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Cottage Grove, Oregon
second pass, as I "B'ed" across the
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T vov.ed then on the sacrecT reties had settled. They had reformed but
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CHAPTER X: Scott * »roup r o r r t n of my great grandmother that dur were not as closely packed as be
months. Important: In changing address notify us immediately and
refugee* out ot B urm a, heavil} overload
give former as well as present address.
ing those thirty-one days I would fore Again 1 strafed them, but thia
ing
the plana*
He pays a visit to Gen.
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
destroy a Japanese plane if I had to time 1 saw that they were tiring at
Chennault and te ll* him he I* a fighter
Cottage tërtne Centrad
GOD IS MY
CO-PILOT
I could gef from the field With my
first burst the whole woods seemed
to blow up I have never seen such
a Hush aa that which came when
that veritable powdcr-traln of high
octuue fuel caught fire from the trac
er«. I also fired at two of the gun
installations on the field. But the
bursts from the Jap guns wore go
close to ma that I decided to let
well enough alone, and turned for
home In Assam. Many times on the
way home 1 looked over my shoul
der. anti the smoke from the thou
sands of gallons of gusollne was vis
ible when 1 was sixty miles from
Myitkyina.
Next day. May 0. t made four
raids into Burma. On the first of
these 1 escorted two transports pi
loted by Saits and Sexton to Pao-
shun, where they were going to land
I to pickup the baggage of the AVO,
who were going on to Kunming. I
waited for them to land and take off
again, and then enlled goodby. They
were going on East within the air
controlled by the AVG, and I v anted
to look for Japs to the South any
way.
Two hours later Pao.ihan
was badly bombed l y the Jap«;
and so I missed a good parly bj
not staying atuund.
(Coutlm ed next week)
DECEMBER 21, 1944
D C S T LJUI5HC5
me
The trucks couldn't get off
go all the way to Rangoon.
CHRISTMAS TREKS ARE
We got pretty confident, the trans- the road, and I exhausted my am
Old
pest boys and I, for I used to go munition on them in two more
AGAIN GLEAMING IN
with them across Burma, and Jop- liaises. One truck that 1 caught
THE WINDOWS!
dead
center
with
a
full
two-second
CHAPTER X I
lin and some of the other daredevils
would try to lure the Jap in to at burst seemed to blow up. When 1
THE SHORTEST DAY OP THE YEAR
I couldn't waste much time In tack them. Jop would call over the left. I knew that four of the trucks
Today is the shortest day of the y ear with about two
were burning, and further to the
radio, in one
the three
clear: four
'N R -a
,i ° " rS J*‘SS
thBn in ? he <*<».':^P»»nding day in June. Short fust" over X ’ S ^ / h i U s "a™ was
the transport
IT from
Just about time for us to lie
,
... ,■
” — v — ------ --
me n u t « n u ts ana me transport one three four—I'm lost South I could still see the smoke
thinking of how much wc
of
my
Arst
Jap
plane
rising
high
days means that most ot us will have to travel in the d ark Japs were coming towards Myit- near Bhamo— give me a bearing
w hether on foot or by auto. Holiday tra ffic is the most haz-
the South and up the
Up there, some three thousand feet above the trees of Burma
arc in<|ebted to you,
9
Straight back to base I went, feel
ardous of the year, made hazardous by the unusual activity of Chlndwin and the l-ra w a d d y . It was above lh e in 1 d be
W llh m y
And just about time for
shoppers and by the w eather with wet and slippery s tre e ts °^xn* season
1 needed no hunt tighter, just praying that my Mde- ing very intoxicated with success.
