Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-06-02 | Page 6 | Commando Flier Returns to Report to Arnold

N. N t J r I 3 AC Il 1 Orr 1 N rr r 1 s sI I L 1 r i Yr Colonel one Philip G. G Cochran Original Flip Corkin Commando Flier Returns to 10 to Arnold WASHINGTON June 2 2 UP UP- UP Colonel Philip G. G Cochran commander commander commander com com- mander of at the First air commando force in Burma which flew British forces deep behind enemy lines line by glider has returned to this country to report to General H H. H H. Arnold army air forces commander Cochran real life model for Flip Corkin of the comic strip Terry and the Pirates is home on leave his mission completed He brought with him a vivid description description description de de- de- de of at touch-and-go touch jungle fighting plus new insight into the future of sky-borne sky armies We have only scratched the surface of ot the possibility of moving moving moving ing armies by air he said They will be placed In strategic places by airplanes One thing we did was to prove that Relating the fierce nature of oC jungle fighting in Burma he said often one end of ot an airstrip would be held by the British and the theother theother theother other end by the Japanese Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some times when a liaison plane took off oft It was shot down at the other end of ot the strip he said