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Show The Cache American. I ojran. - mx- -' '' C -?sLM HJIEIEEI S FES.s'lKX.'HAitl .WHITE IE- OT Next day we beaded out over the Java Sea toward Borneo and, following Inatructiona, found a likely looking river, dropping down to low altitude, and began following it back upcountry, and then, Juat on ached-uiwe made out Samarinda Field in the aunlight In cpite of Its camouflage. And it was the best Job wed ever seen, better than Malang. Wed had practically no time for camouflage at all in the Bt here the Dutch Philippines. had hewed this field out of the teem ing Jungle uprooted the stumps, leveled it off, planted it with grass, and then covered it with wooden that would knock the stuffing out of any plane that tried to land through them. Only when you circled the field, out came a crowd of natives on the run I suppose they were wild men of Borneo the Dutch had tamed. They would remove the aawhorscs only from that particular runway you were supposed to use, and the minute your wheels touched the ground they'd start recovering the runway behind you. Right away we went to pilots meeting, where we lined out the mission for Davao Bay. "The Japs, we knew, seldom flew at night, but we were flying In a V of Vs. Jim Connally, George Schaetzcl. and I made up the third flight, which, I might point out, is the dirty spot, because in those days you could expect most Jap attacks from the rear. Then we started that long climb for altitude which means safety for the Fortress, a hell of a big and vulnerable target near the ground. But while we are still climbing, George Schaetzel is lagging. Engine trouble, we later found out George drops out entirely, which leaves Jim Connally and me alone to handle the dirty spot. "Presently the formation levels off, and then ahead of us we see an enormous black mass of weather in what is left of the dwindling twilight. Its laid out horizontally right across our path starting at about 12,000 feet, it seems to go on up forever. So what do we do? Our orders are to keep in formation, so we can all hit Davao at the same time, and not go over dispersed at intervals, where the Zeros, rising at the first alarm, can slaughter the stragglers. But if we go into this cloud bank, maybe it goes on for miles and well lose each other inside of it, and never be able to assemble for the attack. The leader decides well try to go around it, so, turning, we fly parallel to it. But it seems endless, and after flying for forty-fiv- e minutes, we see that in this attempted detour weve wasted precious gasoline our margin of safety to get to the target and get home Is down to almost zero. e, saw-horse- s Which means we cant go on. We returned to Samarinda, landed, gassed up, and then without any rest or sleep started to take off again for Davao at midnight. This time we were sure we wouldn't miss. Again we run into thick fog, went on Frank, when we go up next night. My Collvin and I fly alternately our eyes smarting and streaming from the strain and staring through the windshield at those formation lights of the planes ahead, not daring to lose sight of them for fear we will then be lost and alone in the night. As dawn breaks I see Broadhursts Fortress by the number on its tail. It is too late to go on into Davao, just two of us, so we turn and start mournfully back to Samarinda. At one oclock in the morning we again took off on the long flight to the target between four and five hours. For the first few hours we were lucky. The clouds were well stratified and we flew between two layers of them, so we didnt have to fly both weather and instruments. This time we arrive at the previously agreed point where we are turn and to make that come directly in on Davao, and as we swing up and over for that sharp bank, I get my only glimpse of the target, which ordinarily the pilot never sees in detail. From where he sits he can only see the sky and the distant horizon ahead. Its the bombardier who can look straight down and a little ahead, who pulls the plane in over that tiny pinpoint to be attacked. But now Im about to see it for myself just one look when my wing is cocked high in the air. And then I get my only glimpse out of the tilted side window, the city still asleep, the upper Bay of Page Seven - 3. hell that first flight haa done, but look up to aee If Comb has turned off the target yet. 1 must stay glued to that needle my la glued to It too, giving me the corrections on my run. It must be as carefully timed as a violin duet My bombardier below there needs the gentle touch of a violinist on hi controls snd I must follow with equally gentle pressurei on the rudder. If he gets excited, and in correcting an error, movet hit control too far, then, following that weaving needle, Ill push a pedal too far and well throw the Fortress out of her groove. I'm almost praying he won't do new. We've now roared In almost to this. Come on, boy. I mutter to our bomb-releas- e line, but Comba him, don't let It run down your agrees. We bank up and change leg, now! don't overcorrect! Now I take the risk of Just one over, now heading apparently for lower Davao Harbor. glance sway from the needle Peering out of the window on the through the windshield to see the second flight just going in on its bank, I get one glimpse of it and bomb-release line. The ack-ac- k Are, now understand the reason for the which for the first flight was too conchange the most tremendous centration of ships I ever saw in my high, is now breaking below the seclife. Everything, big boys, cruisers ond flight That meant they'll see they've bracketed us, and next time of all