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frir Forces To Use Camp Davis
To Ease Strain Of Army Fliers
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/Fditor’s note: This is the
a series of articles ex
**in. the functions of the
PIal 1 °^:r Forces Personnel
&ution Command This
D ,;;e command that has re
opened Camp Davis.
ror the past four years, Camp
' has been operating as a
Dav]S{0,. the training of anti-air
f-), aftillervmen. This post now
::a“heen taken over from the
iaS , Ground Forces by the Army
^forces Personnel Distribution
f * and An entirely new type
/installation is being opened
°‘ vill play an important part
f”e war effort.
‘ r-r this reason, it is assumed
,re civilian population of this
tr;“; l'an(j the surrounding states
S!'’d be interested in an explana
the new program. A series
7articles are being prepared on
t "varir >s phases of this work
*V: should help the “outsider”
!' a better understanding of the
g=mD Davis has to perform.
l!Lhin‘ the Personnel Distribu
. ‘command there are several
lenarate and distinct organiza
f- ‘ the Redistribution Station,
Convalescent Hospital, and the
Lerseas Replacement Depot.
L,p Davis will be made up of
a redistribution station and a con
lucent hospital, plus a regional
Hospital which will operate under
7 Medical De; nrtment of the
Tjnited States A- my.
’T.t us first discuss the operation
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0f a rems
low the sequence of redistribution
ty tracing a typical member of a
combat crew from the time the
'light surgeon in a theater of op
rations determines that he should
be returned to America. There are
Bany warning signals which
tell flight surgeons that a man is
verging on a condition where he
ro longer can stand the extreme
strain °of combat conditions. An
otherwise pleasant and agreeable
jlijot will lose his temper at din
... a navigator will begin
to suffer from insomnia ... a
bombardier s u d d e nly becomes
morose and aloof from the mem
bers of his crew. These and other
symptoms tell the surgeon and the
commanding officer that further
missions would prove extremely
hazardous to both the man con
cerned and the other members of
his crew . . . almost immediately
he receives orders returning him
to this country.
He arrives at one of approxima
tely thirty aerial and water ports
o! debarkatiion or reception sta
tions where he is met by a liaison
officer who helps him clear his
papers, gives him certain instruc
tions in legard to interviews and
security of information, and pro
vides him with orders to report to
e redistr.bution center, with a 21
day delay enroute. That 21-day
Way is the magic portion of his
orders, for it means that he w>
lave 21-days with his loved ones
and his friends . . . the one thing
uppermost in his mind. The Army
Air Forces sees to it that each
man is sent to within 50 to 100
piles of his home at Government
expense.
The redistribution center to
which he is ordered is governed
by his leave or furlough address.
A: the time of his arrival in the
United States, the liaison officer
An amusing scene, “Love Life of Madeline Mooney.” from one
of the 23 musical numbers in the Carolina Playmakers’ new show,
“Playmakers’ Polyphonic Pastimes,” to be-presented in their theatre
at the University in Chapel Hill Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
March 21, 22, 23, at 8:30 o’clock.
Joan Martin (right) of New York plays the role of Madeline
Mooney, and her sweetheart is Merrill Hilton of China Grove.
The play was written and directed by Douglas Hume of the
Playmaker staff for presentation at various military camps and
hospitals throughout the State this spring.
picks up his papers and forwards
them to his designated station
for processing so that each sta
tion will know the approximate
date of arrival of all returned
combat men, who will be known
thereafter as returnees.
Upon completion of his 21-day
furlough or leave, the soldier re
ports to his redistribution station
as previously ordered. Here he is
assigned to quarters and process
ing begins. The purpose of the re
distribution station is three fold.
Men who have been plunged into
the drama and strain of combat
must, of necessity, be “decom
pressed” before they can be fit
ted successfully into the more
prosaic, but equally important do
mestic jobs. Two weeks in pleasant
surroundings, good food and a var
iety of sports activities and recrea
tion, works wonders.
One of the most important phases
of his stay in a redistribution
center is the orientation program.
The soldier attends a series of
lectures that explain the set-up
of the Personnel Distribution Com
mand’s program as well as lec
tures explaining what has hap
pened in the States since his de
parture. This information is strict
ly factual . . . there is no propa
ganda. No attempt is made to
minimize strikes or other natural
phenomena of democracy, but the
accomplishments of the civilian
population are brought to his at
tention.
The miracle of production which
has built a stupendous Army, the
world’s largest and most efficient
Air I'orce and the greatest Navy
. . . the food, equipment and fuel
which has been supplied to Great
Britain, to Russia, to China, and
other allies, as well as the stu
pendous amounts which must go
to all our fighting forces through
out the world is the result of singu
larly successful cooperation in in
dustry and throughout our econo
my,, he is told.
These things are part of the mis
sion of redistribution, yet, the
paramount function of redistribu
tion is to see that these returnees
are correctly re-assigned so that
their knowledge and experience is
brought to bear where it will do
the most good, in the effective
prosecution of the war.
The matter of assignments has
been given the greatest thought
Mrs. Bissett Gets Word
From Soldier Husband
Via Commentator Malone
Mrs. Sam Bissett, nurse at
lames Walker Memorial hospital,
received a doubly-exciting long dis
tance telephonee call here this
week.
In the first place, it brought
ler first-hand news of her hus
oand, S-Sgt. Sam Bissette, who is
serving with the Army on the
Western Front.
In the second place, the call it
self was from a nationally known
radio commentator, the Blue Net
work’s Ted Malone.
Malone, conductor of a Monday
Tuesday-Wednesday evening broad
cast direct from the war fronts,
had come to New York to help in
a Red Cross campaign for blood
plasma donations. He intends to
fly back in the first plane loaded
with plasma.
Finding himself with a spare
moment, and remembering Sgt.
Bissett whom he had met in
Paris, he picked up the telephone,
called Mrs. Bissett, and gave her
husband’s regards.
The pleasantly surprised Mrs.
Bissett is the former Miss Ruby
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Ammonia on a saturated cloth
will remove ink spots from the
fingers.
and attention. Most of the inter
viewing is done by men who have
returned from combat. The logic
of this is inescapable. A man’s
civilian experience and education,
his training in the Army Air Forces
and his combat experiences are
talked over at length with men who
not only are sympathetic, but
who have unparalleled understand
ing of the conditions and problems
because they also have faced
them.
Perhaps the layman will have
difficulty in realizing the revolut
ionary aspect of this mission. But
let him remember that in the
whole history of war, there is no
parallel undertaking. Heretofore,
men have gone to war and they
have returned only when they were
wounded too seriously to fight or
when the war was won or lost.
Redistribution not only makes the
knowledge gained in combat avail
able to those who are about to
enter combat for the first time,
but the rotation program makes
it possible for all members of the
Army Air Forces to have their
turn in combat theaters.
In the next article of this series
we will discuss the operation and
problems encountered in the func
tions of a convalescent hospital,
another phase of the Personnel
Distribution Command.
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