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Show Iac The Cache American. I'trnn. Cache County, Utah r Roses Stenciled cn Old Furniture, Etc. Your old household furniture and shabby odds end erds may blossom with roses. Here, bn oid roeker if no particular period was painted blue and then stenciled in the Uoston roeker manner. The dJUEEKIS IPMUBEY TIIE STURT THIS FAR: Lieut. Cal. Frank Kuru, FI, lug laitini pilot, tells of that fatal day ahea the laps struck la lha Fhillpplart. Kuht of his mra ata killed Beeini for shelter and Old M, his favorlt FI, lag Fortress, Is demolished hefort It rsa gel off lha ground. They atrapa to Australia, spend Christmas day thert, and shortly niter General Hrerelon orders them to taka lha bombers la Java. From there they aurl an Right lor Davao, lha Philippines. They set great of ships below them Pearl Harbor set up, but Settlers coma op nod ark-argets hot Tbry make Ilia bomb run, the bombs sra flicked out on by oua, the bombardier ahouta "bombs away," and tbtyiura and speed lor bom. with an altitude of about 0.300 feet But about eight o'clock we hit a tropical front which was a nightmare fog so dense you could hardly see to light the tip of your cigarette. "When we saw it coming ahead, each V apread out a little, to we wouldnt collide. Only we didn't dream how dense and how long it was going to be. "It we like trying to fly Inside a giant bale of cotton so dense that when you looked out at the side you could barely see your own wing tips. And looking straight ahead, that bale of cotton aeemed tightly packed against your windshield. only like It was a dull flat the cotton 1 Imagine theyd apin winding sheets out of. And you'd stare into the windshield, trying to see how close you were to your wing man, but there would only be that flat white, squeezed tight against your windshield, muffling everything. Then all of a sudden, Uie wing of the plane ahead would come surging into view out of that winding sheet, so terribly big and close that you would frantically jerk back all four throttles to cut your power, and begin fishtailing your rudder to slow the big brute down a little, praying that by this you'd miss crashing Into the plane ahead at least by a few yards. "Wed been fighting through it on Instruments, because Inside that cot- gray-whit- and then stenciled with pink roses. A vine design of pink rambler roses was stenciled on the cream colored walls around the windows. The lamp base shown in the sketch was made from an old milk can. This can as well as on old paper parchment lamp shade, a chest of drawers and a footstool were painted cream color and then stenciled with smaller roses. CHAPTER JX 1 poured on every ounce of power we had. and was about to turn tor th getaway when I saw. Just in time, that old Jim. who had dropped his bombs before 1 did, had already started his turn to get olT the target a tew seconds before me. The next thing I did was to call down to the bombardier and the navigator to come on up and tell me what we'd done to the Japs. "They said it had been a sight to watch. A few of the Jap cruisers NOTE: These rose paltern to designed that they may be used fur aiencila or and destroyers had managed to get under way, and their wakes laced may bo traced and pointed freehand according to color and direction are availthe water in great spirals and sworls able by mall at 15 cents. Large, imall as they tried to dodge the bombs. and medium rose motif at well a the chair bark design and vine are contained Aside from these few, they said, on Pattern No. 200. Addresi: we'd caught the Japs absolutely If there had been enough MRS. RUTH WVETII SrEARS . of us. we could have blown a chunk New York Bedford Hills out of their fleet they would never Drawer IS have recovered from. Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. "As it was, they had watched four 260. direct hits on a Jap battleship, seen Name pieces of debris flying in every diAddress rection and smoke starting to billow up. In addition to this, our squadron had sunk three smaller craft two cruisers and a transport They said our bomb pattern had churned the whole area white with spouts of foam, and what few ships ABOUT had their power up were running around like crazy. They said thousands of skilled personnel had been killed or drowned, and also that we had torn hell out of the dock workers and docks at Davao Harbor. "Only I don't have time to gloat Seriousness of tho truck tiro long, for something approaching us will bo appreciated shortogo from ahead catches my eye through when it it known that 34 of the windshield. Its practically flyretho country's largast citios ing our course and our altitude, exceive all thoir milk by motor cept that it's olT to the left But am trucks. I seeing a ghost? It can't be what I Underinflation is a voracious waster think it is, a Messerschmitt 110, the of tire rubber. A check on Michigan kind that Ernst Udet told me all war workers cart recently showed about in Berlin when I visited there that more than 15 per cent were in 1934. There cant be a Messer-schmi- tt underinflated. 