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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1942
Page
7
The link trainer at Minterfield, overseen by Lt. B S Sauter, uses duplicated BT-13 instrument panels to teach instrument flight and radio procedures. Cadets complete about 20 hours to graduate, first soloing a basic trainer and later training in adverse weather conditions with radio contact to a recorder beside the plane.
Cadets begin with basic flight instruction at Minter then receive an instrument check by a basic trainer officer. Regular link trainer inspections ensure instruments stay precise and the aircraft remains in top condition. Training costs range from 35 to 40 dollars per hour, offering valuable hands on experience for future civilian pilots.
The Automobile Club of Southern California cites that 4% of cars ever sold remain in operation, with 1940 tax revenue around a billion and a half dollars. By end of 1940 US motor vehicles registered hit 32 million. life expectancy rising as cars age.
Col Karl Benetsen announced eight additional assembly centers for Japanese evacuees to house about 37 000 when completed. Site list includes Marysville Sacramento turLock fair grounds Stockton fair grounds Merced fair grounds Fresno fair grounds Pinedale and Tulare fair grounds.
Private Albert Witman, 21, Army Air Corps, stationed at Minter Field, will tell his wartime tales on the NBC program It Happened In the Service airing April 8. He describes fighting with the French in Flanders and Dunkirk, capture by Germans, escape from a concentration camp, and his postwar voyage to the United States to rejoin the fight.
An aviation cadet at Maxwell Field faced a simulated bailout when the Link Trainer hungers opened and the cadet, unbelted and at 2000 feet, instinctively reached for a parachute not worn. The instructor rushed in and prevented a fatal fall at the hangar.
Major General C. P. Echols announced mass production of wooden training planes for the Army Air Forces. Dr. William W. Christmas urged large scale wooden aircraft to break bottlenecks, noting current primary trainer uses wood and plastics without aluminum. England, Russia, and Germany are building combat ships from wood, but Echols has no plans for wooden combat ships and metal plans remain unchanged.
An Air Corps Officers training school is established at Miami Beach Florida to train enlisted men warrant officers and aviation cadets failed in flight for administrative duties. The 12 week course leads to second lieutenants in the Army of the United States assigned to the Air Corps.
The War Department reports the typical new soldier stands 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 144 pounds, with a 33 inch chest and 31 inch waist. He wears a 4D shoe and size 7 hat. First year upkeep costs include 404.65 for maintenance, 48 cents daily feeding, and 162.05 for clothing.
Public defense appeal urges buying U S defense bonds or stamps with every pay day to finance military needs. Citizens are urged to contribute to national security through regular bond or stamp purchases.
The Army Air Forces now centralized under Lt Gen Henry H Arnold with full control of power and duties across the three divisions. An advisory council via Col C P Cabell and Col L Norstad assists, as the air arm becomes a separate War Department–style unit with A1 A2 A3 A4 staff divisions and an air inspector.
The text lists divisions such as Director of Military Requirements and Public Relations Officer, each headed by a chief reporting to the Air Staff chief. Other units include Air Surgeon, Air Judge Advocate, Budget Officer, Materiel Command, Communications Command, Ferry Command, Weather Command, Technical Training Command, Flying Training Command, Proving Ground Command, Air Service Command, and The Air Forces.
Minter Field fills with Texas recruits under Lt Cartright Hunter and Sgt William C Dickson. Recruits arrive from Texas for a five week training period before joining existing squadrons. Capt Braswell and Lt Bowmen lead Companies A B C with their respective sergeants and acting first sergeants assisting.
Lt. William Jauer and Sgt. Wellner Brown endured a 36 hour crash ordeal after a search flight crash in the Sierra Nevada. Brown trekked 23 hours through snow to a term house for aid, a forest ranger station alerted searchers, and both men survived exposure and frostbite. Jauer planned his upcoming marriage to Marion Bodkin while Brown, 22, from Lincoln California, had 11 months in service. A California UC survey notes gender ratios in civilian defense training.
The Emblem of Honor, a gold plated pin with eagle, chevron, gerl and star, will be awarded free to any mother with four or more sons serving in the Army Navy Maine Corps and Coast Guard. Mothers families and sweethearts of service members are eligible to wear the emblem adopted by Homefolks to honor loved ones in the armed forces.
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