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YOU. fZ ....--no- n. si lt CHAPTER Lv.j XVin onlv four bombs-- we hadn't i, am. to load more before the T . .M- hart vi mi alarm mew uem "s""--i j.r off inenQ iei B last snip ii yu see in ft.V HLit Iff .ou're dropping Instantaneous . bombs, of course you see the A of deck planking and debris it hits, but it doesn't do lts and bapi. s- The lines l"oa and, (instant for all on the surface. n fuses. isn't much Ln there altitude that :iv a coim,!- -. ... wnen tney nrsi cmc uic i1!fams 'or wj . .. . 1 .Jt MMJ e . nm umo pause, Tnere s L fliere's the sweetest geyser of ma- splinters, ana lorm,. ana and Japanese lniamry cor-ra- li iaery, you'd ever hope to gaze down As I think I said, we Diew ner SPEAaT off. I kept peeking BacK un- NewI Ithe debrU subsided, and I could blue water between uie M solid ' Pattern 253, rt halves of the ship. S3 and 20, "W got back to Madiun Field at In time to take off in the face ol tt strafing Zeros, our side gun-tr--i National Guard boy we'd :i(d up in Java; the rest of his iflt all stayed and got captured lampion fcjeking one of them down almost This Ai lefore we got our wheels up. When d, two went away we s other and found a bomb some-:er- e t to Vicft of Italy frcJ had knocked our electricity stiiest mem H We had to refuel by hand, us- e world. h flashlights. Also we were vhite marbii trying to repair our brakes th numeroj ien all of a sudden came a terrific ang! It shook the ship so badly ia reliefs strian statu knocked one guy off the wing, and on the field. Of ive structarl fell iirse we were sure that the Japs, are block. wing our flashlights, had dropped an damage ,h frtthese were delayed-actio- ii L4s Si fj l said, leave it to discretion as to how and when your come you out. Best of luck.' "It wasn't until Td hung up that I realized that when the 19th had left Java, there wouldn't be any way for me to get out. The hotel by now was emptying fast of foreign bade the first echelon of our Navy goodby. Poor old Java was being left to sink by herself, but since the newspapers were still about four days behind the actual news, the people didn't realize it yet. Things were moving fast "That day we heard a big Jap force was closing In off the north coast, headed for the Java beaches. We got reports from scout even from submarines, but weplanes, didn't know just how big it was. Because hanging over it was a Jap fighter screen so thick that our recco planes didn't dare fly through to see. "We got a few reports from a island which lies out in the Java tiny Sea north of Surabaya, but ominously its radio went dead. We realized the Japs had put a landing force asnore tnere. "That night out went the tiny Dutch Navy it was all they had left which pounded them under cover of darkness and then pulled away. i But no. bomb. 300 and w; 26 years bej ! Oh, no! just the methodical Dutch, scorching the earth by iiwing up our ammunition dump, Aid) by some miracle we weren't :ear it the time. "It seemed the order had Just am through to evacuate, because !ie Japj were coming, and what dh the language difficulty, this was teir way of announcing it The pay thing was, for weeks they'd gang of men working to impi I that field and repair the run- prove nyt These guys kept right on mating away up until the minute 2 order to evacuate came through -- then they went ahead sweating .'at is hard to blow up what they'd 1911. "It was Rirefully Lat been fixing. were Jittery been going tamgh a lot of strafing but finally rot our plane refueled, and loaded r men aboard. We still "We enty-fou- id aid. j "It Inc. OTH all hoped together ln unison we'd clear the runway. We we 'tot well; med n brakes on the right wheel, no to I wis two o'clock in the morn- As we climbed for altitude we "wld see refineries flaming all over it island fires and and we circled the explosions field ln the dark the last time, the Dutch down below us threw a switch and blew "P ach wybJCl off j, tort osotilr knowt Mr in MciH" mlortix that beautiful new concrete hang-w- . It had huge arches like a bridge Pn, control tower, and everything u came rolling up at us in a PMing galute. "Nsw we were headed for Aus-libuzzing along at about 10,800 a, fcet" into Broome, Australia, Jjgan to worry about that bust-and the momentum we U have when we hit the field J!?,111 these men aboard. Wt could "TOten ship by having the guys bail . out the trouhl ttna w hid nine chutes. But when the Wot called d the airport, they they had one runway which uphill and ..ft at thm far Herfect for us, to we made dutiful landing." "Getting rt-we- "1 Was Still 1!4 the pilot, I hill US -- . hark In C.r.ho., Frank Kurtz, "b'e-vuupia jun iv uu. v- nay we got Warrenfeltx oft ln "'"egidor had told uua relief shi, the Colo- me he was leaving Ma- town we Jokyarta-t-he that I'd Jockstrap-a- nd bet-- " wn him there and he'd send me A,ustrlia.. AU the other boys orthe 19th were going that day. I asked him if I couldn't stay LU1 longer-J w" hi the fighter pilots. No ene was r7 Uter them; they had abso- 04 UaIson- - mea Plac U track! "P. everybody