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D u e tu an un usually la rg e de m a n d and
c u rre n t w a r conditions, slig h tly m o re tim e
nault was to be the Task Force Com snow from a Christmas tree, and I
la re q u ire d In fillin g orders (o r a (ew o f
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mander
and was to be over the laughed hysterically us two figures
thu m oat p o pu lar p a tte rn num bers.
1. What surnam es are
m ost Rob„ , Sco,t wln, hll wlnf,
KfIly
Fighter Group and the Bomber run from a pagoda.
C°y'7?2n ln ° U1" arrny '
F ie ld and Lake» up pursuit B v ln t. When
Force.
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That day I landed back home tired
2. What two structures deter- the w a r breaks out he is an In structor in
U S N ew M o ntg om ery Nt.
If the Scotch hadn't given out, I and happy. More orders had come
mine the height and width of our j C a lifo rn ia and told he Is too old lo r com
Nan F r a n r lic o , C a lif.
b a l ly in g . He appeals la several Gen.
warships?
would have got drunk that night. for me: I was to go to Delhi before
Encloae
Hi centa (or Pattern
era
is
lo
r
a
chance
lo
flv
a
co
m
b
al
plane,
But instead I went on another straf 1 went to Chinn. I went there the
3. Corse is the poetic form of
and A nally the opportunity comes,
lie
Nn
ing raid in the lute afternoon, and next morning with “ Long Johnny”
what word?
says goodby to his w ile and child and
Payne.
had to land after dark.
N am e
4. What great m idw estern city, dies
a bo m b er to In d ia , w here he be
situated on a river, is nam ed aft comes a le r r y pilot, which does not ap
So I took it out in action. 1 bombed
Address________ ___ ________________
e r Sikak, the skunk?
Homalin and the railroad yards at
peal to h im .
H e visits G en eral Chen-
When I had received my ofllclal
5. What nam e is given the in n a u lt and Is prom ised a K itty h a w k , and Mongaung the next day. and strafed instructions from headquarters In
herent right of a state as a sov soon is dying the skies over B u rm a in a the field at Myitkyina coming back. Delhi, and had been wined, and dined
ereignty to take private property shining K itty h a w k . H e gets his d rs l Jap During the ensuing days until the by good friends—war correspond
Sousa W rote First Them e
bo m b er and goes out on m any lone m is 26th of June, I carried out attacks
for public use?
ents like Berrignn. Magoffin, and
sions o ver enem y te rrito ry .
Song, a Popular March
on barges near Bhamo, and on one Briggs—I came on back to pack my
6. What is the largest island io
the world?
trip went to Shwebo and almost to things in Assam. 1 tried to take the
Mandalay, making a round trip of old fighter ship with me, but my
C H A P T E R X IV
The Washington Post March by
nearly nine hundred miles I strafed crew had chiselled a new «Allison
John Philip Sousa was not only
T h e A n a w era
But I had seen enough. Even the field at Maymyo, caught a train engine from somewhero— h a d v l g h * * '
the first them e song but has
though this bridge was being built of on the railroad North of town, and bly stolen it from some ship, bi
become one of the most popular
1. Smith, Johnson, Brown, Mil bamboo, they were making it very set it on fire. It was anything for didn't know where. So I went t >t
m arches in musicul history, says
ler and Jones, in that order.
strong, for the abutments were of action—and the engine of "Old Ex over in a transport, expecting to
Collier's.
2. The Brooklyn bridge deter heavier lumber and of stone. The term inator” got pretty rough at come back later and ferry "Old Ex
Sousa was commissioned to
m ines the height, while the P ana Japanese were evidently planning to times, for by then I had three hun term inator" to his new home.
write it in 1889 by the Washington
m a canal determ ines the width.
transport trucks, tanks, or some oth dred and sixty hours on it and my
Post, a newspaper of the capital,
As we came down into the rain
3. Corpse.
er heavier equipment North. I went mechanics had had little experience over the lake South of Kunming. I
and his band introduced it shortly
4. Chicago.
right back to Dinjan and had Ser with Allisons.
afterw ard at a large public gath
never have felt so good. This was
5. The right of em inent domain. geant Bonner strap on a nice 500-
ering sponsored by the publica
That night, when 1 got home from another step to the East, towards
6. Australia.
pound bomb with a delayed action my trip into Burma, I was handed Japan, and when I got out and saw
tion.
