Army pilots train at Huron College under War Training Service
84 army flying students complete an eight week course with 108 hours ground school and 75 hours of flight in instruments and actual flying. The program blends Link trainer and commercial qualifying courses and feeds 42 new students monthly. Dakota Aviation Company operates at W.W. Howes Airport providing 27 planes and 21 instructors with no student crashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training Service
Army Air Transport Command
Air Corps
Pueblo
Colo
CAA
Army Air Corps Reserve
Huron College
Dakota Aviation Company
C. H. Fisher
Third Street
Ww. W. Howes
Taylorcrafts
Rearwins
Stimsons
Huron
Dakota Aviation
William Latta
Hastings
Neb
University of Nebraska and Hastings College
Hays
Kansas
Sioux City
ED Hudson
Link Traizier
Link
Transconitinental
Western Airlines
Kansas City
Eagle Nest Flight Center
Albuquerque
Mex
England
South West Airways
Phoenix
Ariz
Iowa Airplane Company
Des Moines
Air Corps Reserve
First War Training Service Students Appear at Huron Theatre
The first students to complete the linked War Training Service course at Huron College and W W Howes Airport gave a public performance at the Huron Theatre on Sunday May 30 in a matinee of Air Force. Marion Walker presented Ed Youngs of Dakota Aviation Company who outlined the advanced flying program and reviewed student progress. No formal graduation is planned before they depart this week as they finish required work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Training Service
Huron College
W. W. Howes
Huron Theatre
Air Force
Marion Walker
Ed Youngs
Dakota Aviation Company
De Smet Coach Compiles Statistics on Teams
De Smet High School coach Ernest Lunn is compiling statistics in County Agent Sayre’s office. Lunn has trained basketball, track and football teams over the past year at the high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Smet
Ernest Lunn
Sayre
Lunn
War Training Service leaders at Huron with CAA staff
The War Training Service at Huron heads a CAA force including Frederick G. Hoffman and Chester Shimp supervising maintenance and safety. The group, active since 1941, features aeronautical inspectors, pilots, and instructors such as Ralph Horn and Don Diegel guiding flight training and inspections across offices in Kansas City, Lincoln, and Dakota Aviation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Z Vonos J. Chester Shimp
CAA
General Inspection Office
Atlantic City
N. J
General Inspection Division
Kansas City
Ralph Horn
Lincoln
Neb
Huron
Shimp
Fairchild Aircraft Company
Hagerstown
Army
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Von
Students Train Indoors With Link Instrument Trainers
The article details three Link instrument trainers at 224 Third Street Southwest used by War Training Service students from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. They simulate real flight in a hooded cockpit with remote controls, wind, radio beams, and weather patterns. Instructors, led by Ed Hudson, guide students through two training phases culminating in instrument rating with both feet off the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Link Organ Factory
United States
Hudson
War Training Service Students From CPT Grow Across Camps
The Civil Aeronautics Administration started civilian pilot training in 1938 and it expanded into a war training program. Thirteen colleges joined the CPT experiment, with Huron College contributing early classes and later expanding to cross country training. Enlistees moved into the Army Air Corps Reserve as the program evolved into the CAA War Training Service with more planes and facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Becchetti
CAA
Shecks
Hibbing
Minn
Army Air Corps
Chanute Field
Brooks
Randolph Fields
Tex
Chanute
Army
Northwest Airlines
St. Louis
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Air Corps
United States
Huron College
W. W. Howes
Army Air Corps Reserve
CAA War Training Service
Huronians Pick Pierre for 1944 War Conference
At the State war conference of the Federated Business and Professional Women's Club held in Pierre June 4 6 Huron was chosen as the 1944 meeting place. Delegates Este Hatfield Margaret Dilley Mildred Terry Miriam Jenkins Katherine Delsing Evalynn Kent and Martha Hunter attended. The laminar flow wing is cited as why the Mustang is the fastest airplane for its horsepower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated Business and Professional Women’s Club
Pierre
Huron
Este Hatfield
Margaret Dilley
Mildred Terry
Miriam Jenkins
Katherine Delsing
Evalynn Kent
Martha Hunter
Combined Course At Huron Follies Intensive Training
Students enter a combined course at Huron College and W W Howes Airport after 24 weeks of intensive ground and flight training. With 55 flying hours in the present course they total 160 or more solo and dual hours, advancing to further training and potential entry into air corps glider schools or naval commissions. They emerge as veterans ready for higher, specialized goals.
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Huron College
W. W. Howes
CAA
Air Corps
Navy
Airlines
Army
Four South Dakota Youths Held War Prisoners In Italy
The War Department released a list naming 403 U S soldiers held as prisoners of war by Italy, with next of kin notified. Among those listed under South Dakota are CpL Erwin Buechler from Bowdle, Oliver E King from Hilland, Cpl Lyle D Waddington from Redfield, and Pvt Melvin F Yellow Cloud from Rosebud, with mothers or fathers identified for each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
United States
Italy
U.S. Army
South Dakota
Erwin Buechler
Elizabeth Buechler
Bowdle
Oliver E. King
Hilland
Lyle D. Waddington
John Waddington
Redfield
Melvin F. Yellow
Grace Yellow Cloud
Rosebud
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Hurohite
Faulkton A. L. A
Faulkton
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Hurona
Frederick G. Hoffman
Spearfish
McCook
Hayfield
Randolph Field
Inland Airlines
Army Primary
Chickasha
Okla
Vous
Robert K. Watts
Dakota Aviation Radio Department
Bismarck
KFYR
North Dakota Motor Patrol
WTS
Bismarck Flying School
Don Diegel
Denver
Curtiss-Wright Flying Service
Dallas
Alexander Aircraft Company
Colorado Springs
Plains Airway
Cheyenne
George
Jeff) Larghe
Air
Kane
Billings
Mont
Comercial Airlines
War ‘Training Service
Americal
Company Sa.deing
J-W
Bill) Worner
W. W. See
Marl Bank Bldg
the Thatelers Ins. CO
Hartford, Conn
CPT
Army Reserve
New War Training Service
Huron Follies
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