At last I'd been able to see Japs and
us to t-all upon two little
The beat safety devices yet praetieed have not elim inated .Tf, !<T n w . Now 1 deflnlteV kne*' coy" would work and some luckless draw
blood. In this case they had
words that carry more cheer
tra ffic accidents, hut they have helped. Last week we heard a
On
n5’ r' .............. Jap would come in for the kill Then
an .A p-ric,,,-- uha-h „ „ „ a f him w ithin att » ,» .“ S J t S i A S S S i i l S { £ ^ * 2 S ' S . i a T ' ”
been treated Just as they had been
anti gootl will than all the
W it h a 1U ij iu a a o i a m m u n i t i o n a n n
»«n
. t — _______
But
treating Allied ground troops, and I
inch of his lire and ruined him physically to r the day. He w as, the shark-mouth seeming to drip
blazing,
big w inds that have ever
d riving to work early one m orning and almost ran over two saliva, it was so eager. I waited by ruje never worked. Sometimes I w-ia happy.
been
coined-—
ufternoon I went back on
By Dr. II A fingen
boys on bicycles because the bicycles bad.no reflectors ami he my ship for an alert. Jap observa- think the "Great Flying Boss in the the That
second mission. 1 found the
It is a good thing to observe
tins within three feet of the hoys Iteforo he saw them. He was turn planes had been coming over Sky" was giving me a little more wrecks of four trucks and baggage. Christmas day. The mere tnurkiiig
able to stop because he was driving slow. Since this was told at high altitude very regularly. If practice before he put me to the and obfecta tlujt could have been of times and seasons, when men
us we have seen not only children hut adults ruling in the they came today I hoped to sur- supreme test.
men. scattered all over the road agree to stop work
and make
prise them.
May the fifth was one of the big
d ark without reflectors.
ihe place where I had eaught the m erry together is a wise and
At two o'clock the alert came, but • days in my life. Waving good-bye
column showed about forty wholesome custom It helps one to
A
there . 8CV,US
_
, nother thing we have . observed is ...
he no It was not observation. Many ur.- to Gerry Mason as 1 taxied out. 1 troop men
The grounded plane had feel the supremacy of the common
regulution of m otor and pedestrian tra ffic along .Main street, identified aircraft were reported by saw him hold his thumb up to me dead
burned, and with it had burned about |lfe over the individual life
It
It a m otorist enters Main from 5th. tith or 7th, his progress is a British radio somewhere over the to wish me good hunting. 1 waved ten
acres of the jungle. I fi-ed a reminds a man to set his own little
likely to he blocked on the opposite sitie of the street by a ‘*ia «a Hills. I didn't ask for more back and was in the air on a sweep long burst into the truck and into
slow moving pedestrian and if the m otorist is trv in g to cross than thal seanty information—I was towards central Burma. I went the four fuel drums In front of the wutch now ant, then, by the great
to
of humanity which runs on
th e street, he either has to run the risk of being hit in the ¡2 my fighter and climbing over the straight to Myitkyina: then, seeing debris of the enemy bomber, but ekx'k
sun
time.
m iddle of Main or run the risk of running over the pedestrian.
“ ColoneI Haynes nothing, I swung South along the they didn't burn; 1 guess the morn
But there is u better thing than
Irrawaddy over Bhamo. Continuing ing fire had finished them. 1
*1 h l * situation
s i t l l l l f W ill fr n t c t l i o
id n r io f
/ve* n . i J . v . t
__
*
The
gets the m motorist
o r pedestrian in a tight spot
High over the field at 22.000 feet, 1 South I went right down on the Bur- searched the country to the North the observance of Christmas day.
8. T Eiutburn, Prop,
alm ost every day. One way to elim inate this hazard is to widen I cuddled my oxygen mask and ma Road, North of Lashio, and
and that is keeping Christmas
more troops, but didn't intercept
the streets, hut we are afraid this would not he very practical, circled, watching for enemy ships to searched for enemy columns. North for
Arc you willing Io forget what
any.
otherw ise we may have to come to a tra ffic light d uring part the East, South, and Southeast— of the airport at Lashio I saw two
1 went back home highly elated I
o f the day.
down in the direction of a C u u » io groups of troops in marching order. had draan my first blood. I felt that an<l to remember what other peo-
FINDING
Mandalay. I searched until my eyes I would have strafed them imme the world was good again. With ple have done for you; to ignore
b ’r <’v**
diately, but I was afraid they might pride I radioed General Chennault what the world owes you, and to ,* ^<>U On<* Wh°
hurt,
but
saw
nothing.