sizes, transports, submarines, they make a change in fuse down In bunched destroyers, gunboats, there dotting the water ao thick we below about the time our third couldn't possibly miss but now flight is going over theyll have us we're on our bomb run, and I'm square. Just then I hear a gunner shoutsteadying the plane down to go on the PDL ( Vilot't direction instru ing over the interphones: menu) To you it's just one of many Fighters, coming up at nine wavering needles on this big in- oclock! I can't see them yet won- dont dare co-pil- s CHAPTER VIII Owinty. Utah WN.U.TUTU8M THE STORE Till FAR: IJeot Davao ttlver in the flrit dawn light, Trank Kurt. Flylni Forir pilot, toll and then oh, lovely, lovely sight! ol 1I11I falal day ohm lb Jap slrurk la big boat anting well offshore Uia I'tulipptno. art I.lfbl ol hi m by a protecting circle of lulled la Old 9 brtora lb Fort could t all of them motionle, off tb irouad. Tba atop by atop oacapo destroyer, not a wip of smoke coming from a la dcarribcd, and how Cbrlal-Bia- a to Weve caught them asleep day la tpenl by V. I. ffycr la funnel Antlralia. But Kurtt It worrylnf about with no steam up, the Japa are tnor tao Port oa a mlaaioa. Radio report Ing like so many Pearl Harbor been this Is what comra from ffrharud tayiof bo'd b la brass-hatalter dark tilth ona body aboard and waiting fori n Braro-tobate ambulance ready, ticncral But now come a change. Over landa oa llalr belor Field tad order I hear Stone, bomall bomkert moved lo lava at one. Kurta my interphone to reackrt well eamouffafed deld la lava, bardier of the lead plane, calling Combi, who is leading us. lib load of bomba. Deacrtbea aoclal ayatem ol tb Dutch. ' Do you mind if we change over, air?' he ask. '1 see our real target Col. fiehe stagescreenItrAdio By VIRGIN'! 1 VALE Boltstod to torn Nppf Union. I ACK BENNY'S feeling that J he hadnt been given ade by quate publicity, and that Dot Hope and Jimmie Durante had, brought up a reminiscence about Hope. Someone said that Hope works at it that, if he sees four soldiers on a street comer he grabi doea a ahow for them "Back in 1938." said somebody else "Bob was doing a aummer flll-l- i how, and we never could find hlnr when wed scheduled Interview, be lause he'd be off somewhere dolnf 1 He did benefits foi benefit. itanoinf t pianist and ihurches, for clubt. for everybody who wanted him. He thought w were crazy to expect him to apenf Ime on a newspaper Interview wher he could be working hard, for noth tog. for someone else." 1 "Columbia Presents Corwin" itepped right to the top with the lrst broadcast; those Tuesday night rogrami have broken down the of people who tay haughtily hat they never bother to listen te Ol my broadcasts but music. tourse, Norman Corwin long since 8574 12-4- 0 pink and white checked cotton. Make the collar and cuffs of sheer organdie. Pattern No. 8574 Is In tlsoa 12. 14, IS, IS. 20 and 40. Sire 14. abort sleeve. yard of 39 Inch matcrlaL der where theyre coming from. Maybe off a carrier. Then why didnt we make a run on that? May- strument panel. But It's hooked up with the bomb sight in the compart' Seed your order to: be Cecil did. and missed. Maybe my bombardier sees it and we are making our run on it. No, I think, theyre probably off the ground. The Japs have probably got the countryside around Davao laced with landing strips by this time the enterprising little (Lay your natch doun on the table in front of you. At tuehe o'clock the hour hand paints straight ahead. At three o'clock it points to the right. At nine o'clock it points to the left.) NORMAN CORWIN Now my own gunners are talk' ing: Theyre coming up in a long, rade radio history; he has always slow spiral like hornets out of a tad new ideas, and is a pioneer in nest coming up so straight you can adio technique. He has wofl prac-icall- y This all possible awards. even see their bellies. I get the first rumble of the antiaircraft fire as teries of dramatic presentations, the ship flutters. A quick glance lone with excellent actors, ought to ahead shows the puffs are right on ring him a special one, and a host f new listeners. our level now. Then I get mad again. Because Marie MacDonald's going through it said in our schoolbooks that the he Hollywood "streamlining procJap antiaircraft fire couldn't hit any- sss voice lessons, dramatic coach-ng- , thing above 18,000. Here we are, lessons, having her hair dancing laying it to them from almost twice lone a dozen different ways that altitude, and theyre putting It to playing a nice part in right back up to us. Guest In the 3unt Strombergs Then I get a feeling of exulta- 3ouse. Before going to Hollywood tion. Because down under us and wo years ago she was soloist with not far ahead now is that Jap Pearl Tommy Dorsey's band and specialty Harbor setup big ships with stone-col- d lancer and singer at two smart boilers. Now they must be run- 'Jew York night clubs. ning frantically around the engine rooms trying to stoke the fires and Nobody can say that John Carra-lin- e get steam up, knowing while theyre Isnt versatile. lie has the too that late just as its hurrying new role in Wallace eavy they knew at Pearl Harbor, but all Gold Town." Movie Beerys know goers you can do is hurry, so you do it lim by his work in Stagecoach," anyway. Well, weve got them where Reunion in France, etc. And hes we wanted them, even if there are n been touring In only ten of us got them where they recently repertoire! had Old 99 just about a month ago. Then I jump, for the ship quivIf you had visited a rehearsal of ers from a burst of fire from our 3BS Crime Doctor" you would own Then guns. quickly hink stumbled onto a bunch youd another and