Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 19, 1944
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GOD IS MY
CO-PILOT
O M A N Y w o m en h a v e le a rn e d
to run in tric a te m a c h in e s in the
la s t few y e a rs th a t i t is d ou b tful
th a t ru ffle r o r h e m m e r w ill e v e r
seem aw esom e a g a in . I f you h ave
The story thus fa r: Robert Scot«, a
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th e re is q u ite a savin g in m a k in g a Ctrl from Georgia. From M itchel Field,
y o u r own fr ille d c u rta in s , dress­ N. T .. be la seat to Panam a where bis
in g tab le s k irts and bed v alan ces. re a l pursuit training Is begun la a P US.
I f you do not h ave a p o w e r m a ­ He la given a Job constructing ly in g
Helds which would some day protect the
ch in e or th e use o f one, by al) Canal. He begins to train other pilots.
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V /N U R t t t A S t
I was about nervous enough to bite
m y nails off, for my ship was to
be last to leave the States. I had
worried every minute of the tim e
we had been waiting for fear that
some brass hat would get m y orders
changed before I could get on my
way. The other twelve ships had
gone, with Colonel Haynes leading
happy because he realises be Is getting
FULLNESS FOR
In his B-24. They a ll made their
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farth er and farth e r from actual combat
TOPS. SKIRTS AND
way to the East separately, with
FLOUNCES OF
duty. As director of training In a twin-
Instructions to meet In Karachi, In ­
M A T E R IA L W IT H
engine
school
la
California
be
writes
to
c o n s id e r a b l e k » t
dia. for final orders. And Karachi
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FOR
was 12.000 miles away.
chance to Rgbt. When that chance comes
L IM P
As soon as we could leave the
GOODS
he realises that his wife and child
m eant A m erica tor him.
West coast of Florida, we loaded
MEASURE
up and crossed the State. Going on
SPACE
TO BE
East over West P alm Beach, I rang
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the alarm bell, putting a ll men on
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Doug was an ideal flying officer, the alert, and we dropped down,
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and it was to him that I first turned with the crew firing at the white-
THEN
MULTIPLY
for advice on how I should m ake caps out over the G ulf Stream . The
BY 2 OR 2>b
m yself acquainted with this big a ir­ guns were working fine but we
couldn't take a chance. I had to
m ean s buy y o u r fr ills . S o m e tim e s plane. Doug had learned to fly at
learn right now whether the crew
the
period
when
I
had
been
instruct­
a n e x tra p a ir o f c u rta in s m a k e s a
could
work as a team, for once we
s k ir t fo r a d ressing ta b le w ith v e ry ing. I had taught his class to fly;
started it would be too late.
now
the
tables
were
turned
and
he
little w aste. C u rta in s th a t a re ru f­
As we came back towards the last
fled a ll the w a y aro u nd m a y often would have to be the instructor for
field we were to land on in the
be split fo r bed v a la n c e s . A lso, it a while. Don’t forget that as yet I
U. S. A., something strange met my
is possible to buy ru ffle d m a te r ia l hadn’t flown a B-17E.
sight, something that made the
Introducing m yself to m y co-pilot.
by the y a rd . A void s k im p y fu ll­
blood pound a little harder In my
ness. F o llo w th e guide g iv e n in I said, "How about showing m e how temples. There, along the entire
th e sketch an d , w’h e th e r you buy to fly this ship— I want to see how
beach of Florida, was a jagged
y o u r fr ills and flounces o r m a k e to work these turbos and such.” He black line— the clean sand of F lo r­
m erely grinned at me in disbelief.
th e m , ta k e m e a s u re m e n ts firs t.
ida's beaches had been made black
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“ Aw. Colonel,’’ he said, “ you can
and terrible-looking by the oil from
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m any tankers sunk by the Axis sub­
This sketch is from a new booklet by to fly.” I finally got him to give me
m arine war. It gave me a queer
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some
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od of starting the four engines, when
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the field. I flew it for two landings
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that afternoon, and that night I
climbed a ll over the Fortress, read
the entire m aintenance m anual, and
learned from scratch what m ade the
big ship go. N ext day I soloed it
for over four hours, and a fte r the
twentieth landing I felt as if I was
ready to start for w ar.
