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
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