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Show The Cache American. Iijran. Cache County. Utah rage Seven W.N.U.TMTUfilf Tlll l frank KarU, pilot ol a llin g'orlrtti, trill ol that Ulal day bm tba dipt inirk la Uia rbilipplBri. Eight ol bii EAR: UruL Cal. screw to lighten it and then, turning the motors on full blast, had made Jump take-of- f from that little He a tandmeb strip. nra err kltlrd Srtmg lor akrllrr, and and went on in grabbed to Malang, Old H, with many ether Fortrrttrt, oat "The alarm in Surabaya Rrmolithrd oa lb ground. Aflrr nr apwas now going off regularly, someing o Australia, abat It Irlt ol tba squadron Rlra to Java, abrra tbry go oa times three times a day, because the many missions ovrr tba pbillpplnra and Java Sea was suffer than an old Matinar Strait. Srrgt Boont, gunnrr, sock with Jap carriers. Colonel Eutrill bow Qurrna dla. Nina lord ara bank was now faced with a real out looking lor Jap rarrlrra abra tbry The three main base for bn fly a lib problem. mrrt a Right ol our Forts were at Malang, Madiun Iba lala Too discover Oirm. lorgrd tbry " aura. Tba Jap plaora opra op and another town which was spelled oa tba Forta and Ibraa Jokyakarta, but the American boys at cloaa ranga couldnt chew this one. go they all Queens go doaa la flamra. gave It up and everybody Just called it Jockstrap. CHAPTER XV The Dutch had no system to detect planes coming In from over When that chute cracked open, the sea. Their only warning system the jerk pitched him out ot the har-tie- s was a tiny island about seventy-fivhead-flraand ai the chute bil- miles out. It had a radio, so Suralowed loosely back of the plane' fifteen minutes' noUce and baya got tail we saw him dropping down with Malang about thirty. hit clothe smoking, getting littler So what was the Colonel to do? and bttler. Oh, Heaven! I couldn't Our were badly overworked, look any more. so when the alarm sounded, if the "The plane wa settling faster, Forts took to the air the Zeros might in that steepening curve now, be- shoot them down, while if they cause it was all over. So we who stayed on the ground, the Jap bombhave seen a Fortress die in battle ers might blow them up. Never were can tell you how they do 11 They we able to keep more than twelve die like the men who fly them and planes in the air, even including refight In them would want them to inforcements, for we were losing die! They die like the great Sky them about as fast as they were Queens they are. And Queens die coming in, and a number were alproudly. ways under repair and therefore Just then I heard our pilot CapAlso we had some bad breaks in tain Strother over the interphones, telling Jim Worley, our bombardier, luck. One afternoon Lieutenant Ray Cox had his plane up on a high-alU- that he'd opened the bomb-ba- y doors, and for the bombardier to go back and salvo all the bombs and the gas tanks carried there. "Well Jim Worley Is about to obey, but just then he sees a Zero coming right In on us. head-oand his gun there In the nose is the only one who can handle this attack, so hes got to stay on it He gives her one burst and then starts to salvo his bombs and gas tanks, but theres a crashing sound, and the controls don't work. He doesnt realize a bullet has wrecked his controls doesn't know what has happened. Then all of a sudden Bang! there's a hell of an explosion Inside our plane, and dust, and the stink of gasoline. After seeing what had Just happened to the othet two planes, we thought It could mean only one thing. We must be on fire! And later on, ask me about that railroad spike. But somehow there were no flames, so we kept on pounding away at the Zeros swarming around us it was the only thing to do. What had happened was that a bullet had smashed into our compressed-oxyge- n tank, and also cut a gasoline .feed line, so that gas was spurting all over the cabin, but we didnt know it then. Finally the tail gunner, seeing gas streaming along the planes belly past him to trickle off the tip of the tail guessed what , had happened, and called out to the rest of us over the interphones for Gods sake not to smoke. With that cabin filled with pure oxygen and gasoline fumes, it would have been We saw him dropping down with a bad idea. Dont forget to ask me his clothes smoking, getting littler about that railroad spike. "When we got back to our field and littler. and were telling about it, someone tude test giving the superchargers asked our tail gunner if he wasnt a workover. With him in the cockscared when, right after watching pit was Johnny Hughes, who had those other two go down in flames, been checked