Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 4 September 1942 — ENROLLS IN ARMY AIR CORPS [ARTICLE]

ENROLLS IN ARMY AIR CORPS

Pvt. Paul R. Sekema, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Sekema. of DeMotte, was enrolled as a student this week in the Mechanics School for the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command at Kessler Field, and has started an intensive 19-week course to qualify as an airplane mechanic. Private Sekema, who came here from Miami Beach reception center, already has completed his basic training which includes marching, target practice, gas mask and bayonet drills, and orientation lectures. At the completion of the Air Mechanics course here, he will be prepared for assignment to active line duty with some fighting unit of the Army Air Forces. The course begins with instruction in aircraft maintenance fundamentals, and then advances to airplane structures hydaulic systems, propellers, instruments, engines, fuel and electrical systems and engine operation. Before completing the course, the student is given thorough training in the inspection of single and multimotored planes.