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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, December 21, 1944 CLASSIFIED departm ent RABBITS & SKINS W ANT L lva R ab b its 4 to 5 lbs., w b lta 24c. colored 22c, old ones 10c. R abb it skins, p o u ltry , veal. W ant Bubv • C o , »35 S. W . F ro n t, P o r tia s * , O raron. HELP WANTED BUCKINGHAM & HECHT SAN FRANCISCO SHOEMAKERS F o r X0 Y ears 1500 VALENCIA ST. CUTTING AND LASTING AND Makin £ Room Operators Upe AT T H K IIt OR Y FACTO GOD IS MY CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o tt W N U R t L t ASE Tbs (tory thus tar: After g radu atisi From West Point as a secoad lleutsaaat Robert Scott » ta t b it «tags at Kelly Field and takes up pursuit tyta g . Whea tbs w ar breaks out he Is au taslructor la California sad told hs 1s too old (or rom bal ly in g . He appeals to stvsral Generals (or a chance Io l y a combat plane sad Anally the opportunity comes. He Bles a bomber to India, where he becomes s ferry pilot, but this does not appeal to him. He visits General Chea- nault and Is promised a Klttyhaw k. and «ben he gels II he becomes a "one man a ir lores” over Hurm a, doing m ath damage to the Japs oa many a lone mission. One day be gels orders to rs port Io Gea. Chennault la Kunming. CHAPTER XV WE NEED A U T O m e ta l m an 21.50 hr., au to m e These were led by five of the best chanics 21.S7J hr., lir e vulcan lsers 21.122 h r., tir e service m en 21.00 hr., men of the AVG, and there was one and service s ta tio n a tte n d a n ts 21.00 great ace-in-the-hole that only the hr. F irs t-c la s s shop w ith a ll the I — , ... . J equipm ent. Steam -heated and flú o re s - General and the AVG could have cent lig h tin g . Real Job fo r the rlg n t ! arranged: Two squadrons of these men. P le n ty o f o ve rtim e . Phone or ' j -- orised - Flying Tigers had agreed to stay w rite " A L IR V IN E " . 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Send fo r fre e illu s tra te d book let T o n rte llo tte , 403 W h ite Bldg.. S e a ttle , W a sh in g to n . ABERDEEN A n gu s bulls, heifers, B la c k ca p R e v o lu tio n and G le n c a r- nock breeding. A rc h ie K en n e d y , B t. 4, ChehaUe, W ash . help the newly formed 23rd Fighter Group. I think this gesture by those men such as Bob Neal, Charley Bond. George T. Burgard, Frank Lawlor, John E. Petack, Jim How ard, and others who were suffering from combat fatigue and ill health was one of the bravest and most self-sacrificing Incidents of this war In the two weeks that they remained, two of them gave their lives, and their sacrifice was beyond the call of mere duty. These men, with those five who stayed with us to lead our squadrons — Hill, Rector, Schiel, Bright and Sawyer—and the AVG radio, engineering, armament, and ground personnel, were our back bone and our inspiration. We of the 23rd Fighter Group salute you. That Fourth of July, as the over confident enemy ships came in over Kweilin, they brought a new twin- engine fighter that was supposed to murder us. They came in doing arrogant acrobatics, expecting to strafe the Chinese civilians in the city without opposition. General Chennault watched them with field glasses from outside the cave and called directions to Bob Neal, Ed Rector, and Tex Hill, who were sit ting with their ships “ in the sun” high overhead, at twenty-one thou sand. At his radio order of “Take ’em,” the newly formed 23rd with the AVG attached dropped down and massacred the Japs. There were soon thirteen wrecked Zeros and new twin-engined I-45’s around the field for the Chinese to celebrate over. Thus was the 23rd Fighter Group organized, initiated, and activated in combat When I took over things at Kunming there were three fighter squadrons and one headquarters squadron. Major Tex Hill had one squadron at Hengyang. China, and with him were such deputy leaders as Maj. Gil B right Maj. Johnny Alison, and C apt Ajax Baumler. Maj. Ed Rector had another squad ron at Kweilin with Capt. Charlie Sawyer for his assistant in leader ship. These outlying stations are about five hundred miles In the di rection of Japan from our head quarters on the plateau of Yunnan at Kunming. The third unit was the squadron under Maj. Frank Schiel, who was very busy training the most junior members of this new fighter group in the way of fighter aviation. I got the Group headquarters to running and stood by for orders to begin leading the fighter forces in action to the East. On July 10, Tex Hill led a small flight, including Baumler. Alison, Lieut. Lee M in o r, and L ie u t. Elias, up on the Yangtse. Their prime job was to escort a few B-25 medium bombers against the docks of Hankow. This objective of mis sion with our China force was nev er all