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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, December 28, 1944
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about three-quarters of Bn inch r,om w„ , pm», „ B , , roBd ueutenam.
w ide, turn in the raw ed g e s and Robert srott «in« hia wings at Kelly at the fuel gauge for the hundredth shot, and before I got to the enemy
time, and as my eyes left the In­ ship, I tossed caution to the winds
Field and takes np pursuit Bylas. When
strument board to go back to my and made a hundred and eighty de­
the w ar breaks out he Is an Instructor In
diligent search, I saw the clock, and gree turn—the Jap was right in
California and told he Is too old lor
the hour was 9:08. At that instant front of my guns and I was already
combat dylnr.
lie appeals to several
Generals lor a chance to By a combat
1 saw an enemy airplane—one sil­ shooting. I held the trigger down
plane and finally Ute opportunity comes,
houette. From that second on. I and saw the tracers hit the big wing,
i He ties a bomber to India, where be know I moved automatically. I saw the fuselage, and saw the gluss
becomes a terry pilot, but this does not
that on our courses we were going stream from the canopy. I just
appeal to him. Alter a visit with Gen.
to meet head-on.
squeezed the trigger and "froze" as
Chennault he gets a K lttyhaw k and soon
The other ship was now much the bomber seemed to come back |
becomes a "one man a ir force" over
Burm a. He Is made commanding officer nearer, and closing fast.
It was u towards me.
of the IJrd fighter group, taking over the
As I drew up to less than a hun­
twin-engine bomber and was right
AVG. and Is ordered to proceed Io down low over the clouds, just as dred yards the big red spots on the
Kweilin area to take charge.
I was. Down below now were holes wing grew wider and wider apart,
in the overcast, and I imagine the and I saw pieces come from the [
bomber was trying to locate its po­ left engine. I nearly rammed the
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sition to go down through. He didn't enemy—I s till don’t sec how I
then knit straight strips with nee­
Well. the lost leader looked at his see my ship, and I kept hidden by missed the radio antenna pole be­
d les three-eighths inch in d iam e- map and still couldn't see how he the clouds as much as possible. I hind the gluss cunopy; I could see
ter. T hese are sew n around a cen- was North of the course and really felt my left hand go to the instr- the guns waving to and fro, and
te L.ova*‘ ,
.
Past his destination. So he began meat panel to turn on the gun- they shot at me.
But the bomber was going down.
The colors are
—
* n t of to argue again. The old Navy op- switch. Then, as I looked at the red
im p o rta
course and it is essential that the erator stood the bickering as long switch, I saw that I had evidently I didn't pull up as I went past him
kn itte d strips be eased in w ith as he could; then he “ took over.” turned it on without being conscious this time, but dove steeply. When I
evenly distrib u te d fullness. The With the initiative he had devel- of the act. I moved it off. then came out of the dive I looked back
tr ic k is in pinning them in place oped, he gave off some of the most back on again, as a kind of test. I for the Zeros but they were not to
firs t as shown in the diagram . I f classic advice that I've ever heard, turned the gun-sight rheostat on and be seen. Above and behind me, the
you do not have the colors in d ic a t- and he gave it straight from the got the lighted sight reflected on bomber was spinning slowly in
my glass armor in front of my flames, the black smoke making a
ed, rem em ber th a t i t is alw ays shoulder.
eyes.
The enemy ship came on, spiral above the clouds—I saw it
w orth w hile to dye the rags so
‘ Goddamit," he called, "who the
"mushrooming” in my vision; our go into the clouds as I mushed
th a t they blend harm oniously.
hell’ s lost, you or me? Now you fly
• • •
the course I ’m telling you and we'll relative speed of approach was per­ through in my pullout. I came out
haps five hundred miles an hour. below the clouds, which were broken
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the “ U
strips.
