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Show f I ;L TE Bl'LLETlX. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH ' was a liaison job, and since nave I'd to deal with Navy men so heavy with rank and gold braid on their sleeves they looked like they'd had their arms up to the elbows in scrambled eggs, the Colonel gave me a set of captain's bars, so I could talk up to them. Presently I was dealing with everyone - the Dutch and the British, too. "The Dutch, for instance, were bogging for help in Sumatra. It's that long island which parallels Ma- - laya, pointing down in the direction of Java. The Japs weren't in Singa- - pore yet, but alrt-ad- they were swarming across the narrow seas from Malaya trying to grab the oil refineries at Palembang. So the Colonel sent the Forts." "We got to Palembang the last week in January," said Sergeant Boone, the gunner. "The Dutch ' there were certainly swell to us. There is a huge refinery in the town, and they took us to a club sponsored by Standard Oil Company a pal- - ace. All the club members would drop around to be sure the Air Corps had a place for the night. A Dutch ofTlcer took the rear gunner ' and myself to his quarters. He'd married an American girl, so he spoke good English. We had on only ' I saw it seemed like a bad dream. "When we landed, all the crew as-sembled for the critique, each mem-ber dictating just what he had seen to the officer. That's when I was credited with three of the eight Zeros we knocked down. After the critique no one had much to say. We were all thinking about what we saw hap-pen. "They told us to go to the bar-racks and get some rest. But an hour later I found that the whole crew had, one by one, drifted back out to the plane cleaning guns, im-proving gun positions, doing things we'd suggested back in the States but no one had ever got around to doing. Throwing away those small inadequate ammunition cans, and rigging the guns so you could set a whole box of ammunition in there, figuring ways of putting more guns in the nose ones that really pack a punch. And cussing hell out of the bottom turret. It has remote control you look through a mirror and everything is back-wards, and you have to know exact-ly where the plane Is going before you can line the sights. "We'd found out our machine-gu- n oil would freeze at high altitudes, and we were figuring how to clean and oil the guns so they would best I FAR: Co1' T I"1,5. ,;.lvtng Fortress, l,,Ul, L. Eleht of Mi . Zt Fortr,'Sse.. w r" mm to Australia, mission! over the lllTol flyini trip to t th ,'"lm, 1 hZ FortreM Seven Zero. art " jSAPTElTxiI readylost """ude wait-Maj- (we'd boxed him with us and the j stay tear him to pieces), developed re uto have down to 23,000 , the lead bombardier, the whole plan is again It It over the command L K, lay them In chains Lget. So I set up the I again, put the cross t cruiser. Lfect run. I even have my eye off the sight, sts at two more Zeros lit from the front. They it ahead, to the left and L us. Now, coming on ey cross over and up, center of my fuselage, founding, and then slip j dive straight down and e because he miscues. 'im my eye back onto jht Everything is rid-I'i- e cross hairs right j: them, the bombs about j released. before the bombs leave 3 see that Jap cruiser Iturn (he's figured our e line to the hair). He's lard us as I watch the ;u By the time they' cruiser is three-fourth- s 1.1 of 180 degrees. The are falling short three t mine come two direct cruiser, the other two The plane back of me irect hits. My left wing I It barely in front of my right wing man's arely behind it the ij seems enveloped in ning the water, and de-abo-the foam. Boy, jese captain just turned I our formation swings ( for home, Zeros still Hound us, and we're still (Hie to stay back to pro-;o- r, who seems able to greasy coveralls, but he took us right into his quarters all air-enn- - ditioned and mosquito-proofe- The native couple they had as cook and hruseboy gave us the first home-cooke- d meal we'd tasted since the war. "The Dutch officer was a g big blond guy. He brought out clean pajamas for us, and some of his uniforms we could wear for dinner. He was depressed. Early in January he had evacuated his wife and child to Java for safety, although that seems queer to say now. He himself was staying be-hind, in command of native ground troops, to defend those refineries. He hadn't heard from his wife. You could see he was very much in love with her. Also that he didn't think much of the military setup they had in Sumatra, so he doubt-ed that he would ever see her again. "He'd been back on a visit to Hol-land Just before the Germans came in. Since then he'd had only one letter from his mother smuggled out. She had had a couple of Ger-man maids from over the border. They made good servants for the heavy work, but just before the sur-prise invasion they'd been called back to Germany. It was the same, she said, all over Holland. So no wonder, he said, that the Germans knew the name of every Dutch off-icer in Holland. The morning of the invasion, the Gestapo would knock at the door, and when the officer opened it, would shoot him down in cold blood. This was why, he explained, the Dutch Navy was so incapacitated for officers. He was very bitter. He was in wonderful physical condition been leading na-tive troops through the jungles. Said his wife was high up in the Java mountains and hoped she was safe. Next morning we left on a mission and never saw him again." "We came up a little later," said the Bombardier, "and by the time we got there, the Japs were moving into the river's mouth, just below Palembang. The weather was