Show I I t i. i Nothing Can Stop the tire Army Air Force With B 8 ranging rang over Tokyo al almost almost almost al- al most daily its it's tough for the imagination to conceive that three years ago our air forces' forces only asset asset as ns- set was the moxie of its men Bataan was saved at least once by bythe bythe bythe the wizardry of our air force personnel personnel personnel per per- who had plenty of ingenuity as well as courage Enemy ships I were trying to land troops on the shore one night Though there were no bombers with which to stop them our airmen weren't fazed Mechanics rigged up three pursuit pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit ships with a device whereby two I pound bombs could be attached I Ito to the wings and released by pulling pulling pulling pull pull- I ing a wire The three ships 1 made three trips that night and bombed and strafed the Jap boats I preventing the troops from landing What made their feat of stalling stalling stalling stall stall- ing the Japs and gaining time for forus forus forus us even more of a miracle was that most of the pilots had never before flown at night The newspapers not long ago carried carried carried car car- ried a story telling how there were no trees in the far Aleutians and that pilots had brought in a single singletree singletree singletree tree planted it and labelled it National Forest What the news story failed to mention mention mention men men- tion was why the tree had been flown in for in-for for the exclusive use of ofa a fliers flier's pet dog T A flyer who had been stationed on onan onan onan an island for too many months developed developed developed de de- de- de a crush on a native half-native girl who looked very beautiful after months in the South Pacific In his barracks one day he was getting poetic about the girl when girl when his buddy thumbing through a I movie magazine suddenly turned to toa toa toa a photo of Betty Grable in a bathing bathing bathing bath bath- ing suit Hows this excitedly excitedly ex ex- excitedly asked the buddy holding up u P the picture The pilot took a brief look and snorted White trash On a recent bomber mission over o Germany the flight light ran into serious opposition from both fighters and flak and a 17 B was hit A 20 mm shell struck the top turret and the gunner fell to the floor covered with blood A colonel who ha had l come along as an observer rushed back to give first aid and seeing seeing seeing see see- ing the lads lad's rigid form thought he was either dead or dying ding He e was about to administer adminis adminis- ter a hypodermic when the gunner gunner gunner gun gun- ner opened his eyes The Thc colonel bent over him putting his ear close to the lads lad's lips expecting some last feeble words Colonel was the gunners gunner's comment Im beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to think there isn't much future in this racket Despite popular misconception boys of the arent aren't as up pin-up- happy as people think This verse was penned several months ago ngo by a B 17 radio operator gun ner who failed to return from a misSion misI mission mis mis- I sion over Italy Oh Hedy Lamarr is a beautiful gal And Madeleine Madeleine Madeleine Made Made- leine Carroll is too But you'll find if you query a different theory Amongst any bomber crew For the loveliest thing of which one could sing This side of the Heavenly Gates Is no blonde or brunette of the Hollywood set But an escort of P Pet story story- of Gen Hap Arnold chief of the concerns J the Wright brothers who had repeatedly repeated repeated- tried to than heavier-than-air ly fly a craft Finally one December day at Kitty Hawk N. N C. C they did what no man had ever done before b fore They flew Elated they wired their sister Katherine We have actually actual actual- ly flown feet Will be home for Christmas Katherine ran down the street and breathlessly han handed ed edthe the telegram the telegram the news scoop of the century century to to the city editor of the lo- lo local local lo 10 cal paper He read it carefully and smiled Well well How nice the nice the boys willbe will willbe willbe be home for Christmas A fighter pilot veteran of the famed Flying Tigers took on half a dozen Jap planes in a dogfight and downed two Then his ammunition ran out Ramming his plane into a third he bailed out and managed to toland toland tot t land safely near the wreck Removing Removing Removing Re Re- moving the one undamaged machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun from the debris he carried it to his base where base where he promptly reported to his commander Gen Claire Chennault Chennault Chennault Chen- Chen Sir may I have another airplane for my machine gun During a raid on Sch several months ago one of our bombers Bobbie was hit and two of her engines were knocked out For miles the bomber hopped hedge-hopped over trees roof tops and enemy pillboxes All the time as the plane limped along her crew kept praying the two smoking engines wouldn't blow up When they finally reached home and the perspiring pilot climbed out J of the ship his comment was We made a chapel out of that airplane today |