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Show Wartime Activities of CAP Are Released; Book Now Available Now it can be told! The story of those brave, Intrepid men who volunteered vol-unteered their services and their own equipment to help save America Amer-ica at a time when America was In real danger! Here, for the first time Is the complete and authorized story of America's Civil iAlr Patrol a story of danger and sacrifice, of individual bravery and nationwide teamwork. Flying mlnutemen! What the mlnutemen were to America In 1776, the Flying Mlnutemen of the Civil Air Patrol were to America when the Jups struck Pearl Harbor. From Maine to Mexico they hunted the German U-Boots off the Atlantic and Gulf shores; they spotted ships in distress and survivors on lifeboats life-boats and rafts; they spelled defeat to the menace of the subs. But this was just one of the many duties they performed. They also patrolled the Mexican border flew the Rockies as courier pilots, performed per-formed search and rescuo mission.? from the High Sierras to the Florida Everglades; they spotted fires In the nation's forests, flew emergency emergen-cy missions for war plants and Army bases, towed targets for gunnery gun-nery practice and worked with the Red Cross on mercy missions when the dlsasters"of flood and tornado I f- or explosion struck. All this and I more they did from the time of their organization In Dec. of 1941.1 In the summer of 1946, as a re-' war for work well done, the Civil Air Patrol was granted a national charter, and Is now a full-fledged, vital and growing outfit, which has launched a peacetime program across the country, to build up A-merlca's A-merlca's air strength, to build airports', air-ports', establish safe flying routes, and to keep hundreds of thousands of Americans prepared to deal with emergencies. Marking skyways Is one of the most Important projects under way at the present time. That means that In every state in the Union, Civil Air Patrol has volunteered volun-teered and Is undertaking to make private flying safer by marking the air routes across the states so that private pilots may fly the air routes across states and, looking down see roofs marked an other spots that they might know where they are at all times. America's C A A has authorized and surveyed a forty-mile forty-mile wide skyway for private fliers between Washington D. C. and California, Cal-ifornia, to be equipped with direction and1 Information markers In the same way that truck highways are mark-I mark-I ed for motorists. These markers will toe located on tops of buildings, 1 water towers, etc., and In the open country the markers will be fixed to the ground. Some 5000 towns and cities are to be marked in lettering longitude, a small arrow designating designat-ing true north, and a circle with a large arrow pointing to and Identifying Iden-tifying the nearest good oilfield with mileage Indicated. Recently the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce In many cities have undertaken under-taken to help Civil Air Patrol In this important task, which CAP has volunteered to undertake in the same spirit in which it volunteered volun-teered its services back In the days of '41. But that Is not all. Civil Air Patrol here and there throughout through-out the United States is dally performing per-forming unsung missions of mercy, helping the rescue efforts of stranded strand-ed fliers, flying medical and nursing nurs-ing aid quickly to needy patients. By filling In the coupon below and buying the book "Flying Mln-1 utcmen" you not only get a best seller to read, a book filled with gripping drama and heretofore untold un-told bravery on the part of Just ordinary .men and women, those who made up the private pilots of 1 1941 and thereafter, but you help the local CAP unit to carry on Its share of this vital program. Get the took today! They are excellent Christmas gifts, too. |