ove-rcasta ceiling of 2,000, so we had to work down below that. None of us liked it, because a Fort is a hell of a big easy target so close to the ground never built for that. As we came in, so close to the ground, our radio operator called Skiles on the interphone. " 'Captain,' he said, 'oxygen doesn't agree with me, but I'm will-ing to begin chewing it any time now and I broke in, 'You can say that again.' "Captain Northcott was leading the mission six planes we were, and when we sighted the target he called over the command radio, as-signing our flight to a transport on the left. "It was a monster, a huge Maru liner which I've seen as a luxury cruise boat tied up to the San Fran-cisco docks. Suddenly she cut loose a hell of an antiaircraft barrage at us all coming from this one trans-port- a regular Fourth of July at three o'clock in the afternoon. It was like looking down into a cone of fire with this transport at the tip and smoking red-ho- t rivets, they seemed like, whizzing up at us. They were rocking us around when violently and suddenly we shuddered almost went over on our back. An ack-ac- k shell had burst under one wing near the fuselage. Big pieces hole just where the of it tore a huge wing joins the fuselage, and one em-bedded itself just a few inches from Captain Skiles. already on our run, al- - We were most at the release line, and the iar had thrown out the bomb sight- -t inoperative But was completely done some practice low-altitu-bombing at Muroc back m the I said the hell with a SbsigM-I- 'd guess at it I was! S and mad at the .hak.ng-u- p 'All right, you xxx we d got. xxx, here they come! I, dropped four in rapid Accession. They landed in a clus-ter feet from the about twenty-fiv- e The other four I released Zrl slowly. We'd come down to Togo feet now. and that's low. ,TO BE CONTINUED) enough throttle to keep ir. After forty minutes o drops away; they're M and daren't chase us over the command ra-in to Skiles. Go ahead.' lowering.' pe base at Malang to bulance ready. We have founded men aboard.' ter who they are. One j the tail gunner, since tiason's plane taking so s there. The other must :o operator, or else they sent their own dot-das- h to base. e our radio operator is n to have the ambu-Plan- e is now leading Major Robinson's just We've drifted slowly M feet altitude, protect-n-- i Then, all of a plane swoops down 'taut 1,000 feet, and the 1 " scooting on out in wading a little toward Borneo. Is Robinson s her? And now over 'd radio: 10 Robinson, is there ontf our pilot asks. :t i no answer. We jor Robinson is mak- - turn, as though to Ration. But halfway Plane starts nosing r dive, goes faste-r-the Sea. We J ur breath. Just be-h- is tail elevator poor guy must have " itched back into his to pun 0ut of that twnbie air pressure 7? riPPed them off. ' Plash-fla- me. Spi-,f"- e. and a widening 2'. reds, and black, 88as and oil on that 2fter it hits I call on the inter- - j'Isaid, 'did you Cai(LAnd then a nk God those see it- - s above the Lr,tClrcle until fire --own at the wid- - on the surface- - nl hadn't seemed like had kicked me in vth. "e Suys on there 'acho sTat around Jculdn't believe what Boy, that Japanese captain just turned the wrong way. operate up there. You couldn't tell the officers from the men (remem-ber, we had no maintenance crews in Java; we did all the work and my pilot had his cover-alls on, installing an extra oxygen outlet In the tail After seeing what had happened to Robinson's tail gun-ner, he figured if his tail gunner got wounded, another man in the crew could go back there and they would both stay on oxygen. "The E of course was a big ad-vance over the D. But any new model will have little things wrong that you never find out until you take one up and fight it. "All through Java we did it all oursejves the officers right along with us, helping load bombs and checking valves. We flew in weath-er out there you wouldn't drive out to the airport in back here. But the Japs were flying it too; they'd come in strafing and we'd have to jerk our old mutts off the ground quick." "Anyway," said Frank Kurtz, "we had stopped the Japanese there in Macassar Strait for a while. The little Dutch Navy helped, but mostly it was American air power. We'd sunk quite a gang of them, so the rest had to go home and lick their wounds, realizing they couldn't move in on Java until they had air controL This meant they would have to clean us out of our advance fields In Borneo and the Celebes. It wouldn't be hard, for the Dutch had no troops to speak of on these is-lands. Everything had had to be withdrawn to hold Java. But it took time for the Japs to take over our little advance bases at Samann-d- a and Kendari, and being new to thought Time was war. we foolishly on our side. We were thinking of We hadn t those thousand planes. learned that Time in war is a treacherous ally who favors anyone who will use him. "But meantime Colonel Eubank had hauled me down to the ground for a while to do a different job. were going on. The Too many wars Japanese were running a pretty good them were the one. but against American Air Force, the Royal Dutch Air Force, the American, Dutch, and Australian navies, all of us running wars of our own. that every "Finally it was agreed to me in Sura-baya night they'd deliver message, giving a safe-han- d position of every American ship We'd swap infor-mation in those waters. about operations, s ry one would be pulling together. P1TTERNS f Just 2 drops Trni'tro JL Now Droia In enih. 