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Show EMS uover; & at ) " .WHITE FAR: Lieut Col. ! livinr Fortress pilot, tells i"r?',:J when the Jap struck In b'B .. Fleht of hit men are "before the Fort could cet ' Th. step by step escape ana hw Chrlst- !rT',..,,ibed. " bv V. s. flyer, m W "B0, Kurtj! Is worrylnt about , yu" w i! ma" a mission. sayine he'd beta nd e body aboard readv. General Brere- - "Hscbaetzel "Kim ricm patcfiejor OB lindS ...a lava at once. Kurta eamouaajed field In Java bombs. Describe! social A rf the Dutch. CHAPTER VIII .. headed out over we j -- ,L RPa toward Borne and. !Li instructions, found a likely i down to low it back following becan :Z.L and then, just m sched-- ; made out Samarlnda Field sunlight in spite iver, dropping !7. onA '. camouflage, we'd ever u j0b s k. ajw seen, better than i -- .11 ui- u- - camouflage at u 'ines. But here the Dutch wed this field out of the teem, for ujgleuprootea we suuna, it iff, planted it with grass, .savv then covered n wim wimku KnocK uie siuu- ies that would out of any plane mai mta 10 through them. Only when you out came a crowd led the field, natives on tne run i supple t were wild men of Borneo the had tamed. They would re- the sawhorses only from that railar runway you were sup- 4 to use, and the minute your all touched the ground they'd i recovering the runway behind ed i tructioiu 1 (Patten I your mi iber. I Nazi One Man Submarine and Pilot -- w, SVHIU hell that first flight has done, but dare look up to see if Combs has turned off the by target yet I proteeting cirdeuof must de troyers. all of stay glued to that needle-- my them motionless, is glued to it too. not a wisp of smoke giving me coming from a the corrections on funnel. We've my run. caught them asleep" with no steam up, the "It must be as e carefully timed as Japs are violin duet. My bombardier beso many Pearl Harbor is what we've been low there needs the gentle touch of violinist on his controls and I waiting for! must follow with "But now comes a equally gentle Over change. pressures on the rudder. If he my interphones I hear Stone, gets excited, and in correcting an error, of the lead plane, calling to moves his controls too far, then, Combs, who is leading us. following that weaving needle. I'll " 'Do you mind if we change over push a pedal too far and we'll throw sir?' he asks. 'I see our real target the F ortress out of her groove. now.' "l m almost praying he won't do "We've now roared in almost to this. 'Come on, boy,' I mutter to our e line, but Combs him, 'don't let it run down your agrees. We bank up and change leg, now! don't overcorrect!' over, now heading apparently for "Now I take the risk of lower Davao Harbor. just one glance away from the needle "Peering out of the window on the through the windshield to see the bank, I get one glimpse of it and second flight just going in on its now understand the reason for e the line. The ack-acfire, change the most tremendous which for the first flight was too of ships I ever saw ln my high, is now breaking below the seclife. Everything, big boys, cruisers ond flight. That means they'll see of all sizes, transports, submarines, they've bracketed us, and next time destroyers, gunboats, bunched in they make a change in fuses down there dotting the water so thick we below about the time our third couldn't possibly miss but now flight is going over have us they'll we're on our bomb run, and I'm square. steadying the plane down to go on "Just then I hear a gunner shoutthe PDI. (PU0t's direction instru- ing over the interphones: ment.) To you it's just one of many " 'Fighters, coming up at nine wavering needles on this big o'clock!' I can't see them yet wonpanel. But it's hooked up der where they're coming from. with the bomb sight in the compart- Maybe off a carrier. Then why didn't we make a run on that? Maybe Cecil did, and missed. Maybe my bombardier sees it and we are making our run on it. No, I think, they're probably off the ground. The Japs have probably got the countryside around Davao laced with landing strips by this time the g andthen-o- ' bl h, bat lovely, lovely sight' sitti"S well , - snor-tog-lik- brass-hats-th- bom-hardi- k CLay your uatch down on the table in front of you. At twelve o'clock the hour hand points straight ahead. At three o'clock it points to the right. At nine o'clock it points to the left.) "Now my own gunners are talking: They're coming up in a long, slow spiral, like hornets out of a nest coming up so straight you can even see their bellies. I get the first rumble of the antiaircraft fire as the. ship flutters. A quick glance ahead shows the puffs are right on our level now. "Then I get mad again. Because it said in our schoolbooks that the Jap antiaircraft fire couldn't hit anything above 18,000. Here we are, laying it to them from almost twice expect most Jap attacks a the rear. Then we started which long climb for altitude aas safety for the Fortress, a hell could i big OUI pound. Bat while m vulnerable target near and CTS