tends to themselves. Why bother jT 1 ' eal y? WeU let them get out trouble was the fighters Wi,h belly tanks' bop' Timor and Bali, which were by the Japs. It rH(Colonc11 said 1 wa absolute- ybe 1 cou,d hcIP them 7ou Undcr Tour own orders,' be bad Ptngvbr" 7 had put in a telephone call to America. It was to Margo, but it was government business and the Dutch, when they understood what it was about, said they would pay the charges themselves. They said the connection might not be made until I privately wondered if midnight. it would go through at alL Java was collapsing fast all around us. "But I said I'd take It whenever it came, knowing I'd get no sleep that night maybe little sleep for many nights. So at midnight I started for the telephone office. Just as I was leaving the hotel I ran into Commander Peterson of the Navy's Patrol Wing 10. By now he was almost the sole survivor. He seemed surprised to see me, told me he was just leaving for his plane the last of the Navy was leaving Java. He asked how I expected to get out I said I didn't know. "Come with me now, he said, 'and I'll take you out to Australia. I couldn't There was that telephone call. And also I mustn't leave those American fighters to be swallowed up In the collapse tomorrow. So I thanked him; we said goodby. "Walking to the telephone building I could hear a dull rumble in the hot midnight air coming from far over the water. The few people in the blacked-ou- t streets assumed it was distant thunder. I knew it was the little Dutch Navy in its final agony out there in the dark. "Then I waited in that dim-li- t mosquito-filletelephone building for that call. Sitting on a bench, with the help, of a flashlight I made my notes for the call. Then I paced the floor. Each time the window opened, letting out a little light I e was sure the girl was telling me the call had been completed. I had other pressing business, but none more pressing than this. I thought of the eager face of the boy just before he went out into what looked like almost certain death." 4 ii Ml cud isoev '"wws ,5 wt fe I 1 1 SF'X yt - - Transferring patients from ambulances to the first hospital trains to be operated in France by the American army. The train runs from Lison to Cherbourg and is made up of box cars left behind by the Germans. Insert shows closeup of wounded being loaded on train. Fhoto by telcphoto. The box cars were completely overhauled to provide all equipment necessary to handle the wounded while they were being transferred to base hospital at Cherbourg. During the last war the U. S. army operated several base hospitals in France. Three Generations and a Family wwiwjhi Not aU of the refugees have left France. This grandmother, mother and children took to the woods as war rolled their way. They bad been without food for days when found by American troops. d : face-dow- n - W.N.U.TEATUREJ half-cast- ' mm ji i Him, i.m imiljiii ,nmiJ...Jl if V f ' "From Florida," said Margo, "I SB There's a little pause, and then there's the sweetest geyser of deck splinters. It did some good, because in the morning we found the Jap advance guard, which had been headed right for Java's beaches, now pulled back a little, under that screen, waiting for the main force to come on up. "Colonel Eubank was now in Jockstrap, and by telephone I put a problem up to him. The position of our fighter pilots in Java was hopeless now any minute their field would be hit by Jap bombers and put out of operation. I wanted them to turn over to the Dutch fighttheir er pilots (who had nothing left now but three Hurricanes which had been rescued from Singapore) and come on out to Australia with us where we could continue the war. "Further air defense in Java was hopeless. We had broken camp at Malang Jap bombers were swarm ing over the island. "But Van Oeyen, the Dutch commander, wouldn't listen. He was a stout old infantry officer, and he had given orders to fight to the last "We had to plead our viewpoint with Van Oeyen. Yet lt would be hard to explain to men who were defending their homes and families In this beautiful Island, whose lives, when It fell, would be over. bomber-and-fight- "That night fifty miles off Sura- baya, the naval battle was resumed. The main Japanese invasion force, ringed by submarines, was headed for our beaches. At midnight the United Nations Navy moved In to throw their little all into the balance. This final night the Dutch struck no nevglancing blow. It was now or er. They moved in and fought them toe to toe, the Australians at their side. It was pitiful, of course, and hopeless, as all of them knew. But the gallant Dutch preferred to die fighting out in the night rather than to wait for the go skulking home Rising Sun tanks to come rattling down their streets. "Side by side, the Dutch and the Australians plunged through that outer ring of Jap submarines. The American forces took up the last defensive position, skirting the Jap back edge, firing on the run. It was our duty not to dissipate ourselves in lost causes, but to do what conserve our damage we could, and strength to atrike again. "Java died that night in the gunthe fire which came rolling In over water. It took until dawn for the to crunch to bits Jap battle fleetAustralian navies. and Dutch the I "But early the morning before could hear the telephone operators working, setting up that line all around the world, from here where it was noon to midnight in the tropics. And finally Frank's own voice. 