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Show I THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH 0BIMY ggr CdD-FHL- OT ,gCo!. Robert L. Scoff WN.U. RELEASE mrJSkk. The story thus far: Robert Scott, a West Point graduate, wins hli wlnsi at Kelly Field, Texas. From Mitchel N. Field, Y., tie It tent to Panama where his real pur uit training it begun In a He begin to train other pilots, but as the war edges closer he wants to get Into combat service. He writes many letters to Generals pleading for a chance to Bent and at last It comes In the form of phone call from Washington asking If be can fly a four englne bomber. He says he can a white lie. When he leaves his wife and child he realizes that they meant America for hlra. He picks up his Fort in Florida, asks one of his former students how to fly it, and they are off for Brazil. CHAPTER n Maybe the meal was really good I've forgotten. But later we were to have some meals which were def-initely on the rugged side. Some time just try a breakfast at three m. composed of warmed-over- , mouldy, then toast, with slightly sour canned tomatoes. After this year and more, I can close my eyes and see Col. C. V. Haynes sit-ting there looking at that delicacy-think- ing, no doubt, about Carolina country ham, with brown gravy making a little puddle in the grits. Well fed but on the tired side'. ished a volunteer force of American airmen, flying American equipment in China against the Jap. The purpose was fourfolt: to test American equipment, to train a nu-cleus of American pilots in actual combat, to furnish air support for the Chinese land forces, and to fight a delaying action against the Japa-nese until the Chinese armies could be equipped with modern sinews of war for offensive action against the stranglehold of Japan. Finally, in the late summer of 1941, the Arrny, Navy, and Marine Corps permitted a few reserve offi-cer pilots to resign their commis-sions and accept jobs as instructors with Central Aircraft Manufactur-ing Company, or Cameo, as it was called. These seventy-od- d pilots and .some three hundred ground-crewme- n proceeded in small numbers on ships of various nations Dutch, British, Indian, American, and some unregistered West from San Fran-cisco to Java, then Singapore, and thence to Rangoon, Burma. These "instructors" for Cameo were carried on the passenger lists as acrobats, doctors, lawyers, and probably even Indian chiefs. I imag-ine that after they made their great record with never more than flfty- - Cobb wanted so much to land fot a look at the d Ubanjri wom-en. Then Lake Chad and Fort La-m- y went by. Just before dawn we crossed North of the mountain of At six o'clock the White Nile appeared we had crossed the western part of the Sudan. Our landing was made at Khartoum, where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet. On April 8, we left Khartoum for an easy run to Aden, on a course which was almost due East over the mountains of Eritrea. We went on over Gura and Massaua to the Red Sea. On our left we could see Yemen, and farther South and to our right, Somaliland. Reaching the South end of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the well-know- n land-marks, the Rocks of Aden, appeared about noon. Next day we'd make the run on to India. The British garrison commander took care of us that night. But around the dinner table there sud-denly dropped a blanket of despair. The London radio announced that Bataan had fallen. After the first comment we settled down to worry. Part of our mission was to bomb Jap concentrations around Bataan and Corregidor. Would this develop-ment cause that part of the attack 1 t'vi-f?-' we left the base at 13:35, for our next destination farther down the coast For more than two hundred miles we were over friendly terri-tory as we hugged the beaches, but later, along the Ivory Coast, we had to fly out to sea to avoid the prying eyes that were Vichy French. I must have sworn deeply that after-noon, for In my diary I note now that I wrote this line: "Damn, we have to dodge those b all the time." We passed a fighter base at 17:00 G.M.T., and one hour later we land-ed at another West Coast base. The sun was setting back to the West in the Atlantic towards home. Easter Sunday was fast coming to a close. I remembered then, from "hearsay evidence," that I had been born ex-actly thirty-fou- r years before. From personal experience I would be able to recall this Easter as a memora-ble one. Next day, while the crew worked on the tired airplane, some of .us drove into the bush country. With a guide we made about a ten-ho- trip into the interior, to Togoland. En-tering a typical dirty village we heard jazz music and picked our way towards the source. I Imagine all of us were expecting to find a radio or a vlctrola; instead we found that we were really In the land that had "birthed" jazz. Grouped about an earthen crock of palm wine was the population of the village, and the more they dipped the gourd cups into the stagnant-lookin- g liquor, the hotter