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. From Medford
one case each of tuberculosis,
chicken pox and pneumonia
were reported and one case of
mumps was listed at Prospect.
40 ET 8 MEMBERS WILL
ATTEND R0SEBURG MEET
Members of the 40 et 8, Amer
ican Legion tun chapter, are go
ing to Roseburg Saturday after
noon to attend the inaugural
meeting of the new Roseburg
Volture. It Is expected that the
Ashland Kilty band also will at
tend. Any members of the 40 et 8
who want to make the trip are
asked to get in touch with C. Y.
Tengwald.
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