After
about
POST WAR HEADACHES
everyone you see?
an hour, turning to a course that | be Chinese; after all. there were two that his “shark" had been In use. think what you owe the world; to . .
The post w ar is being painted a rosy hue by some and the would take me in the direction from Chinese armies coming North some-
that I had caught lots of rats walk put your rights in the background. Ari’ , b’’r‘‘ shrouds wnt down by
same impreaaion w ent out following the first w orld w»r. The which an enemy had to come. I flew where in Burma. I made as though Ing
along the Burma Road.’"and"'that und >our d U ,lM
«b*‘ middl<’ d‘*-
o w " e v .’.rv .h m h <n<4
•
average individual isn ’t deluded. He knows there are m any off to intercept—I now had barely to ignore them and they partially one Army 87 bomber would fly t.o ,ance- “nd >'our chances to do a
° ‘ r iv ,r y *brub “nd ,rtv' ?
adjustm ents necessary and the sooner we s ta rt work on the ad- two hours' fuel, and the farther scattered to the sides of the road. more for the Japs.
uute more ’ha» you«- <lu’y ¡n the
foreground; to see that your fel- ' ,r
y<HJ think that all is good,
justm ents, the better o ff we shall be and the more chance for awa? ,rorn my base I met them, the Twelve trucks in the column kept
fhiit conus lw-:ore your eyes,
peace; at least for a breathing spell.
more successful my attack would be. rolling to the North.
Well, ot la « I'd seen an enemy loWm<’n
J«»» **» real as you
Then 1 momentarily forgot about
Anti that the world is beautiful
One of the m ajor questions facing the west coast is the ^ °rd the eg0 that 1 P°ssessed! I
ship. It wns a grounded bomber— are, and try to look behind their
the
troops—for
in
the
northwestern
Until proved otherwise?
but
after
all.
I
ve
learned
since
then
i
a
w
’*
10
,h<
i5
b‘‘ttr,,‘'
bunK«T
for
resettlm ent of the Japanese in the relocation centers
This u e.s,Jy believe 1 ,h°ught I could
comer of the field at Lashio was a that these planes on the ground * ’y; ,0 ow" , b j ' l>r,’b«bly the only
question does not bother us much her,- because we hud no Jap-
™
N o m a tte r w h a t
o u r a tn lu x is.
ship From my altitude of 2500 feet
an ew ami the prospects are remote that we shall ever have £ ^ T v S o r S H g n iS S e
are sometimes pretty rugged busi- Kood reason for your existence is
I saw at once that it was a twin-
To
see
“
g
o
o
d
"
i*
no
c h o re .
ness to get when you're living down
>ou ,,r,‘ going to get out
them , but in some sections of the state this question is acute,
After forty-five minutes I turned engined enemy bomber, later iden on them with all the anti-aircraft of *“ e- but " hal >ou arc ««»»«If •“ And
people usually do find
p articu la rly in the P o rtlan d anti Hood River areas.
What they are looking for.
for home and began to let down to tified aa a Mitsubishi. Army 97. It fire in the world seeming to con- g,Vv ,o . bfe; ,o cto* ‘> >'our *» « k of
A good deal of feeling against the Ja p s is based on the «‘fihteen thousand. Thirty miles was being serviced, for there were verge on you. You've got to worry complaints agaia-tf the marutgi -
Mrs Arthur F. Denney,
record of the native Japanese soldier d u ring the present w ar frorn the fle|d I suddenly tensed to four gasoline drums in front of it I about small-arms fire from every nM'n^ ° f the universe, und look
that
evidently un-
Crrawell, Oregon.