are still climbing, we is lagging. Engine tble, we later found out George ps out entirely, which leaves Jim sally and me alone to handle the Sohaetzel ge spot. formation levels ahead of us we see tsormous black mass of weather what is left of the dwindling twill It's laid out horizontally right 'iss our path starting at about 00 feet, it seems to go on up the Presently ' need g In. liall a of a prep, ever. tubes i and what do we do? Our orders to keep in formation, so we can hit Davao at the same time, and ' go over dispersed at intervals, So lad. ce of ronct -- Jopi menl yecn ibber the re a, can Zeros, rising at the first slaughter the stragglers. into this cloud bank, ?be it goes on for miles and we'll each other inside of it, and nev-'' be able to assemble for the at- -- 'unglf ationt then and Bat if we go i fte leader decides we'll try to round it, so, turning, we fly nllel to it. But it seems end- a, and after flying for forty-fiv- e we see that in this at- cpted detour we've wasted pre- gasoline our margin f safe- get to the target and get home town to almost zero. "KWch means we can't go on. returned to Samarinda, land- - h and then without anv started to take off Davao at mirinfeht. This Were snr mnnlrln't jassed up, or sleep lor 514 D We u.-- 'ill. "Again 3 ' "i My aiternatelv dreaming "" you cb btd. ctoP o rough . TT '0ne in tlm Back to niM A. Samarinda. me o'clock in the ta off on the m target-betw- (r.'i Zlm7- - ,""ned and w km morning we long flight to, een four and five r 0,0 first fcw hours we 01 om, ipp'f coif Of and Ms I see Sroadhurst'i Fortress ' number on its tail. It is too go on into J Davao, just two J"'.'0 We turn and start mourn-- ' v illioti odf Collvin co-pil- nnr imiriini from the strain and g through the windshield at formation lights of the planes not daring to lose sight of or fear we will then be lost f i run intd thick toe." "when we go up Frank, mght. RAT N we on tousltime Wc clouds were well n, v... so we didn't have arrive 8t toe pre-fcnJ- L 8rccd Point where we are turn and Chi that Uy ln on Davao' and as a,ld ver for that sharp i eup ny only glimpse of the hrge, ever ordinarily Uie pilot i, in detail. b, From where fin di.,' ?n onIv see the sky and , "ant horizon tVn4 It's the "bardie. can look straight anead, who pulls clan fckt.t,7 d"ver that tiny Pinpoint to But now I'm about J see mvsflf-J- ust hea Z one look 3 Wln8 is air. cocked high in the CI i Zf run t Ect my only BJlmpse glde window, the slcep, the upper Bay of . vf ' vxTV ? l NA X ?x Xx3? X j(V " &XX s j.jtluA. JWMfe, . WwWWkWSA - CI tir n This Nazi submarine which landed on Tctcr Beach, Anzio beachhead area, Italy, is being examined by U. S. soldiers. The tube on the left is the torpedo, the other is the driving compartment, housing one man. The torpedo tube is shackled to the driving tube and can be released, allowing the pilot to return safely. Inset: This Nazi was captured off Teter Beach when he was discovered by an n American officer in his torpedo submarine. lie had been in service only six months. one-ma- one-ma- Admiral Nimitz Wins Horseshoe Contest enter-prisin- because in those days spot, r - ov s little we went to pilots where we lined out the sod for Davao Bay. He Japs, we knew, seldom flew ight, but we were flying in a V Vs. Jim Connally, George setzel, and I made up the third it, which, I might point out, is : JflZ vr-tL- bomb-releas- iticg, ; dirty - bomb-releas- away Eight don t that altitude, and they're putting it right back up to us. "Then I get a feeling of exultation. Because down under us and not far ahead now is that Jap Pearl Harbor setup big ships with stone-col- d boilers. Now they must be running frantically around the engine rooms trying to stoke the fires and get steam up, knowing while they're hurrying that it's too late Just as they knew at Pearl Harbor, but aU you can do is hurry, so you do it anyway. Well, we've got them where Dutch we wanted them, even if there are blonde a came pretty Tp only ten of us got them where they nurse in a Red Cross uniform. had Old 99 just about a month ago. "Then I jump, for the ship quivment beldw. The bombardier has his sensitive fingers on those controls, ers from a burst of fire from our in own guns. Then quickly keeping the target ahead framed the cross hairs. Every time he another and another. Zeros commoves them a fraction of an inch, ing up, banking to come in and rake the change is registered in that PDI us with their fire? But when nothing needle on my instrument panel. I is said of them over the interphones, can't see the target, of course, but I know my boys are only firing litIf I follow the needle I can't miss it tle bursts to warm the oil in their sure the guns won't "Now our nerves are tightening guns, making when we are really hit by fightand ahead jam fleetingly up. I glance ers. see Cecil Combs in the lead plane, "Suddenly the plane's nose lurches Since we're the target. over going and to the left, and hardly upward about is Cecil bringing up the rear, I have straightened