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Show Dutch Designs for Painting, Stenciling iBRG.H7 SEW IMG CIRCLE MEEDLEWORK Warm, Pretty Knitted Baby Set PILOT -Col. Robert L.Scoff ?esins typical Dutch colorings are just the to decorate your kitchen thing cupboards, the chair or tabic you iust repainted or that old - To obtain complete knitting instruction for the ribbed bonnet and mittens (Pattern No. 5820) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand ao current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: RELEASE engine, or carry in the mechanics the night the Fleet landed and the and the tools with which to repair the night I had been kidding Henry t a . , artist, you can cut bad one. Elias. a iree-nanIn every organization there is alNext morning we got into the air ways one person who holds up the before daylight and went for Lake morale, some one who makes the Puyang Hu, near Nanchang, where darker moments brighter and who the Japs were moving the Chinese can bring a little sunshine into the rice out by junks and barges robtense reality of war. Out in the bing the breadbasket of China in the China theatre, and especially in the yearly rape of the rice. Hill took 23rd Fighter Group, my most unfor-getaband I took the eight of the,P-40- s character was Lieut. Henry other eight Elias. This pilot was a Southerner, Elias was on Tex Hills wing. We like most of the others in the China split at Nanchang and my eight skies. When I first reached Heng-yan- g went to the South to catch some he was acting as assistant op- gunboats that had been reported in erations officer to Ajax Baumler. the Sintze-HukoStrait, near Kuki-anHe had a reply for every person, coming from the Yangtse to CHAPTER XX to every joke. He the Lake. I heard Hill call that he and a come-bac- k was definitely a morale builder, and had caught the rice ships and was When would hapstranger things stencil for the most difficult parts can ask anyone if theyre not burning them. Later he told me pen, we talked about things of the you or just trace outlines and then as that he found twenty-si- x fill sort of them, valuable at the front as ammuniwhich had once been told in them in. tion. and steel barges; he sank junks All of books. us that agreed Here is a set of designs espe- story Elias had been on several raids 'some and saw others with their sails this war was over, there would cially planned so that you will when and shot down two Japanese on fire, floating for shore where the have no difficulty in using them be nothing that had ever happened when had I the first joke about hungry Chinese coolies would salheard in fiction that wouldnt have actually either for stencils or tracing. him. on an attack to vage the rice. been Hed in this battle of the uniTulips, hearts, flowers, fruits, happened Through the four passes at the and as the ships turned Nanchang, verse. instance: For borders and other motifs large Elias was right on Texs wing, Japs in for home of the late fading light Likiang is a city In China far up and small even the dove of peace on but the fourth pullout he dropped of afternoon, some one in the rear with an olive branch is included. on the big, northern loop of the the behind the formation, perhaps to formation observed Yangtse-Kiansomething is but It China, 'yes, The designs may be used again shoot at something Hill hadnt seen. and again and, if you are not that part of China is as wild as Tibet peculiar. Up ahead there were five Maybe hed seen a Jap fighter and satisfied with your first effort, all and Arabia. The people are called had gone for it; we knew there were Lolos, and they must be descend' you have to do is to paint it out ants eight Zeros supposed to be over Nanof Genghis Khan. I had flown and start over. chang. Elias didnt return with the over the place, for it was just North flight, and for two days we carried NOTE Pattern 262 gives the 12 stencil- of the ferry route from Assam to him as "missing. ing or painting designs described here Kunming, and I had seen the flat Then the Chinese net reported that with complete directions and color guide South of the village that clearing a group of Chinese soldiers had seen Patterns are 15 cents each postpaid and could have been an emergency land may be obtained by sending direct to: a lone American 0 engaged by field. I was noted close that it ing four Japanese Zeros. The Amerito nine thousand feet above sea lev MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS can had fought them but his ship el, and therefore not a field to use Bedford Hills had been shot down. The American New York ' one unless had to. , - had jumped out in his parachute and Drawer 10 CapL Charlie Sawyer had crash-lande- d Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 262. four Japanese had strafed him on just South of there, closer to the way down. Name idenTalifu, and had been unable to The body had been found, with the g tify himself. While the Address identification flag number listed. Lolo tribesmen were getting set to The pilots name was Lieutenant execute him with ancient-lookin- g Elias. All of us watched for Japs flint-loc- k muskets. Sawyer said the bailing out, so that we could shoot holes in the barrels looked twice as one or two down for Elias, but we bores. Just at big as didnt get the chance. the crucial moment, however, when