Warm and Pretty
Knitted Baby Set
GOD IS M Y
CO-PILOT
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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
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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
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e r fighters ahead, and pulled the
throttle back just a little more.
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That popping sounded like engine
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detonation to me. Then I tensed, for
I had seen that m y manifold pres
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sure was barely 35 Inches (on the
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m anometer gauge), and therefore 1
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could not be detonating from too
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much boost At the same Instant I
heard again the pop-pop-pop, and
became all attention in a flash: my
nose went down— I had been climb
ing—my prop went back to low pitch
and my throttle really went forward
enough to cause the engine to de
tonate. A cold shiver went down
my spine, there in that hot glass
cage. I skidded the ship to the left
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Cough medicines usually contain a
built up fast.
large quantity of plain syrup— a good
What I saw in the sun, ahead of
Ingredient, but one which you can
easily make a t home. Take 2 cups of me, chilled me more. I saw wink
granulated sugar and 1 cup of water,
ing lights and the blurred outline of
and stir a few moments until dis
an airplane— and not so fa r away.
solved. O r use corn syrup or liquid
Then I saw another, and I guess
honey, instead of sugar syrup.
Then get from any druggist 2F4
there were others. I could see the
ounces of Pine:;, pour it into a pint
orange lights winking down at me
bottle, and add your syrup. This gives
even in the glare of the sun. They
you a full pint of wonderful medicine
were Japs firing at me, and 1 bad
for coughs due to colds. I t makes a
real saving because it gives you about
only slightly more than a thousand
four times as much for your money.
feet.
I t never spoils, and tastes fine.
Cold turkey and a stragglerl
Thia is actually a surprisingly ef
fective, quick-acting cough relief.
While I fumbled with m y mike
Promptly, you feel It taking hold. I t
button to my radio to call Holloway
loosens the phlegm, soothes the irri
and Baum ler for help, I realized the
tated membranes and makes breath
ing easy. You’ve never seen anything
fu tility of it. I don’t believe my
better for prompt and pleasing results.
dry throat would have made a sound
Pin ex is a special compound of
anyway.
I just acted—and thank
proven ingredients, in concentrated
the Lord, my reflexes let me do
form, a most reliable soothing agent
for throat and bronchial membranes.
something. I turned directly towards
Money refunded if it doesn’t pleas«
the ships with my nose down, and
you in every way.
pulled up firing. I know now that If
I had turned away from them they
would have shot me down In their
cross-fire. As it was, I surprised
them and went underneath them
very fast and into the sun. Thus,
when they looked around, I had the
sun in my favor, and from that time
and
on I was using it. But as I pulled
up firing. I held the trigger down
Per re lie f from the lerte re e f eimsle
Files. P A ZO ointment has been fsmona
and “froze.” I heard the cannon of
for more than thirty years H e re ’s why :
the Zero—I felt the recoil of my six
Pirat. P A ZO oiatm enl soothes inflamed
areae. relieree yain »“ d itching. Second,
guns— I felt things hit “ Old E x te rm i
PA ZO ointment lubricates hardened,
nator” —and then I saw a cloud of
dried «arts— helye prevent cracking sad
soreness T h ird . PAZO ointment tends
black smoke in front of m y nose. I
te redace aweliing and check bleeding.
shut m y eyes involuntarily and dove
Fearth. it’s easy to ose. P A ZO oint
ment’s performed P ile Pipe makes ap
again.
plication simple, thorough. Your doctor
Something M t my ship with the
can tell yen about PA ZO ointment.
same sound you get when you sud
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denly fly into heavy rain. I opened
my eyes and everything was dark.
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
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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. I
chests, throats and backs are immediately
think I was halfway home before I
rubbed with Musterole.
Musterole gives such blessed prompt
fully realized that I had shot it down
relief because it’s more than just an
and hadn’t run into it.
ordinary “salve.** I t ’a what so many
For twenty miles I skimmed over
Doctors and N urses call a modem counter-
irritant. I t not only relieves coughs, sore
the paddies, "jin kin g " to fool the en-
throat, aching chest muscles due to colds,
emy who m ight be pursuing, skid
makes breathing easier—but i t actually
ding to make him miss, and watch
helps break up congetlion in upper bron
chial tract, nose and throat.
ing my boost read seventy inches of
And Musterole is so much easier to
m ercury. The engine heated up and
apply than a mustard plaster. White,
the coolant light came on to warn
Stainless. Just rub it on! "No fwu. No
me, before I eased the throttle back
muss with Mueterole!"
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a little. 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
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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. We liked it and
there was never a word of complaint.
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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
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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.
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