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Show r. THE 1AVS0X CHRONICLE. PAYSON, UTAH Col. After C .Ins up combat ,ld,Dl takes an instructor lor becouse they're really medicated To obtain complete pattern, finishing for the structions States venty ,0 fifty and finally to Kaffir ,WC?ted Ut my JUSt maJe U b taliv rft the Shlp onto lhe s!r'k selreaVhe Jasged "Semites tha, guard oar field. That afternoon 1 led sixteen fighi-tUr lweve bombers rie't Holstrom, who Participated in the raid on the preceding April, led the bombers As the fighters kept the n 30 Ca cage" about hi.. .ormation sQuirrel he deliberately cir- P bo South of Tien Ho air- rome and covered the target area ect y with his long string of S' "Die was heavy j1 80 reased as we went on North over tiite Cloud field. I looked at the results at Tien Ho and ,e 8 surSe of pride at that per- feet bombing from fourteen thou- sand feet. This was teamwork, I knew now, with bombers and fight- ers properly All of proportioned. us were mad because the Japs wouldn t come up. The bomber crews had reported them taking off rom both fields and keeping low, heading in all directions. The accurate bombing must have de- stroyed many of them on the ground, f continu" in! nn 0 Hongkong. I sent one ship home with each bomber The rest of us hung back and tried to tempt the enemy Zeros to come up; but they had evidently received and have sent some new here 8nd we're jj'an?h ITH the bluebird chirping to best in the world, olng l4,ar planes again and the red red robin a that go hundred miles an hour now bob bob bobbin around," baseId, to several General. aster, and climb 4,500 teet a minute opportunity to ball with all its future troubles is it,'j an a bomber to to fifty thousand feet. But theres Mill in a far better way than it Be Hies this and erew-chief your now. waving you in I ferry pilot looked to be some weeks ago. cYSCn HeVsIts Gen. Chen- -a- nd hes looking at the patches Many teams have lost many good "d ftlttybawk, you ve shot from the blast tubes of men, but they still have some inter-Pokyan Burma, known your guns and knows youve fired at Is esting talent left. force." I.tcr h. the enemy. Or The main point Is that we have Group, y maybe your Fighter jjrd roll warned him anyway bad too many gonfalonic gallops in knocking down Jap ,0 on his jceatest Who knows? the last few sea-- j 0t Day after day, through the sons where either early part of November, we actually Vankees or Cardi-pe- r prayed that the weather East would nals were so far In XXV EB clear, so that we could stop our front by August that small, piddling attacks on Burma nothing remained of for the order a go and go back to Hongkong. I knew tbe races except a crude ;,..;ng at the that General Chennault and Colonel cloud of indigo dust fir the chow wagon Cooper were planning a big one far down on the Listening with keen for the next time, for now we had the stretch, ,,;e of the telephone, This new season force of fighters we had ever largest but or poker, jjny seen in China. New ttiere is a strong had been ..ag that was going possibility for two of arriving in small numbers, but ,;u:d be dealing the the closest races in The Group was of the rou-- j steadily. actually ;i middle built many years, where to being up at last. strength here, and 1 card almost anything can happen, With the first breaks in the The heavy would ring. :;aae We put this point up to Larry Mac-u- t winter clouds, Bert Carleton was Phail j in the air, poised sent with his and the always astute colonel transport and our tile we all heard coyly confessed that such might to Kweilin. Aviaground personnel the rrreters pick up tion fuel and bombs were placed easily be the case. d utter the famil- We no longer have the matter of for instant YtYYu ready use, and I could hel-td- d as they say feel the tension in the air again. one or possibly two teams picking remain there irdrt From the daily reports on the airfrom the two leagues and tagging undealt throughout them top in April. For one lEt until warning net it could be seen that conversa tion the Japanese had maintained a conexample no manager knows today ins red what he was dostant aerial patrol over Hongkong their just what baU players he will lose are orders. ge hesitatingly on. nex week or next month and vicinity since our last attack. ffil Aext morning Lieut. Pat Daniels all was one of the With the first break in the clouds lit: meant nothing; only " Question Mark we sent observation planes over with got up begging the General to let m: mm lead a attack on and we ally knew, What team could you pick on top lip an aircraft assembly plant In Canand find out. Then in the American league at this ton. His was plan good, and the er of the telephone i t Or the National league? And mission was made ready. All of point? i into place and the to have one or two j te, happened us went down to shack the alert id say something