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Show I he m i i i i in, i!i(,n m vmqv i rn fTa GOV IS MY 0 , co-pil- ot fPr 'WJk Col. Robert-- L. Sett Ru I A"" graduaUnf Scott win. all d ak ap e bt M Instructor for ton old for combat to oP.-.u- n.tyto bomber General! to India .e. a I.., a ferry pilot and Alter paying a be I.K a K.ty; a "one I nter he U made Group and .tin Planes. Exterminator MM and U condemned. from the interior of China to our base at Kunming. If, aimost , saga, for Holloway was feted, wined and dined in the primitive fashion of the remote village people, who were tribesmen called "Miaow.." Though Bruce was only fifty min- utes by plane from Kunming, his mode of travel by sedan chair, don-ke- y and water buffalo required three weeks. From the moment he rode into headquarters on the last buf-falo he had hired, he became known as the "Lochinvar of the Salween." Later Lieutenant Welborn was shot down farther to the South Wei-bor-had gotten out of his burning plane two hundred miles South of Paoshan, and his trip out of the rough country was the longest of any man that was lost. I remember that when he reached the first village from which he could get word to us, he sent a message that at first sounds facetious, until you under-stand the conditions under which one travels in the interior of China; then you realize that he was conserva-tive. His message read: "Landed safely such and such a sector. My motto is Kunming by Christmas." It was then September, and We-lborn beat his original estimate. He required fifty-fou- r days to travel two hundred miles across the trails of southwestern Yunnan. Our truck-strafin- g caused us to lose several planes and two pilots, but we cost the Japs lots of ma-terial. Towards the first of October, there were skeletons of enemy trucks and tanks from the Salween to Kutkai. near Lashio The Jap a d asked what was going on-- what ?' 1 sc tariS People meant? Ma-- : Jor Shu replied that here in Kwey-- I a" the people had never seen 'oreign devil and the Governor had Siven them permission to come in and look at one. General Chennaulfs other house-- 1 ?oys wer "Wang Cook," who had i on the US Gunboat Panay, and "Gunboat," who had served in the American Navy for three years. The General used to take me hunt-- j ing with him, and I came to under-stan- d that throughout these hunting trips he was giving me lessons in tactics, lessons he had learned the hard way against the Japanese. Without my knowing it, he would, in effect, criticize my method of for-mer attacks and advise me about Det,er way$ to do the job. I used to listen to him for hours as he told of cases in which he had got his own ship shot up by going in too close, and then, after he learned how and knew that his longer range fifty-calib- guns would out-sho- the Jap, had accomplished the same destruction on the enemy without getting his own ship shot to pieces. These critiques taught me exactly what he meant to impart without his ever hurting my pride by telling me that I was wrong and could ac-complish more by fighting in his way. Coming home some nights from the exercise of our hunts together, I would think of my wife and little girl far away in Georgia, and get very homesick. Once I looked at the General and told him how I wished that I could press a button and kill all the Japanese, to end the war, so that we could all go home He thought for a second or two and then looked back, smiling. "Aw now, Scotty," he said, "we don't want to do that. We've got to learn to hate this enemy. Think of how much fun it is to kill them .low." Yes, sir, the General's busi-ness was killing Japs. Then we'd go home in the dark-ness, and Wang Cook would fix us a peppery dove-pi- e from the Gener-al's doves and some canned oysters out of the loot of Rangoon. first burst the next ship M and dove, with one en-i- By now I had caught J.45, who was shoot-.Mombe-from exceeding-m-e I methodically aimed "Res putting a short burst 'Rd then into the other. Rnust have felt the Are. Rt into a steep, climbing incidentally is very good Rt ship that will outchmb Rnt I thought, this clim-bs': be a trick; so I Rsely for him to turn on Rben he rolled over he mme but for the clouds. I Rafter him and must have Rndred shots into him be-- R out of my sight in the "Rud. Piece, had begun to Rhis fuselage, and .moke behind. I believe hi. Ke hit