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Show BEAVER PRESS II uPetiort., FAR! Lieut Col. Itf 8 ll pilot ' U16 FlylnB FortreM ETi,e Swoose," which escaped i" rifld. tells of that fatal day THUS otW Fortress, is struck down 'isjT let 'MENt the ground. The the skeletons ef ta littered witn , No longer safe to sleep In are eheto. ks because Japs riPid. eets were moved -iof a cornfield. Later, they l i o fluMle cuoj y!?"".,. ' ,. 14 already putUnf troops island. Squadron Com- r.lbbs oes out on a secret flails to return. Harry SchreU K alters in CHAPTER VI About an hour out .j- - whPless drops -- of Del Monte, out of forma- - guess It's engine trouble can't keep up this rate of half an hour later Pease. L,b-a- nd w uic te come . molrA nnr turn rtere we re uuc our target, on in d go straight "X-- t feast ltuu,. ! approai Jw. Whei d air of 86 yeast miles away, Lee motors we can Zts drops out-- his make the Bl he can't ,re weak, e thirty-fiv- a di w ade. just my pilot. Hat leaves r 3... tA rt yams, na vanuevrtuici w b Jack w In -- wnen wc ilone. it olanes, we had planned to into two flights of three planes The flights were to come In each. e imer- the target at different at and angles. ils "There are just two planes now, Jack decides he'll pretend he is m iivide tnree-mmui- tUEKU into tires. .- igPI v ...v u L . . . . Srj't slugs beating a along the length of the Fort's with old Railling dreaming in his seat, to i?: all;,e,laxed of them, or not, the boy and, believe wasn't en scratched! "Within three minutes of th time we crash-landein the rice paddy behind those tall trees we were s rounded by a gang of Filipinos, all tte waving longesti sha you d want to see. But pretty soon .we convinced them we weren't so they all got helpful and told us we were on Masbate Island. "Because these natives wanted to honor the American officers who were fighting for their country they brought me a donkey to ride. Of course to have refused would insult them, and yet I didn't dream the kind of a deal I was getting into. The first wasn't so bad and I even thought I was lucky i wasn't walking and getting sore feet hke you do in the infantry. But pretty soon I began to realize, first just a little bit, and then more and more, that there are worse things than having sore feet. "We crashed on the fourteenth of December and on the twentieth we bought an outrigger canoe for fifty pesos, and hired natives to sail and paddle us to the island of Panay, with me getting a chance to brush up' on my navigating. When we were about forty miles from land I noticed the skipper of this craft of ours had e-- d Jac-anes- half-mil- e ,0 th oe flight and Vandevanter will play The two of he was the other. l it bythl u against this big n are closing in an gang of Jap ships as agreed on, we come In stflying north to south. But the ttercast is so thick we have to get town to about 18,000 before we can te the target, and there it is we're jfrnpstag it and then losing It and .cina H ooatn tVirnndh hrpnks in fll lie clouds a row of transports and IY! .1 limple 1 ....1 UVdJ find fViom come in on the there target, the lower jaw. In VKm my job as navigator is raporarily over, so I can leave it ltd go back to the bomb bay, where te bombs are banging in racks on either side of a little aisle. "Now doors are the bomb-ba- y Host i on in on orning, nutates way now light comes up around Se bombs. And now the bombs are way. I lean over to look down tough the open bomb-ba- y doors, feeling a little woozy because my oxygen mask is back by my seat in ie navigator's compartment, and )st before Jack Adams from his pilot's seat slammed those bomb-ba- y doors closed, looking down the belly of the ship I think I ie something, but then the doors dam shut and there is only black-ttiSo I run back to the navigator's compartment, and, boy! there try are a whole gang of Zeros turning up after us. How did I feel? Jast the way anybody feels the first lime, no matter what they pretend later it scared the hell out of me. There were five of them after us -climbing up and in on our tail. Our bottom gunner shot down the Barest one, but the other four kept wming in a tight formation. Jack Warns began g our tail up and down to give our top gun ners a chance at them no reason ty the bottom gunner should have th fun and sure enough, the top gunner picked one out of that formation. That left three. "S then Jack pulled a cute one. Be throttled back suddenly and one overshot us to the left, which fcade him a clay pigeon for our we gunner, who picked him efT. nrn Mill another came up under tor stabilizer in the tail, and our tofom gunner got his second for ay. That made four Zeros J wn and one to go and it was still fm for us in spite of all we could do. and evened, : ; ; irompt, aUhfvt s good tig the which resist y also : ilinize, Lemon r be-Ic- ' too tow down rm Bat ing wia.it A,nnr4!nT "When we s. iu up! drink t help nkist s? feel an- - I idle- -tjom- - rj wish-washin- ns. 3om- - ana I ns. nadf I na-- 1 irdl- - oru mi tiun laids' ect. 1 'Wd yot) Jions idem :h bed, kag dis-Try mdy nly 3 -44 dribbled on down through that cloud, and Jack "Hooking for a nice beach to set k.rl0WD cn' Eut there wasn't any bottom cf wen-o- nly Pt jagci rocks with white them and we wrapped arotind losing altitude. 