Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, April 5, 1945
GOD IS MY
CO-PILOT
C ol. R o b e rt L.Scott
E a s y to M a k e Y o u r
U p h o ls t e r e d C h a ir s
DEPARTM ENT
C H A P T E R X X IX
converged on his fighter, and when
he dove out he was on fire; the
flames streaming out of his engine
covered the canopy. From some re­
flex action he had done the wrong
thing again—he'd roiled the canopy
open and the flames had been sucked
Into the cockpit, into his face
He
had already unlatched his safety belt
in order to jum p, and in dodging
the flames he was thrown about in
the pilot's compartm ent, though he
must evidently have got the canopy
closed again, for the flames were
held out by the glass.
Couch went through long seconds
of torture as he was thrown about
in the bottom of the spinning plane—
the rudder pedals struck his burned
face, and sharp projections hurt his
shoulders and back. He struggled
to his feet again, rolled the hatch
back and was thrown out and away
from the burning ship.
But from the patrol that had been
at the Mekong and from the "prob­
ables." we knew that we had not
let one Jap escape from the Decem­
ber 26th attempted bombing of
Yeching I felt so good 1 wanted to
We tried the same defense to hold
radio the General, but I waited until
we checked up on those who were the advantage over the Japs if they
missing, so that I could go and tell I should come again. During the first
him in person.
hours of the morning I flew low over
Our victory had not been without the surrounding hills and saw the
loss. Lieutenant Couch, who had forest-fires set by the burning of the
led the rear attack on the bombers, enemy planes that we had shot down
had failed to return. His wing man the day before. From over one vil­
had seen him pulling up over the tail lage West of Yeching. I could see
of the bomber formation after shoot­ the wreckage of the two ships that
ing down one of the Japs; but they had flown together; the natives were
had concentrated their fire on him standing about looking at what had
and had shot him down in flames. No come out of the skies. As I took my
one knew whether or not the Caro­ formation into the air and followed
lina pilot had gotten o u t
In the out the instructions the General had
speed with which that attack had given me. I realized that for all prac­
moved you didn't have tim e to see tical purposes he was in the fighter
with me; I was m erely privileged
parachutes opening.
to press the trigger and send the
Another pilot. Lieutenant Mooney,
enemy into the ground and destruc­
had been seen to shoot one bomber
tion. Yes. the General rode with me
down, and then, in another head-on
on those flights in more ways than
attack, had either collided with an­
one. I f we kept following out his
other of the enemy or had exploded
tactics we'd hold our ratio of twelve-
it so close to his own ship that the
to-one over the Japs as we battled
observing pilot had not been able to
them in China.
see Mooney’s P-40 again.
None of us in China was fooling
Sending out the usual search par­
ties, I took off into a setting sun for himself— we knew that what little
Kunming. M y heart was heavy with we had accomplished against the
the loss of two fine pilots, but there enemy would have very small bear­
was still hope that they had gotten ing on the outcome of the conflict
out
And at the same tim e my But under General Chennault we
had made the most of what we had.
spirits were singing with victory
I landed at headquarters in the We had developed fighters with an
dark and went to the General's urge for combat and the aggressive
house. Over the rough road that led spirit of battle. We had bases in
there, my mind was on the speedy China from which to attack other
happenings since I had driven out to bases in China, that were Japa­
the ship that morning. Then I drove nese. With more equipment we could
past the guard at the gate, who hold our bases and we could take
smiled and yelled, "A V G — ding- the bases farther East, from which
hao." I called a cheerful greeting to we could bomb the heart of Japan
him, for everything was good now.
I expect 1 wouldn t have oeen
There was a full moon rising in the
skv—a "bombing moon." the Chi­ much good in eombal that day if it
nese call it—and the cedar trees had come, for 1 was doing too much
around the house that the Gissimo thinking, and fighter pilots can do
Even
had built for the General were cast­ only one thing at a tim e
when I landed and walked about
ing tong shadows in its lig h t
I tossed my flying gear on the among the Chinese dead from the
bed in my room and hurried to the Christmas Day bombing. I just kept
General. I saw "Gunboat" the on thinking.
houseboy coming out of the Gen­
eral's corner room. He said softly.
"General still feel pretty bad.”
Genera] Chennault was in oed.
propped up by pillows. He glanced
up from a map and looked at me.