the music became and the more the sweating black bodies swayed to the beat of the drums. Their bare feet were moving to the rhythm in the dust, and their naturally musical voices, added to the syncopated rumble that came from black hands thumping many kinds of drums, made us won-der whether some orchestra like Cab Calloway's hadn't come to Af-rica with us on a USO project. On April 7 we left the Gold Coast for Kano, In Nigeria. Off at 08:00 to be called off? Again the fear of being frustrated in our effort to take the offensive clutched my heart. It seemed that once again help had been started too late. We had caught the last of the B-1- at Aden, and next morning we got up an extra hour early for the take-of- f. Our Fortress was straining to get to the initial point just behind the Success was in sight. At 5:50 we were climbing over the beach of southern Arabia, and as the light improved we all agreed that Arabia was a rugged-lookin- g land. After the terrible stories about the mutilation of forced-dow- n flyers at the hands of the tribes-men, we all were glad that we had the little cards written in Arabic, promising high payment to the Ar-abs if we were delivered unharmed to the nearest British outpost. We followed the Arabian coast over the blue waters of the Arabian sea to the Gulf of Oman, and then crossed to Karachi. Colonel Haynes, with the had gone to Delhi. Our orders were to wait at Karachi. And now for two weeks we anxiously waited, while the rumors flew. I think I shall always associate India with my first impression on getting out of my ship. No one seemed to know anything. Behind us lay twelve thousand miles, which we had made in eight days for what? No one stood there with or-ders to expedite our departure. In-stead they appeared to think we had ferried this ship for them to use in training. Training, mind you here, halfway round the world and in a country that faced attack any moment! When we explained as much as we could about our secret orders, smiles came to the officers' faces. Bets were laid that we would never leave Karachi with those ships. But we were volunteers, and our combat spirit was still there. I remember that all my crew took the bets, as fast as they were offered. General Chennault's AVG was composed of three squadrons, funo tinning under the supreme command of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- shown above. About sev-enty pilots and three hundred ground crew personnel made up this organization, which for nearly four months had been in combat against the Japanese Air Force from Ran-goon np to Lashlo, Burma. five airplanes they shot down two hundred and eighty-si- x Japanese planes, losing only eight in combat the complaining Japanese would have been disposed to add the re-mainder of the nursery rhyme, "Rich man, poor man, beggar-man- , thief." Many times I had heard Radio Tokyo complain of the "cruelty" of these American guerrilla pilots. Un-der General Chennault's clever lead-ership and tactical genius they had virtually driven the Imperial Japa-nese Air Force from the skies of Burma, and held the Burma Road for months after it should have fal-len. Against odds of more than twenty to one, they had '"saved face" for America and the white race, In this battle against a much-- G.M.T., we flew a course of 90 de-grees to miss more of Vichy France. Over Lagos, m the clammy heat of the equatorial jungle, we turned into the continent to a course of 58 degrees and continued over very thick country until we crossed the Niger. Fron there on East, the land that wa ( Africa seemed to dry up, and my boyhood conception of how the Dar't Continent should look faded away. Instead of constant jungle we now saw dry desert, like the lower hump of Brazil near Na-tal, or places in our own West. We landed at the old walled city of Kano that afternoon. Our next take-of- f, for Khartoum, would best be made at nightfall, in order that we might land in the Sudan early In the morning before the dust storms had impaired the visibility. To waste time we walked into town to see the ancient city of Biblical days. Soon we found ourselves dodging camels, lepers, and Ali Baba with his more than forty thieves. General Chennault's AVG was composed of three squadrons, func-tioning under the supreme command of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- About seventy pilots and three hundred ground crew person-nel made up this organization, which for nearly four months had been in combat against the Japanese Air Force from Rangoon up to Lashio. Burma. These American boys had come from the air services of the American Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The General was an old pilot, and through many years of single-seate- r flying in the noise of open cockpits had become moderately deaf, a circumstance that had helped to bring about his retirement. Knowing that war with Japan was more than probable, after his re-tirement he had gone to China, and there he had not only persuaded the Generalissimo to build the g net within