and to the fact that hc.has an oriental mind. Feelings sueh as ^ \ aler! Off ahead of me was a - and a truck
rnTfu’e
t 1 had
Mv cun^switche.
enemy soldier, too. and it takes only uround you for a pluce where you
n r, w setsls of happiness
exist in many places on the coast makes good political fodder in the'alr HghUn’the ¿»H ion on^the wer* “ 'ready on. and had been since one little slug in the prestone radla- can
ENFOR< F.MENT DRIVE ON
a ri‘ You w illing io do these
for the politicians
and we . venture the assertion
.u-. the home field
I had seen
seen the
the troop
troop column.
column. Now
Nov/ tor or the oil-eoolcr to stop you
n
.
. that
------ m many
a n y p poll-
o ll- worid-s surf ace that
VRKD CAR NAI.EH
mighty sudden.
things even fo r a day? Then you
I
was
diving
for
thè
grounded
bomb
ticiaibs will not pass up the opportunty in m onths to eome when should be. My tortured mind flashed
The
next
d
^
1
went
to
Lashio
can
keep
Christmas.
— — —
it s so easy to capitalize on the problem of racial heroics, back to other results of bombings er and getting my “Christmas Tree" again and strafed the hangar that
A n- you willing to believe that
Launching the first phase of an
sight
lighted
properly.
Commenting on this question the Oregon V oter says: No- that I had seen.
Hurriedly I began to shoot. I sat* had (Mice been used by China Na- l«»ve is the strongest thing in the <’nforcement drive against viola
thing short of the u tte r exterm ination of the Japanese will " M y God," I moaned, "while I've
stronger
than
hate. B°ns on oalea of used passenger
men 1 .™ni‘in*
running , hI2
from the . truck
and tions! Airways Corporation- -CNAC world
elim inate the Japanese problem from post w ar consideration. bJ en away looking for the bastards. 7’"
.s
ia
—but I couldn’t bunt it. There were stronger than evil, stronger than cars‘ B °ftl« n d district OPA en-
m,. i_____: u „ _ / . . . __________
L ,
.
,
, , thev've slin™.a in h . . .
jumping into the bushes to the side
To be guilty o f so m onstrous a wholesale m urder, we would
ve sLip?ed. in hire an* ^°mbcd
flrjt
officials have usked
hit in fror.t of the no ships on the field except an RAF death and that the blessed life
Blen.ieim
that
had
been
strafed
by
which
beenn
in
Bethlehem
some
aPPr,,x*
rna,ely
360 (lersons who
have to change our nature into a ferocity, sueh as now we ah-
‘ ’ e
ba’e! ,
j plane, probabl
probably striking the fuel
the Japs on the ground on the North nineteen hundred years ago is the *x,uKht used cars during Ihe past
h o r in the Herman
and
Japanese
w
ar
lords.
It
is
likely
th
at,
Over and dove
drums- for hcil
heavy
dust
covered
the
,
. . .
. .
over and dove for the Zeros that
end of the runway.
image and brightness of the lite r- fl‘w ’Bonlhg to <x»m«- into
the
lik e Hermans who m igrated to this country and became some should be strafing the field (Later enerny sh-P- 1 released my trigger
I turned back jo the North to look nal Love?
Then you can keep ( ,’’A office bringing all jMi|/ers
of our finestcitizens. w e have enjoyed s o ’m any of the ben- I was to learn a lot about this moth as 1 pulIed out ot my dive-
for the gasoline stores that I knew Christmas.
pertaining to th<* transactions,
«•fits of o u r kind of Am erican civilization th at wc will not be °d too.) The
smoke was from base m
had been at Myitkyina. I was de-
And it you keep It fo r a day '^<d Stern, O P A enforcement at-
w illing to give up those benefits for the sakt^of being like the a11 risht. but I could see no enemy
teimined they were not going to fall why not always?
’ ’orney. reported today. The OPA
J a p o r Nazi gangsters are now .”
planes.
The only thing In the sky
into Jap hands. Not finding them.
