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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. IIYRUM. UTAH MY SEIF AG CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Centerpiece Pineapple Pattern will like the of this , COPELT Col. Robert L. Scoff Chen-aau- lt CHAPTER XXIV As I looked around now the bombup from ers were gone, but climbing e the South I saw four s; ships that I thought were later we decided they were Japanese Messerschmitts. I had plenty of altitude on the leader, and started shooting at him from long range, concentrating on his right engine. He turned to dive, and I followed him straight for the water. I remember grinning, for he had made the usual mistake of diving instead of climbing. But as I drew up on i the ship, I began to believe that I had hit him from the long range. His ship was losing altitude rapidly in a power glide, but be was making no effort to turn. I came up to within fifty yards and fired into him until he burned. I saw the ship hit the water and continue to bum. We had been going towards the fog bank in the direction of the Philippines, and I wondered if the Jap had been running for Manila. 1 shot at two of the other e ships from long range but couldnt climb up to them. Then I , passed over Hongkong Island, flying T&t a thousand feet; I was too low but didnt want to waste any time climbing. And I saw something that gripped my heart a fenced-i- n enclosure which I knew was Fort Stanley, the British and American prison camp. There was a large group standing in the camp and waving at my ship. My saddest feeling of the war came over me then. Here were soldiers who had been prisoners of the Japanese for nearly a year. Month after month they had waited for the sight of Allied airplanes attacking Hongkong and at last it had come. Even in their suffering they were waving a cheer to the few United States planes that had finally come, and I swore to myself Id come back again and again. Tlien I saw above me the crisscrossing vapor paths of an area where fighter ships have sped through an air attack. They almost cohered the sky in a cloud. Here and there were darker lines that could have been smoke paths where ships had burned and gone down to destruction. I was rudely jerked back to attention by a slow voice that yet was in front of sharp: If thats a me, waggle your wings. 1 rocked 2 my wings before I looked. Then I QCaw the other ship, a 0 nearly a mile away. 1 think from the voice it was Tex HilL I went over towards him and together we dove towards home. 0 The presence of the other made me feel very arrogant and egotistical, for I had shot down four enemy ships and had damaged others. So I looped above Victoria harbor and dove for the Peninsular Hotel. My tracers ripped into the of the pentshining plate-glas- s houses on its top, and I saw the broken windows cascade like snow to the streets, many floors below. I laughed, for I knew that behind those windows were Japanese high officers, enjoying that modern hotel When I got closer I could see uniformed figures going down the and I shot at them. In the smoke of Kowloon I could smell I turned for one oil and rubber. more run on the packed filled with Jap soldiers, but my next burst ended very suddenly. I was out of ammunition. Then, right into , jjhe smoke and through it right down to the tree-tolevels, I headed Northwest to get out of Japanese territory sooner, and went as fast as I could for Kweilin. 1 was the last ship in, and the General was anxiously waiting for me, scanning the sky for ships to come in. He knew I had shot down an enemy, for I had come in with roll of victory. But my when I jumped from my cramped seat and said, General I got four definitely, he shook my hand and looked vry happy. That makes nineteen then, he said, "for the fighters and the bombers. 4 We had lost a fighter and a bomber. The bomber had become a straggler when one engine was hit by antiaircraft; then it was shot to pieces d by one of the Jap fighters. The pilot had managed even then to get it down, but he had remained in the ship to destroy the bomb-sigh- t, and had been shot through the foot by a Jap cannon. Two of the bomber crew had bailed out and were captured. The other two carried the injured pilot until he had begged them to leave him alone and escape. They had bandaged his foot tightly, but had refused to go without him. As they moved on through the en twin-engin- twin-engi- emy lines that night, they stopped to rest, and the wounded pilot crawled away from them to insure their getting away to the guerrilla lines. They escaped, and later we received a letter signed by the other two crewmen which said that the pilot had been captured and was then in a Japanese hospitaL The letter was a Japanese propaganda leaflet that the Japs had dropped near Kweilin, but being properly signed, it gave us hope for the remainder of the crew, and for the, heroic pilot. Lieutenant Allers. That night Morgan led a night raid to bomb Canton, and had a successful attack. Later the same night, Ed Bayse led six bombers to destroy the power station on Hongkong Island. In his return to Kweilin, five of his ships landed but the other continued to circle informing the radioman that he had no air speed and thus was having difficulty bringing the fast bomber in to land. Bayse, who had worked all the day and most of the night over enemy lines, started his ship and went aloft, got the other ship on his wing in formation, and told the pilot to keep the position. And then this experienced bomber pilot led the younger pilot in to a safe landing. It was teamwork of the sort that had begun to appear among the bomber crews, and more important attack had still as the shown, between the fighters and bombers. This was what Colonel Cooper had been working for during the past several months. Cooper had done another fine job, one that we learned of only after we returned to Kunming from the attack. In India the field in Assam twin-engin- P-4- P-4- s, p low-altitu- twin-engine- Returns Far Exceed Costs of Handling P-4- P-4- didnt fire. The American pilot from the Caro-llna- s swore and throttled back, dropping to the rear while the Jap kept flying innocently on. After Couch had recharged his guns he began to stalk the Zero again, going closer and closer until he could see the enemy pilot at the controls. He set his sights right on the cockpit and pressed the trigger once more. And again nothing happened. Couch came home disgusted, and I think he worked on his guns all : Up between Hengyang and Ling, ling we had broken the main Jap force with several attacks and there were only stragglers around the sky. We had been searching them out for fifteen minutes when I saw and heard a remark that was nothing short of classic. From 21,000 feet I observed a lone Zero. But there was a trailing him, and so 1 held my altitude and watched. The 0 closed the gap more and more, following the acrobatics of the Jap, and then drew up for the kill As the tracers from the six guns went into the Zero I heard the voice of Captain Goss say, There, Hirohito, you bastard God rest your souL Over the radio you could also hear the staccato roll of the six Fifties, The Zero slowly rolled over to de struction. Sometimes the hated Japs had the last word. In regions where the net was working poorly or not at all our first knowledge of the approach of the enemy would be the sight of Japanese bombers overhead. 