and were failing, 'Hps seemed to be "wind-Rn- d yet I could only claim Robable," for I didn't ee Ho our bomber, back, of fl)d the picture, .howed Rresults for the bombing R Held. We claimed nine Reen enemy fighter, and we hadn't even Rle In one of our '.. In the new had turned .flop for the Jap. Either 'Hall they expected or the M know how to use the H ship. Sometimes I n I got on the tail of Bd of climbing away from She could easily have Bay from a 0 he tried Hjy from me, which i. defl-Hr- y poor thing to try with Bent in . fast-divin- g Kitty-Hi- e General had been ex-Ha-movement began In Hnber along the Burma Hi Lashio North towards The Japs were seen by Hbtion to be moving many Hi with troops. They were Hoing to renew the s the Salween that the Hustrated back In May. Holloway and I caught Hi the first day and burned Hhem near Wanting. On Hternoon, I got through Hth a single fighter and H of them on a curve in BChefang. From then on Hs, until the end of Sep-- harassed every move-B- e wet and muddy road. us burned ninety-si- x Hs in six days. We used in bombs as well as the Ben we couldn't find their H hit the dark green troop they were constructing Bing to Lashio. Daniels dove on a truck find that the Japs had B tanks along with the Col. Meriam C. Cooper was the Chief of Staff to the General. His business was war, too. Cooper had been one of the greatest heroes of the First World War, and was one of the greatest soldiers I have ever seen. I never discovered when it was he slept. At any time of night, he was apt to come into my room, when he visited us in Kunming from his usual headquarters In Chungking. Or when I'd go to see him, I could find him smoking his ever-prese- pipe at any hour. Coo-per had served in the American Air Force in the last war, and when the war was over he had kept right on fighting. He had enlisted with the Poles in the Russian-Polis- h war, and had been second in command of the Kosciusko Squadron. After lead-in- g many dangerous strafing raids, he was awarded Poland's highest military decorations. Later he made a reputation as an explorer in Per-sia, Siam, and Africa. Following an active part in the formation of n Airways, he became! one of the best known moving-pictur- e producers in America. Cooper was a soldier through and through, one of the most intelligent men that I could hope and the perfect Chief of Staff for Gen-eral Chennault. Through his con-stant attention to our espionage in eastern China we learned of the Japanese Task Forces coming through Hongkong on their way to Gen. Caleb Haynes, who went to China to head General Chennaulfs bombers. may have moved a few at night, but not many after Morgan and Bayse got through bombing the bridges on the Burma Road. We caught a few Jap planes near Lashio and shot up several on the ground. I shot into a Zero there on October 5, and be-lieve it went down, but only claimed it as a "probable." The Japs kept coming towards Kunming from Indo-Chin- a nearly ev-ery day in early October, but I think they remembered that the last time they had been in the capital of Yunnan, they had lost all their ships to the AVG. Way back on Christ-mas Day, 1941. Even with the hardships that a rugged country like China imposed, ' I was living a wonderful life there in Kunming. Those were days that . When Daniels, who d fighter any-tank- s he forgot about and concentrated on the idable vehicles. His Fif-w- o tanks rather badly, ag bombs knocked two the road, but he was the heavy fire from the it Welborn, his wing the tracers from the "g at his leader's ship the aid of Pat Daniels. Wage had been done, had come up through the Daniels' 0 and had 111 the shoulder. The ! Ver' bloody, and the lust about paralyzed the Nevertheless, Cocky the ship back three 5 10 Kunming and land-w't- h his left hand. Holloway, the Group had been leading several the truck columns near he pulled from one ck he felt something ,h'P At first he didn't continued to strafe bout tree-to- altitude. Want light popped on. ed immediately towards f Chinese lines, which twenty miles away He wn immediately that bul'et had punctured his nk (the coolant of the "quid-tonle- engine) He ' few minutes to stay in re the engine would or "freeze." be e.getting closer to the for he was indicat-,- hundred miles an hour, to 11 seemed t 80 wm almost his last ged the river into country and crash-- or