But you can never keep it alone w i,i bl ,P buyers to get refunds If
I spent the rest of my time flying,
There is another way o u t and this would be to deport w” a 8ingle D<n' !!las ‘ran«port.
”
" Van - Dyke.
‘
actual overcharges are found, he
Henry
low on the Irrawaddy, looking for
said.
all native ami foreign b o rn Japanese to Jap an . Ik-fore we
* “Calling "NR-Zer^NR*
enemy barges. It was a pretty un ORKGON ANHWKR8 FLORIDA
could do this however, we would have to take into considcra- Zero.” I asked what the fire was
profitable day.
ra««ii3 Plato
tion the services of the A m erican born Japanese who are The reply was muddled, but every
When Myitkyina fell. I went over
'
’
A local resident rewived n
When passing your plate for a sec
fig h tin g with the native Am erican boys on several fronts, we thing seemed to be in order, for I
there every day to burn the gasoline Chriatm n* card i t * * > » . i
.
>
thnt hnH
.......
1 nrtsim«« card. It was decorated ond helping or when you are through
m ight also ru n into fu rth e r difficulties in try in g to deport t noticed two other transports clear-
•he* woods
t h e \ ’Tr'he'?«t' .V the W*'h u blue lake with a sail Ixwt,, ea,t“«-
the knife and fork
some of the loyal Am erican born J a p citizens and we m ight ing tbe fie'd for China. I circled,
.ne wuoas to tne Northeast of the r«.lm
n .........
.
: n n m i.i .......... .1.- . i . . . .....
end of the runway. I had found out
fl° W[ " \ nd a ’ roP“ a ' parallel across the plate with the
then
dove
on
the
smoking
ruins
of
also have to deal with the soldics of Hawaii, about 60 percent
its location from British Intelli- g?rdcn _*‘c<‘ne ,n f l°rtda . T h e front tines of the fork turned up and the
of whom are of Japanese ancestory and also m any loyal P hil the RAF operations "basha." That
gence, but the RAF Group Captain
% to' ^ ' r W“2 m ar,£ d "C hrlst- cutting edge of the knife turned
building had been the casualty, and
ippine soldier.-?.
tow ard the fork
it was a total loss. I could see the
l u. exacted fro m m e a promise
G
«• rom Florida.”
Such a move certainly w ould not prom ote understanding operations officer sitting out in the
that I would not fire into it until he
u.LV m < .5 * * " ° , W<IS ,bua:
and the peace we say we want.
open, some hundred feet from the
gave me the word.
When the wintry winds are
charred ruins, calmly carrying on
It seems that he was afraid that blowing
his duties.
When (or If) V-E Day Comes
the firing and the burning of the fuel
W ay up N orth,
A column of
When I'd gotten my fighter parked
would excite the native Burmese
And H * raining and its snowing
I nder the head o f “ W arning to E d ito rs,” an item in a
again
I
went
over
and
heard
the
Fun ’N Forts
who were in the village. I couldn't
Way up North,
recent report of the W rite rs’ W ar Board is phrased in these
story. No Jap attack had come,
see what difference that would
By M ike
We don't mind it, for down here
blunt w ords:
v . i
ui
v-
. ,
.. ,
,
and I felt relieved—my single-ship
make, for after all the Japs would
It’s summer all the year.
You have a problem. You m ay not know it, b u t you have. War and I had not let the station
capture the thousands of gallons of
So we send our Christmas cheer
and i t ’s serious. Surveys have convinced W ashington th a t w ar down. But as I heard the embar-
Howdy Folks; A Chicago
aviation gasoline, and the natla-e*
Way up North!
