Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Wednesday february 16, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 9 Sac b52s simulate nuclear attacks Over Northwest by Leverett g. Richards North american newspaper Alliance Fairchild air Force base  world s Best bombers Fly with the 92d bombardment Wing at this strategic air come base. One of the 92d s Crews officially won the title in International Competition last october. The base is commanded by col Donald e. Hillman. On some business trips Crews of the Boeing b52s Are trained in carrying a nuclear bomb As destructive As All the bombs dropped by Allied bombers during world War ii. The b52 is the free world s biggest fastest longest Range highest flying operational bomber. On a recent Mission i flew with a Crew 5,000 Miles in 9 hours and 45 minutes using the techniques that would be used on a flight against an enemy. We bombed by radar an enemy City. But we carried no bomb atomic or otherwise. Contrary to popular belief nuclear bombs Are not nor Mally carried on routine training flights in the . Maj c. R. Jennings our aircraft commander could t have picked a worse Day. Taxiing out in a Snow storm he had to Force the 10-ton Wing tip tanks of the 185-foot wings through five foot snowdrifts to reach the runway. But nothing stops Sac. At Zero hour he shoved the eight throttles to the firewall. The eight Jot engines began to Buck and scream with the fury of 80,000 wild horses or As Jet Power is measured 80,000 pounds thrust. The 200-ton bomber leaped Down the runway bucking like a Bronco. This is the army changes policy on e8 assignments by Marty Gershun staff writer Washington is army b8s and e9s will be Given duty assignments through the army department on an individual name basis just like officers an army spokesman said Here. The system is identical to the one used in assigning officers and until a new form is prepared e8s, and later e9s, will Complete the same assignment form the officers use the spokesman explained. In addition to enhancing prestige and boosting morale the new assignment system provides for maximum use of key personnel the spokesman pointed out. Command requisitions the army department controls assignments worldwide and each major command must requisition the e8s and s9s it needs from the Pentagon. While other enlisted assignments Are controlled by major commands and guided by the individual s military occupational specially skill and Grade the army s super sergeants Are picked by name As Well As skill the spokesman said the new system also provides for e8s and e9s to ask for assign ments in the . Or overseas As they prefer. The overseas assign ments Are based on .-wide rather than lower command Levels. And length of duty in tire .. Is an important Factor in determining who goes overseas he explained. Area choices whenever possible we. Try to give a Man the area he chooses the spokesman declared adding that e8s and e9s will get four to five months Advance notice on their overseas assignments. On re assignments to the ., they get about 60 Days notice. We Are alerting e8s now for overseas assignments in july the spokesman said. But one of the most important features of the new system is that a Man gets individual attention and the army knows what it is getting he explained. Darby Wos install president leghorn Italy special the . Army warrant officers Assn. Here has installed two Orel e. Markin As president for another term. Super radios for flying missile bases the Globe shrinks still further not Only in the hands of the sketching artist but also in Range of communications equipment installed in new b25g missile platform bombers entering service with the strategic air come at Omaha neb. They carry radios giving worldwide voice communications under conditions that would Block out Sig nals of aircraft radios now in use. Up photo Pentagon teams Survey ship unloading in conic St. Nazaire France special army and Navy evaluation teams from Washington Are Here to con duct a time and motion study in the discharge techniques of the Roll on Roll off cargo ship Comet. The discharge of vehicles rang ing from 1%-ton trailers and % ton trucks to 46-ton Crawler cranes is being aided by Boom cranes and a stress reducing horizontal stabilizing bar. Washington directs study the study was directed by the office of the chief of transportation and military sea transport service in Washington. Brig Gen f. D. Atkinson us a eur chief of transportation and col Burton k. Miles com z transportation officer Are at this French Atlantic port to watch the tests. S changes Are being studied in the Roll on Roll off technique first developed a year ago. Among the visitors Here for the study is it col c. R. Mason co of the transportation trailer service Agency at Brooklyn . 85 in 3d army div win High school diplomas Frankfurt special eighty five enlisted men received diplomas in the first High school level graduation exercises conducted by combat come c of the 3d army div. The class ranging in age from 17 to 41 and in Grade from private to master sergeant earned the diplomas by passing the High school general educational develop ment tests. Sgt was film Vihlo Tough guy9 Mannheim Germany special from the bowery to Baum older from Hollywood to Heilbronn from Tough Guy to trooper that s been the life of m sgt Ray Dixon of the 8th Cav. Dixon who started his movie career with the dead end kids and the Little Tough  worked with such stars As Judy Garland Mickey Rooney Ann Sheridan and Jane Withers. He later turned to slapstick com Edy and joined Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall and the bowery boys. He was