Then we tested everything— fired
all guns at targets in the everglades,
and the cordite from all those ro ar­
ing fifty calibres gave even the
swampy "glades” a sweet arom a.
M y gunners were eager to be on the
Col. Scott’s superior officers, Gen.
way, and I soon found th at they
Joseph Stilwell, left, and Gen. Claire
knew exactly what they were doing.
T h e iuoJem external treatm ent most
Chennault.
P riv a te M otley was m y ta il gun­
young mothers use to relieve discom­
ner. D uring the entire trip I think was also the beached wreckage of
forts o f children’s colds
he stayed in the ta il ninety per cent several ships. This w ar was mean­
. . . muscular soreness or
tightness, coughing, irri­
of the tim e, just to get used to the ing more and more to us as we pre­
tation in upper bronchia]
way to handle the ta il tu r r e t I used pared to shove off for the first stop
tubes . . . t s Vicks Vapo-
to say of M otley that he Just didn’t out of Am erica.
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care where he was going— he want­
Just rub i t on— and right aw ay blessed
Now we were poised for our flight
ed to see where he had been.
relief starts to come as VapoRub . . .
In our two-day
Sergeant Aaltonen, the engineer, to Puerto Rico.
was charged w ith keeping the en­ w ait for technical changes on the
gines functioning properly, and in engines I worried more than ever,
to upper bronchial
general the entire enlisted personnel for the other twelve ships were gone
tubes with its special .
was under him . He was a diligent and I was getting frantic lest some­
medicinal vapors
Finn and one of the bravest men thing might change the orders. F i­
I have ever seen. 1 can see Aalto­ nally, after having to w ait during
chest and back
nen now, standing there behind my days of perfect weather, we took off
surfaces like a
seat and the co-pilot’s seat, unper­ in heavy rain for Borinquen Field,
wanning poultice
turbed in the roughest of storms, P. R.
O ften b y morning most o f the misery
The take-off and first two hours of
from the violent currents of the
o f the cold is gone. Remember th is . . .
the flight were "instrum ent,” as we
ONLY VAPORUB Gives You th is equatorial front of the H am adans were
flying through a moderate
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bia. E te rn a lly watching the many tropical front. We finally broke into
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miseries o f colds. ▼ V A P O R u S
pened.
When we w ere lost over on M arch 31, 1942.
Just after noon we sighted His­
trackless seas he was never ruffled,
but ready a t a ll tim es with in fo rm a­ paniola at the point of Cape Frances
these TO herbs in
tion as to fuel consumption and the V iejo. Sergeant Aaltonen passed out
your d aily cup of
best R P M ’s for cruising. Once when some hot coffee from the thermos
Our spirits were high, for
he was told th a t we would probably jugs.
have to land in the A tlan tic there now that we had passed the bad
was no change in the expression on weather this was like a picnic. The
• . . and I m s m the CLINGING waste« his
face; he sim ply began to move big ship was handling like a single-
T « year daily cop of hot water, odd the Joico
the provisions to a point where they seater. We turned from the dark,
of tho I t her hi in Garleld Tea and yoa aof
•o ly “cleanse lnternally,” hat loooon
could be quickly placed in the rub­ mysterious Hispaniola, crossed Mo­
«ha hard-to-get-at wastes which
ber boats. His job in case of attack na Passage, and landed at Borin­
cling ts tho lining, undigested.
Makes hot water tastier to drink,
was to man the top tu rre t w ith its quen Field at 15:07, just three m in­
adds wild, thorough laxative ac­
utes off our E .T .A . (E stim ated Tim e
tw in F ifties.
tion that rdiorta temporary con-
•tipation. Caatioa: see as directed,
Sergeant B aldbridge was the head of A rriv a l).
ltc . Me. Etc at year dragsters.