another. Zeros comf small boys playing cops and rob-ering up, banking to come in and rake Take that bang! bang! us with their fire? But when nothing roure dead!" you hear, but its a is said of them over the interphones, I know my boys are only firing lit- frown man saying it. Its all of the shortage of blank bul-et- s tle bursts to warm the oil in their the lack of a reasonable and guns, making sure the guns wont !acsimile. s There are enough am when we are really hit by fightfor performances, but not for ers. ehearsals. Suddenly the planes nose lurches to and the and left, upward hardly Connee Boswell, the Blue network have I straightened her out onto has been appointed head even keel when she tries to make tongbird, nation-wid- e morale boosting another twist. It's the blast from f a of who have "ar-ive- d people ack-acfire invisible billows of the despite physical handicaps air sent out by each explosion, and Sonnee has been an infantile paral-rsi- s now its as rough as though we were victim since childhood. bouncing in a Model T over a Missouri dirt road three days after a Twentieth Century Fox did the rain. At my side my copilot, who has lountry a service when they bought been looking out through the wind- icreen rights to Winged Victory, shield, hollers: Jims bombs are on he army air forces show now play-n- g to packed houses in New York. their way. I dont dare take my The cast of 350 goes to Hollywood eye from the needle. Just then I get the click from text month, starts the picture in fune. Its a swell show, amusing, my own bombardier. Our bomb-ba- y The cast doors are open now I feel the nformative, Deludes a number of men wbove on the and with plane, slight drag nade pictures and done radio work, my rudder correct for it, and then that double click on the interphone ts well as Corp. Layne Britton, a make-u- p man who made which means hes telling me: Ship ormer Joan Robert Taylor, Crawford, ip level, Frank, please. And I dont Sreta Garbo, Walter Pidgeon, and answer except with my feet so firmiven did his stuff on Charlie Mcly but gently on the rudders, giving him that absolutely level bombing Carthy! platform he has to have if were to Fannie Brice, who once was a hit the target. itar in the stage Ziegfeld Follies, And at last the precious amber as been signed Metro for its light glows on my instrument panel icreen version of by Follies. She the which means he's now actually flickfill appear in a sketch, Sweep-itakeone the bombs and off, one, by ing and will also do her famous I keep my feet so softly on the Snooks routine. Baby rudders that they hardly touch, so as not to give the tiniest sidewise statist ODDS AND ENDS-Ra- dio throw to the bombs. Up in the cockare. trying to discover if any other pit we hold our breath. We know t etwork announcer beats Milton Cross down below the bombardier is flickecord; the chief heckler on Chamber at Music Society of Lower Basin Street ing them off four Is on his 23rd intervals. d year as announcer . . . Then as he calls, Bombs away! Dorothy Shay has arrived originally at that split second we quit working ippearing as guest on CBS Carnival, the for the Government and begin to xhes note a permanent member of and Alex Templeton dime, work for our wives and families. Morton Could . . . News Front, fifth Because that means the last bomb if This Is America series, is dedihas left the plane and we can now cated to 320 war correspondents, 16 of doors, and our chom have lost their lives close the bomb-ba12 years objective is now only to get home tgo George Sanders gave a piano recital for television; he plays and sings safely. in Action in Arabia . (TO BE CONTINUED) SEWING ClRrt.15 PATTFRN DEPT. 119 Near Montgomery Street 8587 10-2- 0 Flower Applique. 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Since we're bringing up the rear, Cecil is about nine miles away, and his big Fortress looks about the size of a wren. That sky ahead is filled with dirty ack-ac- k soot-gra- y puffs, making a spotty layer above him. The Japs on the ground have cut their fuses ;iust a little too long to pick off Cecil, but I know that in a very few seconds more Im going to get a I pray closer view of this ack-acCecils bombardier wont miss, although hes too far ahead for us to Damn it. see his bombs leave. Stone, now lay em down the alley, boy! But that kid wont miss; hes one of the best bombardiers in the business. Now hes laying his train, Pearl Harbor style, on those Japs, who are lying there without steam up only again Im raging. Here we are, with a Pearl Harbor setup for a target, but only ten of us, while the Japs hit Hawaii with many scores. My navigator has laid aside his tools in the compartment below, and now comes crawling up through the trapdoor to squeeze back through the bomb bays, between the rows of bombs and gas tanks, into the radio compartment, where hell man a machine gun against Jap fighters. There's no interphone talking now except between gunners. Weve broken radio silence the hell with it now. We see them down there and of course they see us up here. Anything we can do to bring the formation in right is okay. So now the earphones crackle with the excited cross talk of machine-gunnerall peering out their windows on the lookout for Zeros. I take a quick glance out of the side window to make sure Im not ahead of Jim. Ive got to stay even with him so my gunners can protect his tail and his gunners can protect mine. And I wonder how in a small lump of VapoRub on your tongue and feel the comforting medication throat-bath- ing slowly trickle down your the irritated membranes Slimly Pretty. 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