Air Force Dependents Get Helping Hand, Orlando, Florida

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INDEX OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 (B) RADIO - TV BRANCH, TELEVISION SECTION Release No. 5-57 PICTORIAL BRANCH, NEWSREEL SECTION ROOM 2E-791 EXT. 72902 75061 Footage: 150° ROOM 2D-780A EXT. 75111 For release 11 January 1957 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: MGM FINE GRAIN TO: FOX-UP AIR FORCE DEPENDENTS GET HELPING HAND (Official Air Force footage released by Dept. of Defense) Wives of Air Force personnel act as volunteer members of the Depend ent's Assistance Program. This relatively new organization is gaining momentum world-wide throughout the Air Force. Dependent's Assistance Centers work with supply, processing, judge advocate and billeting offices to help families with housing, legal problems and overall information about their new base. From information obtained by correspondence with other bases and through prepared booklets, Dependent's Assistance Program can council on what to expect from foreign assignments. Sequences show: (a) Volunteer members of the Dependent's Assistance Program meet the train at Orlando, Florida and welcome new Air Force families. (b) They assist new arrivals in finding suitable housing. (c) They furnish household kits to tide families over while they wait the arrival of their own furnishings. (d) Serviceman whose next duty station is Japan receives pamphlets and literature. 124 Tuped NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribu- tion to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 7 days to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be available to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The DUPE NEGATIVES must not be cut in any manner. B-30102

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Filmed News Releases