected on the billboard located on the corner of Bessemer avenue and Fourth Street, on which will be displayed the current standings of the individual groups. These standings will only' include, for the military personnel, those bonds purchased through the allotment plan. Personnel on the post will be divided into the various squadrons, end the different departments in headquarters complement. Civilian personnel will come under the departments in which they work, while, as in the past, Post Exchange employees will be listed under a separate division. Arrangements are being made to have the Officers Wives club again aid in attaining the percentage goal set for the post. Maj. Cannon urges all personnel, military and civilian on the post to purchase as many bonds as possible during the Seventh War Loan drive to help bring victory sooner. a 30 ?? • ERNIE PYLE. To the frontline, foxhole soldier of this war there was and will ever be but one Ernie Pyle. The man who slogged through the mud and hell of front lines all the way from Africa to Europe to the Pacific—voluntarily sharing Army life at its roughest, because he felt it was his duty to do so— was cut down by a Jap machine gun bullet this week on a little island just off Okinawa. To GIs around the world, Pyle was their own reporter. He "Was one of them. He talked their language and he told their story-better than they could possibly tell it, the way they wanted it told. He was their spokesman, their interpreter, the link between them and he folks back home. Pyle hated war, with the hatred f one who had seen too much of t, yet he transferred to the Pacific only recently because he felt that Jie should continue telling the story of the American soldier in that theater as he had in others. New Commander-in-Chief PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN Shoulder Patch Parade Gen. Chennaulfs Tigers Get This Week's Salute A sincere salute from all personnel of this AAF Overseas Replacement Depot goes winging its way this week to the Fourteenth Air Force—small but scrappy flying outfit which entered its third year of operation on March 10. T p(» TVTp3,t New York (CNS)—Two meatless days a week—Tuesday and Friday i—have been decreed for aH the big city's restaurants and eating places by the city administration. Exempt are hamburger and frankfurter Joints. Reorienting their sphere of operation now that the Pacific theater forces under Gen. MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz are operating from the Philippines to attack Japanese snipping along the China coast, Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault's "Flying Tigers" are concentrating their entire effort on attacking the Japanese on China's mainland and in French Indo-China. The air force has a colorful background centering around Gen. Chen-nault. More so, perhaps, than any other air force, the story of the Fourteenth is the story of Gen. Chennault. Beginning his flying career during World War I. he has always been active in military aviation. Early in 1937 Gen. Chennault retired from the U. S. Army Corps and shortly afterward came to China as an adviser to the Chinese government with a commission in the Chinese Air Force. There begins the history of modern military aviation in China. Just about the time Gen. Chennault arrived in China this country was invaded by the Japanese. Nip aircraft roamed unopposed over China's cities until the former American Air Corps pilot developed air tactics to beat the Jap "beehive" formation. In addition, he [devised air raid warning networks which spread a11 over China. Yankee Volunteers I The Spring of 1911 saw a changing American Far East policy out of which came the now-famous American Volunteer Group, the AVG. These pilots, who had served with United States air services and civilian transport lines, went to China and under Gen. Chennault (then a colonel) started an air campaign against the Japanese invaders. Late in 1941 units of the AVG, on their first mission, attacked Jap bombers hitting Kunming and destroyed all but one of them. That was the beginning of the now almost legendary story of how a leader with but a handful of aircraft, almost no supplies and a small group of top-notch pilots gave the superior invading forces a battle which has kept them wary of American-manned airplanes ever sirice. During this time Gen. Chennault returned to active, duty with the United States Army Air Forces as a colonel and soon was promoted to brigadier general. In the summer of 1942 the Tenth U. S. Air Force took over the AVG and redesigned it as the China Air Task Force. The American government bought all the AVG's equipment and appointed Gen. Chennault (Continued Oh Page Three) Two Branch PXs Close On Sunday Capt. Peter Hartholz, Exchange officer announced this week that ef| fective April 22 Post Exchange branches No. 2 and No. 5 will be closed on Sundays until further notice. No. 2 is located in Building T-809 and No. 5 is in Building T-308. Curtailment of employees> has made necessary this economic move, Capt. Hartholz