European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 20, 1990 the stars and stripes4 receive airman s medal for fire by Ron Jensen a Iii v a a a Page 9 Over Here by Ron Jensen staff writer Rhein main a West Germany a staff set Scott Alan deeds says it was instinct that sent him and three other Security patrolmen charging into a burning apartment building. 5 5 to a a you go in and you do what you be got to do a win the Sioux Falls s.d., native. A a we re trained to react a for their reactions the four airmen were awarded the . Air Force airman a medal. The medal is Given for heroism that involves the voluntary risk of life under other than combat conditions. The medal was awarded thursday to deeds for his action in res cuing people from the blazing building on set 26 1988. F a the other three Are master sgt. Chester Swift now at Lindsey air station Wiesbaden Germany staff sgt. Robert Hitchcock now at Ellsworth fab s n a and staff sgt. Robert Vickers Carswell fab Texas. A the four men had recently completed duty on the graveyard shift at Rhein main and were preparing for a Day of rest when an explosion rocked their housing area in nearby Nieder Roden at about 7 30 . The fifth floor of a nearby High Rise building was engulfed in flames. The patrolmen nearly fell Over each other trying to get out of their building. A the elevator was taking too Long so we were basically jumping stairs a recalled deeds a 12-year air Force Veteran. They sounded alarms and raced into the blinding smoke feeling their Way up stairs to the fifth floor where the residents were bewildered by the explosion and the smoke. Y a there were people walking around that hallway that we were Able to get out a deeds said. A for the most part we had to forcibly remove  some were carried out. Some were led through the smoke to safety.6 reports later showed that the fire was started by an 80-year-old woman who apparently wanted to commit suicide. She piled a number of kerosene soaked rags m her apartment and then struck a match. Her body was never found deeds said. The explosion blew out windows and knocked one resident out of his apartment and to the ground. Rescue staff sgt. Scott Alan deeds Frohl i in Annj a amps l Emmett Lewis or. Sinatra at the 435th Security police so at Rhein Man Ermany. Uses the duty roster with sgt. Steve that a sated a a a of pm ple for minor cuts things of that nature said deeds 31, who is trained in emergency first Aid treatment. Some people were trapped on their balconies by the fire and smoke. The airmen told them How to avoid smoke inhalation. One woman wanted to toss her children to the men. A we convinced her not to a deeds said. When the German fire department arrived the airmen assisted with crowd control. Injuries were limited. Two residents were seriously injured and others had cuts and suffered from smoke inhalation. If deeds Swift Hitchcock and Vickers had not responded As they did deeds said a i would venture to say there would have been a lot higher casualty  honoured for her Brush with history Colorado Springs Colo. A when a a Colorado Springs Colo. A when americans everywhere were giving up luxuries for the Effort to win world War ii Mary Babnick Brown gave up something much More personal than a favorite food her below knee length hair. Brown now 83, was honoured saturday for contributing to the War Effort. In a ceremony at the . Air s acad5> she received a special achievement a trom the Colorado aviation historical society. What she did no to know Back in 1942 was that her hair bombers Cross a is a secret bomb sight used on l re a a she did no to really want to give up her Blond hair but caring for it was becoming a lot of work. The government wanted hair at least 22 inches Long. She a ppr r 1i1?1s t Kar that had Only been trimmed never really Cut for her first 36 years. Narva a s.u6 saw an advertisement in a Pueblo news Centrik t a save moment was looking for women to Onira onri6 r to the War Effort she sent an in u Sample u1� received a Telegram asking her to Send  she received another Telegram Saih Offil i hair. It was exactly what they needed in ton pcs w the Institute of technology in washing Jyh 51 Many people crying their eyes out not want something is u�0�?T�?� she said. A i was sad. I wanted to do b l p 8 hear Effort rial i Era Izander of the International b-24 memo woman san Pueblo Learned recently that a Pueblo her he. ,. 2nated her hair and he began looking for tall a p that her hair was used Experiment �?o�?onordesbombsjbt.3 b0mb�?~aiming device known As Ekbom sight invented in the mid-1930s by a Swiss Chani Pai Saame Norden was essentially a me device  use a High Altitude bombing. The planet a i110 account such things As Altitude the reached no Anc Whid velocity. When the target  enter of the Cross hairs the Crew could b0� it with dependable accuracy on the b-24 Liberator the b-29 super fortress ,. A Mary Babnick Brown poses with world War ii Era Norden bomb sights left while a 1940s  woman with her 34-Inch-Iong hair which was used to make the bomb sight a crosshair photograph shows the and the b-17 flying fortress the Norden bomb sight was so secret that it was equipped with explosives Feder said and Crews were ordered to destroy it if their bomber ran the risk of falling into enemy hands. At altitudes As High As 20,000 feet the bomb sight Cross hairs were subjected to freezing temperatures and rapid changes in humidity. Black widow spider webs which contracted and expanded under those conditions were originally used but were fragile and hard to come by. Feder said Browne a Fine blonde hair which had never been bleached or touched with a hot Iron was unique and shared Many of the qualities valued in the Black widow spiders web