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Kut- tmr.1- - 3-- jiuc '11 nave iiidi xu 1 The Warhawks and the Flyinsf the Thunderbolts Tigers and the Dive Bombers for 1 vic tories in the women's headquarters and maintenance bowling circuit last Thursday night. Tne Hawks totaled 2382 Dins against the Thunderbolts' 2333, and tne Tigers knocked down 2379 against the Bombers' 2234. High three games for the eve ning were rolled by Greta Stew art, who scored 424 pins. Murial Or man was second with 398 aand Betty Lininger third with 393. Individual star for the evening also was Greta Stewart, who kegled a 176 for top honors. Murial Ormari was second again with 166, and Kay Olander placed third with out-roll- MU 1 11 Wednesday, January 12, 1944 The day we bombed Ploesti, The Baron was the onlv ..: . T- rrfw vrrirt w.v 4U1WJ -- atriher oi UU1 normal to a, muhcuuch as we pretended jly gtomacn wan inui mess tent. But The Baron, he put breakfast in the 0 eat . 0i mAsd He's a thin,' canelinc w o B Ui 1 Capt John S. Young Third Reporting took the top place in the military kegling league at Ogden last Wednesday night, as the officers' league started "from scratch" to build new handicaps for the second half of the season. The Reporters won four points from the Public Relations squad, winners of second place last half, as they totaled 2439 pins in a three-gaseries. Signal Section tied for second place honors in the opening round with the former champs from the Officers club. The Signal team defeated Station Hospital 1 and the OCs won 3 points from the Aircraft me Mtdl about ine raiu to be Takeoff hour, ana aayngnt was just beginning on the cleared or ranges thatin had some negotiated .... T C 1 Ktv i ft sounaea like The colonel ordered the crewway. uiuciawi niotors Tne rewiiis ui wio to tear out everything that would across sanas. tne One one lifted by they 1 storm churning come loose and throw it over. We over ourhad to have more altitude, at least uw oir-" rircliner Into iv. Shops, Capt John S Young, who is now up to eooo reek taking posmon in w for the evening High assigned to the office of the in ftcmfttlon. was tor James Lieut Burton, who spec has been general 146 pins. here, Ihera were lour gmuju. wu. cited for the award rolled 185, totaled a series of three of the second show the headed League off.My oak leaf cluster to the distinguished standings 555. Mt qpstairs. We Thunderbolts and War Hawks tied games with to pilot the lead plane, For flying cross for his particiDation Lieut. Plumb was second Charlie for first place, each with 9 games La we had practiced constantly. in the famous raid over the oil won and 3 lost, while the Dive with 184 in a single game and 552 Bombers and Flying Tigers tied for for the series. Tto was it If we succeeded, we'd fields of Ploesti, Rumania, last Next week's schedule shows the make the longest bombing mission August the cellar spot with 3 won and 9 into the team from Aircraft Shops tangling Oapt Young, under command of lost each. in hiitory and we'd cut CoL John R. (Killer) Kane, was with Signal Section, the Officers ou of the nazi fuel supply. Club with Third Reporting, and We went out over the water pilot of the lead plane in his group dt tear out everything that Station Hospital with Public Re of bombers that rained fire over into European territory. The lations. oil fields. His would come loose and throw it skimmed mountain ranges. the German-hel- d over." felt Team standings: of I was the was raid peaceful. story published Everything HF-w. I-Ava. issue of Air itrangely comfortable, with Col. in the November 813 Third 4 .......... 0 Reptng Guns, ammunition, oxygen bottles, commandeand 3 1 783 Force, Killer Kane, our group again in the December even Signal Section masks oxygen 3 867 1 Officers Club me and issue of the American Legion mag' r, sitting there next to below could that 701 be 3 ....... .1 Aircraft Shops everything pried in azlne, which Is reprinted here. with The Baron down 757 3 The Layton-Hi- ll Field basketball Station Hospital ........ O1 was chucked out the door. 4 699 He won the distinguished flying loose the nose. is all tied up, with forfeited Public Relation to Over left of still the trail us, league cross ex nine months for ago Guns Open Up us, Lit Royden Lebrecht of games almost playing a bigger part achievement during a ing minutes from target. traordinary Thirty-fiv- e Denison, Texas, radioed over to in present standings than the teams over raid Italy, and later earned chirp: themselves. We flew so low we had to pull up, his first oak leaf cluster when he "Are the seams breaking? Never Top squads are the Thunderbolts to avoid hitting a man on a horse. All-Tea- m his back to Malta saw so many gadgets fly out of and Hellcats. The I might add he dismounted. On brought was plane shot it after badly up during Thunderbolts an are a took hell What the our right, a railroad junction an air battle over airplane! Naples. loomed, A long freight train, 40 or practice game licking in stride you doin', remodeling?" to