Show nothing can stop slop the army air force with B ranging over tokyo almost daily its tough for the imagination to conceive that three years ago our air forces force only asset was the moxie of its men bataan was saved at least once by the wizardry of our air force personnel who had plenty of ingenuity as well as courage enemy ships were trying to land troops on the shore one night though there were no bombers with which to stop them our airmen fazed mechanics rigged up three pursuit ships with a device whereby two pound bombs could be attached to the wings and released by pulling a wire the three ships made three trips that night and bombed and strafed the jap boats preventing the troops from landing what made their teat feat of stalling the japs and gaining time for us even more of a miracle was that most of the pilots had never before flown at night 1 the newspapers not long ago carried a story telling how there were no trees in the tar far aleutians Aleut ians and that pilots had brought in a single tree planted it and la belled it national forest what the news story failed to mention was why the tree had been flown in for the exclusive use of a fliers pet dog A flyer who had been stationed on an island tor for too many months developed a crush on a 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 his buddy thumbing through a movie magazine suddenly turned to a photo of betty grable in a bathing suit hows this excitedly asked the buddy holding up the picture the pilot took a brief look and inor ted white trash on a recent bomber mission over germany the flight ran into serious opposition from both fighters and flak bak and a B 17 was hit A 20 nim mm shell struck the top turret and the gunner tell fell to the floor covered with blood A colonel who had com come e along as an observer rushed back to give first aid and seeing the lads rigid form thought he was either dead or dying ue he was about to administer a hypodermic when nhen the gunner ner opened his eyes the colonel bent over him putting his ear close to the lads lips expecting some last feeble words colonel was the gunners comment im begin ning to think there much future in this racket at despite popular misconception boys of the arent as pin up happy as people think this verse was penned several months ago by a B 17 radio operator gun ner who failed to return from a mission over italy oh ile hedy dy lamarr is a beautiful gal and madeleine carroll is too but yol il 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 of gen hap arnold chief of the concerns the wright brothers who had repeatedly tried to fly a heavier than air craft finally one december day at kitty hawk N C they did what wha no man had ever done bea before ore they newt elated they wired their sister katherine we have actual ly flown feet will be home for christmas katherine ran down the street and breathlessly handed the telegram the news scoop of the century to the city editor of the local paper he read it carefully and smiled well belll how nice the boys boy will be home for christmas 1 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 balled out and managed to land safely near the wreck removing the one undamaged machine gun from the debris he carried it to his base where he promptly reported to his commander gen clalie claire chennault sir may I 1 have another airplane for or my machine gun during a raid on an several months ago one of our bombers bantlin Batt lin bobble bobbie was hit and two of her engines were knocked out for miles the bomber hedge hopped over trees roof tops and enemy pillboxes pill boxes all the time as the plane limped along her crew kept praying the two smoking engines wouldn t blow up when they finally reached rea ched home and the perspiring pilot climbed out of the ship his comment was we made a chapel out of that airplane today i |