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The Japs learn the weakness ot the E model Fortress, but the boys stick a .»-caliber »un in the navigator's compartment. Kurla senses he ts being watched tn Java ami one night wakens at the glare ot a flashlight. The hand that held it also held a dagger. The would-be assassin gets away. CHAPTER XVII • W.N.U.rtATUftYf are left of them—still like to hope maybe he succeeded in landing on that Bali beach, which looks so nice in the travel folders, and will turn up grinning some day, telling them what a social success he was with the natives. “ But it was pitiful. We lost al most all our dive bombers there, and about half our P-40 fighters. Of course Bud and his gang made the Japs pay ten to one for taking that airfield—but the Japs had it to pay. “ With the Japs holding that Bali field, they could send bombers and fighters into every corner of Java, and we knew it was almost over. But anyway the Forts could now bomb our own field the Japs had tak en from us—very convenient, be cause we knew exactly where every thing was. “ When I got back late to the ho tel there was that beautiful Dutch girl, the one with the black hair and the pale face which was so wistfully sad in repose. Only there were no sudden little smiles light ing it up now. She was at the table where she and John Robertson entire charge of completing the ar rangements. “ Nothing remained to be done ex cept the most important thing of all: the officer before leaving had been unable to find a radio operator for this last ship. Without one they could not start, because unless they gave a prearranged radio signal when they approached Corregidor, the Rock's guns would blow them to pieces. Could the Air Force possibly let them have a radio operator? Since the mission was a dangerous one, the assistant said he would pnv a man who volunteered a bonus otTt of the money his chief had left in the bank. “ Now asking our Colonel for a ra dio operator was like asking him for h is r ig h t a r m . """"" The cloud» Kre tjrntle. peaceful thin gs They -5 tul -don<$ tn uimlesa w / j » VZhod thin k thvt th e y v e r s m evn enough To re-in rv^ht dovzn on ptente d^.yj ? r n r e -i WNU Features. C L A S S IF IE D D E P A R T M E N T B u t J a v a w a s e a v in g “ We dreamed and prayed for this. in, the situation was tense. Our Colo And as a m atter of fact the Navy n e l h e s i t a t e d , a n d t l u n s a id th a t did make an attempt. An aircraft while he couldn't order anyone on so tender was loaded with P-40 s and dangerous a mission, he thought, started out from Australia. But what even after we explained clearly what happened was just what was feared. it was, we could get a volunteer. Those P-40's were in crates stacked “ And we did. We told the men high on her decks, so she had to the mission was most dangerous but come clear in—through skies the Jap of the greatest possible service to bombers ruled. She went down witli our country. And out of the line her entire crew and those crated stepped a elean-cut. alert-looking kid P-40’s forty miles ofl the southwest called Sergeant Warrenfeltz. Only coast of Java—but I'm sure the Navy after this did I tell him of the five- was doing the best it could for us thousand-dollar bonus. We let War with what they had. renfeltz go down and look over the “ The next night a Navy- man who ship, loaded with surgical equip had just got in from our little fleet ment, food, drugs, and three hun told me what had happened to the dred thousand rounds of .30-caliber Marblehead and the Houston, those ammunition, so that she was practi two beautiful cruisers which had cally a floating bomb. He talked to been the nucleus of our Asiatic Fleet the captain (a Swede) and looked —helping the Dutch and Australians over the Negro and Chinese crew. defend Java. With the rest of the There were two—one for topside fleet they’d been out in the Java- dressed like Javanese natives so the Sea. When they sighted a Jap recco Japs might mistake her for a fish plane overhead about noon, they ing trawler. Then Warrenfeltz came knew they were in for trouble. They to me with written orders from the had no carrier, of course, which bomber command and I told him could send a fighter up to shoot it the ports of call. They were to ! down. He said the Jap bombers pres- slip out at night, down the north ! ently came over them from their coast of Java, through Lombok bases in Borneo and the Celebes Strait, then along the Netherlands (our bases they had captured) in East Indies, then cut up east of three waves, spaced about half an the Celebes, running the Jap block hour apart. By skillful maneuver ade into the Philippines till they ing they dodged the bombs of the came to Manila Bay entrance, first two waves. But the third, where they would be challenged by which crippled them, caught them the Rock. And he was to answer on just at sundown, and chewed their the radio with the proper signal. superstructures into steel spaghetti. “ He knew what he was getting “ In the darkness, they were able into. We’d been flying over those to crawl away out of range, and the waters for months; he knew just Marblehead eventually got back to how thick the Jap surface ships the States.” were, and also that they had hardly “ But troubles of our own were a fifty per cent chance of escaping looming ahead. The boys in Navy being blown up by a Jap mine just Patrol Wing 10 came in with the outside the breakwater. Why did report that their planes on recon he do it? To help those poor devils naissance had sighted a force of in the infantry, dying on Bataan. six Jap transports and five warships He'd seen the cargo. And then the headed toward Bali Strait, which di money—he told me exactly what to vides Java from Bali. They were do with that, and the message I after the Den Passar airdrome on must send, but we'll come to it lat Bali—our last stepping-stone—hav Caught them just at sundown and Of course it was all pretty ir ing already occupied the airfield at chewed their superstructures into er. regular, paying a man for heroism. Timor. This was, as maybe you now steel