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O AMOUNT of insurance can make up for the

real loss when the head of a family is disabled or dies. Nor can insurance minimize the hazards at we all accept as a normal part of our everyday

'es.

But insurance can and does ward off the pinch of ancial hardship when trouble strikes. An adequate surance program provides money or goods or serves when they are needed most. It is the one sure way guaranteeing security and protection for those we

ve.

In recognizing these services that are rendered by surance programs, AFA not only attempts to make em available to members but also keeps its programs der constant review, making revisions and changes they are deemed necessary. The latest example of is never-ending review program is the new all-accient insurance program which has replaced the former olicy covering only travel accidents. This and other ograms are briefly described below.

All-Accident Insurance

This new program, available to all AFA members, fers full twenty-four-hour protection against all accients, regardless of how or where they occur. It is fered in units of $5,000 up to a maximum of $50,000 nd is available either singly or in the popular new mily plan at unbelievably low rates.

Coverage under the family plan provides insurance or each member of the family, under one policy. nder this plan the wife of the policyholder is inred for 50% of his coverage and each child, regard-ss of number, is insured for 10% of his coverage. Coverage is also provided for nonreimbursed medial expenses of over $50, up to a maximum of $500. nder the family plan each member of the family is rovided this extra coverage. In addition, policyolders receive an automatic 5% increase in the face alue of their policy each year (at no increase in cost) or each of the first five years of coverage.

Life Insurance

AFA Group Life Insurance is available to all active uty officers and NCOs of the first three grades. It IR FORCE Magazine • December 1961

provides a graded amount of coverage, with a top amount of $20,000, depending on age and flying status. The death benefit is increased by 50% of the policy's face value if death is caused by any kind of accident. As an additional benefit policyholders may keep their insurance in force at the low group rate after they leave the service, provided their coverage has been in effect for more than a twelve-month period immediately prior to the date they leave the service.

Flight Pay Insurance

Guaranteed flight pay protection is available to rated personnel on active duty. Protection is guaranteed, even against pre-existing illnesses, after a policy has been in force for more than twelve consecutive months. This plan was first introduced in 1956 and since that time AFA has paid more than $1,800,000 in claims. Each month checks go to between 100 and 150 grounded flyers.

Benefits are such that a grounded policyholder receives 80% of his lost flight pay (tax free) for up to twenty-four months for groundings due to aviation accidents. . . up to twelve months for illnesses or other accidents.

The United States Air Force in Korea -Dr. Frank Futrell, professor of military history at the Air University. Retail $12.50. Member's price $7.25. A giant 800-page history of US airpower in action in Korea, giving details of unit actions and achievements with fifty-nine photographs and twenty-six maps. The Korean War was history's first jet war. It was also the first of modern limited military conflicts testing the armed might of communism vs. free men. Of this book, Gen. O. P. Weyland (Ret.), former USAF commander in Korea, said, "I would strongly recommend it to all in uniform and to civilians who are seriously concerned with our capabilities to meet aggressive Communist military forces on the ground and in the air." A wonderful gift for anyone who was there! Air Bombardment: The Story of its Development Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby, Retail $5. Member's price $3.95. With exceptional clarity of expression Air Marshal Saundby traces the growth of air bombardment, the new third dimension of warfare. He describes the tentative and inconclusive use of the bomber in World War I, the terrible effectiveness of the strategic air offensives against Germany and Japan in World War II, the somewhat limited use of weapons in the Korean War, and the uneasy stalemate of the long-range bomber and the guided and ballistic missiles of today.

Journey of the Giants, The Story of the B-29-Maj. Gene Gurney, USAF. Introduction by Gen. Thomas S. Power. Retail $4.95. Member's price $3.95. The fascinating story of the B-29 Superfort from the gamble behind its production to the long chance taken by Gen. Curtis LeMay when he ordered all 399 planes, stripped of armor and guns, into the air for a longrange attack on Tokyo.

On Thermonuclear War - Herman Kahn, 651 pages. Retail $10. Member's price $5.95. The most authoritative work on this vital subject ever to appear. Of this book, the AIR FORCE INFORMATION POLICY LETTER FOR COMMANDERS said on Feb. 1, "Undoubtedly one of the most important current books on modern military strategy is On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn. Based on the 'Kahn Briefings' familiar to men in the Air Force, it is a mine of information on national defense. . . ."