off as a first pilot just that bullet burst our oxygen system after we arrived in Java. They with a big bang. No, he said, finished the test, and at two oclock 'there wasnt time to be scared. were spiraling down when Zeros But if someone had pushed a rail- came over to strafe the field below. road spike into my mouth, I would These strafing Zeros also had a top have bit the head of it off, clean and cover of Zeros hanging up at 18,000 sharp. might come feet, in case our The Flying Fortress was de- in to break up their ground party. signed for the high skies, and if Well, when the strafing began, you keep her in her groove, for her our boys in the control tower recrew shes the safest plane in the membered that Ray was up, and air and for her enemies the most they tried to tell him by radio to fly deadly. We found this out not from south over the sea for an hour, until any book, but we learned it that the Zeros were gone that was our day in combat, which is learning it usual procedure. the hard way. And we hoped it But Ray and Johnny, alone in wouldnt take too long for this les- this plane, probably intent on their son to percolate upstairs. test, must have had their headphones On the way home, said Frank off. Anyway they couldn't be Kurtz, three of the remaining Forts reached, although the boys on the hi.8 heavy afternoon rainstorm. ground tried frantically to let them Visibility and ceiling were zero, and know what they were coming down for hours they flew around the is- into. Finally they saw three Zeros land of Madura, off the coast of hit them at 15,000 feet. Ray immeJava, looking for a place to land. diately turned out to sea, while JohnWhen gas was almost gone they de- ny probably did what he could on cided to beach them. Luckily no the guns. But one gunner cant one was killed, but two of the three cover every side at once, and they were completely washed out on the didnt stand a chance against three seashore rocks they set fire to the Zeros. Next day the plane was found wreckage so the Japs couldnt find shot down and burned about twenty out anything about the planes. But miles from Malang Field. Lieutenant Fred Crimmons did a "Shortly after that, said Boone, magnificent job of setting his plane the gunner, we had a tough little down on the beach in the rain. He mission a night flight to bomb a made two passes, looking at his task force which was attacking gas in between, then squared away Jap one of the islands down toward Ausand brought her in she held firm, tralia. I forget which one it was if sinking only a little. 1 had the I ever knew that was the navigwrecking barge, with ators business. Six of us took off tools and Dutch engineers, on its from Malang, but before we started way before daybreak. They were for the target, we had to fly over having a little trouble with the na- to Jockstrap and load up with Dutch tives there they were warned bombs they were running low at against Jap parachutists, and our Malang, and the Dutch at Jockstrap boys had to yell at them a password had plenty. Then we took off at the Dutch had taught them to use if of eight oclock at night in some to we were shot down: Kancha the dirtiest weather I ever hope It means Our Army, they fly. In that country a storm at explained to us. night is so black its like going They worked a full day shoring into the closet under the stairs where up the plane, building a base of all the old overshoes are, and pulllogs and sand under it, clearing a ing the door shut. For our rendezrunway strip. And then, in Javas vous we turned on the wing lights. regular afternoon rainstorm, in But even with them it took us forty-fiv- e came old Freddy onto Surabaya minutes to assemble. Then we Field. He explained he'd stripped went up to 18,000 trying to climb the plane of everything he could un out, but we were still in that storm. THE STOBT air-rai- d "P-44i- e t, 's n P-4- Kom-pane- It was darker than the Intide of STAGEvSCREEHMDIO black cow, but every now and then the lightning would rip everything wide open the whole cloud around us would flame up, and you could see to read fine print In the cabin. We were like a bug in a neon tube. Then blackness would close In, and It would be a long time before your e yea could make out the little blue-pin- k exhaust flame of the plane next to you. "After about an hour we had plowed through the atorm, and were flying above scattered overcast down below us at about George heraft started in Follow the Universal's Boys he docs n Charleston and on Argentine number which he did in his stage debut, and in almost identical costume. His first professional dancing Job wa In one of the Needlerrxft San Francltra Enclose It cents (plus one cover coat of mailing) (or Seeing Cirri i:i7 Do I Dept. (, Calif. rent to Patient No top vaudeville act. Tilcer and Douglas, in 1932. And one of Uie things that cinched the Job was Raft's resemblance to Valentino, at that time the world's greatest screen attraction. In Follow the with Raft is Boys' Zorina, with whom he does Uie Argentine dance. 