European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse " the stars and stripes thursday june at Ste. Mere eglise a Dav Obs Waii a gusto f continued from Page 1, Munty to to liberated . Can troops. I. Architect for the museum is r Francois Carpenter among the 25rparatroopers of the 305th airborne inf now Sta in Mainz Germany on were " two sergeants who landed in the Village 18 years ago the 82nd and the e 101st air borne diva were dropped. The two Sec Darel s. Downland sgt maj Paul d. Nurmi re called the massive drop in the pre Dawn darkness was badly Dis Persed some troopers were Hung up in Trees and Cut Down by Ger Man fire before they could be re leased. Accident casualties among the Gilder troops were heavy. Many soldiers landed in areas flooded bythe germans the modernistic museum will contain a replica of a glider that was used to ferry the americans across the English Channel plus guns weapons and other souvenirs of the invasion. Ceremonies honouring the 18thanniversary of the a Day drop included a Parade of local civic groups from Ste. Mere eglise and soldiers of the 505th.the Parade began at the town Council cites i Safe units Hall and ended at the Village s 13th-Century Church where solemn religious ceremonies were con ducted by father Raoul Postel. After the mass Gavin and Mili tary attaches from Belgium the . And Canada began the Corner Stone laying ceremonies. In his speech to nearly 3 log persons Gavin said americans will come Back Many times to visit this museum and the area where the Brave men of the 82ntt after the ceremony. Gavin Janithe military attaches Laid Ftp at monuments to the 82ndl Wiesbaden Germany Spedale Safe units Tiave earned the. National safety Council award of Merit for the second year in a Row for the greatest reduction �29rper cent in Girj Plind accidents Aarfor Ceralde in 1961. With Only eight per cent of Usan military strength the command also logged 56 per Centof the air Force reduction in fatalities for the Yeai a award of Honor highest National safety Council award went co 17th air Force the 10th tactical reconnaissance Wing 81st"-tactical fighter Wing won its third consecutive annual National safely Council award the award of Merit this accomplishment is considered unusual in that the annual awards Are based upon reduction of accidents Over the previous two award repeaters include the 47th bomb Wing the 20th tactical reconnaissance. Wing and 3rd air Force All of whom this year received the award of Merit. Last year the 3rd air Force won the award of Honor other award winners this year were the 36th tactical fighter Wing the 50th tactical fighter Wing and the 7101st air base Wing. Safety Council rules permit Only one Wing level organization within a major air com Mand to receive the award of Honor although All the Safe units receiving the award of Merit this year were fully qualified for theaward of Honor. Letters announcing the awards Haye Bee sent to the units. The plagues will be presented to the unit commanders at a later Date. The basis for safety Council awards is Over All reduction in military and civilian accidents and fatalities government and private Auto Mobile accidents and Accident costs. A 2 Gols posts a in -., Washington pedal a e w assignments involving even offic -ers.rthree to positions in usar Jeur and uie retirement of an other have been announced Here a seer Clary of the army Elvis a Stahr or. They arc Brig s Gen Horace g. Davisson Deputy director of uj5. Neucom s logistics division named cd of the logistical com a effective june 22, i a Torry to -4th Amidol 3phn d. Torrey or office of " the assistant chief of staff for in Itell Glence Washington has been named -1 cd of tie 4th army diva its effective in july. Rol . Limes a goof the 2nd come tit Al Ike i will become us Jib uti pm in. ,. Brig Gen Hallett a Edson assistant division commander 103st airborne Dayto Campbell ky.,1 ha been j assigned to the mobility come Detroit of i be calve in september i 7 Thorlin transferred a i big Gen John the bran cd Ord Jahee Ank automotive come Detroit has been assigned to the maj it Sands missile Range Las Cruces n.m., to report in july. He has been nominated for promotion to1 major general " " r \ col Justin , office of the a join chiefs of St Tiff has Lujeen As in Gnu to vhf the army Korea of jct of in july " Cpl Donald a Bennett ,. To Jas \ army in Dement standing go coils nato . H h As Lujeen assigned to he St i army to Korea to report in july. Brig go a Lilton t a Ogden As jul Slang Deputy chief of staff for operations Norad ent air Force a eve Colorado Springs .colo., is retiring with .More., Thon 30 years Cut ervice effective june 30. Arizona group will present on stage Usa phoenicians slate tour of Usa eur special the phoenicians one of the South West s Best known musical groups win " soon enliven Usa eur s summer entertainment program dts on stage Usa during a month Long tour of Germany begin Ning june 10, it was announced Here by Usa eur special serv ices. Acclaimed As one of the nation finest Young entertainment groups the Phoenix ariz., troupe includes 19. Talented performers ranging Inage from is to 22 who display striking versatility in u fast moving Verley show that features music from the Best of Broadway Oklahoma " p a j a m a game Gypsy Wildcat Flower drum song of and the sound of since beginning As a program of the Valley of the Sun Myca in Arizona 10 years go the Phoenic ians have toured 50,000 mics White performing for 350,000 for their smart musical Stallngs the 30-Voics group has backed popular recording artists on such National labels As Ria Capitol