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Show Burma Road Remains Important Military Object HUEEM .WHITE tihts FAR: Llent. Col. Flyins Fortress, Pilot cf 7hi fatal day when tne japs ffZ -- 7- rr go down In on his W.N.U.TEATUREJ run and never one, the assistant said he would come up again. Yet his boys-w- hat a man who volunteered a bonus paj out are , left of them-s- till like to hope of the money his chief had left ir he rnaybe iW "- - while fleeing for shelter, that Bali succeeded in landing on the bank. beach, which looks so nice . was S u oo w tn "Now asking our Colonel for a ra m"j v ,!..,-After escap- in the travel folders, and will f turn dio that U left of the up grinning some day, operator was like asking him foi telling them his right arm. But Java was caving Java, where they go what a social success he was with . In, the situation was tense. Our Coloth. PhlUPPne. the natives. Xbe Japs learn the "But it was pitiful. We lost al- nel hesitated, and then said that . .... v model Fortress, but while he couldn't order anyone on se most all our dive bombers there, dangerous a gun In the and a mission, he thought, about half 0 our fighters. Of TTJt compartment Kurte senses course Bud and his gang made the even after we explained clearly whal . 4 w I" e.l!f.It the glare of a flashlight. Japs pay ten to one for taking that it was, we 'could get a volunteer. "And we did. We told the men 'dtbat held it also held a dagger. airfield but the Japs had it to pay. assassin get. away, "With the Japs holding that Bali the mission was most dangerous but t field, they could send bombers and of the greatest possible service tc K fighters into every corner of Java, our country. And out of the line CHAPTER XVH g kid and we knew it was almost over.' stepped a clean-cu- t, I L. earned and prayed for this. But anyway the Forts could now called Sergeant Warrenfeltz. Only after this did I tell him of the bomb our own matter of fact the Navy en from us field the Japs had takbonus. We let WarPas. i An aircraft very convenient, be- renfeltz make an aucmyw go down and look over the cause we knew 's and where everyexactly ,.. ! loaded with ship, loaded with surgical equipwas. led out from Australia. But what thing "When I got back late to the ho- ment, food, drugs, and three hunfeared. was what Led was just tel there was that beautiful Dutch dred thousand rounds of were in crates stacked L girl, the one with the black hair ammunition, so that she was practi-u an ber aecn-scally a floating bomb. He talked to the skies Jap and the pale face which was so the captain (a Swede) and looked This section of the Burma road in China was taken by a signal corps photographer. The clear in sad wistfully repose. Only there over the ;ers ruled. She went down with theater of war contains 24 switchbacks as shown in this photograph. Even before America entered the Negro and Chinese crew. crated were no sudden little smiles light- There were from American military and civil life were cooperating with the Chinese in the improvement entire crew and those two war, one engineers for topside ing It up now. She was at the table or comoff the southwest s forty miles dressed and like development of this highway system. The road is essential to China. It serves as the only line Javanese natives so the where she and John Robertson the bombardbeen sure air road The of under has Navy I'm vast the a but serves country. of that of Java portion air, Japs might mistake her for a fish munication, outside could for us war. doing the best it ing trawler. Then Warrenfeltz came ment almost continually since the start of the Chinese-Japanes- e to me with written orders from the what they had. lef course it gave our morale a bomber command and I told him the ports of call. They were to In tee oeuy. (he'd lip out at night, down the north won young Jack Dale coast of Java, through Lombok in the Philippines Ms sours Strait, then along the Netherlands the 17th Pursuit) came in from East Indies, then cut up east of 011 a perSUUtti Illioaiun Yank shown loading a projectile into the the Celebes, running the Jap blockWhen he'd fin- ar Bud Sprague. armament of the far wing of the 7 rocket ade into the Philippines till they it he stayed a few minutes. Arrows indicate the rocket proThunderbolt. came to Manila Bay entrance, next night a Navy man who one on each side of the Thunderbolt. jectiles, where they would be challenged by fleet Nazis complain that the new rocket is "unjust got in from our little the Rock. And he was to answer on to the me what had happened and docs not give them sufficient opfair" -the radio with the proper signal. I w ta f It irlehead and the Houston, those portunity to get under cover. U. S. army "Then he asked what were the beautiful cruisers which had officials report that its effect will be other ports of call. So I told him I the nucleus of our Asiatic Fleet (it makes me creep to repeat it) taing the Dutch and Australians A Java. Witn tne rest oi ine they were then to run the block1 Isade through the they'd been out in the Java I ' lands past Guam (now held bv th