stated. He added that branch No. 8 in Building T-504 and- the main Post Exchange in T-104 are in the same localities and will be open as usual on Sundays to cater to the needs of the military personnel affected by the closing of the two branches. Post Personnel Pays Homage To Roosevelt Troops Attend Memorial Services For Departed Commander-in-Chief Members of this command joined America and the entire freedom-loving world last week in mourning the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 81st president of the United States and Commander in Chief of America's ffar-flung armed forces. At special memorial services held Right Shoulder! Veterans May Wear Former Unit Insignia Lay those scissors down, Joe, lay those scissors down! Overseas veterans who have been assigned to duty here under the AAF rotation policy, and who have felt a natural reluctance to discard the shoulder patch of their old outfits, need worry no longer. Under revised orders announced this week, they may continue to wear the old insignia—but on the right shoulder, in addition to the regular AAF patch worn on the left. The change'" in AR 600-40 which permits wearing or the overseas patch was announced this week in a telegram received at Post Headquarters from Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, CG of the AAF Personnel Distribution Command. Pending the printing of changes in AR 600-40, Paragraph 56f of those regulations is changed as follows, according to the announcement: "Personnel returned from overseas for assignment in the United States are authorized _ to wear the shoulder sleeve insignia of the' unit to which they were assigned overseas until they are permanently assigned to another unit, at which time the shoulder sleeve Insignia of the new unit will be worn on the left shoulder sleeve in accordance with the provision of C above. "The shoulder sleeve insignia of the overseas unit may be worn (but not required) in the same relative position on the right shoulder. Individuals may select the particular unit shoulder sleeve insignia they were assigned while serving overseas. Under no circumstances Will more than one such insignia be worn on the right shoulder sleeve at #time." on the post Sunday morning and in similar rites conducted that afternoon in Greensboro's Memorial stadium, ORD military personnel joined also in paying final homage and tribute to the memory of their fallen chief. President Roosevelt's passing last Thursday Afternoon came at a time when allied arms seemed on the threshhold of final victory in Europe and fulfillment of his dreams of a world at peace. News of his death was received by soldiers of this AAF Overseas Replacement Depot in much the same manner as it broke upon peace-loving peoples throughout the world. Disbelief, then shock and finally a deep feeling of personal loss—that was the emotional reaction of most Americans, in uniform or out, when the sad news arrived that the man who led this nation through two great crises—its greatest depression and its greatest war—had passed away. The President died quietly and peacefully, though unexpectedly, last Thursday afternoon of a cerebral hemhorrage, at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Guard Funeral Train Large contingents of ORD soldiers, including members of the post's WAC detachment, served as a guard of honor at the Greensboro railroad depot Friday night when the special funeral train bearing the body of the President from Warm Springs to the nation's capital, passed through the city shortly after midnight. As the train bearing their departed commander-in-chief passed (Continued On Page Three) FOR DELEGATE? Washington (CNS) — The Army Times, a civilian publication, has advanced the suggestion that cartoonist Sgt. Bill Mauldin be sent to the San Francisco World Security conference to represent the "Fox- Hole Fraternity." Sgt. Mauldin, the paper said, would be an ideal representative "ofevery tired, unshaven fighting man in our armed forces." Wanted: Photo Of Seventh AF Vets If you are a returned veteran of the Seventh Air Force, you are invited to "sit" for a group reunion photograph at 1 p. m. tomorrow, Saturday, at the Puto-lic Relations office. Building T-170. Next week's Shoulder Patch Parade will feature this overseas air force, with a salute to the men now serving with it. An illustrated story-history of the Seventh has been received for publication in the next issue of the ORD NEWS, and a group photo of all former members of the outfit now assigned here is needed to complete the weekly salute. Salute Old Buddies In The Fourteenth AF VETERANS who have returned from duty with Burton C. King and Augustine Catalano and (back the Flying Tiger outfit, these men who have been row) S/Sgt. Claude Carmelia and Walter Wip-assigned to duty at ORD pass along our salute this perfurth, T/Sgt. Christopher Bischoff, Sets. Paul week to the Fourteenth AF. Left to right are G. Cohn, Wayne R. Crusan and Adam Felts. CBI (front row) M/Sgt. Kenneth Underwood, S/Sgts. and Fourteenth AF insignia are inset.
