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Show IS MY HJ) C-FD- r: Alter graduating lieutenant Robert Scott wins bis wings at Kelly Field and tabes sip pursuit flying. When the war breaks out be Is an instructor in CaiUornia and told be is too old for com bat flying. He appeals to several Gen. erals (or a chance to fly a combat plane, He and Anally the opportunity comes. child and says goodby to bis wife and bedies a bomber to India,' where he comes a ferry pilot, which does not apGeneral peal to him. He visits and Is promised a Kitty hawk, and soon Is flying the sides over Burma in a first Jap sUaing Kittyhawk. He gets his bomber and goes out on many lone ever enemy territory." as a second Chen-nau- mis-tio- lt . LT i V - NU RELEASE was to be the Task Force Com- - snow from a Christmas tree, and I mander and was to be ever the laughed hysterically as two figures Fighter Group and the Bomber ran from a pagoda. Force. That day I landed hack home tired H the Scotch 'hadnt given out, and happy. More orders had come woifld have got drurik that night for me: I was to go to Delhi before But instead I went on another straf- I went te China. I went there the ing raid in the late afternoon, and next morning with Long Johnny had to land after dark. Payne. So I took it out in action. I bombed Homalin and the railroad yards at When I had received my official Mongaung the next day, and strafed instructions from headquarters in the field at Myitkyina coming back, Delhi, and had been wined and dined During the ensuing days until the by good friends war correspond26th of June, I carried out attacks ents like Berrigan, Magoffin, and on barges near Bhamo, and on one I came on back to pack my Briggs trip went to Shwebo and almost to tilings in Assam. I tried to take the na-ul- . X Col. RobeH1 L. Scoff The story fbns from West Point History Made on New Years Day t Socks Easily Crocheted Bed Dishcloth Amusing and Practical 5809 Not only does New Years day mark the beginning of a new year, but of a new hope to many people in many lands. During time of war, it has always meant the period oi prayer for the safety of country and t loved ones. Many events of lasting importance have occurred in history on this day, including: -38 B. C. The era of the Caesars began. 1349 A. D. Edward III, king of England, defeated the French before Cainis with great slaugh- Mandalay, making a round trip of old fighter ship with me, but my nearly nine hundred miles. I strafed crew had chiselled a new Allison But I had seen enough. Even the field at Maymyo, caught a train engine from somewhere had probaof on the railroad North of town, and bly stolen it from some ship, but I though this bridge was being built set it on fire. It was anything for didnt know where. So I went on it very were making bamboo, they o: action and the engine of Old Ex- over in a transport, expecting to strong, for the abutments were got pretty rough at come back later and ferry Old Exheavier lumber and of atone. The terminator ter. to times, for by then I had three hun- terminator to his new home. Japanese were evidently planning 1735 Paul Revere was bom. othdred and on hours and it some my sixty As we came down into the rain transport trucks, tanks, or 1757 Calcutta, India, captured by er heavier equipment North. I went mechanics had had little experience over the lake South of Kunming, the British. Allisons. with Serhad and never have felt so good. This was right back to Dinjan 1776 First Union flag of 13 stripes nice a on That when I from home Bonner night, got strap towards to geant another step the East, unfurled by George Washingbomb with a delayed action my trip into Burma, I was handed Japan, and when I got out and saw armament ton. a radiogram that saved my life. As all those fuse. At any rate the g fighting ships men told him ft was a that my Group was going to receive 1792 Kentucky entered the Union. of This target type delay fuse. from the AVG in five days, my spir- 1801 Union of Ireland with Britain. bad to be hit exactly, and if I were its soared another mile in the air, 1814 American dragoons attacked to glide in for a dead shot Id I was through with all that lonesome who the British had seized Bufantithe all n surely get shot down by war stuff. From now Y. N. falo, aircraft. So I made up my mind on wed be fighting as a team, with 1815 General Jackson repelled Britlong before I got there to turn it bombers escorted by fighter ships in ish when they attacked New loose just as low as I could fly. Even a proper force to represent America Orleans. If I missed the bridge by only fifty I had already met most of the g 1825 Great Britain acknowledged inyards, which is close for Vomembers of the First American in ships not made for that type dependence of South American lunteer Group, but it was an even of work, Pd knock a lot of leaves republics. to now, them meet greater pleasure off the trees, make a big noise, and Some of them were men who were 1863 Emancipation of Negro slaves maybe kill some gunners. But the went into effect by proclamagoing to stay with the 23rd Fighter abutments of the bridge had to be tion of President Abraham LinOf all me. and under fight Group to was I if hit just about dead center coln. reever have I the honors that make the Japs stop work. will receive, the 1907 Pure food law put into effect. or ever ceived I came in to the target from the greatest to me will always be the 1913 Parcel post system inauguratWest, with the sun right at my honor of being given command of ed. back. I flew so low that I was of sky fighters unthat group great 1919 on the New windmill Years day declared a leafraid the little der the Command of Gen. Claire L. nose of the bomb would get knocked throughout the coungal holiday Chennault. off by the bushes. And then, as I except in Massachusetts try During the four days that followed and Washington, D. C.' gaw tiie bridge, I let the bomb go. I took over the military equipment 1920 U. S. census