The Wild Blue John F. Loosbrock and Richard M. Skinner, 620 pages. Retail $5.95. Member's price $4.95. A forty-two year accumulation of the best writing and thinking of American airpower selected from AIR FORCE/SPACE DIGEST... which traces its origin back to September 21, 1918. Told in the words of the men who themselves made history. Billy Mitchell, Hap Arnold, George Kenney, Jimmy Doolittle, Tommy White, etc.

Atlas, the Story of a Missile John L. Chapman. Retail $4.00. Member's price $3.25.

Man High-Lt. Col. David G. Simons, USAF. Retail $4.50. Member's price $3.95. Rocketship X-15 - Myron Gubitz. Retail $4.95. Member's price $3.95.

Man in Space Lt. Col. Kenneth Gantz, USAF. Retail $4.00. Member's price $2.95.

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ter stopping at the Azores, estabhing the record "first" across the lantic, but losing the $50,000 prize oney offered for the first nonstop by . Within a month British flyers cock and Brown in their big Vickers my collected it for a daring nonp from Newfoundland to the BritIsles.

Here are some tips on books for the unger set at Christmas time. For es up to fourteen, Doubleday anunces a new space-age youth adnture series, the "Mike Mars books," itten by Donald Wollheim. Four vels in this set, reminiscent of the m Swift, Don Sturdy, and Rover ys of days long gone, feature a ung US Air Force flyer in a career at most lads would envy: Mike ars, Astronaut!; Mike Mars Flies

X-15; Mike Mars at Cape Canavl; Mike Mars in Orbit. Each sells $1.25.

Well known writer Charles Coombs mes up with one of the most ique, interest-catching juvenile air oks, for ages ten to fourteen, of ret years. Bush Flying in Alaska, forrow, $2.95) traces the growth flying in the development of our ty-ninth state and the uses today of e airplane in that rugged mounnous country. Morgan Henniger's ractive color illustrations give the ok balance, depth, and meaning. Fourth in Rutherford Montgomery's nt Barstow aeroscape adventure ses is Kent Barstow: Space Man Quell, Sloan & Pearce, $4) for elve-to-sixteen-year-olds. Here the satile Air Force captain undergoes ronaut training and is detailed to ercept an unidentified spaceship. gh and fast-moving adventures inst authentic background marks latest in this popular teen-age ies of novels.

For the more serious-minded lad, rteen years old and up, Robert ells's Navigation in the Jet Age "odd, Mead, $3) is a basic primer aerospace navigation, covering the nciples and theory involved and - modern electronic equipment in today. Wells's explanation is in plified terms. The foreword is by n. Curtis E. LeMay, Chief of Staff, AF.

A deep look back at the beginnings the air age is available in The right Brothers at Kitty Hawk, by nald J. Sobol (Nelson, $2.95). It 1 give the ten-to-fourteen-year-olds pleasant dose of air history in a cumentary treatment of the three rs preceding the eventful flight by lbur and Orville Wright.-END

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Objectives.

To assist in obtaining and maintaining adequate airpower for national security and world peace. To keep the AFA members and the public abreast of developments in the field of aviation. · To preserve and foster the spirit of fellowship among former and present personnel of the United States Air Force.

Membership.

Active Members: Individuals honorably discharged or retired from military service who have been members of, or either assigned or attached to, the USAF or its predecessor services, or who are currently enrolled in the Air Force Reserve or the Air National Guard, $6.00 per year.

Service Members (nonvoting, nonofficeholding): Military personnel now assigned or attached to the USAF. $6.00 per year. Cadet Members (nonvoting, nonofficeholding): Individuals enrolled as Air Force ROTC Cadets, Civil Air Patrol Cadets, or Cadets of the US Air Force Academy. $3.00 per year. Associate Members (nonvoting, nonofficeholding): Individuals not otherwise eligible for membership who have demonstrated their interest in furthering the aims and purposes of the Air Force Association. $6.00 per year.

Industrial Associates: Companies affiliating with the Air Force Association on a nonmembership status that receive subscriptions to AIR FORCE Magazine and SPACE DIGEST, special magazine supplements and Industrial Service Reports.

Officers and Directors.

JOSEPH J. FOSS, President, Sioux Falls, S. D.; GEORGE D. HARDY, Secretary, College Park, Md.; JACK B. GROSS, Treasurer, Harrisburg, Pa.; THOS. F. STACK, Chairman of the Board, San Francisco, Calif.

