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Show !: GOB n MY Gaily CO-PIL- OT &iy 1G SEW Be-Ruffl- ti tnen an oppor-- , jnall the fikht. He flies a Ah' re he Is made a doei not satisfy him. itral t hennault he gets soon becomes a one he is ,er Bo ma. Later Pattern No of the 23rd h; cfl.iT Ma. Aison gets three and ma In the river, but the I hlnese get It ar.old method. unfor-getabl- 8745 2-- 6 yrs. E j. us agreed that as over, there would had ever happened ' uuldnt have actually battle of the unt j ItiJ ft 'ls nce. 1i.il :ity in China far up irthern loop of the It is China, yes, but If as wild as Tibet people are called jymust be descend-KhaI had flown or it was just North is a ie n. n from Assam to I had seen the flat of the village that an emergency land-that it was close feet above sea lev-na field to use lie d 8U ot id! to. Sawyer had crash--t- h there, closer to unable to iden-hil- e g the were getting set to of been ilwd i Mhi uV nth hp ts, ancient-lookin- g Sawyer said the rels looked twice as bre bores. Just at lent, however, when darkest, some new arty saw the identi-a- t Sawyer had been as inscribed in vari-an- d with pictures, ects didnt recognize the fW r any of the didnt get the chance. These pilots are tired out by almost constant alert without relief for 21 days. sig-bir sill 7 he saw a star, it was the star of print in Hindustani, an pointed to the wing of Sawyers of the Army Air was saved, and later on wild buffalo and e ere in the wilds of 7, where very few ver been, the tribes-- 1 familiar with the Air Force than with page. We learned ison later, in to General quarters that a na-l- e Lolo country, bell and Likiang, was the Burmese north-vh- o had crossed the ps under the direc-lanescome e. Two of us, were sent to look in two We General that we whether the town e by noting whether al pedestrian traffic and out of the city hies are walled, and fery far from roads he tion. observation and The village md we had seen the imped a half mile wall We loaded up ith six eighteen-o- n the wing racks ammum-irne- d a Very pistol f shells. the town, we could s watching us; then the besiegers and thousand feet, prehistoric cavalry sted towards the Sal-ra- a rom a We machine-mti- l they spread in used the Very pistol, 'een lights, then red. it was the best dis-:- s he'd ever seen. We several days, but the come back, and c was passing Wa'l. Holloway and the General' s nor-traffi- s, War. ar cf the Air hy those Force villagers, t'd the surrounding Were friends. Per-j- t sight of transports and return had white star a familiar V rate, the Lotos who execute Sawyer rec-- 0 them it meant more nguages and sealed the strangeness of hion came out of Rmg n tne autumn. the A Pilot. Lieutenant L engine which la!!lglne faled on his an I,th2 Kunmin8- He - bg meadow that t'!n of Likiang, l thS Yangtse days' W Wen irSJ Ending-fiel- there d could fly fAf t hm with a good ) We with their sleek silhouettes showing wheels up and everything in proper order. But off to the flank, in almost the position of the number-thre- e man in a Vee formation, was one ship with its wheels extended. Some one called on the radio, Hey, Elias, whos that flying in formation with you, with their wheels down? As the words sank into the consciousness of the flight, and of Elias especially, their ominous signifElias icance became apparent. jerked his head around and looked at his wing man. Even to an inexperienced eye, the silhouette was It was a Jap Model unmistakable. one of the old fixed landing-gea- r types. The entire formation tried at once to get it as they finally realized what it was. But they had the laugh on Elias Just as he recognized the Jap. the enemy pilot eviin the dently recognized the twilight before darkness perhaps he saw the leering sharks mouths. For as Elias shoved the nose of his ship straight down and dove for him, the Jap pulled his ship straight up and climbed for the sky. Later, when our imaginations began to embroider the joke, Elias took the kidding in good part and always had a comeback. A small biplane, a to from came Hengyang Fleet, Kweilin one day with a Chinese officer. We looked the little ship over as it came into the field wide open miles an hour. at some seventy-fiv- e We now have just the bait we I said. Lieutenant Elias, I need, want you to borrow that Fleet from the Chinese. I know a trick to make the Japs lose lots of face and airplanes. Elias had laid down his Operations reports and was listening atThis ought to get you tentively. Now you promoted, I went on. it and service tonight, that plane get then early in the morning you take Alison, Baumler, off for Hankow and I will be along later and will arrive over the Jap city before you Elias was looking at me m do. wonder. "Then, when you get there, fly over the enemy airport at thirty-fivhundred feet thatll keep you e fire just above their and they can't shoot accurately that low with the big stuff Over the field you fly with one wing low, kind of skidding, cutting your switch on and off so the Japs will think youre either wounded or over there with a bad engine. Elias was trying to figure out whether I was serious or not Then I added: "Well be up there in the sun, and as fast as the Zeros come down. up for you, well knock them After all, Elias, if they get you, a Fleet isnt worth much. But by now Lieutenant Elias was walking out and calling over his No sir, Colonel, I just shoulder: want to be a plain pilot I don't want to be no ball of fire Well, we saw the value of Elias when we lost him, for m this second battle around Hunan he failed to return from the strafing raid of September 2, 1942 We had taken sixback to Hengyang when teen we had gotten them in shape to fight, and had landed there just about dark to surprise the Japs. Thats P-4- P-4- two-seat- e small-calibr- 's ,rf'A T k'jl 8745 Is Size UCH THING FAST UT HEAT TREATMENT HELP YOU Nafhlng can mala you mor mitarabla than nagging muscular achci and pains. Nothing it mor wolcomt than th glorious rtliof Sloan's Linimont brings. Justta pat It on and foal this boat froafmonf-ponofraInstantly, bringing warm, comforting rtliof. this Violinist Suffered Pangs Of Torture for the While During