European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes july 1985 museum focuses on worlds aviation by Dave Diehl Bureau if you have even the slightest interest in military or civilian the Imperial War museums exhibits at Duxford Airfield should be on your list of things to see while in the museum has More than 80 aircraft on the including such Large air planes such As the american b52 and the supersonic transport con it also features wheeled vehicles and War hard Ware from All Over the the museum is constantly acquiring and restoring aircraft to add to its and that allows it to provide visitors a rare experience the hangars where technicians from the Duxford aviation society work on the air planes Are open to the a stroll through these hangars gives one a look at the massive undertaking involved in restoring the old air planes from the Bottom Duxford Airfield also played a role in world War from april 1943 to october it was used by the army air forces 78th fighter Fly ing p51 the in has the air plane flown by the commander of that some american airmen stationed at nearby Raf Alconbury Are hard at work restoring Landers p51d big Beautiful to its original the Duxford museum is located a few Miles South of Cambridge on the my i the museum is open to the Public every Day from March through to admission prices Are pounds about for adults and 60 Pence about 75 cents for photo by Dave Lehl working on a p51d Mustang Are senior airman Maurice Bertrand of the 17th Supply so and staff Duane Hamilton and Paul both of the 17th Field Maint airmen Volunteer to restore 2 Wii planes by Dave Diehl Bureau ra1 England work ing All week on military aircraft Doest seem to be enough for a group of airmen from Raf the airmen spend their Days off doing every other about eight air Craft maintenance people from the base gather to repair and restore two world War i Vintage air planes that will eventually become a permanent part of the Imperial War museum at Raf they Are tearing apart and putting to Gether a 1944 p51d Mustang and a Navy Avenger the project started when air Force Bruce Blair visited the Imperi Al War museum last Blair noticed a sign that said the museum needed volunteers to restore planes it had acquired Over the from the 17th equipment Maint so at put his name in and spread the word to his friends and co Blair said he and his fellow workers enjoy working on the Craft because they like air planes and they know that what they Are doing will be a part of history for people to but it didst Start out the Way he thought it we were cleaning out the theater at Blair it want until the air men convinced the museum staff that their skills were most valuable behind wrenches and rivet not that they began working on we wanted to work on american said Steve a corrosion control specialist at they tried to stick us on British commercial Maes said the work on the planes int but they enjoy he said the volunteers who work on the planes get Noth ing but the satisfaction of working on the Vintage in they must join the museum for a fee to have the privilege of working Maes said they use their own tools and a few loaned to them by the Lockheed at Blair and Maes said none of the pre sent team of workers is Likely to see the air planes when they Are fully there Are years of work ahead on the and most of the team will have moved on to other bases before the work is Maes and Blair Are looking for More volunteers to help on the Avenger and the and the museum would like volunteers to begin restoration work on a b 52 that it anyone wanting to help at Duxford May Call Blair at Alconbury Auto on 223 photo by Dave Lehl museum chores washing off a c47 Dakota education a will and a Way at the hill7 by Jim Macfarlane Raf England Jerome Wisniewski Doest strike you at first As a forceful per Hes polite and Good when it comes to pushing Hes a Wisniewski is an air Force master sergeant at a re Mote communications site in known As mor mond it rests on a Rocky the site Falls under control of the 2176th information systems so at Raf the base provides Logis tical support to the isolated among those require ments is education for the dozen air Force members assigned when Wisniewski arrived at mormon Hill in no vember the education program was at a Only three credit hours shy of his associates he was frustrated and annoyed that the possibility of Fin Ishing would elude him for the time hed be assigned to the at first it was really he no one seemed to know we were up and no one really seemed to like the proverbial squeaky his perseverance eventually got greased when he discovered that the Edu cation Center at Raf Mildenhall was supposed to be taking care of him and his about the same Conrad Garner took Over the reins at the Mildenhall one of his first priorities was to make sure airmen assigned to Remote Sites had the same opportunities for higher education that their base bound colleges he discovered mormon Hill and he set to work correcting the education system most air Force members plug into is the Community College of the air which is fully accredited by the Southern association of schools and it awards associates degrees in technical Fields based on credit earned on the Job and in the class although its officially an air Force classes Are taught around the world by institutions such As the University of Maryland and City colleges of sightseeing sheep wandering around East Berlin snarls traffic Berlin up traffic was brought to a halt in Central East Berlin by a sheep wandering casually around in the main Alexande Platz the state news Agency the Agency said no explanation was found for the lost which ambled Down the Center of the Road until it was hit by a car and fled in fright through astonished police captured the and adn reported it was recovering in an animal we spend a lot of time on mountaintops and cant really take advantage of the education facilities found on a big said most of the Guys Are pretty Young and were ready to get going on their Educa Doc Garner made All the Garner instituted nearly All the Core courses for associates degrees at mormon these include math and the natural most of the classes Are taught by videotape by City colleges of Garner believes that air Force education officers provide classroom experience to service members at Remote More than half of the troops assigned to mormon Hill Are working on their Garner finds them extremely motivated and willing to work Wisniewski plays the role of educational cheerleader and Pep he urges everyone to take a class each time its he also acts As garners Wisniewski needed Only trigonometry to earn his de Gree in communication so Garner arranged for a math professor from Aberdeen University to take Trig to the the course was accredited by the University of All the troops took the and Wisniewski picked up his sheepskin at the worldwide Craf graduation in april the first Ever from the now some of the others stationed there Arent far Macfarlane is chief of Media relations at Raf