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A u th o rize d re fe rr a l required. comes. He aaya coodby to his w ife and child and leaves tor Florida, where he P*cks ep his four-motor bomber and ties Indl, . ,o ,n s n c When I ’d gotten my fighter parked p J M A I A J F l M A T W IA L 9 TOU« D «U «fcST O O M MOT HA«« again I went over and heard the W H R O M « O O U C U W RiTl W NtFWJOM C O K A M T . U C O M A < W A D « story. No Jap attack had come, and I felt relieved—my single-ship war and I had not let the station down. But as I heard the embar­ HEALTH TO YOU! rassed operations man tell his story Correct Racial, Colon A llm tn ft I remember choking discreetly and Hemorrhoids (P iles), Fis­ leaving before I laughed myself to sure. Fistula. Hernia (Rup­ ture) d ••troy health-pow er 1 death. to earn-ability to enjoy life. Oar method of treatment When the alert sounded, “Opps” — without hospital operation the operations officer—had hurried su ccessfu lly em ployed for 33 years. Liberal credit to the window of the thatch and terms. Coil for exam ination bamboo “basha" to see me take off or send for FREE booklet. in the “bloody kite—that Kitty- Open Evening», Mon., Wed., Fri., 7 to 8:30 hawk.’’ Seeing a transport from Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC China about to land, and fearing that the Japs would bomb it on the field, Phytlclan and Surgeon he had then fired a Very pistol out H. E. Cor. E. Burnside and Grand Ava Tslsphone EAst 3918, Portland 14, Oregon of the operations window: the red Very light would be the signal for the transport not to land but to fly RHEUMATIC D o n 't le t la c tic o r s c ia tic congestions In the “stand-by” area. The Very In Joints and muscles, c rip p le you light had gone nonchalantly out of fo r life . B re a k I t up, s w eat I t out n a tu re s own w a y v ia th e easy Steam the operations window, into the B a th e tt W a y , a t home, convenient, wind, had curved gracefully back colla p sib le , f u l l In s tru c tio n s , $3.95 another window, and had postpaid. S u p p ly sub ject to w a r into tim e lim ita tio n s . S team B a th e tt C o . burned the bloody building in five 13601 - 4 6 th A v e n u e So., S e a ttle 88, minutes. Operations was being car­ W a s h in g to n - ried on as usual from operations desk, which was located in front of W hy suffer needlessly ? You can get fast relief, know the the site of the former office. Bloody joys of good health again shame, wasn’t it? quickly . . . with inexpen­ Well, it was tragic, but I guess sive, pleasant tasting Medi­ cine Rock Mineral Water. it was better than a bombing. And This is nature's own reme­ so my first mission ended. dy, discovered in the moun­ tains of Southern Oregon. Came May Day, and I began the greatest month in my life. I flew Gel relief with W hat it has don« for oth * every day in that long month, some­ «rs it can do for you! <3.00 M EDICINE times as many as four missions a bottle. (Money beck < u ia - •ntee . Folder on request.) day. By putting in a total of 214 ROCK M ed icin e Rock M in e ra l hours and 45 minutes, I averaged M INERA L W a t e r C o . 2269 N W over seven hours a day for the Northrup, Portland 9. Ore W ATER month. Most of this was in fighter ships—my little old Kittyhawk and I learned a lot, and we were very, STOMACH ULCERS very lucky. When I had come in from my first sortie, the day oper­ ations burned down, my pal Col. Gerry Mason kidded me a bit We got pretty confident, the trans­ port boys and I. for I used to go with them across Burma, and Jop­ lin and some of the other daredevils would try to lure the Jap In to at­ tack them. Jop would call over the radio, in the clear: “NR-o from transport one three four—I'm lost near Bhamo—give me a bearing.** Up there, some three thousand feet above them. I'd be sitting with my fighter, just praying that my “de­ coy” would work and some luckless Jap would come in for the kill Then I'd imagine myself diving on his tail, my six guns biasing. But the ruse never worked. Sometimes I "think the "Great Flying Boss in the Sky” was giving me a little more practice before he put me to the supreme test. May the fifth was one of the big days in my life. Waving good-bye to Gerry Mason as I taxied out, 1 saw him hold his thumb up to me to wish me good hunting. I waved back and was in the air on a sweep towards central Burma. 1 went straight to Myitkyina; then, seeing nothing. 1 swung South along the Irrawaddy over Bhamo. Continuing South I went right down on the Bur ma Road. North of Lashio, and searched for enemy columns. North of the airport at Lashio I saw two groups of troops in marching order 1 would have strafed them imme­ diately, but I was afraid they might be Chinese: after all, there were two Chinese armies coming North some­ where in Burma I made as though to ignore them and they partially m v s in g le fig h te r A g a in I t a v m o re /... 