w orkers are cherishing a grave m isapprehension and plan t o : rassed operations man tell his story
newspaper point« out that
were more than likely helping them
The receiver of this cord .being
the government print« and
act in accordance with it. They adm it th a t they expect some 1 remember choking discreetly and
anyway. Though I held off, every a loyal Oregonian, not to be out-
distributes
the
speeches
sort of Arm istice o r V ictory day in the European war. They leavin9 before I laughed myself to
time I raw the shiny four-gallon done sent this reply:
made by congressmen en
f u rth e r believe th at on th a t day th e y ’ll be m iraculously death-
Chlnesc soldiers and coolies look cans in the trees my finger Itched Christmas Greetings From Oregon
tirely at a loss,
freed from th eir labors— and from labor regulations— and rnor- .he^ n n fr a fi« « ^ 1 ®°’jnded- °PPs
the summery sun is
over Jap plane shot dawn by Col. to burn the cache before the enemy , When
• • •
could use it. I passed the three blasting
ally free, too. to quit and take w hatever o ther jobs they choose. t0 the window of the th lu h ^an d Scott.
days of waiting in burning three
It
might
lie added that
Way down South,
I t ’s up to you editors to convince y our readers th a t this bamboo "basha” to see me take off clearing the trees behind my tar barges on the Irrawaddy. South of
they are read the same
And
the
hot
sticky
feeling
is
is all nonsense— a dangerous fairy tale.
j in the "bloody kite—that Kitty- get. As I looked back I saw the Bhamo. and In setting a fuel barge
way.
lasting
• • •
As you know, there may never be a V-E D ay a t all. hawk." Seeing a transport from red circle on one wing, but the other on fire down on the Chindwln. In
Way
down
South,
Some Allied com m anders have already publicly declared China about to land, and fearing that , was covered by the body of a man
this last raid my ship picked up a
One of our customer« hns
We don't
mind It, for up here
th a t they doubted th a t any G erm an of group of Germ an » e Japs would bomb it on the field. | who either had been shot or was try- few -------------------------------------------
- Jap
J|s
...
small holes; evidently some
decided thnt congressmen
Its
cool
nights
and
green
all
leaders could comm and a su rren d er and be widely obeyed.
had
a Very pistol out ,
b‘de tbe *dent‘
'" « in ia
sympathizers had managed to get year
must be heavy drinker«. He
»i
l
-ii
i
• -i-
-
- i
J -ii of the operations window the red
K eeping the ship very low, I
mv ranee
-1 “
heard about one who made
M uch guerrilla and Civilian opposition » expected. It will Very hght would be the signal for . tur" ed 180 dagrees for the second at-
[ . t e r m the week, the RAF Croup
S° WP send our Christmas cheer
Funsi
î W
NATIONAL
NATIONALS tO DI IT O R IA L —
SSO C IA T IO N
«//Zcen/tA
" . . mfeg
pilot and not a ferry pilot and I* pr.un
tied the next P-40 that a rriv e * ft o n
A frica.
Keeping Christmas
Merry Christmas
Sixth Street
Grocery
j
FREE AIR
«lie licit (I.
the transport not to land but to fly
i o avoid friction later, s ta rt now to educate y our read-j in the "stand-by” area. The Very
ers S . . . Tell them to forget V-E Day . . . th a t J a p bullets light had gone nonchalantly out of
k ill ju s t as quickly as Nazi ones.
the operations window, into the
This is tim ely w arning, coming as it does when an in-: wind- had curved gracefully back
<• x n rem
r<*KK tm
111 w
creasing num ber of service men overseas are exn
»! in,° «‘«wuivi
anot|-ar HHiuuw,
window, ana
and naa
had
.i .
R burned the bloody building in five
th e ir concern over the unrealistic optim ism in reg a rd to an | mjnutcs. Operations was h in g car
early end of th e war, which they
lin d in letters from the j ried on a, usua| from
aUon,
folks back home.
GI
Joe,
who
has
fought
the
Germ
ans
in
desk,
which
was
located
in
front
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N o^th A friea, in Italy and in France, has no illusions < about the rite of the former office. Bloody
the enem y’s resistance “ folding u p ” suddenly, o r even soon, shame, wasn’t it?