also Hoagy Carmichael s stand in in the Best years of our  Dixon joined the Marine corps in 1941 and served until 1945. Returning to Hollywood he found that times had changed and comedy had taken a Back seat. He began to write Short stories and met with moderate Success. He now is engaged in writing a novel. Several of his stories have been published he says and his great desire is to write a play. Since resuming his military Ca reer in 1949, Dixon still has maintained his interest in acting. He has appeared in various 8th inf div shows and keeps abreast of current television via tapes. Dixon who now makes his Home in Florida is not the Only talented member of his family nor is he the Only one connected with the service. His father is with the strategic air come. His wife not to be outdone played the part of a wac in the movie a Day the 6th of  Dixon s 8-year-old daughter Pam Ela has aspirations to be a Singer to which the sergeant says i Hope not Dixon advises would be stars to study study and study some More and Don t go out to Holly Wood expecting you be arrived inhere you. Never Stop  they la know town and will of seen building Safe underground bomb shelters los Angeles a for the first time the air Force now believes it can build Safe under ground bomb shelters an air Force officer told the american society of civil engineers Here. Within the past year new de signs have been discovered which resist ground Shock caused by nuclear explosions said capt John d. Peters of the air Force ballistic missiles division. As a result of much research by a number of agencies under con tract to Abmd we now feel that we have adequate information to design such structures with a High degree of Confidence he said. Peters said underground Struc Tures such As bomb shelters and missile launching facilities Are subject to two types of motion under nuclear attack. One Type of motion displaces the entire Structure. The other makes it vibrate dangerously. He said the discovery of How to resist such shocks resulted from studies of the elasticity and plasticity of soils but did not elaborate. Longest runway in the Pacific Northwest -13,500 feet and temporarily one of the roughest. Once in the air the monster with the weight of eight boxcars and tie Power of 20 diesel Loco motives soared like a glider to 36,000 foot. The Only sound As we swam far above the snowstorms that blanketed the whole North West to a height of 24,000 feet was the thunderous whispering of the air whistling past the Blunt nose of the bomber. If this had been for real we could have flown faster than 550 Man and higher than 50,000. Kven at 440 Mph and 36,000 feet Here was Little time for talk. Every one of the six men on the Crew was Busy All the time. Boise bombed we finally bombed Boise Idaho from 40,000 feet dropping radio signals instead of bombs. Target a was a downtown build ing or rather the Northwest Corner of its roof. The Bombardier with 17 years experience behind him used Gowan Airfield As an aiming Point offsetting his bomb by a Complex system built into the radar bomb sight. Up to this Point Jennings had flown the 400,000-Pound bomber with the gentle precision of a sur Geon. But As the simulated a bomb was dropped he whipped the huge ship into a Steep Bank with the Speed of a fighter and soared away at a 90-Clegree Angle to put the maximum distance Between the Jlane and the cataclysm that would below. Before the Boise "bombing,"3 Ortland ore., provided a practice bomb run. The Forks of the co Umbria and Willamette River made in unmistakable target but the magic scope could be narrowed Lown to pick out even the Piera on each of the five Bridges Span Ning the Willamette nearly eight Miles below us in the swirling Snow and the fog. Turning Over Portland we headed for the ground controlled intercept station at Mcchord fab near Tacoma Wash. The base s signals were jammed so successfully we probably could have passed through an enemy radar net with out giving away our altitudes. From Tacoma we headed South to the Vicinity of Medford ore., for a drink of fuel from one of Sac s airborne filling stations Tallman 28." contacting the Fil Ler Boom at 450 Mph at 35,000 feet in rough air is like ducking for apples blindfolded while tied to eight bucking Broncos. Then wham the Long pipe clanged into the open port above the cockpit of the bomber. Less experienced Crews have tried operating the Boom and washed the bomber s Windshield with jf4 Jet fuel or ripped the skin of the bomber which is worse. High Altitude flying requires Cabin pressurization and continuous use of oxygen masks. If you suddenly lose pressure at these altitudes you have but 15 seconds to live without oxygen at 40,000 feet. Medals go to 2 soldiers of 14th army Cav regt Frankfurt special two members of the 14th army Cav regt were honoured at award presentation ceremonies Here. Up 5 Donald Bird received the Bronze Star for bravery in action in the european theater during world War ii. S sgt Manuel Navedo received the purple heart for wounds received in the korean conflict. Navy cites firms for work in Spain Washington is three of the largest contracting firms in the . Have been cited by the Navy for their joint efforts in the Spanish bases program for the Navy Bureau of Yards and docks. Receiving the Secretary of the Navy certificate of Merit for their construction work were Brown and Root of Houston Tex. Raymond International inc., of new York and the Walsh construction co., of Davenport Iowa and new York. The original contract for the Spanish bases was signed Jan. 27, 1954, and All installations scheduled to be built under the program Are now usable Complete