Object Description
Title | The ORD news [April 20, 1945] |
Date | 1945-04-20 |
Editor(s) | Drall, Jordan C. |
Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945 Journalism, Military Greensboro (N.C.) Basic training (Military education) |
Topics |
Troops Overseas Replacement Depot and Basic Training Center 10 World War II |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The April 20, 1945, issue of The ORD News, published by the United States Army Basic Traing Center 10/Overseas Replacement Depot in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
Type | Text |
Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : [United States Army] |
Language | en |
Contributing institution | Greensboro History Museum |
Newspaper name | The ORD News |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT. This item is believed to be in the public domain but its copyright status has not been determined conclusively. |
Object ID | grmus_1945-04-20 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
Digitized by | North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (http://www.digitalnc.org) |
OCLC number | 871566902 |
Page/Item Description
Title | Page 1 |
Full text | 1060TH AAF BASE UNIT (ORD) THE ORD NEWS fKc STAMP MAILS NEWS HOME VOL. 3. NO. 50. Greensboro, N. C, Friday, April 20, 1945. FREE DISTRIBUTION Launch Drive £ l or Bond ? Sales To GIs Seventh War Loan Campaign Started Lt James L. Beavers, assistant Personal Affairs officer, has been appointed officer in charge of the Seventh ( War Loan drive which opened at ORD this week, it was announced by Maj. L. B. Cannon, Personal Affairs officer. The ORD campaign will continue through May 7 as part of the nationwide drive, which ends on that date. A tentative outline of the post's bond-selling campaign was announced by Lt. Beavers yesterday, at which time he urged all personnel to take an active part in the drive and help the post attain the goals set for it. Due to the fluid situation of post personnel it was decided to set a goal based on percentage figures rather than on dollar total. However, it was stated that civilians are urged to purchase bonds in the amount of 18% of their salaries for the three month period. A large poster will be erected on the billboard located on the corner of Bessemer avenue and Fourth Street, on which will be displayed the current standings of the individual groups. These standings will only' include, for the military personnel, those bonds purchased through the allotment plan. Personnel on the post will be divided into the various squadrons, end the different departments in headquarters complement. Civilian personnel will come under the departments in which they work, while, as in the past, Post Exchange employees will be listed under a separate division. Arrangements are being made to have the Officers Wives club again aid in attaining the percentage goal set for the post. Maj. Cannon urges all personnel, military and civilian on the post to purchase as many bonds as possible during the Seventh War Loan drive to help bring victory sooner. a 30 ?? • ERNIE PYLE. To the frontline, foxhole soldier of this war there was and will ever be but one Ernie Pyle. The man who slogged through the mud and hell of front lines all the way from Africa to Europe to the Pacific—voluntarily sharing Army life at its roughest, because he felt it was his duty to do so— was cut down by a Jap machine gun bullet this week on a little island just off Okinawa. To GIs around the world, Pyle was their own reporter. He "Was one of them. He talked their language and he told their story-better than they could possibly tell it, the way they wanted it told. He was their spokesman, their interpreter, the link between them and he folks back home. Pyle hated war, with the hatred f one who had seen too much of t, yet he transferred to the Pacific only recently because he felt that Jie should continue telling the story of the American soldier in that theater as he had in others. New Commander-in-Chief PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN Shoulder Patch Parade Gen. Chennaulfs Tigers Get This Week's Salute A sincere salute from all personnel of this AAF Overseas Replacement Depot goes winging its way this week to the Fourteenth Air Force—small but scrappy flying outfit which entered its third year of operation on March 10. T p(» TVTp3,t New York (CNS)—Two meatless days a week—Tuesday and Friday i—have been decreed for aH the big city's restaurants and eating places by the city administration. Exempt are hamburger and frankfurter Joints. Reorienting their sphere of operation now that the Pacific theater forces under Gen. MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz are operating from the Philippines to attack Japanese snipping along the China coast, Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault's "Flying Tigers" are concentrating their entire effort on attacking the Japanese on China's mainland and in French Indo-China. The air force has a colorful background centering around Gen. Chen-nault. More so, perhaps, than any other air force, the story of the Fourteenth is the story of Gen. Chennault. Beginning his flying career during World War I. he has always been active in military aviation. Early in 1937 Gen. Chennault retired from the U. S. Army Corps and shortly afterward came to China as an adviser to the Chinese government with a commission in the Chinese Air Force. There begins the history of modern military aviation in China. Just about the time Gen. Chennault arrived in China this country was invaded by the Japanese. Nip aircraft roamed unopposed over China's cities until the former American Air Corps pilot developed air tactics to beat the Jap "beehive" formation. In addition, he [devised air raid warning networks which spread a11 over China. Yankee Volunteers I The Spring of 1911 saw a changing American Far East policy out of which came the now-famous American Volunteer Group, the AVG. These pilots, who had served with United States air services and civilian transport lines, went to China and under Gen. Chennault (then a colonel) started an air campaign against the Japanese invaders. Late