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' Damn vie vde viehave vdehave wehave have to dodge those b-- b b---- - ball b - - - - all the thetIme thetime thetime ' ' tIme We passed Dassed ) a fighter base bas at 17 1'1 11 ' 00 00GMT 00G 00G G GMT M T and one hour later we land landed landad landed ed ad at another West Coact Coast bar base Tin The Thesun Tinun 5un sun un waa was setting back to the West inthe In Inthe tothe the AtlantIc-towards AtlantIc towards Atlantic - towards home Easter EasterSunday EasterSunday EasterSunday Sunday was fast , coming to a 8 close closeI I remembered then from 'hearsay hearsay 'hearsayevidence 'hearsayevidence ' "hearsayevidence hearsayevidence " ' evidence ' * that I had been bom born ex exacUy exactly xactly acUy actly thirty four years before From Frompersonal Frompersonal Fromperson personal * ! experience I would be able ableto ableto ableto to recall this Easter as a memora memory memorable memoryble memorable ble one , Next day while the crew worked workedon on the tile tired airplane some of usdr us usdr usdr dr ve VI ye . ' into the bush country With a agu agu agu gu de we rmdc mde made , about a ten hour tripinto trip tripinto tripInto into the interior to Togoland Entenng En Entenng Entenng tenng a typical dirty village vUlage we weheard weheard weheard heard jazz music and picked our ourway ourway ourway way towards the source I Imagine imagineall all of us were expecting to find arad a arad arad rad o 0 or a victrola instead we weroUl wefour wefour roUl four d that we were really in the theland theland theland land that had birthed jazz jazz.Grouped jazzGrouped . . . Grouped about an earthen crock of ofpalm ofpalm ofpalm palm wine was the population of o1 the thevillage thevillage thevillage village and the more they dippedthe dipped dippedthe dippedthe the gourd cups into the stagnantlooking stagnant stagnantlooking stagnantlooking looking liquor the hotter the music musicbecame musicbecame musicbecame became and the more the sweating sweatingblack sweatingblack sweatingblack black bodies swayed to the beat of ofthe ofthe ofthe the drums Their bare feet teet were weremovmg weremoving weremoving movmg moving to the rhythm in the dust dustand dustand dustand and their naturally musical voices voicesadded voicesadded voicesadded added to the syncopated rumble that thatcame thatcame thatcame came from black hands thumping thumpingmany thumpingmany thumping1many many kinds of drums made us won wonder wonder wonder der whether some orchestra like likeCab likeCab likeCab Cab Calloway s a hadn t come to Alrice A1 Al A1rica Africa rica rice with us on a USO projectOn project projectOn On April 7 1 " we left the Gold Coast Coasttor Coastfor Coastfor tor for Kano in Nigeria Off 011 at Os 08 00 90 00GMT 90G 00G GMT G M T we flew a course of 10 DO 90 d.e de d.egrees degrees . degrees grees to miss more of Vichy France FranceOver FranceOver FranceOver Over Lagos L tos In the clammy heat of ofthe ofthe ofthe the equatorial jungle we turnedinto turned turnedmto turnedinto mto into the continent to a course of 58 58degrees 58degrees 59degrees degrees and continued over very verythick vrythick I Ithick thick country until we crossed theN the theN I IN N gcr ger From there on East the1 theI the I 1 ind md that was Africa seemed to dry dryIl dryi Il I i and my boyhood conception of oft of1 t c < ( w the Dark Continent should look lookf lookfided f tded ided away Instead of constant constantj J 1 ingle mgle we now saw dry ry desert , , UkI like likethe likethe . ' the lower hump pump of or Brazil near nepr Nat NaI Na Natil t I II or places p2l.ces p2lces ! . in m our own WestWe West WestWe We landed at the old walled