David Clark "Dave" Phillips
 1939 LHS Ag Club |
 1939 LHS junior class |
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This March 11, 1943, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 6, column 3:
Will Help Keep Tanks Running
Ft. Knox, Ky. - (Special) - Plunging into the study of how to keep an army tank in battle trim, Pvt. David C. Phillips of Lowell, today had reported to the armored force school tank department, upon orders of Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of the armored force.The armored force school, headed by Brig. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, commandant, turns off its human assembly line the thousands of technicians needed to man the nation's hard-hitting armored divisions.
In the modern shops of its tank department, headed by Col. Edwin A. Smith, students tear down tanks piece by piece, study the motor and driving mechanism and then do their own trouble-shooting and repair on running motors in a half-million dollar tank engine-testing building.
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