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see the Jap ships. I made one half
tions for more than 33 things to m ake for “ en‘ faded to change the East, and forward on the throttle quadrant—
circle and didn’t know where I was.
your hgmes and for gifts and bazaars are in failing learned a little and be­ the engine was pulling full power,
Finally remembering my fuel sup­
and the prop pitch was set to high
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ply, I breathlessly glanced at the dances, theaters, m o r in and nighl clubs w ith various adm irers.
speed, low pitch.
saved twenty-five airplanes.
Then, just before I pressed the gauges, and they were all bouncing
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
People have asked me what made trigger, I saw the other planes, around on—EM PTY! I turned and
By K A T H L E E N NO RRIS
Bedford Hills
New York
TRUST DESTROYED
me able to shoot down my first two enemy fighters above and be­ headed West with my throttle re­
ARMY lieutenant, 37
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Jap, and probably they expected me hind the bomber. I had evidently tarded and the prop set back for
y e a r s o ld , w r i t e s m e
cruising. Now I called Sasser, hav­
Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 4.
T h e gn a w in g fea r o f to m a n y
to say that I had practised on tow
from W ales, w here he
ing forgotten to call him at the mo­
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ment of contact with the enemy. I has been stationed for a y ear,
in the black. Or that I had been
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told him about the interception, to ask if he should forgive his
to all the schools from Leavenworth
in g th e lo n g se p a ra tio n — has
that I knew I had shot down the wife for ad m itted infidelity
to Mount Holyoke, and had learned
b e c o m e an u g ly r e a lity fo r th is
bomber
and
had
gotten
some
bursts
tactics. Or perhaps that I was bet­
The wife. Blanche, Is 29; they
a
rm y lie u te n a n t, l i e is 37, a n d
on the fighters. Sasser told me that
ter at piloting than the Jap. I must
have been married for 10 years and
Michigan’s Duplicate Lakes have
has
been m a rrie d fo r 10 y ea rs
there
was
a
flight
on
the
way
from
disappointed them. For if any
have one child, a girl of seven.
to B la n ch e, u ho is 29. T h e y
Hengyang. led by Gil Bright.
one thing more than another enabled
Blanche lives in Chicago, keeping
h a v e a 7-year-old d a u g h te r,
iso state approaches M ichigan me to meet the Japanese fighter pi-
My altitude was ten thousand now, house with another arm y wife, who
in duplicating the names o f lakes. lots in the a ir and shoot them down
and I held it while I just about glid­ also has a little ' daughter. The two
B la n ch e, w h o is n o w liv in g
F o r instance, 440 o f these bodies , while I escaped, it was an American
ed with power to the West, where I young women have apparently been
w ith a n o th e r officer’t w ife , has
of w ater are known by only five girl.
should see the Hengyang-Kwcilin having a pretty good time at dances,
a d m itte d an affair w ith a m a r­
n a m es, 56 being ca lled Twin lake,
railroad. As I finished my report theaters, movies, night-clubs, with
F irst of all, I don't know exactly
r ie d m an. S h e says sh e is o v e r
59 Round la k e, 65 B a ss lake,' 87 what democracy is, or the real, com­
over the radio, Sasser in Kweilin various admirers. Now she writes
h er fo o lish n e ss n ow , h o w e v e r,
Long lake and 173 Mud lake.
told me S-3, and Richardson at her husband, Clark, that in this one
mon-sense meaning of a republic.
a
n d is a skin g fo r fo rg iven ess.
Hengyang said S-3 also. But M iller instance her affection for one of
But as we used to talk things over
If h ile th e lie n te n a n t has h a d
at Lingling told me I sounded very these men has gone too far; the
in China, we all used to agree that
at lea st on e flin g d u rin g his
close to his station, and gave me the man has left Chicago for the South
we were fighting for The American
report S-5. These mean, in radio Seas now. and has gone out of her
m a rrie d life , he re g a rd s h is
G irl. She to us was America, De­
technical language, that my volume life, but for a few weeks before he
mocracy, Coca Colas. Hamburgers,
w ife ’s in f id e lity as so m e th in g
ABOUT
was louder in Lingling than at either went away he and Blanche were
Clean Places to Sleep, or The Amer­
m o re seriou s. H e is w o n d e rin g
of the other two stations.
ican Way of Life.
lovers.
w h e th e r h e can e v e r re tu rn to
Just then M iller must have re­
"H e Is a married man," Clark
th e o ld statu s a fte r th e w a r,
ceived a report from a town that write» me, "and Blanche swears
Early one morning—July 31, 1942
n o w th a t his tru st has b e e n d e ­
heard
my
engine,
for
he
said.
