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THE STORY THUS EAR: Lieut. Col.
Frank Kurts, pilot of • Flying F ortress,
trill of that fatal day « h en the Jap s
struck In the Phllipplu««. E ight of his
m en were killed Bering for shelter and
Old W. with m any other F ortresses, w as
dem olished before It could gel off the
ground.
After escaping to A ustralia,
what la left of the squadron flirt to J a v a
w here they go out on m issions over the
P hilippines. The bom bardier takes up
the story and tells of a flying trip to
Braril. Egypt, Iraq. India and J a v a .
A battle In the clouds In which sw arm s
of Zeros attack an E m odel Fortreaa
Is described, and In which the Zeros
com e out second best. Seven Zeros are
shot down.
CHAPTER X II
W .N .U .r iA T U E Ii
•‘ •Yes.’ he said. And then In n
minute he said, 'Thank God those
Japs didn't see it.’
“ The formation circles above the
dead Queen. We circle until the fire
dies away, peering down at the wid
ening disk of oil. But there is no
sign of anything else on the surface.
“ Until then it hadn't seemed like
a battle—just a game. But now I
feel like someone had kicked me in
Ihc guts. There were guys on there
I'd drunk with. We’d sat around
and lied to each other. I'd seen it
happen, but I couldn't believe what
I saw—it seemed like a bad dream.
“ When we landed, all the crew as
sembled for the critique, each mem
ber dictating just what he had seen
to the officer. That's when I was
credited with three of the eight Zeros
we knocked down. After the critique
no one had much to say. Wc were
all thinking about what we saw hap
pen.
"We'd found out our machine-gun
oil would freeze at high altitudes,
and we were figuring how to clean
and oil the guns so they would best
“ We've already lost altitude wait-
I Ing for the Major (we'd boxed him
in so he could stay with us and the
. Zeros wouldn't tellr him to pieces),
and he seems to have developed en
gine trouble. We're down to 23.000
feet. And I ’m the lead bombardier.
"B ut now the whole plan is again
altered: I get it over the command
| radio. We're to lay them in chains
across this target. So I set up the
: bomb sight again, put the cross
j hairs on that cruiser.
" I t is a perfect run. I even have
time to take my eye off the sight,
and fire bursts at two more Zeros
as they attack from the front. They
; start way out ahead, to the left and
a little below us. Now. coming on
in at me, they cross over and up,
toward the center of my fuselage,
their guns pounding, and then slip
on back and dive straight down and
away.
“ I get one because he miscues.
“ Then I jam my eye back onto
that bomb sight. Everything is rid
ing pretty—the cross hairs right
where I want them, the bombs about
ready to be released.
"A second before the bombs leave
my plane, I see that Jap cruiser
starting to turn (he's figured our
bomb-release line to the hair). He's
turning toward us as I watch the
bombs go down. By the time they'
arrived, the cruiser is three-fourths
through a turn of 180 degrees. The
first bombs are falling short—three
of them. Now mine come—two direct
hits on the cruiser, the other two
going over. The plane back of me
gets some direct hits. My left wing
man’s string is barely in front of
the cruiser, my right wing man’s
string is barely behind it — the
damned thing seems enveloped in
bombs churning the water, and de
bris flying above the foam. Boy,
that Japanese captain just turned
the wrong way!
“ But now our formation swings
and heads for home, Zeros still
Boy, that Japanese captain Just
swarming around us, and we’ re still turned the wrong way.
losing altitude to stay back to pro
tect the Major, who seems able to operate up there. You couldn’t tell
use barely enough throttle to keep the officers from the men (remem
I her in the air. After forty minutes ber, we had no maintenance crews
the last Zero drops away; they’re in Java; we did all the work our
short of gas and daren’t chase us selves) and my pilot had his cover
alls on, installing an extra oxygen
any further.
"Presently, over the command ra- outlet in the tail. After seeing what
had happened to Robinson's tail gun
5 dio;
“ ‘Robinson to Skiles. Go ahead.’ ner, he figured if his toil gunner
got wounded, another man in the
“ ‘Skiles answering.'
“ ‘Radio the base at Malang to crew could go back there and they
have an ambulance ready. We have would both stay on oxygen.
two badly wounded men aboard.’
