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Show mi F 311 PQMf j mMUS .WHIT w.N.u.TEATutuJ Col Lieut. FAR: ctorY THUS conof the erlz. I d never seen a who was PUot k Japanese plane fama ., Zu,Lt Fortress known at The ".niigtheoraers, except those slides of them they field.' escaped from Clark fown throw on the screen in 'irili of that fatal day when the courses at school. " .truck to the Philippines. Old 99, a naging finished by all means!' "I left the mess hall and ran into t. jlnm. Kafiwa I "Presently came another order for Tex, looking for me. He had Later, Lleuten a"d two off the ground. everyter planes of this 30th scene of th hing under control with Old 99, bicvcles to the to unload our Squadron bombs of and the crew was Junk insert He finds Old 99 a pile standing by, and were cameras. Kmhin. there any more orders? : ...t eleht boys of her crew-- nis Doys n was uui clear mey were "L.. In an Irregular line. They had "I told him not us now for reconnais- yet, I was going . killed as they ran for shelter. He preparing over to the sance over on and the Formosa. each back, operations tent and ts them, pats would be back with them in a I didn t then know that our T. to them as If they were still alive. very little few minutes. Good old 'Zi it eoe to where Tex Is lying, at field only reflected what Tex, standiwas uua going ng there, shakes on at Manila casual and yet i, eDd of the sprawling sine, Headquarters, where really alertapparently as a fox terrier, getting our Air Force General , promise. Brereton been up long before dawn and had every word I said. A was kid, twenty-twa at years old, he was big conference all morning Of for me CHAPTER II those extra eyes, ears, and course it's very easy to be wise hands that every should be. after the event. weren't licked; it was only the "I was about would what worrying "And of now on we would course, even though Pearl winning, and from happen if while I was in that operatHarbor had I win. been and of us, all our ions tent, scout attacked, Kl to work, planes might report lid him that whatever plane they American Congress had not yet dea Jap bomber formation headed clared war, and perhaps it was too down .,. me later, Wia 3 wuuiu uc uj- toward us from Formosa. I L right in the formation, and on great a responsibility for our Philip- trusted our fighter pilots at Iba, but pine command to strike back when -y- ou never I would always see jijht missions could tell a few bomb someone and beside that me, might war argue did ers might slip through to Clark. Old 99s wtaS lights was protecting me noi exist technically. bow that she "So I said to Tex: 'Now look, boy "General Brereton knew our nrvei -tith her crossfire, knocking down here's the dope. Make no mistake, tion at Clark onto climb Field to so was my danger. I don't want lent that tried any slip-upous that if we did not at once Up to strike now it's been all ai Yes, maybe that's where the and r we ormosa, ai could nev probably itory begins, Boy Scout stuff, but this war has 11 C itr bv Ar .nuvc k4 w au, ne Wante(J per. "The 19th Bombardment Group really begun. If we get word in beautiful mission to make a reconnaissance Operations that we're about thirty-fiv- e consisted of to be hit over flight so we there, could at here on ,nn new Flying Fortresses, of we can get Old 99 Clark, II see least the Japanese were mak. off the field from where she fbich Old 89 was one we had is, withing preparations to strike us. Sure nicked her up at the Boeing factory out the usual runway So procedure. now that ly, had hit Pearl Har. watch for me to they tojust before she came off the line. come pedaling it would bor, be only a minor neua the Fortress series, they were ward you on my bike from operatthen the latest and finest trality violation to fly close enough ions tent. If I drop my arm as you 3 models ormosa r to vj take a few pictures. see me come over About a dozen of the business. the top of the run.. ' r were down at Del ir thirtv-flv- e uuequeiHiy me turndown on way crest, that means I want the this wasn't complete; Headquarters motors started Monte Field on the southern Island by the time I get trgwith WrrSU h. n r7.t 1. g o play-actin- g to The rest were at the base, Clark Field, miles from Manila ioout forty-fiv- e fbich was the headquarters of Genin tral MacArthur, the Commander diet Our immediate Air Corps tommander. General Brereton. was constantly visiting us at Clark. "On November 27 General put us on the alert. He had re- teived the same State Department warning they got at Pearl Harbor-t- hat war might be days or maybe hours away. Within the limit of what we had, the Air Force was ready for it. The General was mak in; ill the reconnaissance he could, ted had picked his targets in For mosa, from where we knew the blow would come. Our machine guns were in place and loaded. "As fast as our facilities would permit, our shiny aluminum Queens roe getting their coat of dull war paint, and I was notified that Old 99 niicheduled to get her camouflage on December eighth. That's a date we who were In 4e Philippines will never forget. ith you It's December seventh, but Jon't be confused, for It's really the nine day, only because the Philip- pea are on the other side of the Kemational date line, we give it different number. The Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor at exactly 7:35 o'clock In 4e morning Honolulu time. At that ttme instant it was 4:35 o'clock In ike morning of December eighth In -- e Philippines a few hours before n reached us. I was asleep In to nipa shack which was the ofift- quarters on Clark Field. 