Parts Made Shop Modern And Efficient Rush! Immediate Action! Those were the words that greeted 1st Lt. A. L. Lamoureaux of the Machine Shop, a few weeks ago. It was an order from the front echelon 20th Bomb Gp., for a part to a B-29 airplane engine. It was broken beyond repair and the plane was scheduled to take part in a very important mission that same day. No replaceable part was in Air Corps Supply because the plane had preceded its spare parts from the states. The Machine Shop must make a NEW PART ... in a few hours! Tech orders and blue-prints of this engine were available. Lt. Lamoureaux studied them with his assistants M/Sgt. Bolster and Cpl. Loch, and machinist and engine specialists stood ready. As we enter the machine shop we are impressed with its modernity. Hard concrete floors with various machines of all types, lathes, shapers, grinders and milling machines spotted several yards apart and covering some 12,000 square feet of floor space. At each machine there are one or two men who are either army machinists or engine mechanics. Occasionally we see an Indian machinist who works under the tutelage of the army specialists. All of these men are qualified to turn out any tool or fixture of any engine. Also any tool or fixture that is repairable can be made perfect again in the shop. For example, many times parts have become corroded or injured due to a long and delayed journey from the states. They might have been in Africa or Sicily first, and had been through bad weather and rough handling, but the Machine Shop repairs and makes them as efficient as the engineers in the states planned them to be. As a result a great number of engines and their parts are saved from the scrap pile. The Machine Shop has been in existence since the opening of this Depot almost a year ago. It was setup and organized by machine specialist T/Sgt. Rios who is now in the States after spending 27 months in this theater. Since then the shop has expanded and has moved to a new location. It has been a source of great satisfaction that even during the moving this shop operated at full speed. The night shift worked that day turn at the new location setting up machines while the day shift carried on at the original shop. As each machines was installed the operator would take over, until finally, the entire group, machines and men, had moved without the slightest let-down in production or working hours. The Machine Shop has made a brilliant record in production and repair ... and on many occasions with very little time to do the job in. NEWS ITEM JULY 25th: B-29 Bombers of the 20th Bomber Group were over Japan today causing widespread devastation. ... All in a days work at the Machine Shop. |
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SUBJECT: Tiger Rag
TO: Pfc. William A. Frank, Editor, Tiger Rag
1. Newspapers are expected to function without comment by most of us until such time as we differ with the policy of the editor or are dissatisfied in any way.
Then, it seems, it is the great American privilege to wave arms and censure loud and long.
2. I want to take this opportunity to say that I believe the Tiger Rag is a fine paper and that it is doing an excellent job in reporting news of this Depot as well as contributing to the general morale of the men here.
3. I want you to know that the efforts of your staff, column reporters and contributors are appreciated by this Command.
4. Any military installation is no better than the quality of its personnel.
The Tiger Rag is a history of the Depot written by the men on the Depot.
I sincerely trust that their pride in the Depot and in this, your recording of their lives here, will meet with their every support in helping you to keep this fine paper, and to make it the best in the field.
Albert J. Redway, Lt. Col., A. C.
For FRANK D. HACKETT, Colonel, Air Corps., Commanding.
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Proud Papa Sgt. Louis Cook is here shown receiving the prize for winning the contest from Doris Ewing at Rajah's Rest. |
26/27 AUGUST - "DIXIE" Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby
29/30 AUGUST - "FATHER TAKES A WIFE" Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, Desi Arnaz 31 AUGUST and 1 SEPT. - "JITTERBUGS" Laurel and Hardy |
A hot afternoon - but cool at the Rajah's Rest soda fountain where a GI can get practically everything that "Pop Jenks" served. The sequence above is reversed because Pvt. Don Brewbaker and Sgt. Joe Perry did the work BEFORE they got the sodas. |
WACS VISIT US
We had the pleasure of interviewing four of the WAC's last Sunday evening. The girls were unanimous in their approval of the Red Cross Club and are looking forward to being able to participate in the regular Wednesday night dance. S/Sgt. Perry, the Chairman of our Board of Directors at Rajah's Rest, was able to make this possible and we can expect to see most of them from time to time. Staff Sergeant Marie A. Higgins from Brooklyn accompanied by Corporal Grace Balice from New York City told us that they were not at all sorry that they had been assigned to this theater. Sergeant Higgins along with the others had toured the city last Saturday and commented on the fact that it was very interesting. Private Mildred McDonnell from Tennessee expressed surprise at seeing things looking really civilized. Like the non-comms they too were starry eyed at the prospect of dances the same as back home. We hastened to correct them as to the degree of back homeness they may find here but we think we speak for all of the E/M when we say to them, "Welcome WAC's. We'll fight this war side by side." |
QUARTER FINALS The Rajah's Rest Bridge Tournament reached the quarter final stage this week with the semi-finals and finals coming up next week. Bracketed in the quarter finals are Pfc. D. D. Shay - Pfc. Bob Hunter, Pvt. Bill Lyttle - Sgt. Sydney Pollner, Pfc. H. L. Meyer - Pvt. Larry Stern, M/Sgt. Joe Conroy - Pvt. Alex Lowovike. Note the number of privates as against senior non-comms in this intellectual game. |