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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH TY , Col. Robert L. Scoff (C-?II- Itor? thm far: After graduating from West Point, Robert Scott wins his Wings at Kelly Field, Texas, and takes up combat flying. He has been an Instructor (or four years when the war breaks out and Is told he is now too old for combat flying. After appealing to several Generals, Scott Is finally offered an opportunity to get into the fight. He flies a bomber to India, but on arrival is made a ferry pilot, but this does not suit him. He visits Gen. Chennault, gets a Klttyhawk and soon is flying the skies ever Burma, where he becomes known as the "one man air force. Later, he Is made C.O. of the 23rd Fighter Group, but he still keeps on knocking down Jap planes. . Th CHAPTER XXVII Another theory was that the realization 'that you had strafed enemy ground troops, shot down Japanese pilots, strafed troops getting out of an enemy transport, or even killed Japanese satellites, would come back to you at night, and youd wake up in horror at having "blood on your hands. To that I say "Nuts. Later, when the newness of combat had worn off, I used to watch a Japanese pilot come towards me on a head-o- n run, picking me out, I guess, because I was leading the Group. Id get my sights on him and yell, perhaps a bit hysterically: You poor sucker, with my six Fifties that your short-rang- e little cannons that jam lots of times, Im going to blow you apart before you get close enough to hit me! Overconfidence, perhaps, for I didnt get every one who came at me, and I took lots of hits in my own ship even had to dive away sometimes when two came on me at once. But Im still here, and from thirteen to twenty-tw- o Jap pilots who fought against me are dead. You know that you have everything to live for, and that the Jap has everything to die for. Thats his only hope of reaching the heaven that we already have. Yes, they are suicide pilots; at times they will try to ram your plane, or will dive their ships into our carriers. Ive seen a Japanese dive low over Hengyang and circle while they shot at him with everything on the field and we shot at him with every ship above the field. But he flew his ship in a slow circle, as if he were blinded and couldnt see, or were only partly conscious. Then, with a half roll at barely three hundred feet, he dove his plane into the only building on alert the field our, thatched-roo- f shack, which burned with the Jap n his ship. When the wreckage had cooled enough we finally pulled his charred body out and by his side was his Samurai sword, and through bis body the doctor found one lone bullet-holsevering his spinal cord near the small of the back. He had been able to move his hands but not his feet But with his last consciousness he had picked out one more object on our field to destroy for the gods of the Shinto Shrine. But they have fear too. Dont think theyre supermen, for I assure you theyre not Theyre little, brain savage animals warped with the complex of suppression but they have fear, like any one else. Their fear is worse, for theres that phobia of having nothing to live for the inferiority-comple- x they try to overcome. I once saw that fear on the face of a Japanese pilot when he knew he was going to die, and it did me lots of good. I told of it many times to youngsters in my Group and It always made them feel better to know that the Japs were afraid when they met them probably more afraid than we were. Oh, the Jap is a wonderful pilot when he meets no or little opposition. They come in over undefended Chinese cities and loop and roll and zoom, shooting at the helpless pedestrians while arrogantly flying inverted on their backs. But when they meet good American fighters, with pilots who know how to fight them, they are the most anxious people Ive ever met to leave our territory and go "hell for leather towards Japan. One day I flew up very close to a lone Jap pilot during a fight near Kweilin. I placed my sights right where his wing Joined the fuselage and steadily squeezed of the a burst from two hundred yards, holding the trigger down while I moved into closer range. Then I swerved out from behind the enemy ship, expecting it to stream fire and perhaps explode. I had seen pieces come off, and I had seen the canopy glass turn to a fine, shining powder that sparkled in the slipstream as the ship nosed almost straight up. But when It didnt burn, I skidded back across its tail, first with a look to my rear quarter. I saw into the cockpit The canopy had been shot away and I could see the Japs face and on it fcas a look of terror such as I had never seen before. The realization went through me with such force that as I nosed down to fire again I nearly cut the tail from the