to yean, how ao you know how favorites, and watched the ground crew loadof This second one look around the middle of I JL ing the little yellow fragmentation theyd look May or the middle of June? bombs of under the six wings ordinates, and qui-re- d Take Detroit. The Tigers still A short time later they flag down over Trout and Newhouser. Two have were with to off, Daniels waiting cards Japanese ter-efine two big 1944 winners, Pitchers blow the with all set up factory, and with one warn-- e Wakefield is gone and so is his movie camera to take pictures could go on for automatically as he dove the bombs Binky Higgins, and who is left to nfidence. p.r 've these two pitchers any runs into the target. quadron commandemijos Three five of to. vvork on? You know where the hours later only :iseo, r who was on the the six returned. Pat Daniels was Tigers were last summer until could move out of s missing in action. His wing man Wakefield returned, art looking the map The Browns look as good as had seen his leader lose part of his rer, sizing up the wing In an explosion on the way in! any other baseball team, but this :e picture formed could is April not June or July. Even Joe with the bombs. apparent that this have done it, but most of us agreed McCarthy doesnt know how the hed i just go over from the description that Daniels Yankees will stack up two months game about it. Or bombs might have hit his own pro- - from now. tree men would beAt the tremendous speed But that isnt the important peller. ts out. The game a fast fighter-shibuilds up in a point. The main idea is that each that tak up, with cards long and nearly vertical dive, pres- - ieague might easily have five or six ire they were. sures are also built up from the d through the be put on. This torque ne-- mor au speed. a chance to win and to pretending be cessitates so much compensating thats what makes baseball. Natural-pressur- e RU A group of fighter pilots on the bags on the floor on the rudder that one jv eacft home city likes to see its red. alert at Kunming. must actually stand on the rudder (cam with at least a chance l. irdroppeu off like a a of several fighters, but While doing this, Pat might where up with the bunch not 20 he actual combat the Jap would not come up to fight have relaxed pressure just as he games or even more away .You saw i feared, for we all the d reached down to pull the bomb planes. His inhappened last fall when the 3are than anything structions appear to have been: Wait lease; this would have allowed Ihe ;growns Tip rs and Yankees were damnable uncer--- 8 for the American bombers. speeding plane to yaw or skid, ajj bunched up. No one ever accused tkot of a On November 21, the ground and the bombs could have struck the mem of being great ball clubs. But telephone, ow si 'i that most of the crews Instead of arc of the prop. still you couldnt get near their got to Kweilin. dr g. them In the hostel that first nigkt keeping The only note of encouragement parks, with thousands turned away out of the door to night to insure that information was that a chute had been seen jn St. Louis. term s!iips and take of! would not leak out to the enemy, trail when the fighters left the target. r.dmg to friends on we sent them to town, first casually Lieut Patrick Daniels was one of lince Counts Most ree ,at letters to take remarking that we were here now our best and most aggressive pilots, sens "usting of ringS an(j for the second attack on Hongkong. and we missed him immediately ibber For fighter our twelve next and hoped for the best. morning Early of be I" not coming back. bombers slipped Into Kweilin, with That same night, Johnny Alison were rvicte be, or think they Colonel (promoted since the last at- led eight ships In a fighter sweep Ruth was the top party in e to be igoe! that way. tack) Butch Morgan in the lead and attack on the j recay one season when ir cf ds we may figure ship. The strengthened fighter force docks at Hankow, over four hundred flee Bafie piaved in Boston and :3t "hi get us some roo"1 of between thirty and forty planes miles to the North. In the river Philadelphia before overflow crowds, ire ld and d by gray. infiltrated for reservice some went harbor, with the sky though Boston and Philadelphia, Set in the way of to Kweilin, others scattered to the tracers from the ground, Johnny ;jar ouj racei had been play- get to where we ink's fields for dropped his bombs on the hangars a thousand morbid emergency fewer than surrounding jng act fast-- but we better protection of the bombers. As and on a large freighter. Then or s0Uls daily. In later years Bob Fel-te!31y fighter is good soon as I landed I ran up to the minutes he strafed the enemy was a attraction on the days wn if that cave and the General took me in and vessel and badly disabled it. Cap- - jjer worked. So was Ted Williams, 0 accident, The tain Hampshire dove and shot the showed me the