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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. UTAH 78 THE STOBT ME (TSJEEMS r-- IPE.TUEY THUS TAR: Lieut. CaL I saw it seemed like a bad dream. When we landed, all the crew assembled for the critique, each member dictating just what he had seen to the officer. Thats when I was credited with three of the eight Zeros we knocked down. After the critique no one had much to say. We were all thinking about what we saw happen. "They told us to go to the barracks and get some rest But an hour later I found that the whole crew had, one by one, drifted back out to the plane cleaning guns, improving gun positions, doing things wed suggested back in the States but no one had ever got around to CHAPTER XU doing. Throwing away those small cans, and Weve already lost altitude wait- inadequate ammunition could set a the guns so you rigging him boxed for the ing Major (wed In so he could stay with us and the whole box of ammunition in there, Zeros wouldnt tear him to pieces), figuring ways of putting more guns ones that and he seems to have developed en- in the nose And a cussing really pack punch. to down 23,000 gine trouble. Were hell out of the bottom turret It feet And I'm the lead bombardier. has remote control you look through But now the whole plan Is again a mirror and everything is backaltered: I get it over the command have to know exactand wards, you radio. Wero to lay them In chains ly where the is going before plane across this target So I set up the can line the sights. you bomb sight again, put the cross We'd found out our machine-guhairs on that cruiser. oil would freeze at high altitudes, It is a perfect run. I even have time te take my eye off the sight and we were figuring how to clean and fire bursts at two more Zeros and oil the guns so they would best as they attack from the front They start way out ahead, to the left and a little below us. Now, coming on in at me, they cross over and up, toward the center of my fuselage, their guns pounding, and then slip on back and dive straight down and away. I get one because he miscues. Then I Jam my eye back onto that bomb sight Everything is riding pretty the cross hairs right where I want them, the bombs about ready to be released. A second before the bombs leave my plane, I see that Jap cruiser starting to turn (hes figured our e line to the hair). Hes turning toward us as I watch the bombs go down. By the time they s afrived, the cruiser is through a turn of 180 degrees. The first bombs are falling short three of them. Now mine come two direct hits on the cruiser, the other two going over. The plane back of me gets some direct hits. My left wing mans string is barely in front of the cruiser, my right wing mans the string is barely behind it damned thing seems enveloped in bombs churning the water, and debris flying above the foam. Boy, that Japanese captain just turned the wrong way! But now our formation swings and heads for home. Zeros still swarming around us, and were still losing altitude to stay back to protect the Major, who seems able to use barely enough throttle to keep her in the air. After forty minutes the last Zero drops away; theyre Boy, that Japanese captain just short of gas and darent chase us turned the wrong way. any further. Presently, over the command ra- operate up there. You couldnt tell the officers from the men (rememdio: ber, we had no maintenance crews Robinson to Sklles. Go ahead. in Java; we did all the work ourSkiles answering.' 'Radio the base at Malang to selves) and my pilot had his coverhave an ambulance ready. We have alls on, installing an extra oxygen outlet in the talL After seeing what two badly wounded men aboard. had happened to Robinsons tail gunWe wonder who they are. One he figured if his tall gunner is probably the tail gunner, since ner, another man in the wounded, got we saw Robinsons plane taking so crew could go back there and they many tracers there. The other must would both stay on oxygen. be their radio operator, or else they The E of course was a big adh could have sent their own vance over the D. But any new message back to base. will have little things wrong Meantime our radio operator is model that you never find out until you to ambuhave the telling Malang take one up and fight it lance out. Our plane is now leading All through Java we did it all the formation. Major Robinson's just behind us. We've drifted slowly ourselves the officers right along with us, helping load bombs and down to 4,000 feet altitude, protectWe flew in weathing Robinson. Then, all of a sud- checUng valves. out wouldn't there er drive out you Robinsons den, plane swoops down beneath us about 1,000 feet, and the to the airport in back here. But incline sends it scooting on out in the Japs were flyiug it