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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1944
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pare students for the Engine
Mechanics examination will be
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given along with flight instructions
sufficient to qualify them for Com
mercial Instructor-Pilot examina
tions.
In addition to the required work,
related studies will be given in
applied mathematics, report' writ
ing, sketching and plan reading,
aviation ground school, airport
management, airport layout, air
port accounting and other subjects
necessary to prepare men to man
age the estimated 3000 new air
ports which are scheduled for this
country within five to ten years
after the close of the war, Dr. Bar-
low announced.
Students for the two year course
will be housed on the A. & M. Col
lege campus and will take their
meals in the college dining halls.
Advance letters of inquiry indicate
that a heavy enrollment will be
on hand when the courses begin
in the Fall, Dr. Barlow said.
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Creek and Tea Pot Dome oil fields.
From this point the party moved
to Cody, Myoming, to study the
geology of Wind River and Sho-
shoni Canyons.
Moving next into Montana, the
group centered their investigation
of geological interests on the Big
Horn and Pryor Mountains. These
large and colorful areas proved
beneficial to them in their research
because they are representative of
many of the mountainous sections
of that part of the country. Near
Red Lodge in the mountain coun
try they inspected the coal fields.
The class then journeyed into
the Yellowstone National Park,
where they studied the canyon and
the volcanic rocks that were ex
posed. AH the natural phenomena
attracted them, and added greatly
to the enjoyment of the trip.
After leaving the Park, the
group spent a week at Pipe Stone
Springs, Montana, where they
made a topographic and geologic
map of a fossil locality.
Visits were also included to
Butte and Helena, where the min
ing interests were studied. The
party found, however, that most
gold properties are shut down
and that Butte, the world’s great
est copper camp, has five of its
mines idle at the present time be
cause of the general labor shortage
of the country. At the same time
that activity is slow in the mifiing
business, the oil interest is some
what active, especially in the state
of Wyoming.
Traveling was done by car with
night stops being made at tourist
camps, hotels, or in the open. The
weather was cool and wet on the
trip, but not sufficiently as to de
lay the progress of the party. They
maintained their schedule through
out the entire six-weeks, taking in
to account also the observation of
breath-taking scenery and the
many varieties of wild life which
were seen moving in all directions.
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quarters of officers and enlisted
men and the excellent offices in
Calcutta when Generals Davidson
and Moore hied their headquarters
into Assam. Part of a tea planta
tion was taken over. Now all per
sonnel lives and works in the
thatch covered bamboo buildings,
called bashes, or labor and sleep in
tents. Officers and enlisted men
battle mud every time they move
from one section of headquarters
to another. But the lOth’s nerve-
center is in the heart of the war
in this part of the world.
The move was undertaken short
ly after the start of the monsoons
when the weather gods fly several
rain-bearing missions daily. De
spite heavy rains, it was carried
out on schedule, without headquar
ters ceasing to function a single
minute. Men and material were
moved by trucks, airplane, railroad,
and boats.
Generals Davidson and Moore
carry their belief that nearness to
the war front is essential even
farther then moving headquarters
into the wilds. The commanding
general has planned a number of
attacks on enemy-held territory
while flying over those • areas.
General Moore has flown on sev
eral important missions over Bur
ma. Both the generals are com
mand pilots.
General Davidson, who was born
in Wharton, Texas, in 1890, and
who attended public schools there,
was one of the first thirty pilots
in the United States Army. He at
tended Texas A. & M. College for
a year and a half before entering
West Point in 1909. He graduated
in 1913. Oddly enough, one of his
athletic coaches was Lt. Gen.
Joseph W. Stillwell, now command-
ing general of American forces in
China-Burma-India Theater.
Flying Cross and the Purple Heart.
While the general has spent
little time in Texas the last thirty
years, one of his hobbies is cowboy
songs. He’s often heard humming
and singing tales of the plains
and cow punchers.
General Moore also attended
Texas A. & M. He graduated in
1923 with a BS degree and enter
ed business. The call of the Air
Corps sounded for him in 1927. He
has been in uniform ever since,'
serving in many branches of the.