the ever-prese- !ms Bruce-- , trip back I would never forget not only for the adventure that I was sharing with the other fighters in the Group, but for the great privilege of liv-ing with my boss, General Chen-nault. Gen. Caleb Haynes, Doctor Gen-try, and I lived together with the General in a house the "Gissimo" had built for him. Situated near the field at Kunming, it was a mod-ern home, or as modern as a bunga-low could be in Yunnan. With a private room for each of us. with the Chinese houseboys the General had collected in his six years in China, we lived a wonderful life in a war-tor- n land. There was "Wong Chauffeur" who drove the General's car. Wong had a little boy of course called "Lit-tle Wong" who was suspicious of foreign devils and who used to cov-er his face with his hands when I spoke to him. The General told me that as far as he had been able to find out from a long time in China, we'd always be foreign to the Chi-nese. For. after all. the only word tn China that could mean a per-son other than a Chinese was "for-eign devil." The General told me about an au-tomobile trip he had made with Ma-jor Shu down the road from Chih-kian- g to Kweyang. This was bandit country, through the wilds of Kwey-an- g province Arriving at Kweyang, the capital, they bad found an an-ce-walled city. The General, as a trusted servant of the Gissimo. the Governor s had been taken to dinner was served. house, and there meal Gener'l Chen, All through the nault noticed that strangers whom meet wou.c come i.n sim he did not the other end of the elv sit down at oie and after watching his every for a minute, woud movement would come in te.ve. Then another After this had and take the seat. the entire meal, the gone on during General finally turned to Major Shu the Solomons and Saigon, and also of the large amount of shipping in Victoria harbor. Now Cooper was working tireless-l-to plan our greatest raid against the Japanese. I remember vividly how he toiled for six days and six nights at the General's house on the logistics for our proposed at-tack on the largest convoy that had come through Hongkong. Morning after morning, when I went in to breakfast, the floor around the table would be ankle-dee- p with "Walnut' tobacco from Cooper's pipe, but the plans would be those of a master. General Chennault and Colonel Coop-er made, in fact, the perfect tacti-cal team. Everything was ready for the bombing raid by the middle of October, and we merely waited for word from the East that the har-bo- r between Kowloon and Hongkong was filled with Japs. General Haynes had come to Chi-na to lead General Chennaulfs bombers when he left the leader-ship of the Ferry Command. He had hurt the Jap plenty with his pre--, cision bombing, and had built up a great bombing force, mainly through the inspiration of his per-sonal leadership on the most dan-gero-missions. Radio Tokyo had recently been panning" Haynes, referring to him; as "the old broken-dow- n transport pilot." In a way, this was music toj our ears, for it meant that the Japa. ncse were being hurt by his bomb-ings or they would not have re-sorted to such propaganda. But It made General Haynes so mad that he could have torn the Jap to pieces with his bare hands. After all. he had been a pursuit pilot for years, and for the last ten years he had been dean of American four-engin- e bombers. The records he had set with the 5 had made history and were inspirations to the Air Corps, (TO BE CONTINUED) A quiz with answers offering ? QTVyf1 "iformaHon on various subjects J 2. One who makes an ostenta-tious display of learning. 3. Consanguineous. 4. Into 1,000. 5. Ninon De Lenclos. 6. The Maid of Anzio, winner of the national dancing and beauty contest! 2,000 years ago. Statu-ettes of her were sent to Roman legionaries to cheer them up on active service. 7. Its coastal region. 6. Sxcalibur 9. In New York (1882). 10. The English flag of St. George, the Scottish flag of St. Andrew, and the Irish flag of St. Patrick. The Questions 1. What Danish king sat on the throne of England during the Middle ages? 2. What is a pedant? 3. What name is given to the marriage of two people who are related to each other? 4. 