too; theyd front of us, heading a little toward come in strafing and wed have to the coast of Borneo. Is Robinson jerk our old mutts off the ground going to beach her? And now over quick. Anyway, said Frank Kurtz, we the command radio: Skiles to Robinson. Is there had stopped the Japanese there in Macassar Strait for a while. The anything wrong? our pilot asks. But there is no answer. We little Dutch Navy helped, but mostly watch. Now Major Robinson is mak- it was American air power. Wed ing a gradual turn, as though to sunk quite a gang of them, so the rejoin the formation. But halfway rest had to go home and lick their in the turn his plane starts nosing wounds, realizing they couldnt over, goes into a dive, goes faster-stra- ight move in on Java until they had air down at the sea. We controL This meant they would have watch, holding our breath. Just be- to clean us out of our advance fields fore he goes in, his tail elevator in Borneo and the Celebes. It blows off. The poor guy must have wouldn't be hard, for the Dutch had had the stick clutched back into his no troops to speak of on these isstomach trying to pull out of that lands. Everything had had to be dive, and the terrible air pressure withdrawn to hold Java. But it on those elevators ripped them off. took time for the Japs to take over Theres a huge splash flame a spi- our little advance bases at Samarin-d-a and Kendari, and being new to ral of black smoke, and a widening circle of yellows, reds, and black, war, we foolishly thought Time was which is burning gas and oil on that on our side. We were thinking of those thousand planes. We hadn't topaz-gree- n water. The second after it hits I call learned that Time in war is a Lieutenant Duphrane on the inter- treacherous ally who favors anyone who will use him. phone. But meantime Colonel Eubank My God, Duke, I said did you had hauled me down to the ground see that? Yes, he said. And then in a for a while to do a different job. minute he said. Thank God those Too many wars were going on. The Japanese were running a pretty good Japs didn't see it "The formation circles above the one, but against them were the dead Queen. We circle until the fire American Air Force, the Reyal dies away, peering down-a- t the wid- Dutch Air Force, the American, ening disk of oil. But there is no Dutch, and Australian navies, all sign of anything else on the surface. of us running wars of our ewn. "Until then it hadnt seemed like Finally it was agreed that every a battle just a game. But now I night theyd deliver to me in Surafeel like someone had kicked me in baya a safe-han- d message, giving the guts. There were guys on there the position of every American ship Id drunk with. We'd sat around in those waters. We'd swap inforand lied to each other. Td seen it mation about operations, so everyhappen but I couldnt believe what one would be pulling together. It er n bomb-releas- three-fourth- dot-das- Girl Infatuated With Middle-Age- d Married Man With Children itt ?. WHITE Trank Kurtx, pilot ot a Flyinjortreta, tells of that fatal Say when tbo laps (track la tho Philippine. Eight ot hi men were killed fleein for (helter and Old S3, with many other Fortreisef, wa demolished beior git could let off th (round. After escaping to Australia, what 1 left ot the squadron fliei to Java where they go out ea missions over the Philippines. The bombardier takes up the story and tells of a flying trip to Brazil, Egypt, Iraq, India and Java. A battle In the clouds 1b which swarms ot Zeros attack aa E model Fortress Is described, and la which th Zeros come out second best. Seven Zeros are shot down. i Kathleen Norris Says: was a liaison job, and since Td have to deal with Navy men so heavy with rank and gold braid on their sleeves they looked like they'd had their arms up to the elbows in scrambled eggs, the Colonel gave me a set of captains bars, so I could talk up to them. Presently I the was dealing with everyone Dutch and the British, too. The Dutch, for instance, were begging for help in Sumatra. Its that long island which parallels Malaya, pointing down in the direction of Java. The Japs werent in Singapore yet, but already they were swarming across the narrow seas from Malaya trying to grab the oil So the refineries at Palembang. Colonel sent the Forts. We got to Palembang the last week in January, said Sergeant The Dutch Boone, the gunner. there were certainly swell to us. There is a huge refinery in the town, and they took us to a club sponsored by Standard Oil Company a palace. All the club members would drop around to be sure the Air Corps had a place for the night. A Dutch officer took the rear gunner and myself to his quarters. Hed married an American girl, so he spoke good English. We had on only greasy coveralls, but he took us right into his quarters all