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Beavers and Chipmunks Early in the course of the war, Presi- dent Baker offered the services of Massa- chusetts State College to the War De- partment in whatever way these services might be utilized, and, particularly, for the training of members of the military forces. In January, 1943, there came a telegram to the College from the Director of Individual Training Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington, D. C, asking for a report by wire as to facilities for housing and training air force cadets in a program soon to be undertaken. A detailed report was dispatched in- dicating that the College could accom- modate 750 cadets in a training program. On February 19, 1943, the Army Air Forces indicated that Trainees would be sent to the College, and the first con- tingent of these men, called Aviation Students (A S) arrived on February 28th. From then through May, 1944, when this type of training program was discon- tinued, nearly 2400 young enlisted men and non-commissioned officers in the Army Air Forces received training at Massachusetts State preparatory to their pre-flight course at army fields. Major General T. J. Hanley, Jr., com- manding general of the Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, stated the purpose of the College Training Detachments as follows: To bridge the gap, the ever-increasing gap, between the presently low and simple requirements to enter the air corps and the high and complicated demands upon the student when he is in. The training program for the 58th College Training Detachment at Massachusetts State consisted of four parts: 1) ten hours of dual control flying at the Westfield Airport, 2) courses in military discipline which were handled by the 58th headquarters staff ' (Captain Dewey W. Couri and Captain Richard J. Congleton were successively commanding officers), 3) physical training, 4) academic courses. The academic course was twenty-one weeks in length; it was organized in such a way that a group, or Squadron, of A S was graduated each month — when another group would arrive to take the place of those who had shipped out. The curriculum was so organized and directed that each course applied very definitely to helping a man operate an airplane intelligently. Physics was taught with relation to forces which act on a plane in flight. Geography dealt with the use of maps, with time belts, meteorol- ogy and climate. History was confined to such topics as form the background for the present war. English was directed toward the improve- ment of speed and comprehension in reading and toward the development of precision and facility of expression in writing and in speech. Mathematics was taught on the basis that operating an airplane represents one mathematical calculation after another. The physical training program included conditioning activities — cross country. 15
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