—I took off from Kunming bead-
that the never will see him again,
stro y e d .
"You’re Northeast of the field.” I nor write to him, and that she Is
quarters to return to the eastern
turned
a
little
South
and
saw
the
theater at Kweilin and Hengyang.
ashamed of the whole affair. A
Some fifty-caliber ammunition for welcome red clay of Lingling. I week after I had her letter, which
High mountains are on this five-
that while a wise man may easily
Commercial motor vehicles in
started feeling happy then—I ’d been seemed to crack the actual ground be snared by a woman Into a love-
hundred-mile route to the East, and the P-40.
the U. S., hosed on gasoline
I went on top of the overcast right not been seen by any of the three in the air on a cross-country for under my feet, I had a note from affair. a wise woman is much bet­
aHotmants, are expected to
away. From my twenty-thousand- ships, for after all I was coming on nearly four hours, and knew that the man’a wife, Informing me of ter fitted to avoid the danger.
run 56 billion miles a year.
foot altitude I kept looking down at very close to the clouds. But I I ’d shot down at least one plane. the affair, and that seemed to me
Reduced to truck tiro wear,
However that may be. your only
the solid cloud layer just below me, nearly stopped my aiming from the I couldn’t buzz the field though, for to take away a good deal of the
that represents a tremendous
course
Is to forgive Blanche, and
any
minute
I
expected
the
engine
and I guess that subconsciously I surprise of seeing them. They were
honesty of my wife's admission. Let­
number of tiros.
prayed there would be breaks at my about three thousand feet above the to cough and the prop to start ters from a good many people hint wipe the m atter as completely
The rubber used In gas masks Is
destination. There were mountains bomber, and were weaving back and "w in d m illin g "—out of gas. I put of it, and she may have suspected from your mind and your memory
now 100 per cent synthetic.
as you can. Should any of these
at my destination too, and it ’s still forth in loose formation. I saw the the wheels down and landed without that I would hear about it.
dear friends who have turned in­
even
looking
to
see
which
way
the
not
the
best
feeling
to
have
to
dive
Nover use a tube in a tlrn
square wing-tip that told they Were
“ For the child's sake she asks
through overcast into h illy country Navy Zeros. There flashed in my wind was on the runway. I got the me to forgive and forget, and I form er ever allude to it. It w ill
larger, or smaller, than that
with a fighter ship—or with any mind the warning that I had heard ship parked without the engine’s dy- confess that that is my inclination, be enough for you to say briefly
for which it was designed by
that you understand the whole situ­
ship, for that matter.
the manufacturer. Premature
from General Chennault about at­ ing, but the mechanics said they for I love my wife, adore my child,
As the minutes rolled by and the tacking bombers when there was couldn't see any fuel in the tanks. and have lived all these months In ation and that it concerns you and
failure w ill result if yea do.
miles spun behind the P-40, I still fighter escort. Everyone in China
To return full mileage, syn­
Rather excitedly I told my story the thought of returning to our Blanche alone.
