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S o u t h e r n O r e g o n M i n e r , T h u r s d a y , N o v e m b e r 2, 1944 An Ire-ish Response to Mrs. G. R. Skate's Request Reception to M rs. George B er nard Shaw ’s bequest of a fund to teach the Irish social graces was not too enthusiastic by the Irish . Typ ical A m erican -Irish com m ent was that the Irish w ere cultured “ when the people M r. and M rs. Shaw descended from were shar ing bones w ith the troglodytes in the caves of E n g lan d .” One aggrieved Irish m an broke into verse. In a few lines "T o M rs. G. B. S. in h eaven,” he demanded, as follows: if * Irish nee«/ m a n n e rs? T h e b e st o f u s— A n d e ve n th e u -orst—c a n n o t i m U h y yo u sh o u ld he ju d g in ' th e rest o f us B y tch a l y o u o b s e r v e d in G . B. GOD IS MY CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o ff The story thus tar: R o b ert Scott, a W est P oint « ra d u a ta , « In s his « la g s at K e lly F ie ld . Te xas . He Is sent to Paa- a m a , w here his re a l pursuit tra in in g la begun In a P-tXS. Soon he Is Instructing other pilots, and as the w a r com es clos er It begins to look as though he Is scheduled to he an In structor In d efinitely. H e « r ite s m any letters to G en erals pleading to r a chance to fight, and at las t the op po rtunity comes In the fo rm ot a phone c a ll fro m W ashington asking It he r a n fiy a to ur-m oto r bo m b er. W hen he leaves his « t ie and child behind he realises (h a t (hey re a lly m ean t A m e ric a tor hint, but this heartach e soon leaves h im . He picks up his F o rt In F lo rid a and files to In d ia . from the crews of the thirteen ships of our original mission. Even with the loss in morale they had suf fered when the attack on Tokyo was called off, they were still the best transport pilots I had ever seen. Colonel Haynes was a veteran big- ship pilot, and for the last ten years he had worked In four-engine bombers. The records that he had j set with the giant B-15 will inspire the Air Force forever. Here was a big. cheerful master pilot who never asked another man to do a Job he wouldn't do himself. We of the A. B. C. Ferrying Command looked upon him as the best, and Haynes will always stand out in my mind as one of the greatest officers of our army. This jovial veteran was ready to do anything to help win the war, but we all knew he pre ferred to kill Japs rather than rustle freight across to Burma. I lived with Colonel Haynes on one of the tea plantations in Assam, where we were billeted with a Scotsman. Josh Reynolds of Sealkotte Tea Estate. Major Joplin, whom we called "Jop." was another of our pilots. This man claimed that he had been born in a DC-2 and weaned in a C-47. One of the Pan-American pi lots had made a forced landing with one of the transports, putting it down with the wheels up in a rice would be a good morale element for the crews of the unarmed trans ports. The Job of being a ferry pilot had to go on nevertheless. As the leaks developed again In the tanks of the P-43's, 1 went back to flying the Doug las transports into Burma and Chi na. One day while I was acting as co-pilot for Colonel Haynes, we load ed two disassembled Ryan Trainers in the C-47 and headed for Kun ming. Besides this cargo we had some ammunition and food for the AVG at Loiwing. especially a bottle of Scotch whiskey to be left as a present for General ChennaulL We landed at Loiwing and deliv ered tlie designated cargo. The air raid alert came Just as we were talking with the General. He didn't eve” change expression, but calmly said. "Guess we’re going to have some Japs—you-all had better get those transports off the field." The Flying Tigers were already tak ing oil their shark-painted noses gleaming in the sun. Lord, but my mouth watered as I saw them—I'd have given anything to trade my Colonel’s eagles and that "delivery wagon” that I flew for the gold bars of a second Lieutenant and one of \ those shark-nosed pieces of dyna mite! P a rty A pron But we started the Douglas up HOSTESS apron which every- and took off for China with the cargo * * one, young and old, adm ires— of trainers. Even as we cleared it ’s a big 20-inch heart made of the field and climbed towards the Salween. I heard the call "Tally. two thicknesses of red prgandie Ho" from the AVG. and then others and frille d w ith w hite organdie more like "Here come the sons of ruffling. W ear one at your next Well, the Air Base General had to ask us to carry out the mission, and to ease the monotony we were glad to comply. Taking