110 in this hemisphere, but what else could it be with that Rubber and processing represplit tail? sent about 40 per cent of the cost of manufacturing a pop"He doesnt alter his course and I dont alter mine; and after he's ular sixo automobile tire. passed the point where I could set motor bus was Tho first rubber-tire- d up a collision course with him, I In in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1900, operated begin to come to my sehses, to realIt was used for sightseeing purposes. ize that I'm the pilot of a Flying Fortress and my job is to get home safely tvith these boys and this plane, which was never designed to engage in dogfights with Messar-- ' schmitts. "We got back to Malang feeling pretty pleased with ourselves, said Frank, "and I personally felt I had made headway settling my old Philippine score. But in Java we found there were troubles ahead, and the least of these was that our Navy was accusing us of bombing their ships. They didnt say any of them had been hit, just that theyd had to beat off an attack, and it occurred to me that this might explain all those fireworks which came whooping up under our chins through the overcast that night over the Celebes Sea. But we were never sure. "So we said, Then why dont you Many tell us where your ships are going Insects to be? but it seemed that had never been done a ruling from the Navy Department in Washington. I guess on those guys must take some kind of oath never to tell anya bomb-sigVegetables to anybody who doesnt wear thing Flowers & A black shoes. Shrubs 'But plenty more was going on. unruai.m..-'It developed that our smash at the Tobacco A Chemical Corp, Jap fleet in Davao had been alIncorporated most too successful. Because Davao Louisville, Kentucky was no longer a safe base for them, they had apparently boosted up schedule by two or three their Earth Shrinking The earth is shrinking at the weeks. 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They set fast! e - OUSEHOLD rtr of Borneo, moving down into Macas- sar Strait, and it was clear they intended to clean out Borneo not only because of our advance bases there, but because they wanted the rich oil fields at Tarakan and Balak-papa- n on the eastern coast of Borneo, where the oil is so rich they say you can pump it right into the bunkers of ships. Of course theyd built up big oil reserves which they had bought from us before Pearl Harbor, but now they were out to grab off some fields of their own. And who was going to stop them? It was up to us to try, because we seemed to be the only force the United Nations had in that area big enough to tackle the Jap fleet We were briefed before dawn told everything that was known about this big Jap gang of ships off northeast Borneo and at 6:30 in the morning nine of us took off from the Malang Field. We planned to fly over the Java Sea and then inland over Borneo, carrying to start T?; The gallant Dutch are burning up their Borneo oil fields. ton bale you couldnt see stars or ocean, and it took so much hard flying that I was having my handle the power for me. If I thought I was dropping behind the rest, maybe I would get lost and have to go over the target alone, which by now we knew was a dangerous business, Id say to him, 'All right, give me a little more mercury now about four inches. Then when Id catch a glimpse of the plane ahead Id say: Okay, now you can bring it back to thirty inches. Were sitting okay I can see him fine. And I could for a minute or so. "Without warning I break into the clear. I havent climbed over that cloud, but instead have flown out of one of the walls of an enormous cloud canyon and am now flying around in the clear air between the precipices. "Ahead of me looms the other canyon wall. Maybe its thirty miles away, maybe fifty you cant ever judge the distance of a cloud, because they dont come in standard sizes. But cloud canyons like this one are one magnificent sight that you never see any place except in the high skies. "Because, you see, the morning sun was slanting down from behind me, over the top of the canyon wall out of which I had just come, to n hit the top half of the wall ahead. That top half might have been built out of burnished silver feather beds piled one on top the other, and yet you looked again and it seemed to be so firm it could be carved of glistening ice or marble. "I am wondering if old Jim is also looking at all this when suddenly his voice comes out of nowhere into my earphones. " Connally to Kurtz, he is callco-pil- cloud-canyo- ing. Kurtz answering say. Connally, I Have you broken into the clear yet? he asks. Into the clear, Jim, at 14,500. Now Im turning onto 270 degrees. That means Im turning west to fly down that canyon to see if I cant catch sight of Jim, whose voice is so loud in my ears. Suddenly I see a single Fortress ahead there in the canyon. I pick him up when the reflecting sun hits his uptilted wing. He