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STUFFED SHIRT PILOT
VII
IT always seemed strange to me
. that the Army, with its super
high standards for the Air Corps
and the rigorous training it puts
its pilots through, should at the
some time leave so little responsi
bility to the pilots In the matter
of when they should fly und when
they shouldn't. We boys in the
C. N. A. C. flew thousands of tons
of material across the Himalayas
during 10-day and sometimes even
two-week periods when not a sin
gle Army plane was allowed to get
off the ground.
If that would seem to reflect
more courage and daring on the
part of C. N. A. C. civilian pilots
than upon Air Force personnel, It
should not. The Army pilots them
selves would have flown In any
kind of weather, and as the Army
Ferry Command developed along
side the C. N. A. C. on the route
between Kunming and Dinjan, the
red tape began to thin out a little
and tha pilots were given more
leeway. But for many months dur
ing the time I worked for C. N.
A. C. our boys would be flying
regular schedules across the moun
tains while Army regulations were
keeping scores of planes loaded
and ready standing on the fog
shrouded fields.
Tony Mercede took up a spirited
defense of the Army every time
ainglss or I or others In the C. N.
A. C. started to criticize It for Its
panty-walst (lying regulations.
"Listen, jerks," he said one day.
"You guys are getting paid big
dough for doing your Job; these
kids in the Army arc getting regu
lar Army flyer's pay. You can
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quit your Jobs, these kids can't.
The Army has a lot more authority
over its boys than C. N. A. C. has
over you but it has a bigger
obligation, too."
rVO some extent Tony was right;
but he was all wrong on that
matter of the money we were
making. He wus not the first and
by no means the lust to accuse
C. N. A. C. pilots and even the
men In the A. T. A. in England
of being mercenaries, but neither
he nor others of his viewpoint
considered our side of It. Virtually
all of us "mercenaries" had paid
for our Hying education out of our
own pockets and almost 100 per
cent of the Army pilots had been
given their training at government
expense. We hod Investments in
our flying ability; they did not.
But I didn't want to go into all
that again. Instead I said: "Walt
a minute, Tony. Do you remember
back In 1933 when the Army took
over the airmail routes In the
States? Hemember how many
planes and pilots were lost in that
little misadventure? And do you
know why? It was because the
Army didn't know a third as much
about blind flying as the commer
cial pilots did. . . . And It's the
same thing over here right now.
There are a lot of stuffed shirts
in the Army even In the Air
Force ond they're so cocky about
their rank ond their military dig
nity thut they think they know
everything worth knowing about
flying. . . ."
And then I told Tony and Gin
glss and Sklppy and a couple of
the other boys gathered around
about a little incident I had played
a part In a short time before.
WHEN I left Dinjan one morn
" lng with a planeload of Chi
nese money baled In big tin con
tainers and amounting to over a
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Richard G. Taylor, La Grande,
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Chief nf Police Clyde Lund re
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Ernest Nolun of Duiker, iini!
Tom Krtwaid Kelley, of Yakimu,
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million dollars .. Chlneje . ther
were eight American and British
Army officers, at the iteld. Four
of them had names that regularly
made the headlines in American
newspapers; the other four were
top-ranking colonels and brigadier
generals. They had come in from
Calcutta in a big Flying Fortress
piloted by an extremely solf-satls-fled
and cocky little colonel,
C. N. A. C.'s field office was
alongside the west runway at Din-
Jan, and while I was waiting for
one of our usual weather reports
("Ceiling unknown; visibility lim
ited") I saw the Little Colonel
standing out In front of his B-17
with a map In Ills hands.
" 'Morning, Colonel," I said.
"Where you bound over the
Hump or back west?"
"Eh?" the fellow said, looking
up rather foggily. "Why, ah
we're going to Kunming. The
ship's being refueled."
"It's been pretty rough on the
north route the last few days," I
offered. "The Ice is bad. South
route's not bud for weather, but
the Zeros have been thick as flies
the last week."
The Little Colonel looked at me
as if to say he hadn't asked for
a speech, so I started to move
away. But then I remembered
those bigwigs I had seen come in
with him on the B-17. So I went
back to him and said, "I'm going
over myself in a few minutes. I'll
wait if you like and lead the way,
I know the routes pretty well."
The Little Colonel's eyebrows
popped up until they almost dis
appeared under his cap. If I had
been a junior officer in the Army
I think he would have organized
a court martial right on the spot.
Ho waited until his blood pressure
subsided a little, then smiled in
dulgently and said, "Thank you,
son, but I daresay I'll get along
all right." Then he turned and
strode off.
My plane was ready a little
while later, and I lit out for Kun
ming with a million-dollar puyroll
for the Chinese Army. The Little
Colonel was still puzzling over his
map as my C-83 thundered down
the runway.
(To Be Continued)
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