European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of Fly vehicle processing.  Page 11 cont from Page 11 make it without stopping to fill up on the  Oil cans polish cleaner and other in flammables must be taken out of the car. Tools enough to make minor repairs can stay in the car but no expensive tool boxes containing enough gadgets to do a ring and valve Job. Be sure that your spare is Good rein Furt warned. Sometimes the car gets a Flat after we have accepted it and it must have a Good spare so we can change the tire. Don t put a coating of grease on your Chrome to protect it. You la have to wipe it off. Wax and polish the Chrome. It will be Good enough. No cars Are stowed above deck exposed to Salt water Spray. They Are All put Down in the  Reinfurt suggested that car owners spend a few minutes and read Usa eur circular 55-233, which explains in detail what can be left in cars being shipped Back to the states. We had one camper who arrived in his bus completely equipped with pots pans food and everything to go camping the minute he arrived in new York Reinfurt recalled. Car processing takes anywhere from 15 minutes up. If the Auto is a Klunker with As Many dents As a hammered Copper plate time must be taken by the checker to Lis tall the damage. A new car can Breeze right through the processing line the Captain added. Outside mirrors Windshield wipers floor Mats and Hub Caps Are removed and stored in the car. Then the Auto gets a steam Bath to remove under fender dirt that May carry Plant virus and fungus. The car then goes up on a ramp and the gasoline is drained. Incidentally the salvaged gasoline is poured into cars arriving from the states. One other thing Reinfurt cautioned. Since the Gas tank drainage plug May be rusted or corroded it s Best to have it loosened at Home before you ship your car. If the processing Center has to tear out the plug to Drain the Ras no damage claim can be filed by the  the Gas in the Carburettor is burned off by running the. Engine Battery terminals Are disconnected and taped. The car is officially dead and is hauled off to a lot to await  your Battery is filled before leaving Home it. Will gel a Good charge on the trip and probably won t be dead when you pick your car up in new York. Reinfurt advises Drivers to come before payday if they can. Most people wait in til they get paid before coming up and the line is usually longer. Chances Are if you arrive after 3 pm you won t be processed that Day. Just put the car in line and save your place for the next  t count on getting a ride Back with Drivers picking up their cars. Most of Thorn accessories such As Windshield Wip ers outside mirrors Are removed. Have left by the time the turn ins have been processed. Enlisted men Reinfurt pointed out can slay at the transient billets free. They Are a few minutes walk from the vehicle proc Essing Center. So is the mess Hall snack bar movie and other facilities. A bus runs every hour to the main Railroad station in Bremerhaven. Officers and enlisted men can stay in town at the dependent s hotel for a Dollar a night. The bus to the station stops at thedoor. Our Job is to give the Best service pos sible Reinfurt summed it up. Arid we can do this if the car owners make sure they have All the necessary papers and know the regulations covering  a 20th tactical 1 Gater Wing f100 blasts off from wheelus runway during one of the Wing s stints in North Africa. Autos Hub Caps Are removed and stored in car. Godfrey watches As his car is hoisted aboard the Wolverine  team cleaning to remove fungus carrying a Jet the stars and stripes he 20th tactical fighter Wing flies super sabres out of Raf Sta Tion Wethersfield England. But hardly month goes by when there in t a detach ment of nearly 100 20th airmen operating in the heat of the North african desert. Some 70 of the men Fly Down in a bigc124 on a seven hour non Slop trip spend 30 Days in the desert and Fly Back to eng land. The pilots Fly Down in f100d super sabres 15 at a time for two week periods. What do they do there 1,400 Miles from Home How do they live what is their Mission the Basic purpose of the 20th s tactical squadrons is obviously top flight capability of the fidos. Proficiency in both aircraft and weapons is. Essential to accomplishing the Wing s nato Mission. This in addition to actual piloting experience includes bombing and use of the super Sabre s four 20-mm  make this  training possible Safe authorities in recognition of the space and weather limitations of the a gagging it up bit pilots of the 55th arrive at the Center s flight line. 1st it Miguel Morris t sgt Wayne Quakenbush both a a Check 25 Pounders. Tuesday july v1959 " " a pair of the Wing s super sabres Over the libyan desert. The stars and stripes and Tho Conlin ont Sot up the Safe weapons testing Center at wheelus a Libya. There could be a places better suite for the Job. Six Safe wings of which the 20th is one Send their squadrons on periodic try to wheelus. The 20th sends its three squadrons the 55th, 771 h and 79th to wheelus roughly every Throe months for periods of approximately 30 Days each. The most recent 20th unit to spend a month at wheelus was the 55th tactical fighter so. But to Call it a purely 55th try would be misleading. What happened in reality was the setting up of a 20th tactical fighter Wing in miniature. The 55th supplied the fidos 15 pilots and 25 maintenance and support personnel. But along too were 24 men from the 20th armament and electronics so 14 Field maintenance men four air policemen and three  of the 20th at wheelus is that residential Section of the base known As Tiger  one Story White huts provide living quarters. There is a mess Hall nearby with officers and airmen eating together. There Are recreation clubs for airmen and  on the wheelus flight line the 20th has its own hangar and operations room along with an orderly tent and an Arma ment and electronics a a tent. These facilities Are used by All three 20th  try at wheelus gives us that concentrated gunnery and bombing training and flying time which any top Squadron needs to keep in shape says maj Raymond. Stewart the 55th commander generally speaking we Fly four missions a Day and six on the two Days we do night Fly ing. So during the 30-Day period the Squadron gets in around 650 hours of flying All  and bombing is conducted at the Elotia Range 75 Miles Southwest of wheelus. Several kinds of bombing meth ods Are used including Low and High Altitude bombing. It Means hard flying for the pilots each of whom spend two. Weeks at  they seem to like it. As 1st it David Stroup a 55th Pilot  wheelus is really a Pilot s dream. The visibility is marvelous and the base facilities Are  is a change and a Challenge to the Safe men who go there. There is plenty of hard work to be done under the hot african Sun. But there is also a rare sense of camaraderie and the pleasure of an important Job Well done