the bomb- bay tanks from the ship, we loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs and off we went, eight hundred miles into the Arabian Sea. looking for a Jap naval force composed of three warships, five destroyers, five cruis ers. and two aircraft carriers—with our one bomber. Due to the low picture weather we had to fly beneath the « a t of * e reco«nmeoJ¿ cloud base at seven thousand feet. Reaching our patrol area, we searched until it was necessary to th a t shine. » O O T *. return to base for fuel. I have of ten wondered what we would have done had we had the fortune or misfortune to find that task force—if it existed. After all, from seven thousand feet we could have done very little damage with a single ship. Somehow I'm glad we did bitches." A few seconds later the not engage the enemy—I always Jap bombers arrived over the field hated to be a clay pigeon, and at Loiwing and we knew all the though the future looked dark, there transports couldn't have gotten off. were interesting days ahead. The AVG radio man. "M icky” Mi- Slowly, though, through days In haiko, called. "They’re bombing hell p ro m p tly relieve coughing ot which some of the others took their out of the field.” Then, in lighter ships to bomb Rangoon and the vein, he said the Japs were falling Andaman Islands, and finally when like leaves—or he hoped they were Haynes returned from Delhi, the W onderful fo r G ro w n -u p s , Tool Japs, for he could see many smokes W h e n e v e r th e Q u in tu p le ts c a tc h cold — realization sank in that our mission from burning planes. Every now t heir chests, th ro a ts an d backs are rubbed was cancelled. I have never seen and then we could hear one of the w ith M u s te ro le . S o M u s te ro le m u st be thirteen crews of bombers carrying ju s t about th e best cold-relief yo u can b u y ! AVG say to some unlucky Jap. so many broken hearts. Morale Ju st see how p ro m p tly w h ite , stainless "Your mother was a turtle—your fa M u ste ro le relieves coughs, sore th ro a t, dropped like a stone. On April 21, ther was a snake,” —and then the aching chest muscles d ue to colds — how when the base took our ships, I rattle of fifty-caliber guns over the breathing becomes easier — how fa s t con think we would have been justified gestion in u p per b ron ch ial tr a c t, nose radio. and th ro a t begins t o break u p ! Such in getting stinking drunk. We stayed low in the gorge of the blessed co m fo rt! I n S strengths: C h il New orders came for Colonel Salween until we got to the old dren 's M ild , R e g u la r a n d E x tr a S tro n g . Haynes and most of us in the ill- bridge near Paoshan, then turned fated "dream mission” to report to East for Yunnanyl. Behind us the a remote base In eastern Assam, on Col. Merlanti C. Cooper watches Japs damaged the tail of one of our the India-Burma border, to run the sky for return of U. 8. plane*. transports with a bomb, and also A. B. C. Ferrying Command. This blew up the bottle of Scotch that I Assam-Burma-China transport com paddy near the Brahmaputra. Jop had brought General Chennault—it mand was for the purpose of carry took a crew to the transport, took had been left In one of the Jeeps ing supplies to China and Burma, the bent propellers off and roughly that was h it But they had paid to make up as much as possible for straightened them. With his crew heavily for the transport tail and the and some volunteer natives, he dug the fall of the Burma road. quart of whiskey. I believe that When Colonel Haynes and I ar holes under the folded-up landing- even the Woman’s Christian Tern rived in Assam we both considered gear and then let the gear down un G o easy on ra n n e lf! Gcocly, m ild ly .__ perance Union would have approved 'm t cw i n i l left-overs" out of the way with ourselves "shanghaied." I could tell, til it was fully extended, with the cup or two of Garfield Tea, the popular all- wheels down, to the bottom of the of the trade—for the AVG had shot as we faced each other across the herb ''internal cleanser.'* Garfield Tea is down thirteen of the Zeros and bomb a ''cure-all.'