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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH 4V' Col. Robert L,Scoff Robert Scott, a Tbe story thus tar: West Point graduate, begins pursuit training at Panama after winning bis wings at Kelly Field, Texas. When the war comes to ns be is an instructor In California, and fearing he will always be an instructor he writes to many generals pleading for a ebance at combat flying, and at last tbe opportunity comes. Be says goodby to his wife and baby and leaves for Florida, where he picks op his Flying Fortress. He flies to India where for some time he is a ferry pilot, flying supplies into Burma, but he does not like this Job. They fly aver bombed and burning Chinese towns as Burma falls. After Burma Is In the hands of Japs he meets General Stilwell and his party. CHAPTER X Back at the field I found that Payne had loaded the transport with forty sick or wounded Ghurkas. In fact, we had to keep more from getting aboard by threatening them with our guns, for after all, we had tbe same small field for taking off we'd had for landing. Johnny swung the ship Into the wind and we were We off in some six hundred feet went in many times again, after the Ghurkas had lengthened the runway slightly, and we finally moved out most of the soldiers before the monsoon rains ran us out But I'll never forget Captain Payne's feat In that first landing of a transport at Fort Hertz. Following the defeat of the Allied armies down in southern and central Burma, the refugees poured to the North and to the Northwest Those to the Northwest tried to walk out by the Lido Road, which was nothing more than a game trail. Many of them died, and of those who came out many died after entering India. I heard stories of bodies by the hundreds, almost buried in the mud, all along the trail from Burma to India. Those who kept coming North from Shwebo up the railroad to Myitkyina finally wound up on Myitkyina's small field, anxiously waiting for aerial transportation over the remaining one hundred and ninety miles to Dinjan. Some of the loads that ferry pilots would have packed into those DC-3- 's curdled the blood of the aeronautical engineers who designed the ship. as the airlines or DC-The called the Douglas transport, was constructed to carry a full load of twenty-fou- r passengers or six thousand pounds. The maximum altitude was expected to be about 12,000 feet but we later went a minimum of 18,000 across the hump, and sometimes we had to go to 21,500 to miss the storms and ice. Carrying the refugees, we broke all the rules and regulations because we had to. There were women and children, pregnant women, and women so old that they presumably couldn't have gone to the altitude that was necessary to cross into India. There were hundreds of wounded British soldiers with the most terrible gangrenous infections. At the beginning we used to load the wounded first those who were worst off; but later, when we realized that with our few transports we'd never get them all out, we took only the That was a hard decision to make, but we looked at it finally from the theory that those must be saved who could some day fight again. I remember one of the bravest men I have ever seen, who helped us load and control the refugees on the field at Myitkyina. He was a big, bearded Sikh officer, one of the aristocratic British colonials. He a fine must have been looking man. He worked religiously with the refugees and soldiers, always efficient, always trying to send those out who should have gone. I can see him now, standing there in his tattered uniform, with his turban perfectly placed on his dark head, his beard waving fn the wind from the idling propellers. He would patiently herd the passengers into the transport sometimes holding hysterical people back physically, and in more crucial times pulling his pistol, but never becoming fustered or excited. I sometimes think he was the greatest soldier I have ever seen. Day after day, as the Japs moved North and ever closer to Myitkyina, he would be there, doing his thankless Job. When the end came, and I knew that the field would be taken fh the next few hours, I went to him and explained the situation. I found, however, that he knew more about it than I knew myself. The refugees had told him, he said, and he knew this was the last day we could land there. So I asked him to get aboard my ship and leave for India; after all, he was an officer and could best be used when onee again the British entered Burma. The Sikh officer refused with majestic pride. His orders had been to stay there and supervise the evacuation of those refugees, and he considered that trust sacred. We had to leave him, and when I last saw him he was herding the numbers of stricken people