When they sighted a Jap recco J . j to Honolulu. about Japs) overhead noon, they New: ' 'What else?' asked Warrenfeltz. they were in for trouble. They CJseti which no carrier, of course, grinning. He was game for any ; send a fighter up to shoot it net thing. And I told him his third and ..He said the Jap bombers pres-- : bout last port of call would be New York. came over them from their And then what? he wanted to know. utile: Celebes I told him if he got that far. he was wa!; Is in Borneo and the in to have himself some fun, and I ;xpeL I bases they had captured) was sitting down now to write him waves, spaced about half an gflli out an order for thirty days' leave. ther. r apart. By skillful maneuver- P-47 Jiey dodged the bombs of the :of: "He knew what he was getting 7 two Thunderbolt has waves. But the third, eight deadly fins Into. We'd been flying over those :h machine guns in addition to the crippled them, caught them lettc:' waters for months; he knew just armament. Special trainat sundown, and chewed their how thick the Jap surface ships new rocket gun -the ground crew as been structures into steel spaghetti. has ids given ing were, and also that they had hardly who as members well operate the rocket the b darkness, they were able a fifty per cent chance of escaping guns. rawl away out of range, and the blown a being up by Jap mine just ugh Mead eventually got back to outside the breakwater. Why did America's answer to the Nazi flying bomb has been the further development of the new rocket gun armaStates." which not only can do as much damage as the flying bomb, but actually does many he do it? To help those poor devils ment on the huge Hat troubles can be accurately placed. bombs In for the the of our own were Infantry, dying on Bataan. times as much, He'd seen the cargo. And then the ting ahead. The boys In Navy money he told me exactly what to pi Wing 10 came in with the Caught them just at sundown and do with that, and the message I it that their planes on recon-;mc- e into' must send, but we'll come to It lathad sighted a force of chewed their superstructures steel spaghetti. er. Of course It was all pretty irJap transports and five warships :ed toward Bali Strait, which di- - usually sat, alone. When she saw regular, paying a man for heroism. fs Java from Bali. They were me she jumped up and came run- Maybe when peace comes, somer the Den Passar airdrome on ning across the room. Had I seen body in a swivel chair in Washing-- our last stepping-ston- e ton will start writing us letters askJohn? she wanted to know, in her ing us why we did it, and I don't occupied the, airfield at pretty broken English. what we'll say. And then it know jr. This was, as now you maybe "Out In the lobby they had told all ended happily for us, because 4 to see, a war of airdromes me John was missing. He'd been the money Warrenfeltz was X Del Monte, Kendari, supposed out on reconnaissance patrol in that to receive for trying to do what he all of them lost pearls old slow boat, flying Navy did was never paid. But that comes t United Nations' defenses, and lumbering and there had been two messages later. Den Passar. Next it could only from him: 'Many Zeros sighted,' and alang, KNILM, Gnoro, and Ma- "Meanwhile we had other things then about a minute later a final all we had left on the strand. to worry about The Japs had put a left one: 'Zeros closing in.' That m in this war did the Japs only three of the ones I knew In little landing force ashore on a tiny brutal assault; always it island sixty miles north of Surabaya, gallant Patrol Wing 10, Commander the skillful surgeon's technique Peterson, Bill Hardy, and Duke and taken over its radio station. late and occupy the airdromes Campbell. None of them had been j ten you have the "They hadn't told us yet," said country. It able to tell her, and when I looked game we knew well too, but we the "but smelled Bombardier, it at her face I found I couldn't either. got to buy chips before they face of someone Rumors were running all over the tol you a hand, and we didn't Because it was the that we might evacuate any frozen with fear in a nightmare so place ; the time now. Madiun, where I wag equipment. J move daren't she knew frozen you was being bombed every day I can , say is the Dutch and to accept the truth if you told her, based, 4 f now we'd go out on a mission and "rtcans were ready to defend so I too was afraid. ith what we always come back to find craters in had. Our little ; were left "In all the evenings that 's our runways. When we'd land, imSB. navies moved in that night were not to be many) I avoid(there there'd be another alarm P them a mediately glancine blow on the ed that lobby, because it was hauntand we'd have to hop off the field n f M they'd done at Macassar ed a ghost a pretty, pale, by " without servicing the planea or load"mi int. and our submarines did a face that came running up ing more bombs. i job in the The to forced moonlight. Ml sent you and asked, with hope This wooden figure of a Japanese his Fortresses out and "Also, instead of going out to tarinto a frightened