is circling. I think I see you. Jim, I call. Continue to circle.' I head toward the plane and fall in on its wing, HARSH IhTS I W.N.U.TUTUftK 111 streaked old window shade and an old tin tray were also painted blue BOTE- Sfvco continuing the long slow circle Inside the canyon in the hope we'll pick up some of the others, and won't have to go In on the target alone. Meanwhile the radio operators of the two planes have started talking to each oilier by winking their Aldis lamps back and forth. We're o near the target I don't want to use the radio any more than necessary. And Just then I spot a third plane about 500 feet below us and farther west down the canyon. Just as I'm wondering which one it is. my radio operator reports that the plane were circling on isnt Jim at ail, it's Bill Bohnakcr. So we drop on down the canyon and aure enough, that third plane turns out to be old Jim. I can read his number plain now on his tall. Now there are three of us in the circle, wondering what to hell has become of the other six. We haven't got the gas to stay In this golden dream castle much longer. But Just then my radio operator comes In with a message from Combs, the leader. God knows where he Is, but he's telling us, Continuing to target and hes sending it out by key, where he can use code, because he daren't use voice so close to the target as he must by now be, because most of these damn Zero pilots seemed to have graduated from Los Angeles High School and understand English as well as you do. "All right, continue it is, so now we plunged back into that damned front the opposite canyon wall and the gray mist packed down around my windshield again. We continued to climb In that deathly whiteness-fi- rst one wing and then the other surging into my view. I flew it for forty-fiv- e minutes and decided It was just too much to rick crashing Into each other when we were so close to the target So without any message to Jim or Bill I decided I'd spread out I flew 45 degree! for thirty seconds, then back thirty more seconds, and then continued on the old course flying on Instruments, of course. But now that we were staggered both in altitude and In interval, it wasnt so bad. "Finally we broke out into the clear at 27,000 feet at a quarter after ten and discovered we had lost Interval only by a very little. But I was groggy wed been on oxygen for four and a half hours already. "But the weather was still playing tricks. Now the mist was coming in great tufts, thicker than cotton wadding, while below us was a thin layer of overcast. "We were getting close to the target now. Should we climb higher? There wasn't much point, because if we did, that overcast layer might thicken so that we couldn't see the target, and wed have to come down below it to unload. "But wheres Bill Bohnaker? I look back and see that hes very slowly peeling off. I wonder why. Probably supercharger trouble. Then I think to myself, There he goes, and Id hoped maybe at least three of us could go in together. Because k idea in my mind is that the score isnt settled yet, and if that target is open at all. Ive made up my mind Im going in. And I think to myself, Here we go again, Jim, just you and me. "About this time I hear a gunner on Combs ship theyve broken radio silence, which means theyre on the target saying, Lots of enemy fighters sighted! But theyre still far ahead, out Here we are again, in of sight a staggered attack the stragglers to bear the brunt of what the first flights stir up. We ought to know better, but still Im going on in. "The weather gets crazier and crazier these enormous tufts not stratified at all, but floating around at almost any altitude. And my copilot seems to be fascinated by a big black one that isnt shaped quite It might be like a thunderhead. one of those Dakota tornado funnels, only it doesnt revolve. "Then suddenly he says, staring at it: Hell, Frank, that isnt a cloud at all look! I follow his finger, and down at the base of that cloud, on the ground, is a crackling, flaming oil field! The gallant Dutch are scorching the earth for fair burning up their Borneo oil fields right in the face of the advancing Japs, millions of dollars worth of it. Imagine all of East Texas crackling and pouring black smoke into the sky. "We cant stop to watch a billion dollars go up in black smoke. The Dutch are doing their job and we have ours, which just now is scanning for fighters. I realize that in this weather and so close to the target they might be anywhere, only for some reason I never think of them when my No. 1 starboard engine starts jumping around in its mount, rattling, the whole plane. "I only curse my luck and ask, If we were going to have engine trouble, why in hell couldnt it have been on the way home instead of now, when were about to begin our run over the target? "I watch the oil pressure drop sickeningly, and still it doesnt dawn on me what hit that motor. Im just sore at it for letting me down. 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