* but if you warn ¡ n u h breakfast table that first morning, holes. Now he placed heavy tim ers. while as usual they lost none. teliet from temporary cotutipatioo bers from the wheels to the surface that we both knew that things were r i t S u u drastic a rues, try a cup of At Kunming, with the surprised of the rice paddy, putting them in thia fragraot, 10-berb tea. as directed going to be bad. Our status had Chinese looking on, we unloaded the on package. Y ou 'll feet better, feed changed from participating in what at a small angle to form an inclined better, work better! At oil dr *« o i two small training planes from the beeltb feed ttoret, I0e-2fe-50e. we considered the “greatest mis plane. Next he had about a hun fuselage of the big Douglas. Then, HO! SAMPLE TRIM. PACKAGE! sion in the world,” to the insignif dred natives pull on ropes that were after something to eat, when I had _ __ jf ftB tnts pi icant task of running a ferry com tied to the wheels, and dragged the fw 4 taas. to: Garfield Tss Ca . <lst just about arranged with the AVG Douglas transport up the inclined mand from India to Burma. Once at 3rd. firaotlya 32. fi. Y. DesLD-41 squadron commander to go along again combat duty seemed far plane until It rested on the more or less level ground of the rice pad with them on the morning raid into away. dy. Then Jop demonstrated that Indo-China, we received a radio Our first job was to begin the he could justify all his claims of gram that changed all plans. m c e r il i mm f u i iram lunsiiut Colonel Haynes and I were or construction of other fields in the having been born in a Douglas trans area—this was to permit us to have port He gave the ship the guns, dered to leave immediately for more than one base from which to and in a flurry of mud and water Shwebo, Burma, down on the Man work. For our job was’that of being and rice stalks, bounced it from the dalay-Rangoon Railway, and evacu ate the staff of General Stilwell. It ferry pilots for both the Chinese field and flew it home to base. Do Yon Hate HOT FLASHES? Army and General Chennault’s AVG All the pilots were good, and they seemed that the Japs had crossed I f you suffer fro m h o t flashes, feel down in Burma. We were to car were eager. The weather never be another place on the Irrawaddy and w eak, nervoua, a b it b lue a t tim es— ry high octane gas. ammunition, and came too bad or the trip too danger were about to capture the entire a ll du e to th e fu n c tio n a l " m id d le - age" period p e c u lia r to w o m en— try food into Burma, and later into Chi ous for men like Tex Carleton. Bob American M ilitary Mission to China L y d ia E P ln k h a m ’s V egetab le C om na. We were soon to find ourselves Sexton, or the others to get through. —the Ammisca. We didn’t even po un d to relieve such sym ptom s. T a k e n re g u la rly — P ln k h a m 's C om returning from Burma with our The enlisted men were the best know whether or not there was po un d helps b u ild up resistance ships completely filled and overflow There in Assam they fought a con landing field in Shwebo. but I found again st s u c h a n n o y in g sym ptom s. P ln k h a m 's C om po un d Is m ade ing with wounded British soldiers. stant battle against boredom, ma it on a map and in the late after especially fo r w o m en— I t helps n a CoL C. V. Haynes was boss; he laria, and tropical disease. noon we took off for lower Burma. tu re an d th a t’s th e k in d o f m e d i was Commanding Officer of the A. cin e to bu y! F o llo w lab el directions. We flew through black storms all Even with the hardships we en B. C. Ferrying Command, and I joyed the assignment—for after all, the way to the Mekong; then, turn LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S CoSuNWRD was his Executive Officer. Burma was just over the Naga Hills ing South, we found better weather We began our work the day after and they said a war was going on even if we were getting into Japa we arrived in Assam. This was over there. Down in his heart, each nese-controlled skies. We landed at April 21. We had thirteen trans man really wanted to do something Myitkyina and while servicing (so R U IN E D g T IG H T E N E D A T H O M E $1.00 ports manned by the Army and Pan- to stop the Japs from their rapid that we would have plenty of fuel to ------ N E W L Y IM P R O V E D D E N - D E X R E L IN E R . a plastic, American pilots. Our job in flying movement to the North through Bur take General Stilwell anywhere he b u ild s up ( re fits J loose supplies into Burma was a tough ma. But we had no fighters and no wanted to go), we learned from a upper and lower dentures. Really makes them fit as they one with unarmed transports, for bombers. I often heard of plots British pilot that we would find a ! should without using pow by this tirfie the Japanese had among the crewmen for going back small field to the Southeast of the der. Easily applied. No heat crossed the Sittang and the Irra to Karachi and stealing the thirteen town that was our destination. ing required. Brush