" W e ll Scotty.” he said, " I hear
there was a fight over Yeching this
afternoon and I see blood on your
face, so I know you made contact.
What happened?"
T rying to look real stem, I told
the General that nineteen Japs had
come in. just as he said they would,
at the same tim e as the day be­
fore— only this tim e we were higher
than they and were waiting for
them.
"G en eral,” I said, with a
trem or of pride in my voice, "we
shot 'em all down.”
The General was looking more like
a well man every m o m ent He asked
about our losses and I told him about
the two missing pilots. He thought
a minute, then started to get up.
"Scotty, if you’ll look over behind
you in that pretty box, you’ll find a
bottle of Haig & Haig, pinch bottle,
that the Soong sisters sent us for
Christmas. W e're going to open that
and celebrate.”
We were celebrating when Doctor
Tom Gentry came back and be­
gan to ask the General why he
wasn't in bed with his fever. The
General looked so happy, I guess,
that Doctor took his tem perature
again. Then he gave me a funny
look.
"N o rm a l." he said. "Some­
times I think if you all shot down a !
few Japs every day. the General
would even get to where he could
hear as well as he could when he
was a boy in Louisiana."
The General filled his glass again
and handed me the bottle Then he
raised the glass at me and said.
‘‘H o w !" We drank to the victory of
the afternoon.
E a rly next day I went over again
with Holloway, just in case the Jap
came again. We learned that the
victory had not been without cost.
Lieutenant Mooney had been found
dead, close to the wrecks of two
burned airplanes— a Mitsubishi Jap­
anese bom ber and his P-40
Couch had had better luck and
was in the hospital. I went up to
see him as soon as we assigned the
" a e ria l u m b rella” of P-40's that were
going to patrol the skies tor a re­
currence of the Jap raids. Lieuten­
ant Couch was badly burned but
was resting easy. He told me that
the bomber he had fired on had be­
gun to smoke and he’d taken his
plane in very close to m ake certain
that the Jap burned. This had been
a mistake, he knew, for the guns of
three or more of the enem y bad
That afternoon at two o'clock I
got all our ships in the sky again.
I rode on Holloway's wing over the
top of them all. and we watched
and waited for our interceptors on
the Mekong to yell, “ Here they
come.” Nothing happened— I guess
General Chennault was right again.
“ You destroyed their group yester­
d ay.” he had said that morning.
We’ve got them worried, and they'll
have to wait for their long supply
line around to Burma to send some
more planes.”
When the sun got low on the blue
hills of Yunnan. I began my thinking
again
There was no use fooling
ourselves — the situation in China
was bad. All of China that was de­
veloped at all was in the hands of
the Japanese. The Jap had worked
with extreme foresight in preparing
' T ' . I I S p a ir o f ch a irs , so m uch nt
* hom e in u V ic to ria n setting,
would be ju s t ns u pp ro p riu te in it
m o d e rn room . T h e y u re c o m fo rt­
E I.E C T H IC W A T F K H E A T E R S !
in o lia v i
Buy it l r r r t W rit»
able too, and anyone who cun l i i v f Japeoii
l l e r l r l a W ater tir a t o i Co.
n a il to g e th e r a box cun m u ke the SAI w . »sill. B »S I. la . b e a tile T, W ash.
wooden fra m e . S c ra p or even old
MORE MEAT FOR THE
w ill do, fo r this foundation
AMATEUR FISHERMAN! p boxes
a rt is e n tire ly covered.
,
W ith the fr a m e finished, the lady I tr«atm«ra by *fumouat Speri*!iai LitV/aTr«*
The recent battle of deep sea fish­
w ith needle and th re a d and a few
'& •»
ermen for more ration points for
tacks w ill p ro bab ly ta k e over. T he lw„ih without tiring. si iw i><»ip«i<i. s a t*
meat found wide public sympathy.
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T I I M . I la * ST, » H a n e b u rg , W a a h la s la a ,
Nothing makes a man hungrier than
HAX COMSOSIT
fishing.