8 , n« n ' e.r A 8 a in 1 sa? ' m o re oi 016 valor of ignorance. a >< » „ After forty-five minutes 1 turned for home and began to let' down to F R U I T T R E E S — W e accept requests. e i 8 h teen thousand. Thirty miles Save a t N . W . prices. No lim it on from the field I suddenly tensed to m ost ___ _______ - p ro fita b le v a rie tie s . W r ite the alert Off ahead of me was a B a rr e ll, M ab to n , W a s h . mo — 3-------- ■ ------ :— ;------- . dar,c column of smoke, rising high second-hand business. Good reason in 1,16 alr r,gh, ,n the Position on the fo r seRIng. W ill stand In v e s tig a - world's surface that the home field tlon. B O , 870. K e llo g g . Id a h o . should be My tortured mind flashed SOOO-ACRE Stock Ranch. P le n ty lm - back to other results of bombings ffy R uth W y e th Spear» L .S c o ff The ilo ry thus la r: Robert Scott, a W ed Point (ra d a a le , beglna pursuit train- law at Panama after « In n in , hla w in,a at Kelly Field, Teaaa. When war breaks _________________ «’« I he la Instructor at a California air* W A N T E D — 4 to «-lb. liv e r a b b its , to p I ■***• bu’ » » » U n , to set Into combat prices Sherw ood's, w 771« S m ith , t y l m he writes General after General Spokane, W a s h in g to n . O len. 8333. makln« the re«ued. Finally the chance HELP WANTED Curtaining Your French Doors to Harmonize With Window Treatments Chinese so ldier* and coolies look over Jap plane shot down by Col. Scott. scattered to the sides of the road. Twelve trucks in the column kept rolling to the North. Then I momentarily forgot about the troops—for in the northwestern comer of the field at Lashio was a ship From my altitude of 2500 feet 1 saw at once that it was a twin- engined enemy bomber, later iden­ tified as a Mitsubishi, Army 97 It was being serviced, for there were four gasoline drums in front of it and a truck that had evidently un­ loaded the fuel. My gun switches were already on, and had been since I had seen the troop column. Now I was diving for the grounded bomb­ er and getting my “Christmas Tree' sight lighted properly. Hurriedly I began to shoot. I saw men running from the truck and jumping into the bushes to the side My first shots hit in front of the plane, probably striking the fuel drums, for heavy dust covered the enemy ship I released my trigger as I pulled out of my dive, just clearing the trees behind my tar get. As I looked back I saw the red circle on one wing, but the other was covered by the body of a man who either had been shot or was try­ ing to hide the identifying insignia. Keeping the ship very low, I turned 180 degrees for the second at­ tack. This time I did better. I saw my tracers go into the thin fuselage and then into the engines. At first I thought that what I was seeing was more dust; then I realized it was smoke pouring from under the ship. It was on fire. Foolishly then. I pulled up to about six hundred feet; if there had been anti-aircraft fire, I know now they would have shot me down. Again I turned and shot at the truck and the gasoline drums, and once more I saw the tracers converge on the enemy ship. Smoke was floating high in the sky— I could smell it over the odor of cor­ dite that came from my own guns. Keeping very low again, I turned East and found the Burma Road, turned up it and started looking for the columns which I now knew were Japanese. I approached them from the rear, fired from about a thou­ sand yards, and the road seemed to pulverize. The closely packed troops appeared to rush back to­ wards me as my speed cut the dis­ tance between us. I held the six guns on while I went the length of the troop column and caught the trucks. There were only six now, but I fired into all of them and two I saw burn immediately. On my second pass, as I “S’ed” across the road, I shot at each truck individu­ ally, then turned for the troops again. The road was so dusty that I could barely see the bodies of those I had hit on the first puss. I suppose the others were hidden in the brush to the side. As I pulled up, I could see the black plume of smoke to the South—my first enemy ship was burning fiercely. I made as though to leave the area, then came in again from the South on the troops after the dust had settled. They had reformed but were not us closely packed as be­ fore Again 1 strafed them, but this time I saw that they were firing at me. The trucks couldn't get off I I OW to m ake French door cur- the road, and I exhausted my am­ * * tains harmonize with the win­ munition on them • In two more dow treatm ent in a room is a passes. One truck that I caught question that alw ays arises. F re­ dead center with a full two-second quently, over-draperies are om it­ burst seemed to blow up. When 1 ted for the doors even though they left, I knew that four of the trucks are used for windows. The sam e were burning, and farther to the glass curtain m aterial is then used South 1 could still see the smoke as for the windows but a heading of my first Jap plane rising high and rod is used both top und bot­ above the trees of Burma. tom. However, over-draperies add Straight back to base I went, feel­ dignity. ing very intoxicated with success. Either a wooden or a m etal rod At last I'd been able to see