Fairchild Employees Recreation AssociationSeason Winds to Spring Sports
The Fairchild Employees Recreation Association reports a undefeated winter season with Scarlet Hurricane among teams in the Maryland Industrial Recreation Association. With winter sports nearing end, champions in basketball and bowling are likely, while spring activities expand to softball baseball golf and more, including in-plant leagues and the Painbil Camera Club with 35 members.
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Scarlet Hurricane
Rangers
Purchild
Painbil Camera Club
Fullrree Recreation Decor
FRRA
Fairchild Proyees’ Recreation Association
Fairchild
Fairchild Built Wings Carry PBMs Million Miles
The article praises the Martin PBM Mariner patrol bombers built by Fairchild for the U S Navy fledgling air routes in the Pacific. It notes nine port aircraft serving U boats and later transport duties, with VR-1 and VR-500 squadrons achieving long, dangerous missions delivering engines, machinery, food, medicine and munitions to remote bases across the Pacific without a single man lost.
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Yamchila
Naval Air T
Pacific Islands
IWC
Fairchild Adopts Flexible Production Program At Hagerstown
Fairchild Aircraft expands to a flexible production program at its Hagerstown plant as Army trainer orders taper off. The Works Manager notes the shift relies on high volume private owner aircraft and will strain existing staff due to many experienced workers leaving for military service.
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Fairchild
Hagerstown
Army
Students Buy PT-19 Planes in War Bond Drive
Fairchild promotes a national Buy-a-Plane campaign with the Treasury and Army Air Forces. Students in 1300 schools sponsor PT-19 trainers and other aircraft by purchasing E Series bonds to fund planes for the Air Forces. University of Maryland leads with ten PT-19s. nine schools tie for second with six.
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Treasury Department
Army Air Forces
Fairchild
University of Maryland
Hagerstown
Fairchild Cargo Plane Nearing Completion at Hagerstown Plant
The Fairchild cargo plane project advances at Plant 2 with machinery in place as parts shops shift from PT-19 trainer production to cargo assemblies. The effort aims to speed a giant air freighter designed to carry troops munitions and heavy equipment to front lines, boosting wartime air logistics from Hagerstown.
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Fairchild
Hagerstown
Hess Body Works crafts UC-61K parts in wartime shop
Hess Auto Body Works in Hagerstown has produced tailwheel doors cockpit upholstery and cabin fittings for Fairchild Forwarder UC-61K. In 1943 twenty percent of output supported war aircraft with four full-time staff averaging 13 hours daily five days a week and extra Sunday work to meet schedules.
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Hagerstown
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Fairhill
Hess
Green Shed
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fairchild
Hess Auto Body
Fairchild “Forwarder
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Lightner
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Leiter
Zimmerman
C. Paxton
Barnhart, Deems
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Ohier
Coble
FERA
Fairchild Recreation Association
Maryland Industrial Recreation Assn
Martin Mariners
Naval Air Transport
Louie Fahnestock
Fairchild Aircraft
Liberty
Louis Fahnestock
Air Transport Command
H. H. Arnold
Pearl Harbor
Hess Body Works
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