Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Aug 1937, p. 22

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*The exercises wili be open ta the public wvithout charge. it was added, and ample parking space is to be provided. L'pper left shows the main field I entrance ta the building, with its of- fices, quarters for enlisted men and officers; shops, qtiass rooms, machine shopýs, store rooms, radio shack,. and hangar. Below this picture îs one',taken re-z centiy, when chief >of the bureau of navi- gtoRear Admnirai, Adôlphus An- drews, was a guest at the base.- The ad- mirai. ini civil ian ciothes, is >shown Seing greeted by Lieutenant Ed, Frank, execu-. tive officer 6f the naval. reserve squad- ron. With Admnirai Anrdrews are Lieutenant G. A. T.Wahrn base ommnderf left>, and Conmmander Raip Wood, aviation- aide ta the commandant of the ninth naval dis- trici.. At the extrerne ieft. -RearAd-. mirai Hayne Ellis, naval district. com-ý mandlant, is being escorted by Lieuten-, ant Jonseph M.\eagher. sqjuadrn corn- mander., The~ thi1rd picture i n the. left hand *paniel sho%%s, two af the eiisted menq at the! base making one of their reg- uiar inspections of the parachute equtipmnent, while, at the bottom, a chief petty officer is instructing an enlisted man in the care of aircraft motors. The top picture at the right showvs three planes of the squadron in for- mation flight, whiie, below the view of the front of the hangar, isanother. flight picture. Intoerior Pictire The, fourth. picture >on th e right * hand side is a. view af thé, interior of the great hangar which houses alil the naval reserve aircraf t, whiie, Iow- ,er righit, an enlisted mani maiçes re- pairs and adjustments to one of the plane motors. Except for a smali skeieton staff of officers and men kept on duty throughout the year, the base as wvell a-, the squadron is used for the train- ing of two divisions reservists, al of whoin have their regular civilian occupations, and who spend Satur- dpv afternoons throughout the er 1r.E. G nuke, accidei in her home treatnient at el DabVy, in Vi about two B u~~y ~ s e, w.ill be awayýý ,week.

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