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The atory thus tar: After graduating
from W r it Paint. Robert Scott wins Us
wing* at Kelly fie ld . Texas, and Lakes up
combat dying He has been an Instructor
tor lour years when the w ar breaks ewt.
and Is told he Is now too old for combat
dying After appealing to several Uen-
erals be Is offered an opportunity la gel
Into the dght On arriving In India he Is
made a ferry pilot, but this does not
suit Scott, who talks Oea. Cbennaull Into
giving him a KlUybawh for combat dy­
ing. Soon be Is dying ever the skies of
Burma and becomes known as the “ one
man a ir force.** Later be Is made C.O.
of the U rd Fighter Group, but be sUU
keeps knocking Jap planes out of the
skies.
for this war, and the "heart of the
octopus" was going to be hard to
get at. But it could be done more
easily from China—and it had to be
done.
I got to thinking about something
that had occurred a few days be­
fore. when the Christmas season was
approaching
1 had Just had my
twelfth little Jap flag painted on the
fuselage of my P-40K Each of these
represented a confirmed victory over
the enemy, and my crew chief was
as proud as I was. But I learned
that day that some one else was
sharing in that pride too.
On my way to work that day. d riv ­
ing from the General's house to the
operations shack. I had seen a
crowd of Chinese around my ship
They were sitting there silently and
waiting, and I wondered at them.
But the old American answer came
to me— "W e never can figure them
out"—and 1 went on. As I passed
by during the morning the Chinese
people were still standing around
my plane in the drizzling rain.
Finally 1 culled for my crew chief
and asked the meaning of the
crowd. With a puzzled look, he re­
plied that he didn't know: they had
told him through an interpreter that
they Just wanted to sit there and
wait for the pilot of the ship. I sent
one of my interpreters to investigate
and learned that they were really
waiting for me; they had received
permission from the Chinese Com­
mandant to enter the field.
Some tim e later I walked over to
where they were still standing in
the slow rain. As I approached my
ship they bowed as the Chinese do.
by standing at what we would call
"Attention” and nodding the bead in
respect As I smiled at them— rag­
ged children, old men and women,
coolies from the fields, and several
who I thought were school teachers
—they raised their thumbs high to­
wards me and yelled. "Ding-hao,
ding-hao!" And they pointed with
pride to my twelve flags.
The sun was going down now.
even from our vantage point up
there at twenty-five thousand, where
Holloway and I were patrolling. We
called to the other ships to land,
and as we saw them go into the
Lufbery circle and the rat-race that
fighter pilots like to land from , Hol­
loway rolled over and dove straight
for the ground,
t started to roll
with him — then I turned back for one
more look at the setting sun. Down
on the earth, to those earthbound
creatures, the sun was down. There
the shadows of the approaching
night covered the ground, but up
here I could see above the moun
tains, and the sun still shone on my
fighter. I pulled almost straight up
in the steep clim b that I like to make
before diving home, and looked
into the vivid blue of the Yunnan
skies. Some verses were running
through my thoughts
Against the
drum m ing of the engine I heard my
own voice repeating the words of
another fighter pilot. John Magee,
who had died with the R AF in the
battle of Britain.
"Up. up the long delirious burning
blue
I'v e topped the wind-swept heights
with easy grace
FOOT REMEDIES
And that goes for ordinary fisher­
men, too. Which prompted E lm er
Twitchell, the famous riv e r, inlet
and lake ungler, to come out strong­
ly today in favor of more grub for
the am ateur and semi-pro boys.
ANO S I AT
PAD
WITM COTTO!,
BATTINE
A S T IO TO
MUSLIM
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C O V tR -y
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Weren’t Those Beons
Wonderful?
IW M W CHAIPC
“Have you seen those lunches that
are being put up these days for the
individual sm all-tim e fisherman?"
demanded M r. Tw itchell. "Not a
calory in a c a rlo a d !"
“ I t ’s reached a point where it's
almost impossible for a fisherman to
get his bait into the water.
It's
snapped up in m idair, not by a fish
but by fellow fisherm en!" he added.
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"Late last autum n," E lm e r con­
tinued. "the box lunches provided
anglers was so lacking in nourish­
ment that some fishermen would leap
out of a boat and take any bait a
fish would take. In fact, when the
season ended they were taking a rti­
ficial lures.
" I was on a fairly crowded lake
casting for bass In October. I was
using a big wooden plug with a red
head and white stripes. On my first
cast two fishermen dove for It !"