DIRECTORS: John R. Alison, Hawthorne, Calif.; Charles L. Collins, Westford, Mass.; M. Lee Cordell, River Forest, Ill.; Edward P. Curtis, Rochester, N. Y.; James H. Doolittle, Los Angeles, Calif.; James H. Douglas, Chicago, Ill.; William P. Gilson, Sacramento, Calif.; Arthur Godfrey, New York, N. Y.; John P. Henebry, Chicago, Ill.; Robert S. Johnson, Farmingdale, N. Y.; Arthur F. Kelly, Los Angeles, Calif.; George C. Kenney, New York, N. Y.; Maxwell A. Kriendler, New York, N. Y.; Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Carl J. Long, Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. Randolph Lovelace, II, Albuquerque, N. M.; Howard T. Markey, Chicago, Ill.; J. B. Montgomery, Murray Hill, N. J.; Msgr. William F. Mullally, St. Louis, Mo.; O. Donald Olson, Colorado Springs, Colo.; G. Barney Rawlings, Las Vegas, Nev.; Chester A. Richardson, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Julian B. Rosenthal, New York, N. Y.; Peter J. Schenk, Arlington, Va.; Roy I. Sessums, New Orleans, La.; C. R. Smith, New York, N. Y.; James C. Snapp, Jr., La Mesa, Calif.; Carl A. Spaatz, Chevy Chase, Md.; Arthur C. Storz, Omaha, Neb.; Harold C. Stuart, Tulsa, Okla.; James M. Trail, Boise, Idaho; Alden A. West, DeWitt, N. Y.; Thomas D. White, Washington, D. C.; Gill Robb Wilson, LaVerne, Calif.

REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS: John L. Beringer, Jr., Pasadena, Calif. (Far West); William D. Bozman, Boise, Idaho (Northwest); Karl W. Caldwell, Ogden, Utah (Rocky Mountain); Harold G. Carson, Oaklawn, Ill. (Great Lakes); G. Wayne Gibbs, Holden, Mass. (New England); Joseph L. Hodges, South Boston, Va. (Central East;) M. L. McLaughlin, Dallas, Tex. (Southwest); Frederick W. Monsees, Lynbrook, N. Y. (Northeast); Alex G. Morphonios, Miami, Fla. (Southeast); Chess F. Pizac, St. Louis, Mo. (Midwest); Will O. Ross, Mobile, Ala. (South Central).

Community Leaders

ALABAMA: Edwin M. Speed, 1916 Post Oak Rd., Birmingham; W. J. Abernethy, Box 1692, Brookley AFB; James G. Hawthorne, 145 Cosa St., P. O. Box 990, Montgomery. ALASKA: Bob Reeve, Box 84, Anchorage.

ARIZONA: Harry J. Weston, P. O. Box 2522, Phoenix; Don S. Clark, P. O. Box 2871, Tucson,

ARKANSAS: Willard A. Hawkins, 327 Arkansas Gazette Bldg., Little Rock.

CALIFORNIA: Stanley V. Gray, P. O. Box 330, Chico; Gordon Redtfeldt, P. O. Box 1151, Covina Annex, Covina; Charles Prime, 1320 Lincoln St., Fairfield; Robert Mollring, P. O. Box 3227, Fresno; Lou Schmidt, P. O. Box 524, Hawthorne; Robert A. Morales, 4548 Eastbrook Ave., Lakewood; James Sorrentino, 3153 W. 76th St., Los Angeles; Stanley J. Hryn, P. O. Box 1253, Monterey; M. E. Wardell, 17311 Parthenia St., Northridge; M. L. Robbins, P. O. Box 1189, Oxnard: C. S. Irvine, P. O. Box 474-M, Pasadena; Bruce K. Robison, 3827 Gates Pl., Riverside; Eli Obradovich, P. O. Box 2647, Sacramento; Tillie D. Henion, P. O. Box 4006, Norton AFB, San Bernardino; Rayfield E. Stauffer, 4726 Miracle Dr., San Diego; Alfred M. Oppenheim, 703 Market St., San Francisco; Edward L. Van Allen, 934 W. Pomona, Santa Ana; Walter Mahurin, P. O. Box 1111, Santa Monica; John I. Bainer, 2516 Lesserman, Torrance; Glen J. Van Dusen, 146th Transport Wing, 8030 Balboa Blvd., Van Nuys.