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It soothes irritation, ol VM night , P-4- 0 Sitting there smoking his pipe and, hke a football coach, planning the next weeks work. Joe, the Generals little black dashshund, would be burrowing into the rocks, looking for the inevitable rats. When with the or the passing minutes the bombers were due to return, the General would begin to watch the eastern sky. There he would sit without a word until the last ship was accounted for. Sometimes I thought: The General lives through every second of the combat with us. With his keen knowledge of tactics and of the Jap too, he sees exactly what we are doing. Another memory that always brings a smile is Lieutenant Couch's face when he was explaining what happened the first time he got a Jap Zero in his sights. The enemy ship was a lone sitter, probably some inexperienced Japanese pilot who wasnt looking around and didnt 0 was behind him. know the Couch said he kept moving up closer and closer until he knew the Jap was going to be dead the instant he pressed his trigger. Then he pressed He and happened. nothing squeezed the trigger until he thought hed press the top off the stick; he found that he shut his eyes, flinched, and bit his lip, but still the guns pineapple motifs. Easy fo crochet its laciness makes a perfect centerpiece. farm RELEASE W-N.- The itory thus far: After graduating from West Point, Robert Scott wins his wings at Kelly Field and takes np combat flying. Be has been an Instructor for fonr years when the war breaks out, and Is told ha Is now too old for combat Hying. Appealing to several Generals, ha is finally told he can get Into the fight. Ha files a bomber to India, bnt on arrival Is made a ferry pilot and this does not snlt him. After a visit to Gen. he gets a Kittyhawk and soon becomes known as the one man air force, taking heavy dap toll In Burma. Later he Is made C.O. of the 23rd Fighter Group, but still keeps on knocking down Jap planes. His Old Exterminator' is badly mauled In a dogfight. foul'-inc- h pattern reduces swelling, relieves congestion. Also helps prevent many colds from developing if used in time. Works fine Follow directions in folder, w a 4k f tffBfflrTf; yii WAS j Af 1 P-4- 0 P-4- Gen. Chennault observes the return of the C.A.T.F. from a raid. Lieut. Grossclose at left. had been raided heavily by the Japanese at the same hour as our attack on Kowloon, and simultaneously the Japanese had tried to strike at Kunming with a large force. Colonel Cooper had been left behind in the hospital with a sinus infection. He was chafing at the bit, and we sympathized with him for after having planned the greatest raid of the war in China, he had been forced out of accompanying the mission. But it has always been our contention out there that everything happens for the best. And it proved out again. When the enemy planes approached Kunming, Cooper left the hospital and took charge of the defense of the home base. He sent Schiels Squadron towards the South at exactly the right time. They not only intercepted the enemy and foiled the attack but shot down eight of the enemy. That made the score for the Group twenty-seve- n enemy planes on October 25th, and three highly successful bombing raids We were ordered home the next day, although we now had the enemy at our mercy without fighter protection against future raids towards Hongkong. But heavy attacks had come to India, and we were needed to protect the terminus of the ferry route to China. We managed, however, to leave a under Holloway small force of b and Alison, with mission to shipping in Victoria harbor within the next few days. They took eight planes down and dove through the overcast towards some big enemy freighters that were on the way South towards the Solomons. Their bombs damaged two 8,000-to- n freighters and sank a vessel, Captain OConnell made this last direct hit by almost taking his bomb down the smokestack of the enemy vessel and in He doing so he was shot down. took the bomb very low, and in recovering from the dive he was attacked by a single enemy, who got one of the best pilots in the Squadron. Clinger and Alison saw the enemy ship, but from their distance they could do nothing in time to save OConnell While Alison was getting the lone enemy ship, Clinger dove in anger along the docks of Kowloon, strafing three positions in the face of very heavy P-4- dive-bom- When i mst brought Old Exterminator" to China, I had painted the number 10 on the fuselage. 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With sunflower oil selling at 14.5 cents a pound and an acre producing a ton of seed, the farmers around Monticello, 111., expect to produce more than com or soybeans. Sunflowers have long been recognized as an excellent source of protein and oil. America imported 120 r like ash, oak, or pine. But the first time I came back from Chungking, late one afternoon, I approached Kunming down the usual corridor, expecting that to identify me automatically, and from far out I called by radio: One Zero, coming in from the North. Of course I was using the numerals of the p umber ten to identify me to the radio-man. Instead, as I came over men of the field I saw the Chinese Army running for their guns, and I saw six taking off to shoot the invader down. Meaning me. Youve probably guessed it by now the radioman gathered that some one had just warned him that one enemy Zero was about to strafe the field. Needless to say, I took myself to safer places for a few minutes until I could properly identify my ship. Then I landed and changed New sunflower picker speeds up the fuselage number to lucky sev-e- n production. but definitely not seventy. million pounds of sunflower o'l beThere just wasnt much relaxa- tween 1932 and 1936, mostly for edition in China with Scotch at one ble purposes. One hundred acres of test planthundred dollars gold a bottle when ing yielded 1,600 poumis of seed. It you could find it In fact, we didnt a ,cllPvf;r com; "as har,v,ested to drink boiled anything except get bine, formerly used water and that really terrible rice for soybeans. Tests made at tne wine. This we had to learn to down of Illinois showed that with the Chinese and in their man- - University 53 per cent proseeds contained the J per, which was with the inevitable tern and were easily digested. 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