'Jt he" with those, so Jack fM her in toward land, still losing wwe fast, and then right ahead w we spotted a big clump of wee about feet high. Well. r wasn't sixty time for anything but , tryer, and not any long rambling 'ther. But Jack handled the r"hon bea'j'.ffully. He pulled her "P high as he dared and r? cleared those trees, and then, 'n the remaining two motors so wouldn't have to climb out of her nlce " belIy Undh?' he made fiCe Pat0h 88 to yU C0Uld for 2 " " mTng f''rRtten that one re-- J Z,ro7 Well. I hadn't, d followed us all the be-w- 1 I from . . th crawled out as fast as away nd startcd running P,:uie parallel to the wing. teltfTPi ' Was eilhcr stunned or 10 riRht AniwT whpre he was- v h'lt Rtaycd riRht ln nis cat ZvT0 circled and then tin,., fight a,or,S the line of our St hflfi time t0 faI1 down on f rtl'i and Ult'n il a happened In uns fated ,CCr'dTne Ze0', toeaa kUp; ,0 lnat the flrst sIugs c!!l,,f? up the dust about Ihtft, tat a 8wny I" 8 straight line T8rd from my chin as she Wing ?', fc - . PITTERNSJL Because these natives wanted to honor me they brought me a donkey to ride. crawled up into its nose and was peering down into the water. Why? Well, he explained, there were supposed to be a lot of floating Japa- nese mines here, and he thought it would be all right if we didn't bump any of them. "The next day we landed on and were told the American forces were all ganged up down at its southern end, and when we got to them we reported to General Then we really were Chynoweth. it seemed the Because in for it. old 19th Bombardment Group had left Mindanao for Australia; so they us to a grabbed us and attached regiment, Field Artillery Filipino Bill Railling. giving Jack Adams. to command, and mvself a battalion Pa-na- a which we thought was going to be were we since considerable honor, only lieutenants. "Then we looked them over. They l age. Half were all about and English, of them didn't speak to underthe Job was to get tl.em didn stand you. Of course they with a rile, but know what to we had this didn't matter, because ammunition of rounds only fifteen enough for an hour s per man-- not high-schoo- d-- target practice. of it all "The Field Artillery part sx name plus the cf consisted old World War French for sights millimeter field guns. The guns on a themselves had been sunk in ManHa Bay. The sigh's and were in had been shined up prime condition. kids to "We didn't encourage these loaded, being .frajd Keep their rifles went that if one of the gunsstart would banginjj they fjay and shoot each other sup-pshi- p . em b o us, so we S- -e instead. Early in Jan practice Sary they moved us over to Caygay-Sheard all Lsland-- we on Mindanao were Islands the all the troops from stand there. But no Japs ESb. n agnveusasectionofthebeach and b half long to they came. there was ..R.cht brhind our lines they know We a small JaP colony. here of course-w- e'd gne clothes, apply Mexsana, CflDITC 5UitO soothing medicated powtior. Respect Mother-in-LaThe Zulus of South Africa require a man to stand at a distance when he addresses his w Davao Japs, and there wasn't much w c0uid do to stop it. We were only a handful ourselves. "So I was tickled t0 death when word came to go back to old Del Monte Field, where the planeless viators were being assembled for evacuation to Australia, where we would get safely back into the air again. "I got to Del Monte on March and we were all ganged up on the field, where we were expecting to carry officers and men to Australia. At 9 p. m. we heard the motors of a plane and turned on our landing lights. But it didn't see them and kept on going. We didn't know it then, but we didn't have Al priority, for those planes that night were intended to take out General MacArthur and his party and their baggage and records only the General hadn't yet arrived. But we supposed the planes were for us. "About 11 p. m. we heard another plane and snapped the landing lights on, and this time it saw them and landed. Out of the Fortress stepped Lieutenant Pease of our own 19th Bombardment Group. He told us the other plane we had heard was Godman's it had got mixed up and bumped into the sea. "But Pease was immediately called over by General Sharp, who told Pease that General MacArthur had been delayed, and that the plane should wait over a few days until he came. "Now Pease didn't want to wait over for a single hour of daylight on Del Monte Field, for by that time the Jap planes were swarming over the place. Pease knew the Air Force was trying desperately to hang onto what few Forts they had left, and he realized that if he stayed over the next day the infantry would make For Afternoons him quite comfortable in a foxhole at the edge of