Wait T ill You Come Home.
didn’t see the welcome shadow of bad always neglected to consider We counted the holes in my ship happy little home again. But can a
thetic tubes must bo lubri­
cated with vegetable oil soap
a hole in the clouds. In just a little odds on the side of the enemy—they and then went over to count those in man ever trust a woman after an
Whether you two can make a
solution when mounted on
over two hours I arrived over the were used to that. Personally,
one of the fighters that had been in affair like this? W ill she do It again? success of a marriage In which
rims.
point above the clouds where Ling- just didn’t know enough about aerial another battle that morning. Just If anyone else had told me that my confidence has been destroyed on
ling should have been. You see this combat to worry much, or I might then M iller came dashing up in
sensible, loving, lovely wife was both sides Is a question, but ap­
point was in flat country, and be­ have gone on anyway. My six guns jeep to say that my air engage­ capable of this sort of thing I would parently harmony was reestab­
tween Kweilin and Hengyang. By would neutralize their four; I could ment had been reported over Lel- not have believed It on oath.
lished after your Infidelity a few
intentionally making an error to the shoot the bomber down and dive into yang, sixty miles to the East, and
years ago, and It may be restored
He
Erred,
Too.
North I knew at least what side of the clouds before the Zeros could that confirmation had already come
"One other thing,” the letter con­ again. At all events, it seems to
Kweilin I was on, and knew further­ get me.
in on my bomber. It had crashed
me the wise thing is to wait until
more that I could go down much
and burned eight miles from the cludes, "which perhaps may In­ the war is over, or until you are
I really don’t know whether
more safely there than farther South thought it all out or not, for by now town. That noon I was so excited fluence your decision. When we had home again, and then see how you
in the mountains that surrounded I was shooting. The tracers seemed that I couldn’t eat my lunch—I just been m arried about three years, both feel and how things go.
Kweilin.
to go towards the enemy all right, sat there and relived the battle. when Yvonne was a tiny baby, I
You w ill probably find your wife
I called Lingling over the radio, but now the Jap came into my sight The sergeant came in to tell me had an affair with a divorced wom­
but before I could get a reply, Sas­ so fast that I don’t know whether there were seventeen holes in my an who worked in my office. It went once again "lovely and loving,**
ser, the operator at Kweilin, broke they hit him then or not. I dove ship, and two of them were from the on for more than a year, when your home and your small daugh­
ter everything to which a man wants
in with an “ alert” warning. He right under the nose of the twin
cannon of the Zeros—they were all Blanche discovered it through the
to
come back. Surely It Is more
accident
of
my
addressing
her
and
said: "Chinese net reports noise of engine ship, and I ’ll bet he was one back near the tail; so maybe George
enemy airplanes coming up the Can- surprised pilot. I noted that he had Paxton had been right, and maybe talking to her on the telephone one sensible to make this attempt at a
ton-Hengyang Railway at high al­ started to turn and maybe that the little rats couldn't shoot. Well, d a y / believing It was the other fresh start than to return embit­
titude. Last report Section A-5.” made me miss.
we were to find out during the next woman. I ended the affair, she for­ tered, lonely, with no place to go
gave me, and we never made fu r­ and no tics to resume.
Looking at m y map, which was
As the ship crossed over my head, ten days, very vividly.
marked off In squares with letter I pulled around in the tightest turn
I flew on to Hengyang that after­ ther allusion to it. Should her gen­
You w ill not be the only man
and numeral co-ordinates, I saw that I have ever made, mushing down noon, and with Lieutenant Cluck in erosity then affect me now? I feel who w ill have to make this sort of
I was very close to that section. in the clouds a good distance, and a jeep we drove to Leiyang. We had It unfair to consider a woman's of­ compromise when he comes home.
But at the same time I was really that must have hid me momentarily information that some of the crew fense in this m atter more serious In hundreds of cases there w ill be
not oriented as to position, and was from the fighter escort. As I came or passengers had Jumped from the than a man’s, but I do feel so. Do mistakes to forgive, stupidities to
Into the last twenty or so gallons of out, the bomber was completing its bomber that morning and had been you?”
overlook. In all cases there w ill be
m y fuel. Here was a chance at last turn opposite to the way I had captured, and we needed the prison­
a deep chasm to cross — the
Yes, Clark, I do. Especially In chasm between the old orderly way
Creomulslon relieves promptly be­ to intercept enemy planes; by the turned, and I moved In for a full- ers for information. With Chinese
cause It goes right to the seat of the tim e the P-40's from cur fighter sta­ deflection shot—a shot possible when guides we climbed on foot over the this case, where the woman knew of living and the new conditions,
trouble to help loosen and expe. tions could get there, the enemy the other ship is crossing your path, rice paddies built on the hills, to­ well what she was doing. It Isn't which none of us can foresee. The
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature would have gone on with their mis­ at 90 degrees. I had slowed down, wards the scene of the crashed fa ir that rules should be different dreadful chasm of war, which car­
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In­
however, and had to reef in and plane. Even before we'd covered for women and for men, and In a ries our boys away from home and
flamed bronchial m u co u s m em ­ sion. What was I to do?
