GOD IS MY F a sc in a tin g D e sig n s F or F lo w e r B o x es CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S co tt SMI /,\6 ’ Ciurl i: V/■//>/ H 'K 1/ /• Colin ini Hugs of Scrap Materials line I» an unusually large d em an d and r u n m l w a r cundllluna. allg lrlly m ore lim e la K'<|iilred In nun < « u ln a for a lew uf Ilia moat p o p u lar p a lle in nu m b eia W N U RELEASE K nut your order to! change, and I welcomed It 1 found R obert Scoli. a The story thus far mvself director of training In a twin- W aal I'o ln l graduale, becomes an a ir r a d e i a l R andolph » le id . Tesas, realising engine school— 1 was »till getting his life's am bition. He wins his winss | ( g r t | ,e r „„4 farther from the war at K elly a rid and Is now an a rm y pilot. It seemed to me now that all O rd ered to rep ort to H a w a ii, but wanU n* was lost. 1 had tried desperately Io m a rry a g irl In O o v rg l*. he pleads w ith his G e n e ra l Io beep him In ihe coun for the last six months to gel out of the Training Center, and now tr y , and la ordered lo M itc h e l F ield . N. Y. To gain m ore ty in g lim e be c arries Ihw that war had come 11 seemed that m a ll for t'n rlo Sam . Mabes m ore trips the power* at Ihe top had decided lo G eorgia and a n a lly lalbs C atharine that all of us, whether we had been Into m a rry in g him F ro m M llch el Field trained as fighter pilots or as com be Is sent to P a n a m a w here his re a l pur- bat pilots, bomber pilots, or trans suit trainin g Is becun in * P ISJ He 1« port pilots, were nevertheless lo slay given a fob constructing ty in g gelds there In the Training Center Decern- « b le b would some day protect the Canal. her. January, and February went He begins to tra in other pilots. «11 those thousand* of miles to see- Tears ■ for even ten minute* Matsin* « U r ie N eed ie r r a il Hep*, came to my ayes-1 knew I had tins J i l l **■ F ie n i lir e *, la llt . been a fool Faciose IS cenia I plus one cent to Covel coal uf m a ilin g * for P a tte rn For hour* I lay awake And then. In the darkness, I think I saw the No ■ other side Suppose I called that ( N am e officer who had telephoned me from Addi ese Washington Suppose 1 called and told him that 1 hud lied that 1 had never flown a Flying Fortress. 1 could easily get out of this mission P a tte rn No. 7.929H —but the thought was one that I 'lV E ba b y a n im a ls peep beguil- couldn't enteituu even for a second in g ly o v e r sh o u lde rs—and be For now the seriousness of war had come fa s c in a tin g designs (or in gradually coma to me. Unless men door flo w e r boxes. O u tlin e s fo r by. and In these months I wrote like myself thousands and m illion* the fro n ts and backs o f the pup, from Victorville to General after of th e m -le ft these wonderful lus CHAPTER V k itte n , ra b b it, la m b and duck are General I remember saying to on* urlrs In this great land of America on P a tte rn No. Z9298. | we could U se It all forever. I loved of them: By this time, war with certain • • • "Dear General. If you w ill excuse I these two with sU my heart but countries appeared Imminent I hod T ra c e these ou tlin es to plyw o o d o r th in me for writing a personal letter to | the only way In all the world lo R icom m tid tt lum b er and c u t out w ith J tf. coping or always believed that we would light you on a more or less omclal sub- keep them living In the clean world ke \ hole saw Then n a il the fro n ts and Japan, and had always believed that Jeet In time of war. I w ill certainly , they were accustomed to was to by Many backs to s m a ll tro ugh s and p a in t in n a t Japan would make the first thrust. u ra l colors P u t c a c ti, succulents or other submit to you for court martial after steel myself to the pain of parting And 1 tried to "figure out" every s m a ll p lan ts in these boxes DOCTORS the war. Rut if you can just listen ! with Ihem for month* or years—or Due to an un usually la rg e dem and and cadet that came through our school lo me I don't care whether that i even forever The actuality of war, c u rre n t w a r conditions, s lig h tly more —tried by talking to him to find out I have grim war, had come 1 knew then tim e is re q u ire d m tillin g ord e rs fo r a whether or not he had the urge for court martial comes or not z-'s E T out Hi«' r.ig bag a m i g ''t lo few of the m o st p o p u la r p a tte rn num bers been trained as a fighter pilot for I that the theoretical word "Democ- v i w o rk Weave, crochet, hook or combat, for I knew that the urge Send y o u r nam e, address, p a tte rn n u m nine years. I have flown thousand* ' racy" was not what we wrre to fight Helps lone up adult ber and 15 cents, the p ric e o f the pa ttern , wus positively necessary. Not only of hours in all types of plane* I've ' for. I knew It was for no party, no b ra id these co lo rfu l rugs out of old did a man have to have that cer s y s te m * — h e lp s scraps of m ateriel. to : race, creed, or color. We were go- been brought here as an Instructor • • • tain Incentive to fly and keep on children build sound I Ing lo fight, and many of us were to and I think I've don* my job Please N r n l nrw ru n * ’ S tart lu»bv and make A l \ T M IR T H ! flying, until flying became second teeth, strong tx.nc*. let me get out to fight. I want to [ die. for Just what 1 had here—my m i y*>ui»rl(t lu e tru v th ’ii» 1323 hae »litre W estport S tation. Kansas C ity ?. Mo. nature, but he had to have the defi go to Java. I want to go to Aus : wife and fumily. To me. they were th (ton* fo r nine rutf». U»t of m » teit»l». Enclose 15 cents fo r each pa tte rn nite urge for combaL When he tralia. I waul to go to China, India, i all D ia l was real, they were all tern piece» 000% , learned to fly autom atically he and anywhere there's fighting going 1 that I could understand desired P a tte rn No ................... .. To me. itfT tN G ! would control the ship without think I they were America Name ............................. • • • • » • • ♦ • ........... ing about the control* and have his Smoke I ell' Slorv Next day we got Ute household Address ...................................................... mind free to concentrate on navlga goods parked. We piled on an east- tlon and the aiming of his guns— C am eram en tuko p ictu re * ot bound train and left California That besides watching his tail (or the ride for me was Ihe saddest tiling chim ney smoke in enemy te rrito ry enemy. that has ever happened. I would because expert photo in te rp re te rs From Ontario 1 went to Lemoore. look at those two and see that my can often te ll w hut a plant 1» In the San Joaquin Valley of Cali wife was thinking my own thought; m a n u fa ctu rin g by the color of ihe fornia. and there 1 went through even the little girl seemed to sense smoke issuing fro m its stacks or Bin War Savings Bonds one of the low periods of my life. th.it all was not well. At Memphis. by the color of the refuse piles. It was not that Lemoore was bad, I almost casually bade them good- for the people were wonderful—but by. and we parted But as I watched war was getting closer and closer, S P E C IA L IS T te lls us th a t suc their train disappear down the track cess depends to a g re a t extent and I was getting farther from com I knew that part of my life was bat duty Finally, after war had upon the w a y the glands fu n ctio n . ■ gone. My world was grim. opened on December 7, 1 began to P a rtic u la rly the sw eat glands. Reaching my assembly point for w rite Generals all over the country Reason o fte n m akes m istakes, in an effort to get out of the Train Instructions. I found that 1 was re but conscience n e ve r does. porting to Col. Caleb V Haynes, on* ing Center. After all, I had been of the greatest of big ship pilot*— A frie n d in need m a y be a frie n d an Instructor for nearly four years the pilot In our Air Force who had indeed, b u t he is seldom popular. and it was pretty monotonous. I devoted much of his life lo making D o n 't lis te n to the k n o cke r, un knew that Instructors were neces the four-engine bomber the weapon sary. but I wanted to fight, and I less it be O p p o rtu n ity . that It is today The entire group I t is m u ch easier to spend a llo w thought that if I could get out to of officers and mer> made quite a fight with my experience. I could “ TM» C rain t tr» Créai Fe ances th a n to m a ke them . gathering. 1 learned Uiat they were come back later on and be even C apt. Colin K elly , who sank the W ant a re p u ta tio n as a good con more valuable as an Instructor of • Kellogg's Rice Kriapies equal the all picked men, and that the' • Jap battleship H aru n a. ve rs a tio n a lis t? L e a rn how to lis whole ripe grain in nearly all the volunteered and almost (oug> fighter pilots. ten. protective fixxl element* declared At last things began to happen. on—just so you get me out of the places on the crews of the essential to human nutrition. tresses And *s I heard the e», .. Genius is the gold m in e , ta le n t On December 10, I was hurriedly or monotony of the Training Center " nation of the flight from Colonel is the m in e r who w o rks and brings dered to report to March Field. An answer came back from this Haynes 1 saw the reason for their it out. When these secret orders came, I General: He would do all he could, thought the day for my active entry he would even forget the court mar excitement. This was a "dream mission"—on* i into the real war was near. Hardly tial. but men were necessary in the Freak Accidents taking time to get my toothbrush— training centers Even with these that was a million kinds of adven M a n y fre a k a ccid e nts occurred the radiogram said, "im m ediately" kind words. It appeared that my ture rolled Into one. We were to fly thirteen four-engine in the y e a r 1943, b u t the fo llo w in g —I jumped Into a car and drove cause was losL Then, when the fu are the p rize