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Show L--f- T"E Bl'LLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH m GOD IS MY co-pil- ot Wf rfCol. Robert L.Sco.t J H After craduating iiMSuMrl Scott win. Ul Zn Instructor for miTnt k' out- - nd M or combat flying. ifW JZTt bomr to India mf" rL. but this oei not W"!LI for combat fly mL?v ,k,e ver fJS he la made CO. mat some important about to be made. Kb the hostel area quiet. The amber divided among some forty Ta, of us got a few 5 Chinese teacup--but it M(or the ceremony. Wertl grinned at us and K got the Japs worried jjjj everywhere except we'd attack. To-aj- Day." We could hard-- cheering. But we held Uimmlng cups" and Just LA0U. General." The drops jKt, after the announce-iKlose- d the post and kept iKTgoing into town. This Kali In the right places. L; want Into Kweilin 8.000-to- n freighter surrounded many lighters, there by in the The smoke from the single stJk was lazily going straight up Mor gan's bombardier was beudina tensely over his bomb-sigh- t keeping the cross-hair- s on the now tar' get. I knew the A.F.C.E. was fly. ing the lead bomber as we went on the straight bombing run towards our target. I saw the string of bombs bracket the freighter perfectly, and later photos showed four direct hits from the first flight. The lighters around the doomed vessel were blown hiih and in all directions. Down to our left. Holloway. escorting the other flight whose target was a freighter saw the vessel hit, then saw the smoke. Alison had his fighter force with the third flight; they had bombed the docks and were fighting Zeros from getting to the bombers. Then, under the lead flight of bombers, I aaw the enemy fighters coming up and 1 knew we had them. All the enemy planes were below us, climbing steeply for the bellies of the bombers. They had waited on the ground too long, had waited for us to pass Canton and go on to Hongkong. Now we had every ad-vantage. General Chennault had foxed them again, and I had an Idea that we were in for a profitable day. I called directions to the Group as the bombers closed up and I started down. Alison was even now shoot- - and told Captain Goss to escort the bombers to base. The others of us broke away look-fln- g or straggling Japs. , took over towards White Cloud air-drome, where ack-ac- k was so heavy 'hat it was just about making the sky oidck I guess I must have thought of Lieutenant Daniels- - for I dove 1 harin t heard a single 0 call for help, so I was fairly confident that we had won the battle. My wing man must have got lost In my dive. From the altitude at which I had started my dive I couldn't see what was on White Cloud field, but as I pulled half out of the dive over the hills South of the airdrome, I saw an air-plane. It was a big ship, which I soon saw had three engines. The door was open, and I think men were hurrying to get in or out. Two cars were driving away from the ship. Even at my speed I tried a burst at the Junkers 52. but I saw the tracers go short, and when I got closer I coud see the dust far to the left of the target. My speed was so great that I couldn't hold enough pressure on the rudder steadily for accurate shooting. But I must have gotten a few tracers In, for as I swept low over the ship it seemed that dust was churned up all about. Turning low, 1 came back for a better shot The ack-ac- k was so thick that I nearly forgot and turned back. After all, that which I could see had already exploded and if I m.j, passed out the news Kre ready for the main jMnehow he arranged for Mjht informaUon to begin Bbout Journey to the Jap-- 1H bad now been sown. iKgber 27 the largest force Hi v bad ever used in Chi--H by the largest forct of Bed down the runway at vHere were fourteen bomb-jHwenty-t-for es-9h-also left a strong St pound at Kweilin, just Hit Jap tried something iBiere away. I led the An section of the fighter made up the reserve. My Ire escort would be three Httt above the bombers. Hi me a thousand feet was Hsf. with his flight of t right flank of Morgan's Colonel Bruce Holloway pt on the left flank, an-in- d feet lower. Colonel riding in the lead bomb-ligenc- e officer, and that ling to demonstrate the that he had striven for, i fighters and the bomb-i- d been so anxious to ac-- u raids that he seemed ppointed whenever other fcred. He was threaten-itai- e over one of the tur-lea- d bomber and shoot fit Jap. I joked with iwiytoour fighters that id told him that we in the l io glad to have him were going to let one Must so he could shoot it let the pilot's ears for his We laughed as we sep- - ! formation large for us usembled over the air-Wo- k a course North in M Hankow. We want-fro-other spies in Kwei-Tie-tor this mission J mainly to get the Jap wasn't hit yet I was as well off one place as another. My burst caught the engines of the transport, which I could aee now were running. Uni-formed passengers were Jumping out of the door. I turned steeply and flred on the door, then into the fuselage. The ship was smoking, and the engines had either been shot up or had been cut off, for they had topped. My engine missed several times,; as it had done from some poor gaso-line earlier In the flight, and I de-cided to let well enough alone and get away from White Cloud. Keep-ing just about down in the rice. I went straight North to the river, With the engine missing every now and then. I spent a miserable few minutes that seemed like a year until I got out of Jap territory. I landed at Kweilin. and while Ij counted the holes in my plane I watched for the last of the fighters to come in half trying to count the twenty-seve- n holes from the ground-flr- e around White Cloud and half trying to sweat all the twenty-tw- o fighters back. AU the bombers were in and were being serviced and bombed up again. Eighteen fight-ers finally came in, and we worried until we got word that the other four were at another field and would be back later in the afternoon. We made our reports to the Gen-eral and we knew he was pleased. Out of 45 Zeros that had come up for us over Canton we had shot down 29 that were confirmed. Ali-son had stayed back there for twenty-f-ive minutes and definitely had seen that the two freighters loaded with Zeros and engines had been sunk. The nature of the cargo was eventually confirmed. Three weeks later we d the salvage parties that were diligently trying to raise the sunken freighters. Evi-dently there had been something very valuable to the Japanese on the two big vessels. We went on back to Kunming. Sometimes I wonder if the Jap ever . . , n ... "I,,. ..