We sent Captain Wang down to bis fate looked darkest, some new Kian to get Eliass body. Wang had arrival in the party saw the identic to travel a hundred and sixty miles SOOTHES fication card that Sawyer had been -- irrrfo by buffalo cart, by alcohol bus, and pointing to. It was inscribed in varion foot, but he finally got there. The YOUR THROAT ous languages, and with pictures. These pilots are tired out by altook him twenty days. When trip The new arrival didnt recognize the most constant alert without relief for the of our lost pilot finally arbelow the gargle line body Chinese flag, or any of the lan- 21 days. rived at the field from which he had or the Generalissimos sigguages, Each F & F Cough Lozenge gives with their sleek silhouettes last taken off, It was in a Chinese nature chop but he saw a star, coffin that Wang had gotten at Kian. your throat a 15 minute comforting As it happened, it was the star of showing wheels up and everything in We treatment. Realty soothing because placed the flag over the grim off the But order. to flank, proper medicated. over India the imprint in Hindustani. Used by theyre really reminder of war and sent it by number-threin almost the of the for millions position Then the tribesman pointed to the coughs, throat irritations or hoarseness resulting from man In a Vee formation, was transport to Kunming, to lie beside same star on the wing of Sawyers his other brother pilots in that Budcolds or smoking. Only 10)! box. ship the insignia of the Army Air one ship with its wheels extended. dhist graveyard in Yunnan. one on Some the radio, "Hey, called Force. Sawyer was saved, and later And so it went: tragedy humor he was feasted on wild buffalo and Elias, whos that flying in formation with you, with their wheels down? tragedy. For on the same raid I rice wine. had led the other eight ships, with As the words sank into the cob But why? Here In the wilds of the Lolo country, where very few sciousness of the flight, and of Elias elements led by Holloway, Schiel, white men had ever been, the tribes- especially, their ominous signif- and OConnell, and had caught the COUGH LOZEHGE3 Elias Jap gunboats, ten of them, at Sintze-Hukomen were more familiar with the icance became apparent. Strait They were more white star of the Air Force than with jerked his head around and looked any written language. We learned at his wing man. Even to an in- than likely coming to Puyang Hu to the principal reason later. experienced eye, the silhouette was convoy those rice barges but we A report had come in to General unmistakable. It was a Jap Model were going to interfere with their sT m one of the old fixed landing-gea- r rendezvous. Chennaults headquarters that a naEven as we circled them from sixtive village in the Lolo country, betypes. The entire formation tween Lake Tali and Likiang, was tried at once to get it as they finally teen thousand feet, I think they knew under siege by the Burmese north realized what it was. But they had they were going to have lots of troui vr l ern tribesmen who had crossed the the laugh on Elias. Just as he rec- ble. They had to stay almost in for they were goSalween, perhaps under the direc- ognized the Jap, the enemy pilot evi- line, in the ing through the narrow strait. We tion of the Japanese. Two of us, dently recognized the Holloway and I, were sent to look twilight before darkness perhaps circled warily for a minute, looking We he saw the leering sharks mouths. the sky over for enemy fighters, then the place over in two were told by the General that we For as Elias shoved the nose of his spiralled down. As soon as we got could determine whether the town ship straight down and dove for him, close enough to the Jap ships to see was under siege by noting whether the Jap pulled his ship straight up distinctly, we noticed that the seaor not the usual pedestrian traffic and climbed for the sky. Later, men were jumping over the side was passing in and out of the city when our imaginations began to em- into the water. Only a few seemed to have remained to fire the antigate. All the cities are walled, and broider the joke, Elias took the On your favorite N. B. C. station in good part and always had a aircraft guns, and Schiel and Hollofrom roads are far very obviously every Saturday morning comeback. or from civilization. way silenced most of those with 9:00 A. M.f M. W. T. A small We made our Observation and rebiplane, a their initial pass. KIDO KGIR KSEI KDYL KTFI KOB KOA I think most of the ammunition turned with the report The village Fleet, came to Hengyang fronj was besieged, and we had seen the Kweilin one day with a Chinese of- had been fired at us while we cir8:00 A. M., P. W. T. KFI KPO KHQ horsemen encamped a half mile ficer. We looked the little ship over cled at sixteen thousand feet, for around the city wall. We loaded up as it came into the field wide open we were the whole show now. Wed at some seventy-fiv- e miles an hour. rake the steel decks from stem to and went back with six eighteen-kilograWe now have just the bait we stem and then swing out low to the on racks the wing frags Lieutenant Elias, I water and come back with quarterammuniand plenty of need, I said. tion. I also carried a Very pistol want you to borrow that Fleet from ing shots from the beam. We were the Chinese. I know a trick to make