All hell broke loose. gave population of the Group from the Commander When I got back home I looked at of 105,710,620. at of based was the that squadron Old Exterminator and I couldnt 1923 Canadian National Defense act Kunming, and I got my headquargee why it hadnt spun in right there went into effect. ters staff organized. In this Army, over the Numzup. There were holes Sergeant LaRue of the 23rd Fight- Master 1926 Mexican railroads returned to officers ' as Sergeants showing big as footballs in the fabric er Group. Everything has happened do have always been the to what ownership. private stabilizers metal in the and flippers fast in this war, and the organiza- backbone of a 1929 Ecuadors eight-hou- r fighting force, and and child of the tail section. There was a hole tion of the 23rd Fighter Group was labor laws went into effect. in the fuselage and five holes in no exception. There was no holiday, will never forget Master Sergeant 1933 Soviet Unions first five-yethp wing. But I guess the hill just even if it was activated en the McNeven. I was certainly expecting to lead the group in its fights East of the target had saved me. Fourth of July. plan ended. against the Japanese, and the ad- 1934 U. S. bank As the June days passed. Colonel deposit insurance Haynes was moved to China to head I read it my face must have turned ministrative work that the Sergeant law went into effect. ac23rd of the Major Fighter Group the Bomber Command under white; I know that tears came to 1935 Ration card system abolished eral Chennault, and I was left alone my eyes, for I felt them Burn. But complished so efficiently made it in Soviet Union. me to have for and the fly possible as Commanding Officer of the FerryI didnt care. I was ordered to re- paper-wor- k on 1936 at same U. time. the S. unemployment insurance go ing Command. On the day the cheerport in Kunming, China, to General law went into effect. I the Later in heard week that ful Haynes left, I felt as if I had lost Chennault, as Commanding Officer Old Exterminator was ready with 1938 Thomas E. Dewey sworn in as my best and last friend. For this of the 23rd Fighter Group which was meant that Id have to stay on the to be activated from the AVG on a new engine. But with the report district attorney of New York city. ground more, and work the admin- July 4, 1942. I wiped the tears from came another that some other Group istration as well as the operations of my eyes and looked out on an im- was moving into Assam, and that 1939 Insurgents shell Madrid. the ABC, which was getting tougher proving world. exI could hear the the engineering officer had stated Wang Ching-Wand tougher with all the rice we birds singing again, and people he knew nothing about that ship pelled. were having to drop and the passen- were laughing; I knew I was the belonging to the Chinese Gov- 1940 Russian planes bombed Jyvas-kylernment. It would stay in India, he gers we were having to haul. luckiest man in all the world. Finland. England called on to went flew on I and back said. On the one day that I stayed to colors men from 19 to 28 I carefully folded the radiogram that we India in one of the the ground, it seemed to me that to show when the years old. grandchildren my every time I looked up from the desk war was over and went out to look had just received from the factory 1941 and German planes English that repairs them in China. that I was flying," some long, at my ship. For I had something made reconnaissance trips. would be tea old standing else on my mind too. I was going lanky planter base, I waited Landing at my 1942 Japanese submarines shell Haand to there in the door in numand then had until the dark, into Burma the next day on waii. shorts. With his bony knees sticking fourgoof the damnedest on the ship that I had flown in strafing and bers out, hed ask me in cold clipped acwith those of my old 1943 U. S. planes bomb Japanese exchanged the had ever raids cents: I say old chap do you have bombingIt would be Japs swan-sonpositions in Aleutians. fighter. For morale purposes alone, seen. my transportation for Calcutta? Assam and I had to celebrate we had to have that ship in the 1944 Lieut. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift from From over near Sadiya, we had in some 23rd Group. All this change involved becomes head of U. S. marines. way or other. gotten eight elephants, tame ones, was a stencilling operation to put Russia observes Christmas. to a crew told load I my and were working them to move on the ship that I had flown Pacific agreement reported by Old HE on Exterminator, to on timbers used be gome heavy from China, and another to put on President Roosevelt. the warehouses of the new field. and I walked around looking the old Old Exterminator the serial numSomehow I over. figured that ber of the These was an old Southern sergeant ship fighter that I was leaving Kittyhawk had had a lot to do with in India. who took good care of the pachyin me the the greatest job getting derms. He must have been a the next morning, July So, in either the first World War war. Its not every man who finally 3, 1942,early me and the old Kittyhawk in he has wanted what always gets or the border war with Mexico, for wended our happy way across the The little British colony on Hanhe did everything in his power to the Army after being pulled out of hills and of Burma to Kun- son island, in the jungles betoo for after old, Chathams, 414 being fighters and keep the eight elephants dry and more adventures together. niles southeast of Wellington, New well-fe- d and content. Even when he ing an instructor for four years, aft- ming From that moment, we left the Air Zealand, will be the first to greet tied the chains to their legs at night, er being shanghaied into being a on that in- 1945. It is number Burma-roadsteCorps as the important just east of the interna-ionwould the cloth with he links wrap in India, and for all ship significant date line, from which all time I