July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

Camp Wallace
COLONEL HAHOLD H. IACKSON, COllllll£mdillO AARTC
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13) ClIJitaill JOhll D. l'loore
\Iready well knO\\11 to O.C.S. graduates here is Colonel
arold R. Jackson, the new Commanding Officer of the
Jtiaircraft Replacement Training Center, Camp \\'allace,
exas. Colonel Jackson assumed command on June 23,
-l3.succeeding Brigadier General I-Iorner Case, who had
n temporarily commander of the i\ARTC since the
ter P:!ft of ~ lay. Colonel Jackson also succeeded Brigar
General Hugh N. Herrick, who was the last permanent
lInander of the Ai\HTC. General Herrick had been on
mporary leave of absence due to illness. Colonel Jackson
fJ' director of the OfIicer Candidate Division of the
tiaircraft School until ~ larch.
So you won't cry, eh? \Vell you will at \Vallace if you
J't know how to use \'our aas mask. ~ len at \Vallace are
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\'ing that they do k.no\\' how to use the gas mask properly.
hiIe the men are hiking. Captain ~l. C. Gelman, the
{'mical \ Varfare S~afr OfIicer, may ride by in a jeep and
down a barrage 0/ tear gas. The tear gas is blown out of
exl,13ust pi~e. These. ~nexpected alarms have created
eh mterest m gas trall1mg here. The men learn that
en they are carrying the gas mask, they must be gas conus;
and organizations have proved that their gas train-
~~:~c~~lequate. by effectively reacting to an unexpected
The contraption (invented by Captain Gelman at Camp
allace and now recommended for aeneral use by the
lia.ircraft Command) making this po~sible is a five gallon
lamer attached to a rubber hose by a valve with the
Not toys-valuable training aids.
Captain Gelman's gas sprayer.
hose connected to a 'T" extension added to the exhaust
pip~. \Vhen. the valve is turned on, the tear gas liquid
drams down II1to .the exhaust pipe by the force of gravity,
a~d the eX!laust pipe scatters the tear gas to the four winds.
If you don t believe it. ask a Camp \Vallace trainee.
" "The ~ea.uty of the thing:" says the Captain. "is that they
canno~ ttlilf you are spn~?'mg gas or having a 'dry run' as
there IS no ,cloud formed. \Vhen the men wear their gas
masks on hIkes, they are gas conscious, for they know they
are subject to attack ..
l~he -se~io.us "~ry r~m" problems caused by no airplane
to\\'mg miSSIOns IS belteved to have been eliminated bv the
a~signn~ent of a Tow Target Squadron to Camp \Valiace.
First Lieutenant James L. ~ IcDaniel, Air Liaison Officer
for the camp, infomls us that he has been able to fulfill all
airplane missions through cooperation with Captain Johnson
R. \Varren, AC, Commanding Officer of the Tow
Target Squadron, The first mission was flown on ~Iav 10
1943. - '
~his Tow Target Squadron has Venturas (8-34's) for all
t,owmg, purposes; n!ght fl?,i~g is furnished by the Squadron's
.\1'-] I s; and trackmg mISSIOnsare flown bv Owls (0-47's).
There has been a spirit in the squadron to flv all missions
regar~lless .of the ho~r, to insure the proper t;aining of th~
men m tillS camp, 1 hat spirit has been greatly appreciated
by the members of Camp \Vallace, '
To aid instruction in orientation, synchronization, and
no~enclature of equipment, First Lieutenant Arthur J.
Skmner ?as ~ade a model of a searchlight section to scale.
The sectIOn mcludes control station, searchlight, sound locator,
and power plant. These models were made from
scrap lumber to a scale of one to five. All parts are movable
to t~e extent tha~ they can be used for orienting.
Lleuten~nt ?k.mner originated the idea and drew up the
plan of thIS mmlature unit. These models mav be used to
teach searchlights on rainy day programs effe~tivelv. Furthermore,
the students grasp the fundamentals or' a unit
more quickly because of the reduced size, for the student
can see the unit as a whole. Thev were constructed with
everyday hand tools of the Camp \Vallace Utilitv Repairman's
School in about two weeks ..