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That night I began to pack hastily,
resolving at the same time to take
my wife and little one-year-old
daughter back towards Georgia,
where they could be among rela
tives. As I packed and arranged for
the furniture to be shipped 1 still
had my exalted feeling of victory.
When I got into bed, very late, I
C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o t t
W N U RELEASE
thought I would drop right off to
The story thus Hr: Robert Scot!, a
squadron, but also too old to lend sleep. But us my mind relaxed for
B e st Point graduate, becomes an air
even a group. In fact I was too old the first time after the orders had
cadet at Randolph Field. Texas, realising
to fly a fighter plane into combat. been received, 1 felt myself come
his life's ambition. He wins bis wings
I used to tell the Generals that from to complete wakefulness. I even
at Kelly field and Is now an army pilot.
being too young, I had suddenly sat up in lied, for I had realized for
Ordered to report to Hawaii, but wanting
jumped to being too old. There had the first time whut I hud done.
Io marry a girl In Georgia, he pleads
never been a correct age.
with his General lo keep him In the coun
Here was my home, with the two
try, and Is ordered to Mitchel Field, N. V.
But all the argument was to no people whom I loved more than
To gain more fiylng time he carries the
avail, and after waiting around any others in all the world—my wife
mail for Uncle Sam. Makes more trips
March Field for ten days we were and my little girl. Here, in this
to Georgia and finally talks Catharine
ordered back to our home stations. wonderful place, I could possibly
Into marrying him. From Mitchel Field
I returned to Lemoore in the San
he Is sent to ranam a where his real pur
lived out the war, behind a
Joaquin. I know there was no man have
suit training Is begun in a P-12S. He Is
good safe desk ut Victorville or
on Bataan any sadder that night some
given a Job constructing flying fields
training field. By my
which would some day protect the Canal.
than I. Then came orders to report love of other
adventure,
my stubborn
He begins lo train other pilots.
to Victorville—at least here was a nature, I had talked by myself
of
change, and I welcomed it. I found this soft and wonderful job of out
stay
myself
director
of
training
in
a
twin-
ing home with my family. I wus
CHAPTER V
engine school—I was still getting about
to leave thut girl I had driven
farther and farther from the war.
all those thousands of miles to see—
By this time, war with certain
It seemed to me now that all for even ten minutes . . . Tears
countries appeared imminent. I had was lost. I had tried desperately came to my eyes—I knew I had
always believed that we would fight for the last six months to get out
Japan, and had always believed that of the Training Center, and now been a fool.
For hours I lay awake. And then,
Japan would make the first thrust. that war had come it seemed that
And I tried to "figure out” every the powers at the top had decided in the darkness, I think I saw the
cadet that came through our school that all of us, whether we had been other side. Suppose I called that
—tried by talking to him to find out trained as fighter pilots or as com officer who had telephoned me from
whether or not he had the urge for bat pilots, bomber pilots, or trans Washington. Suppose I called and
combat, for I knew that the urge port pilots, were nevertheless to stay told him that I had liad that I hud
was positively necessary. Not only there in the Training Center. Decem never flown a Flying Fortress. I
did a man have to have that cer ber, January, and February went could easily get out of this mission
tain incentive to fly and keep on by, and in these months I wrote —but the thought was one that I
flying, until flying became second from Victorville to General after couldn't entertain even for a second.
nature, but he had to have the defi General. I remember saying to one For now the seriousness of war had
gradually come to me. Unless men
nite urge for combat. When he of them:
learned to fly automatically he
"D ear General, it you will excuse like myself—thousands and millions
would control the ship without think me for writing a personal letter to of them —left these wonderful lux
ing about the controls and have his you on a more or less official sub uries in this great land of America
mind free to concentrate on naviga ject in time .of war, I will certainly we could lose it all forever. I loved
tion and the aiming of his guns— submit to you for court m artial after these two with all my heart, but
besides watching his tail for the the war. But if you can just listen the only way in all the world to
enemy.
to me I don’t care whether that keep them living in the clean world
From Ontario I went to Lemoore, court m artial comes or not. I have they were accustomed to was to
myself to the pain of parting
in the San Joaquin Valley of Cali been trained as a fighter pilot for steel
fornia, and there I went through nine years. I have flown thousands with them for months or years—or
one of the low periods of my life. of hours in all types of planes. I’ve even forever. The actuality of war,
It was not that Lemoore was bad, been brought here as an instructor grim war, had come. I knew then
for the people were wonderful—but and I think I've done my job. Please that the theoretical word "Democ
war was getting closer and closer, let me get out to fight. I want to racy” was not what we were to fight
and I was getting farther from com go to Java, I want to go to Aus for. I knew it was for no party, no
bat duty. Finally, after war had tralia, I want to go to China, India, race, creed, or color. We were go- I
opened on December 7, I began to and anywhere there's fighting going ing to fight, and many of os were to |
die, for just what I had here—my
write Generals all over the country
wife and family. To me, they were
in an effort to get out of the Train
all that was real, they were all
ing Center. After all, I had been
that I could understand. To me,
an instructor for nearly four years
they were America.
and it was pretty monotonous. I
Next day we got the household
knew that instructors were neces
goods
packed. We piled on an east- j
sary, but I wanted to fight, and I
bound train and left California. That
thought that if I could get out to
ride for me was the saddest thing
fight with my experience, I could
that has ever happened. I would
come back later on and be even
look at those two and see that my
more valuable as an instructor of
wife was thinking my own thought;
fighter pilots.