COLORADO: George Mehncke, Box 1051, Colorado Springs; Lawrence Burkhalter, 1408 E. 3d St., Pueblo; Raymond L. MacKinnon, 7650 Knox Ct., Westminster.

CONNECTICUT: Laurence Cerretani, 139 Silvermine Rd., New

Canaan.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Lucas V. Beau, 2610 Upton St., N. W. FLORIDA: Edward Aronson, 204 S. 28th Ave., Hollywood; Cliff Mayfield, 5416 Oliver St., N., Jacksonville; William Řenegar, 620 SW 26th Rd., Miami.

GEORGIA: John T. Allan, 100 State Capitol Bldg., Atlanta; Phillips D. Hamilton, 136 E, 50th St., Savannah.

HAWAII: Paul F. Haywood, Box 1618, Honolulu.

IDAHO: Byron H. Erstad, 1219 Highland View Dr., Boise; Orval Hansen, 506 E. 16th St., Idaho Falls; John K. Baisch, 313 7th Ave., N., Twin Falls.

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ILLINOIS: Lucille Zischke, 2902 N. Kenosha Ave., Chirage (N. Chicago); W. C. Burdick, 1024 Mulford, Evanston; Leona Luka, 3450 W. 102d, Evergreen Park (S. Chicago); William Griev 1015 Troost, Forest Park (W. Chicago); Harold G. Carson, 4 S. Lawton, Oak Lawn (S. W. Chicago).

INDIANA: Roy W. Chenoweth, Route 1, Morresville. IOWA: Col. Luther J. Fairbanks, Burt; C. C. Seidel, 211 Par mount Bldg., Cedar Rapids; Dr. C. H. Johnston, 4820 Grand Avt. Des Moines.

KANSAS: Henry Farha, Jr., 220 N. Green, Wichita. LOUISIANA: Charles D. Becnel, 7062 Sheffield Ave, Bat Rouge; Clyde Hailes, 5218 St. Roch Ave., New Orleans; Gilmer ! Mayfield, 134 Norwood, Shreveport.

MASSACHUSETTS: Christopher J. Brady, Jr., 21 Hartford 9: Bedford; Arnold F. Fagan, 57 Parsons St., Brighton; Lous F Musco, 30 Huntington Ave., Boston; Frederick H. Hack, P. 0 Ba 195, Lexington; Warren J. Hayes, 2 Naples Rd., Salem; Edur Thomson, 29 Commonwealth Ave., Pittsfield; Ronald Groleau, Santa Barbara St., Springfield; Crawford E. Archer, 8 Hill St., Taunton; Vincent C. Gill, 21 Dorothy Ave., Worcester. MICHIGAN: Paul Huxman, 215 Wah Wah TahSee Way, Batt Creek; M. Van Brocklin, 230 Hunter Dr., Benton Harbor; RG Saltsman, 208 Larchlea, Birmingham; George A. Martin. Geneva Ct., Dearborn; Victor G. Modena, Jr., 4602 Merrick, Dealborn (Detroit); W. V. Nold, 45 Barclay, S. E. Grand Rapids; A R. Barbiers, Jr., 2940 Broadway, Kalamazoo; William Jeffries Michigan, Lansing; Rennie Mitchell, 36 Miller, Mt. Clemens Norman L. Scott, 412 W. LaSalle, Royal Oak; Nestor 0. He brandt, 22069 Carolina, St. Clair Shores.

MINNESOTA: W. K. Wennberg, 4 Carlson, Duluth; Que Peterson, 2401 W. 60th St., Minneapolis; R. Donald Kelly, Minnesota Bldg., St. Paul.

MISSOURI: Thomas R. McGee, 4900 Oak St, Kansas C Edwin T. Howard, 10301 St. Joan Lane, St. Ann. NEBRASKA: Thomas Lawrie, KLIN, 410 Sharp Bldg., Line Lloyd Grimm, 5103 Hamilton St., Omaha.

NEVADA: Barney Rawlings, Convention Center, Las Vegas NEW JERSEY: Tom Gagen, 512 Garfield Ave., Avon; Morn Bloom, 452 Central Ave., E. Orange; William Graham, 108 Ma St., Jersey City; John Mosteller, 7507 Winchester Ave., Marga City; George H. Stone, P. O. Box 88, Millburn; Salvatore Car glione, 83 Vesey St., Newark; John F. Russo, 471 3d St., Palisade Park; Lloyd Nelson, 90 Grand Ave., Park Ridge; Nathan L 76 E. 35th St., Paterson; Richard W. Spencer, 290 Winding La Riverton; Italo Quinto, Box 309, Stirling.