in 1941 units of the AVG, on their first mission, attacked Jap bombers hitting Kunming and destroyed all but one of them. That was the beginning of the now almost legendary story of how a leader with but a handful of aircraft, almost no supplies and a small group of top-notch pilots gave the superior invading forces a battle which has kept them wary of American-manned airplanes ever sirice. During this time Gen. Chennault returned to active, duty with the United States Army Air Forces as a colonel and soon was promoted to brigadier general. In the summer of 1942 the Tenth U. S. Air Force took over the AVG and redesigned it as the China Air Task Force. The American government bought all the AVG's equipment and appointed Gen. Chennault (Continued Oh Page Three) Two Branch PXs Close On Sunday Capt. Peter Hartholz, Exchange officer announced this week that ef| fective April 22 Post Exchange branches No. 2 and No. 5 will be closed on Sundays until further notice. No. 2 is located in Building T-809 and No. 5 is in Building T-308. Curtailment of employees> has made necessary this economic move, Capt. Hartholz stated. He added that branch No. 8 in Building T-504 and- the main Post Exchange in T-104 are in the same localities and will be open as usual on Sundays to cater to the needs of the military personnel affected by the closing of the two branches. Post Personnel Pays Homage To Roosevelt Troops Attend Memorial Services For Departed Commander-in-Chief Members of this command joined America and the entire freedom-loving world last week in mourning the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 81st president of the United States and Commander in Chief of America's ffar-flung armed forces. At special memorial services held Right Shoulder! Veterans May Wear Former Unit Insignia Lay those scissors down, Joe, lay those scissors down! Overseas veterans who have been assigned to duty here under the AAF rotation policy, and who have felt a natural reluctance to discard the shoulder patch of their old outfits, need worry no longer. Under revised orders announced this week, they may continue to wear the old insignia—but on the right shoulder, in addition to the regular AAF patch worn on the left. The change'" in AR 600-40 which permits wearing or the overseas patch was announced this week in a telegram received at Post Headquarters from Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, CG of the AAF Personnel Distribution Command. Pending the printing of changes in AR 600-40, Paragraph 56f of those regulations is changed as follows, according to the announcement: "Personnel returned from overseas for assignment in the United States are authorized _ to wear the shoulder sleeve insignia of the' unit to which they were assigned overseas until they are permanently assigned to another unit, at which time the shoulder sleeve Insignia of the new unit will be worn on the left shoulder sleeve in accordance with the provision of C above. "The shoulder sleeve insignia of the overseas unit may be worn (but not required) in the same relative position on the right shoulder. Individuals may select the particular unit shoulder sleeve insignia they were assigned while serving overseas. Under no circumstances Will more than one such insignia be worn on the right shoulder sleeve at #time." on the post Sunday morning and in similar rites conducted that afternoon in Greensboro's Memorial stadium, ORD military personnel joined also in paying final homage and tribute to the memory of their fallen chief. President Roosevelt's passing last Thursday Afternoon came at a time when allied arms seemed on the threshhold of final victory in Europe and fulfillment of his dreams of a world at peace. News of his death was received by soldiers of this AAF Overseas Replacement Depot in much the same manner as it broke upon peace-loving peoples throughout the world. Disbelief, then shock and finally a deep feeling of personal loss—that was the emotional reaction of most Americans, in uniform or out, when the sad news arrived that the man who led this nation through two great crises—its greatest depression and its greatest war—had passed away. The President died quietly and peacefully, though unexpectedly, last Thursday afternoon of a cerebral hemhorrage, at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Guard Funeral Train Large contingents of ORD soldiers, including members of the post's WAC detachment, served as a guard of honor at the Greensboro railroad depot Friday night when the special funeral train bearing the body of the President from Warm Springs to the nation's capital, passed through the city shortly after midnight. As the train bearing their departed commander-in-chief passed (Continued On Page Three) FOR DELEGATE? Washington (CNS) — The Army Times, a civilian publication, has advanced the suggestion that cartoonist Sgt. Bill Mauldin be sent to the San Francisco World Security conference to represent the "Fox- Hole Fraternity." Sgt. Mauldin, the paper said, would be an ideal representative "ofevery tired, unshaven fighting man in our armed forces." Wanted: Photo Of Seventh AF Vets If you are a returned veteran of the Seventh Air Force, you are invited to "sit" for a group reunion photograph at 1 p. m. tomorrow, Saturday, at the Puto-lic Relations office. Building T-170. Next week's Shoulder Patch Parade will feature this overseas air force, with a salute to the men now serving with it. An illustrated story-history of the Seventh has been received for publication in the next issue of the ORD NEWS, and a group photo of all former members of the outfit now assigned here is needed to complete the weekly salute. Salute Old Buddies In The Fourteenth AF VETERANS who have returned from duty with Burton C. King and Augustine Catalano and (back the Flying Tiger outfit, these men who have been row) S/Sgt. Claude Carmelia and Walter Wip-assigned to duty at ORD pass along our salute this perfurth, T/Sgt. Christopher Bischoff, Sets. Paul week to the Fourteenth AF. Left to right are G. Cohn, Wayne R. Crusan and Adam Felts. CBI (front row) M/Sgt. Kenneth Underwood, S/Sgts. and Fourteenth AF insignia are inset. |