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
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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
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