Chilean Officers Are Drew Field Guests
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--~·.·.·. ,._ - """:tlo."' ........ .. ..-. ''Droopy's'' Anniver To Special Service Offi sary! Staff Sgt. Harry cers: If your organiza tion does not receive its Lampert's famous mos D r e w F i e l d Echoes quito is one year old to promptly call at Echoes day. Read the interest office, 8th street and ing story of one of the "B" avenue. nation's top Army comic strips on page 7. VOL. 2, NO. 23 FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943 PUBLISHED WEEKLY NEAL D. MOLER Chilean Officers Are IS PROMOTED TO LIEUT. COLONEL Drew Field Guests Neal D. Moler, 40-years-old, 22nd Bombardment Tra ining Wing, has Florida Visit Completes held every gra<le in the Army from buck private to lieutenant colonel, a Tour of United rank he recently achieved. He has been variously associated with the En gineers, the Iniantry, the Ordnance States Department, and, finally, the Air Forces. Recent distinguished Chilean guests At present, the colonel is chief of to visit Drew Field, were three high the Intelligence section of one of the ranking officers of the Chilean Air higher air echelons at Drew Field, force. They arrived here in the course Fla. His primary duty at. Drew is one of an inspection tour which, to date, of education; training officers and men has taken them from Salt Lake City for the all-important Intelligence jobs to New York. they must perform in the combat Purpose of the visit to Drew, was zones before we bring this war to a to view dive bombers in operation, victorious conclusion. It is the work and learn American methods of using of accumulating and correlating in them most effectively. formation concerning everything about The officers are: Group Com the enemy in order to give the air mander R. G. Bisquett and Squadron commander a crystalline picture of Commanders J . E douard Latorre and ' the situation before he sends his bird T. I. Sarasua. They are being ac men on a mission. companied on the tour by Maj. W. T. It is essential for intelligence offi Jones, of the Army Air corps. cers to be fami!iar, not only with the Lt. Col. W. H . Fillmore, base ex Air Forces, but with the working ma ecutive officer welcomed the officers chinery of every branch and Col. to Drew Field, in the absence of Col. Moler has the wide experience neces Melvin B. Asp, Base Commander:- sary for the job. They were then taken to headquarters For several years, he was an engi ot the 22d Bomb Wing, where they neer for the Ohio State Highway met Col. R. F . c. Vance and his staff. Department and, later, airpon engi Next <:all was made on Lt. Col. neer for the Bureau of Aeronautics. Paul A. Zartman, commander of the After these jobs, he worked as a gen 84th Bomb Group, with whom they eral contractor in West Virginia and spent several ·hours inspect.ing train Kentucky. as well as Ohio, building ing activities of that g•·oup. roads and streets. At noon, Monday, they were lun<:h Meanwhile, he won his commission eon guests of Col. Asp, Col. Vance in the Engineers in 1928 served the and Lt. Col. Zartman, at the Drew Adjutant General for a ' time. then Field Officers club. pitc.hed his tent with the Infantry. At Drew Field Monday on an inspection tour were, left to right, Squadron Com The Chilean officers have been irl this country two months, and after mander J. Edouard Latorre, Group Commander R. G. Bisquertt and Squadron Com completing their Florida visit, they mander T. I. Sarasus of the Chilean Air Force, accompanied by Major W. T. Jones plan to go to Canada for a month's tour of the air training bases there as of the U. S. Air Corps. guests of the Canadian government. Training Wing u All MAJOR BENDER'S WACS Proudly Take Oath Out" For Insurance ESCAPE STORY IN UAJR FORCE" In Army Of United States Every man in the 22nd Bombard ment Training Wing possesses insur The latest edition of the service ance coverage, which, they believe, is journal "Air Force" carries the story of Maj. Frank P. Bender's escape something of a record. All have maxi from a flaming B-25 when 20 mum National Service insurance ex Zeros blasted him out of the sky. cept four enlisted men, who hold He is a former operations officer of $5000 worth, with additional outside the 22nd Bombardment Training Wing. protection. Hitting the silk near what was The adjutant, Capt . Charles F. then the strong Ja.p position at O'Do1mell, is largely responsible for Buna., makes exciting reading. this excellent showing. His command Though he was badly wounded, ing officer, Col. R. F. C. Vance, re