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Show "Oily Boid" Hit Many Times In Tokyo Raids The following article, clipped from a Honolulu. Hawaii, newspaper, was j sent to Cedar City by Mrs. H.rtry E. Peterson, who Is now residing in the Hawolan city: LITTLE STORIES OF MEN WHO BOMB TOKYO III By Ray Coll, Jr. AT A B-29 BASE IN THE MARIANAS MAR-IANAS They call her th? Oily Bold and she has the reputation for being be-ing one of the most shot up Super-Forts Super-Forts in the business of blasting Japan but she's still flying. Her skipper is Lt Charles Shaffer of Michagan City, Ind. Tin? plane's official name is City of Michigan City. Out cf 15 missions, the Oily Bold ha been shot up on five of them, but I ( tell time the ground crew has managed to patch her up in time I for another flight. I Shaffer and his crew are a gay lot and their many hair raising expedients ex-pedients don't seem to have bothered both-ered them in the least, although three Puiple Hearts have alread been awarded to wounded. Lt. Her-: Her-: bert Miln? Is her 20 year-old navl-1 navl-1 gator, of Cedar City, Utah; Lt. William Wil-liam Hardesty. precision Instrument specialist, is also 20 an halls from Baltimore; Lt. Maurice . Ketscher, co-pilot. Is 22 and corn s from Reed-ley, Reed-ley, Cal, while Lt. Jack Nair, bombardier. bom-bardier. Is 21 and lives In San Clem-1 ente, Cel. Shaffer Is the old man of the outfit. H;'s 23 and has been In the army five years. None cf these men is married although there is one engaged and. ts they put it, there's one "probable." I When I found them In their quar-j I ters Shaff r and Milne were deep in a game of chess and the others were on sack duty. I The Oily Bold has had over- fc hundred hoi s In her. "They stopped stop-ped counting after 100," Jack Nair' i explained. J I On her first mission she came back with 19 holes nnd the s cond time out they counted 71 Most of j thes" were from mnchlnegun bullets ! fired by memy fighters. She has had her tall shot off and now sports a new one On ewing has also been j replac d. having been all but shct I off. Two engines were shot out and replaced. The ship has crash landed at Iwo j Jima a couple of times and her crew are thankful the Marines took 1 that Island. I i ''I don't know wht.i we wrmlri An if Iwo Jima wasn't there." Lt. Shaffer Shaf-fer remarked.. "The gang there has' certainly treated us fine. I'm told that everytlme a B-29 puts in there j the gang lays bets its the Oily Bold That's a helluva reputation to have On one occasion when they land-1 ed on Iwo. the weather was so thick the pilot had to guess where the' runway was and when he stopped one wing was hanging ov?r the edge of a cliff. It's the closeset they ever com to going In the drink. I Getting home on one engine Is an old story with them. They have sen' everything over Japan, from fighters fight-ers to balls cf fire and hravy antiaircraft. anti-aircraft. But they always manage to get their bombs way and right on the nose. None of them Is superstitous. We wished the boys well, as Shaffer Shaf-fer and Milne resumed their game of chess and the ethers returned to their sacks. I |