--.- "hkn The Flying Tiger of the AVG jumps through the Chinese Sun and tears Jap flag. ing down Ceros around the last for-mation of bombers. Holloway called to one of his elements to take the climbing Jap ships and return to formation. We were fighting this battle like business, and we were going to keep together until every bomber was safely on the way home to lunch at Kweilin. About four thousana feet under the leading three bombers I could see the first of the steeply climbing Japs. As I dove closer I could even see the white smoke rings that formed in front of his wings, and 1 knew from experience that he was firing his cannon at the bottom of the bombers as he climbed. The Jap carries in his wings smaller guns that have tracers: he gets these on his target, then shoots his cannon. As I took this first enemy ship, I had one moment of panic: it seemed m me air where we rtapv nlnca in MnrDan'g IpnH shin H We usually evaded 'Nan our attacks, but ent low over Kweilin. 0 fte North. When we 1 the prying and ready !P'es, we turned to a 'or Hongkong, bed above high feet, and 1 'or the three hundred Mty-flv- e minutes Mgan to break and scat-- I "Pproached enemy ter- -' cloudless sky and per-- ' 0v to the right II we glint of the sun on the three rivers that Km in a litfure like a 1 fead I saw the hills and the ever-ou- t to the Pacific. Mrthe East River that nton, and the bomb-- " Hongkong-a- nd we g Canton. For again where lhe enemy maybe I couldn't get to it in time. Then my dive took me right up above the Zero, between him and the bomber. I held my fire until the last two hundred yards, and shot the Zero down with a d burst. It exploded within a hundred yards of the ship in which Colonel Cooper was he confirmed it for me later. But as I pulled up and looked for the next enemy ship, I recalled that I had almost made my joking threat too good. For the lap had got too close to the bomber in which the Chief of nff was rid-in- My wing man stayed with me and we fired on the second Zero together. I could see his tracers coming from my right. I closed in with a shot and held a burst ahead of the next enemy ship. He climbed on up towards the bomb-ers and flew right through my tracers. His ship turned in a slow, almost too deliberate half-loo-stalled out. then dove straight down. - i i a . 010 UI1U UUl WUCIC wvuciu, W,.- - nault was going. Years after may-be they'd still be flying that patrol over Hongkong, waiting for the at-tack that we were supposed to make. As we carried out the long mis-sions into Burma in the days that followed, I thought about how the spirit of our air warfare had changed from what I had heard about and read of the last World War in the air. There had been an element ol knighthood depicted in that first struggle in the skies. Now I thought I knew why. Back there the pilots had been carefully hand-picke- They were: the adventurous, devil-may-ca-like those boys who had been the Confederate cavalry in the War Between the States. More than like-ly when they fired at another pilot and then saw that their victim'i guns were "jammed," they may have "saluted" and dived away, un- - willing to destroy the helpless ene-my- . But this was a different type of war, against a race of fanatics. i ..ro.xcarl tr.T an Innfl us The Gen- - outguess the Japa- - &the 8maU "rial watching and 2 n the ground at Kai e Cloud in can-JZer-were walUn Jthad passed Car!: "c Pt us on the way wl East Rlver ,wo freiht- - P engn,e Canton infnHo afdrome, el , mation' "nd C ! went la ,7 bw'ber flight., 5?dtarBet m , lead bomber ,aw "ur target, an At first I thought tnat l nau inru iuu far in front of him and he'd turned to evade the fire; then, as I watched the speeding ship go straight into the hills between Tien Ho field and White Cloud, 1 knew I had shot the pilot. The ship did not burn until it crashed. I flred at six Japanese fighters so fast that I didn't see what happened to any of them. You get a snap shot and then the Zero is gone, turning for rolling over, or you're another one. or you're gatting your nose down to make sure that you speed and too much never lose your altitude when you're fighting those highly maneuverable ships. One other I saw trailing smoke as he rolled over, but I didn't get to see him catch fire or crash The bombers had outrun our dog-fig-fast for and were going down-h,- Kweilin. I heard Morgan call that ebow was on. and I knew he com snfe I called sidered hi. bomhers who naa oecu iti"""" in their warped minds that they were barbaric madmen. From what I had already seen, I knew that the Japanese soldier and the Japanese war machine were not out merely to beat us in war they were out to EXTERMINATE US, even to the extent of killing our pi-lots whom they captured as prison-ers And we knew that this had been done even in April of 1942. We learned of it again aftar the Hong-kong raid They would never give had gone all-o- in a war to up-t- hey the bitter end. There was no ro-mance about It We knew that if we were shot down and were not killed in the craah. or it we were captured, we would most certainly be tortured and executed. That', why aU of us never considered the element of capture Get out of the shooting, we alway. crash-landin- g said. . to re unfiwumna ? ANOTHER I A General Quiz ? 7Vit- - Questions 1. Why are dykes used in Hol-land" 2. From what tribe of Indians did the Dutch purchase the site ef New York City? 3. What is a poltroon? 4. Were the army and navy the first to have lieutenants? 5. Military training in peacetime Is compulsory in how many major countries? 6. In what country is Sanskrit the language? The Answers 1. The land is below sea level. 2. The Manhattans. 3. A coward. 4. 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