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E lm e r began getting up a peti­
tion to OPA at once. "Spring is here
and the am ateur angler is in a bad
w ay,” he said. “ Unless he gets a
little substantisl food in that lunch-
box he w ill be grabbing feather
lu res!"
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P R IV A T E P U R K E Y WANTS
A G .I. AT T H E P E A C E T A B L E
Dear Ha m e t:
And while with silent, lifting mind
Like I told you some tim e ago I
I ’ve trod
im working with my pals on a sort
The high untrespassed sanctity of of League of G .I. Peace Kibitzers
space.
and the thing is getting into shape
Put out my hand, and touched the fast. Of course Roosevelt, Churchill
and Stalin is handling things okay
face of God."
now a t places like Y alta, but is all
(T H E E N D !
just expressing intensions and ideas.
When the w ar ends and the peace
delegates begin to huddle the real
fighting w ill start and nothing will
help to make them stick to their ob­
je c tiv e s like maybe some G .I s at
the peace tables.
J o h n H e rs e tj
• T h e A m e ric a n m a jo r in charge o f affairs in an
o ccup ied to w n in It a ly was q uestio n in g some o f th e
c itizen s o f A d a n o . “ W h a t does this to w n need m ost?”
h e asked one.
“ M u c h to e a t,” re p lie d th e Ita lia n .
A n o th e r It a lia n said : “ I t needs a b e ll m ore th an
a n y th in g . T h e s p irit is m o re im p o rta n t th an th e
stom ach, and th a t b e ll w h ic h th e Fascists took aw ay
fro m A d a n o was o u r s p ir it.” .
T h e to w n got its b e ll.
A B E L L F O R A D A N O — ■ best seller fo r m an y
m o n th s— was w r itte n b y Jo h n H ersey, b r illia n t w a r
co rresp o nd en t fo r T im e and L ife , a fte r covering th e
S ic ilia n c a m p a ig n . T h e N e w Y o rk T im e s says: “ I t ’s
th e finest novel a b o u t A m e ric a n p a rtic ip a tio n in th e
Second W o rld W a r th a t we have seen.”
L o o k f o r th is t h r illin g and in fo rm a tiv e story—
IN T H IS N E W SPA PER
B E G IN N IN G N E X T ISSUE
I don’t see why there should be
any opposition to G .I. representation
in the peace. I f there had been
free for all battle with gangsters in
your street and you had to put up a
tough fight would anybody tell you
to scram under the bed and keep
your big mouth shut while the whole
question of further trouble was han­
dled by a group of well-dressed
strangers who had cleaner collars
and better table manners?
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So when a w ar ends what is about
insisting that the G .I.s who has been
getting their noggins knocked off
all through it just drop everything,
put a gag in their mouths and
never speak above a whisper while
the whole question whether they will
have to do it over again is decided
by professional peacemakers who
never slept in a hole full of ice-
w ater, ct their meals In a snowdrift
or swum every riv e r in Africa and
Europe?
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You’ll quote prices per highball
So a man w ill get a feeling
Bar-rooms know about a ceiling.
They w ill quote the price of beers,
Ales and cocktails, it appears,
Bo • man fa ir play w ill get
When he’s drinking—wanna bet?
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Address........................................................
"Am ateur anglers, a ris e !" de­
manded M r. Twitchell. "The pro­
fessional fisherman ain 't getting a
much tougher break than we are.
What does the wife put in her hus­
band's lunch when he goes Ashing
these days? A Jelly sandwich, six
anim al crackers, a stale doughnut
and a little cold coffee!
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In normal times a man setting
out tor a day's fishing toted along
enough grub to sustain life in a nor­
m al adult lo r six weeks.
Boy,
what sandwiches! Roast beef, lamb,
corned beef, pork and what have
you! That’s what made fishing en­
joyable.
The average fisherman
didn't care half as much for fishing
as he did for enjoying a heavy meal
or two without bothering about table
m anners."
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SNAPPY FACTS
N a m e .............................................................
E lm er insisted that in another in­
stance he was using a m etal spin­
ner, and as it went by the end of
a dock a fellow angler made two
strikes at it.
"You can’t fish an hour anywhere
without getting hungry enough to eat
a horse. That's why farm ers never
pasture a horse near a trout stream
or bass lake.
•
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Where never lark, or even eagle,
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