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firsam. H r ta iradaatoA ir e « Belly told
aad to r some wtags planed aa hta stost.
H r ta aav aa eresy pitot. Thee caarr
orders to report la Hawaii, which leaves
pretty Mae, as to waatad ta pet
ta a girl ta Georgia, ta
hone to had Srtvea avor S4.SSI
while oa wrek eod trips Iro n Texas,
tells the General shoot his pll(ht.
C HAPTER rv
The route that I flew from Oilca-
go, to Cleveland, to Newark, was
what was known to all airm ail pilots
as the "Hell Stretch” —and It ras
Just that, as I found out pretty
quickly.
Sometimes people on new Jobs got
mixed up and sent the Cleveland
m a ll in the wrong direction from
Chicago, towards Omaha, or sent
the Chicago mall from Cleveland
to New York, the reverse direction
—Just normal events amid the
"growing pains” of an Army flying
the m a il
Once the control officer Anally got
a man in the air after sweating the
weather out to the West for days.
1 saw his ship take off and disap-
(
<he jnoW5lor,a Then j , aw
i gam Harris jump up. for the U. S.
tnjck h><J Ju#t driven up. It
Was 1>te
taltr, >nd
aiiu in th#
U1* excitement of
ning the ghip«, clearance the ea-
ger pilot had . «nr<miton
forgotten to
to wait
wait to
to
have the m ail loaded. The control
officer had to call him back and
start ail over.
About that time, when men had
begun to die on airmail. I wrote a
letter to this girl, the same one I
had been going to see by automo­
bile from Texas. It was addressed
to her in case the "old ship hit some-
to our usual duties at Mitchel Field.
Things sort of settled down, and I
began to make more flights and
more automobile tripe toward»
Georgia.
Finally I talked the girl into i t
We went on up to West Point and
were married. Catharine really fits
into thia story because it was the
trips over to Georgia to see her,
from every place in the United
States, that not only mode me drive
an automobile but taught me cross­
country flying, since I had been fly­
ing in these later mdhths from wher­
ever I was—by way of Georgia.
From Mitchel Field I was sent
o Panama. And then began my
real pursuit training. In P-lFs I
roamed across the country of Pana­
ma up into Central America and
down into South America. I was
given a Job constructing flying fields,
we
figured
■ which
—
— — —
w------ would some day
protect the CanaL These field*, were
put in for the purpose of installing
radio stations and also sir warning
devices to tell us when enemy
planes approached the Panama Ca­
nal. I would have to go down on
the Colombian border and contact
the natives, some of whom were
head-hunters, to work on these fields
that we were building. We would
have to get the g raft cut off, and I
would make motions with a machete
—the long knife of the Darien In­
dians—and show them what we had
to do to keep that field so that air­
planes could land on i t
The natives didn’t work very well
with us at first But we doctored a
few of them for chlggers and for
other infections under their finger­
nails which had become very in­
flamed. or we flew men in to hos­
pitals who needed operations, and
soon they began to appear more
friendly. By the time we left there
they were calling me "E l Doctor."
Instantly, relief from snlflly. aneesy
distress of head colds starts to come
when you put a Httlo Vs-tro-n o i up
each nostril. Also neips prevent many
colds from developing if used in ttaw.
Just try ttl Follow directions in folder.
VICKS VA TRO NOL
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
It took them thirty minutes to And
out that the mere fact that I was
Censumptien e f restalmed
traveling in a car with a Wtstern
rubber In the United »totes
license plate didn’t make me Pretty
lesreesed mere then »0 per
Boy Floyd, who they said 1 was on
sent «rem 1940 to IS O .
I
finally
the prowl in that area.
Rettalmed rubber mey fro-
had to telephone the Commanding
quentty Ito used In
Officer of Mitchel Field, and as he
H-nnutotturn ef the
didn't know me, all he could say was
rrtitles from wblsb It
that an officer by the name of Lieu­
reclaimed.
tenant Scott was supposed to be on
In 194.1 gotolln« a n t
the way to Mitchel from Kelly. Any­
veMde tax revenues eembtaed
way. I still don't think I looked—
accounted for nearly 3 0 per
, s rt o f the total stole revenues.
even then—like Pretty Boy Floyd.
