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## CONTINUED② **DATES OF EMPLOYMENT (month, year)**FROM June '46 to Feb, 1948**EXACT TITLE OF YOUR POSITION**Powder Helper**PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: (city and State)**Reynolds, Pa.**NAME AND TITLE OF IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR**Max Colson**NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER (firm, organization, or person, if Federal, name department: bureau of establishment, and division)**Atlas Powder Company**KIND OF BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION (e. g., wholesale silk, insurance agency, manufacture of locks, etc.)**Explosives**NUMBER AND KIND OF EMPLOYEES SUPERVISED BY YOU**Variable (see below)**REASON FOR LEAVING**Attend Pa. State College**DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK**From June '46 to Sept '46, I worked full-time, preparing and packing gelatin for shipment in the Gelatin Boxpack on the Powder line. From Sept '46 to Feb '48, I worked four hours nightly, full-time during vacations, while attending Pa. State College, Undergraduate, Engineering curriculum. From Feb '48 until Feb '52, I attended the main campus of the college at State College, Pa.③ **DATES OF EMPLOYMENT (month, year)**FROM Oct '42 to May '46**EXACT TITLE OF YOUR POSITION**1st Lt., Air Corps**CLASSIFICATION GRADE (if in Federal service)****SALARY OR EARNINGS**STARTING $ 50.00 per mo.FINAL $ 175.00 per mo.**PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT (city and State)**Kansya, Japan- APO 929**NAME AND TITLE OF IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR**Capt. James Purdy**NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER (firm, organization, or person, if Federal, name department: bureau or establishment, and division)**Det. 118, 139th AACS Squadron APO 929**KIND OF BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION (e. g., wholesale silk, insurance agency, manufacture of locks, etc.)**Airway Communications**NUMBER AND KIND OF EMPLOYEES SUPERVISED BY YOU**30-40 (Radio Station/Crypto. Section)**REASON FOR LEAVING**Separation from Service**DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK**As an enlisted man, from Oct '42 to Dec '44, I attended a Radio Cathlic School, 4 months; served as Radio Mchs. Instructor, 11 months. Upon being commissioned Dec '44 I became a Communications Officer and Cryptographic Security Officer. With Det. 118, 139th AACS Sq., I was Radio Station Officer, Communications Security officer, and Personnel and Finance officer.④ **DATES OF EMPLOYMENT (month, year)**FROM 1937 to Oct '42**EXACT TITLE OF YOUR POSITION**Powder Helper**CLASSIFICATION GRADE (if in Federal service)****SALARY OR EARNINGS**STARTING $ 0.65 per hr.FINAL $ 0.88 per hr.**PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT (city and State)**Reynolds, Pa.**NAME AND TITLE OF IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR**Robert Arner**NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER (firm, organization, or person, if Federal, name department: bureau of establishment, and division)**Atlas Powder CompanyReynolds, Pa.**KIND OF BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION (e. g., wholesale silk, insurance agency, manufacture of locks, etc.)**Explosives**NUMBER AND KIND OF EMPLOYEES SUPERVISED BY YOU**Varied (see below)**REASON FOR LEAVING**Enter Armed Service**DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK**For approximately one year, worked at Bomb Plant, main position being that of tending tank for melting TNT. Balance of time employed on powder line preparing and packing sticks of gelatin for shipment. Part of time was night shift foreman of Boxpack (2 to 5 men).