spaghetti. Maybe when peace comes, some begin to see, a war of airdromes— Clark, Del Monte, Kendari, Sama- usually sat, alone. When she saw body in a swivel chair in Washing rinda, Kupang, all of them lost me she jumped up and came run ton will start writing us letters ask pearls in the United Nations’ de ning across the room. Had I seen ing us why we did it, and I don't fenses, and now Den Passar. Next it John? she wanted to know, in her know what we’ll say. And then it all ended happily for us, because could only be Malang, KNILM, Gno- pretty broken English. money Warrenfeltz was sup ro, and Madiun—all we had left on “ Out in the lobby they had told the posed to receive for trying to do the strand. me John was missing. He’d been what he did was never paid. But “ All I can say is the Dutch and out on reconnaissance patrol in that that comes later. Americans were ready to defend lumbering slow old Navy flying boat, “ Meanwhile we had other things Bali with what we had. Our little and there had been two messages surface navies moved in that night from him: ’Many Zeros sighted,’ and to worry about. The Japs had put a to clip them a glancing blow on the then about a minute later a final little landing force ashore on a tiny run, as they’d done at Macassar one: ‘Zeros closing in.’ That left island sixty miles north of Surabaya, Straight, and our submarines did a only three of the ones I knew in and taken over its radio station. grand job in the moonlight. The gallant Patrol Wing 10, Commander “ They hadn’t told us yet,” said Colonel sent his Fortresses out and Peterson, Bill Hardy, and Duke the Bombardier, “ but we smelled it. down to 5,000, to paste them from Campbell. None of them had been Rumors were running all over the the air. We left two transports able to tell her, and when I looked place that we might evacuate any burning in the moonlight, and a crip at her face I found I couldn’t either. time now. Madiun, where I was pled cruiser. Because it was the face of someone based, was being bombed every day “Next morning it was up to the frozen with fear in a nightmare—so now—we’d go out on a mission and Air Force alone, because the Navy frozen you knew she daren’t move always come back to find craters in was too tiny to venture out by day. to accept the truth if you told her, our runways. When we'd land, im The Forts went over, of course—in so I too was afraid. mediately there'd be another alarm fact everything we had, to smash “ In all the evenings that were left and we'd have to hop off the field at those Jap transports as they (there were not to be many) I avoid without servicing the planes or load poured thirty thousand troops onto ed that lobby, because it was haunt ing more bombs. the beach at Bali. The P-40’s were ed by a ghost—a pretty, pale, fear- "Also, instead of going out to tar led by Bud Sprague himself. That frozen face that came running up gets in formations, we now were morning he got his commission as to you and asked, with hope forced going singly. As soon as we’d get a lieutenant colonel. He paused just into a frightened smile, if you had one ship on the ground long enough before the take-off to scrawl his seen John. To me the most frighten to get it gassed and bombed up, signature on his papers, but he didn’t ing ghost of all—the ghost of a dead we’d take off by our little lonesome, take time to pretty himself up in love which will not die. dodging Zeros to pick just any target his new silver leaves; I guess he from the countless transports that “ But there’s something else that was satisfied to die in his old gold were swarming off Java. In the ones. Because what they desperate should be told, only I must go back last week I got a light cruiser and in the story a little. The Army had ly needed was dive bombers, and a transport—blew the end off the about all they had was P-40’s—a sent a high ground officer to Sura transport. baya on a special mission of great fighter plane which was never built “ Nothing was sure, except the fact as a stable platform to launch an importance, and with about a mil that all those Jap ships moving to lion dollars deposited to his credit egg from. But all right, there the ward Java weren’t pleasure yachts, job was to do, and so Bud climbed in the Javische Bank. With this he and that we didn’t have any recep was to buy and equip with supplies tion committee to meet them. On into the cockpit. " ‘How many passes at the target three blockade runners which would what turned out to be my last day to Corregidor ammunition, are we going to m ake?’ someone carry got my plane loaded with bombs medical supplies, and food for those I and took off, headed for a huge con askea. poor devils on Bataan who were still voy we’d heard was coming down “ ’Depends on how many wild fighting on. Two of the ships had hairs I’m sprouting when we get already left. A third was almost toward us from Borneo. We met it halfway — the plane ahead of us over her,’ says Bud with a grin, ready to go. was already pasting it when we ar and they were off. “ This officer left Java the twenty- rived. We came in at 28,000 watch “ He led them cold pigeon into that Jap barrage over the Bali beach— sixth of February. The day after ing this first ship plunking direct hits Hell!—back here, the people don’t he left, his assistant, a young sec on two parallel strings of transports know that boy ever did a thing out ond lieutenant, called me up in con —seventeen in each string, thirty- there—and the other boys saw him siderable anxiety. His chief, he ex four in all, with fifteen or twenty go down in on his run—and never plained, had paid him the compli naval craft circling them. ITO BE CONTINUED! come up again. Yet his boys—what ment of leaving him in Surabaya in BU Y —SELT— T R A D E W il l n t : » , » I I I .. o il YltADK (Juns aittl ammunition. MO N o rth H ig h » lr ..l, O t» » « » . LUM BER W indo w l r * m r and < a b ln s l M a k e r s D e f r n a r housing a v a ila b le A u th o riz e d r e f e r r a l r e q u ire d S A V A « .I I I W ill II A W l 'd . < O M m T tasb. 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