My arrival at my new station was
tout yeer w ill -------
birtletb anniversary ef tbn
the start of a hectic time for the
Sm art T w o-P lecer
use ef metor vehicles In the
Air Corps. First I began to try to
H E sm artest of the high-priced
rural free delivery mell
work in some flying time by volun­
suits are collarlesa— and A m e r­
service. Rubber-tired mail
teering for every flight I could get
ican women w ill take this c ard i­
cars had a baarin« an tha
I had an especially good break when
passin« af tbn first federal
gan fashion to their hearts instant­
I got on tlie Department of Com­
aid blgbwey law la 191«.
ly
!
You
just
can
't
have
too
m
any
merce weather flights. I used to
separate
cardigan
Jackets,
suits
have to get up at two o'clock in
and two-piecers in this style.
the morning and take off—no mat­
S P R E T T Y as they come— and
ter what the weather was — at
as com fortable as any yet de­
Pattern No. 8660 Is In slses 34. 38. 38. 40.
1:45 a. m.
»
signed, a frock w ith a wide-shoul­ 42. 44. 4S snd 48. Size 38. short sleeves, re­
On one of these I found myself in
dered effect which is achieved by quires 4 yards of 39-lnch materiel; th yard
quite a bit of trouble. As soon as I
the subtle placing of the two rows contrast for collar.
took off I went on to instrument fly­
of frill which ends neatly under a
ing and climbed up through the
SBW1NO CIRCLE PATTESN D EFT.
velvet bow a t the w aistline.
heavy clouds in the Curtiss Falcon
I4S New Montgomery St.
When my training of other pilots
—known then as an 0-38. Out to
See Prseeltco, Calif.
P
t'.e
m
No.
8683
Is
In
sixes
12.
14,
IS.
IS
began.
I
realized
the
terror
I
must
the side, fastened to the "N ” struts.
Enclose 23 cents In coins for each
and 20. Size 14, short sleeves, requires 3'.b
have caused my own instructor. For yards ot 39-lnch material.
I could dimly see the barometro-
pattern desired.
in training I perceived my own
graph which was to record the
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PIRST IN R U B B E R
faults better, learning even to an­
changing weather as we climbed to
Name ..
ticipate the mistakes the student
as high as the ship would go. It
Rats F ish W ith Tails
Address
would make. And I learned much
rag necessary to climb at a con­
about the peculiarities of man. for
tent three hundred feet a minute,
Rats on the uninhabited and b ar­
on one occasion I had a student ren atolls off N ew Guinea subsist
vhich in several thousand feet be­
who attempted to kill me. I don’t entirely on crabs, which they
came fairly monotonous. I finally
-G I Fuel Tablets
know why—he would have killed catch by the unique method of
idjusted the stabilizer so that the
For the Preservation
Cel. Robert U Scat! Jr., anther ef himself, too.
hip would climb this altitude, and
dangling th e ir tails in the w a te r
Soldiers in the field who for­
hen all I had to do was to keep the “ Ged b My Ce-Pitot.”
One day I was told to take out a fro m the edge o f a flat rock. Usu­
O f the American
ft
ft
rings straight and level with the th in g ," and I carried it around in cadet listed as an Incorrigible and a lly , in a m a tte r of m inutes, a m e rly used paraffin candles to
heat th e ir food, now use a new Way of Life
ft
ft
ft
urn and bank Indicator and the
my pocket during all my trips of to try to find out what was wrong crab comes along and grabs a synthetic fuel tab le t which heats
course constant with the gyro.
with
him.
I
gave
him
forced
land­
ta
il,
and
the
rodent
hauls
in
the
airm ail—I nearly wore it out. Just
BUY U. S. W A R BONDS!
cans in seven minutes.
But I had reckoned without real carrying i t But the ship didn't hit ings snd such, and when he tried to catch lik e a fisherman.
glide
down
and
land
on
a
highway.
knowledge of flying. My first indi- anything and she didn't see i t In it
:ation of trouble came at some sev- I must have Just asked her to mar­ I would take the ship and caution
¡nty-Ave hundred feet, when I was ry me—that's all I used to ask her him about gliding low towards
trucks and automobiles. On one of
surprised to see the reflection of anyway.