we considered to be the duty of our fighters, for if any other tar get presented itself after the bomb ers were on the way home, we’d have some fun. Tex Hill led his flight along with the bombers, who were led by Col. C. V. Haynes. After the bombs had been released and the B-25's were heading back for base with their bomb-bay doors closed, Tex called for an attack by the fighters on the enemy shipping in the river. One of the bomber pilots said that Tex rolled his ship over from six teen thousand feet and streaked down for the Jap gunboats below. The little gunboats were shooting everything they had at the Ameri can fighters—but that. I ’ve learned since, was what Hill liked. Tex H ill’s guns were firing even as he pulled out right on the water, and they swept the decks of the enemy gunboats. The bomber pilot said that as the fighter ships would turn low to the water and come in, each concentrating on one of the little Jap warships, he could see the six lines of fifty-calibre tracers cutting across the water. At long range they seemed to meet out in front of the fighter and then fan out and cov er the deck of the target. Then, as the speed of the fighter narrowed the range, the point where the fire crossed—the zero or convergence point of the guns—was right at the waterline of the Jap boat, and it must have knocked in a hole that crippled the boat right away. On the second attack one of these gun boats was sinking and on fire. Hill's four fighters sank all four of the lit tle metal gunboats. Next day, on another flight such as this one. Hill led eight fighters, four with wing bombs, for dive- bombing Nanchang While these four went down with their bombs. Hill was to stay aloft with the other four to act as top-cover—just In case some Zeros tried to surprise the dive-bombers. Ajax Baumler said that he saw the whole thing: Johnny Petack dove for his target, one of the gunboats on the lake, but as his bomb hit the boat the P-40 was seen to explode, evidently hit by ground- fire. AJux followed the burning ship almost to the ground and saw It strike In a rice paddy near a Bud dhist temple. So Petack. one of the AVG who had stayed for the extra two weeks, was killed In action. It's peculiar how a man could fight all through those last nine months and then go down from a lucky anti-aircraft shot. John Petack had remained for the purpose of training the new pilots and his job was that of airdrome defense. He was killed on this of fensive mission. It was one that he could have refused with honor; in stead, he had volunteered for this dive-bombing Hight and had been killed in carrying it out It was the most inspiring thing he could have done. I kept sweating out the organiza tion of the Group, and finally on July 17, I received orders from the Gen eral to proceed to Kweilin area and take charge of fighter operations. 1 know my heart nearly beat my ribs to pieces, for I was at last being or dered to go out and lead the fight ing. Just as I landed on this air drome in the Kwansi province I saw the remainder of the AVG get Major Ed Rector, AVG ace and squadron commanding officer, who took heavy toll of the Japs. into a transport to begin their long trip home to the U. S. A. They called to me as they got aboard and I saw Bob Neal, their greatest ace. wave from the door as he stepped in. We were on our own now, except for the five AVG vet erans who had accepted induction in China, and the thirty-odd ground- men. As the transport got away and the dust settled down, I climbed out of my fighter and looked around at the country. I could but marvel at the geographical situation. Colonel Coo per and I —Cooper had been in the movie production business—used to discuss the peculiar beauty of the place, and he'd say that it would make the greatest location in the world for a moving picture. It was a flat, tableland country, and over the ages it must have been under water. From the level plain rose vertical, rocky hills, like stalagmites. These were honey combed with caves where water, when they were submerged, must have dissolved the limestone that had been in the pockets. Evidently the glacier period had planed the valley flat as the glacier moved South, but the jagged rocks had withstood the pressure. Then, as the glacier melted, the caves had formed under water. Now the gray pinnacles of lava-like rock pointed straight towards the heavens. These one-thousand- to two-thousand-foot sentinels gave the valley an eery ap pearance that always subdued my general feeling of cheerfulness. As long as I went to Kweilin, I dreaded the extra nervous tension that I knew it would produce. Add to this a summer temperature of over 100 degrees, a humidity of almost 100 per cent, and a fine powdery dust that gagged you, and