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Studebaker Quality – Full color 10″ x 13 1/2″ ad that has a headline saying that “Tom Hinkle’s boys do him proud in the Army just as they did on their Studebaker jobs”. There is a drawing of two boys, one in uniform and the other in work clothes, standing their, both admiring a fleet of bombers flying overhead. The ad tells us that “It’s a long way from thje Fiji Islands to the Studebaker factories where Wright Cyclone engines for the Boeing Flying Fortresses are built. It’s still farther to the American air bases in India from which vital war cargo is flown into China across the towering Himalayan “hump”. But there’s a link where Tom Hinkle’s boys are now stationed and their father in South Bend. That link is a comradeship in craftsmanship which had its beginning when all three were working close together in the Studebaker plants”. There is another drawing that shows Tom Hinkle working with a smile on his face. He is shown building Flying Fortress engines and, the ad says, at last report “one son, George, is an Army Air Forces lieutenant in India, Bill Hinkle, Tom’s other son, is a Coast Artillery corporal in the Fiji Islands”.
Source: June 19, 1944 Life magazine.
