AMPHIBIOUS TRACTjOR') L A N D — A winding line of amphibious tractors carries
Marines ashore on Tinian Island in Pacific Marianas. Island feM to Yanks after nine-day fight.
NORTHWEST
AIR SERVICE
IN CHANGE
Change of ownership of North
west. Air Service, Inc., formerly
operated by Alan L. Blum and
Walter W. Burrington, was an
nounced recently, effective Aug
ust 1st, by Joe E. Crosson, vice
l president and manager of the
new" company.
President of the organization is
Charles H. Babb, founder and
owner of the Charles H Babb
Company, International Aircraft
Brokers of Glendale, California.
Babb, according to a recent arti
cle about him in Collier’s maga
zine, has developed in the avia
' tion. industry the largest business
' of ts kind in the world, with
bases at Glendale, New York, Mex
i ico City. Seattle and Fairbanks,
! Alaska He has contracts through
out the world, and his customers
include governments, a'rlmes,
mmmg ana construction compan
ies and aviation personal if.es
: everywhere. He has supplied
! equipment to Admiral Byrd, Sir
j Hubert Wilkins, Wiley Post, Sir
Charles Kingsford-Smith, and
i also fleets of planes to the Ch'n
ese, Australian, Canadian, Brit
ish and other governments.
! Joe E, Crosson. vice-president,
is one of Alaska’s early pilots,
and until his resignation in Feb
i ruary, was manager of Pan Am
! erican Airways Alaska Division
for 10 years—during its pioneer
ing and development period. He
has been prominent in Alaska
flying for years and helped es
tablish Alaska Airways, in which
he was associated with Ben Fiiel
son, who has been termed the
‘‘father of Alaskan aviation.”
This organization was a subsi
diary of American Airways be
fore it was purchased by Pan
American in 1932.
Treasurer of the new corpora
tion is Noel Wien, who, in terms
of flying experience, is the oldest
operating pilot in Alaska. Wien
has flown in Alaska almost con
tinuously since 1924, and was the
organiz,er of Wien Alaska Air
lines, Inc., which he opeated from
Fairbanks to all parts of the Ter
ritory until his recent association
with Northwest Air Service.
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Pilots m Alaska in the clays
when there v/ere no aids to air
navigation, and airmen flew “by
the seat of their pant?’-—both
Wie*n and Crosson have flown
throughout the Arctic, from Ana
dyr to Barrow to Aklavik With a
combined total of 38 years of ex
perience in the development of all
phases of commercial aviation,
from i‘s infancy to the present
day scheduled operations, these
men have acquired a wealth of
first-hand knowledge as to the
type of repair service commercial
and private operators require.
Their personal experience as pi
lots, as well as airline owners,
make Crosson and Wien well
qualified to furnish the supply
and service needs of operators.
Northwest Air Service. Inc., is
one of the oldest Civil Aeronau
tics Authority approved repair
stations in the United States. Its
present scope of activities will
be expanded by further develop
ment of sales and service of air
craft parts and equipment in
Alaska, with a branch at Fair
banks, under the active manage
ment of Mr. Wien. The main of
fices and shops of Northwest Air
Service, Inc., are located at Boe
ing Field, Seattle, under the
management of Mr. Crosson.
The U. S. Navy has 5,000 li
braries on ship and shore.
CRUSTY ARMY MULE
IS NAVY MASCOT
FORT SILL, Okla. — »AP>—
Wherever the U. S. submarine
“Hardhead” goes, the spirit of
Tarzan, famous pack mule of
Fort Sill, goes with it.
Tazan’s shoes were loaned to
the crew of the Hardhead and
the mule’s portrait was placed in
the submarine’s battle insignia.
The shoes now adorn the Hard
head's conning tower.
Tarzan is attached to the re
placement training center’s Bat
tery C, 16th battalion, and his
reputation for toughness, tenacity
and stubbornness has spread far
above and below this earth’s sur
face.
LAUNDRY WITH A PUNCH
CAMP SHELBV, Miss. — <AP>
—The post laundry will punch
holes in socks as a result of a
shortage of netting. The laundry
was forced to abandon placing
each GI’s soiled clothes in an in
dividual net bag and returned to
the former practice of looping
each soldier’s belongings togeth
er on a string.
“In undershirts," the laundry
officer said, “you can put the
string through an armhole, for
shorts you can pass it through a
leg, but on socks you got a dead
end. There’s no way out except
through a hole.”
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