her eut onto Fornine miles away, and his big even keel when she tries to make wren. a of size the about tress looks another twist. It's the blast from That sky ahead is filled with dirtya the ack-acfire invisible billows of ack-ac- k puffs, making y The Japs air sent out by each explosion, and him. above spotty layer fuses now it's as rough as though we were on the ground have cut their Misoff bouncing in a Model T over a to just a Utile too longin a pick few souri dirt road three days after a very Cecil but I know that a rain. seconds more I'm going to get "At my side my copilot, who has ack-acI pray this of closer view been looking out through the windalwon't miss, Cecil's bombardier hollers: 'Jim's bombs are on shield, ahead for us to though he's too far way.' I don't dare take my their it. Damn leave. see his bombs needle. the alley, eye from the Stone now lay 'em down I get the click from then "Just won't miss; he s Our bomb-ba- y boy'' But that kid bombardier. own the my in one of the best bombardiers now I feel the are open doors his train, business. Now he's laying on the plane, and with on those Japs, slight drag Pearl Harbor style, correct for it and than rudder my steam are lying there without on the interphone Here we that double click Jp-oagain I'm raging. nly which means he's telling me: 'Ship for setup Harbor with a Pearl And I don't of us. while the level, Frank, please.' with m7 feet so firma target, but only ten answer except with many scores. on the rudders, giving Japs hit Hawaii ly but gently has laid aside his him that absolutely level bombing navigator .My below and he has to have if we're to tools in the compartment the platform through up hit the target. now comes crawling back through "And at last the precious amber trapdoor to squeeze the rows of instrument panel, between he bomb bays, light glows tn my flickin to the rao which means he's now actually ombs and gas tanks, he 11 man off, one by one, and where bombs the compartment, ing on the fighters. I keep my feet so softly machine gun against Jap talking rudders that they hardly touch, so -interphone no There's as not to give the tiniest sidewise now except between in the cockh" throw to the bombs. Up broken radio 'cnf-thold our breath. We know down we thcm see pit We flick-in- g it now see us up here. down below the bombardier is and o course they at off-f- our the them we can do to bring intervals. . mation . r h sokay "Then as he calls, 'Bombs away! we quit working earphones crackle , at that split second -cross taiK oi the for the Government and begin to on wmdows their and families. peering out work for our wives the last bomb lookout for cru. means that out of fte Because we can now take a quick glance not haj left the plana and ..A ., to make sure Im and our bomb-badoors, the even. close to get home I've ! to stay now only is objective :.th him so my gunners can safely. ..." his gunners met his tail and (TO BE CONTINUED) in how wonder And I protect mine. f tmv lllk1! r- 0 WMlllij Mil 1iH-- IP- - 4 - ' ' "" ft ' The Admiral wins again. In a double match at a recent picnic held for the fleet, the team headed by Admiral C. W. Nimitz, commander in chief, U. S. Pacific fleet and the Pacific ocean areas, won the U. S. horseshoe match. While Admiral Nimitz gets set for one of his ringers, Earl E. Lavender, BM navy, of Los Angeles, Calif., awaits his turn. In addition to the horseshoe contest, ball games, swimming, races, boxing, wrestling and other sporting events were included during the picnic. These events are provided henever possible, but under present fighting conditions in the Pacific it is seldom possible for the sailors to land and enjoy themselves. Most of their entertainment is carried on aboard ship. 1-- c, GI Entertainment British Celebrate Victories in Italy if? f. s'i-Miik- r I 1 "'NJ ffil f - k soot-gra- . S' "jj An Impromptu celebration, Including shows, singing, dancing and short acts, was held by the troops making up the British Eighth army citadel of Cassino at the start of after the capture of the the big Allied offensive. The celebration took place among the ruins of the strong point. long-bcsicg- Students Study in Outdoor Classes Marlene Dietrich and Irving Berlin entertain Fifth army in Italy by mobile army radio. Famous underpinnings of La Dietrich are completely covered by regulation GI. Lehman Reports i rr" if WJMT. r '4 ..Mr-- - - - v 4k b Cr-y'- v mil' r Am mm i ( j - half-secon- d r.;7iim. y 1 ' kk - tf-- - inri ifii 1J Compulsory military training is now required of all male students attending any university in Canada. As is true in American colleges many of the young men are already In uniform, receiving training at various colleges. Animal anatomy class at the I'nivcrsity of British Columbia attend outdoor class. ivSiM. Jr..-; .&.m.AM.Mv4 Walking on crutches after Injur. leg In Cairo, Egypt, Herbert Lehman, administrator of rehabilitation, Is shown at the White House as he reported to the President aftel his trip to North Africa. Ing his |