friendly natives put him on a. litter cently wrote him saying, ''The per and moved him through steaming sonnel of this Headquarters holding jungles, slowly, painfully to Port government insurance makes a very Moresby. impressive list, and it is desired to Maj. !Bender holds several dis commend you for your efforts in look tinguished decorations and is now ing after the welfare of your men, attending the Army Air Force Staff and the staff officers." Sehool. LT. COL. NEAL D. MOLER • In 1937, after attending the Ord nance Field Service School, he became Thoughtlessness Is Cause AS THE BAND PLAYED "YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW" Ordnance Officer of the 37th Divi sion. By 1941, he was back in the Infa:qtry, this time with the 166th Of Leaks, Reporter Shows Monday evening, just before Re Instead, she will remain in barracks Infantry Regiment as a major with treat, a khaki-clad company marched which must be swept and scrubbed toward Base Headquarters. When the the advanced course of Ft. Benning's each day before riding into work, and school for the foot soldier behind him. Last week an Intelligence officer in "You h ave just demonstrated what command, "Halt!" was given, before the flagpole, each pair of shoulders the wooden seat of a GI truck. While A few months after the war began, one of Drew 'Field's Air Corps groups I am trying to bring out," the Intelli her civilian sisters meet the Florida gence officer told the reporter. were very straight, each face filled the Third Air Support Command at called this reporter relative to a story heat in sheer, summer frocks and Birmingham Jured him into the Air on "Safeguardin·g Military Informa "I h ave?" asked the amazed scribe. with purpose. The women who stood there had been offered a choice-and bare, tanned limbs, she will wear Forces and he was a member of a tion.'' "When you asked me what the they had made their decision. khaki, and sturdy cotton hose. But Reconnaissance Group at Northern "Too many people talking· out of password was-over the telephone. It she will wear it with pride, for it is Field, Tenn. It was a big year for turn," he said. "Speaking without was a base telephone, but it has With pride and dignity, 2nd Officer her uniform, and her trademark. She Col. Moler because he also attended thinking. Careless." literally miles of wires. Confidential Doris E. Ward turned her company will continue to work at the routine the famous Command and General "Do you know any recent cases?" information given out over any tele over to Captain Dennis J. Dole, whose job which she "took over" when some Staff School and received Wings as the officer was asked. phone is almost as bad as if it were privilege it was to administer the soldier got his shipping orders. an aircraft observer. given out in public." "Yes," he replied, "there are always oath of the Army of the United States But, leaving the Service would So it is that the silver maple leaf The reporter had to admit that he recent cases." to Drew Field's former W AAC's. mean leaving the comradeship of the is pinned upon the collar of a man had never given a moments thought "Very well, sir. I'll come right fine young women who had shared who was not especially born to com over and talk to you." Then remem to that phase of it, assuming the con Heads bared, hands upraised, each the work and struggles of organizing mand, but built the right for himself bering that the officer was behind versation to ·be limited to the two girl repeated thoughtfully the words •by twenty years of careful study and the line, and that he would have to listeners. Further study of this seem spoken by Captain Dole. She could a new company. It would mean there the sweat of honest work through the pass the guard, the reporter asked: ingly harmless mistake convinced this have gone back to a room of her own, would be no more evenings at the ranks. "By the way sir, what's the pass word writer of the danger of thinking that with chintz {)Urtains, and an inner P-X, or at Enlisted Men's parties. Col. Moler married the former Miss this week?" There was no answer, telephone conversations were neces spring mattress. She might have ac It would mean laying down the uni Ruth Chilcote in 1929. She is a tal and the reporter concluded that the sarily private, anymore than personal cepted a civilian job with a weekly form which had come to mean more ented harpist and gra<luate of the officer had hung up. conversations were private without salary almost equal to the monthly than the sheer ·hosiery, high heels, Oberlin Conservatory of Music.