The Willamina times., June 08, 1944, Image 2

THURSDAY. JUNE 8. 1944
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
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crossed his tail, their guns going
T H E STO R Y T H I S F A R : I.le u t. Cob
full-blast, hammering tracers into
F ran k Kurts, pilot of a Flying Fortress.
tsUs of that fa tal day »h en the Jap«
his tail—watched his plane roll over
•tru c k In the Philippine». E igh t of hl«
and dive into the red dust ut the
m en were hilled fleeing lor shelter nnd
FOR SALE
edge of the field.
Old »». with m any other Fortresses, w»«
“ Now another Dutch pilot cornea
demolivhed before It could get 0 « th«
in,
with a Zero streaking for his
ground.
A fter escaping to A ustralia,
tail, the Dutchman dodging all the
what Is left of the squadron files to Java
way to the ground. Fifty feet from
where they go out on m any mission«
the ground he slips to the right to
over the Philippines. Sis Fortresses so
uvoid that stream of tracers, but it'a
on s mission over M acassar S trait »h ere
1 ,0 X 0 L IT E K »nd P ainted or n a tu ra l
C olo r ___
there Is a huge concentration of Jap
too late. Flames come gushing out,
m axes autookaphed tree
ships. They m ake their bomb runs and
yet he manages to land and jump
on the return trip M a jo r Robinson s
M M ta c e . p a c k in g and « h ip p in g (Send
out of the burning plane. It’» a ter­
S*«»i cheek. m oney o rd e r o r s tam p s* , plane goes Into a dive and crashes In­
rific fight overhead; we can hear
T t a r f o * shipped t - i i a t e '
to the sea. U . S. planes circle over the
the faraway rattles us they clear
eeipt o f ord e r. G u a ra n te e d to a rrte e
dead Quern.
their guns - the brave Dutch kids are
R A S Y T V B T L E CO
fighting for their homeland, and sev­
TS-» E ig h th A ve . San T ran cisc o 13,
en planes were lost thut morning of
C a lifro n la
CHAPTER
X
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Please send t
» Turtles to:
the twelve which had been Jav a's
only defending Dutch fighter force.
A d dr ess—------------------------------------------------- --
‘‘I new watched this last four fall­
“ As I climbed out I realized the
ing through what was practically a
picture was darkening fast. We were
striped fog made by Jap pom-poms
Pclomino & Thoroughbred coming up at us. We could see the
depending on our Fortresses to keep
the Jap transports away from Java,
SADDLE STOCK
Japs crowding the rails, trying to
but we had to have fighters to de­
H olden X c r s e B a s c h — S ta r B e u te
I A b b m io lio n lo r “K a n in k lu k r ^ n l r r -
jump
overboard
as
the
bombs
gath­
Q u incy. W a s h .
ered speed. The first bomb plunked t a n i l v h l n i l u f h r lu e h t ia a r l \la u lo h n p - fend our flying fields.
“ But it wasn't until later in the
f ir s t tim e .
Tbvem .
FOR i-tl
into the water alongside, but the p i/." nteaninp K m .il fla ir h I n t i i n A ir p la n r
S a c to n
lin e
B ig
day that I found out the Zeros had
other three went sm ack' smack! C o m p a n y .)
-s
B g sto ck o f
got Major Straubel. one of our own
hand
G u a ra n te e
smack! right down what had been
“ 1 was panic-stricken for fear they squadron commanders. He'd been
slo t m ach ines. H a ' *
* l e * t y of
her promenade deck, and it looked might branch off at Malang and piloting a H-18 we used for transpor
s_ s e lim c because o f
Pees berv
w i l l p a y fo r
like she was coughing up into the
5* year and h a lf . tt.d b d sky a kind of confetti made up of catch our Forts on the ground there. tation. and was coming from Mulung
Luckily the pass was bottled up with to Surabaya to talk with General
pew: r ec.-t- A x e l K a n s a n .
planking splinters and Jap infantry. fog. so they cam e on down toward Brett The Zeros hit. and from the
My right wing man, who was re­ us at Surabaya.
B K A V T I F V L H O M E - -4 » A c res fenced
ground they saw him go over the
A cres cle a re d m
leasing his bombs synchronized with
“ At almost exactly eleven o’clock
"Ppceas : m u s h e d house, n e w ly me. scored four hits across the back we could hear them hitting the city hill on fire.
some f r u it .
