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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH as cssaaowm dJIUEIEBJS EDIIE imdDUIIDILY Amite i WHITE FAR: Lieut. CoL a Flying Fortress, Frank tells of that fatal day when the Japs struck In the Philippines. Eight of his men were killed while fleeing for shelter, and Old 99, with many other Forts, was demolished on the ground. After escaping to Australia, what is left of their squadron flies to Java, where they go on many missions over the Philip' pines and the Java sea. Java is invaded and becomes untenable. The Dutch general grants permission for U. S. fliers to evacuate to Australia, if they will first strafe Jap landing barges, which is done. They leave for Australia in an overcrowded Fortress, reach Broome airfield, circle, and come in- - Then THUS Kurtz, pilot of I began to find out about didnt manage it until the day before Australia. Those guys are like our Westerners pioneer types, except bigger. When we got twenty miles out of Broome the road ended entirely. After that nothing at all. We had to push those trucks through sand, and make long detours around marshes. Even our drinking water had to be carried in the trucks. They talked about passing three ranches. We did, and I discovered they were the only three houses between Broome and Port Hedland.' A million acres is nothing to an Australian. The country looks like West Texas, and is covered thinly with what they 'call gum trees. CHAPTER XX Theyre like eucalyptus in the States. The oniy sign of life was kangaroos. Presently the old who too care of this shack and also Finally I got to Melbourne, where ran the general store strolled over, (he Air Force was gathering again and found they had me down as a and we began to talk. ! Had any trouble around here? deserter, but it wasnt any trouble getting that explained. I asked him. I got out of Java by boat, said No, he said. Jap planes come They loaded us on a over once in 'a while. Over here, the Gunner. sometimes over Wyndham and Port train at Jockstrap and took us to some town whose name I never did Hedland too, they say. where a Dutch freighter was learn, What do you mean, once in a ' sheep-ranch- salt-wat- er er while? The last one was just last night, since you mention it, he said. Came over very high, early in the morning. So at breakfast I mentioned it to the officer in charge of the field (a new man, just out from the States). Did you know, sir, the Japs had a recco plane over last night? And went on to say that we had quite a bit of stuff here, and while of course the crews were terribly tired, maybe it should be moved out. He listened, anti because I was on edge, his hesitation somehow annoyed me. But he finally said maybe I had a point there. And thinking about it, he finished his breakfast. I was glad when we got out of there after breakfast for 4, B-2- out. They swam for thirty-tw- o hours, one of them giving up in sight of shore. The other told us what it had been like inside there when those bullets came smashing through that packed crowd, and a few seconds later when those dying and wounded were all struggling not to drown as the water came in. That day the Japs got another on the ground (it had been the one General Brett himself used), a three Forts, a DC-- 2 and a DC-Lockheed but the worst were the nine Dutch flying boats they caught out in the harbor. About- forty or fifty people were killed on them, mostly women and children. Finally the officer in charge told us: We expect planes in between now and midnight, but we dont know how many. Were compiling a priority list, but if your name isnt called by two oclock, I advise you to get out of here quick, and ,the best way you can, even if you have to walk and its a long walk. He turned out to be right. I fooled around until 2:30 and then, when my name hadnt been called, nine of us decided wed string along with a civilian contractor whod offered us a lift. He had thirty men and five Ford trucks, and said he was headed south down the coast for the nearest town, called Port Hedland, two hundred miles away. The Army had some emergency rations hidden in the woods, so we helped ourselves to enough of those to keep us on the trip. B-- 24 3, - Wa-vel- B-2- 8. The emperor of what country his lost throne after five regained 1. What metal has the highest 1941? in years melting point? The Answers 2. What is an ampersand? 3. What do the English mean 1. Tungsten. when they say: Ikes Snow 2. The short and sign (&). d, 3. The provost marshals balls? 4. Is an armadillo classified as MPs who a marsupial or a mammal? roam London looking for AWOLs. 5. On the battlefield, what is 4. A mammal. meant by a dragon wagon? 5. A tank transport used to haul 6. What name is given to the disabled tanks to a repair depot. 6. Banderole. small flag flying from the mast7. A large American lizard. head of a ship? 8. Haile Selassie of Abyssinia. 7. What is an iguana? The Questions . white-helmete- white-gaiter- The only sign of life was kangaroos. Wed see half a dozen a day. waiting to take out fifteen hundred of us. They told us we were bound for Perth, a town in Southwest Australia about the same location and size as San Diego in the States. Alongside us at the dock was a troopship of Aussies from Singapore. Before that theyd been in Egypt hadnt been home for years. Their boat was bound for Adelaide, way round on the other side of Australia-same location as Miami. But lots of them lived in Perth. When they heard we were going there, they all skipped ship to come aboard with us. We divided our food and lent them our mess kits. Theyd lost everything at Singapore. They probably caught hell for it, but they didnt give a damn. The first day out we sighted a Jap plane, but it stayed up for a while, watching us. We had stuck machine guns in the belaying-pi- n holes, and kept the soldiers hidden below decks so they wouldnt know we were carrying troops. Our gunners were hidden, too.' But when this Jap started down to strafe, one of our gunners gave the show away by opening fire too soon otherwise we would have got him. We zigzagged for five days, and then at Perth were loaded into a troop train for Melbourne. I was in the coach next the engine, and the Australians couldnt do too much for us. The engineer drew a can of hot water from his boiler and made us some tea out of his strictly rationed because it apologizing supply, wasnt stronger. I guess I was about the last one of us to arrive. Not by a couple of weeks you werent, said Harry Schrieber, the Because navigator, indignantly. what about me? We werent worried about you, Harry, said Frank with a ' grin. We thought you were dead. Way back in the Philippines, when Jack Adams plane didnt come back to Del Monte Field from that mission. We had given you up rtionths ago. What had you been'doing, anyway?. Trying to get out of the damned And I Philippines, said Harry. self.' Wed defended Java by pounding the Japs from Borneo. The Japs had not dared send their transports and landing barges through until theyd taken our advance bases and held air control over the Java Sea. The Australian Air Force was as anxious to move into this outlying island chain as we were. Early in April theyd wanted to seize Lae on New Guinea, before the Japs had had time to dig in on' its north coast. At that time the Japs had only about four hundred men in the area, and it would have been easy. But we lacked the men and the ships the Japjs pressed on and presSolomons, ently took; Tulagi in the our supply ' lines home. threatening ; . (TO CONTINUED) ; ; For gilts and you. Pattern 7041 contains a transfer pattern of embroidery, necessary - pattern pieces; directions; stitches. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: handles a little differently. Id flown our Ds out from the States, through the Philippines and Java, and Ive always felt the old Swoose was just a few miles faster and answered the controls a little more smoothly than the others. So now, as pilot and crew of the commanding Air Force Generals plane, we in the Swoose were making weekly trips into the war zone from Headquarters far down in Melbourne, up to Darwin and Port g Moresby, which were then outposts on the battle line. The General would average sixty hours a month in the air thirty of them at least in this combat zone. To get him in and out of it, the Swoose often hit1 150 air hours per month. At Moresby it was never safe to leave the Swoose on the ground by day. Wed sneak in at night, leave the General, and be off back to air-mind- ed . TO MAKE going out on missions. But when it came to which D we would pick, it had to be the Swoose, because there was no other left. Every plane, even of the same model, never Australians versus Americans. The cleavage was ground-minde-d versus thinking. The Australian air generals saw eye to eye with our American air leaders. Likewise the infantry generals of both armies thought alike. And there was much to the infantry side of the argument. After Java fell, Australian civilians were panicky. Thousands of Australian boys had gone out to die in Africa and Singapore. Now the danger had suddenly rolled down on the Homelands. Not in New Guinea, or Tulagi, or Guadalcanal, or even in Darwin, which, although on their own continent, is to the average Australian as remote as the Aleutians seem to New Yorkers. They think of Darwin as a tiny outpost separated from them by thousands of miles of impassable desert. They wanted the soldiers near the great cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where they could hear the marching and the military bands. This was also sound infantry strategy. The only populous parts of Australia are down in this southeast corner. We didnt yet have many battalions, supply problems were enormous, so our infantry generals agreed with theirs and with their civil leaders. They wanted to keep the army near valuable objective, not scatter it out across seas and jungle islands, where supply problems would become formidable. But we of the Air Forces (both Australian and American) felt that to defend this continent we must build our fighter fields not in Australia itself, but on the outlying islands. Having these, with a ieyr ground troops to hold our airdromes against Jap landing parties, no fleet would dare venture through our air screen to threaten the continent it- ed . Sewing Circle Needlecraft San Francisco Box 3217 Enclose 15 cents (plus one cover cost of mailing) for Dept. 6, Calif. cent to Pattern Name- -. Address. MONEY CANT BUY more dependable aspirin faster-actinthan genuine pure St. Joseph Aspirin, world's largest seller at lty. Why pay more? Big 100 tablet size for only Sfif. g, j ! I . Townsville by dawn, coming in to pick him up again the next night. Sometimes the General would just have time to scramble aboard while we cleared the field as the alarm your apron blossom with embroidered flowers, and you sounded.' He was bound he wouldnt wont want to hide if the doorlose the Swoose.' We now began to get a peek out bell rings. Add bright ruffles, and Over the top at the broad picture of your apron rivals the dress it this Far Eastern war. There were differences over strategy, but it was bourne. Skiles had asked the officer in charge when he could take off. But he gave Skiles to understand we B-2- General MacArthur did the sixteenth of March I think it was. Harry was the last man to come, said Frank, and now that the gang was together we could start doing business. You see Lieutenant General Brett, who had been commanding the United Nations Air l, Force under British General who was supreme commander, needed a plane to take him around the war zone. His 4 had been lost at Broome, remember. Colonel Eubank recommended me to General Brett as his personal pilot and senior air aide, and I selected the crew. Of course when it came to picking the plane itself, the General ordered a D, because all the Es with tail guns were needed for combat and he wanted those planes saved for the boys who would be A quiz with ansWers offering information on various subjects far-flun- Mel- were evacuees just like the others. When we were given our passenger list, we could go.r " So we stood around the plane from six oclock until 9:10, waiting for that list and those orders. At this minute Sergeant Britt happened to look up and hollered: 'Make a run for it, fellows here come some Zeros I Five o.f us who were standing back of the plane dropped into a hole qboqt fifty feet away, One Zero peeled off and strafed v ihq Fortress with incendiaries. It caught , fire immediately, then the Zero went on down and strafed a setting it afire. Then it turned .Andf' coming in directly over our hole from the rear, strafed them agan. It repeated this six times, cannon at also firing a us, which caved in our hole and covered us with dirt. When Sergeant Britt first hollered out, a big 4 loaded with twenty-si- x people had just cleared the runway. When the Zeros hit, it was out over the ocean headed for Perth. It had hardly had time to pull its wheels up and there was no room in there for them to swing a gun in' their own defense when a Zero caught up with it and dropped it in the sea. Two sergeants managed to get - W.K.U.TEATURES THE STORY . ' t We Have for Immediate Delivery ALL MAKES ALL MODELS Passenger Cars of Finest Quality Carrying Our Guarantee. ' ' We have NEW DODGE TRUCKS Natives of South Africa may not put all of their eggs in one basket, but in huge hampers they store a good deal of their grain. The average one, for example, holds 18 large bags of grain. 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