Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                K Rabian by Matt Mcdade As Dha fail Tias ses its phase As a ride construction still another new project is underway in the heart of saudi and during the last few Days of this reporters preparations were care fully Laid for the tedious trek of a motor carrying supplies and heavy into Tho in to conjunction with the Perma nent base army airbase on the Gulf construction of an emergency Landing Field called Laura is nolo Way at Wadi 5io Miles to the about half inv Back to Cairn from the new Field will be nothing like of designed in Stead As a communications station and a possible for planes which might develop trouble Over the Barren desert lands of the consisting of unpaved runways and a few it will be executed ultimately by an Arab con but abets pioneering in including some of those who were forerunners on project Are roughing it at Laura to Lav the and even As William mor George Youngmeister Dames Sears and Paul Nixon Complete the preliminary the modern caravan is moving Forward across the Road less Miles to the mountainous task of Lead ing the motorcade fell to Robert the Boyish co of the 1927th aviation Engineer who must see it that the italia driven trucks Jet i b getting through to hard terrain posed a difficult since Deen Drifting Sand extends across the first Hundred Miles it was a that diesels would be necessary to Tow the 15tonners metamorphosis within a few however simple installation at Laura will go into operation and the Camp at Dhahran will have metamorphosed from its present state of bumbling Hal construction into a completed 500man a convenient and pleasant Hostel for and a Dick a sur sve Yinpo party which relocated the Airfield to its site to avoid extensive after Daly Roberts turned up with a party of gis who set up a few tents a week Youngmeister and Robert a drafts arrived by boat from Bahrein to join the Happy with the As new arrivals boosted Peak army strength to in addition to the 60 civilians of the construction division and 900 italian labor things were cooked on one Field Range in a Shack by Aramco emergency Landing was transported by truck tto the tent Camp and served with flies and swirling the old timers with considerable How a cube of butter would sometimes assume the appearance of a Coconut Macaroon before it could be spreader Over a slice of everybody had a situation further complicated by the fact that a serviceable Slit Trench can not be dug in deep they Learned through bitter experience that the edges have the unfortunate Habisc of caving in at Inopportune to although the which fell heir to first Stra steel opened for business nearly supplies arrived slowly and the pre Cious Beer was ruined when heat melted the a film of Sand As living quarters and facilities were spartan and comparatively officers and civilians alike live in regu lation army tents and sleep on Canvas vulnerable to the in Fernal when the wind is and it frequently every surface within the bedding and personal is plated with a Fine coat of arabian heat was singularly depress but when they its not the its the they we rent the actual temperature Seldom bubbled above 125 but with the excessive humidity which Clung Teno tediously to it was Tough to by lenient and pleasant Hostel for b however planes hurtling across the something of Miracle had been e route to i in this grim desert pro passengers will alight from enter the briskly efficient Atmo sphere of a Stone Dine in an air conditioned mess Hall and will be billeted in comfortable Stronn steel few will be conscious of the work and sweat and tribulations of the men who carved and Laura it of the saudi arabian desert at the present Dhahran is Little More than a Maze of tents Hal finished buildings Uil heavy but first planes will probably begin Landing in january or february and the base will entirely completed in hiring unforeseen and personnel Kven the Camp is a far cry from its infancy when first arrivals knew it As a few tents and Dhahran veterans look Back on the old Days with a certain of bitterness Pride that so much Progress has been made in the Short time and Relief that the worst is first arrivals ii the desert were t5 Patty Walters nazi horror Camp film at music for All the horror Camps of nazi a film documentary of the discoveries of cruelties in Hie Jerman prison Camps that has created great interest both in the states and the rest of the is being repeated twice this weekend at music All after previous sellout the film will be shown at 9 Friday night and on preceded and followed by music with which Are associated some of the late hitlers racial inject e5 was Well on its the Large on which a im9 can had been completely graded and its base consisting of about a foot of crushed had been the remaining top course and sral coat Are inadvertently held up pending lie arrival of amid the flapping tents and in closed piled High with permanent Stone Walls and warehouses were rising a newly assembled water tank had been hoisted by Crane to the top of its spindly steel legs the hollow Stone exterior of a 3hed hos Pital was As cd trucks and jeeps bounced across the deceptively smooth de Sert leaving wakes of White big rollers inched Aloi Jouthe runway while their me the bulldozers and tackled the secondary runway of Mommy Hommy in the midst of a group of air conditioned Stra steel huts were almost ready for in contrast to the two Long where the wheels of the Camp head quarters go offices of Norris angular Blond his dark wiry executive major John Jones and tall greying major Erling Engineer the mount ing layers of Stone on the modernistic the rapidity with which the Camp is losing its air of Jur bled Cru Duess and booming Progress on the Airport Are aptly described b the saudi things Are moving in a or As they would Hommy this the second of three a tides isk5vember 1945 stars Anft therell be these i v there will be Crisp White i in 4 v and fresh the lights Hae it Init air Over seas and tit Waters wont be Sablack were coming and the veterans Back to  girl with the Torch will go Fri a straight line like the Crow they dont the subs have surfaced arid the planes rest and if youll know intend will have boat gom Home but its just to Aid that All its and boat drills Well maybe one or but not everyday like it was and the gun Crews wont be lunging Sitf out of the hatches every time you get ready to go and the air where you sleep will be cleaner because the ship will not toe closed Down so no Light can leak a lot of Little things will be All but the big thing that will be different it was comin Over is the Way a Guy the feel ing that a Soldier has cant be described in newspaper its More for the poets to talk about but is one thing that never a picture that is common to boats that sail from All just As sure As there will foe a there will be women left be Hind the boat Goin and that the Way life is a lot of seems like everybody cant be Happy All at seems like the thing that makes a whole Bunch of people Happy is the very thing that makes others so no matter what say about the self con obnoxious gis causing resentment in different there is still something and downright lovable about most theres no use kidding anyone and being too idealistic about All this some of the gis made promises they knew they could never and some of the girls just hate to see the boat shove off because it will diminish their pm but most of the time they liked each other for what they you can Tell this by the Way the women look just before the boat shoves and something else that Naver will be other women when the boat pulls into the stateside these taken of the theodoric Bland shortly before it sailed from Casas port last week with n 37 and 365 bags of mail from Are by at photographer Jack bunk maker is William Averitt of  gear is mass win mass and another unidentified i and he mum Oft bunks on Hie boat