"The E of course was a big ad
"We wonder who they are. One vance over the D. But any new
is probably the tail gunner, since model w ill have little things wrong
we saw Robinson's plane taking so that you never find out until you
many tracers there. The other must take one up and fight it.
be their radio operator, or else they
“ Anyway,” said Frank Kurtz, "we
could have sent their own dot-dash , had stopped the Japanese there in
message back to base.
Macassar Strait for a while. The
“ Meantime our radio operator is little Dutch Navy helped, but mostly
telling Malang to have the ambu it was American air power. We’d
lance out. Our plane is now leading sunk quite a gang of them, so the
the formation. Major Robinson’s just rest had to go home and lick their
behind us. We’ve drifted slowly wounds, realizing they couldn’t
down to 4,000 feet altitude, protect move in on Java until they had air
ing Robinson. Then, all of a sud control. This meant they would have
den, Robinson’s plane swoops down to clean us out of our advance fields
. beneath us about 1,000 feet, and the in Borneo and the Celebes.
: incline sends it scooting on out in
“ But meantime Colonel Eubank
i front of us, heading a little toward had hauled me down to the ground
; the coast of Borneo. Is Robinson for a while to do a different job.
going to beach her? And now over Too many wars were going on. The
the command radio:
Japanese were running a pretty good
“ ‘Skiles to Robinson. Is there one, but against them were the
anything wrong?’ our pilot asks.
American A ir Force, the Royal
“ But there is no answer. We Dutch Air Force, the American,
watch. Now Major Robinson is mak Dutch, and Australian navies, all
ing a gradual turn, as though to of us running wars of our own.
i rejoin the formation. But halfway
“ Finally it was agreed that every
in the turn his plane starts nosing
over, goes into a dive, goes fa s te r- night they’d deliver to me in Sura
straight down at the sea. We baya a safe-hand message, giving
watch, holding our breath. Just be the position of every American ship
fore he goes in, his tail elevator in those waters. We’d swap infor
blows off. The poor guy must have mation about operations, so every
had the stick clutched back into his one would be pulling together. It
stomach trying to pull out of that was a liaison job, and since I ’d
dive, and the terrible air pressure have to deal with Navy men so
on those elevators ripped them off. heavy with rank and gold braid on
There’s a huge splash—flame—a spi their sleeves th»:y looked like they’d
ra l of black smoke, and a widening had their arms up to the elbows in
circle of yellows, reds, and black, scrambled eggs, the Colonel gave
which is burning gas and oil on that me a set of captain's bars, so I
could talk up to them. Presently I
topaz-green water.
“ The second after it hits I call was dealing with everyone — the
Lieutenant Duphrane on the inter Dutch and the British, too.
phone.
“ The Dutch, for Instance, were
“ ‘My God, Duke,’ I said, ‘did you begging for help in Sumatra. I t ’s
see that?’
that long island which parallels Ma
laya, pointing down In the direction
of Java. The Japs weren’t in Singa
pore yet, but already they were
swarming across the narrow sens
from Malaya trying to grab the oil
refineries at Palembang. So the
Colonel sent the Forts.”
1
C L A SSIF IE D
DEPARTM ENT
PA RTN ER W A N TED
R A N C H A N I I I I Y E k T I t l K n p r r n lu r . » ■ -
■ ■ .n a m e d . 1» e ee k ln g an a a a o rla te c o n tro l
lin g » u b a ta n lla l r a p l l a l
lu lo in h im In
a r q u lr ln g
v a lu a b le
O re g o n
p r o p e r ly .
C h a n c e fu r lig h t p a r ly In m a k e p le n ty ut
m oney
F u t p a r t ic u la r » a d rirr» » J A M » » R .
H A N S E N . H . a l . N e. 1. W e la e r, I d . k e .
BUY—S E L L —T R A D E
w u i h i t » r i.ie . o n t r a
( lin n miti am m unition.
or.
N a r lk
O re g e a .
llig h
M tr« » l,
M alem .
"We got to Palembang the last
week in January.” said Sergeant
Boone, the gunner. "The Dutch
IN S T R U C T IO N S
there were certainly swell to us.