China, but had worked to train China's Air Force as well. Growing out of this, when the brave Chinese Air Force was virtually destroyed by the over-whelming odds of the Japanese jug-gernaut, Chennault had long cher- - belittled enemy. When one considers that the AVG fought in what the British called ob-solete tactical combat aircraft the and their deeds and scores become truly legendary. Throughout China today, General Chennault's AVG are regarded as "Saviors of Free China Skies." The Chinese sentry on the gate to the "Fijichan" or airfield may shake his head when you show him your pass; he may not understand your hard-wo- n Chinese; but when you smile and call, ," his face lights up in turn, and he calls, "Ding-ha- o you are number one.' " He hoMs his thumb up in the old familiar signal, and you enter. Then, to show his high regard for Ameri-cans and his vivid memory of Gen-eral Chennault's Flying Tigers, he calls after you, "A-V-- mean Ameri-can Very Good ding-ha- ding-hao.- " We caught up with three more of our thirteen bombers at Kano, and all our crew had begun to feel con-fident that we could not be called back from the mission against To-kyo. To insure this to a greater de-gree, we were trying hard, without appearing to be too anxious, to be the first to reach our initial point-Kara- chi, India. So long as we were the first of the we could claim a moral victory. For after all, Colonel Haynes was boss, and in a ship with longer range than the Fortress and we wanted him ahead. With full service aboard, and the temperature hot and stifling, even after nightfall, we threaded our way through the dust for the take-off- . I remember that the heavy ship used the entire runway and some of the sagebrush prairie land too, for there seemed to be no lift whatever to the hot, dead air. Finally reaching a comfortable cruising altitude at twelve thousand, Doug and I breathed the old familiar sigh of re-lief at having once again gotten a loaded bomber in the air, and the sigh echoed around the ship. Down in the dust haze not a light showed as we crossed equatorial Af-rica where Sergeant Aaltonen and Once again we' had been frustrat-ed in our effort to go to war on the offensive. Now, four months after Pearl Harbor, the stencilled word on a 7 in our flight, SNAFU mean-ing roughly, in Air Corps slang, "Snarled-up- " seemed to fit the situ-ation. We learned the worst when Haynes came back from Delhi with a face a yard long. Sadly be told us the truth. Due to the fall of Ba-taan and the loss of other fields in eastern China our secret bases-cou-pled with other factors beyond his control, our "dream mission" had come to the end of the line. During the fourteen days in Ka-rachi, when we had been waiting for Colonel Haynes, it had been a dif-ficult job of finesse to hang on to the ships. All twelve of the were lined up to be turned over to Base Units on the field. But the personnel responsible for the con-flicting orders had reckoned without the extreme loyalty of the volunteer crewmen to the flight commander and the pilot of each ship. The men stood guard twenty-fou- r hours a day in and around the bombers. This was logical, too, because each ship contained not only the secret bomb-sigh- t but full complements of loaded fifty-calibr- e guns, as well as the personal effects of the bomber crews. At first the crews appeared bewildered; but then their attitude seemed to Imply stubbornly that they had been ordered to attack" Japanese territory, and no matter if Bataan and all of eastern China fell, that's what they were going to do. One day the General in charge of the Air Base sent a crew down to my ship with orders for them to take over and search out a Japanese Task Force far out in the Arabian Sea. They were met with the ready Tommy guns of my men and rough-ly told that no one except members of the crew could get aboard. A Major in the new crew showed his orders. My crew chief replied: "I'm sorry, Sir, but I have mine, too; we are on our way to bomb an ene-my objective. No one gets aboard this ship except the regular crew." (TO BE CONTINUED) fMV7ZMl I VTHAT was the best bait game ever pitched, when you con-sider the combined quality of pitch-ing on both sides? This query came up recently when we were wishing good luck to such war-zon- e travelers as Carl Hubbell. Mel Ott, Ducky Medwick, Dixie Walker, Paul Wa-ne- r and Paul Derringer. None of them went back far enouch to offer i jj s a any complete check on the intricate sit-uation. The only candidate for the honor present was Carl Hubbell. one of the great pitch-ers of all time who Innocently became involved in the argument. As 1 figure tt, there were three Carl Hubbell u h games that be-long In one compact and select group. The first took place in 1908 when Addle Joss of Cleveland beat Ed Walsh of the Chi-cago White Sox 1 to 0. In this game lean and lanky Joss, a great pitcher badly overlooked, pitched one of the few perfect games In baseball. Not a White Sox reached first base. Against this flawless exhibition Ed Walsh struck out 