The and mosquito-proofenative couple they had as cook and Bell Syndicate Betty's father promptly grabbed him by the collar and thrashed him thoroughly. By KATHLEEN NORRIS Browns have one Diana, aged Their two sons are in the navy. Theyve always been normal, reasonable people; they dont know what to do now that real trouble has THE home-cooke- fine-looki- struck them. The trouble is Diana and Lieut. Kronschmidt Baker. Kron is 42. He called on Diana after meeting her at a dance; he has called every night for three months. Diana is madly in love; the man says he is deeply devoted to her but he has a wife and three children. When Dianas mother discovered that he was married she almost died of shame, of pity for poor little Diana. Gently, tactfully, she told her daughter the dreadful truth. Diana answered composedly that she had known for weeks that Kron was married, and had called on his wife asking her to grant him a divorce. And from that moment things went from bad to worse. Diana's father, TO BE CONTINUED) anxious, over- worked, tired, brdered her from the house. Dianas mother, fearing she would go to Kron, went with her. After two days at a hotel they went back home; Diana furious, silent, stubborn. Misery reigns in the Brown household. Diana slips out every day and meets Kron. When he goes to New Mexico on duty she is going with him, she persists, married or not. Love like theirs, says Diana, is too rare and too precious to be thrown away on conventions. Case Requires Patience. All I could advise Diana's mother was to go on treating the case with patience and love. I told her that girls to whom love comes as a fever of infatuation could not hear reason; the wild flames burning in Dianas heart wont be put out with words. Shes too old to lock up in her room; too big to spank. So I told her mother to be understanding, be sympathetic, try to overcome by affection what could not be changed by force. That was some weeks ago. I think that now I might give Dianas mother a more effective idea. Another mother from an opposite end of the country wrote me what she did In a similar case, and Im not sure but what she was right. It seems that this other girl, named Betty, was also infatuated married charmwith a middle-ageer, and also stubbornly determined to wreck her life for his sake. Bettys mother, like Dianas, reasoned with the girl, sent for the man and talked to him severely, and finally went to see the wife. The girl in both cases was adamant, the charming man airly unconcerned and rather proud of himself, and the wife helpless. So Bettys mother allowed her to ask her Stanislaus to the house, Betty's father grabbed him by the collar and thrashed him thoroughly, and the policeman on the beat, having been warned in advance to be on the spot, saw a discomfitted suitor rush down the front steps and took both father and lover to the police station. The next morning one masher was marked for life as an unfaithful husband who had been thrashed by a girls indignant father. Stans wife then threatened divorce, she didnt like the newspaper notoriety, and Betty left at once for war work in another city. But recently Betty, now happily en- d HEARTBREAK AHEAD " Our love is too precious for conventions , says Diana Broun. She means her infatuation for a man of 42, who is married and father of three children. She threatens to go with him to New Mexico, where he will soon be stationed, as he is an army officer. She sli ps out and sees her Kron" every day, and has asked his wife to give him a divorce. What is Dianas mother to do? Angry remonstrances will just force the stubborn Diana to more secret liaisons. If she becomes convinced that her and parents are unreasonable, clinging to conventions she will leave home, follow her charmlieutenant. ing, middle-ageThen it will be too late for Dianas mother to do anything for her daughter but to try to shield her from the consequences of her folly when Kron gets tired of her and abarulons her. There h heartbreak ahead for Dissma. Miss Norris admits the difficulty of this situation. Tact and patience are about the only means the Rroienf have at their disposal. Sometimes drastic and dramatic measures bring results, however, sus this article describes. out-uor- n d gaged, has been home for a visit, and Stan wasnt divorced, so perhaps these drastic measures were justified. Lesser Disgrace Preferred. But you disgrace your girl! a mother might say, shrinking away from the mere idea of such an exposure. Well, she is heading for disgrace anyway, perhaps this way is the lesser evil. In Dianas case I am informed that the man and the girl are admitted lovers, have lived together. In Bettys case the affair had not gone so far. These are hard days on everyone, perhaps nowhere harder than upon the girls who go out to work at Lien's