it on and wear your plates while t waddy and had taken Rangoon. four-engined bombers, but of course Flying as low as we could without sets. I t adheres to the plates only and makes On April 24, Colonel Haynes and they were Just soldier rumors. The hitting the tops of the jungle trees, a oomfortable, smooth and durable surface that can be washed and scrubbed. Each Colonel Cooper transported a load small amount of good that we fig we followed the Myitkyina-Manda- application lasts for months. Not a powder or of ammunition and aviation fuel to ured we were doing by flying ammu tay railroad to the South. We knew w a x . Contains no rubber or gum. Neutral Lashio for the Flying Tigers, and on nition, aviation gasoline, and bombs that all the British had evacuated pink color. Sold on M O N E Y -B A C K G U A R A N T E E . Not sold in stores. M ail $1 for gen their way back an enemy fighter to the AVG was barely enough to the area about Shwebo except for a erous supply, brush and directions and we plane made an attack on their trans keep our morale above the sinking small detachment left with the pay postage. Charges extra on C.O.D. orders. 7 th T s a r H at.onal Stall O rder Salaa port. Recognizing the ship as an point Personally I made a trip al wounded; so we were expecting trou OENQEX CO.. H i l l HN I t , M L it. 1st U n lit 7, CsIH. enemy Zero. Haynes and Cooper left most every day over into Lashio and ble. I know that neither of us had the flying of the plane to the co Loiwing, and some days I went on ever before been so careful at watch pilot and went back into the fuse farther East to Kunming, China. ing the skies. I had my ever-ready lage, to ward off the attack as best One day, during the last of April, movie camera right by my side, but they could with Tommy Guns. Don two Chinese pilots landed with two in the excitement I forgot to take Old, the co-pilot, dove the transport P-43A’s. These were good, fast pictures as we flew over the burning until they were actually skimming climbing little fighter ships, the towns of central Burma. Long after over the jungle trees. These eva forerunner of the “Thunderbolts.” wards, Colonel Haynes told everyone sive tactics kept the Jap ship from But their fuel tanks had developed that I had missed the best pictures coming up under the vulnerable leaks, and when you added to that in the world, but I imagine he would transport. Just one of the Jap trac the fact that the turbo was under have dumped me out of the ship if I ers in that Douglas would have set neath the rear of the fuselage, the had raised that movie camera in- it afire. greatest fire hazard in the world stead of diligently watching the As the Jap dived towards them. was born. So far had their ill fame skies. Cooper and Haynes and their crew spread that the ships were ground All the country ahead of us was chief, Sergeant Bonner, fired mag ed until the faults could be reme marked with columns of black azine after magazine at the Jap. died. So the Chinese left the P-43A’» smoke, rising straight into the clear This either discouraged him or the with us and went on back to China. sky. We looked for hostile ships un enemy ship lost the transport in a Colonel Haynes and 1 fell heir to til our eyes ached—or for any «hip turn, for they got away. But even the two little fighters. at all, for we knew it would be a considering the bravery of these Sergeant Bonner worked diligent Jap, ours being the only Allied plane flyers in using their meager arma ly with everything from chewing in the air. We had been flying those ment against a fighter ship, it is a gum to cement and finally repaired unarmed transports so long that both poor policy to shoot Zeros with Tom the leaks, at least to a point where of us had become used to it. Behind my guns; 45-caliber ammunition is they didn’t catch fire right away us in the empty cargo space I could not very effective against aircraft, on the take-off, as some of them see the crew chief and the radio op- (Çwilidn Çontb Çotpt) but, as usual In a case like this, if had done. I took one of these ships —fiuV- erator searching the skies on both you have only a pop-gun to point and decided to use It to protect the sides, with their inadequate Tommy IWidi kak» H*r Ssviaq» Sm4$ kSUnps fit the enemy, it helps the morale. ferry route. Even one lone fighter guns at "ready" position. Most of our pilots had been chosen that could fire back at the Japs (T O B E C O N T IN U E D ) CAtOX HOW QUINTUPLETS CHEST COLDS H ostess Apron in Heart Design W N U . 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