“ D on’t kid yourself— w e’ve got a long way to go before we
Wel>, it was tragic, but I guess
have these K rauts thoroughly b eaten” is the tenor of th eir 11 wa’ better than a bombing. And
letters, in reply to th eir fam ily ’s wishful th in k in g about so rny rst mission ended.
having them home soon. “ So you folks back there had bet Came May Day. and I began the
greatest month in my life. I flew
te r keep on the job, buying w ar bonds and keeping produc every
day in that long month, some
tio n of w ar m aterials up to schedule instead of m aking plans times as many as four missions a
fo r w hat y o u ’re going to do on V-E D ay.” — Pulilishers day. By putting in a total of 214
A u xiliary._________________________________________ _
hours and 45 minutes. I averaged
over seven hours a day for the
Prevent Clouding
month. Most of this was in fighter
Old Mil! Stream
A little glycerin rubbed over fresh ships—my little old Kiftyhawk and
The famous song “ Down by the
Old M ill Stream" refers to the Blan ly cleaned windows or mirrors will I learned a lot, and we were very,
chard river running through Fre prevent them from clouding over very lucky. When I had come in
in damp or foggy weather. This may from my first sortie, the day oper
mont. Ohio. It was written by Teli
also be used for eye glasses, when ations burned down, my pal Col.
Taylor, who was born on a farm
the wearer is forced to stand over Gerry Mason kidded me a bit. Since
near Fremont in 1876 and lived there
until his death in 1937.
steaming hot water.
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Way down South!
Captain told me that his Comman-
dos in Myitkyina were Roing to
knock holes in all the fuel tins with
Rhlny Glaze
Acetate ruyon fabrics on which
picks before they left the field to the
Japs. Nevertheless I kept watching home pressing has produced a shiny
the gasoline stores while the Japs glaze cannot be re-dyed.
moved to the North. On May 8.
when I got In my ship and st irted
the Allison, my friend the Group
' Captain ran across the field to tell
me that the Japs could not net the
. gasoline—it had been destroyed with
out fire, and thus the villagers would
not be panicked Over the roar of
the engine I yelled that In that case
it would not burn when I fired Into
It. For I had waited long enough;
the Japs were in Myitkyina and I '
wasn't taking any chances on their
acquiring over 100,000 gallons of avi
ation fuel less than two hundred
to
miles from our base.
When I came over the field nt
Myitkyina, the enemy fired at me '
w h ile 'I was yet ten miles away; I
could see the black bursts of the
37 mm AA in front and below me.
I started "Jinking” and moved to
the Northeast, so that I could come
fror- — c« ch»
P-a i » . . f^ ,r
!
I
oow.
' tack- Th"
I did better I saw
tra« r » go into the thin fuselage
f nd then into the engines. At first
I thought that what I was seeing
was more dust; then I realized it
was smoke pouring from under the
sb,p B was on fire. Foolishly then,
I Polled up to about six hundred
feet; if there had been anti-aircraft
ftre'
u - 1 know now they
- would have
,hot me down Again I turned and
’ hot at the truck and the gasoline
drums, and once more I saw the
tracers converge on the enemy ship.
Smoke was floating high In the sky—
I could smell it over the odor of cor
dite that came from my own guns.
Keeping very low again, 1 turned
East and found the Burma Road,
turned up it and started looking for
the columns which I now knew were
Japanese. I approached them from
the rear, fired from about a thou
sand yards, and the road seemed
to pulverize. The closely packed
troops appeared to rifth back to
wards me as my speed cut the dis-
tance between us. I held the six
guns on while I went tbe length of
the troop column and caught the
tali.
«u.
MERRY
CHRISTM AS
and a
H A P P Y NEW
YEAR
my friends and
patrons
DR. C. R. SIM K IN S
I
a spt'cch from the floor of
the house.
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The writer came from n
long line of politicians.
His grandfather ran fpr
t he Ixtrder, once.
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And we ran for work, once,
when the alarm fulled Io
go off.
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