Jap fighter with my prop. Then I savagely held a long burst from less thar to fifty yards while I shot the ship the Even enemy after plane pieces. had fallen and I had flown through the debris, I found that I was continuing to fire at the empty heavens, for I had learned to hate also. No, the Jap is far from a superman. But we must never again belittle the fanaticism of the Japanese. They are as dangerous as mad dogs. Quaint Garden for Your Bed Linens L0T W -N.U. They think they will win and they can if we continue to underestimate them. Strange things happen in the air, strange as the fiction of the ages. Six of us shot into a ship that detached itself from one of the cirwe encling Japanese circuses countered one day East of Hengyang. When you meet the Jap in his d formation, he at once goes into the circling technique that Baron von Richthofen made famous in the last war. This "circus gradually moves in on or away from their objective as a defensive maneuver, for in it the ship behind protects the tail of the one in front. Our tactics were to dive through the squirrel cage and get snap shots at as many ships as we could, but keep our speed to prevent their getting on our tails. It was in one of these attacks that this lone Jap Zero left the protection of his other ships and began to do aerobatics sloppy loops, wing-overstalls, and then another loop. Thinking it was a trick, we were wary; but after two of our pilots had made passes on it, two more of us went down towards it As I kept getting closer and closer to the enemy plane I could see that the pilot was evidently hurt, but when I larger-numbere- s, out-ran- - e, ' ' Another friendly coolie who gave aid to Col. Scott. crossed the top of the strange-actin- g plane I saw that he was leaning forward over the stick control, obviously dead. As the' speed of the dive would build up pressures on the tail surfaces, the nose would rise, for a Jap ship is rigged that way. As Jhe ship climbed more steeply, the pilots upper body swung to the back of the seat in the normal position and the plane made a sloppy loop. For several minutes we watched the pilotless Zero in fascination. From 16,000 feet a ship that is shot down can diva into the ground in a tew seconds it can even spin in from an explosion in a little longer than that; but we watched this plane for twice the time that it would normally have taken. It worked closer and closer to the ground over the same area, as it lost altitude gradually in the maneuvers. Then, after the longest wait that I can remember having gone through in the air, in one of its dives from a loop it struck the hills below and burned. We could have burned it with a long burst many times during the minutes of our watching, but I imagine we were all spellbound at the spectacle. No one spoke for several minutes as we turned back to Hengyang. Then some call over the radio broke the spell, and we just marked the Jap off as another confirmed Zero another "good Jap. Remember the tomatoes you grew last year? Of course you remember them the seeds you planted from a Ferry packet; the luscious, ripe fruits; flavor of those the fresh salads; the inviting array of cans you put up for winter. release mouth-waterin- earlier months, been compelled to had fly alone. The not yet been painted on, but the silshark-mout- houettes of the new fighters looked friendly nevertheless. A fast trip over the five hundred miles from Assam is like this: Were off from our base and heading 118 degrees across the Naga Hills to the first check-poin- t, where the upper fork of the Chindwin forms the likeness of a shamrock. Up to our left now, from the altitude of eighteen thousand that weve attained so effortlessly with the new ships, can be d seen the higher peaks of Tibet and Chinese Turkestan. Down below us the valley of the Irrawaddy is low and green, but Ahead, as forbidding nonetheless. we cross the Y in the little known "triangle of the Irrawaddy, we see the real hills of the "hump begin d to rise. peaks everywhere. Our map reads that our highest peak is going to be 15,800 feet; yet we well know from experience that weve tried it many times and we need to be very sure that we are at 18,000 to clear the mountains from the Irrawaddy to Tali Lake. Below us are the villages of the Miaows. We climb to 25,000 feet to test the "suped-u- p ships, and a smile comes to our faces under the oxygen masks for this is going to surprise the Jap. Were going over the Mekong now, and from the time that has elapsed weve certainly picked up a tail wind must be making over three hundred. The gorge of the Mekong runs like a gash in the sinister country of Burma to the South, and we know it goes on and on towards Saigon and the sea. Its barely twenty miles to the Salween, and we make it so quickly that we begin to