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If not available locally, order lam Lft direct from Cutter Laboratories: Berkeley, Denver, 1 ore Worth, Sfl66Pi laOSS Los Angeles, San Antonio, Seattle. Wizard of (). Nowsmd American soldiers in the Far East have discovered numerous persons who believe that all mo-tion pictures including such films of fantasy as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland" are like newsreels and depict the real life of real people. Senile Awhilfi The End of Her "Are you inviting Mrs. Standoff to your party, Mrs. Malaprop?" queried a friend. "Not me," answered that lady. "I hentertained her once and she never recuperated." Shady Job "H hen was Home buill, Jimmy ?" aski'd tvurhvT. "In the night." "II hut lime you that idea?" "H i ll, sou told us Home wasn't built in a day." Good Idea Tad How are you this morn-ing, Jasper? Jasper (grumpily) All right. Tad Better notify your face. Sympathy is what one woman gives another in exchange for de-tails. Off Pitch Bill I'm continually breaking into song. Nelly You wouldn't have to break in if you get the key. Just His Dish "The study of the occult sciences in-terests me very much," remarked the new honrdci. "J ie to explore the lurk depths of the mysterious, to delve into the region, of the unknown, to luthnm what is heliet ed by others to he unfathomable, and to" "May I help you to some of this hash, professor?" interrupted the landlady. And she is still wondcrtnn why the other boarders smiled audibly. Catty The clerk in a butcher's shop was chatting to a customer when a woman rushed in and inter-rupted the conversation. "Give me 10 cents of cat's meat quick," she shouted. Then turning to the other cus-tomer, she said lamely, "I hope you don't mind my being served before you?" "Not if you're as hungry as all that, madam," was the freezing re-ply. Vou Guess Lawyer Now, sir, did you or did you not, on the date in question, or at any other time, say to the de-fendant, or to anyone else, that the statements imputed to you and denied by the plaintiff were a matter of no consequence or otherwise? Answer me yes or nol Befuddled witness Yes or no, what? Japs Inform Sun Goddess Of All Important Events Japan's most sacred shrine is a small wooden building at Ise, 250 iair miles from Tokyo, which is dedicated to Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, who has been informed of all important events in that country for 2,500 years, says Co-lliers. The emperor, for instance, goes there to announce the birth of a royal baby, and the pre-mier to tell of a declaration of war. Millions of ordinary pilgrims also visit it annually, although they are forbidden to pass through even the first of the four fences surrounding the temple, which contains, incidentally, nothing but Amaterasu's mirror. Identifying Jap Planes Soon after Pearl Harbor, Amer-ican airmen, finding the Japanese designations for Jap airplares too clumsy, developed and adopted of-ficially their own system, giving the code name of a boy or- - girl to each type. Thus, Sally is used for the Mitsubishi army 97 bomb-er, Dave for the Nakajima navy 95 reconnaissance, and Tony for the Kawasaki army 03 fighter. A biscuit cutter or cookie cut-ter is handy for scaling fish. Cover scratches on dark furni-ture by touching with iodine. When dry, polish. Cut the cover for the ironing board on the bias and there will be no trouble with wrinkles. To air bedclothes indoors, hang them over the radiator. The heat will air them very quickly. Keep empty spools and as scraps of embroidery floss, string, tape, etc., accumulate, ' wind on separate spools. It helps keep the sewing basket orderly. When drying a hairbrush, put the bristle-sid- e down. If bristles point upward, water will drain onto wood block holding the bristles, in time causing it to split. After washing your window sills, wax them. They can then be kept clean for a long time by just dust-ing them with a cloth. Blow dirt from the windings of an electric motor with the tire pump or vacuum cleaner. A wet cleaning job will bring trouble. To clean your coffee percolator, fill it with water as usual, but put in four tablespoons of salt instead of coffee. Heat just as if you were making coffee. The salt will thor-oughly do the job. Be careful in the use of your electric cords so wires will not be exposed, or let the two bundles of wires touch each other. When removing cords, handle carefully, rather than twisting or yanking them. Keep all cords dry. Do not fasten to baseboards with staples or nails. |