As I considered it for the second shoot at it from beneath and behind. the ten or more miles that we had strictly moral sense they are not. all the home Influences, accustoms
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un­ that was necessary to make up my I got a good burst in here.
to walk, I saw evidence of the a ir­ But by society they are differently their young eyes to sights no eyes
derstanding you must like the way it mind, I remember thinking that my
But
now
I
saw
tracers
all
around
plane.
It seemed as if every coolie regarded and differently punished, ever ought to see, hurries them into
quickly allays the cough or you are loss of this ship would be justified
me and felt a couple of hits: the that came towards us was carrying and women from the beginning of hasty marriages, hasty divorces,
to have your money back.
if I shot a Japanese ship down, and Zeros were shooting at me. One of a piece of the Jap plane. Near the time have had to accept the situ­ hasty decisions. They are going to
if I was out of fuel above the clouds the enemy fighters dove in front of wreck I saw pieces of aluminum on ation. It is generally recognized that need all that we have of courage
I could dive down and land in a me and I got a snap shot at it from the houses covering holes in the women have more self-control In and stability and code and love to
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
rice paddy. That would be an even a hundred yards. I dove under the roofs, and saw some of the clothes matters of sex than men do, are bring them back. It is for you and
trade. But I guess my ego thought bomber again, and with the speed from the Jap airmen. These we finer In their feelings, and wise Blanche to contribute to this ef­
could shoot the whole formation that I gained, tried to make a belly examined, and found a notebook, a enough to know that for this sort fort, rather than to increase the
down — and the exchange of the attack; I got in another shot burst map, and a pistol. Later the sol­ of weakness they pay the bill. So world's burden.
Japanese flight for my one ship and felt some more hits on my diers at the wreck gave us a chute
would certainly be favorable to our ship.
and some other things.
Bleaching Out Stains
side.
As I pulled up, the Zero that had
When we came to the burned
When all other simpler means of
Calling to Sasser, I told him I been shooting at me made the mis­ bomber we found It pretty well scat­
removing spots or stains from
thought I was just East of Lingling take of rolling at the top of his tered. The fabric was gone from
white or fast-colored cotton fabrics
and very close to the Jap formation, climb, and I dove at him and gave the parts that hadn’t burned, but
have failed, bleaching agents may
and was going to try to intercept. I him about two hundred rounds with the larger part was just a mass of
be used. The stained m aterial
dove down until I was just over the a no-deflection shot; I know the burst burned metal. I noticed that the
should be placed over a bowl of hot
tops of the clouds, at 17,600 feet. h it him badly. I shot at the other bodies of four Japs were lying where
water and the bleaching agent ap­
I dodged in among the tops of the fighter from long range as he tried they had fallen, and several days
plied, one drop at a time, with a
fluffy cumulus, looking ahead for a head-on run. But the clouds were later other visitors reported them
glass rod or medicine dropper. When
the first sign of the black silhouette worrying the Japs—they seemed to still in the same positions. I looked
the stain changes color, the fabric
of an airplane. As the enemy ships have trouble seeing me. As my in vain through the wreckage for a
should be dipped into the water.
had been reported heading North, dive at the Zero built my speed up, Samurai sword, which is the souve­
Repeat the process until the stain
I estimated where they should now I turned towards the bomber again; n ir we value most from the Jap.
is removed, and neutralize the
be and flew to intercept them.
it saw me and started a turn to
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bleaching agent with ammonia.
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