'Have you got paper and pencil?' he asked. 'Now take down this name: Mrs. W. H. Warrenfeltz, of Hagers-towMaryland. Her son Bud is going on a mission and he wants her to know there probably will be some money deposited to her account in the Hagerstown bank from New York. Tell her Bud sends his love to Billy, Jane, and all, and of course to her. He wants her to use half the money to buy her home, and the rest is for her to live on, and be wants her to be happy, however it comes "Then l''A;SMt ?lJtltr . - if b'4 Among the thousands of refugees who landed at Iloboken, N. J., to spend the war's duration In a camp in the U. S. was the family of Jacob Dresdner, shown after coming ashore. The family is composed of Jacob and his wife and their nine children, from Hungary. With the rest of the lucky thousand permitted entry under the President's plan, they will be kept in Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y., until the end of the war at which time they will be returned to their own countries. Insert shows how many of the refugees when forced to flee their homes tried to carry a few valuables with them. boy was going on a most dangerous mission. We didn't know how dangerous until after he left, for his course took him right across the path of the Yanks Pass Through Periers jwjy tW. iHl.lllUMi WW.' V firtknii elt U ' yywflwyy hBi BHikWiWif ' Kcv 4 W v, . f- ,A. ;..V ail I ...l.,i, La The Anxious Seat !r - - J L - i Yank column passes through the French town of Periers on their drive toward Paris and Berlin. The American tanks are shown as they pass through the ruins of this old French city, which was added to the list of captured towns. As was true In other French cities, the GIs were received with open arms by the" citizens of Periers. Sub Blasted by Depth Charges Seated on the radiator or a jeep, sniper In civiliai clothes Is being driven to Americas headquarters after his capture neat St. Saveur Lcndelin. He looks a trifle worried and well he might this German Young Tfl CONTINUED! U-Bo- Chief at ,. NjKjfgjyWWHili IWUjiHjjiji K I out "He talked a lot about a letter he'd written me months age from the Philippines, a few days after the first Japanese attack, when be thought there was no chance of his getting out alive explaining that while he'd meant every word of it yet he'd been tired when he wrote it, so I was not to take it too seriously. W i n out' " I told Margo the main Japanese fleet And now," Frank said bitterly, "this little story has a happy ending, so far as the War Department's auditors are concerned. Because the five thousand dollars which Bud Warrenfeltz thought his mother was going to get, when he went out to face the Japanese fleet was never paid. It never cleared, through the New York banks before Java fclL I suppose those New York bankers were more prudent than Bud, and took no chances on Java paper. So Bud's mother didn't get any money, and even Bud himself never got through to Manila. Let's hope he's a Jap prisoner." "After I'd written down the message to Mrs. Warrenfeltz, it seemed that Frank Just wanted to visit" said Margo. "Of course it was wonderful to talk to him, because for some reason there didn't seem to be any censors clicking ln on the line." "The censors had all caught the boat" explained Frank. "In a few hours the Japs would have Java, so it didn't much matter what they knew." "But after we talked about fifteen minutes I began to worry," said Margo. "Living on an Air Corps salary, you have to think of money. As we talked I couldn't help thinking it was six dollars and a half for every minute, and I said we'd better hang up. Then he explained we could talk all we liked, because It was a government caU." 1 didn't tell her what government lt was on," said Frank. "She didn't know that the Japanese were taking over tomorrow, and they would get the bill." "After that it was wonderful," said Margo. "Frank was coming through as clearly as if he were in a pay station downtown. He told me there would be no more calls for a while, and from that I guessed that maybe in a week or so the Air Corps I would be retiring to Australia. didn't dream that the Japanese were already just off the beach, that Frank didn't know how he could get sii. 'avX : ; Panicky Nazis pour out of the conning tower to the deck of blasted to the surface by depth charges planted by U. S. coast guard and navy destroyer escorts somewhere in the Atlantic. A few minutes later the crippled plunged to the bottom ol the sea. Twelve Nazis were picked up and became prisoners of war. ' sob-mari- ne at A Nazi ship VV?":V'. f ' at was commander of a was captured after his sunk by destroyer escort in the At. lantlc. He was a former California!, |