city cityf f ( Kano Kana that afternoon Our next nextI nextt t I kt k . < _ oil ofT for Khartoum would bestc bestp best p c made at nightfall mghtfall In order that thatc thate e might land in the Sudan early inti in inII init II ti c a morning monung mornmg before the dust stormsi storms 1 i impaired the visibility Tov To v ' " " . ste jimg jimgwe ! Imr Imrwe ime we walked into town toI tocc to to.c cc I . < .c c . L the ancient city of Biblical daysdo days days,0 daysSo -,0 ,0 0 do ' - , n we found ourselves dodgingimels dodging dodgingimels . imels .mels mels lepers I'pers Ipers ( ' and AH All Ali Baba-w\th Baba w th Baba-wtth wtth Babawtht Babawttht Babawtths Baba - withI \ t s s moie moi mal e than forty thievesGeneral thieves thievesGeneral General Chennault s AVG wasi wasr was r ) i I sed of 01 three squadrons , .funci funci .tuncI .tunc tunc func . . I g under the supreme command commandCh commandCh commandCh Ch na n s Generalissimo Chiang Chlangi ChiangI I 'liek liek < : ' hek About seventy pilots and andee andce andce ee ce hundred ground crew person1 personI person I made up this organization organlzaUon whichf whichi which f i ! r r nearly tour rour four months had been int in ini i 1 t bat against the Japanese Air Airrce Airrce AirI I I rce from Rangoon up to Lnshlo Lashio Lnshlorma Lashiorma Lashiorma rma These Th'se Thse ( ' American boys hade hadI had e I . ' from the air services of theA the theA A encan erican en can Army Navy arid apd Marinerps Marine Marinerps Marinerps rps , , . rhe fhe General was an old pilot pilot1 pilotI I through many years of or singles single s1l1ile : s > ter flying fiymg in the nols noise ( : of 01 openckpit openI open opentKpili | I . tKpili hlJlu ckpit ' , , had become moderatelylci moderatelydn moderatelydes moderately lci des dn- dn dna < ' - ( , a circumstance that had bad hadI badt I t t'lped tlped elped ' el pod to bring brmg about bis his retirement retirement.Kn retirementKn . . Kn wing that war with Japan was wasJ wasn wasn J n ) ore than proba probable ble after his re- re ret re re-t re t - - - t rement remrnt rrment be he had gone to China andU andU and andII II U ere pre cre be had not only persuadedU persuadedtl persuadedti persuaded tl ti e a ( ' Generalissimo Generahulmo to build the airwarning air airwarmng airwarning warmng warning net within China but bad had badworked hadworked hadworked worked to train China a 8 Air Force as aswell aswell aswell well Growing out of this when whenthe whenthe whenthe the brave Chinese Fir Air Force was wasvlrtuaDy wasvirtually waavirtually vlrtuaDy virtually destroyed ' by the over overwhelming overwhehuing overwhelming whelming whehuing odds of the . Japanese .Japanese jua jug juaiemaut juggernaut Jutgcrnaut iemaut gernaut . , . Chennault had long cker cher I . I I | ished Ishtd ! a vol ' volunteer alunteei nteer force ( ore * of ot Amerl American Americanelfineu American an aSt anaSt elfineu 1ex1 "S1 S1 " ? . * , was itnng going American equipment eQuipmentIn equipmentIll In Ill Char china CbiQa a against ag.mat agmat agtlinst . the JapThe Jap oJap 'rhe rhe The 111 ' * purpose PUI'pQ.e PUIpQ.e PUIpQe ' . was 1'Ia 1Ia ' . fourfold fouffotd to test teat American Arnldcan teatAmerican testAmerican teatArnldcan equipment equlptaent . , , to train tr.1n tr1n , . a . nu bU nucleus . . c1 Cleo cleus , of o < ( Mverlc4Q AtgerlCsn Amaricaa pilots Uots fm In actualcomDa actual actualS1'1 totha forthe combat comDa S1'1- S1'1 S11 S1'1to ? * ' " * . - , ' to twcdih lutn1ah furnish air alr support BUpport for to fighta tha the Chinese Cbtnelle Cbinese . land d to forces e . , , and to ftght fight a . de1a.1ng de1a1ng delaying d layln , . action Igalntthe against Igalnt $ -the the - tha the Japa- Japa .Japa- .Japa .JapaIlese Japanese . Japaesa - Ilese nese IleseuUl couldtea coutdbe couldbe esa \ ) until \uUl uUl tuittl tha the Chinee Chinese elle armies armle argolea , coutd could be ofw equipped eqWpped with w with th modern . sinew .lnews lnews alaews of o ; Iwar w wtr ( r for fora , of offensive ofenslve enJive enslve , action acUon fiction against the ttrstranglthold .tr tr aranglelr4ld . nle , oM of Japane Japan finally Ji'tni1U7 Jitni1U7 ' Japanfinally . , . In \ tha tl\e tl e the lata tate fate summer e . ot of 1941 otIMl offf , , ttr the Army .A.rJny A.rJny ArJny . . , , Navy , , and Martne Marine MarinaCorps MartneCorps MarineCorps Corps permitted pennttted a few reserve offi om offi- officer - . cer pilots to resign their comm commis- commis commision ! . - . sion8 sions ion and an4 accept lobs jOba fobs As flu Instn1cto instructors instructorswith instructorswith with Central Aircraft Manutadur Manufacture Manufactur.Ing ManufacturIng . ing lag Manufacturelag Company , or Cameo Camco as It wa was wascalled waacalled . caDed called These seventy-odd seventy odd - - pilots pUots andlIome andsome and aoma lIome some three hundred groundcrewmen ground-crew- ground crew ground-crew groundcrewmen - - - . men proceeded In small amaD numbers nwnbers on onships ships Ips of various natloll-Dutch natloll Dutch nations-Dutch nations nations $ - - Dutch , . British Brltlsb , . Indian American and soma some someunregisteredWest someunregisteredWest unregistered-West unregistered West unregistered - West from San Francikco Fran- Fran Franctsco - . ctsco clBco cikco to Java then Singapore and andthence andthence thence to Rangoon BurmaThese BurmaThese Burma These Instructors for Cameo Cameowere Cameowere Cameoware were carriedon carried on the passenger lists listsas listsas llstaas as acrobats acrobata , , doctors lawyers andprobably andprobably and imag-r imag r IimagIne probably even Indian chiefs chle1s Iimag- Iimag I Imag - - . Ine uie that after they made their great greatrecordwith greatrecordwith greatrecord record-with record with - with never more than fifty fltty . 3 3General Geaeral General CheuxBlt'a CheuxBlta CbeDDalllt's CbeDDalllts Chennault's Chennaults ' ' AVG AVO was wasClomposed wascomposed waxo Clomposed composed aaaased of t threw three squadrons a a * lr as , func tuna tunationing tuc-tlwiag tuc tlwiag . - &lonlng lonlng tioning & Bauler under the aareme supreme command commandGI commandof cwimaaa GI of f Chlaa'a Chlaaa ChIn's ChIns China's Chinas . ' ' OeaeraUaslnr GeueraUsslmo Generalissimo Chlanl Chiang ChiangHatshek ChlaagKal-fihek ChlaagKal fihek ' Kal-sbek Kal sbek Hat-shek Hat shek - - , , sbown shown sh w abwve above Aboat About sev- sev seveDty seventy SCT-eaty SCT eaty - eDty enty filets pilots and aaa & three &hree hree hODared hundred hODaredpGund hundredground h iredfraaaa pGund ground crew yerswaael personnel made niaae ap up this &hIs hIs &hIsGrganlzatJon thisorganisation & GrganlzatJon organisation rraalzatl i , , which far lor for nearly early four fourmonths fourmonths faararrntha months had bad heea been la In cernhat combat against againsttbe againstthe xgalastthe tbe the .Japanese Japanese . Jaaiaae Air Farca Force from fr ia Ban- Ban Ran- Ran BangOGn Rangoon Baa-g Baa g - - gOGn goon a ay up 0 to & t * Lashi Lashlo Lasblo * . , Burmafive Barma Burma Barmafive five airplanes they shot down two twohundred twohundred twohundred hundred and eighty six Japanese Japaneseplanes Japaneseplanes Japaneseplanes planes losing only eight In combatthe combatthe combat -the the - the complaining ' Japanese would wouldhave wouldhave wouldhave have been disposed to add the th re- re remainder remainder |