so low that we were actually shootand all colors of shells. As we circled the town, we could the Japs lose lots of face and airing up at the decks of the boats, saw many human heads above the see the villagers watching us; then planes. Elias had laid down his Opera- water as the Japs tried to swim and we dove on the besiegers bombed them from a thousand feet. tions reports and. was listening at- from the boats, and I fired at them. This ought to get you Those bullets ricocheted from the The lines of prehistoric cavalry tentively. Now you water into the steel side of the gun broke and retreated towards the Sal- promoted, I went on. We machine-gunneween and Burma. get that plane and service it tonight, boat and went on through. As my them until they spread in then early in the morning you take range would reach the "sweet spot panic. Then I used the Very pistol, off for Hankow. Alison, Baumler, of some 287 yards, where the six shooting first green lights, then red. and I will be along later and will lines of tracers and armor-piercinHolloway said it was the best dis- arrive over the Jap city before you Fifties converged, it would appear Elias was looking at me in aB though an orange-colore- d hole the play of fireworks hed ever seen. We do. checked up for several days, but the wonder. Then, when you get there, size of a flour barrel was being raiders hadnt come back, and nor- fly over the enemy airport at thirty-fiv- e burned into the side of the Jap veS' hundred feet thatll keep you sel at the water-linmal pedestrian traffic was passing We fire line along the through the city walL Holloway and just above their small-calibr- e and they cant shoot accurately that and shot at them all from both sides. I, with two of the Generals low with the big stuff. Over the field On the second pass, two of the vesbad stopped a war. CHEST COLD TIGHTNESS The white star of the Air Force you fly with one wing low, kind of sels were listing, and others were had been seen by those villagers, skidding, cutting your switch on and smoking. On the fourth attack, sew When chest muscles QUICKLY feel "tight" and sore, and they had told the surrounding off so the Japs will think youre en out of the ten were smoking and KtLItVcD due to a cold, rub on country that we were friends. Per- either wounded or over there with a burning and some of these were on Mentholatum. Two vital actions the bottom with their masts barely haps the constant sight of transports bad engine. bring quick relief: (1) Mentholatum Elias was trying to figure out out of water. Photographs taken from India to China and return had stimulates surface circulation-help- ing made the big white star a familiar whether I was serious or not. Then later from an observation plane to loosen the tight muscles. (2) Soothing medicinal Well be up there in the showed that seven had sunk immedisymbol. At any rate, the Lolos who I added: vapors comfort irritated mucous were about to execute Sawyer rec- sun, and as fast as the Zeros come ately in the strait, and that the othmembranes of nose and throat. ognized it, and to them it meant more up for you, well knock them down. er three had sunk within a thousand Get Mentholatum. Jars, tubes, SOL than written languages and sealed After all, Elias, if they get you, a yards of the battle area. I was so happy, so excited and orders. Such is the strangeness of Fleet Isnt worth much. But by now Lieutenant Ellas was eager, that I tried to be glamorous this global war. More true fiction came out of the walking out and calling over his that morning. After the fourth atNo sir. Colonel, I just tack I had called to Lolo country during the autumn. A shoulder: and Ferry Command piloL Lieutenant want to be a plain pilot I dont head for the rendezvous point to the which want to be no ball of fire. Southwest, But as the ships left the Aronson, lost an engine SAVE YOUR SCRAP means that his engine failed on his Well, we saw the value of Elias target, I saw something I had to go trip from Assam to Kunming. He when we lost him, for in this second back for. It was a Japanese flag, barely made the big meadow that battle around Hunan he failed to re- waving defiantly from the mast oi was South of the town of Likiang, turn from the strafing raid of Sep- one of the sunken gunboats. Forin the hairpin loop of the Yangtse. tember 2, 1942. We had taken n getting caution, and with the other After several days we went in there back to Hengyang when seven planes speeding away to the Old METAL, RAGS, to look the improvised landing-fielwe had gotten them in shape to fight, rendezvous point, I dove to strafe RUBBER and PAPER over, in the hope that we could fly and had landed there just about the flag in a gesture of hate. another transport to him with a good dark to surprise the Japs. Thats (TO BE CONTINUED) chlldrens yU are not ,rom West Point, Robert Scott wins his Wings at Kelly Field and takes op combat a flyins. When the war breaks out he is an instructor and is told he is too old for combat flying. He appeals to several Generals and is finally given an opportunity to get into the fight. He flies a bomber into India, where he is made a ferry pilot, but this does not satisfy him. After visiting General Cbennault he gels a Kittyhawk, and soon becomes a one man air force over Burma. 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