work, among men; any girl may manage her affairs to evade the watchfulness of even the most careful mother. So a Shocking awakening to the scurrility of a middie-ageman who wins the love and destroys the honor of a girl of 18 is sometimes a good thing. If she doesn't get that awakening in the sensational form planned by Betty's angry parents, she certainly will get it later, and much more painfully, when she realizes that the man for whom she cried and fought and threw away everything valuable in her life, is just a weakling, vain, untrustworthy, selfish to the core. When a boy puts his hand into the cash register or forges someones name on a check, he is brought up with a round turn in the juvenile court and all his life long his record is against him. Unfaithful husbands may well be forgiven occasional lapses, but when a man who is responsible for the welfare of a woman and children pushes their claims aside and destroys the purity of a passionate child of 18, promising that he will get a divorce and marry her, that ought to be actionable, and he ought to be thoroughly beaten. d Pullets Thrive in Field The best place o grow pullets in summer is in the wide open fields, says Dr. Willard C. Thompson of low-altitu- p Features. J d. d houseboy gave us the first meal we'd tasted since the war. "The Dutch officer was a big blond guy. He brqpghfc out clean pajamas for us, and some of his uniforms we could wear for dinner. He was depressed. Early in January he had evacuated his wife and child to Java for safety, although that seems queer to say now. He himself was staying behind, in command of native ground troops, to defend those refineries. He hadnt heard from his wife. You could see he was very much in love with her. Also that he didnt think much of the military setup they had in Sumatra, so he doubted that he would ever see her again. Hed been back on a visit to Holland just before the Germans came in. Since then hed had only one letter from his mother smuggled out. She had had a couple of German maids from over the border. They made good servants for the heavy work, but Just before the surprise invasion theyd been called back to Germany. It was the same, she said, all over Holland. So no wonder, he said, that the Germans knew the name of every Dutch officer in Holland. The morning of the invasion, the Gestapo would knock at the door, and when the officer opened it, would shoot him down in cold blood. This was why, he explained, the Dutch Navy was so Incapacitated for officers. He was very bitter. He was in wonderful physical condition been leading native troops through the jungles. Said his wife was high up in the Java mountains and hoped she was safe. Next morning we left on a mission and never saw him again. We came up a little later, said the Bombardier, and by the time we got there, the Japs were moving into the river's mouth. Just below Palembang. The weather was overcast a ceiling of 2,000, so we had to work down below that. None of us liked it, because a Fort is a hell of a big easy target so close to the ground never built for that As we came in, so close to the ground, our radio operator called Skiles on the interphone. he said, oxygen Captain, doesnt agree with me, but Im willing to begin chewing it any time now, and I broke in, You can say that again. Captain Northcott was leading the mission six planes we were, and when we sighted the target he called over the command radio, assigning our flight to a transport on the left. "It was a monster, a huge Maru liner which Ive seen as a luxury cruise boat tied up to the San Francisco docks. Suddenly she cut loose a hell of an antiaircraft barrage at us, all coming from this one transport a regular Fourth of July at three oclock in the afternoon. It was like looking down into a cone of fire, with this transport at the rivets, tip, and smoking red-ho- t they seemed like, whizzing up at us. They were rocking us around when suddenly we shuddered violently and almost went over on our back. An ack-ac- k shell had burst under one wing near the fuselage. Big pieces of it tore a huge hole Just where the wing joins the fuselage, and one embedded Itself Just a few Inches from Captain Skiles. "We were already on our run, almost at the release line, and the jar had thrown out the bomb sight it was completely Inoperative. But Id done some practice bombing at Muroc back in the States, so I said the hell with a bomb sight Id guess at it I wag goed and mad at the shaking-uwe'd got. ' All right, you xxx xxx xxx, here they cornel I hollered, and dropped four In rapid succession. They landed in a clusfeet from the ter about twenty-fiv- e transport The other four I released more slowly. Wed come down to 1,000 feet now, and that's low. WNU ' Rutgers University. 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