fuse. At any rate the armament a radiogram that saved my life. As all those sleek-looking fighting ships
'B ird Cage’ Holders
men told him it was a ten-second
that my Group was going to receive 'T 'H E S E unusual bird cage pot
delay fuse. This type of target
from the AVG in five days, my spir * holders will add a gay note
had to be hit exactly, and if I were
its soared another mile in the air. to your kitchen. Each one is 7Mi
G - / / THIS NSW
to glide in for a dead shot I'd
1 was through with all that lonesome inches high, and they're not a bit
surely get shot down by all the anti
"one-man w ar" stuff. From now complicated to make.
aircraft. So I made up my mind
on we'd be fighting as a team, with
u s e
long before I got there to turn it
bombers escorted by fighter ships in
T o ob tain crocheting Instructions (o r the
loose just as low as I could fly. Even
a proper force to represent America. B lu e b ird and C a n a ry n ir d C a g e P oth old ers
if I missed the bridge by only fifty
I had already met most of the (P a tte r n No. 37011), ac tu a l size b ird , color
yards, which is close for dive-bomb
members of the First American Vol
ing in ships not made for that type
unteer Group, but It was an even
Taxes Cancelled for V alor
of work. I'd knock a lot of leaves
greater pleasure to meet them nOw
CORN
off the trees, make a big noise, and
Some of them were men who were
The town of B ahadarpur in
maybe k ill some gunners. But the
going to stay with the 23rd Fighter Patiala, India, recently had its
abutments of the bridge had to be
Group
and fight under me. Of all taxes canceled for a year because
hit just about dead center if I was to
★
the honors that I ever have re a local soldier won the Victoria Gather Your Scrap;
make the Japs stop work.
ceived or ever w ill receive, the cross.
COLD
I came in to the target from the
★
Throw It at H itle r!
greatest to me w ill always be the
West, with the sun right at my
TABLET
honor
of
being
given
command
of
back. I flew so low that I was
that great group of sky fighters un
afraid the little windm ill on the
der the Command of Gen. Claire L.
nose of the bomb would get knocked
Chennault.
off by the bushes. And then, as
During the four days that followed
saw the bridge, I let the bomb go.
I took over the m ilitary equipment
All hell broke loose.
of the Group from the Commander
When I got back home I looked at
ABOUT
of the squadron that was based at
“ Old Exterm inator” and I couldn't
Kunming, and I got my headquar
see why it hadn’t spun in right there
ters staff organized. In this Army,
over the N'umzup. There were holes
Sergeant La Rue of the 23rd Fight
as big as footballs in the fabric er Group. Everything has happened Master Sergeants showing officers
flippers and in the metal stabilizers fast in this war, and the organisa what to do have always been the
of the ta il section. There was a hole tion of the 23rd Fighter Group was backbone of a fighting force, and I
in the fuselage and five holes in no exception. There was no holiday, w ill never forget Master Sergeant
Demand for military tents
the wing. But I guess the h ill just even If it Was activated on the McNeven. I was certainly expect
Isas had a strong influence on
ing to lead the group in its fights
East of the target had saved me. Fourth of July.
the supply of cotton needed
against the Japanese, and the ad
As the June days passed. Colonel
for the manufacture of tiros
Haynes was moved to China to head I read it my face must have turned m inistrative work that the Sergeant
and other rubber Hems.
the Bomber Command under Gen white; I know that tears came to Major of the 23rd Fighter Group ac
eral Chennault, and I was left alone my eyes, for I felt them burn. But complished so efficiently made It
A c c u ra te t i r e In fla tio n m eans
more now than ever before. Too
as Commanding Officer of the F erry I didn’t care. I was ordered to re possible fo r me to fly and have the
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much pressure encourages im pact
ing Command. On the day the cheer port in Kunming, China, to General paper work go on at the same time.
breaks, too little causes excess
ful Haynes left, I felt as if I had lost Chennault, as Commanding Officer
Later in the week I heard that
flexing and h e a t— a heavy mile
my best and last friend. For this of the 23rd Fighter Group which was “ Old Exterm inator" was ready with
a g e waster.
