News Letter 1940 Jul-Dec - Air Force Historical Studies Office

...
Captains (Continued) , _ .A special Pursuit gunnery demon~ib~~i~::;:
- , .tion at Plum Tree Island and a bom ng
ReginaJ.d Heber Ralph. P. Swofford,Jr. demonstration at Lfulber!;'YIslan.d,. f~,r
Homer L. Sanders Howard M. McCoy f Gen al Arnold " "',
Walter R. '-e Edwin S. Perrin T', the benefit 0 erar . .,,!8.8-."ll:O
"'6" J Le scheduled for the .afternoon.. . ~ ,.
SamW. Ch~yney " Mlrris. e ," , General Arnold was greetedin'f~ntcof
Trenholm J. Meyer Millard Lewis •~, the Operations Office at Langley, Fleld,. '
Dudley D. Hale ', Joseph 'A. Miller bya 'battery of Air CorpsphotograP. he,r!l
Thomas L. Mosley_ .. , . .' also bya number of hi@ r/ml.d.ng ofIi:'!l
-.' !'irst Lieutenants cers of the Air Base. These 1ncludecj.'J
"w a_eke '- Arn' ld T T_'-_ Major, General Delos C. :Emmons~Co~=.,
Earle .au n"erry 0 . """,,,son .~;,. Gene' ral of theGH~r'Force;:.Co, l.•.. ~.,r"
Gerald E. Williams Carl '~er' ~ Co-"';'~'" 0'
J 00' J' ""tch1 Ed: ard G~'~~ Jacob W.S; \lfuest. Air e 111l11e,,,,,,,,r.,.;
o . OLIo son w: • ~.~, Lieut. Colonel Theodore J. Koenig,_Com1ajor!farry B. ss;:veda: t t~t:.t:.::,C'.u
- -- General, Second , ana. ot rs. , :.1 j"cn
,MaJor Thomas'J. Walker, Jr., U.S. . --0 - ., ~ir",Ci
Marine Corps. ' , , . , , ,.~ "
Second Lleut • Chiang, Wego, Chinese WEsr POINTERSKEEP2NDBOMB.~l1OUP!~~
Army. --000-- . "This Group." s~s the News Lettr~~
CONTRAarFoR WRIGHTENGINES
the 2nd Bombardmen. Group, Lan.e:ley~f':.c1I
Field, Va., "has seen qUlte a 1i.l it ',;:.o,tH
A recent announcement of the Acting'
Secretary of lVar, the Hon. Louis Joiuison,
was to the effect that a contract
was awarded to the Wright Aeronautical
COijration, Paterson. N.J., for.Model'
R-l 20-65 engines in the total amount
of' ,488,Z72.00.
Recently, 'under existing contracts,
the Boeing Aircraft Comp~. Seat~~l
Washi~on. was given orders for , -
ti:onal 4-engine Bombers of the .. '
"Flying Fortress" type" and these engines
are reCf1:l1redasuovernmen~-:-, '
furnished equipment for those alT'": ,:.
planes. .' ,
---000--
actiVlty during the past two weeks.,:tr.a
'Three contingants or-West ,pOintets~1n:."';~
groups of 150 each h~ve been ~wn.;t:o:tij
see What makes the Air Forcet1~k,~ .•:;
well they found out - and how! They(.......
took'in the field :proper on'inspe,?~iO~i
trips, etc. This Group fed them,"an~-'