15 Cleveland hit-te-and allowed only two hits. And in those now forgotten days Cleve-land had a mighty slugging team headed by Nap Lajoie. No-H- it Game This was a pitching thriller that none who saw it will ever forget. I was talking about this game re-cently with Charley Hughes of the Detroit Athletic club who also covered the big-ar- contest. "That game Is my pick," Char-ley said. "Except for one wild throw, neither team would have scored against Joss and Walsh be-fore nightfall. There is no greater thrill thn to see a perfect game pitched no one to reach first espe-cially when the other pitcher is al-lowing only two hits and fanning 15 men." The next all-st- double pitch-ing entry we recall was the meet-ing between Fred Toney of Cincin-nati and big Vaughn of the Cubs on May 2, 1917. In that game these two pitchers turned in a double ex-hibition that has never been equalled. At the end of nine in-nings neither had allowed a hit. A double no-h- it game In one after-noon was something for the rec-ord. No-h- it nine inning games are rare enough and when you get two pitchers offering the same fare on a single occasion, yon get close to the limit. "What about the game," Mel asked, that Carl Hubbell pitched against the hard-hittin- g Cardinals July 2. 1933?" Hurling 18 Innings Hubbell promptly blushed. I'll tell you about it," Ott said. Carl beat the Cardinals one to nothing after 18 innings. Tex Carle-to- n worked the first 15 innings for the Cardinals and Jess Haines the last 3. They also pitched great ball. You have to, allowing only one run in 18 innings. 'But that isn't all of it. If you pitched perfect ball through 18 In-nings, only 54 men would come to bat. Well, as I recall It, only 57 men came to bat against Carl that day. Maybe only 56. Now it's great to pitch 9 fine innings. But think what it means to pitch 18 great innings." "How about it, Carl?" I asked. Carl changed the subject slight-ly. "The best game I ever pitched was against the Dodgers," he said. "That was Memorial day, 1840. They got one hit, but that day I had most of my stuff working." "Better than your 18 inning game and your I asked. "I think so," he said. "But that 18 inning thing was a long after-noon.", "Here's a funny angle," Mel Ott said again. "Later on we beat Diz-zy Dean and the Cardinals one to nothing in the second game that same day 27 runless inn'ngs for the Cardinals." Anyway, we have offered you three of the greatest pitching con-tests of all time, slipping on back a mere matter of 38 years. There they stand on their own records The Joss-Wals- h gem of 1908. The Toney-Vaugh- n Jewel of 1917. The Hubbell-Carleton-IIain- mas-terpiece of 1933, 18 innings. It would be interesting to get a vote from those who follow baseball as to which was the top master-piece of the three. All Around Fighters How many know that in addition to football ability this navy team has set a new record in the way of fighting or boxing talent? Here they are Capt. Ben Chase, guard, was the regimental heavy-weight champion in 1943 and the runner-u- p in 1944. Leo Bramlett, crack end, is heavyweight champion of the academy. Clyde Scott, from Arkansas, won the middleweight championship of the Plebe summer tournament. ? lder' Weftern Newtpaper Union. char "K VIBGINIA VALE f, gjiy good news that Comdr. Robert t rail Very, recently placed " inactive list by the n .being starred by JP picture based on fl Vere Expendable." Ci member it as the m 've the world the story W iits of the P-- T boats in L 'Cb General MacArthur es- - 4 Australia. This will be ml gfi first picture since the - "Here Comes Mr. Jor- - ' Pl IF ewrt I www ''wi'4imw cnl r pi f S;i XXJJ - j! ' V: ic It i 7 . VJ . ( in t'1 ' iwiii tm ll lit MONTGOMERY 1 1 re told that the cast will DJ jp almost entirely of men icua been in the service. And r in Ford, who has been re-- j lor so many excellent pic- - t direct "They Were Ex- - tf: i. (I , R Scott, who's forsaken : t the stage temporarily, ' i evening the night she did iier's Wife" on the air; Jn play she's now doing on fork stage. The "Theater t" broadcast was moved h 5 Playhouse across the a the theater, the curtain : that night, and Martha :am the broadcast to the repeat her performance. ta Harold Lloyd a long ike to radio; the Imme-t-ai of "Comedy Theater" nights on NBC proves jould have done It long director and host of this erram unique because ;lj drama show devoted comedies. The movie ! now after Lloyd two i are urging him at the i return to the screen. nice little assignment or George Raft. In "John-he'- U play "a two-fiste- d middle of mutiny, a miss--i gold and an affair with blonde." Signe Hasso has awed from Metro to as- - Himber and Ken Mur-- ; CBS "Which Is Which?" amateur magi-- 3 they're hatching a plot to ries of magic shows for ne time soon. Meanwhile fl Wednesday night pro-oin- g strong. 1 Jl - Horizons," new Sunday j lial program, on which a , irl singer from a different ' i with John Baker each proving a real stepping access. 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