Ninth the Air Force Assigned to get through those Monday night as they bowed to the We had U tank cars. Our waist gunner in the middle east for 14 months, mountain ranges by dark or set Mustangs, who, unable to put a full The Outlaws, Ramblea and Suopened up. Gunners in other planes Capt Young also has won the down in some awfully rugged ter- team on the floor, added a couple perchargers were victorious in last followed. We could see the train silver star and the air medal with ritory. The Baron week's matches in the intramural assured us, with of ineligibles for a scrimmage. coming apart, in a series of great clusters. leaf oak four led the for bowling league, as George Har-n- er Clark the Time of infallible Estimated his of black and red. puffs scoring 12 we with could make copped the high series score Arrival report, that Three miles now from our tar points down 630 pins ia was Dickson to J. Thunderbolter be' continued and by if knocking the over it the get, the big Astro Romano refinery. of airplane instead, flying valleys three 10. heels on hard his with games. We flew 10 feet off the ground, have. top! The second scheduled game of The Outlaws outclassed the UnThe chief topic of conversation A Monotonously The Baron kept poked from everyrs the those our we as felt courses. track of our Liberator. The gun-aenight found a vanishing War-haw- k holy Five 3 to 1, and the Ramblers way and then through changing giving 1 team absent atstarting time, handed Branch One another We vast ranges, dipping far below started pouring hell into stora- We didn't ask questions. So. The the decision. Superchargers the of and repeating procedure groping through canyon ge tanks. Great clouds of black slipped through canyons, all of us peaks to land. It just first game, an exhibition contest walked away with honors for the anoke snaked into the sky. Fires unconsciously looking constantly holes, was a place The . . . between the sched evening when they blasted 4 out Baron could was played burst everywhere below. Ahead, I for a place to set down the plane. didn't add up that Hellcats the substituted of 4 from Branch Four. uled and us could see only billows of through. smoke, No chance of bailing out in that wiggle 308th Avn. Field Hill over there ary lane Nice place Squadron of The Outlaws totaled a tidy 2977 tinged with flame. I wondered how rugged country. It was just The for the series team high, while the Col. colored soldiers. we ever could nice," bed. mused Awfully wounded a make it Nobody Baron, plane sorely encounters week's Next the find Superchargers placed second with we But Kane. kept going. (poke. and God. slated to tangle with the 2885 and the Unholy Five third I pulled her up to 250 feet, to The passes we floated through I kent thinking about The Baron Hellcats the reasons why Thunderbolts and Mustangs meet with 2797. a the tops of the looked mighty narrow to us. I and telling myselfus. of the Outlaws won fail I thought of ing Warhawks. (If the latter two Lt Anderson wouldn't he nokestacks. We headed in for our could have sworn once or twice a neat 244. score, be will high there sat single had a Baron The show, time game). no. The dreaded screen of fire we were scraping the walls of that first Schedule for. January 11 matches our of nose in the took only a Standing League there down to split second Waa Lout Branch Four with Branch One, pass those canyons. toouch. after all. Our radio man Liberator and fingered the lives Hellcats 4 delicate Unholy Five with the Ramblers his in crew 4 kter told us flames came our of Thunderbolt! bony, dancing; and the Superchargers with the 2 our Muatanii been had target hands. Naples tne bomb bay doors. wwign 0 Warhawki Outlaws. and enemy time, itgnt' that eight t The k m Hafnnr ers had jumped us. The Baron Back puffs dotted the air all had been pretty busy, figuring our shoots three stars with the octant with his Estimated Time of Arrival "oww us. The commotion course with one hand and firing and figures out his fix, or point into Cyprus. The Baron's voice nneUunr. On foTo.r Tlia But not The Baron. He was the over hell out of a flexible machine gun wabardier let a bellyful of bombs the interphone was calm this with the other. just three eager type. To hell with was verv busv luat than. But five-sttime. remem a fix. he'd shoot I stole an I Over the interphone, 171. stars, ii "Over Cyprus at 9 p.m., over tha bered. I had heard a whoop and Brother, he could lay a dot down wdlng below, an inferno of like a Texas cowboy yell. when he got through. If he was airport at 9:10 p.m." holler a once ruin and flames. Brother, sworn have could . . I " m a sight! Then came made me homesick. The Baron in the middle of the Mediterranean Last Stretch r twice we were scraping the It the 190 into or the Atlantic, he knew where he strafed a Focke-Wu- lf had On our left wing Lt. Hadley, wnooters, enemy fighter planes, walls of those canyons.'' down was. went fire. It of ball singing a a nice kid from Oklahoma, radioed wy rilled with a locust plague after