“ While the liaison work lasted I
P*5»: ä and Ir p a a 'e in ie te d d - road
4 M ile s
of this ship.
Bus, '
off in the distance. We knew they was quartered nt the big hotel In
..
Oreceou good B a r "
“ You ought to hear Beardshear. wouldn't miss us. I’ll never forget Surabaya, and the whole thing didn't
XT A . F a u lk . B t 1, B en 309. Oohle,
Orogcx.
our tail gunner, tell about it. Not
feel right. You weren't sure of th e s e
having any Zeros to keep him busy,
natives as you had been of the Fili­
if b - L E G H O R N C O K E R E L S w itk e le c -
- ep a id .
Send
t r i e b roo der Si
he was enjoying the scenery and
pinos. That night a few were shot
- - p l y . w r it e ATI
ch eck. L i re lie d
playing ‘Yankee Doodle’ on the deck
who were caught flashing lights into
P o u ltr y . K e n t.
planking with his .50-calibers. He
the air. And at the hotel the bare­
BORDER
C O L L ' US
PUREBREU
says we passed over so close that
footed waiters, who «lipped silently
P U T F IE ?
Fr -
im p o rte d
deg
he looked down the funnels, and he
wwamnteed w : r k - r s
i t : t"1 eue
between tables and in and out of the
B e bent B u m s . L o ra n e . O regon.
' called to us over the interphones
high-ceilinged rooms, began to dis­
that he could see what they were go­
appear.
is te re d .
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u n re g iste re d .
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ing to have for chow—rice and fish
"My own boy turned up a couple
P ho ne 5S4. B u e ll T h ro o p . C hew elah .
heads. Then we made our turn,
of days later, however—with tears
V a s h in g to n .
and went on back to Batavia, which
in his eyes. Said he was back and
was crowded with refugees from
to stay. He wasn't sure what this
HELP W ANTED
Singapore.
war was about, but he’d taken his
L O G G E R S - M IL L M E N .
E s s e n tia l
in ­
mother and sister to the country,
d u s tr y now an d p e rm a n e n t in d u s try
“ About this time,” said Frank
a f t e r th e » S r .
F a llin g . B u c k in g .
and was back for the rest of the war.
R ig g in g .
S a w m ill, y a rd s . P la n in g
Kurtz, “I got word from the Colo­
“ Jap Intelligence must hnve been
m ill. E x c e lle n t schools, good a c - )
very good, because one bomber had
com o dation s. F o r m o re in fo r m a tio n : nel that at last some American P-40
fighters were on their way up from
w r ite
A.
E.
O e rlm o n te .
W e s t fir
peeled off the formation and made
L u m b e r C o m p a n y. W e s t f ir , O regon.
Australia, equipped with belly tanks
a direct run on the newlv complet­
W A X T E U — G I R L S F> ■!'.
S T U D IO
so they could take it in hops, land­
ed Dutch Army-Navy building (they
W O R K : good voice an d p e rs o n a lity , ing for fuel at Kupang airdrome on
had just moved in), scoring a near-
e s s e n tia l. S ta r t 1114. Send ph oto,
Timor Island. It was part of mv
w e ig h t, f iv e c h a r a -te r r e f erencea
miss.
T r a n s p o r ta i: n paid. W r it e S U T T ­
liaison job to get them settled with
“The Forts of course had been
ERS. S E A T T L E , W A S H .
the Dutch fighters at their airdrome
pounding away at the Japs, and had
W A N T E D — A U T O M E C H A N IC . T H I S
at Gnoro. It was another beauti­
come back with ominous news—
W I L D in te r e s t you i f yo u a re cap­
fully hidden field. The Dutch had to
a b le and lo o k in g fo r s tead y w o rk .
they’d spotted a Jap carrier out in
M c X ia z ie
C h e v ro le t
Co.,
D a y to n .
lead them to it with an escort plane.
the Java Sea and sent it away limp­
W a s h in g to n .
“ When they larded I found there
ing. If they'd had more strength
WANTED—10 MEN
were nine, led by my old friend
and could have laid down a denser
In V i t a l M o d e rn W a r P la n t. W I B E
Major Bud Sprague, whom I hadn’t
bomb pattern, thev'd have sunk the
B O P E M T G . k E Q P T CO- 3411 1st
A v e . S.. one blo ck n o rth o f Spokane
seen since the Philippines. I asked
damned thing. The Navy’s PBY
S t., S e a ttle . W a s h . A u th . r e f. req.
him where Buzz Wagner was, and
flying boats of Patrol Wing 10 were
doing a wonderful reconnaissance
he said Buzz just hadn’t been lucky.
