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a. Difficulties were enbountered, in socle army<br />
areas, by mobile sales store pemonnal refusin to sell to<br />
Air Force officers. Usually, this was straighfened out<br />
when it was brought to the attention of the sales officer<br />
by either the Air Foroe Service Command <strong>Quartermaster</strong> or<br />
the <strong>Army</strong> <strong>Quartermaster</strong>. In some cases, <strong>Army</strong> Ground Force<br />
peraonnel were favored over Air Force personnel. Notices<br />
of the itinerary of army sales stores smethes were not<br />
received by A ir Force unlts anti1 the store had left the<br />
locality and, on other occasions, were not received at all.<br />
This was primarily,due to low channels of communications.<br />
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76. <strong>Quartermaster</strong> Servioes for the United States Air<br />
a. The methods and procedures for handling sal-<br />
vage collection and salvage repair in the Arey Air Forces<br />
were essentially the same aa that for other United States<br />
<strong>Army</strong> forces. Air Force units were not normally responsible<br />
fer the collection and segregation of Air Force salvage.<br />
scrap which accumulated at Air Force stations was disposed<br />
of as directed by the Communications Zone Section Commander<br />
in whose area the Air Force unit was located. Preliminary<br />
segregation and classif'ication was effeoted by the station<br />
salvage officer who moved the salvage material to the<br />
appropriate <strong>Quartermaster</strong> dump or salvage collecting point<br />
as directed. Air Force installations maintainea a Salvage<br />
and Conservatian officer who supervised salvage activities<br />
with a view of conserving material as well as disposing of<br />
it. Unserviceable <strong>Quartermaster</strong> individual and organiza-<br />
tional clothing and equipment at Air Force installations<br />
Was processed through assigned depots in the base section.<br />
If replacement was required, the salvage items were turned<br />
in to a depot and a requisition for replacement in kind<br />
and quantity was Submitted.<br />
b. The evacuation of <strong>Quartermaster</strong> salvage was<br />
not normally a function of Air Force units. The Air Force<br />
wae only responsible for forwarding salvage to base section<br />
depotg or salvage oolleoting units, which in turn segregated<br />
and classified the items for evacuation as directed<br />
by that unit.<br />
c. Salvage repair service for <strong>Army</strong> Air Force<br />
units was furnished by salvage depots and <strong>Quartermaster</strong><br />
salvage repair units allocated by the Chief <strong>Quartermaster</strong><br />
to units near Air Force installations, The Salvage<br />
officer at Air Force installations maintained facilities<br />
within the station for minor repairs such as tent patch-<br />
ing, but, in general, he secured replacements for unserviceable<br />
items of <strong>Quartermaster</strong> equipment while the<br />
salvage depots performed the necessary reclamation or<br />
disposal. Clothing repair facilities were allocated by<br />
base section headquarters and normally consisted of<br />
quartermaster repair units or civilian agencies in<br />
Allied countries.<br />
.d. <strong>Quartermaster</strong> laundry service for A ir Force<br />
units was normally secured through the Communications<br />
Zone Section <strong>Quartermaster</strong>s or, in the United<br />
Kingdom, through base section <strong>Quartermaster</strong>s.<br />
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