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Show The Cache American. Iojran. Cache County. Utah 8fi Iare lirataarMaroi;fUrvi Collect THE Truk Lit Fortmt STORY THIS FAR: Kart. pilot al U Fly la t Cot. oom," aklrk auapaS kaoaa at "Tha fraal Clark Fitld. UUi al Ik I 4jr fca tka Jap track la tt FkUipplaat. Old t, aaotkar Fortott, It ttrark toa a kafara It caa 11 at Ifca round. Tka iraaat It lmrd lta Uia tkalaloat at tala la tlaap la V. S. plaaat. No Ika karrack. karama Japa ara pkaf grapklaf Clark Fit Id, cola vara wavad lata tka aalddla al a caraflald. La Ur, tkry a avacaata la Mindanao, tad at Ikty Japa ara already pattlag Iraept aakara aa tka 11 nd. tqoadraa Major Clbkt goat aat aa a tarrat valatloa aad fall la ratara. Harry Sc krai-kaIka aavliaur, tekat ap Ika alary. tul kir ar-rt- Com-aaad- r, CHAPTEE VI an bour out of Del Monte. Shorty Wheleai dropt out of formation we guest it's engine trouble end be cant keep up this rate of climb end half an hour later Peate. As we come to the rendezvous point where were due to make our turn and go straight in on our target, miles away, Lee only thirty-fiv- e Coats drops out his motors wa can sea ara weak, he can't make the altitude. "That leaves Just my pilot. Jack Adams, and Vandevanter to go on In alone. When we thought there would be six planes, we had planned to divide into two flighta of three planes each. The flights were to come In e Interon the target at vals and at different angles. "There ere Just two planes now, so Jack decide! he'll pretend he la one flight and Vandevanter will play like he was the other. The two of us against this big gang of Jap ships we are closing In on. "So, as agreed on, we come In first flying north to south. But the overcast is so thick we have to get down to about 18,000 before we can see the target, end there It Is we're glimpsing it and then losing It and glimpsing it again through breaks In the clouds a row of transports and naval craft escorting them. "When we come in on the target. Pm down there In the lower Jaw. But now my Job as navigator is temporarily over, so I can leave It and go back to the bomb bay, where the bombs are hanging In racks on either side of a little aisle. doors are "Now the bomb-ba- y opened, and light comes up around the bombs. And now the bombs are away. I lean over to look down doors, through the open bomb-ba- y feeling a little woozy because my oxygen mask is back by my seat in the navigators compartment, and Just before Jack Adams from his pilot's seat slammed those bomb-ba- y doors closed, looking down below the belly of the ship I think I see something, but then the doors slam shut and there is only blackness. So I run back to the navigators compartment, and, boy! there they are a whole gang of Zeros coming up after us. How did I feel? Just the way anybody feels the first time, 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 nearest one, but the other four kept coming in a tight formation. Jack g our tail Adams began up and down to give our top gunners a chance at them no reason why the bottom gunner should have all the fun and sure enough, the top gunner picked one out of that formation. That left three. So then Jack pulled a cute one. He throttled back suddenly and one Zero overshot us to the left, which made him a clay pigeon for our side gunner, who picked him ofT. Then rtill another came up under our stabilizer in the tail, and our bottom gunner got his second for the day. That made four Zeros down and one to go and it was still going for us in spite of all we could do. Wed dribbled on down through the bottom of that cloud, and Jack was looking for a nice beach to set her down on. But there wasnt any beach only jagged rocks with white surf wrapped around them and we kept losing altitude. "The hell with those, so Jack nosed her in toward land, still losing altitude fast, and then right ahead of us we spotted a big clump of trees about sixty feet high. Well, there wasnt time for anything but a prayer, and not any long rambling one either. But Jack handled the situation beautifully. He pulled her nose up as high as he dared and just cleared those trees, and then, cutting the remaining two motors so we wouldnt have to climb out of her in flames, he made as nice a belly landing in a rice patch as you could hope for. Youve forgotten that one remaining Zero? Well, I hadnt, because it had followed us all the way down. I crawled out as fast as I could and started running away from the plane parallel to the wing. The funny thing was Bill Railling, was either stunned or t, the felt comfortable right where he was. Anyway, he stayed right in his seat while this Zero circled and then came in, right along the line of our wing. I just had time to fall down on my chin and then it all happened in a split second. The Zero's guns opened up, so that the first slugs began kicking up the dust about thirty yards away in a straight line Just a yard from my chin as she j About three-minut- wish-washin- Davao Japa, and there wasnt much we could do to atop it. Wo wer only r handful ourselves, "So I was tickled to death when word came to go back to old Del Monte Field, where the planelesa aviators were being assembled for evacuation to Australia, where we would get aafely back Into the air gain. "I got to Del Monte on March thirteenth and we were all ganged up on the field, where we were expecting to carry officer and men to Australia. At 0 p. m. we beard the motors of a plane and turned on our landing lights. But It didnt see them and kept on going. We didnt know It then, but we didnt have Al priority, for those planes that night were intended to take out General MacArthur and hia 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 tha Fortress stepped Lieutenant Pea so of our own 19th Bombardment Group. He told ua the other plane we had heard waa Godman't it had got mixed up and bumped Into the aea. "But Pease waa 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 didnt want to wait over for a tingle bour 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 him quite comfortable In a foxhole at the edge of the field, where he could watch his plane become the prize for a Japanese turkey shoot, for Del Monte by this time was as unsafe as Clark had been, a fact the Infantry didn't seem to have quite 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 were out, but he superchargers hoped hed 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 wouldnt 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 wasnt suitable, and told Pease he'd better get started back to Australia before dawn. " Pease, I said, Im goin with you. You dont know it, but you got a new navigator for this trip. Because Im 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 didnt mind the risk. We all got in, and discovered Pease hadnt 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 