Japs and extending well beyond the sides of draw blood. In this cose they had the door fram e may be hooked in been treated just as they had been place as shown here in the dia­ treating Allied ground troops, and I gram . This permits the doors to was happy. open without interfering with dra­ That ufiernoon I went back on peries. the second mission. I found the It is not necessary to repeat win­ wrecks of four trucks and baggage, and objects that could have been dow valance» over doors though it men. scattered all over the road. m ay be done if desired by using u The place where I had caught the troop column showed about forty dead men. TTie grounded plane had Jones Found There H ere burned, and with it had burned about Not Enough Comers- In! ten acres of the jungle. 1 fired a long burst into the truck and into Jones decided to enter business, the four fuel drums in front of the and so he bought an establishm ent debris of the enemy bomber, but from an agent. they didn’t bum; I guess the morn­ After som e months he failed, ing fire had finished them. I searched the country to the North and, meeting the agent som e tim e for more troops, but didn't intercept later, he said; “ Do you rem em ber selling me a business a few any. I went back home highly elated—1 months ago?" "Y es," replied the agent. “ But had drawn my first blood I felt that the world was good again With what's the trouble? Isn’t it as I pride I radioed General Chennault represented it to be?” that his “shark” had been in use, "Oh, y es,” said the other. "You that I had caught lots of rats walk­ said it was in a busy locality ing along the Burma Road, and that where there were plenty of pass­ one Army 97 bomber would fly no ers-by." more for the Japs “ W ell!” queried the agent. When Myitkyina fell. I went over there every day to burn the gasoline that had been stored in tins in the woods to the Northeast of the end of the runway. I had found out its location from British Intelli­ gence. but the RAF Group Captain had exacted from me a promise that I would not fire into it until he gave me the word. It seems that he was afraid that the firing and the burning of the fuel would excite the native Burmese who were in the village I couldn't see what difference that would make, for after all the Japs would capture the thousands of gallons of aviation gasoline, and the natives were more than likely helping them anyway. Though I held off every time I saw the shiny four-gallon cans in the trees my finger itched to burn the cache before the enemy could use it. I passed the three days of waiting in burning three barges on the Irrawaddy. South of Bhamo, and in setting a fuel barge on fire down on the Chindwin In this last raid my ship picked up a few small holes; evidently some Jap sympathizers got my range Later in the week, the RAF Group Captain told me that his Comman­ dos in Myitkyina were going to knock holes in all the fuel tihs with picks before they left the field to the Japs. Nevertheless I kept watching the gasoline stores while the Japs moved to the North. On May 8, when I got in my ship and started the Allison, my friend the Group Captain ran across the field to tell me that the Japs could not get the gasoline—it had been destroyed with­ out fire, and thus the villagers would not be panicked. Over the roar of the engine I yelled that in that case it would not bum when I fired Into it. For I had waited long enough; the Japs were in Myitkyina and I wasn't taking any chances on their acquiring over 100,000 gallons of avi­ ation fuel less than two hundred miles from our base When I came over the field at Myitkyina. the enemy fired at me while I was yet ten miles away; I could see the black bursts of the 37 mm AA in front and below me. I started “jinking” and moved to the Northeast, so that I could come from out of the sun and be as far as I could get from the field. With my first burst the whole woods seemed to blow up—I have never seen such a flash as that which came when that veritable powder-train of high octane fuel caught fire from the trac­ ers. I also fired at two of the gun installations on the field. But the bursts from the Jap guns were so close to me that I decided to let well enough alone, and turned for home i:i Assam. Next day. May 9, I made four raids into Burma. On the first of these I escorted two traneports pi­ loted by Sartz and Sexton to Pao- shan, where they were going to land to pickup the baggage of the AVG. who were going on to Kunming. I waited for them to land and take off again, and then called goodby. They were going on East within the air controlled by the AVG. and I wanted to look for Japs to the South any­ way. Two hours later Paoshan was badly bombed by the Japs; and so I missed a good party by not staying around. (TO BE CONTINUED) "What's wrong with that?" "There were too many passers- by.” valance shelf or a cornice box plat ed high enough for the bottom of the valance to be Just above doors thut open in. • • • N O T E Thia sketch la from a new book­ let by Mra. 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