Show I Yank Fliers F in Solomons Scream for lor Action I After Jap Rams Parachutist With By y Jack Malion Mahon SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC June 13 Delayed INS The INS The skies over the Solomon islands have been filled with flaming Zeros for the past week and out of tremendous air battles in which our boys shellacked the Japs better than five to one has come significant evidence that the enemy either is cracking up or resorting to new depths of sav sav- agery On June 7 the pilot of a aZero aZero aZero Zero made four attempts to decapitate decapitate decapitate de de- de- de a bailed out bailed out United States marine pilot with his pro- pro This savage assault has inflamed inflamed inflamed in in- flamed the entire area and American pilots are snorting for more action although the score scorebook scorebook scorebook I book already reads 67 enemy planes shot down and 14 ables against our losses of 13 for the period from June 6 to 12 inclusive Lieutenant Samuel S. S Logan 22 of Paola Kan flying a Corsair Corsair Corsair Cor Cor- sair fighter was part of a squadron which intercepted a group of more than 40 Zeros over island 50 miles west of the Russell island group inthe in inthe inthe the Solomons Logan attacked a Zero which was engaging an army P 40 and in the resultant dogfight injured the tail of his plane He was forced to bail out aAs i a As he fell a Zero involved d in inthe inthe inthe the near near-by fighting disengaged Itself from combat and made a arun arun run at the flier his guns blaz blaz- ing The enemy plane came so close Logan had to lift his feet to avoid being hit by the pro- pro The Jap missed on his second attempt but on the third while Logan was struggling with his chute he failed to lift his feet The enemy propeller took off his right foot and part of his left heel The Jap was still unsatisfied unsatisfied fied fled however and made another run before driven off by an army flier Logan fell into the sea inflated his raft took sulfa and morphine tablets and applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied a tourniquet to his right leg Using a metal mirror as a signal Logan attracted attention attention attention atten atten- tion of a reconnaissance sea sea- sea sea- plane This brought him to a abase I I base hospital where his wounds were treated He is recovering nicely In the same action another American kid jumped 2000 feet with a faulty parachute and lived to tell the tale He is Lieutenant J. J G. G Percy 21 of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco also a marine I pilot After shooting down one I Zero and damaging another he was attacked and his plane dis dis- dis- dis He jumped from 2000 feet but his chute failed to open I landed in the water feet first and felt something break he saidI saidI saidI said I had on my Mae West in inflated inflated inflated in- in and that kept me up Percy swam for about three hours finally dragging himself onto a reef and then to a beach where he lay all afternoon and night On the morning of June 8 four natives found him and called aid He was suffering from a fractured pelvis |