The ORD news [April 20, 1945]

              1060TH AAF
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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.
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•
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
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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
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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.