on to the North, towards Fort Hertz and the blind valley that led Inevitably to the impassable mountains towards T;bct. I guess the Japs finally got hlrn. But I know how he must have died, with that pistol in his hand, nd finally Just the knife and I know that several Japs died before they killed him. The winds from the Indian Ocean rew stronger, and the monsoon sea-o- n began. And oh boy, the rains C-4- 7, 3, able-bodie- ever-increasi- LOT W N.U. REJ.EASE came! The clouds built up so black I read the technical files and learned and high and thick that you could every little item about the Allison no longer go around them or over engine and the engine controls. I them you had to just get on instru- memorized the armament section of ments and bore through. In some the book, and by morning I was ways, though, it was a relief for ready to put theory into practice and there in the safety o God's ele- test it out. ments the Japs couldn't bother our That morning I found a painter. unarmed ships. Many times I heard red and white paint from the Buying the .remark that there was always village, I had him paint the shark's something good in everything even mourn on the lower nose of the Cur-tis- s bad weather. I can hear still some Kittyhawk. On that afternoon of those pilots griping, saying they of April 30, I remember that as never thought the day would come I waited for the paint to dry. I when they'd be out looking for bad walked round and round my ship, weather. But it was the truth. With the graceful lines, a feelthe Jap fighter ships all aver Burma admiring ing of pride in my heart. I gloried now, it was comforting to know that in the slender fuselage, in the knifethere were rain clouds to dodge into like edges of the little wings. The with the transports. nose of the spinner looked like sharp On April 26, the AVG finally had an arrow to me the nose that to leave Loiwing, due to the failure sloped back to the leering shark's of the net to the South. mouth. At sight of the wicked-lookin- g They moved on back to Paoshan by blast tubes of the six Mengshih, and finally to Kunming. guns m the wings, I felt my chest One day about that time I went over This was expand another inch. to see General Chennault, for I had shark-nose- d dynamite, all right but a question I wanted to ask him even then I did not quite realize one that I'd carried on my mind what a weapon this fighter ship could ever since I'd been shanghaied off be when properly handled. the "dream mission." I still wanted I don't know how long I Walked to fight. Though this Ferry Com- around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-lookin- g body. I know the paint on the shark's mouth hadn't dried yet but I'd held the suspense as long as I could. This was as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue; sometime I had to really taste it. Now, stepping on the walkway of the left wing, I threw first one leg and then the other over the side of the fuselage and slid into the little cockpit of the f i ef r fighter. As I adjusted the rudder pedals and fastened my safety belt, I primed the engine a few shots. Turning on the toggle switches, I energized and engaged the starter with my foot, and now I heard the Allison break into a steady roar as I moved the mixture control from "idle cutoff." Out in front of me a long distance, it seemed the heavy, i -three-bladeeleven-foo- t, V prop became a gray blur in my vision. An Allison, or any engine, doesn't have to warm up, and idling will soon foul the plugs. I was taxy-in- g almost as soon as the engine settled down to the steady roar. Lieut. Gen. Joseph ("Vinegar Very proudly I taxied out for my Joe") Stilwell, one of the most popu- first take-of- f in the new Kittyhawk. lar generals in the United States All on the airdrome I me around army, who has seen a lot of fighting could feel the jealous eyes of every on the Chinese front. American and British pilot even coolies or mand was important I'd been those of the earth-boun- d trained for a fighter pilot. And here at least my ego thought it felt their I was, just sitting up there in a looks. During the test flight over the transport like a clay pigeon for the dark green acres of Assam tea garJapanese. I still remembered that for nine dens, sweeping low over the Brahyears I had been too young; then maputra and then climbing steeply when war came I was suddenly told for the Naga Hills, I contemplated I was too old to be a fighter pilot with keen anticipation the wonderful When had I been the right age? days that lay ahead. Here was no I wanted to tell General Chennault defenseless transport, no lumbering e bomber that story. At the great age of and unwieldy I just didn't consider that here was a fighting weapon, with a thirty-fouI was too old to