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4 CHESTER (PA.) TIMES * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1953'AWeekend Air Warriors Enjoy TrainingI KirNo'In Troop Carrier Wing at New Castler By GENE BYER (Butcher, baker, candlestick mak-| er—Delaware Coumians from all! walks of civilian life are becoming airborne, thanks to the Air Force j Long-Range Reserve Program now j In operation.lt;; These civilians, several hundred j i:~ ■ of them from almost as many dif-£?.' ferer.t occupations, are airmen in ivv;. in the 512th Troop Carrier Wing based at New Castle County Air-y* port near Wilmington. j*u’. They’re weekend warriors, for although the Air Force requires yy 'members of the 512th to drill only one weekend a month, comes Fri-fi'- V day or Saturday of any week and yy most of the blue-uniformed troops start toward the base.Actually the 512th, for all pur-.■ poses, is the second to bear that/designation. There was another512th stationed at New’ Castle be-111 fore the outbreak of the Korean-XtvWar. When that war started theAir Force, like the Army and Navy It/- v found itself out on £ limb. Short of ££ i technicians, short of pilots, short of all the things needed to fight a war, the Air Force dipped into its'lt; - ■■ '■ ■'/?'.lt;V-:'»A;/*.....igu j*. /. 1V.£ ^ 5lt; .*/ ■. '•’• »V ^ ' * ’*■ ' 4At the head-of-the chow line is Pfc. Leonard Langford, left, of 1139 Holland St., Crum Lynne, who has beeti with the 512th for a year. He is an assistant foreman at Baldwin-Lima-Hamil-ton Corp. in civilian life.andSIXEcar
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Chester Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Apr 22, 1953
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