the field, where he BEAUTIFULLY gored and could watch his plane become the fitted frock with trim, narrow prize for a Japanese turkey shoot, belt and flattering waist with sim-'pl- e for Del Monte by this time was as to be made up in nice unsafe as Clark had been, a fact the fabrics. Use one of the small- infantry didn't seem to have quite flower design sheer rayon crepes, 6646 32-4- 6 SNAPPY FACTS Jk ly ll'l Jill grasped. "So Pease explained to Sharp it would be all right with him, provided General MacArthur understood what he was getting into, that he had a fine plane here except that it had just come from the Java war and was slightly out of repair. It was too bad, for instance, that the superchargers were out, but he hoped he'd be able to clear the runand not slip off way on the take-of- f into a cartwheel at the end of it, spilling the General's party and all that baggage all over central Mindanao. And then, if he did take off, there was the little matter of his hydraulic system, which had gone bad on him, so when he came to land the brakes wouldn't work, and he might not be able to stop when he came to the end of the runway. "Well, General Sharp decided that it certainly wasn't suitable, and told Pease he'd better get started back to Australia before dawn. " 'Pease,' I said, 'I'm goin' with you. You don't know it, but you got a new navigator for this trip. Because I'm not goin' to stay in this damn place no more.' "Well, Pease agreed to let me work out my passage that way, and also said he could take off fifteen other planeless aviators if they didn't mind the risk. "We all got in, and discovered Pease hadn't been bragging a bit about his plane when he talked to the General. It was in just as terrible shape as he had said it was; in fact, he had been overly modest about it. "Now take a look at us in Austrat hours after lia. Exactly we arrived the Australians told us Radio Tokyo had broadcast, 'It is now understood the American Flyfrom ing Fortresses are operating and near Field Darwin,' Batchelor they were one hundred per cent right. 'How they knew it we never learned for sure probably from Jap been pearl fishermen, who hadAustrathinly scattered along this lian coast and who when war broke out went back and hid in the bush. The RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) boys would spot their camp-fire- s at night and try to track them down, without much luck. Probably and even they had radio senders, four ena layman could count our us as Flying gines and recognize Fortresses. "The country Itself is as desolate and sparsely populated as the worst and New Mexparts of West Texas town ico, and the most important for' a thousand or so miles is little Port Darwin, with seven or eight thousand people, sitting there on the . It has wide rim of Nothing-at-AllMidwestof those one streets-li- ke ern towns built in the boom of the forty-eigh- eighties a good hotel which is sub- sidized by the Qantas Airways and Isreminds you of the one on Wake in a bandwhich band plays a land, zoo with a stand in the park, and a and koala kangaroos, emus, few everybears No fresh vegetables, in cans. There you imported thing have Darwin. "Batchelor Field was about forty and it conmies back in the ofbrush, hacked runways a of couple sisted ou't of the mesquite (it was hard to or dynamite ect tools for grading a hangar run by and for stumps) the RAAF. (TO BE CONTINUED) an print cotton, navy blue dim-jitd rayon crepe or a all-ov- er polka-dotte- (Mm ll H .. j jt fit 1 war American synthetic plants should produce enough to meet our military requirements, perhaps aoO OOO tons or more a year, and as much additional as can be uitified through the free play of economic forces to meet then current civilian needs. This is the recommendation of John L. Collyor, presklont of The B. yri. II hv f. Goodrich Co. At Hie beginning of theyearour jtock-pil- e of natural rubber was less than one quarter of what It was at the time of Peart Harbor. Unless plantations are recaptured from the Japs and Immediately put Into operation our Imports of crude are not expected to exceed 80,000 tons In 1944. dress have identical yokes. For the older child, make the set with a paLt3l or beige or navy flannel coit iind binnet the dress of dinuty or organdie. Pattern No. 8593 Is ln sizes 1, 2. 3. 4 and 5 years. Size 2. coat and bonnet, rematerial; dresg quires 2 yards of and panties require 2 yards. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. San Francisco Enclose 20 cents ln coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name SEGoodiieSi illllpl KILLS' Size Many Inseett y. Address Safe Crossing Actuaries estimate that the Baby Clothes chances of making a safe journey I OVELY for a tiny baby when between the United States and - the complete set is done in England today are 994 in 1,000 white rayon silk or fine handker- when traveling by ship and 996 chief linen. The small coat and when traveling by plane. 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