plotting-board- . majn n has been the guj jn are the increased searchlights out until he was out fhall club that drew the crowds Indicated chips red little flags ur so shoulders, and Up jn the race. I have vigilance at Hongkong. Then I got ammunition. The night attack ego my orders: Strike Hongay. In an deep into enemy territory was aaways believed that a few seasons wowed by flying hour the bombers were off to bomb daring one and did much to confuse agfJ tPe Dodgtors. playing in the ence and forti-o- . , the coal mines and docks of that the Japs further. Johnny's ships Yankee stadium, would have passed Attack! Never e were rather badly shot up from the the 2.0('fi.00fi mark. port North of Haiphong. ,va. Shoot the ene 12,000-tothat and he was lucky to a ground-fire- , ship sank I still rate Detroit and Brooklyn Morgan he can shoot you was airback to base safely. as the two best ball towns in the an all been get them reported to have better as these than he is. craft carrier. The fighter escort But it was such missions country, and that isnt barring New a chance. He strafed ferry boats, small surface which built up the circumstances York or Chicago. There was a time sbot but of , youre and looked for Jap fighters that would assure the success when Boston belonged in this preards any dot in craft, was General the came. none attack But to the big intercept. ferred list. But when you get right trying l.e!y fesembles an most of That night the enemy sent up a down to the big rheek-u10 attack, with Next day, with eighteen fighters,, of three bombers to each of a team somewhere in the n,1(j flight to raid gin ready If our fields, looking for our forces. we escorted the bombers race. 5 8 . friendly But we were so scattered that their Siennlng, an occupied town near For some odd reason, although moveanyway, and luck was bad. Night fighters from Hankow. We kept the circling ball players come from all their wi!1 and tried last a lot all stations took off, but those under ment all around our over the map, from the unknow-of added feeling an and the farms, from spots Maj. Harry Pike at Kweilin made to give themour before presence. Through hamlets security by perfect contact. The entire Japamore than 2,000 miles away, home-- l led Morgan fire, was heavy nese formation of three bombers didn't waste a town pride is always concerned. shot down over the field. Pike, Lom- the attack in and warehouses In This has always been a deep mysAfter enyoure bomb. We left the bard. and Griffin each added an much less tery to me but there it is. but Lomscores, flames, and there was to their ship emy For some years the National league c world. coming up towards us than had two or three teams neck and 1 bard was shot down in flames when ack-ac811 first we approached. Uhlymg the Jap gunners blew up his belly when neck down the stretch such as the not Privi-fre- r Arriving back at our advanced Cardinals and the Dodgers. When tank. Lombard had made the tacbombed ui on tical error of pulling up over the base, we refueled and was happening, the Yankees we made the second that Then that fire ,es you do again. delivering after bombers had t' cir race packed away usually Hankow, towards ead With- it shot one down. We had given him raid of the day of late July or early August. ice on by Once Yoyang. walked in carover the town ears l7Vements- last fail, the American up for lost when he Then, the target, blasted for an- training again Morgan rying his chute and begging league suddenly switched into a ground with black bursts of three-clufinish as the Cardiother ship. around the formation. hot were wrecking the National. At dawn 'he next day, November fire bouncing nals and Ulen m 8 escort Mor- But there was no interception, 23, I led the group to This all speaks for the complete feeling blue. We with twelve Island 'ip to Sanchau of baseball, wh o 1 bel.eve gan ad ,uCmbat Air Force honesty the Jap the couldn't destroy is iiW. Wa-- home bombers. We had noted that taken for granted by every to save to try today were strengthening the air d ihev were going Proof but U is of no vas know11 and think- - Japs alrDianes even more. to nationwide interest, patrol over Hongkong d What w. scent the next day, Thanks- - help 8 The General had smiled and said, life I agree with Larry MacPhail that and on the airplanes tera working s, really 8. "We're making them waste giving us had flown seven missions the 194a season may easily give Uni,!! can Pick of a rible amount of gasoline. V'b a ."J boa. Same We saw Morgans bombs ake out hich ought e.,l, om . area .nd In nerf ol re. too b:g Hague. Ajax two of the three hangars on the isa blanket from time to time under be that dinner a h Whisht be land field, and we went down to no r We had specialextra vigilant during the coming months. onderirPDmg bag strafe and watch for Interceptors night, but remained the Jap. 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