rehearsal, noticed that one of was not looking stopped and asked felt the conductor his first violins He himself. the man if he ill. No, sir, thanks; Im all right, was the reply. The rehearsal proceeded. Presently the violinist again caught the conductors eye. "Smith, he said, are you sure youre well? Yes, sir, really; Im all right. But Smith seemed to grow paler. Look here, said the conductor, I really think you ought to go out a pOR mite of two to six, a dainty for some fresh air, you know. little frock with the swinging Dont worry about me, sir, skirt and ruffle edging little girls said Smith. "Im quite all right-on- ly, Iove. shell look as sweet as her I simply loathe music. smile in this adorable party dress. . lS fof Scho1 to ln briShtly FO RlQ uickI relie fIfrom Tired Aching Muscles Stiff Joints Strains Sprains Bruises UNITED STATES WAR BONDS A . checked cottons. OTHERS IMITATE THE sitting room of two gen- erations ago was cozy and planned for use. Not the least of lts comforts were the low footstools to be used with the most frequent- ed chairs. These were covered with bright carpet or other heavy We sent Captain Wang down to Kian to get Eliass body. Wang had to travel a hundred and sixty miles by buffalo cart, by alcohol bus, and on foot, but he finally got there. The trip took him twenty days. When the body of our lost pilot finally arrived at the field from which he bad last taken off, it was in a Chinese coffin that Wang had gotten at Kian. We placed the flag over the grim reminder of war and sent it by transport to Kunming, to lie beside his other brother pilots in that Buddhist graveyard in Yunnan. And so it went: tragedy humor Hiaterial and, if you examined you found that inside there tragedy. For on the same raid I had led the other eight ships, withiwere cans filled with sand for elements led by Holloway, Schiel, weibt and then bound together and OConnell, and had caught the an(l padded. Jap gunboats, ten of them, at Sintze- - Such a stool cost not a cent. Nor Hukow Strait They were more did it require any carpenter work, than likely coming to Puyang Hu to Mother or the girls could put one convoy those rice barges but we together in no time from things on were going to interfere with their hand and there it was ready for rendezvous. years of service. You can do the Even as we circled them from six- same. 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I think most of the ammunition had been fired at us while we circled at sixteen thousand feet, for we were the whole show now. Wed Sponges Have Natural rake the steel decks from stem to Nursery on Coral Isles stern and then swing out low to the water and come back with quarterAt Turneffe, a group of coral ing shots from the beam. We were so low that we were actually shoot- - Islands about 30 miles off the coast 1 of British Honduras, a genuine ing up at the decks of the boats. the heads above human saw many sponge nursery has been estab-watas the Japs tried to swimlished. from the boats, and I fired at them Strains of wild sponges, most Those bullets ricocheted from the suited to modern tastes, were first water into the steel side of the gun-- selected, and now in a shallow, boat and went on through. As fnyij,jue ag00n forming a natural range would reach the "sweet spot nursery, thousands of pedigree of some 287 yards, where the si sp0nge fragments are steadily lines of tracers and Each is weighed down growing. Fifties converged, it would appear with a cement disc. As these ani-a- s hole the mal though an orange-colorecuttings attain maturity, a size of a flour barrel was being mater Df four years growth, they burned into the side of the Jap ves wjjQ again be drastically dismem-se- l at the water-line- . bered and planted in adjacent la- line We along the g00ns and shot at them all from both sides Sponges die quickly upon the ves of two On the second pass, sels were listing, and others were smoking On the fourth attaok, seven out of the ten were smoking and j divers. 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Enclose 25 cents ln coins far each k would hap- ir things about things of the once been told In Vk designed for sizes S. Size S requires S material yards ef 35 or Dua to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, sllgtitly more time la required ln filling orders for a few at the meat popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: g. PTEK 12 Dress for Tots ed S. 4, WNU. 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 bad one. Elias. In every organization there is alNext ways one person who holds up the before morning we got into the air and went for Lake morale, some one who makes the Puyang daylight Hu, near Nanchang, where darker moments brighter and who the can bring a little sunshine into the nee Japs were moving the Chinese 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 e eight of the and I took the 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-yanwent to the South to catch some he was acting as assistant opgunboats 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 and a come-bacto every joke. He the Lake. I heard Hill call that he was definitely a morale builder, and had and was caught the rice you can ask anyone if they're not burning them. Laterships he told me as valuable at the front as that he found twenty-si- x of them, junks and steel barges; he sank Elias had been on several raids some and saw others with their sails and had shot down two Japanese on fire, floating for shore where the when I heard the first joke about hungry Chinese coolies would salhim. He'd been on an attack to vage the rice. Through the four passes at the Nanchang, and as the ships turned for home in the fading light of late Japs Elias was right on Texs wing, afternoon, some one in the rear of but on the fourth pullout he dropped the formation observed something behind the formation, perhaps to peculiar Up ahead there were five shoot at something Hill hadnt seen. Maybe hed seen a Jap fighter and had gone for it; we knew there were eight Zeros supposed to be over Nan- chang Elias didnt return with the tW day WC CarriCd him as "If0" "missing. 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