Evening star., 1943-09-17
Jesse Jones 10 Give
Bond Message at
Army Show Tonight


night.
The show, now in its second week
has brought 10000 persons to
Washington Monument Grounds. 1t
Is Treasury sponsored, to promote
the sale of War bonds during the
Third War Loan drive.
The exhibit, which probably has
attracted as many persons as any
other is the B-24 Liberator bomber.
It's interior can be seen from
ramp only few steps off Consti-
tuition avenue. Civilian employees
of the Air Force Command, who
admit no check has been made of
Air Force exhibit spectators, said
that hundreds of people walk across
the ramp, inspect the plane, and
continue on their way down Con-
stitution avenue.
Mai. Gen. C. T. Harris. jr., COM
manding general. Aberdeen Proving
Ground. will be the special guest of
the Ordnance Department tomorrow
and will address the audience at
2:30 pm. The 50-piece Aberdeen
Band, led by Chief Warrant Officer
Ralph V. Horning, will give pro-
gram in the arena from / AS to 2:15
pm. and will be reviewed by Gen,
Harris. The band also will give
concert at the base of the Monu-
ment from 645 to 7:30 pm.
Sunday has been designated Sig
nal Corps day at the Army bond
show. Mobile radio and wire crews
from the Eastern Signal Corps
Training Center at Fort Monmouth,
N. j., will set up a tactical military
communications network inlmedi-
ately after guard mount at pm
Throughout the demonstration Sig
nal Corps motion picture and still
photographers will record the action
on the film, just as they do in COM
bat.
Air Force Today's Sponsor.
The Air Force Command sponsors
today's shows. On display there are
several domestic and captured
planes, a glider used for the train
ing of troops for invasion landings
which will carry IS fully-armed
soldiers and a crew of two, a COM
plete Photographic laboratory, in
cluding the latest models of strip
cameras, which take continuous
pictures of terrain from high alti-
tudes and at hedgehopping levels,
and crash trucks, camouflaged farm
scenes and camouflage models using
every known variety of deception.
Most popular with camera fans Is
the NaN fighter plane which was
wrecked in it's last landing. A Japa-
nese Zero, which clearly indicates
the absence of armor in these craft.
Is included in the show Included
among American models on eXhi-
bition are the famed P-48 and the
P-40, the potent offensive weapon
used by the Flying Tigers operat-
ing from Chinese bases.
The glider is of type now being
supplied the Army in quantity. 1t
Is kept locked to prevent damage to
its fabric. Aviation engineers said
the ship is made of fir and mahog-
any plywood, cotton cord specially
processed and strong fabric When
empty. the glider weighs about 5000
pounds.
Photo Equipment.
Photographic equipment shown
includes tents and darkroom facili-
ties in small units which are Gus
tomarily dropped in parachutes dur
ing actual battle operations.
The crash truck on display has a
gallon capacity, delivers stream
at 500 pounds pressure and can
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The camoufiaged equipment, COW
cred with heavy green netting. may
cause spectators to scof at its in
adequacy, but Air Force personnel
maintain that it is highly effective
when viewed from the air. 1t is OF
two types; one, a netting closely
woven with strands three -eighths of
an inch apart, and the other a net
ting arrangement holding long strips
of fabric at crazy intervals, haphaz-
ardly arranged.
The camoufage tent is an ingeni-
Gus arrangement of models, on
vastly reduced scale, which initiate
deception in the field, making use
of the principles of blending and
deceiving. A related display, which
is not intended to be effective when
viewed from a distance of few feet
on the ground, is a farm scene.
Dummy Cow and Horse.
This is composed of square can
vas farmhouse" whose roof slides
back when hostile aircraft appear,
disclosing complete aerial battery.
To simulate its rustic appearance, a
dummy cow and horse, which Air
Force civilian personnel have named
Beulah and Ralph. respectively, are
q part of the exhibit. They are crea-
lures of straw and burlap and not
very convincing paint, but they will
fool the best pilot that ever took
the air. it was said.
The Air Force attempt to replace
every man possible with a young
woman capable of doing his work
has been carried out at the show,
where there are several women me-
chanics among the Air Forces staff.
One of these, Miss Dorothy Clou-
ner, 10, of Pittsburgh, is regularly
stationed at the Middletown Air
Depot, near Harrisburg, Pa, and
is an expert at dismantling the en-
CINE of the P-40. Her training for
working IA weeks was paid for by
the Army.
Capt. John R. McFaden, in charge
of the Air Force exhibit, said that
about As civilian employees are in
attendance at the show. They take
care of instrument repair, motor
repairs, sheet metal, plastics and
supercharger replacement.
Fences Keep Boys Away.
So insistent were young boys in
their attempts to climb over and
into the cockpits of the planes at
the show that the exhibits had to
be inclosed with wire fences.
I'VE have to watch them all the
time" Shay said, 'if we expect ever
to use these planes in the air
again"
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