1 got up at seven as usual and, tabling in sleepily to shave, tapped on my portable as I always to get the early morning news aoadcast by Don Bell in Manila. Bj the way, one of the first things Japs did when they entered the tan two weeks later was to shoot tie poor deviL In even more rapid-yl- e than usual he told us the l newi-t-hat the Japs had hit Ha af there." " 'Okay, Frank, Mindanao. tain bomber - wli. "We gulped breakfast, and then puots rushed over to operates meeting in the squadron't roe tent, where 'N Major Don went over the situation with I Can KOA- Yilm tM, i uvn, Willi, .1.. JWh.looklng for his rank and he'd lived out the war he be a brigadier general was as shrewd as he wi modest. It was his second tour luty out East, and he knew the " the land. "" gentlemen, this is it,' he ' Then he stepped over to the p and faced us. j If they've can't miss hitting J Hawaii they when it will L but it teU will come. However. I yU Where 11 wiU come fcm.oHere he raised the canvas flap n hand . and pointed up and l'no- ' wiU be from right hill.' he said. eh5.1ukcd at the hm' tree-clabeautiful to the sunrise. Be- IW w" n Field. Still farther ca and ea c,me form t im,L.the 1b,ack rbldden hunk had loked down on u"8 week JWM surely now. He i J 1 "J before. htU Gibb a'd: 'You're y' 0rder wiU be eh fast u morning.' Then i Went hnnlf 4 Aij nn ck tcw which hadn't keen ilV, haib:;'uea with bombs, as she chedulcd tor camoufiag-ths- t ir.g ju, morr'inS' Only the orders Oo Cnn"-- seemed conflicting tfc0g th.' afi a' hnUrS Blippcd away' "First the CarnCame on? countermanding ,KinR- ttJr Swnifd some-8- 1 afl"'1' and thcv couldn't Instead we were to kaj k ft.. . S( we taxied over to 'HQ Bji e(4eamr''uniti,m dumPT,lcn " was ri us running for - ,) V VlAh'Ui' 1)' mi I A IF I ll. I W Don Bell was broadcasting from one of Manila's tallest buildings. said, well, maybe this would be pos Wait and see. with Old "Back on the stand-b99, I couldn't then know this was why I had been ordered to jerk her bombs, reload her with cameras, and rush the camouflage in the hope that permission would soon come. I only knew big things were moving, and suddenly I thought of my little portable radio. Why 'not find out what I could? So I sent Tex back to the barracks to get it. When he returned, I had fair reception when I took it outside the steel hangar door. 'It crackled with rumors some already true, some not yet true. They reported a big concentration of Jap ships ofr Luzon wanna was expecting an air raid every minute bombs were reported already dropping on Clark Field. I understand that early false report reached the States. 'It was curious," laid Kurtz, 'ntnndine riEht outside that hangar door, looking at Clark Field In the sunshine and hearing the radio in my hand saying mat bombs were dropping on it. It was crazy, and yet it made us sible. y g "A classmate of mine at Randolph Field who had been nying one oi um nld Douelases we used for trans had just pulled portation to Manila he was listenand out, and got up he said, nerv ing beside me. Now aon i we Bei uui in heu 'Why ously, these save airplanes?' and of here I could see he was thinking not only as of the planes, but of our necks well hell, "I said to him, 'What the we re now, old man. take it easy-I was getting But orders.' under jumpy myself. Then quick came anotner oraer .nriv chow for us pilots and ourI So o'clock. navigators at eleven nav Oliver Eddie (my told Tex that to shoot on ientor) and I were going to the mess nan, v,n iw, hnrtlnrm tpfit cct over . w , (hnv ...i, uick and una oui ".mi .,Ka Min us. nicanw 111) for linrrl nd the unloading Tex wns to oversee ..I ifinrr if i f Hie bombs ana me mt" me uu... in cameras them with bays. he said quietly. No saluting or heel snapping there's not room for much of that in the Air Force. Then he assured me that the men had all been sent to chow, the engines warmed and checked. Now he turned, and went on back to Old 99. "The operations tent was crowded with about forty pilots and navigators waiting for briefing to begin. As we waited, I snapped on my radio and we all listened to Manila. This time Don Bell was really packing it across in his excited delivery. Yet we didn't know that the precious minutes had all slipped away and only seconds were left. We didn't know that General Brereton had got permission from General MacArthur for us to take off on our photographic expedition over Formosa, to see if just possibly the Japanese might be making preparations to attack us. We didn't realize that General Brereton had already rushed to the telephone, and was even at this instant clicking the receiver, trying to get through to us with this order. "Now Don Bell was saying that bombs really were dropping on Clark Field he was broadcasting from the top of one of Manila's tallest buildings, and from there he could see big plumes of smoke rising from Clark Field. "We all smiled at this. We didn't know that he, from Manila, could see around the little hill over in the direction of Iba Field, and that these plumes of smoke were from burning there. The Japanese were already tearing our American fighter force to pieces. But we smiled, and were listening for whatever crazy thing Don Bell would say next Geeral Brereton still trying to get through to us on the phone-w- hen a private, standing just outside the flap of our operations tent, said, in an admiring vfGMmA'Df W "Hd1 IfiM & taAH S I JNLESS baseball is further scrambled by various and shift-ri- g draft codes and regulations, .here will be, in addition to closer aces, more than a few warm congests on the individual side. For example, such stars as Mort -- ooper. Spud Chandler, Rip Sewell, A'hit Wyatt and several others will lave lighter hitting to face on a gen-Jraverage. In the same way the stronger hit-efrom the two big leagues will al lave somewhat softer pitching to swing against, autside of the top men. So there is a food chance to bring back a winner on the pitching side and a .400-hitt- n the batting side, which should iielp general interest where the ndividual plays uch an important emains around larade. aV if 51 86 Spud Chandler part as long as he the front of the Mort Cooper and Spud Chandler, :ertainly two of the best as long as hey remain on the scene, should be' leaded in the general direction of (0 winning games, for more often ban not they will be facing pitchers veil below their high levels. Each league should have enough jutstanding pitchers to feature a ;eason, always depending on the iweep of the draft broom which seems to change direction from veek to week. I still think Chandler and Cooper re the two best, and they could be a ted with the best in any season. .Vint Wyatt belongs with either when le is physically right. Mort Cooper illowed only 1.77 earned runs in .942 and Spud Chandler allowed mly 1.64 of the same last season. This is pitching of a high degree. The Finest Pitching There are two men who, since 1912 jvhen such earned run records were isted, head the long list with some-lun- g to spare. And both were pretty fair country hrowers. The leader is a fellow by he name of Grover Cleveland Alex-inder. His runner-u- p Walter was fohnson. Here is Alexander's record of ;arned runs read it and wonder 191- 5- With Philadelphia 1.22. 191- 6- With Philadelphia 1.55. 191- 7- With Philadelphia-1.8- 3. 1919 serving 1920 (after With Chicago in the army) 1.72. 1.91. With Chicago Here is an amazing pitching rec- rd which included 16 shutouts in 1916. In 1913 Walter Johnson with "pineapple" designs ochetit takes only 3 balls of cotton thread measures 16 inches across and is a charming combination of pineapple motifs, palm leaves grouped around a center diamond design. in .915, 1.55 earned runs; in 1918, 1.28 ;arned runs; and in 1919, 1.49 earned uns. Johnson had the best four fears Alexander had the call at five I doubt very much that seasons. .wo greater pitchers ever threw a jail by hostile bats. As Johnny Evers told me once 'Alexander was the only pitcher I sver faced who made me want to Jirow my bat away before I started .'or formation.' I hear a I think It froze all of us. drone. The next second, Lieutenant Lee Coats, who was standing nearest the the opening tent flap, stepped Ve watched him look up. " 'Navy, hell! Here they come!' "We turned over tables In the con fusion of piling out of that tent, but we're not yet frightened rats, we're still human beings, still organized. "There they came, the drone ris ing, right over the hill as Don Gibbs had predicted they would in an enormous V of Vs. three V's in aU could Before and After a War There have been arguments back and forth about the comparative val-j- e of athletes, whatever the game, oefore and after a war is over. What about Joe Louis, Joe DiMag-giBob Feller, Ted Williams. Sammy Snead, Ben Hogan, Billy Conn, etc.? Suppose we look at the case of Grover Cleveland Alexander? Alexander broke In with the Phillies in 1911. He was 31 years old when he was called Into army service, where be served abroad in 1918. And Old o, Mitsubishi service. Pete had his share of bombers in each V, at about 18,000 Yet in 1919, after the rough war, 32 years altitude to 22,000 feet coming right old, his earned run average was 1.72 at us. and at 33 he pitched 363 innings, a looked I heard a scuffling and total of more than 40 ball games, around to see that I was alone ex with a mark fixed at 1.91. cept for Lieutenant Glenn Rice he'd This is proof enough that those been detailed as photographic offi- who had it will still have it left cer and was grinding away with upon their return. his camera at that V of V's. The Bob Feller, for example, won't be rest had all taken shelter in a big 26 until next November. Joe near ditch Dy. drainage will be 30 in November. Ted "I atood there because I thought Williams will be only 28 next Octoit would be five or ten seconds more ber. These, and many other stars before they came to their bomb-relea- with the luck to return, will have line, and I ought to see the many big years left. over glint of their bombs turning as they came out of their bomb Baseball in to pause bays they seem almost In addition to the demands of tht under the plane Deiore mey start the two major leagues have draft, before seconds surely ,jownseveral into the worst training weather run tnen would and aw that glint, of many years. Meanbe time to Jump for the ditch. But as Harry Greb told me once, while I wanted to see what kind of "1 get in shape by fighting." to formation planned nittern this angle Is that if football, My ma. av down over mn ueiu, jusi basketball, hockey, Indoor traSi :,nv times before back in the dry and field, howling and especially bed of Muroc Lake in California, our can Mo- - racing, faring a record season in the nractice bombing range - get along, it would be nomcthing a nuuaa wau.in.-i . . i J lU... of a shork to find that baseball, the 'lave Desert tion of our own to see nuw guuu me National Game couldn't were. and about twenty-fiv- e To obtain complete crocheting instructions for the Pineapple Doily (Pattern No. S186) send IB cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time' is required In tilling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. 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