doubt that the other river had been the Mekong. Our ground speed is well over three hundred as we see Lake Tali and start run to Kunming. Now the down-hil- l we catch the first glimpse of the Burma Road, North of Yunnanyi, and soon we see the small lake that is near our field at that town. The mountains to the North are very high, and we know they get higher and higher and stretch almost without break to the East and the Pacific. We see the hairpin turns of the Burma Road near Tsuyung, and know that were nearly home from the Taj Mahal and India. We dive over the field of our headquarters just one hour and twenty-fiv- e minutes from the time we took off from Assam, five hundred miles away. I can tell by the smiles on the faces of the other men in the flight that were all thinking the same thing: We have bad medicine for the Jap packed into the increased horsepower of these new our Warhawks. They are "Kays the latest of the 0 series, and coming to us this time of year we look upon them as Christmas presents from the States. snow-cappe- Snow-cappe- P-4- The 0 was in production when the war began. Then the decks were definitely stacked against us, and everything was in favor of the enemy. During the past year of our war these ships produced as no other fighter plane did, for they were serving on every front Any pilot who actually fought the Axis enemies in the 0 Tomahawks, Kitty-hawkor Warhawks will tell you they are tough and dependable. They will dive with the best of projectiles Including a bomb. All of us hope that the best fighter plane has not been produced, but we know that America will develop it In the meantime, through those lean months when America had to fight on many fronts with so little, the glorious 0 series paid off when the chips were down in a ratio of between twelve and fifteen to one twelve to fifteen enemy ships for every one of ours lost Over in Yunnan we fought the Some day, when the war , is over Japs a few times in Burma and had and our sturdy American engines the sadness of another military fu- driving great American ships have neral. Those moments in the Bud- won victory with air power, I hope dhist burial grounds were the hard- and pray with all fighter pilots who est in China. As the Chaplain read have faced our enemies in aerial d casthe prayer and the combat from the hot sands of Libya ket was lowered into the red earth to the cold tundra of the Aleutians, of Yunnan, a small formation, with from the jungle heat of Guadalcanal g engines that gave forth to those torrential rains of the Bura muffled sound, would fly over the mese Monsoons that some undergrave. There would be one vacant standing group of citizens will go to niche in the evenly spaced fighters, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. There, in honor of the brother airman who beside the statue that commemowould fly no more. rates the first flight of the Wright Brothers, I hope that they will build After eight months in combat I a monument to the Curtiss 0 with was sent with five other pilots to fer- its Allison Engine. over from the And now, with a few minor battles ry six new air base at Karachi. During cur in the air, we saw Christmas in Chiwait for the planes to be ready for na draw near, and I couldnt help combat, we were permitted to go to wishing for fast action somewhere. Bombay for the detached service. After all, theres only one place a There, in this splendor of the Hotel person wants to be at Christmas Taj Mahal, we had a glorious time. time, and that place for all of us In fact, it became very hard to realwas far away. ize that a war was going on over in I took off from Kunming one day Burma and China, as we looked at just before Christmas to inspect the the night clubs from Malabar Hill warning net in western Yunnan. It and from tnside them too, at the didn't take long to find out that it horse-race- s for the Aga Khans was very inefficient near the BurPurse and at all the things that ma border, where a steady influx of we had forgotten to remember. and Japanese monThe return across India was a ey was filtering across the Salween. happy one. for we were ferrying new Even then I knew that instead of d ships back to getting the Chinese officers who were and the war, and all of us were eagfer in charge of the net to investigate, to try them out in combat From it would be much better to have a Assam we took the old familiar trail few engagements with the Jap over There was no that I used to fly with the trans- the failing ports, and it felt especially good to tonic like burning Jap planes over look around and see those friendly the country to improve the functionalong with me over ing of the air-rai- d looking warning net. the Burma Road where I had, in (TO BE CONTINUE! 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