meant that I'd have to stay on the to be activated from the AVG on a new engine. But with the report
A compliment to the tech
ground more, and work the admin July 4, 1942. I wiped the tears from came another that some other Group
nicians responsible for the
istration as well as the operations of my eyes and looked out on an im was moving into Assam, and that
development of synthetic rub
the ABC, which was getting tougher proving world. I could hear the the engineering officer had stated
ber is the fact that tires and
and tougher with all the rice we birds singing again, and people he knew nothing about that ship 41-
tubas required by the U. 5.
were having to drop and the passen were laughing; I knew I was the 1456 belonging to the Chinese Gov
Ordnance D e p a r tm e n t ora
gers we were having to haul.
ernment. It would stay in India, he
luckiest man in all the world.
about 85 par cent converted
On the one day that I stayed on
said. I went on and flew back to
Which of yowr tw e hvsbamis
to ■ substitute for natural
I carefully folded the radiogram
the ground, it seemed to me that
India in one of the P-40E’r that we
rubber.
to show my grandchildren when the
Is coming homo to n ig h t. . .
every tim e I looked up from the desk
had just received from the factory
war was over and went out to look
that I was "flying,” some long,
that repairs them in China.
at my ship. For 1 had something
lanky tea planter would be standing
Landing at my old base, I waited
else on my mind too. 1 was going
‘ GLUM" 0 #
there in the door in sun-helmet and
to go into Burma the next day on until dark, and then had the num
sMOTTS? With his bony knees sticking
four of the damnedest strafing and bers on the ship that I had flown in
out, he’d ask me in cold clipped ac
bombing raids the Japs had ever exchanged with those of my old
cents: " I say old chap—do you have
C on stip ation m ay make
dients formulated over 50
seen. It would be my swan-song fighter. For morale purposes alone,
transportation for Calcutta?”
anyone a Mr. or Mrs. Glum.
years ago. Uncoated or
we
had
to
have
that
ship
in
the
from Assam and I had to celebrate
Take Nature’s Remedy (N R
From over near Sadiya, we had
candy coated, their action ia
23rd Group A ll this change involved
in some way or other.
Tablets). Contains no chem-
dependable, thorough, yet
gotten eight elephants, tame ones,
was a stencilling operation to put
irals, no minerals, no phenol
I told my crew to load a 500-
gentle, as millions of N il’s
and were working them to move
41-1456 on the ship that I had flown
derivatives. N it Tablets ara
have proved. Get a 2'xt
some heavy timbers to be used on pound HE on “ Old Exterm inator,” from China, and another tr put on
d ifferen t— a c t d ifferen t.
Convincer Box today I All
the warehouses of the new field. and I walked around looking the old “ Old Exterm inator" the serial num
Purely vegetable— a combi
druggists. Caution: Take
There was an old Southern sergeant ship over. Somehow I figured that ber of the fighter that I was leaving
nation of 10 vegetable ingre-
only as directed.
Kittyhawk had had a lot to do with
who
took
good
care
of
the
pachy
pIRST
in India.
getting
me
the
greatest
job
in
the
derms. He must have been a mule-
So, early the next morning, July
skinner in either the first World War war. It's not every man who finally
3. 1942, “ me and the old Kittyhaw k”
gets
what
he
has
always
wanted
in
or the border war with Mexico, for
wended our happy way across the
he did everything in his power to the Arm y—after being pulled out of
NO TO-NIOHT, TOMORROW A U IO H T I
hills and jungles of Burma to Kun
keep the eight elephants dry and fighters for being too old, after be
ming and more adventures together.
ing
an
instructor
for
four
years,
aft
well-fed and content. Even when he
From that moment, we left the A ir
tied the chains to their legs at night, er being shanghaied into being a
Corps number 41-1456 on that in
Burma-roadster,
important
as
the
he would wrap the links with cloth
significant ship in India, and for all
to keep them from chafing the thick job had been. Well, I had got what
from common colds
I wanted and I felt as though I practical purposes the old P-40E
skin of the big beasts.
Another sergeant, from about the could jum p over the moon. I pat that I had used for sixty-three days
same section of the country that ted the leering shark’ s mouth on old over Burma became another num
Creomulslon relieves promptly be the old elephant caretaker hailed 41-1456, and caressed the prop that ber, but It would always be "Old
cause It goes right to the seat of the from, came by one day and looked had taken me in and out of many Exterm inator” to me. In those two
trouble to help loosen and expel
messes. Then I left, while they months we'd flown together 371 hours
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature the stalls over with a quizzical eye.
