A Camera Tour Through The Greenville Army Air Base, Greenville, S.C.

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A CAMERA TOUR THROUGH THE GREENVILLE ARMY AIR BASE GREENVILLE, S. C.

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SC Pam Box 16 Camera

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YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET IN ... BUT YOUR MAIL CAN.

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[centered along top page border is a stamp mark in dark blue ink] GREENVILLE (S.C.) CO. LIBRARY

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WHEN THE JAPANESE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR, THE SITE OF THE GREENVILLE ARMY AIR BASE WAS STILL SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON LAND. SIX MONTHS LATER BOMBERS WERE ROARING FROM ITS RUNWAYS: WHERE FARMLANDS HAD BEEN, SOLDIERS WERE PREPARING FOR THE GRIM BUSINESS OF MEETING THE ENEMY IN A HUNDRED ALIEN SKIES.

SINCE THEN, THE GREENVILLE BASE HAS SEND THOUSANDS OF MEN INTO COMABT. THESE MENT COME HERE AS SPECIALISTS AND LEAVE AS EXPERTS, THE PILOT, BOMBADIER, NAVIGATOR, GUNNER, ENGINEER, RADIO MAN - EACH DOES 'POST GRADUATE' WORK IN HIS SPECIALIST TASK. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, EACH BECOMES PART OF A TEAM, A BOMBER CREW WHOSE ACTIONS ARE COORDINATED INTO THE PRECISION WORKING OF A HIGH POWERED FOOTBALL ELEVEN.

THIS IS THE RECORD NOT ONLY OF THEIR TRAINING BUT OF ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT GO TO MAKE GAB AN EFFICIENT FUNCTIONING UNIT - THE LINEMEN, THE ORDNANCE, THE QUARTERMASTER, THE ENGINEERS, THE MEDICS.

THIS, OF COURSE, IS ONLY PART OF THE STORY. THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS BEING WRITTEN OVER ITALY AND GERMANY, IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND IN THE ALEUTIANS BY MEN WHO ACQUIRED HERE THE NEEDED SKILL, KNOWLEDGE, AND STAMINA TO MASTER THE AIR AND THE ENEMY WHO INFEST IT.

THEIR DEEDS ARE PART OF A LARGER STORY THAT THAT OF THE GREENVILLE BASE, FOR THEY ARE WRITING NOT ONLY THE CONCLUDING CHAPTER OF GAB'S STORY BUT CONTINUING PAGES IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY.

COLONEL OLIVER H. STOUT BASE COMMANDER

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[on right side of page] BOMBARDIER IN TRAINING

BORN IN ONE BARE ROOM, THE 334TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP SCHOOLS SYSTEM AFTER ON YEAR HAD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF EQUIPMEN AND AN "ARIAL UNIVERSITY" STAFF TO TRAIN OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE SPECIALIZED TECHNIQUE OF FIGHTING IN A B-25 BOMBER

GUNNER'S BLINDFOLD TEST

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[image along top half of page depicts a line of servicemen working in and around model turrets inside a large building] TURRET SCHOOL

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