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TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Jan. IS. 1S43 TRAILER OFFICE CENTERED DEATH ON NAZI TANKS Radio Information to and From Control Station Cost Foe Over 4,000 Vehicles, Br Walter Cronklte United Press War Correspondent Ninth Air Force Control Sta tlon, Western Front, Jan. 22 (U.PJ Here In a tiny trailer, smaller than a modern kitchen ette, was unfolded the whole drama of this greatest day In the air war since 1940. Here a telephone jangled with the first report that the Germans had dared to bunch up their transport in the longest and most vulnerable column since the Falalse Oap. Bolts Unleashed - Here a soft-spoken young flight officer from Arizona spoke into a microphone the few words that unleashed the dread Thun derbolt fighter-bombers on the Germans. And here, through a small loudspeaker, came back the voices of excited pilots, report ing the second by second de struction of dozens upon dozens of trucks and tanks. The battle, exceeding any ground-air engagement yet loin ed In the war, was fought out under the leaden skies of the German-Luxembourg border region. It was won back here In this little six by 10 foot trailer. For without this trailer and Its one or two auxiliaries, nestled in the snow under a clump of Ardennes pine trees, those white-starred death-spitting fighters perhaps - never would have found and de stroyed the massed enemy. Play By Play Hera Is a play by play account of how the air force's greatest kill was made: Somewhere out over the Ger man lines this. morning, an ar tillery observation patrol of Piper Cubs little two-place sport planes that used to rattle around the airports back home skipped, in and out of the clouds looking for the enemy. Two of the pilots, 1st Lt. Ellis E. Thompson of Fairfield, N. D., and 2nd Lt. Bernard B. Mackell of Pittsburgh, Pa., were given equal credit tonight for discov ering and reporting the enemy vehicle, concentration. Off in the distance they had seen a fine snow slit, such as a column of vehicles spins be hind it. They new closer to look ;; and what they saw was' almost : unMuevabi. Column el Armor There below was a column ef tanks, trucks, halftracks, busses , and trailers that stretched through the woods, down a dale - and up and beyond a hill. One of the pilots lifted his microphone and back at the In fantry division for which he flies the radio crackled: "There are trucks and tanks up here millions of them," the pilot yelled. "Let's have some air quick." From division headquarters word was relayed to the air 11a son officer up in a forward ob servation post and he flashed word to the tactical air force. At TAC they took a quick look at the operations chart and call ed this fighter control station. . Flight Officer William Steph ens of Glendale, Ariz,, took the call. As the voice at the other : end spit directions, Stephens drew on a map which coordi nates all available information a heavy black circle to mark the spot where a nazl column was doomed to die, Stephens hung up the receiv er and reached for the micro phone. "Red leader, red leader, red leader," he called. "I have a tar get for you." Planes Roar In He gave the map coordinates and then he called In a lot of other flights yellow flight, blue flight and green flight. Those were not their code names but they will have to do. As the Thunderbolts roared toward the targets up above a heavy cloud layer Stephens gave directions by radio and kept tnem right on the track. "You should be over the tar get now," he called at last. "Roger, Dodger," crackled back the voice of the red leader. "We're going down." There was a minute's silence which seemed interminable, and the loudspeaker crackled again "This is red leader. There's plenty of stuff down there. We really let 'em have it. We're going in again to give them an other dose." That was the story throughout the day. Flight after flight was steered to the target and flight after flight crackled out success reports logging through ether the greatest day in the air war. ABOUT OFFICERS Information about three offi cers of the 96th division, for merly at Camp White and now in the Philippine islands, has been received here by friends The letter stated, that Capt. Mike Stillman, who was com mander of Company A, 381st regiment, was killed In action November 11 and that Lt. Paul Baumgaerdner had been wound ed October 28. Lt. Baumgaerd ner made his home with Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wahl, route 3, when the division was at Camp White. Lt. W. E Shelley has been promoted to first lieutenant, ac cording to the writer. Lt. and Mrs. Shelley resided at 420V4 South Central avenue before the division left and at present Mrs, Shelley and their small son are residing at 330 North Holly street. 4 CASES SCARLET FEVER REPORTED New cases of both dlohtherla and scarlet fever were report ed In the county during the week ending January 19, the weekly report of the Jackson county health department shows. One case of diphtheria was re ported in Medford and of the four cases of scarlet fever, two were reported from Prospect and one each from Jacksonville and Medford. Two new cases ef measles were listed, one in Ashland and one in Applegate. and from Camp White was reported one case of Influenza, two cases of trench mouth and 14 cases of re current malaria. 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