Two of our flight's Fortresses were
radiom an. H is secondary duty was
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to handle one Of the waist guns back w aiting in Puerto Rico for m inor re­
W rits far isacrovi un plc. enough for
aft of midships. Corporal Cobb was pairs, so we fe lt a little less lone­
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that to enter the low er tu rre t. The in Washington decided to stop the
other waist gun on this flight was last ship or the last two ships in
to be handled by a radio officer. our mission, I got m y crew up long
before daylight next morning, and
H l CENILE KUU IHR lEKUM SLKtlMKSI Lieutenant H ershey.
The n avig ato r was a Lieutenant we soon were heading South for
whom I ’ll call Jack.
H e was a T rin idad , ahead of the other two.
A real night take-off from T rin i­
nervy kid who liked his job. I know
that a fte r our mission he made dad— we were airborne in the d ark­
m any raids as navigator to bomb ness at 5:20 a. m. As the wheels
left the ground I realized very quick­
the Japs in Rangoon.
We tested the bom bardier and the ly how great a load we were lifting.
bombsight, too, before we started This was the first tim e we had tak­
the flight.
Lean, lanky, six-foot- en off with full load of fuel, and it
three B om bardier George— I never seemed to me that I alm ost had to
did see how he managed to wiggle break my arm s to keep the tail
into the nose of the Fortress.
I from going all the way back to the
can see him there now, tense over jungle—for all practical purposes
his sight, w aiting for the bombs to the Fortress tried a loop. ( I t must
go— ever with the cross-hairs on the have been that case of Scotch, add­
target. George had a couple of fifty ed suddenly to the other sixty thou­
calib re guns up there in the nose sand pounds.) F in a lly we got the
jt You “ TkC Easily", have low resistance to
with him , too. He was ju st the op­ ship rigged properly and climbed
folds and minor ills—due to lack of tho
posite of the ta il gunner—he never on top of the clouds at eight thou­
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did know where he had been but sand feet. L a te r we had to go high­
e-try taking good-lasting Scott’s Emul­
er to keep from going through the
alw ays got there first.
sion daily the year aroundl National sur­
And so the eight of them made heavy tropical thunderheads; with
e ty shows many doctors recommend
our overload, neither Doug nor I
fcott's to help build up resistance, bring up m y crew — eight good soldiers
back energy and stamina I Buy Scott’s who had volunteered and who w ant­ wanted to risk the turbulence that
ed to hurt the enemy.
None of we knew was there.
today—at all druggists!
As the sun came up we could look
them worried about w hether or not
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he’d get home— fo r he knew of big­ down through holes at intervals and
see the dark Atlantic near the Gui-
ger things th at had to be done.
We had to test everything, for It anas.
was over sixteen thousand m iles to
O ver Devil's Island at 9:20, I saw
Japan the w ay we were having to by our chart that we were only five
go; there couldn't be a slip-up on degrees North of the equator. Com­
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this mission, and so we didn’t take ing down lower to look at the French
• chance. When finally a ll was set penal colony, we found that although
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the tem perature was comfortable on
top of the haze at six thousand feet,
down In the soup near the water
we had difficulty breathing. Pass­
ing on over another riv e r Identified
as the Rio Oyapok, we went out
over the Guianas Into B razil at 9:55
a. m. Cruising low at eight hundred
feet, we got some unforgetable
views of the steaming B razilian Jun­
gle.
Looking out to sea, we noticed
that the blue color already was
changing to the murkiness of the
Amazon, though we were about a
hundred miles from Its mouth. F ly ­
ing low. I noted that the hump of
Brazil near the coast was flat and
green and hot as hell—tem perature
ninety-six and hum idity about nine­
ty-nine per cent ut 10:55 a. m. We
reached the mouth of the greatest
river in the world at 11:35 E.W .T.
Here the width of the Amazon is
about one hundred and fifty miles.
