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KEEPS OLD HAT
IN HECTIC TIME
Lt. Robert Wilcox in Crash
Landing of B-26; Rescued
By PT-Boat Unharmed.
- A 12th AAF Mediterranean
B-26 Marauder Bomber Base:
The co-pilot's old straw hat tum
bled from his head the silver
B-26 bomber lurched crazily,
dropped hundreds of feet, fi
nally slowly straightened out
and resumed its course over the
German-held railroad bridge in
northern Italy that was the
day's target. One engine, how
ever, was no longer operating
German flak had punctured the
cowling and lodged in the mo
tor, causing such vibration that
the pilot had to feather his prop
in order to prevent the engine
being torn from its frame.
With little perceptible loss of
speed, the sturdy ship com
pleted the bomb run and broke
sharply to the left with the rest
of the formation, heading out
again toward the Ligurian Sea,
off the coast of Italy. First
Lieutenant Valentine Krug, the
pilot, Ridgewood, New York,
; experienced a mounting uneasi
1 ness and a premonition that the
worst was yet to come. He
checked the altimeter they
were losing about 200 feet a
minute, but that was normal
with only one engine, he knew
they would continue to lose
until down to about 3000 feet,
then he should be able to main
tain that altitude until they
reached their base. They were
then about 100 miles out over
watery
Other Engine Quits
Lieutenant Robert Wilcox of
Rt. No. 2, Medford, Ore., the
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I co-pllot, shouted and pointed
vigorously out the right win
dow. As Krug leaned over the
right engine choked, burped
and quit. Immediately, Krug
gave the order to prepare for
ditching (landing in water) and
the gunners and other crew
members tossed out all the
heavy equipment that could be
crammed through the windows
and then took their positions
Just to the rear of the pilot's
compartment to brace them
selves against the shock of hit
ting the water at a speed in ex
cess of 140 miles per hour.
During the same few seconds
that the crew was coming for
ward, Lts. Krug and Wilcox
were busy making their own
preparations for crash landing.
Lt. Krug saw a British PT boat
a few hundred yards away and
headed his ship in that direc
tion, intending to set down as
close to it as possible.
There was a slight jolt as the
tail hit the water, then a tear
ing violent crash as the forward
part of the plane struck the
water. Altho he had braced
himself, Krug was dazed by the
tremendous force of the impact,
but he managed to pull himself
halfway through the escape
hatch over his head as the cool
j spray of the water drenched his
I face, he felt a vigorous shove
in the seat of his pants and he
j popped out into the water.
! Wilcox In Trouble
j Recovering quickly, he look
I ed for Wilcox, who, he found,
was having trouble inflating his
Mae West. Technical Sergeant
Leslie Pike, Reading, Mass., a
third crew member, after delib
erately removing his heavy
shoes, had plunged in to assist
Wilcox they each helped him
j to inflate his life jacket.
I Krug, feeling an uncontrol
able inclination to float head
downward in the water, inves
tigated, and discovered that he
still had his parachute harness
on, and that the bouyancy of
the rubber scat cushion was re
sponsible for his inverted posi
: tion. Stripping off the harness,
ne, wncox and Pike struck out
after the other crew members
toward the British ship.
After all were on board, thev
checked and discovered that all
were uninjured. The inevita
, ble cup of tea. warm, drv
clothes, and smokes revived
them enough so that in a few
minutes they were laughing
hysterically at the discovery
that during all the excitement
of crash and rescue, Lt. Wilcox's
battered straw hat had remained
on his head.
and taxlways destroyed at least
24 Zeros on the ground.
Airstrip Destroyed
"Yap's airstrip is so full of
holes it cannot be used," Capt.
Shearin said. "Only a few build
ings remain standing in Yap
town. And more important,
we've completely destroyed the
two radio stations and the pow
er plant."
The flight to Yap, more than
2,000 miles over water, Is one
of the longest, regularly-scheduled
missions carried out by any
air force in the world.
Capt. Shearin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Shearin of
Friday. S.pi. 29, 1944
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FTV8
Eagle Point, attended Los An
geles City college before join
ing the army in April, 1942. He
has been overseas with the 13th
AAF since November, 1943, and
has participated in the veteran
air force's campaigns that neu
tralized Jap strongholds In the'
Solomons, southwest and central '
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OF YAP ISLAND
Headquarters, 13th AAF,
Southwest Pacific In a whirl
wind bombing campaign, 13th
AAF Liberators virtually have
knocked out Yap island, once
one of the strongest Jap bases
guarding the Philippines.
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sistance met the Liberators June
22, when they carried out the
first land-based bomber strike at
the Caroline islands fortress,
only 800 miles east of the Philip
pines. Now Neuiraliied
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Liberator pilots, Yap has been
completely neutralized. Captain
Thomas H. Shearin of Eagle
Point, and First Lt. Joseph L
linages of Gaston, flew in the
iniuai auacK on Yap and have
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power to hit back when' the
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Yap for weeks," Bridges said.
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I flak, -but it's only token resist-
ance."
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