even the little girl seemed to sense
At last things began' to happen.
that all was not well. At Memphis,
On December 10, I was hurriedly or
I almost casually bade them good-
dered to report to March Field.
by, and we parted. But as I watched
When these secret orders came, I
their train disappear down the track
thought the day for my active entry
I knew that part of my life was
into the real war was near. Hardly
gone. My world was grim.
taking time to get my toothbrush—
Reaching my assembly point for
the radiogram said, “ immediately”
instructions, I found that 1 was re
—I jumped into a car and drove
porting to Col. Caleb V. Haynes, one
madly through the Valley and over
of the greatest of big-ship pilots—
the pass of Tejon through the snow
the pilot in our Air Force who had
at the summit at nearly ninety miles
devoted much of his life to making
an hour, to March Field. I arrived
Capt. Colin Kelly, who sank* the the four-engine bomber the weapon
there in a blackout, and though I
that it is today. The entire group
was to see plenty of combat later on, Jap battleship Haruna.
of officers and men made quite a
I’ll take an oath that the nearest
I’ve been to death in this war was on—just so you get me out of the gathering. I learned that they were
when I rode into March Field with monotony of the Training Center.” all picked men, and that they had
An answer came back from this volunteered and almost fought for
my lights out, trying to follow the
line in the highway that was not General: He would do all he could, places on the crews of the For
there. Army trucks went by with he would even forget the court m ar tresses. And as I heard the expla
dim, pin-point blue lights, and as I tial, but men were necessary in the nation of the flight from Colonel
looked out of my car the trucks training centers. Even with these Haynes I saw the reason for their
kind words, it appeared that my excitement.
would almost hit me.
This was a “dream mission”—one
When I finally got on the post cause was lost. Then, when the fu that was a million kinds of adven
ture
looked
worse
than
at
any
time
with my radiogram for admission,
ture rolled into one.
I tore up to the headquarters and in my life, a telephone call came
We were to fly thirteen four-engine
from
Washington,
from
a
Colonel.
operations office, expecting any min
bombers — one B-24 and twelve
"Have you ever flown a four- B-17E’s—to Asia. There we were
ute to be told to jump in a P-38
or a P-40 and go up to protect Los engine ship?”
to “ bomb up” the ships after we
Angeles. There were many others
I answered immediately: “ Yes, had gone as far East as we possibly
like myself, for apparently all pi Sir.” I had flown one for a very could, and then were to bomb ob
lots with pursuit experience had few minutes, at least I ’d flown it in jectives in Japan. Our orders read
been assembled.
spirit while standing behind the pilot that we were to co-ordinate our at
Squadrons of pursuit planes would and co-pilot—but that was the only tack from the West with another at
come through daily on the way up time I’d ever been in the nose or in tack that was coming from the East.
the coast and we all grew envious the cockpit of a Flying Fortress. His
The sadness that had been with
watching them. The only cheer next question was, “ How many me since leaving my family van
ing thing was the radio broadcast hours have you flown it?” I told him ished. Once again I saw the war in
which told of Capt. Colin P. Kelly eleven hundred; there was no need a spirit of adventure. Here was
and his crew sinking the Jap battle to tell a story unless it was a good what any soldier might have prayed
ship Haruna. In this engagement one, and after all, I considered this for—here was what the American
Kelly became the first hero of the a white kind of lie.
public had been clamoring for dur
war, and I was very proud. For
After giving this information I ing the months since Pearl Harbor.
Captain Kelly had been under my went back to waiting with my hopes I was fortunate to be one of the pi
instruction at Randolph Field. I way up. One night in early March, lots; it almost made up for my
could well remember that fine stu 1942, they came true — and to me failure to finally get into single-
dent’s excellent attitude for a com they read like a fairy tale, too good seater fighter ships again—almost,
bat pilot. He had broken his collar to be true. I was to comply with but not quite.
bone in a football scrimmage at them immediately, reporting to a
I climbed into the control room
Randolph and had told no one on field in the Central States. There I of my ship and met my crew. Each
the flying line. Looking in the rear would receive combat instructions man was a character, each man
view mirror, I saw him flying with from the leader of our mission.
wanted badly to get started.
his left hand on the stick; when I
The co-pilot was Doug Sharp, an
As I drove over from Victorville
corrected him, I learned of the ac to my home in Ontario that evening, other dark-haired Southerner, a first
cident. Fighter Kelly had been so it seemed as though I was already Lieutenant who was destined to get
anxious to get on with the course of in the air—adventure had come at shot down in another Flying For
instruction that he was completely last. Even then the fear tugged at tress over Rangoon. He coolly got
ignoring broken bones. Of such ma my heart that the orders would be most of his crew out of the burning
terial are heroes made.
changed before I could start. I told ship; then, with those who were un
I still wanted to fight myself. I my wife that I was going to com able to parachute to safety, he land
could well remember the years and bat, but the nature of the orders for ed the flaming ship in the rice pad
years I had trained in Panama with bade my telling her where, or what dies of central Burma. From this
the 78th Pursuit Squadron; I had type of mission. Not even at the point he led his men—those whom
always been too young to lead an look of pain that crossed her face he did not have to bury beside the
element, a flight, a squadron, or did I lose my feeling of victory. She ship—out through the Japanese lines
anything. Then suddenly I was told was trying to act happy, but I knew to safety in India. He was made a
here that I was not only too old— it was only because she remem Major after this gallant act.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
imagine that, at age 34!—to lead a bered that I wanted duty in combat.
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