you can real ize that Kweilin was not a summer resort. There was Just the single runway for the planes, cut there between those silent needles of stone. We had operations office in one of the natural caves, and the radio set in another. As I climbed out of my P-40. I could see neither. Here in Kweilin I first had ex plained to me the air-raid warning system on which we depended. It was qf course a working dream that General Chennault had developed. Many times it.has saved our fighter force in China, and without it our chances there against the Japanese would have been hopeless. It seems that the General had al ways known that Japan was our natural enemy. When he was re tired from the Air Corps, instead of staying on his farm in Waterproof. Louisiana, for the rest of his life and living an easy life shooting ducks and fishing, he had gone to China. Here, in a rugged exist SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECBAFT Crocheted Apron Has Eye-Appeal Due to an unutuully large demand and t-iin eiit w ar (-(»niittoni, illith tly BUM* tim e I I requiied in millin < » d rri (or a few al the m o il popular pattern number«. Send your order Io: i ence, he had told his story to the Generalissimo. With the approval Hewing C irri» N eedlerratt II» pt. of high Chinese officials he had built Mux 1217 Han Franrlaco 4, Calif. this air-warning net, had caused to Encloie IS ce n ti |ur Pattern be constructed many strategic air No____________ ___ dromes in China, and had preuched N amo_________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the doctrine of pursuit aviation. The warning net is of course se A d d re ta _____ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ cret and cannot be discussed in de tail. But if you imagine two con centric circles, one with a radius of Man Could lie Quite Sure one hundred kilometers and the oth er of two hundred kilometers, arou Of Cettinn His Don Hack each of most of the fields und ' w i cities in Free China, you have a A m an dunhed into the p n lirs general picture. In these circles station at m idnight, are thousands of reporting stations “ M y w ife ," he gasped. " I w ant —some within the enemy lines, some to find m y w ife ! Been m issing right on the enemy fields them since eight this m o rn in g !" selves. There may be a coolie sit “ P a rtic u la rs ? " usked the ser- ting on a city wall watching for air g ra n t. “ H e ig h t? " planes or listening for engine noise “ I —I don't kn o w ." and reporting it with a visual signal. “ Know how she was dressed?’* There may be a mandarin in a watch "N o , but she took the dog w ith tower; a soldier in a field with a h e r." walkie-talkie radio. All reports final "W h a t kind of dog?" ly get in to the outer circle, where “ B rtndle bull te rrie r, w eight 53 some of the information is refll- pounds, four d a rk blotches on his tered. and finally it goes to the plot A N attention -g etter, th is b it of body, shading fro m grey to w hite, ting-board in our cave or opera * * fem inine friv o lity . A cro three w hite legs, and rig h t fro n t tions shack. There Chinese inter cheted apron in sim ple pattern leg brindled a ll but the toes. A preters get the reports and move stitch , finished w ith u crocheted sm all nick in his left ear. And—" little pin flags along the map of " T h a t'll d o !" gasped the ser ruffle. China—and we know where every • • • geant. “ W e 'll find the d o g !" • enemy ship is in our territory and An apron you can m ake In double- can see where ours are. The net quick tim e; Inexpensive. Pattern 541 con works so efficiently in certain areas tains crochet directions (or apron; that we don't take off until the stitches. F o r this pattern send IS cents In coins, Nelievod In 5 MintfiM •< duubl< nxwwy b>ck Japs are within the one-hundred- your name, address and the pattern num Wh»n s i m m » t « w h Mrld eau»M painful, » u ffo m l- kilometer circle; this gives us more her. la c ira B .'a u re to m a v h M M h » s i l l t t i r n l A m M " usual Ip praarrth« tho fastest-ac tin * m mlldnea known lo r fuel with which to fight. mt> to ma tie ra lla f ms-1»<-»n o 11 ha those In Kell-ana ablets No la a stive Kell a M brings com fort l a a When the Japs come we know at Jiffy or double your money back oa retorn o f buttlo what altitude they are approaching Sponges G ro w in B r illia n t U u l k i t a il OruggieU. and from exactly what direction. We C o lo rs on Bed o f O cean know their speed and their num bers. It’s kind of a Joke, too, that in several places we know when the The sponge in your bathroom is Japanese roll their ships from Jheir very little like the sponge grow ing hangars or revetments, when they on the ocean bed, fo r it has to be start their engines, and when