Evening star., 1943-09-04
.Liberaior Bomber
10 Be Featured at
Army Bond Show

Nine or ten ajrplanes, ranging
from a giant Liberator, bomber to
training ships, are scheduled to
reach Washington Monday after
noon as part of the Air Forces ex-
hibit in the Army Treasury Third
War Loan Show starting next Thurs
day on the Washington Monument
Grounds.
Because the Liberator's wing
spread is wider than any street in
the District, the bomber must be
dismantled and hauled to the
grounds by huge trailers, each
larger than a freight car. The Air
Forces exhibit will be alongside
Constitution avenue between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets.
Bomber, pursuit, scout, training
and glider ships will be included in
the exhibit. Trained technicians
are to assemble the ships in time
Tor display on the opening day.
Photographic Laboratory Included.
One feature of the aerial exhibit
will be mobile Photographic lab
oratory, the size of streetcar and
used in combat zones. Films are
dropped to trailer, which pro-
cesses the prints quickly and makes
them available to all units of an at
tacking force. BY knowing the ex-
act location OF enemy gun emplace-
ments, airields, supply depots and
communication lines. an attacking
force is relieved of some uncertain
ties through the medium of aerial
photography.
John Gordon, Air Forces public
relations representative, said the
exhibit would be the most complete
| the Nation has ever seen.
Rain has not impeded work on
| the exhibit grounds. Officers and
enlisted personnel put on raincoats
and boots and pursued the task of
unpacking crates and assembling
costly war materiel. Installation of
electric lights permits work at night
Preview Tomorrow.
The site is the scene OF intense
activity. Weather permitting, thou.
sands Of persons are expected to
visit the grounds tomorrow for a
| preview of Back the Attack"
Washington residents, who will be
asked to buy S94 900 600 worth OF
Third War Loan bonds, will have
their first opportunity to see cap
tured enemy war material in the
Army Treasury show.
| Weapons wrested from foes In
Africa and Southwest Pacific wal
zones will be on public exhibition
for the first time in this area. Pri.
vate showings have been made al
the Army Proving Grounds al
Aberdeen, Md, of tanks, machine
guns. antiaircraft guns, mortars
rifles, armored cars and a half.
track.
The enemy material is a feature
OF the Ordnance Departments dis.
play, and bids fair to attract con.
siderable attention, especially so IL
view OF the fact that American ma.
terlal in similar categories also
will be exhibited.
A German Volkswagen, small
automobile which Hitler promised
would be within the reach of ever
German, is scheduled in the ex.
hibit.
AS the various sections of tn,
Army continue bringing in and in.
stalling their respective exhibits
the Back the Attack" site is /,
scene of great activity. Tn
grounds resemble tent city. Hug,
pieces OF ordnance crown the slope
Leading down to the arena ant
central stage. Some 1,400 soldier;
are here, ready to begin three day
OF rehearsals starting Monday. :
The Army Ordnance 8-inch CUR
expected to arrive today, is not tn
biggest mobile artillery field piece il
the exhibit, but it is the heaviest
In the last war. this mammoth gu
was employed exclusively as a rail
way gun, its weight and breecl
mechanism totaling 81 tons. 1t fire.
26o-pound projectile distance O
about 18 miles. The modern YER
sion Of this great fortress-crackini
weapon weighs IS tons, firing a 240
pound armor- r-piercing shell of figl
explosive projectiles a distance q
20 miles.
Included in the show will be du
plicates of all the tools witt
which the Engineer Corps clears tn
way for our fighting men. Although
some OF the tricks are considers
much too dangerous by Army ex
perts to demonstrate before Al
audience, visitors will see fam
throwers in action, and they'll ais
see how engineer units lay and clea
mine fields, just as they did Il
1unisia and Sicily.
Miniature War Theater.
A miniature theater of operation
created by personnel of the Quar-
termaster's Corps in the easter
area of the Washington Monumen
Grounds is being completed. 1t 1
a long canvas expanse painted b
resemble earth and sea and dotte,
with miniature trees. 1t includes
section to be completely equippei
with electric trains, small camou
mage boats and the artillery of al
attacking force.
The set was built in sections q
Camp Lee, Va. 1t is part of a,
exhibit by the Quartermasters Corn
which will include the complete in
stallation of a battalion's laundr
unit. Capable of providing a shove
and doing the laundry of 5000 sol
diers a week, the laundry outfl
works two shifts of eight hour,
seven days a week, turning out abou
$4,000 pounds of wash. The cloth
ing Is washed and dried and n,
attempt is made to iron 1t, corp
officials said.
Only 80 minutes per man Is re-
qulred for this service. When com
olned units are used for laundr
IN larger encampments of soldier,
the volume of laundry handled in
creases enormously, it was said
Housed on several large truck,
painted olive drab, the laundry uni
arrived at 2 am. yesterday.
The aviation section of the ey
hlbit will present for the first tim
| more aviation euuipment than ha