1.000, At 10.30 we were over the target, and we glided down to 3.000 feet to see what was going on. Through the hunks of clouds we could see the gun flashes of Jap warships lobbing shells Into that poor old town. Then we would see the flash when the shells exploded. 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We hated It leaving that poor old town burning while the Japs sat out there and tossed shells into her, without giving It even a little help but It bad to be. "On our return we found that storm had moved on down Java and was squatting right on Malang Field. The turf was soaked into apple jelly, and our pilot did a wonderful Job on the landing. We were worried, because we knew that single pound weight on the brakes torn slidwould start our twenty-fiv- e ing over that slippery field like It was the frozen surface of a pond. So to keep from piling up in a crash at the end of the runway (remember, we bad all our bombs aboard and couldn't dump them because they were precious), our pilot ground-loope- d her, so she would start sliding sideways in that muck. Skidding along, he waited until she had revolved in a turn and was sliding backward. Of course she would then have crashed tail-firinto the end of the field and blown up all of us, but he was able to stop her by gunning the motors. Even if the wheels couldn't bite into that slippery ground, the propellers could bite the air. It was neat. Another gripe we had on Malang Field was the food. The mess was in charge of the Dutch. They served only one hot meal a day, and this was always at noon usually hot soup with boiled beef and potatoes. But I only got to eat this hot noon meal three times I was always out on missions, which should give some idea how busy we were. They had baskets of food for us to take up in the plane pineapples, tropical fruit, and then sandwiches which were either a slab of cheese, or else raw bacon, in between two thick hunks of bread. We found this heavy stuff made gas in your intestines and just as you got to high altitude going over the target, this gas swelled up, giving you the gripes. So wed eat the fruit and throw the sandwiches away. Also Malay cooks dont know hot d food the breakfast eggs were always hard, and they'd bring out a No. 10 can of jam for a hundred and fifty men. What with getting two or three hours sleep a night, we all lost weight two of us lost nineteen pounds and Charlie lost and it wasnt scared twenty-threoff us, either. We all felt that with a decent meal we could do a lot more. So as much as we needed sleep, at eight or nine oclock at night wed take the Dutch bus into town to a restaurant owned by a Javanese, which had a Dutch waitress who spoke English, just to buy us a thick, rare steak. Americans have got to have red meat to fight on. Give them that ang theyll manage to sleep when they can. We finally took over the mess, but that didnt help much, because by then the field was being bombed regularly. The mess sergeant had his kitchen blown up three times in a single day, and this didnt improve the flavor of things. But the worst thing was, hed got hold of three truckloads of Reigel pale beer, and had the cases neatly stacked when a Jap bomb scored a direct hit, leaving not more than three dozen bottles. I never saw men any madder than we were when we came out of our foxholes and word went around they had blown up our beer. Theyd moved us over to Madisaid the Bombardier, un Field, "and we had your troubles and some more besides. When we first aror antirived there were no aircraft guns for miles to keep the Zeros up. But we did have three Fortresses out of commission we were using for spare parts. So Lieutenant McGee dismounted their guns, and Master Sergeant Silva and I decided to mount them in holes around the airfield. At least these would keep off strafers. tOOZ hat trinfer pattern, dir lor doll and clothe. bixletn cent in coins brings ou tin pattern. Due to an unusually larre demand and current viar eondiliona, slightlv more (line order (or a few ol la required In fillm the moal popular pattern number. Send your order to: By VIRGINIA VALE ftlad by Wrirn Nsppr Union. 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