NEW MEXICO: Arthur Abernathy. Jr., 1308 Filipino Alame gordo; Lewis R. Good, P. O. Box 3031, Albuquerque.

NEW YORK: Earle Ribero, 257 Delaware Ave., Delmar (Alter) Area); Gordon Thiel, 333 Stanton Ave., DeWitt (Syracuse Area Fred Monsees, 62 Oakland Ave., Lynbrook (NYC Metropoli Area); James Wright, 13 Devon Lane, Williamsville (Buffalo Arta NORTH CAROLINA: R. P. Woodson, III, 2513 Anderson Raleigh.

OHIO: Loren M. Dietz, 2025 40th St., N.W., Canton; Robert Erman, 3407 Erie Ave., Cincinnati; Ray Saks, 2823 Sulgrave Cleveland; Howard C. Warner, 250 W. Broad St., Colum William H. Jeffries, 512 E. Broadway, Cuyahoga Falls; Col. M Ribbler, 1912 Hazel Ave., Dayton; John Truer. 210 W. Lonava Ave., Mansfield; John J. Nagel, 2529 Erie St., Toledo. OKLAHOMA: Frank Piepenbring, Jr., 215 Federal Bldg. Jack A. Ericsson, 304 Silvermeadow Dr., Midwest City, EHyden, 5367 E. 39th Pl., Tulsa.

OREGON: Ernest A. Heinrich, Route 2, Box 755, Oregon C Clyde Hilley, 2141 N. E. 23d Ave., Portland,

PENNSYLVANIA: Warren M. Wenner, II, 817 Flexer A Allentown; John Malay, 541 Merchant St., Apt. 1, Ambrid William M. Foster, 106 S. Walnut St., Burnham; Olive Johns, 344 N. Market St., Elizabethtown; Edmund C. Jasen Cmdr., Box 1001, Erie; Charles W. Wallace, P. O. Box 503, Lev town; Robert C. Duffy, 1938 Phil. Natl. Bank Bldg., Philadelp Paul E. Liftin, Box 1904, Pittsburgh; George M. Keiser. 21st St., Pottsville; Leonard A. Work, 511 Clarence Ave. Star College; Carl F. Hynek, Willow Grove NAS, Willow Grove. RHODE ISLAND: M. A. Tropea, Industrial Bank Bldg, Fre dence.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Paul Collins, 1711 Olwien St., Brook Elmer M. Olson, Piedmont; Duane L. Corning, Joe Foss F Sioux Falls.

TENNESSEE: Jerred Blanchard, 1230 Commerce Title B Memphis.

TEXAS: Frank J. Storm, Jr., Box 1983, Amarillo: Jame Rose, Box 35404, Airlawn Sta., Dallas; Phil North, Box 824 Fr Worth; Earl E. Shouse, 2424 Bank of Southwest Bldg. He Harlan A. Hodges, 1403 Great Plains Life Bldg., Lubbock; W-A. Schmidt, 231 Fetick St., Taft (San Antonio Area). UTAH: Charles M. LeMay, 6321 S. 500 East, Bountiful; Je Hanson, 414 Crestview Dr., Brigham City; Robert E. Christ son, Box 606, Ogden; Paul A. Simmons, 2200 N. Oakcrest, F Marvin W. Paule, 5924 S. 2100 W., Roy.

VIRGINIA: Robert Patterson, P. O. Box 573, Alexandru A. Pope, 4610 N. 22d St., Arlington; David M. Spangler. C head St., Danville; Troy N. Washburn, 732 Mohawk Dr. L burg; John Ogden, Jr., 3425 Ellwood Ave., Richmond. WASHINGTON: Don Klages, W. 117 Sumner, Spokant. WISCONSIN: Merrill H. Guerin, 504 Franklin, DePere; W. Kynaston, 1000 Chester St., Brookfield (Milwaukee). National Headquarters Staff,

Executive Director: James H. Straubel; Administrative Dir John O. Gray; Organization Director: Gus Duda; Direc Industrial Relations: Stephen A. Rynas; Director of Military lations: Jackson V. Rambeau; Convention Manager: W Belanger; Exhibit Manager: Robert C. Strobell; Directer counting: Muriel Norris: Director of Insurance Programs mond M. Keeney: Director of Membership Fulfillment: C Tippett.

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