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FAR-AWAY MAGIC — Capt. George P. Montgomery
(left) of Corpus Christ!, Tex., sees the Chinese ring trick done by
Johnny Jones, USO-Camp Shows magician, at a “Jolly Roger’*
bomber base in the Netherlands East Indies,
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA —The young women in the upper picture are 5
preparing to join the Air Age They are students of the Alabama In
stitute of Aeronautics, a resident school for young women who wish x
to fly. These women are taking such courses as. Aircraft, Meterology,
Flight. Civil Air Regulations, Instruments, Parachutes and General
Service of Aircraft, Radio. Navigation and Aircraft Engines. Train- |J
ing is under the direction of Walter P Thorpe, Vice-President and
Superintendent, a leader in aviation education for 18 years.
Flight and ground school training are on the same colorful campus. ^
(lower photo) where for the past five years, U. S Army Air Force f
4 Cadet, Royal Air Force Cadet, Free French Cadet, Civil and War
Training Service has been given. Over one-quarter of a million hours
of flying time has been registered on the A.I.A. Hargrove Van De
Graaff Field. Oliver L. Parks, President of Parks Air College in East
St. Louis and of the A.I.A., announced the opening of the school. This
step was taken to satisfy an increasing need for well-organized flight
and ground school courses for young women
Official U. S. Coast Guard photo.
C. E. Collins, of Columbus, Ohio,
I pauses on his Coast Guard-manned
LST following the invasion of the
Philippines. To get battle “shots,”
he went in with assault forces and
became the first Coast Guardsman
to set foot on Jap-held Leyte. The
whiskers aren’t regulation equip
ment, but an invader’s privilege.
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The New Spot Cop—
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Official U. S. Coast Guard photo.
Attractive SPAR Elizabeth Hall, |
22, of Rochester, N. Y., models the
new SPAR garrison cap, now
optional gear for the Coast Guard
iWomen’s Reserve. The “overseas”
style millinery is proving popular
with SPARS, a large number ol
! whom quickly changed over from
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NEW MAP—Prof. Irving Fisher (right), noted economist
and longtime professor at Yale University, demonstrates his new
type map, based on flat triangles which can be “built” into a poly
hedron with a minimum of distortion. Shown with Prof. Fisher
is Phil Spitalny, orchestra leader, who will distribute some of the
maps on his tour of service camps. **
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NEW 'SPAR' HAT — While Spar Eileen Van Dree (top)
wears the old style hat, Spar Elizabeth Hall models the new gar
rison cap authorized for optional wear in the USCGWR.
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ASTRONOMY LECTUR E—Eager listeners crowd around Sir Harold Spencer Jones, British
astronomer royal, at the conclusion of one of his special lectures for children.