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Warm and Pretty Knitted Baby Set GOD IS M Y CO-PILOT 4^ • C o l. R o b e r t L. S c o tt The story thus tar: After graduating from West Polat, Robert »co« wins his «tags at Relly Field aad takes up combat tying. He hat heea aa instructor lor four years when the war breaks out, and he Is told that ho Is now too old tor combat tying. He appeals to several Generals and Is anally glvea an opportu nity to get Into the tght. He ties a bomber to India, bnl oa arrival Is made a terry pilot and this does not suit him. After visiting General Chennault he gets a Klttyhawk and toon becomes a “one man air force” In the skies over Hurma. Later be Is made commanding ofBcer of the 13rd Fighter Group and still keeps knocking down Jap planes. He tells the story of Caps. Ellas. CHAPTER X X I When I finished the job and pulled up again. I could barely see the last of my flight several miles away. I gradually climbed after them, for got to look around, and just sat there, “ dumb and happy.” Just sat there too long over enemy te rri- tor, without looking around every second. Without thinking about it, 1 had become a straggler. In a high-powered engine, as soon as we go into combat we take m ili Knitted Baby Set HIS easily made knitted set tary power from the engine— that is. fits any size baby—the ribbed we take as much boost as the en gine w ill stand without "detonat- effect provides plenty of “give” in the bonnet. The little six-inch ing,” put the prop in low pitch, high mittens are as pretty as they are speed position. As you leave the warm. Use soft pink, pale blue or combat and the area, if you’re not too excited the hand autom ati white baby wool for the set. cally pulls the prop controls to m ax • • • To obtain complete knitting Instruction* im um cruising position to save fuel tor the ribbed bonnet and mittens (Pat and to keep the engine from run tern No. 5820) send 16 cents In coin, your ning h o t I began subconsciously to name, address and the pattern number do this. Due to an unusually large demand and Just then, very dream ily. I heard current war conditions, slightly more time Is required In Alling orders for a few of —pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. I raised my the most popular pattern numbers. head slightly, to try to see my oth Send your order to: e r fighters ahead, and pulled the throttle back just a little more. SEWING CIRCLE NEED LEW O KE That popping sounded like engine I O New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. detonation to me. 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I smelled the smoke and cordite and gasoline and thought I was on fire. Just then I realized I was still firing. I reached up. grabbed the handle, rolled the canopy open —and saw light. I rolled it shut again and realized that the black ness had been caused mostly by oil on my windshield. The speed of my dive had blown most of that off now, and though I couldn’t see very well, I could m ake out the horizon. , With a long sigh of relief I lev eled the speeding ship over the rice paddies, and as they say In the slang of fighter stations, " I took off like a scalded dog.” I S-ed and skidded but tried not to lose speed. Looking back, I saw the smoke and oil that I had gone through, and down un der the place where I had been I Wonderful for Grown-Ups, Tool Ever since they were tiny tots—when saw fire and a plume of s m o k e - ever the Quintuplet* catch cold— their one Jap that wouldn’t fly again. 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I called A jax Baum ler on Musterole, Regular, and Extra Strong. the radio and told him I was h i t - had been intercepted, my engine was heating up and I didn’t know what all was the m atter with the shin but I was on course for home T W N U R fcL lA S e . and going like a bat out of hell. A jax stood by to take my position if worse things should develop and I should have to land. But the coolant light finally flick ered and went ofT. the engine cooled off when I got a Uttle of the boost off and stopped abusing IL And 1 breathed again, feeling that I ’d been holding on« breath for fifteen m in utes. A ll was clear behind me, and I gradually climbed to ten thousand and went back home to Hengyang AU the boys came out to see me. Of course Elias was missing and they’d been worried lest I was a goner too. There were cannon holes in my wings and tail: one had gone just across the back of the canopy. There were smaUer holes in the fuselage from the cockpit back to the ta ll; there was oil from the spin ner of the prop to the tall. Oil