European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1958 greater safety off the ground the stars and stripes singled out for top honors in Safe 9 Pitburg cited for maintenance Germany Pitburg has been named As the base with the Best preventive maintenance program in officials Here have according to capt Robert air installations word of this Honor was received in the official publication of the Safe he installations Engineer the 36th installations so spends about million each year main Taining the facilities used by the 36th fighter Day the squad Rons area of responsibility covers about 225 Square the installations both air Force and German take care of the maintenance of and buildings and Are responsible for refuse water sewage disposal refrigeration plants and transformer Sta we try to find and fix it before it goes smothers said in describing the operation of his smothers also credited the Moody program for helping the 36th unit gain the High Safe named for Moody air Force base in the program is based on a series of tests on improved installations procedures conducted Many maintenance techniques developed there have been incorporated into the Pitburg preventive maintenance smothers Aerial routes on a map inside one of tact Teal flight operations centers at it Mon photo corps unveils system i i a Ashington Espedal a Mobile flight operations to control army aircraft in any combat has developed by the army Sig research and development Triy i department of the army has flight control in military vans and Trail for tactical use to Battle army signal  experts be Rufee system May provide new for other military and a vol Tea authorities working to safer and faster flight con 1 requires by the Jet i development emphasizes the amt defense role of army fixed Wing aircraft helicopter Star artillery fire troop and mar rapid transport under soldiers and Many traffic control new Center differs from a air control towers because Are designed to regulate aircraft in route Between rather than at Landing and la primary role As a to the Center i a plan before Takeoff then provides him with in assistance from origin to bus of the control caravan l a loot operations other units include a radio shelter and two trailer diesel generators to per uninterrupted operation while is serviced or All can be airlifted or loaded the control Van is and can be floated with but a Landing Craft at the control staff Ion a chapter Roa reactivated France i Oia Umont chapter of the re officers hag been re and new officers Harold Stotz was elected at maj Henry and 1st it Norman Tor nine Stevens was chairman of the member keeps tabs on aircraft in their As signed sector of the knows where they Are what they Are doing and what hazards they Are with other control centers and ground they coordinates flights under instrument or Clear weather con keep in touch with pilots in the compile information on identification of Friendly and hos tile aircraft and of enemy ground close Liaison with antiaircraft missile and gun batteries is a critical weather reports Are aircraft buffeted or blinded by or crippled by enemy can be directed to the nearest land ing army medics set flu shots for october Washington medics will inoculate troops throughout the world with a new vaccine in the surgeon generals office has announced that shots of the Gen eral immunization vaccine for pro Lection against asian and three other strains of flu will be Given All army personnel on Active vaccination on a voluntary basis also will be offered in overseas areas to military families where army facilities furnish medical at inoculation of children younger than 6 years old is not usually recommended As a routine the surgeon general although the vaccine can be Given to Young sters from 3 months through 5 years of age if a need is Ohio couple adopts vets of sons War ii Squadron by Dick Regex North american newspaper Alliance Brooklyn a mass of steel six City blocks Long has become the second aircraft Carrier to be named the and among the persons who watched the christening 12 quiet men had a special reason for eleven of them were members of Carrier night group so whose planes wrote history when they roared from the flight deck of the old Independence for a baptism of fire Over the Pacific during world War the twelfth Man never saw the old but Mose Wil an insurance broker from had a special Rea 613 commodity housing units being built at chateau Roux a son for being he he standing in for his it Jug Gayle lieutenant Williams was also a member of so 41 the first squad Ron in the with night to Experiment fighting from the France Spe of 613 housing units for americans Here is expected to be completed in Decem announced the known As the cite de is located near base de deals in the Center of flight operations for air Materiel forces in the european area the housing construction features individual Homes designed along ranch style there will be 613 furnished units including 31 four bedroom 153 Large three bedroom 184 Small three bedroom and 245 Homes with two the construction Here is being financed by Sale of american farm mostly one special feature of the housing units Here is that they will have Radiant heating systems which will provide not Only heat for the Homes but hot water for the Resi Model Wolf stands guard in Squadron area because the care and feeding of real mascots often a the s8d fighter Day at Camp new Amsterdam in the Netherlands pm cod this steel and Concrete Wolf for display in the Squadron purchased by the men of the the Wolf was designed by Robert a leading sculptor in the the 32d is a part of the 36th air Force photo blacked out deck of the old in unharmed in the bloody months of the Battle for the Pacific combat he was killed at a Florida training base in weve travelled close to Miles visiting members of Gayles old Williams my wife and i try to keep in touch with All the i guess you might say the Independence was one of Gayles Best Williams said he and his wife Marian have traced about 100 members of the Squadron and sponsored two Squadron reunions since the their Columbus Home Lias become a Clearing House for letters from Squadron veterans scattered All Over the 100 sons we have More than 100 adopted says a Petite woman with a cheerful now weve even adopted a were Here for the Christ that makes us god i standing beside the Ohio couple was a 36yearold Engineer from Locust Long Harry Johnson is one of Gayles we were flying Side by Side off the Philippines when japanese ground guns got my Johnson when Gayle saw flames shooting from my he Cut in towards the strafing the japs and giving me a Chance to bail Johnson landed in a shallow Tore his Way barefooted through dense Jungle for three and finally stumbled into a band of filipino they hid him until the japanese re treated before the american army three months so now in a married Man with Rood Job and two Fine Johnson i still keep a pilots but i dont Fly at except on business for the its a funny i look at this new and i almost wish i could Fly for the Navy what a Beautiful ship the old whose keel was Laid in was originally intended to be a but the growing importance of air Power made construction of air Craft carriers a 1 priority de sense being built on a cruisers keel gave the old Independence a pretty narrow flight said col Burn onetime air combat intelligence officer for the unit at you can bet the deck seemed even decommissioned after the the old Independence was used As a target ship and severely dam aged in the Bikini atom blast in