SERIAL STORY
fisdh tfaAieA, WAAC
BY LORETTE COOPER
corvRiaNT, ia,
NCA HRVICC. INC.
TIIIO RTonvi net- Carter,
WAAO, ham volunteered for m dnn--roiu
mlialo. After ehe hna
reeelved her ordere nnd been
. Introduced to her lmmrd lute nu
Itcrfor, Mnjnr llrlt Jneknon( Iher
board Flylnic Portreaa hound
f tnr n tlnr lalnnd In the pnclfle.
Major J n e Ic a o n hna exiilnlnrd
. that h la eommamUnir otnrrr of
( m Coaat Artillery Harm ire llnlloon
battalion whoae duty M la to pro
tect military npernllona from
anemy air attaek. Information
leaka hara been anapeeted and
j lleth la to naalat In tracklnar them
donn. Suddealy a pair of Jnp
ktcr vlanea are alfthted
ATTACK
CHAPTER III
A PAIR of Jap fighter plo
i off the left wing! It toe
Beth a moment to realize what
Major Jackson had said.
When she joined the WAACs,
Beth supposed she would "tight"
the war at a desk, doing type-
civilian life until the automobile
agency closed. Now she was in
the thick of the war, even if from
a statistical point of view tills
portion was not a very large one.
She arose and peered out of
the side window. She had barely
glimpsed the two attackers before
Major Jackson had yanked her
1 back down into the protected part
of the Fortress.
"Don't do that," he yelled. "I
dont want to lose you so soon."
"I don't want to lose you so
ii, im. i i v.,
second to the recesses of Beth's
mind. Then she cast it aside, al
most with a guilty feeling. She
had come out here to be a sol
dier, not to develop a romantic
Interest in the first commanding
officer she met. ,
If she had not been told the
Japs were coming in on the For
tress, she would have known in a
few seconds anvwar. She felt the
Pnrrrw momentarilv shiver, and
she heard the rattle of machine
guns.
Brit Jackson had gone forward.
She was alone. True, there were
men around her, but each was so
: identified with a task, and so en
grossed in it, that none had time
for her. She was as safe as they
could make her.
. She heard the machine guns
: again, and saw one of the center
.ininnnn tiie fan, 0eim. rtitmt riijs
weapon around In pursuit of a
Zero.
She saw his lips move. She
knew by his face that he had
missed. Disappointment packed
' every iota of space from the set
ness of his lips to the depths of
his serious eyes.
The din was intermittent, but
terrific when it came. Several
times Beth realized that if it
were not for the Fortress's armor,
the fight would have been lost.
a
"DY the angle of the floor she
knew the plane was climbing
steeply. It had shaken the Japs
for a minute. Then the climb
leveled off and ended.
Brit Jackson was still forward,
but Beth hardly was thinking of
him now. She was watching the
gunner intently.
He stood there, a huge man, ap
pearing even larger because of his
flying suit. He was working cool
ly and in a very businesslike man
ner, firing a few bursts, swinging
his gun quickly, keeping a sharp
eye out.
There were two gunners, work
ing back to back. Others were
elsewhere in the. big ship, Beth
knew; but these two were all she
could see, and it was the one
whose face was half toward her
that held her attention. She could
read every turn of battle in his
yes. .
Now, fa the midst of peril, she
had a quick instant to reflect She
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Of all things to find In a Victory
Garden Lynn Merrickl It
could happen only in Holly
wood. Lynn Merrick shows us
the V-shaped potato she found
. in her Victory Garden.
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Tiny enough to be hidden un
der a helmet, this booby trap
.'of a half-pound of TNT is one of
several used in demonstrations
IJor armored force trainees at
Ft Knox, Ky.
:V::.i.
could see her training at Fort Des
Moines was directed toward mak
ing her the same kind of a sol
dier, from the standpoint of self
discipline, single-minded service,
and intelligent action, Would her
training ever be put to so great
a test?
Suddenly the gunner's face
lighted. One of the Zeros was
gone, and Beth needed only one
guess to tell whither its route.
There was one to be accounted
for. It had swung away, but now
was coming back coming in
.in a hard-to-reach angle.
The nearest gunner tried to get
11 is weapon into position. It would
not go quite far enough over. Just
then a burst of machine gun bul
lets rattled against the Fortress.
'T'HE Fortress lurched and the
gunner fell. Beth thought at
first that he had been thrown
off balance. Then she saw that
he did not rise, and she knew
that he was a casualty.
The other gunner was too busy
to notice what had happened.
Beth rose from her seat First
she moved to the side of the
stricken gunner. But she had not
reached him before she knew that
her mission was greater even than
one of individual mercy.
She moved straight to the va
cant machine gun.
Fearlessness and discipline were
revealing the strong grips they
had on her American soul. She
steadied herself; and then she
took hold of the gun grips and be
came the weapon's master.
Long weeks before she had been
introduced to the operation of
this gun more because of the
whim of an instructor than be
cause anyone ever expected her
to know anything about one.
The Jap fighter was coming
back. It was coming back on
Beth's side of the Fortress.
(To Be Continued)
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BOISE. Idaho, (IP) Sgt, Wll.
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saw a power operated lawn
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so he bought one.
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dumugo to two flower beds and
a leg injury. The mower was
wrecked, too.
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TACOMA, Wash., (A7) Word
got around that there were 134
pairs of women's silk stockings
at the office of the National
Association of Creditors and
the panic was on.
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writers, elevators were left
without operators.
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dore Faulk took over the boom
ing job of hosiery salesman.
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ported the obligation of a de
funct women's shop to the as
sociation was cleared.
Oil coolers are now being
built of brazed steel, replacing
copper tubing, to save 64 per
cent of copper.
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fighter planes has cut
flying accidents from an index
of 8.5 to a new low of 1.15.
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