D E L C O lig h t d is tr ib u to r : n e w b a t­
te rie s , used p la n ts , p a rts fo r D elc o : They’d told them in Australia that
job finding targets for us—every
p la n ts and pum ps R a lp h O. D e c k ­
one of them had to stay behind
morning or so you might wake up
a rd , B o x 333, B lo o m in g to n , In d .
and
give
the
newly
arriving
fighter
to
find a Jap carrier at almost any
S H IP Y A R D P A IN T E R S
L im ite d E x -
pilots a little extra training, while
corner of the island. The PBY’s
p e rle n ce , S te a d y
W o rk .
J 1.20 an
hour
P a in te rs U n io n , R o o m 204 L a b ­
the other would lead the squadron in
would sight a little task force in
o r T e m p le , P o r tla n d , O re.
Java. Buzz and Bud had tossed
the evening, but by the time I got
an Australian shilling to decide it,
word to our Forts to be out there
SPECIAL
He had been anxious that his wife next morning, often it had slipped
and Buzz had lost; he was stuck
know that he was all right. He died away.
with that training job.
NEW GUNS
at three in the morning.
“ Most important of all. ten more
“The
Dutch
fighter
pilots,
who
are
f o r fa rm e r s an d ra n c h e rs
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just as prancy as ours, were all ex­ poor old Baalerts» the head of that fighters presently arrived—hopping
I t h a c a 15 g a. p u m p
................ »55.70
cited and doing their stuff. They’d KNILM Field. He'd never been up from Australia via our stepping-
W A R S R A L S P O R T IN G G O O D S
led Bud in formation, and now they bombed before, and asked me what stones of Timor nnd Bali. They
F i r s t and M a d is o n
S e a ttle 4, W a s h in g to n
were putting on a show for him. to do. He had already crawled into were led in by Captain Will Con­
They’d dive onto the field in an a t­ his car. I told him that was the nolly, a commercial pilot, who flew
30-05
S P R I N G F I E L D ..................... »77.50
P .ra n d n e w r if le . R e g u la r is s u e
tack string, and just before they hit, worst thing he could do, that we I a Beechcraft and did the navigating
W A R S H A L S P O R T IN G G O O D S
they turned almost straight up in should run for the concrete slit for the fighters- that isn’t part of
F i r s t and M a d is o n
S e a ttle 4, W a s h in g to n
the air and then, a few thousand trenches at the edge of the field. their training. He reported they’d
feet up, that string opened out in
“ As we ran, we could hear the only lost one, which cracked up in
CASH FOR CAMERAS
all directions like the petals of a second wave coming in over the har­ landing at Timor Field.
W e p a y u p to »200 fo r used s t ill and
m o vie ca m eras .
A ls o lenses and
“ But they’d had plenty of excite­
rose.
bor next to our airdrorw—hear the
d a rk ro o m e q u ip m e n t.
“ Bud had to admit the Dutch were hollow echo as the bombs crashed ment. Just as they were approach­
W A R S H A L S P O R T IN G G O O D S
F i r s t and M a d is o n
good. But he said he had to take into the oil storage base. They ing Timor the boys had engaged and
S e a ttle 4, W a s h in g to n
one of his planes up for a test that practically leveled Moro Kamban- shot down a Jap fighter It made
afternoon and show ’em how to fly. gem, the Dutch naval base there, Connolly plenty jittery. He was an
G E T O U R CASH O F F E R
B E F O R E YOU S E L L
“ Bud hit it off with them right coming in out of the sun—it was real­ old hand at flying, but his little
T O U R T R U C K O R A U T O M O B IL E
away. He praised the camouflage ly a beautiful job from the profes­ Beechcraft had no guns, and
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S e a ttle . W a s h .
on their field. When he came back sional standpoint. It’s second in size wouldn’t have lasted a minute in
next day, I heard him take his own only to Singapore. The docks were combat. So he hurried on out of
Chicken Feed
youngsters in hand. Of course it left a shambles. Our American Na­ there to land at Bali for lunch. But
Jones—How’s your wife coming
was the old hooey, but he gave them vy’s PBY’s of Patrol Wing 10 were en route he sighted what was cither
along with her chicken raising?
one serious warning.
anchored there. One or two were a twin-tailed Mcsserschmitt 110 or a
Smith—Terrible. She thinks she’s
“ ‘This is the best-camouflaged burned on the ways, but the rest twin-engined Mitsubishi bomber, on
been swindled. She’a bought two in­ field we’ll ever operate on,’ he told managed to take off, although the patrol, which altered course and
cubators now and neither of them them, 'so remember—I don’t want Japs strafed a dingy full of sailors was coming toward them.
has laid an egg.