they processed and dried before it can take off. Also it not only works for be used. On the ocean bed, the obvious purpose of defense but sponges grow in b rillia n t colors, has permitted us in many cases to yellow , green, orange, purple, und locate lost pilots, for the navigation even black. Each species has its facilities in China are not the own shape. Sizes va ry fro m that world's best. of a pea to m onsters m ore than Of course ihe locating of lost, ten feet across. friendly ships took another element I t is by no means an inanim ate besides the warning net. It required the existence of intelligent radio op grow th, fo r every sponge is cov ered by liv in g substances w hich erators who knew the country and O n y o u r f a v o r i t o N . B . C . afatioJU had common sense. These men, d ra w n u trim e n t by suction fro m o v o r y S a t u r d a y m o r n in g the w a te r, and the deeper they lie like Richardson, Mihalko, Miller, 9 :0 0 A. M .9 M . W . T. beneath the surface the better and and Sasser, with others, stayed out K ID O there with us, and if you count the stronger they grow. G row th is slow, however, and •sOO A. M ., F . W . T. AVG aces as the first factor that KGW KOMO KHQ permitted us to carry on in a man the average com plete sponge you ner that didn’t discredit the Flying use to wash your face takes about Tigers, then these men who helped four years to reach m a tu rity . us by radio were the close second factor. Suppose that one of our pilots, re turning from a flight, loses his posi tion on his map because of a cross- wind, because of unfamiliarity with the country, because of his own stu pidity—which we call a "short cir cuit between the head-phones*'—or just because the maps of China are very inaccurate. In many such in stances we would have lost an air plane worth virtually millions in our combat zone, and perhaps the pilot too. The pilot who is lost calls the ra dio station that he thinks is closest to him, and in code tells the trou ble. The radioman tells him to cir cle the next town he passes for a few minutes. Down in that town, marked on his map with an unknown Chinese character, some member of this warning net sees him and re ports one P-40 circling. In a few minutes the radio operator gets the report and tells the pilot: "You’re reported over Lufeng—fly fifty-eight degrees at two hundred miles an hour and we'll have supper ready— we’ve got grits tonight—yeah." One amusing but near-tragic in stance of this orientation by means of the air-warning net happened about the time the AVG induction board came to China. Another fight er group commander had waited for several days over in India to come into China with a large flight of P-40E l ’s. He finally came over on a transport and eventually got tired of waiting for the fighters. He didn’t know that the weather was very bad in Burma, and that the mon soon winds from the South could take them so far off course in a few minutes that the entire flight might easily get lost. After a long wait he came back A skid wreck th at smashes your car to Assam in the transport and led his pilots towards Kunming. First or truck may cost you far more of all, he corrected too much for than the vehicle you can’t replace. the southerly wind, and in a very I t might run up big hospital and short time he was fifty miles South of his course and near two Japanese doctor bills. • Don’t take unneces fields. His unbashful deputy lead sary chances! Protect your car and ers herded him to the North. And then the monsoon wind from out the truck withWeed Chains during dan Indian Ocean began to work on his gerous winter weather. • If you need navigation, and in another hour he was lost far to the North of the new Weeds order at once because course. Night was falling, and the there’s a serious shortage. If you own hills of North China were rising threateningly. old chains have them inspected and Then the net, if it hadn't justified repaired. • Ask for Weed American its existence long before, would have Bar-Reinforced, the best buy in tire begun to pay for itself. The leader called Kunming, and the operator chains. Made by American Chain there, a tough old former Navy man, Division of American Chain & Cable. WEED AMERICAN heard him and gave the instruc tions: “Circle the first town you “In Business for Your Safety.” BAR-REINFORCED see." The group commander began to argue at once—said he didn’t have enough gas to waste circling; but the AVG radio-man talked him into doing it. Then the net report ed, and Kunming operator said, "You’re over Yangpl—fly 240 de grees for twenty minutes and you'll Keep Your Car and Truck Moving see the lake Kunming is on.” U p s e t S to m a c h BAD SKIDS AHEAD! GET WEED CHAINS NOW (TO BE C O iniN U E O j