smile, if you had to 5.M0. to warrior god was among the war V paste them from seen John. To me the most frighten- gets in formations, we now were ine left two transports of a dead going singly. As goon as we'd get English families are pictured salvaging; some of the clothing booty found on Saipan after the ing ghost of all the ghost to believed on is the It vasion. one a represent wrecked r. had bomb 'i in the moonlight, and a ground long enough and hosiery still intact, after a Nail flying ship big love which will not die. to get it gassed and bombed up, outfitter's store in southern England. The iroods were said to have the dual personification of the Japaelse that there's something "But we'd take off by our little lonesome, been scattered far and wide by the force of the blast. Some 5,000 of nese Buddha and the protective god at morning it was up to the should be told, only I must go back dodging Zeros to pick just any target of warriors. rce alone, because fh these bombs have fallen in England. Naw had in the story a little. The Army the countless transports that from p too tiny to venture out by day. sent a high ground officer to SuraicHj were swarming off Java. In the wcni over, of course in of hi week I got a light cruiser and baya on a special mission a great last everything we had, to smash miland with about blew the end off the se importance, a transport Jap transports as they lion dollars deposited to his credit transport Si wirty thousand troops onto he this With In the Javische Bank. ton & b at Bali. f "Mostly we were flying in a menThe were was to buy and equip with supplies himself. That three blockade runners wrfich would tal fog. Rumors! Every day they'd , 'gB"dhe Sprague got his commission as say no, we weren't going to evacJ , ' " 7 ' 4 carry to Corregidor ammunition, Jfcnant colonel He Just medical supplies, and food for those uate, because more reinforcements paused the take-of- f on the field to land any to scrawl his who were still were going poor devils on Bataan re on his but he didn't had day now even our own maintenance papers, of the Two ships on. fighting time to crews were about to land by boat himself up in left. A third was almost - auverpretty Then we'd hear their boat had been ho already leavpu- - I ni to go. Aed to die sunk (it really went on past us to h in his old gold ready "This officer left Java the twenty-sixt. CCPancA ...u. .. India) and that we were pulling out : "ot after The mey aesperate-wa- s day of February. was sure, except the fact Nothing dive bombers, and seche left, his assistant, a young 111 that all those Jap ships moving tothry had In conme called up ond lieutenant, ward Java weren't pleasure yachts, at1 riM"6 ',iCh W3S neVer built siderable anxiety. His chief, he r i f II.. 1 and that we didn't have any recep,iale ,. platform to launch an had paid him the complimeet to On them. committee Ul 811 in ri8ht there tne ment of leaving him in Surabaya in tion turned out to be my last tuit" do. and so day Bud climbed entire charge of completing the ar- what I got my plane Waded with bombs cockp,t. rangements. and took off, headed for a huge conexJ0 many passes at the "Nothing remained to be done target we'd heard was coming down voy of all: sr"nfi to make?' gomeone ?i us from Borneo. We met it cept the most important thing toward had been the officer before leaving the plane ahead of us halfway for Spends on how man wnd unable to find a radio operator was already pasting it when we arhcn we get this last ship. Without one they rived. We came in at 28,000 watchproiJtin8 ( Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of he, K'therm. could not start, because unless they New York, military vicar of Cathofirst ship plunking direct hiu - ,ays Dud with hovers this a Dalmatian old fire mascot, by faithful, "Boots," deparlment ing cave a prearranged radio signal on two parallel strings of transport anxiously a respirator Is applied to his master, Lieut. Herbert Lude-ma- lic Chaplains, left, greets King; Corregidor. in each string, thirty-fou- r i'fcr7em Cold Pigeon into that when they approached seventeen one of ten firemen overcome by smoke In a fire In New York. George VI of England as Lieut. to guns would blow them ver in U. with fifteen or twenty The mascot refused to leave until his master was taken away and then Gen. Mark Clark of U. 8. Fifth arm Uhoick here lne "a" beac- h- the Rock's h nieces. Could the Air Force possibly naval craft circling them. ' (center) looks on. .. followed him to the hospital and later to his home. 'mat t. cv let them have a radio operator? did out (TO BE CONTINUED) a nd thing uwe a dangerous other boys saw him Since the mission was S A h'"u, iJ fc K ut 1 P-4- -- T 111 V fv VV K-b- I alert-lookin- I ia e Rocket Projectiles America's Answer to Nazi i-- Loading Projectile CO P-4- J 11 d e 13 ''- . ' .j:.-.:.V- Rocket Armament of er P-4- ft P-4- 7, Gods Fail Japanese Clothing Survives Flying Bombs hav-atea- Sama-i,Kupan- g, -- rf v it : fear-froze- UflJ J crip-cruise- Bishop Greets King 'Old Faithful' Watches blaster 7 V 's -- 1 mA -- n, r,i- "-t- ; |