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Show LT. BOE MARTIN BREAKS INTO TI.E MOVIES ' Ask mnst war pilots what their greatest thrill was and they'd probably taiie a couple of hours telling how he downed his first Zero or Mosserschmitt. But the greatest thrill for First Lt. Bob M.ir'.'n. son of Mr. and P.Irs. C. T. Martin of Milford, came Tuesday Tues-day r.'r.'.t in the Firmage theater ir TlIford. nr':'"- the showing of the nrrwsreel scenes taken during a thrilling Burma jungle rescue of an injured pilot were flashed on the screen. Bob grabbed the ''"o of his seat p.nd exclaimed: "That's my "Daffy." and could hardly control his excitement as he saw an array helicopter, with himself at the controls, float in over a tiny clearing, settle to the ground and take aboard an injured in-jured captain, then soar aloft and head for an army hospital. The captain, with a IVagga (headhunter) chieftain as passenger, pas-senger, had crashed in the dense jungle, killing the chieftain and gravely injuring the captain. Lt. Martin and Lt. Raymond i Murdock of Waynesburg, Ind., I alternated at the controls of I "Daffy Ann," army rescue heli-I heli-I copter. Both lieutenants received I a cluster for their previously 1 earned Air Medals, for their rescue res-cue of the injured pilot. |