"Say, M icky,” he called back as pulled the belly tank and put the over enemy territory and we were
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial m ucous m em he left, "you’re taking too good care big, fat, yellow bomb under the bel more than friend«. That is some
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
those elephants. You’re going to ly, and tightened the sway braces. what over eighty thousand miles,
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un of
get
’em so comfortable that the Yan The sight of that bomb made me and in combat that's a long, long
derstanding you must like the way it
way.
quickly allays the cough or you are kees w ill come down here and free feel pretty good.
to have your money back.
’em.”
Next morning before dawn I was
Everything has happened fast in
Bob Layher, one of the AVG pi In the air, my course set for Homa
lots, came over for several days, lin. As I climbed out above the this war, and the organization of the
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis and we drank good Scotch whiskey clouds I began to recite poetry in 23rd Fighter Group was no excep
at night and flew our planes across rhythm with the engine. To the tion. There was no holiday, even If
50—4< into Burma in the day—when I verses of “ Gunga D in" I dropped it was activated on the Fourth of
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didn’t have to get passengers on the my first bomb of the day on the July. There was no time for cele
freight ships. I learned a lot, fly docks of Homalin. Then I flew back bration. Radio Tokyo started right
ing on his wing. We’d go over for a home with the words of the “ Galley off with a bang, and we definitely
look at M yitkyina, and it would Slave” going out over the radio in a knew hard work was ahead. On
amaze me how effortlessly, without private broadcast to the world. On the night of July 3, Radio Tokyo—
apparent forethought, Bob would get my next trip I dropped a flve-hun- the one program we could ever
H e lp T h e m Cleanse th e Blood
our ships into the sun before we dred-pounder on a barge at Bhamo hear in China—warned the new
o f H a rm fu l Body Waste
came within sight of the field we and came back and strafed the American fighter group that they
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
were to observe. I picked up little much-abused Myitkyina. My third would quickly annihilate them, for it
kidneys sometimes lag in their work— do
things like that as I flew with him, attack was on the railroad station was common knowledge that the ex
not act as N ature intended— fail to re
move impurities th a t, if retained, may
and they helped me later.
at Mogaung and I strafed the empty perienced AVG personnel were leav
poison the system and upset the whole
On the twentieth of June, mem freight-cars in the yard. I had to ing for America. But Tokyo had
body mechinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
bers of the Army Board that had use a belly tank on the fourth trip, reckoned without the strategic brain
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
been appointed to induct the AVG and so I couldn't take a big bomb. of the General, or the loyalty of
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
• Gently warming, soothing Ben-Gay acts last to relieve
under the eyes— a feeling of nervous
passed through Assam, and my But I loaded on six eightcen-pound those great pilots of the First Amer
cold symptoms. Ask your doctor about these famous pain-
wnziety and loss of pep and strength.
ican
Volunteer
Group.
hopes
faded
of
ever
getting
over
to
frags and set sail for Lashio. I re
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
relieving agents, methyl salicylate and menthol. Speedy
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
The General was expecting an at
work under General Chennault. I membered to drop the belly tank
Ben-Gay actually contains up to 2 V3 times more of these
too frequent urination.
knew that out of those Colonels, before I went down into the anti tack on Independence Day anyway,
There should be no doubt tb et prompt
famous ingredients than five other widely offered rub-ins.
treatm ent ia wiser than neglect. Use
the powers-that-be had surely picked aircraft, and I dropped the six little for the Japs had always shown an
For quick, soothing relief insist on genuine Bert-Gayl
D oane P illi. Doan't have been winning
some lucky one to get the greatest frags in two of the big green ware affinity for raids on our holidays.
new friends for more than forty years.
They have a nation-wide reputatloo.
Job In the world. This was of course houses by the railroad tracks. I When the Japs arrived over Kwei
Are recommended by grateful people tbs
A
BEN-GAY— T H F O R IG IN A L A N A IG E S IQ U F B A U M E
that of commanding the AVG after shot up the field but saw no planes, lin, expecting to find green and in
country over. Ask your neighbor t
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it came into the Army, with its and I finished my ammunition by experienced fighter pilots, they found
nucleus of old AVG personnel and strafing the main street of the town. many American boys who for weeks
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the new pilots as replacements from I saw two plate-glass windows spat had been flying with the AVG.
home in the States. General Chen- ter across the street like artificial
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