Boys w ill have their fun too, no
m atter if you are flying low over
the greatest of rivers. As we crossed
the equator—old Zero Degrees Lat.
at 11:56 a. m ., at West Longitude
49 degrees 32 minutes—I saw those
of m y crew who had been In the
South latitudes before take paper
cups of w ater and drop them on
the heads of those who were unini­
tiated. thus m aking them subjects of
the sacred realm of Jupiter Rex as
identified from the realm of Neptune
Rex on the sea. We crossed the Ama-
zon. from just West of Point Grossa
over Bahia Santa Rosa to M ixiana Is­
land. thence to Isla da M arajo . This
last island In the mouth of the
river is one hundred miles wide and
reputedly has more cattle on the
single ranch than any other ranch
in the world. Soon we came to Rio
Para, crossed it in a thunderstorm,
and were over Belem , where we
landed in the blackness of a tropical
rain at 12:40 E .W .T.
On A pril 4. we left Belem for Na
tai at 6:55 a. m ., and climbed to
ten thousand feet In order to top as
much of the cumulus as possible. We
had to skirt one great anvil-head
reaching up into the sub-strato­
sphere near Bahia San Luiz. This
storm covered about fifty miles, but
we got around it without going into
its turbulence.
As we went on
South of the equator the haze di
minished gradually and the country
became dry, m aking us think we
were over western Texas. We land
ed at N atal, our jum p-off point for
the South Atlantic crossing, at 12:25
E.W .T.
This was to be a real day's flight.
For we were not to be able to spend
the night at N atal. Our run from
Belem to N atal of nine hundred
miles, then the crossing of nineteen
hundred miles to Liberia, plus the
run down the hump of A frica to a
Pan-Am erican base on the Gold
Coast—this last almost nine hun­
dred m iles—had to be made with­
out stops, except short ones for fuel.
F or a ll practical purposes, then, we
had thirty-seven hundred miles to
m ake in one day.
We got the big ship serviced and
ready for the trip, then went to the
F e rry Command Hotel. There we
found two more crews of our th ir­
teen heavy bombers.
One group
of these had turned back the night
before with one engine out. The
other, piloted by Col. G erry Mason,
had nearly come to grief on the
way in from Belem. The rubber
life-rafts in the Forts are carried in
two compartments where the wing
of the B-17 joins the big fuselage.
This is to facilitate their automatic
release upon contact with the wa­
te r should the ship have to land at
sea. They are of course tied to
the airplane with strong m anila
rope, and it is on this hemp that
the present tale hangs. In the flight
down the coast some malfunction
had caused one of these com part­
ments to spring open— and out came
the heavy, five-man boat. At the
speed of two hundred miles an hour
with which It struck the tail section
as it went back on its rope In the
slipstream of two engines, it nearly
took the entire horizontal stabilizer
off. Only by very skillful piloting
had G erry Mason managed to get
the F o rt and his crew of ten to N a­
tal.
Just the same, in m y attempted
nap that afternoon, I grinned at
the thought that we In old "Hades
Ab A lta r” were passing ahead of
two more ships of the flight. Boy,
I dreamed, they’ll have a hell of a
job getting me back there into the
training center now! I t ’s four thou­
sand miles back to Florida and in
the morning I ’ll be across the A t­
lantic.
We climbed out of the Fortress
and stepped upon Africa at 11:05
G .M .T .
Our crossing from Natal
had been made in thirteen hours.
Leaving the natives at work under
Royal A ir Force bosses, we hurried
on to Operations, where we a r­
ranged for clearance down the
coast.
Then we were led into a
thatch-roofed dining hall for good
hot food. I f I hadn’t been so hungry
and tired from the extra tension I
had been subjected to, I think I ’d
have "gawked” at those wild-look­
ing tribesmen who were serving us.
In one night we’d left the hotels of
South Am erica, and here we were,
having our plates brought by jet-
black bush Negroes with rings In
their ears and noses, jabbering away
in a West Coast dialect. To them
we were "B w an a.” the food was
“chop,” and dessert was "sweet.”
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