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Show Thursday, September 1, 2005 Page 8 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Ferrying around the world from Utah to West Africa veterans This is bow (be AUws supplied the Chinese Nationalists with war mutertul and troops to fight the Jupunese. Because of the altitudes alti-tudes and the weather, it w as some of the most dangerous air trunsport flying during the war. 7b ground under the route was known as fbc "Aluminum Trail." so many airplanes were forced down John s framing or multi-engine piloting and his route to India are lypieul of the CBl (China (Chi-na Burma India) group Here is his story. gnidti.tted f rom the old I'.Y I 'r2 I In- lrovo airport used where I as! I5;iv is now, and I rernemlx'r going down to visit u local fellow fel-low who had an airplane there lie later ( r ashed and was killed near the aiixrt. I never rode in an airplane till I went into the service Mv lather was in the tent and awning business at the time I hush lent and Awning. I registered lor tlie draft, worked for a while at (ieneva Steel, then went to the Joseph Smith Building auditor mm on BYt ' campus and took the entrain e test to gel into the air oips, !e auseol my interest in airplanes I was selected to le a candidate, so 1 went to the recruit ing station in Salt Like ( 'it v and was taken into the air corps in early l'Hl I was sent to Reams, Utah, for basic 1 raining, and it was rough We lived in tents, and it didn't matter what the weather was -- you were out in it ( )ne day you'd be out pn king up rocks, and the next day a grader would run over the land and dig up more rocks So the next day you were out picking up ri m ks again After basic, I was sent to Montana State College, in Missoula, in the College Training I)eta hment There, we lived in the dorms and took the equivalent of a year of regular college ( lasses in three or four months It was then to Santa Ana. Calif., for classification. I'ending on how you came out there, you Irame a pilot, a navigator, or a Iximbardier. I lucked out and got into pilot training. I did my primary training in the IT-17. the hi wing St carman, in Scottsdale, Ariz., which at that tune was only a crossroad with a service station North of it was an oX'ii field owned by a sheep rancher, who also had the food concession conces-sion (I don't eat mutton to this day.) My landing land-ing on my solo flight was the smoothest I ever made I flew the BIB (the "V'ultee Vibrator") in basic training, and the AT-ti for advanced I Built to Last SoeaaiLits in me mamnacturma iftcipmg and utstalisuoii nl cttflomced pre engineered stmcturw PAYSON, UT 1801) 030C Toll Itpc :8D0) 375 .. v,.,. "- tra ri ii ii 'fit Kb -?2 x 1 L . .. 121 195 CLARY L For June & July 2006 Summer Tours: 5pm (1) hour meeting Saturday, September 10th, American Fork High School Auditorium, 510 N. 600 E. American Fork r Applications handed out Applications need to be returned by mail MOO"0 deposit (Due with application) This is a must meeting if you want to go! ystUanaiiiitUsUGiMlWB Editor's note 77ns is the first of u two-part scries about John C Huish, an Orvm resident, who jlew the "Hump" in World War 11 the route from India to Southern China over the Himuluyus. lih S hool in to Ixt down wanted to fly the P-.'W, but was assigned to test new engines for the AT-6's but that got old after a couple of months. f light. We ran out of gas on the runway. On to French West Africa, but we were not allowed to oen our orders till we arrived in Marrakesh, French Morocco. (Air aircraft was taken away from us there (and there was nothing we could do about it), and it was also there that I learned our destination: Karachi, India. In-dia. By that time, I'd heard stories about people who had flown the Hump, and it wasn't the pleasantest of routes to fly. From Marrakesh, we went to Tripoli, on to Cairo (where we had time to see a show of jugglers jug-glers and other ads. and also the Sphinx and the pyramids I got my picture taken on a camel). Then it was on to Karachi, flying over Iran. I was assigned to Misamari, in the Assam Valley. I Next week: Life and flying in eastern India a truly unique experience. John C. Huish These excerpts from Orem veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www.orem.org. Readers aware of any veteruns who have written about their military service are asked to arrange to have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Lihrarx of Congress. Phone Don Norton (22.5-80.50) on bow to do this. ueirHmnwireless --mil ftakf CAMERA PHONE! - v -it We then had the chance to go into the I errying Division of the Air Transport Command. A whole flock of us volunteered. I did a lot of ferrying in the Western U.S. Then the truth came out: we were assigned to Stead AFB in Reno, Nev., for C-46 pilot training. train-ing. Our eventual destination would be China-Burma-India. We picked up a C-46 in Des Moines, Iowa, flew down to Cieorgia. then to West Palm Beach, I'la. From there it was to Belem. Brazil, and on to Ascension Ascen-sion Island (out in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic), a scary eight -and-a-half-hour mm 5 V t i: V;. . Samsung a670 VGA Csm' Video Capture C010R 2rxi Ptsplay CELL 68 w Mn St-1-61 Military Riley Baker Riley J. Baker graduated from the Army ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) Leader Development Develop-ment and Assessment Course, also known as "Operation Warrior Forge," at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. The XI days of training provides the best possible professional training train-ing and evaluation for all cadets in the aspects of military life, administration admin-istration and logistical support. 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