ones fo r th a t period, madly through the Valley and over ture looked worse than at any time bombers — one U-24 and twelve as announced by the N a tio n al the pass of Tejon through the snow in my life, a telephone call came U17E'a—to Asia. There we were at the summit at nearly ninety miles from Washington, from a Colonel to "bomb up" the ships after we S afety C o u n cil: F ir s t P riz e : To s o ld ie r who was an hour, to March Field. I arrived "Have you ever flown a four- had gone as fur East as we possibly could, and then were to bomb ob w elded in his sleeping bag when a there In a blackout, and though I engine ship?" jectives in Japan. Our orders read j bo lt o f lig h tn in g s tru c k his zipper. wag to see plenty of combat later on. I answered Immediately: "Yes. that we were to co-ordinate our at Second P riz e : To so ld ie r whose I 'l l take an oath that the nearest Sir " I had flown one for a very le ft leg was broken by a coconut I've been to death In this war was few minutes, at least I'd flown It In tack from the West with another at tack that was coming from the East w h ich w as fe lle d by a s tra y bullet. when I rode into March Field with spirit while standing behind the pilot T h ird P riz e : To W ashington my lights out, trying to follow the The sadness that had been with and co-pilot—but that was the only ra n ch e r w ho was tossed in the a ir line in the highway that was not me since leaving my fam ily van time I'd ever been In the nose or In and s trip p e d of a ll c lo th in g except there. Army trucks went by with the cockpit of a Flying Fortress Hi* ished Once again 1 saw the war in shoes and eyeglasses by the spin dim. pin-point blue lights, and as I next question was. "How many a spirit of adventure Here was 1 looked out of my car the trucks ning re e l o f a com bine. what any soldier might have prayed hour* have you flown It?" I told him would almost hit me eleven hundred; there was no need for—here was what the American 1 When I finally got on the post to tell . .tory ¿nies* it was . good Publie had been clamoring for dur • . • I-« l i i * m n n lh a a in r e P e a r l lla r L n r with my radiogram for admission. one. and after a ll I considered this ing the months since Pearl Harbor. I tore up to the headquarters and a white kind of lie— s while lie that 1 was fortunate to be one of the pi operations office, expecting any min was absolutely necessary If I was lots; It almost made up for my ute to be told to jump In a P-38 failure to finally get Into single- lo get to war. or a P-40 and go up to protect Los seater fighter ships again—almost After giving this Information I A n g tlc i. There were many others but not quite. like myself, for appare itly all pi went bock to waiting with my hope* That night we talked things over . way up One night In early March. lots with pursuit experience had and mot each other, and next morn 1942, they came true—and to me been assembled. ing we left for Washington, with our they read like a fairy tale, too good Squadrons of pursuit planes would to be true 1 was to comply with newly drawn equipment. Our planes come through daily on the way up them Immediately, reporting to a were In Florida, being made ready the coast and we all grew envious field In the Central States There I for combat, but we were obliged to watching them. The only cheer would receive combat Instruction* go by way of Washington for the purpose, astounding in war, of se ing thing was the radio broadcast from the leader of our mission. curing diplomatic passports. 1 re- i which told of C apt Colin P Kelly As I drove over from Victorville member that even in the Joy of the 1 and his crew sinking the Jap battle ship Haruna In this engagement to my home in Ontario that evening, mission, I couldn't help wondering WHEN CONSTIPATION m ake* yon feel Kelly became the first hero of the it seemed as though I was already what kind of a war this one could punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discom fort, take war. and I was very proud. For in the a ir—adventure h id come at be. We were having to secure pass Dr. C a ldw e ll’ s fam ous m edicine to quickly Captain Kelly had been under my last. Even then the fear tugged at ports in order to be able to fight. pull the trig g e r on lazy “ inna rds” , and instruction at Randolph Field. I my heart that the order* would be Visas were obtained for all coun help you fe e l b rig h t and chipper again. could well remember that fine stu changed before I could start. I told tries we were to fly over and DR. CALDWELL'S ia the w onderful senna dent’ s excellent attitude for a com my wife that I was going to com through—Brazil. Liberia, Nigeria, la s a tire contained in good old Syrup Pep sin to m ake i t so easy to take. bat pilot. He had broken his collar bat. but the nature of the order* for EgypL Arabia. India—and China, MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparations bone in a football scrimmage