'' 'W'
these tries, as I gave him a forced
he moon down directly beneath my
One night I took off from Chicago landing—you do this merely by cut­
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ihip. 1 then forgot all caution and
and came to Cleveland. They ting the throttle to idling speed to
Tied to fly partly on instruments
couldn't find the man who was sup­ __ whst the student will do—he
J ';
ind partly by visual reference. This posed to take the m ail on to New­
rolled the ship on its back and pulled
[ learned pretty soon was about im­
ark; I found out later that he was it down in a dive towards the
possible, for I went into the nicest sick. So I talked them into letting
ground. I waited as tong as I could
ipin I have ever seen. Recovering
me take the ship on E ast I climbed and then I took it away myself,
ibout four thousand feet below, I
In and headed out towards the bad found that the man was glaring
tried it again but the same thing
weather. When I got to I t follow­ straight toward the trees we had
happened. I then realized that after
ing the experience I had gained in almost h it I landed the ship and
[ bad set my stabilizer for the steady
the months before and the advice asked him what was the matter.
elimb of three hundred feet per min­
I bad received from the airline pi­
ute, as the fuel was used the weight lots, I climbed instead of diving, He appeared very sullen, and so I
took him aloft again.
if the ship decreased and the nose
to hunt tor a w ay'through.
At
Once more I put the ship on its
went up. for the fuel was of course
18.000 feet I came out and over the
back and told him to bring it out
forward. This gradually precipitat­
clouds. I was alone, tor as far as
ed a stall which turned into a spin
Immediately he pulled it toward the
you could see. There were stars
ground, and I knew It was intention­
ss the big Conqueror twisted the
and a moon, and down below were
al. With alarm I realized that with
fuselage from propeller torque. I
the swirling clouds over the Alle­
him almost frozen to the controls
had to resolve to do an my instru­
ghenies. dropping their snow and
I would have extreme difficulty tak­
ment flying by hand until the auto­
ice. If I had turned back towards
ing the ship from him by force,
matic pilots were perfected later.
Cleveland. I would have had to let
That afternoon I looked at the down in the dark and probably would hurriedly kicked the right rudder,
graph paper of the barometer re­ have crashed. So I decided to head which carried the half roll into
cording, and there were two little into the clear sky of the night at complete snap roll. Then I went
Jagged lines, plainly showing where 18.000 feet and as the dawn came through every acrobatic maneuver
the ship had lost nearly four thou­ the next morning I started my let­ I knew until I made him sick; after
that I flew him back to Randolph
sand feet in two spins.
down. for at least I would have light
Field with my own heart beating a
The weather flights got pretty mo­ in which to make the landing.
tittle wildly.
notonous. and I would take off from
My radio had not worked since I
As I landed the ship two men
Mitchel and fly up over Boston, bad got into the snow and ice; so I
then let back down to my home was flying merely by dead-reckon­ stepped from behind a plane, ask­
base. Finally the meteorologist ing. I let down somewhere over ing to see the student "You Just
caught on and told me to please what I thought was northern Penn­ wait a minute." I said. "After all,
stay over the area, as be had other sylvania, but after buzzing the town he’s my student and I have some
weather ships taking the same read­ and reading the name, found I was things to say to him." Then they
pulled gold badges out of their pock­
ings over Boston.
over Binghamton, New York. I flew
These flights taught me enough to on South, having remembered a field ets to show me they were F.B.L
save my life when the Army took at Scranton. Pennsylvania, and men. They had been looking for
this student for a long time. He
over the airm ail contracts a little there I landed.
had been a pilot before and had
later in the year.