“Will Connolly had no radio in his
anyone to cross this field with a Zero rowing out to them. They also scored
on his tail. Bail out, beach it, but a direct hit on the barracks there, Beechcraft to warn the ten P-40’s
Title to Fit
don’t come back here with com­ so for the second time those poor in the formation he was leading, so
Artist—What name would you give pany.’ As a result, the Japanese guys of Patrol Wing 10 lost all they he started going up and down fran­
my picture?
didn’t find Gnoro Field until two had—the first had been at Cavite in tically to signal them. Sure enough,
Critic—“Home.”
the kids got the idea, anti the two
the Philippines.
days before the end.
Artist—But it’s a landscape.
“Now came the third wave, head­ fighters on his wing peeled off and
“Not long after they came, I rang
Critic—I know it, but there is no Bud up with a queer assignment for ed right for our airdrome. Echoing headed for the Jap. The first one
place like it.
the boys. We were doing every­ around in the cement of our slit put out his port engine, but the Jap
thing possible to stop the Japs from trenches, the sound of the crashes feathered it nnd kept on going. But
swarming over onto Sumatra from was terrific.. Poor old Baalerts was then he was hit by the second P-40,
Malaya. The Forts were out past­ down there lying on the concrete which, in spite of the fact that only
HEMORRHOIDS (Piles)
ing their landing barges morning floor, his white bridal suit soaking two of its six guns were working,
and night. We were using them up half an inch of dirty rain water. knocked out the starboard motor.
Hernia (Rupture), Fissure or Fistula
“ You should have heard those
practically as heavy pursuit—skim­ We were all thankful when we heard
Such dU crdera Im pair your
kids when they got in.
h e a lth —e fficiency— earning
ming down under the weather to that bomb pattern moving away. American
Most of them were just out of flying
power. For 3 0 years we have
They’d
laid
a
nice
strip
across
the
chase
landing
barges
going
up
the
successfully tr e a te d tho u­
field, but only one bomb happened school, a/id had never before flown
sand« of people for these a il­
rivers.
a P-40 except for the three-hour
ments. N o h o s p ita l opera
“ So we asked Bud to deliver a lit­ to hit the macadara strip.
tio n. No c o n fin e m e n t. N o
“ I was just hoisting out of the practice Buzz Wagner had been able
loss of tim e from work. C a ll
tle strafing, and off they went, car­
for exam ination or send for.
rying belly tanks to get them there trench what was left of our bride­ to give them as they passed through
F R E E descriptive B o o k le t
and stopping off at Andir. They groom—there had been a lot of noise Brisbane. But now they had drawn
Open Eveningt, Mon.,W ed., Fri., 7 fo 8 :3 0
went to work with 30-pound frag­ and I'm afraid his condition was first blood, and they were excited
mentation bombs and their machine pretty grave—when the Zeros hit, so and yipping like a bunch of fox
Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC
P h y tic ia n an d Surgeon
guns, and when they got back Bud we got Baalerts back down again. terrier pups chasing their first rab-
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watched w
one
Dutchman
com­
reported the P-40’s had had Japs
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equipment. He sank quite a few
and drowned hundred» of Japs, und
every P-40 got back to Java.
“ But they were closing in on us
from still another directifln. We
could no longer operate from those
advance fields at Kenduri and Sum-
arinda across the Java Sea. The
Japs had moved into Borneo und
the Celebes. So we waited for what
we knew was conning. They must
be stacking Jap bombers onto what
had been our own fields there—
within easy range of Java.
“ We didn't have to wait long. One
morning I was at the KNILM Air­
field at Surabaya, cheeking on n
transport plane which was su p p o se d
to be bringing in ground crews for
Bud Sprague's fighters, when at Op­
erations they reported in great ex­
citement that a Jap bomber force
was over Java itself, headed down
the island.
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k fk r m
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Knd ^ rtz in g flocks
Then 1 pretend I ’m
v e r y sme.ll
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our vindov?
box .
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