fly fighter planes heart and a soul like the other comand with his help I meant to prove bat ships. But more than that, here with a it Even with only one fighter ship was an instrument of war in the sky with our transports, I distinct individuality, a temperaknow I could give the buys in the mental devil of the skies. Truly like transports just a little more con- a beautiful woman, it went smoothly fidence. Besides, I kind of thought and sweetly at times; and then, as I had a date with destiny, so to speed increased, it might yaw danspeak or at least a date with a Jap gerously as the pressures built up. somewhere over there in Burma. I Again, it could become completely desperately wanted to slide in be- unstable. It had to be flown every hind one of those enemy bombers second of the time; ignore it for one second and there was no autoor fighters and shoot him down. matic pilot to keep it on course, Finally I had my chance to tell no to help you it would fall the story of my ambitions to Gensoon would be out of and very away eral Chennault. Busy as he was, he like a beautiful womcontrol. Yes, liltened to my case, and even as I constant attentalked I admired the great man an, it demanded were no extra memThere tion. more and more. Here, I knew, was in the crew to worry about, a great officer and leader as well as bers and here in Assam there were no a great pilot Here was an Amerother fighter ships to worry about. ican who was a General in the ChiWe were both isolated individuals. nese Army, held by the Chinese in When I had landed and had taxied admiration and respect a soldier to my niche in the heavy Jungle back who could see the problems that his the field, I trees surrounding modern war imposed on land armies and reverently patted out climbed as well as on navies and air power. the ship on the cowling. The 0 Here, I knew, was genius. was fast becoming a personality to I told the General that I wanted me. to use in India and one single Next day I tested my guns and Burma. I knew they were scarce, dropped aluminum-powde- r practice but I would promise him that noth- bombs, bombs that leave a splash ining would happen to it and the of aluminum paint on the ground or stant he needed the ship I would fly an aluminum slick on the water it back to him in China. The Gen- where they hit, i order to show the eral smiled. I'm sure he was think- pilot how near he has come to the ing back and wondering whether, target. I aimed at the black snags if he were in my position, he in the river with the guns, then wouldn't have begged for the same came around again and tried to dive chance. He didn't give me some and glide-bom- b the snags with the excuse that he well might have little bombs. I was trying to train used that the belonged to the myself, trying to make up for the Chinese Government that it would four years that I had been away have been against regulations, and from pursuit aviation and from tacso forth. General Chennault knew tical training in the art of killing. that I would use that "shark," as I needed a lot of this gunnery and we called the against the bombing, for my life was very soon Japs. He made bis own regula- to depend on it. tions then; what did it matter who I'll never forget the first time I killed the Japs and who Wd the pressed the trigger of my guns and so long as they were being heard the roar of the machine guns. Just used for China? six By the twinkle in his eyes I knew by pressing a small black button bethat I had won my case. The Gen- low the rubber grip on my stick I eral said, "Some Forties are on the could make three lines of orange way from Africa now. You take the tracers from each wing converge out next one that comes through. Use it ahead of my fighter and as long as you want to." That's the meet on the snags in the Brahmaway I got the single fighter plane putra. Nearly a hundred shots that was to work out of Assam. second those six Fifties threw out and the muddy river turned to foam near the targets. The sense of their With anxious eyes I waited, lookme as the 'ecoll ing to the West for the next "sharks" power impressed slowed me many miles per hour in to come to India. or Kittyhawks came my dive; I could feel my head snap Three to us from Africa on April 29. Two forward from the deceleration. went on to Kunming for the AVG, Sometimes when the guns on only but Number stayed with me. one side would fire, the unequal It was mine, and I was as proud of kicks from the recoil would almo it as of the first bicycle my father turn the ship. (TO BS CONTINUED) had given me. AH through the r You'll have lots of fun making fell " Instructions 706 contain patterns of all pieces; directions for articles 24 - fifty-calib- "gee-gaws.- shown. 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