march. Then, the funeral " Messenuhm:titv 1in. In the daytime he could have that he had feathered his second 1 va Col. Kane called down to The 4.v a 1119 a. we dropped 25 minutes of hell in the clouds, just plotted his course with dead engine as we got out of the mounBaron. our last bjiu on a egg Th Baron had done the lmpos reckoning but he would combine tains and passed the coast line. Sura of this course, are you and our tail wacaing plant best sible. He had navigated us safe sun lines, wind drifts from the He asked us lunner is the aairi- .,. u .. . The Baron to slow down. But "Killer. Up ln B pun. tn Malta. criDDled and badly dls bomb sight and other things to we couldn't I slower speed would in spoke the world," navisrator to bcan at the aL?!e the make damn certain. The average have been suicide. We called back there if this thing ohiml within one minute ofwhich 0r No. 4 motoraghad been hnMi up. "He'll get us would figure out his to bang on, give it every- trick Estimated Time of Arrival navigator together " 80rt of hanging down ! aneaa course in advance and then read we were n earing a base. 1 fathered It and "I think this is right air, the h had nhoned up hours was he really a detective magazine for the next wt,?.?,n' But he couldn't make it We saw the hell out of there. But course we are on," The Baron said Could he do it again miracle man? of hours. him turn Inland. Then we lost alm1vcouple "footers still swarmed around Not The Baron. He worked con- him. Some navigators, you know, are "Think, hell!" said Col. Kane, hnm caught their fire from maae. im stantly. He never overlooked anynthers are lust We were getting good contact Mfle. I saw other should know." planes "You He did it for the' fun and with the ground station at Cyprus. inclined to believe The Baron made back: thing. noured Baron Tha UP then crash into SatJff of fire, He had no previous ex- love of navigation and to get us They were getting the field ready. "I'm pretty busy now, sir. If you Wore his Army Air there and back. He never overlook- Lights would be on. The Baron . . ILIIViAwav f fellows will leave me aione trnSninC cvroA ed the possibility that something guided us on. Finally we saw more thi,wi na trailed three iefeed old HaH Columbia" He had been in our outfit in the could happen to the plane and over flares the prettiest sight of my crippled badly them two of planes, ast only a month when he enemy territory he always had the life. toTA!:"' almo8t to the ground, and clinrlnsr to The Baron's touch nearest alternative base plotted everything. Three feet to get them home. A few minutes was regarded as one of the best It meant the end of a who ever squinted into even while the ack-ac- k was plum- and date with hell for called . Thl t?m p nad been mashed up navigators Tha Raron auietly Killer waa us. The Baron had delivered. As time weni , "c ing all around us. and estimated time of arrival at the sun. as the Dest in tne ou. We came in, saw the runway These navigators are pretty wonneutrai cny regarded wasn't an accident how derful 'oua advice. Ona f h. n.w. Adrianople, the littleother and made just one turn smack into guys. it refugees and used by Jewish It will sound impossible, espe- it We hit the ground with a grind, for embarkation. The Baron knew ever. to pilots who read this, but spun dizzily around for a couple . . we ,ow naa cially , ""Ped it Wacky Guy where we were. out you my word The Baron of hundred feet and stopped dead. at I give Adriat at him seen night discussed I've landing We was off more than three never were Somebody hollered, "Let's get the others than when rather base for internment the desert won?M!-.4in the left anopleland 8ah Rumania Ravine noker or partying, out minutes on Estimated Time of hell out of here," and we gathered or In crash Bulgaria stars. Arrival in combats-I- t up our three slightly wounded men htad "..ne'P- - Col- - Kane said be held prisoners of war. Our ft.'- - v. himself shooting to know is and did just that silhouetted very comforting m. him, watch ?nf ho. " a ror n alternate and aiong I Used to home plane was staggering a tells base We ran a short distance from .... when you guy four lit Ikcrn Aeainst tin ar im miles ncr hour, and will be reached at a certain time, the plane, knelt down and kissed "o.1,.?," that The Baron, mAfMPi out very Wacky guys, those navigators, stall alrnlanea 5,uat.t,n8 n the nose. that you will get there unless the, the ground. I grabbed The Baron .i "e sweteat Jobs of easily at 125 miles per hour. nlane falls apart or you break and kissed him. octant his with there He'd stand ZUnr on Decide CiDrus a "Son," bellowed Col. Kane, "I'm leg, or something. I tried to rein letM use n caiiea instrument they the to chance all this as we waited, going to get you the biggest and a member before had we JSnla We decided outh of measuring for navigation , nrlt and waited just hoping The Baron was prettiest medal this army will let but m.M. it to Cvorus. tiny n,h lot of trig wcr w.w. 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