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...will have completed their training when they have passed one month at Squantum and seven months more at Jacksonville, Pensacola, or Corpus Christi. At the end of that period they are commissioned either as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve of Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and receive the gold wings of a Naval Aviator...
...depression years due to the fact that motors turn on dollars, are based on a long and respectable history of pioneer flying. Back in the days of the 1910 orange crates, now grisled veterans of flying formed the club which then held meets on the busy site of the Squantum Naval Air Station. Karl O. Langer, research meteorologist will act as Faculty adviser to the club...
Besides Quonset Point, World War II's emergency had given New England the air defenses it long lacked: the great Army bases at Westover Field (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Manchester, N.H., an enlarged naval air establishment at Squantum in Boston Harbor. And just below New England's border, on Long Island, were two more bastions of defense: the Army's Mitchel Field, the Navy's new air base at Floyd Bennett Field...
...Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, 34, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance Jr., Campbell Soup heir, who has been getting a $20,000-a-month allowance, began getting another $21 as an Army private...
Training at smaller airports is the new policy of the C. A. A. group at Harvard. Several units of ten have been assigned to train at the Denison airport and at the Squantum Naval Base in Quincy...