The landing was quite an experi­ smuggled dope across the Mexican
I f you remember 1834—there was ence. As I dove over the field I border, and I believe to this day
trouble between the Government saw workmen there, frantically wav
that to evade the arrest that was
and the air lines concerning airm ail ing their arms. They were repair­ waiting for him, be was trying to
contracts. To me even this was ing the field. But I was about out end it a IL But the worry I had here
a life-saver in securing flying time, of gasoline, so I came in, motioning was that in ending it tor himself,
for all of us bad recently been or­ with my hand for them to get out he would have been ending It for me.
dered to fly no more than four of the way. The only damage was
When I first came to Randolph we
T his 18 NO DREAMED-UP headline —no “tone poem” conceived on an inspired
hours a month. This was the bare caused by my landing on one of
minimum to receive flying pay, and. the small red flags on a stick that worked only half a day and had the
typewriter. It’s the way the army explains the command “Fix bayonets-charge!”
as it turned out for many, the best one of the workmen had been wav­ rest of the day to play around at
way to get killed in airplanes. It's ing—be had hurriedly stuck it in golf, to hunt, or do anything we
CrJy the Infantry has it put to them in these words. As one doughboy raid:
still a game that takes constant the ground when he saw me land­ wanted. But as the belief that war
“I’ll remember those eleven words the rest of my life."
practice.
ing regardless, and I came down was coming got into a few American
people, we started the limited Air
right
on
top
of
it;
but
the
small
The weather we flew in to carry
Remember? How can he forget them? T hey describe the climax of the
Corps expension program. We then
the mail during the winter of 1834 tear was ot no consequence. I re­
Infantryman’s
assault—they describe the most cold-blooded action on a battle­
began
working
all
day.
and
I
was
was about the worst Ifi history. I paired tt, had coffee with the man
moved
up
to
a
Flight
Commander
field.
Yet
Infantry
officers and men have advanced, countless times, to kill or
sometimes think the powers on high in charge of the airfield, and went
and taught Instructors, for the Gov­
collaborated to give us a supreme on toward Newark.
be k illed . . . at Saratoga. . . at N ew O rleans. . . the Argonne. . . New G uinea...
They had long ago given me up tor ernment was giving contracts to ci­
test
There were fourteen pilots
Salerno. There’s no rescinding of this o r d e r -n o retreating - no nothing but
vilian
corporations
to
train
Army
killed along that airm ail run, and lost, for in that same night two oth­
pilot»:
The
Air
Corps
was
begin­
plain
killinR.
most of them were killed because we er army pilots bad met their death
ning to grow. As the years rolled
had no Instruments for the ships, or over the Alleghenies. Once again 1
Right now, the men o f the Infantry are closing in for the final kill. They’re
Into 1838, I was moved to California
at least not the proper type for fly­ felt that something had told me to
to
become
Assistant
District
Super­
advancing
every d ay—advancing to the order of “kill or be killed.” Remember
ing blind. We flew pursuit ships, climb when I got to the bad weather,
visor of the West Coast Training
which carried fifty-five pounds of and if that same thing bad told those
this the next time you see a doughboy on furlough. Remember this the next tim e
Center. This Job was to check all
m ail; we flew old B-fl bombers that men to climb they would have flown
you almost forget to write that letter. Remember it till your dying day. You
flying
cadets
in
the
three
schools
would carry a ton of mail at • through instead of going down—they
at San Diego. Glendale, and Santa
can’t pay the doughboy back—but at least you can be forever mindful o f Ws
might
have
disregarded
a
warning.
speed ot eighty miles an hour, pro­
Maria. Later on I received my first
role in this fight for freedom.
viding the wind in front of you In a ease like that wg think it's
command—that of the Air Corps
wasn't too strong—sometimes they luck, but maybe it’s not To me
e
Training Detachment called Cal-
almost went backwards. We flew something had said. "Get altitude,
Aero
Academy,
at
Ontario.
Califor­
everything from a Curtiss Condor don't roam around down here, get
nia. I worked this up from forty-
the
which Mrs. Roosevelt had been us­ altitude and go on." And I think
two cadets, until tfte r one year we
ing, to the old trl-motored Fords. that after that things Just took care
bad nearly six hundred.
of tbemsdlves.
And we flew through the
(TO BE CONTINUED!
With airmail over, we went back
«•e th e r in the country.
T
A
I k m iim peace
BEGoodrii
M// officers and men
wiit advance to
■SI -te MM"
•Atop yet/f eye M
infantry— THt DOUGHBOY DOGS ZTZ*