from your own ship can hardly get on the very tip of the nose of your ship, and this was proof that it was Jap oil. As we looked the plane over, I got more and more settled down from my narrow escape. But then I real ized that my ship, which I had now flown in combat from A pril until September 2nd, was badly damaged. “Old E xterm in ato r” was shot to pieces. We had tea in the alert shack and sent the other mission out to dive- bomb Nanchang and strafe the trains from Kukiang to the North to wards Hankow. Also we got the Chinese net looking for Elias, and reported that 1 had shot down one Zero near Kukiang. General Haynes led some missions on Canton, and after fa ir bombing results the fighters stayed behind and engaged the enemy Zeros. L ie u t Pat Daniels shot down his I never did go out and look at the old engine that had come out of my first fighter. A fter all, an engine is exchangeable anyway, and we get used to different ones. The shot-up shell of the fuselage, and the wing that had held me up over a hundred thousand miles of enemy country. I didn't want to see again. I just thought of my six fifty-caliber guns flying with me in my new fighter as the real soul of “Old E xterm in ato r.” And I thought of the hundreds of parts from A ir Corps number 41-1458 that were helping to keep eighteen ships of our Group in the air This Home-Mixed Cough Syrup Is MostEffective Since 30 years ago. its- PA ZO i PILES Relieves pain soreness WHT QUIHTUPiHS use this great rub for SORE THROAT COUGHST.COLDS MUSTEROLE Fighter pilots ready to take to the a ir on a moment's notice. They had plenty of opportunity to fight aU the tim e. They never had to sit on the defensive and worry. And, strange ly enough, they liked It. first Jap, and Charlie Sawyer got his third. In the next raid of the bombers General Haynes again led. M aj. Butch Morgan—who the news papers used to say was the only Yankee on General Chennault's staff . . . “ Wonder how he got there?” — was leaning over the lead bomb- sight and directing the bombing. This objective was to bum the docks of hu.phong on the coast of Indo- China. The small bomber force of six B-25's went in with only three P-40's for escort. M aj. Ed Rector led the fighters, with Lieutenant Marks on one wing and Pat Daniels on the other. Just to make the bomb load against the Japs heavier, the fight ers carried a five-hundred-pound bomb on each ship. With these they dive-bombed the docks after the bombers had blasted them and set them on fire. Here the attack was entirely successful: the fighter boys came back and said it was the best bombing that they had ever seen. The bomb train had covered the Haiphong wharves from one end to the other, and when the ships went back to their forw ard field to refuel and return to base, the smoke was covering the town. Rector led his three fighters down in a strafing at tack over the wharf fires and kept the fire-fighters from working. We were brought back now from the Kweilin-Hengyang front to watch the situation in Burma and to harass the Jap to the South in Indo-China. Our situation was peculiar in China —we were just about surrounded by the Japanese on all sides except to the North, toward Russia, and that was so fa r and over such moun tains that it seemed not to m atter. To our backs was Burma, filled with Japs. To the South was Indo-China and Thailand, and out to the front and Northeast were Japanese. Where in hell could you find a worse situation? But we got to fight all the tim e; we never had to sit on the de fensive and worry. 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Name ...................................................... Address................................................... ‘ fAdf'i the “ Balanced double action • • • for positive action in the mixing bow l. . . for gratify For the men of the Group, the cannibalized ship had been a help, but to me it had been a tradition to keep. In my mind, no m atter how long I myself m ight be fighting in China. "Old E xterm in ato r” would be on all those flights—some of It would be on every mission that we flew. And thus it would fly forever. On September 25, M aj Ed Rector led the assault of a flight down to raid Hanoi in Indo-China. I led the support, and we kept a thousand feet above the first echelon. Our mission was to escort ten bombers for the bombardment of Gia Lam airdrom e. We went South and “ topped-off" our gas load at a secret base, then routed our flight to the West of Laokay to keep from alert ing the Jap warning net. U ntil we were close to Hanoi, we kept well West of the railroad that led to our objective. Even