and other famous names. Daring the past two years the phoenicians have toured abroad under the auspices of the depart ment of defense performing i Panama. Puerto Rico the British West indies and Bahama Island during 1960 and entertaining the . Armed forces in the far East omd in the summer of the Fol lowing year. Usa eur appearances of on stage Usa have been scheduled As follows Naco june 10-19,july 11-22 Saco june 20-july 10, div and 505th aim inf. Next enlist of honors was the of an american hag to the from the 505th. In a Salute to Thea. L. Hamblen jr., co of said i am proud of the compus ments of 18 years ago tint from that beginning our Asa Oder ton has become More significant each year our two countries co to Lune in Alliance to combat Altot who exploit t j the official party then toured tin remains of wartime fortification on Omaha and Utah beaches. & stopped at buy put of previously in Vii who. Waim companies by his wife visited the town of Bayeux along Althar mond t r t b o u i & to i n later fee French Veteran s affairs. J�-.?&. Later in the Day the Ambbia Dor was to at Tenet the inauguration of n memorial to Gen Eugene Meade Coffey at Ste. Hairfe Mont. R present for the ceremony1 Vii guests of the French to be two of Caffey s i tier. Dren or. Helen m. Caffey a iwo maj Benjamin f. Coffey. The it Keral came Shore with Thev first wave of the invasion Force and will killed in action shortly after to Londing. The girls Section of the la Strons Arizona singing Eiith male appearances scheduled m Naco Saco during a i we of to Start Titan talk Washington special Theair Force plans to begin preliminary negotiations with the unite technology corp., Sunnyvale calif., for development of solid propellant engines for the than in space Booster. Nov contract will be awarded however until contractual agree ments for this first stage propulsion system have been reached with the potential contractor an the Titan Iii development program has been approved by the depart ment of defense. ,t3taii-Ilj is a standardized space launch vehicle. War i Navy legislative officer 1,.,-Jv. A special Navy,apthorace5 a Bird has relieved rear Jad a Robert e. M. Ward As-"-11legislative affair Navy ent Bird was aide Sist Apt to the vice president of.thet7n\td i states prior to present assignment v bin r brings new Rasslyn of Longn the Bureau of naval personnel began his congressional Liaison in connection Wilh the procurement of thousands of Reserve officers for service during world War ii after world War ii he was As signed As special assistant to the chief of naval personnel for legislative mutters from 1945 to 1948. Bird served is administrative aide to the Secretary of the Navy from 1951,-to 1953 and handled congressional Liaison. I Safe he installs new ism Una Wiesbaden Germany special a new International business machines data processing system first of its Type in the us. Air Force was officially dedicated at Lindsey air station wednesday by Gen Truman it. Lyndon Safe com in drier in chief. Demonstrating Iho Speed o usefulness of the new computer sys tem during the dedication a pro Grammer asked the machine for the names of nil officers by and or do assigned to he Safe. The machine searched he 8,000 Pius officer records contained in its magnetic tape memory printed the names at the Rule of 600 lines per minute and punched cards with the same information. Total elapsed time for the process 41s accepted the new sys tem from ism european regional manager f. W. Bury then turned Over management and operation of the computer to col Philip s. Robbis Safe comptroller the new computer is approximately 10 times As fast As theism 650 system which it replaces. The 1410 has been installed in it sown air conditioned dust free humidity controlled room. The machine will be utilized by the Safe directorate of data systems and statistics headed Mycol Vic t. Vella it col Joseph a. Miller is chief of the data processing division. Built around the 1410 computer the new system will considerably Speed the processing of Safe personnel data a Well As assist other Safe Headquarters staff agencies in addition to personnel other principal users of the data system include civil engineering operations intelligence Materiel Man Power and organization surgeon and comptroller. Components and features of the new system incl Rte n new ism is rotating bait typewriter which the operator and computer can talk to each there Are six magnetic units on which records and debt Are stored or compiled. One Trifco magnetic tape can contain All the information in a stack of ism cards More than 100 feet Hugli this Means the tape can mire than 14 million Char nil of which can be read in tej than 4?i minutes. Provision been made to provide Una Fen storage Library of 800 tapes. Tape units have an rate of 62,500 ers per second. Find Virro stratus Clouds have top re Fly Tion Seattle Wash. Special scientists have measured the in Tensity of undo Sun sunlight reflected from Cirro stratus Clouds and found it to be 100 times As Bright As Sun reflections from Ordinary Clouds. The experiments were conduct Din Yellowstone National Park by a team of six Boeing co. Physicists meteorologists and electronic technicians. Information gathered an the intensity of sunlight scat Terling from the face of ice at different viewing angles Der study at the Seattle Labora toritto the Boeing Cote studies were made i contract to the air Force a systems division As part Overall air Force study old loud formations which Obs itt television photographic Andred Survell Lance of the Earth High atmospheric and Orbital Titues. R x i