been. had had what Well, got to keep them from chafing the thick job reckoned. wanted and I felt as though I practical purposes the old skin of the big beasts. v sixty-thre- e days could jump over the moon. I pat- that I had used for Another rergeant, from about the numbecame another Burma over The Scotch famous on mouth sharks old bun the is made leering same section of the country that ted and caressed the prop that ber, but it would always be Old ntirely of egg and chopped fruit the old elephant caretaker hailed to me. In those two nclosed in a crust for New Exterminator Years from, came by one day and looked had taken me in and out of many months wed flown together 371 hours lolidays. I left, while they the stalls over with a quizzical eye. messes. Then we over and were enemy territory Say, Micky, he called back as pulled the belly tank and put the more than friends., That is someWhen Julius Caesar created Jan-larhe left, youre taking too good care big, fat, yellow bomb under the belwhat over eighty thousand miles, of March the first f those elephants. Youre going to ly, and tightened the sway braces. a combat in and thats long, long nonth, instead he set the present New get em so comfortable that the Yan- The sight of that bomb made me way. kees will come down here and' free feel pretty good. years day. ' em. before I dawn was Next morning Everything has happened fast in Bob Layher, one of the AVG piin the air, my course set for HomaThe English New Year celebration the organization of the lots, came over for several days, lin. As I climbed out above the this war, and vas changed from December 25 by 23rd Group was no excepFighter to we and recite poetry in drank good Scotch whiskey clouds I began Villiam the Conqueror because he no was if There even tion. holiday, at night and flew our planes across rhythm with the engine. To the vas crowned on January 1. into Burma in the day when I verses of Gunga Din I dropped it was activated on the Fourth of didnt have to get passengers on the my first bomb of the day on the July. There was no time for celeThe person who first visits a fam-lRadio Tokyo started right freight ships. I learned a lot, fly- docks of Homalin. Then I flew back bration. on New Years day, carrying a wi!th a bang, and we definitely off on of his the Wed ing go over for a home with the words Galley wing. filled with cake, the Scotch jox work was On hard ahead. knew look at Myitkyina, and it would Slave going out over the radio In a holds, will be lucky during the of 3, Radio Tokyo July amaze me how effortlessly, without private broadcast to the world. On the night ear. we one could ever the program apparent forethought, Bob would get my next trip I dropped a . hear in China warned the new our ships into the sun before we on a barge at Bhamo Hindu The year begins with the came within sight of the field we and came back and strafed the American fighter group that they moon immediately preceding iew annihilate for it would them, quickly were to observe.' 1 picked up little much-abuse- d Myitkyina. My third he vernal equinox in March. exthings like that as I flew with him, attack was on the railroad station was common knowledge that the AVG leavwere personnel perienced and they helped me later. I at Mogaung and strafed the empty But Tokyo had People in Siam celebrate New On the twentieth of June, memin the yard. I had to ing for America. freight-car- s bers of the Army Board that had use a belly tank on the fourth trip, reckoned without the strategio brain years on April 1. been appointed to induct the AVG and so I couldnt take a big bomb. of the General, or the loyalty of The earth will revolve about the those great pilots of the First Amerpassed - through Assam, and my But I loaded on six eighteen-poun- d in 365.2422 days to complete the un Volunteer Group. ican of I reever faded for Lashio. hopes getting over to frags and set sail work under General Chennault The General was expecting an at- rear of 1945. I membered to drop the belly tank knew that out of those Colonels, before I went down into the anti- tack on Independence Day anyway, A glimpse into the future was the powers-that-b- e had surely picked aircraft, and 1 dropped the six little for the Japs had always shown an some lucky one to get the greatest frags in two of the big green warepossible by the early Scots affinity for raids on our holidays. job in the world. This was of course houses by the railroad tracks. I When the Japs arrived over Kwei- vho turned to their Bibles on New that of commanding the AVG after shot up the field but saw no planes, lin, expecting to find green end in- fears day. The sacred book was It came into the Army, with its and I finished my ammunition by experienced fighter pilots, they found ipened at 'random, and the entire nucleus of old AVG personnel and strafing the main street of the town. many Americar boys who for weeks ihapter read. The message was to describe the happiness or the new pilots as replacements from I saw two plate-glas- s windows spat- had been flying with the AVG. home in the States. General Chen- - ter across the street like artificial nisery in store for the coming year. (TO BE CONTINUED' CHAPTER XIV SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 500-pou- sleek-lookin- ten-seco- Gay Dishcloth red and white crochet thread for this practical and lovely dishcloth that looks like a small dancers frock. Its 10 inches in all and has shoulderstraps to hang by your sink. They make gay and unusual gifts. I one-ma- ei a, g 500-pou- mule-skinn- Facts and Fancies About New Years er r, al E TSE To obtain complete crocheting Instructions for the Doll Dress Dishcloth (Pat tern No. 5809) send 16 cents in coins, youi name, address and the pattern number. Warm Bedsocks you nice and warm TO KEEP cold nights a pair of easily crocheted bedsocks that are all in one piece with no difficult heel to crochet and fit any size foot! 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