E l K l ' T R I C n i ’ T R O A R D M n t O K g r a n lie
There is a huge refinery in the town,
h u ll! (ru m a v a ila b le p a rte w ith our 7 page
w o rk in g d r a w in g , a m t a trp by d a p li,
and they took us to a club sponsored
• in t i Itn n i
1‘ r l c r g l (Ml
S l l V i l t C l C l l k I ’lt H t R lO N
t ’O » r .
by Standard Oil Company—a pul-
1
M e r k a a le Mt
•
» liv e r C re e k , N , g .
ace. AU the Cub members would
drop around to be sure the Air
Corps had a place for the night. A ;
M IS C E L L A N E O U S
Dutch officer took the rear gunner i
and myself to his quarters. He'd
A ircraft Floor Swccpinga
married an American girl, so he
M ix e d uaatorttttrnt of n u t*, b u ll» , N l t W f ,
h
r
«
nu t». t ’ h ltlip « « f r r w i , w a a h r r * t ie via
spoke gtxxl English. We had on only
(Milta « A » tir nu t», » h r a r nut» r t r JKU per
greasy coveralls, but he took us
pound m in im u m »»f in poundR M a li o rd e r»
o n ly d e liv e r e d ( ' <> |> W rite
right into his quarters—all air-con
At I I I l> 1*1404 I 1 H U II I
7*4M> » Ilg M ffr » « M |. t e a A » |» le » . C a lif .
ditioned and mosquito-proofed. The
native couple they had as cook and
houseboy gave us the first home- !
cooked meal we’d tasted since the I _______FO R S A L E _______
H O X » A4 r i m t —•4 IK « I r
M A W , p h .n c r ;
war.
p le n t y l im b e r
»nd h u a ln r « «
M ag
“ The Dutch officer was a fine-
» • a . t a if t «hh Mt . « » e a r d 'A ie a » . IC afca.
looking big blond guy. He brought
out clean pajamas for us, and some
PERSONA L
of his uniforms we could wear for
dinner. He was depressed. Early
T a le n t» 4 l» « » v e re d tb r e a g h body r hem ta
t t y Y o u a re w h a t you e « t M a n y o p p o rtu
in January he had evacuated his
n itie s ' A in a J in g in f e r f»»r » la m p
W r ite
4 • • » • • l a r < } • • ( • ? . 1BIM N tlffll. < M e a g a . m .
wife and child to Java—for aafety,
although that seems queer to say
now. He himself was staying be
MEN W ANTED
hind, in command of native ground
r t l E JIM W A D E A P P L E O R C H A R D ,
D k a tio fa n , \ \ uMhintff >> ii ba* w o r k
troops, to defend those refineries.
fo r • n ertfrttc. r e lia b le w o rk er» tf»a
He hadn't heard from his wife. You
y e a r rou n d
In J u n e fo r th in n in g
and O cto b er, N o v e m b e r , an d O eeem -
could see he was very much in
ber fo r b a r v r a tln g
Hev«-rnl run»
love with her. Also that he didn't
d red a d d itio n a l w o rk er« It.elu d in g
fa
tn
lllr
a
w
ith
c
h
ild
r
e
n
old e n o u g h
think much of the m ilitary setup
In w ork w ill be req u ired
C om fo rt*
they had in Sumatra, so he doubt
a b le liv in g q u a r te r » f r e e
G ood
rural» In ra n ch d in in g room ». 50o
ed that he would ever see her again.
e a c h If d e sir e d
A rra n g e n ow fo r
Im m e d ia te o r f u tu r e w ork
T h ee a
“ He’d been back on a visit to Hol
e n g n g r il m s im ila r w< rk or In o th e r
land just before the Germans came
d r a lg n a tr d w ar e s s e n t ia l I n d u s tr ie s
n eed not a p p ly
W r ite J. M W ade.
in. Since then he’d had only one
W e n a tc h e e , W a sh ., or te le p h o n e 1U77
letter from his mother—smuggled
o r BF3 O k a n o g a n .
out. She had had a couple of Ger
man maids from over the border.