Austrahours after lia. Exactly forty-eigwe arrived the Australians told us Radio Tokyo had broadcast, It is now understood the American Flying Fortresses are operating from Batchelor Field near Darwin, and they were one hundred per cent right. "How they knew it we never learned for sure probably from Jap pearl fishermen, who had been thinly scattered along this Australian coast and who when war broke out went back and hid In the bush. The RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) boys would spot their campfires at night and try to track them down, without much luck. Probably they had radio senders, and even a layman could count our four engines and recognize us as Flying Fortresses. "The country itself is as desolate and sparsely populated as the worst parts of West Texas and New Mexico, and the most important town 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-Alstreets like one of those Midwestern towns built in the boom of the eighties a good hotel which is subsidized by the Qantas Airways and reminds you of the one on Wake Island, a band which plays in a bandstand in the park, and a zoo with a few emus, kangaroos, and koala bears. No fresh vegetables, everything imported in cans. There you have Darwin. "Batchelor Field was about forty miles back in the brush, and it consisted of a couple of runways hacked out of the mesquite (it was hard to get tools for grading or dynamite for stumps) and a hangar run by the RAAF. went by with a big wh h h the ilug beating a tattoo along th length of the Forts wing, with old Railling dreaming away there, all relaxed In hia teat, right In the middle of them, end, believe It or not. the boy wasn't even scratched! "Within three minutes of the time we crash-landeIn the rice paddy behind those tall trees we were surrounded by a gang of Filipinos, all waving the longest, sharpest knives you'd want to see. But pretty soon we convinced them we werent Japanese, 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 half-milwasnt ao bad. and I even thought I was lucky I wasn't walking and getting sore feet, like 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 tkipper of this craft of ours had -l lsh-sha- B-1- e 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 Japanese mines here, and he thought it would be all right if we didnt bump any of them. "The next day we landed on Panay, 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 Chynoweth. Then we really were in for it. Because it seemed the old 19th Bombardment Group had left Mindanao for Australia; so they grabbed us and attached us to a Filipino Field Artillery regiment, giving Jack Adams, Bill Railling, and myself a battalion to command, which we thought was going to be a considerable honor, since we were only lieutenants. Then we looked them over. They were all about age. Half of them didnt speak English, and the job was to get them to understand you. Of course they didnt know what to do with a rifle, but this didnt matter, because we had only fifteen rounds of ammunition per man not enough for an hours target practice. "The Field Artillery part of it all consisted of the name, plus six sights for old World War French field guns. The guns themselves had been sunk on a supply ship in Manila Bay. The sights had been shined up and were in prime condition. "We didnt encourage these kids to keep their rifles loaded, being afraid that if one of the guns went off in the dark they would start banging away and shoot each other and maybe us, so we gave them bayonet practice instead. Early in January they moved us over to Caygay-e- n on Mindanao Island we heard all the troops from all the islands were to make a stand there. But no Japs. They gave us a section of the beach a mile and a half long to defend if they came. "Right behind our lines there was a small Jap colony. We knew they were there, of course wed gone through their houses looking for radio equipment, anything they might use to send information to the Davao Japs and we posted a small guard around them. 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Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time .s required In filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Such teachers! Merely bushers! The kind I scorn and shun; They merely taught Steve Foster, Bell, Ford, and Edison! How dare they make suggestions To cities all aglow, Where noise and sixe and clamor And rudeness run the show. 00 : .,.,., -- - - - BIGoodrich SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. Saa Francisco Enclose 20 cents In coins for etch pattern desired. Pattern No. Name Address -- - .Size. ft IN THE RED AND BLUE CHIPS Howre you doing with those new ration "tokens? The red and blue chips that will supplant coupons are now in circulation. Good fun, too! ft This department has investigated and found that tokens have It all over coupons for fun and ntility. If a coupon falls from your pocket you cant hear it drop, a disadvantage completely removed by tokens. And remember that a coupon always had one big drawback: You couldnt stitch It onto a pair of pants as a uspender button. ft It is also possible, if you are a skilled operator, to use ration tokens in buses, peanut machines and juke boxes. We just tried out the juke box angle. We put in ten red disks and go two frankfurters, a piece of cheese and a song hit. five blues we got a half pound of "Shoo Shoo Baby on rye bread, three eggs and one patty of butter. For Then we tried a pinball machine. We used about 500 points in ration tokens and only got 350 points on the pinball scoreboard. The matter was referred to OPA which promptly referred it to the department of justice. ft Those new red and blue ration tokens are now being issued in This change for ration coupons. means you are allowed twice as many arguments on the same number of points. When you come back from the butcher market you now have, not only your bundles, but a collection of disks, slugs and buttons of Juniors party-pant- s. , These tokens or buttons will be worth one point each as a starter. (If the baby swallows a few bring him to the nearest delicatessen store and swap him for a can of peas and some meat loaf. Ed note.) ft If daddy swallows a couple just tell him it serves him right for reaching for aspirin tablets in the dark. v Our grocer, however, says he is well pleased. Customers with coupons could always swoop in and take him by surprise. But carrying these new tokens he can hear em rattle at 200 yards. Elmer Twitcbell is always looking He has put in an application to be a referee when the executors of Mrs. Shaws estate begin trying to remodel the Irish. for trouble. Mayor LaGuardia announces tnat butter may be served again at lunches in New York restaurants. But we didnt have much luck. Butter, please, we said. "Nq butter, said the waiter. 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