with these precautions to keep from alerting the enemy, we found the Japanese I-45's in the a ir and over the field as we came In from the West. The twin-engine fighters absolutely ignored our fight ers and made runs on the bombers, but they didn’t get very fa r with their orders. Rector took the first four P-40’s in on the leading Japs and hit them five hundred yards behind our bombers, who were al ready dropping their eggs. I saw two of E d ’s flight gang-up on the first steeply climbing 1-45, but be fore they could shoot it down Dan iels went in fast to within a few yards of the Jap and shot him down In flames. As the ship exploded I thought Pat Daniels’ plane was on fire too, they were so close. We all confirmed the first ship for the eager Daniels, who was from Van Nuys, California. The bombers were on the way home now, and we sighed with re lief and tried to catch the Japs. Ed Rector took the next ship he got his sights on and blew it apart. Then he fought all the way to the ground with two others. M arks shot down one, and the others were about equally divided. I caught a flight of three I-45’s go ing hell-bent for the bombers from below and to the rear, and shot the last one in the formation down with a short burst. It was point-blank range and occurred very fast. I first saw a thin tra il of gray smoke that looked like the usual condensation I had to wait at Hengyang a day cloud that forms behind the wings of longer than the others, for my ship fighter ships doing maneuvers at was being repaired enough for me high altitude, when the atmospheric to fly it to the repair depot at conditions are just right. And then Kunming. At Kunming the blow flame poured from the right engine. It spre; I up over the cockpit and fell: the engine of "Old Exterm ina to r" was bad and there were no stretched thirty feet back in the slip more new or serviceable engines. stream. I moved up towards the The cannon from the Zero had dam second enemy fighter and didn’t see aged the wing so badly’that pullouts the flam er go down. (TO BE CONTINUED) would be dangerous. The fuselage SOOTHES YOUR THROAT 1270 was peppered with over two hun dred holes from the last five months of combat. But the old ship wasn't Junked or salvaged, for we needed parts too badly In China. T h e re were new planes on the way to us now in monthly increments, but we could take this plane and put several back In commission. The scheme that we devised helped my m orale greatly, for to have junked the old ship that had been my fighter tor five months would have been like seeing the horse that you've ridden for twenty years cast aside and destroyed. I could rem em ber too well that day when I landed at Hengyang and looked at the damage the ship had suffered. There had been a lump In my throat and I had felt as though my sword had been taken away. “Old E xterm in ato r” had taken me nearly five hundred hours into com bat against the enemy. That's over a hundred thousand miles— and you just ask any pilot if that Isn't a long way on trips where people shoot at you. We took the guns out of the ship that General Chennault hod given me in A pril and put them in my new P-40E. They were well broken In, and the A rm am ent Officer, Captain Hoffman, who had been with the AVG and in my squadron in Pana ma seven years before, had worked them into perfection. I had had no jam s or stoppages in over a month The landing-gear we put on another ship; the Instruments were scat tered throughout the group: the a r mor plate was taken out to m ake a hot-cake griddle for the mess. All parts of the fighter were cannibal ized, and in a month were spread out over eighteen P-40's In the or ganization. I rem em ber especially that the automatic fuel-pump was put on a P-40B, which perm itted the lighter ship to go higher than it had ever gone before, and on Its second flight with the booster pump, the pilot. Lieut. T. R. Smith, shot down a Japanese observation plane over Kunming. FsF Basque Frock for Tw o-to-Six Miss ing results in the oven. CLABBER GIRL H U IM A N ‘ A N D C O M P A N T. T IB B f H A U T I IN D IA N "SORRY, BOSS, BUT I EEEL A HUNDRED T DO N ’T LE T aching muscle* keep yon off the job —if SORETONE can help. Soretone Liniment contain* methyl salicylate, a most effective pain-relieving agent. Soretone’* cold heat action speeds blessed, comforting relief 1. Quickly Soretone act» to en hance local circulation. 2. 3. 4. Chock m utcular cramp». H elp reduce local »welling. D ilate »urface capillary blood venel». For fastest action, let dry, rub in again. 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