Air Corps. His duties took him to
Hawaii in 1934 and he remained
there two years. Prior to that he
was one of the fifty flying officers
sent to Randolph Field to open
the now famous alma mater of
thousands of pilots.
The lOth’s chief of staff is not
only a command pilot, but is an of
ficer who is well-grounded in all
phases of Air Force activity, hav
ing served in such assignments as
engineering officer for Wheeler
Field, Hawaii, and the plans divi
sion of the Air Force. Thus he was
well-equipped for his arduous as
signment as chief of staff for the
10th Air Force, the organization
which, for months, has held air
supremancy over India and Burma
and which is fighting the war
monsoons and mud or not in cloud
filled skies and from the tents and
bashes in Assam.
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ner will also serve as an advisor
to the Aggieland Orchestra, and
for this phase of the work he is
particularly well trained.
Mr. Turner, his wife, and small
son will arrive here the first week
in September. His office will be
in the Student Activities office.
Any student interested in the
Singing Cadets may give his name
Aggie-Ex Receives
Sixth Decoration
Second Lieutenant Jacob D.
Rives, 28, of Tyler, Texas, bom
bardier on the Eighth Air Force
B-17 Flying Fortress “Remember
U. S.,” has received his sixth dec
oration for achievements while
bombing Nazi invasion defense and
war-making targets. His most re
cent award is the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
Lt. Rives, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Rives of Route 2, Laneville,
Texas, has also earned the Air
Medal with four Oak Leaf Clus
ters to that medal. One of the
Clusters was for destroying a Nazi
fighter while on a bombing attack
against the aircraft assembly plant
at Zwickan, Germany.
“The fighters were attacking in
waves that day,” said Lt. Rives.
“We were kept busy for about an
hour steady, shooting at them, and
hoping none would get in and do
us any harm. The one I got came
in straight from in front of the
nose. I was sweating that bird out,
for if my bullets had not punc
tured his fuselage when they did,
and hit the gas tank, he would sure
as hell have hit us. The pilot could
not bail out, for the plane blew
up just below us.”
The lieutenant was commission
ed in October 1943, and joined this
bomber outfit early in April 1944.
He received his appointment to
to the Student Activities Office in
room three in the basement of the
Administration Building. It is
hoped by the Activities Office that
these two organizations will be
very progressive next semester.
cadet school direct from civilian
life, volunteering for flying and
combat duty. He was employed by
Swift & Company Fertilizer Works .
in Houston as a district represent
ative. The lieutenant’s wife, the
former Miss Bernice E. Tullos of
Henderson, and daughter Sherry
Ann, are now living at 538 Doug
las Blvd., Tyler.
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it inspires Franklin and his crew
majestically. ^
Fair Stood the Wind for France
is what we generally call “escape
reading.” But after reading it, one
feels himself drawn a little more
closely to France and to the cur- '•%
rent experiences of our Armies in
France.
The title of the book was taken
from Michael Drayton’s verse: „
“Fair stood the wind for France
When we our sails advance
Nor now to prove our chance
Longer we tarry . . . "
Some other similar tales of this
war are: Escape by Ethel Vance,
Assignment in Brittany, by Helen
Mclnnes Highet, Paris Under-
ground, by Etta Shiber, and Flot- «.
sam, by Erich Remarque.
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North Gate
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now—for comfort and looks.
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BOOTS AND SPURS WANTED
Many students on the campus know of A. & M.
graduates in your home towns who would sell their
senior boots and spurs. Help me get in touch with
these men so that I might be able to obtain more
of these hard-to-get items. You will do a service
to the* present senior class in this way.
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New shipment of overseas caps in all sizes—
lined with satinette—have leather sweat bands.
LOUPOT'S
The lOth’s commanding general
fought World War I in France and
has since held commands in many
parts of the world. He was, at one
time, executive officer to the Chief
of Air Corps, General Westover,
whose assistant was General H. H.
Arnold, who now commands the:
U. S. Air Forces.
In 1938 General Davidson was'
named chief of training and opera-
tions for the Air Corps. As such,
he played an important part in
the expansion of the Force.
General Davidson has been
awarded the Order of Leopold by
Belgium, the Order of Abdon Cald
eron by Ecuador, the Distinguished
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