at bade my telling her where, or what especially! Visas—to go to warl in prescriptions to make the medicine more Randolph and had told no one on type of mission. Not even at the properly Inoculated against four palatable and agreeable to take. So be Bure ’M the guy who looked at you from a U.S.O. poster the flying line. Looking In the rear look of pain that crossed her face teen diseases, with visas for every your laxative ia contained in Syrup Pepsin. did I lose my feeling of victory. She view m irror, I saw him flying with some time ago. I'm the guy for whom you and million» where, with trinkets for trade with INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL'S— the favorite his left hand on the stick; when I was trying to act happy, but 1 knew natives In Africa, Arabia, and Bur of m illions fo r 50 years, and feel that whole of others gave and gave so generously. I'd like to tell some re lie f from constipation. Even finicky corrected him, I learned of the ac It was only because she remem ma. we went on down to Florida children love it. you what wns done with your money. cident. Fighter Kelly had been so bered that I wanted duty In combat. The Instant I landed I hunted out That night I began to pack hastily, my ship—B-17E—A ir Corps number C A UTIO N : Use only as directed. anxious to get on with the course of Instruction that he was completely resolving at the same time to take 41 9031. I soon painted on its nose The money you gave last year helped give the boy» Ignoring broken bones Of such ma my wife and little one-year-old the red map of Japan, centered by the tonic of entertainment . . . a personal appearance by daughter back towards Georgia, the cross-hairs of a modern bomb te ria l are heroes made. Jack Benny in Africa . . . by Gary Cooper in the South "1 s till wanted to fight myself. I where they could be among rela sight, with the cross right over To could well remember the years and tives. As I packed and arranged for Ityo. In my poor Latin was In Sens . , . and by lovely women star» in remote place» years I had trained in Panama with the furniture to be shipped I still scribed "Hades ab A lta r" — or CONTAINED IH where just the sight of a feminine face is enough to mako had my exalted feeling of victory. the 78th Pursuit Squadron; I had roughly. “ Hell from on High.'' When I got Into bed, very late, I up for weeks and months of loneliness and isolation. ’ always been too young to lead an I climbed Into the control room element, a flight, a squadron, or thought I would drop right off to of my ship and met my crew. Each anything. Then suddenly I was told sleep But as my mind relaxed for man was a character, each man Your dollars made possible the U.S.O.-in addition to here that I was not only too old— the first time after the order* had wanted badly to get started many other great services nt home and abrond—3,000 been received, I felt myself come Imagine that, at age 34!—to lead a The co-pilot was Doug Sharp, an U.S.O. clubs and U.S.O. Cump Shows. squadron, but also too old to lead to complete wakefulness. I even other dark-haired Southerner, a first even a group In fact I was too old sat up In bed, for I had realized for Lieutenant who was destined to get to fly a fighter plane Into combat. the first time what I had done. The job is bigger this year . . . much bigger. Won’t you Here was my home, with the two shot down In another Flying For I used to tell the Generals that from tress over Rangoon. He coolly got be bigger than ever this year, too, and give generously? being too young. I had suddenly people whom I loved more than jumped to being too old There had any others In all the world—my wife most of his crew out of the burning never been a correct afce. and my little girl. Here, in this ship; then, with those who were un able to parachute to safety, he land But all the argument was to no wonderful place, I could possibly ed the (laming ship In the rice pad Give generously to avail, and after waltlr^j around have lived out the war, behind a dies of central Burma. From this March Field for ten days we were good safe desk at Victorville or point he led his men- those whom ordered back to our home stations some other training field. By my he did not have to bury beside Ihe ' I returned to Lemoore In the San love of adventure, by my stubborn ship—out through the Japanese lines Joaquin. I know there was no man nature, I had talked myself out of to safety In India. He was made a ¡on Bataan any sadder that night this soft and wonderful Job of stay Major after this gallant act. Representing the than I. Then came orders to report ing home with my family. I was (TO |;E CONTINUED* to V ictorville—at least here was a about to leave that girl I had driven F A » not M 9 jiK w n E M U L S IO N UncLe So C risp/ A RICE KRISPIES When Yourlnnards" are Crying the Blues I DR. CilDWIU'S SENNA LAXATIVE S ÏR U P m s w ««?/ U. S. SAVINGL * « BONDS * * YOUR COMMUNITY WAR FUND NATIONAL WAR FUND *4