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Studios and transmitter facilities are housed in a "television shack" — ten by thirteen feet in area — atop the four-story base hospital. A lieutenant and six enlisted men comprise the engineering and program staff. On the air for approximately six months on an experimental basis, the station telecasts kinescope re- cordings of top network programs from the major broadcasting systems. It also provides three daily "live" newscasts and twice-daily "weather man" programs. Regularly scheduled "flying safety" programs are carried as well as religious telecasts produced by Air Force chaplains and their staffs. Air Force Morale TV Policy Colonel Harrison estimated at "more than 1,000" the number of television receivers in use in living and recreation quarters at the base. Stating Air Force policy on the operation of morale TV stations, he declared: "We will operate television stations only in areas where it is not possible to receive TV programs from commercial outlets. We do not intend to compete with private industry. It is our purpose — and our sole purpose — to provide television service to our people only when and where they cannot get it from privately owned stations." Recounting the nearly two decades of television use by the Armed Forces, Mr. Engel said that General Sarnoff first assigned RCA engineers and scientists to develop- ing television for the Armed Forces in 1934. "Long before World War II ended, radio-controlled airplanes with RCA television cameras in their noses had been tested against targets in the South Pacific," he related. "German objectives along the English Channel also felt the devastating impact of similar electronic- controlled, television-guided weapons. World War II saw many successful uses of airborne television in patrol work. Pictures transmitted from high-flying aircraft were relayed scores of miles to receivers installed at land bases and aboard ships. "Since V-J Day, military television — like its civilian counterpart — has made amazing strides. TV has been used to get close-up pictures of radioactive clouds un- leashed by nuclear explosions. Television has guided pilotless drone aircraft to communist targets during the fighting in Korea. Even now, we — and by 'we' I mean RCA in partnership with the Armed Forces — we are developing new and important uses of television and electronics to safeguard national security." Staff Sgt. Tom B. Legan is staff announcer. Here he presents a newscast from the tiny studio. Staff Sgt. Charles McDonald scans the teletype in prep- aration for the hourly broadcast of AP news. RADIO AGE 7