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CEORGE RAFT is back he started in Universal's "Follow the Boys" he does a Charleston and an Argentine number which he did in his stage de-but, and in almost identical costume. His first profess-ional dancing Job was in one of the top vaudeville acts. Pilcer and Douglas, in 1922. And one of the things that cinched the Job was Raft's resemblance to Valentino, at that time the world's greatest screen attraction. In "Follow the Boys" Raft is with Zorina, with whom he does the Argentine dance. In those Dr. Kildare movies, when Laraine Day played the doctor's nurse, nothing ever happened to her but more Kildares. She got her break when the writers killed off the nurse, and Laraine made her ' AC I LARAINE DAY j escape, and scored one success after another. "Mr. Lucky," "The Story of Dr. Wassell" and now she has landed a real plum. RKO has cast her to star with Alan Marshall in "That Hunter Girl." Versatile John Nesbitt, the story-telle- r, is now turning out an average of one film a month at Metro, in addition to doing his Sunday spot on the John Charles Thomas show, and his new three-a-wee- k series on CBS. He's won two Academy awards for his work. Cary Grant saw little Arden Black going to school every morning when he turned into the studio, and liked her spunk. She was only seven, and had a brace on her leg, but said she didn't mind. So he spoke to Di-rector Clifford Odets, In whose "None But the Lonely Heart" Grant is working, and they decided they could use a crippled child In London slum sets and Arden got the job. Paulette Goddard became known for achieving what others didn't when she became the first of Charlie Chaplin's wives to win real success on the screen. So It's no surprise that she has won a citation for being the first American woman visiting China to entertain U. S. troops. She received it from Col. John A. Feagin: "Her achievement reflects highest credit on herself and the entire entertainment world," said he. Swell idea, that new CBS "Visit-ing Hour" on Saturday afternoons, beginning April 29, with Ted Husing as coordinator. There'll be a Holly-wood star and a sports celebrity each week as guest stars; they will chat informally with soldiers at army hospitals. Programs for the first 13 weeks will cover most of the large cities from coast to coast, through the facilities of CBS afHli-ate- s. Art Baker, NBC commentator and newscaster, recently learned how convincing he can be. He pleaded on the air for recruits for the Wom-en's Air corps; did it so effectively that his daughter, Jean Ormsby, promptly joined up! Alan Young, Canada's youthful contribution to the ranks of radio comedians, has been signed to take over Eddie Cantor's Wednesday night niche for the summer, begin-ning July 5. Young will be assisted by Bea Wain and Peter Van Steeden's orchestra. Everett Sloane, CBS's "Crime Doctor" and the highest paid actor on radio, ran into an old college chum who assured Sloane that suc-cess hadn't changed him. "Well, it has a little," replied Sloane. "I'm now 'eccentric' where I used to be impolite, and 'delightfully witty' where I used to be rude!" Sloane, incidentally, appeared on Orson Welles' famous "Man from Mars" broadcast. ODDS AMD ENDS Perry Como't definition of neighbor! "People who never notice you till you do tomething you'd rather they wouldn't notice" . . . In "None but the Lonely Heart," you see Cary Grant with a burned-ou- t cigar; he' really a cigarette smoker, but cigarettes were out of churacter . . . "Duffy's Tavern," starring Ed Gardner, will continue in business for at least another year . . . And "Second Hus-band," with Helen Menken, is just start-ing on its eighth . . . 1,600 servicemen have received iMxSH-inc- packets of the Goldwyn girls appearing in "Up in Arms"; pinups will be reduced to pin points if this goes on! Sheep in Near East Neetl Cart to Carry Heavy Tail Do you know that in the Near East there are sheep whose tails are so large and ponderous that the animals are provided with small four-wheele- d carriages In or-der to relieve the weight of the tail and prevent it from coming into contac t with the ground? The oriental passion for greasy foods has led to the development of this type of sheep in which the fattest portion of the animal, the tail, combines excessive adiposity with enormous length. I ask ME n ANOTHER I I A General Quiz ? 1. Who was known as the mod-ern iron man of baseball? 2. Can you name three promi-nent movie stars with the surname of Powell? 3. The figures carved by Borg-lu- m in the Mt. Rushmore memori-al are scaled to the proportion of men how tall? 4. How many persons lost their lives in the great Chicago fire? 5. In what year was the Consti-tution of the United States sub-mitted to the people? 6. What dynasty was in power during the period that China was the foremost civilized power of the world? 7. What is the oldest known toy? 8. What is the vocation of a per-son who vocally labored under a burden? The Answert 1. Lou Gehrig. 2. William Powell, Eleanor Pow-ell and Dick Powell. 3. Of men 465 feet tall. 4. About 300. 5. In 1787. 6. The T'ang dynasty. 7. The doll. 8. A singer. (A burden is a chor-us or a refrain.) Time to Band Trees "THIS i3 the time of the year when Victory gardeners, shade tree owners and commercial grow-ers should be reminded to protect their trees and vines against the ravages of tree-climbi- insects whose larvae will manifest them-selves later on as the worms and caterpillars which often complete-ly defoliate trees, destroy fruit, cause serious tree damage. Band-ing of trees which have not been infested with a sticky substance tfiat will retain its consistency un-der 11 weather conditions is good protection and very much worth-while. This should be done as early as possible. |