T E E 1IEKÎ
They made good servants for the
heavy work, but just before the sur
prise invasion they’d been called
back to Germany. It wos the same,
she said, all over Holland. So no
wonder, he said, that the Germans
knew the name of every Dutch offi
cer in Holland. The morning of the
invasion, the Gestapo would knock
at the door, and when the officer
opened it, would shoot him down
in cold blood. This was why, he !
explained, the Dutch Navy was so
incapacitated for officers. He was ;
very bitter. He was in wonderful
physical condition—been leading na- * 1
5
J one»—Do you think it'» a sin for
tive troops through the jungles. Said :
me to play golf on Sundays?
his wife was high up in the Java
Smith—The way you play golf, it’t
mountains and hoped she was safe." |
a grime for you to play any day!
“ Wc came up a ljttle later," said
the Bombardier, “ and by the time
we got there, the Japs were moving
into the river's mouth, just below
Palembang. The weather was over
Many
cast—a ceiling of 2.000, so we had
to work down below that. None
Intact»
of us liked it, because a Fort is a
hell of a big easy target so close to
the ground—never built for that. As
we came in, so close to the ground,
•g lo b in
our radio operator called Skiles on
Flowin <
the interphone.
Shrub»
" ‘Captain,’ he said, ‘oxygen
doesn't agree with me, but I'm w ill
HELP fo r Your
ing to begin chewing it any time
now,' and I broke in, ’ You can say
Victory
Garden
that again.’
“ Captain Northcott was leading
the mission—six planes wc were,
D O N 'T L E T
and when we sighted the target he
called over the command radio, as
signing our (light to a transport on
SLOW YOU UP
the left.
• W hen b o w el, are .lu g g ith and yon
feel Irritable, headachy, do a . m illion ,
“ It was a monster, a huge Maru
do - chew F E E N -A M IN T , l b . m odem
liner which I ’ve seen as a luxury
c h a w in g .g u m la x a t iv e S im ÿ ly ch aw
cruise boat tied up to the San Fran
F E E N A -M IN T bofore you go to bod,
cisco docks. Suddenly she cut loose
taking only in accordance with package
d
irection . — .lo o p without being dle-
a* hell of an antiaircraft barrage at
turbed. N ext morning gen tle, thorough
us, all coming from this one trans
relief, helping you feel .w ell again. Try
port—a regular Fourth of July at
F E E N A M IN T T e .t e , good, la handy
three o'clock in the afternoon. It
and econom ical. A generou. fam ily .u p p ly
was like looking down into a cone
of fire, with this transport at the
tip, and smoking red-hot rivets,
they seemed like, whizzing up at us.
WNU—13________________22 44
They were rocking us around when
suddenly we shuddered violently and
almost went over on our back. An
ack-ack shell had burst under one
wing near the fuselage. Big pieces
of it tore a huge hole just where the
wing joins the fuselage, and one em
F o r Y o u T o F e r ì W e ll
bedded itsolf just a few inches from
hours «vary day. 1 day» every
Captain Skiles.
, never stopping, in » kidney» fitter
“ We were already on our run, al
e m atter from the blood.
more people were aware of how the
most at the release line, and the
pya must constantly remove »ur-
ja r had thrown out the bomb sight—
Huld, »see»» »rid» ®nd other waste
er th a t cannot »lay in th» blood
it was completely inoperative. But
out In ju ry to health, there would
I ’d done some practice low-altitude
jet ter understanding of r a y th s
e nyatem i» upset when kidneys fall
bombing at Muroc back in the
met on properly.
< » «
States, so I said the hell with a
jrnittK. scanty or too frequent urln«-
aometimca warns th a t something
bomb sight—I ’d guess at it. I was
■ong. You may Buffer nagging
good and mad at the shaking-up
headaches, dixzine»», rheum atic
getting up a t nights
we’d got. ‘All right, you • • • •
y
not try Itoan » I t l M You will
hv
• • « • • • * , here they come!’
ing t a
■ medicina
men»« io” recommended the
•in
ry
over. Dcow’a »tim ulate the fune-
I hollered, and dropped four in rapid
of the kidneys and help them to
succession. They landed in a clus
out poisonous waste from the
I. T h ey contain nothing harm ful.
ter about twenty-five feet from the
Doan'» today. Use with confidence.
transport. The other four I released
I drug store».
more slowly. We’d come down to
1,000 feet now, and that’s low.
T
t
1
CONSTIPATION
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FEEN-A-MINT
Kidneys Must
Work Well-
(TO B E CONTINUED)
DOANS PILLS
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