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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1945 SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I: Scott’s early experiences with gliders and airplanes. He goes to Ft. McPherson and enlists in the regular army as a private. CHAPTER II: Scott wins the West Point competitive exam and gets' a fur lough before reporting. He is graduated as a second lieutenant of infantry and goes to Europe, which he tours on a motorcycle He sells his motorcycle and arrives at Randolph Field. Texas CHAPTER III: Scott makes hip first solo flight. Drives 1.300 miles to Georgia over every week end to see his girl. Scott is now, graduated from Kelly Field and has wings pinned on his chest Ordered to report to Hawaii but wanting to get married he lays his plight before the General and is ordered to report at Mitchel Field. N Y.. instead. CHAPTER IV: En route to New York Scott is stopped by police who mistake him for a bandit. He carries the mail for Uncie Sam In order to gain more flying time, and gets married. CHAPTER V: The wat edges closet and he is farther than ever from combat duty. He has been told he is too old for combat flying, and after December 7. 1941, he begins writing Generals all over the country for chance to fly a fighter plane. CHAPTER VI: Scott solos a Flying Pertress for the first time and makes twenty practice landings. He leaves for India from a Florida point CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday tn Af rica. They fly along the Arabian coast and land at Karachi, India, covering 13.000 miles in eight day*. CHAPTER VIII: CoL Haynes orders the group to report at a base in Eastern Assam, on the India-Burma border. CHAPTER DC: Burma is falling Into the hands of the Japs. Flying over bombed and burned Chinese towns they land at Schwebo. Scott meets General Stilwell and his party. CHAPTER X: Scott's group carries refugees out of Burma, heavily overload ing the planes. He pays a visit to Gen. Chennault and tells him he is a fighter pilot and not a ferry pilot and is prom ised the next P-40 that arrive* from Africa. CHAPTER XI: Open season on Japs— the big adventure is near. Scott gets hl* first Jap—an army bomber on the ground. He burn* up some Jap truck* and a fuel dump. CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on tome strafing missions with his “Old Ex terminator," as he ha* now nicknamed his Ktttybawk. and cuts a Jap battalion to bits. CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told they are to be inducted Into the U. S. army. Scott returns to India and con tinues hl* lingle chip raid* on the Jap*. He i* now known back in the States as "the one man air force.” CHAPTER XFV: Col. Haynes is moved to China to head the bomber command under Gen. Chennault and Scott is left alone as commanding officer of the Ferry Command. Scott is ordered to report to Gen. Chennault in Kunming, China, as commanding officer of the 23rd Fighter Group. CHAPTER XV: CoL Scott is ordered to proceed to the Kweilin area to take charge of fighter operations. CHAPTER XVI: He Intercepts a flight of Jap planes and downs a bomber. His tank Is empty but he succeeds in landing it dry. CHAPTER XVII: In which Scott tells about his friend. Major "Tex” Hill, to whom he owes his life. Maj. Alison is hit and. tries to land his crippled bomber at night CHAPTER XVIII: Maj Alison, who had crashed *i the river and had been given up for lost, comes back in a sedan chair carried by admiring Chinese. Chi nese coolies and rivermen by means of a method over three thousand years old raise and salvage the sunken P-40. CHAPTER XIX: The lighter side of life in China. The fight put up by Lt Dallas Clinger of Wyoming. CHAPTER XX: Capt. Charlie Sawyer crash-lands and is unable to Identify himself. Tribesmen get set to execute him but some new arrival saves him CHAPTER XXI: The “Old External nator” gets into another fight and one more Jap will never fly again. The Kittyhawk is so badly mauled it is condemned from further use. Col. Scott gets a new P-40E. CHAPTER XXII: Another “probable" for Scott. Lt. Daniels Is wounded and Maj. Bruce Holloway is shot down, but crash-lands In a rice paddy. CHAPTER XXIII: Col. Scott leaves on his greatest mission to date, with Gen. Haynes In the lead bomber. “Tex” Hill gets a Zero. CHAPTER XXIV: On the way back from Hongkong Scott sees below him Fort Stanley, British and American prison camp. A large group of prisoners wave ■t his ship as he goes over, and he ex periences his saddest feeling of the war. CHAPTER XXV: New P-40s begin to arrive steadily. They make a second attack on Hongkong. Jap bombers look for U. S. fields but fait Scott leads 16 fighters to escort 12 bombers to Canton. CHAPTER XXVI We figured that some important an nouncement was about to be made, and out there in the hostel area everything was quiet. The amber liquid was divided among some forty men, and each of us got a few drops in a Chinese teacup—but it was enough for the ceremony. The General grinned at us and said, “We’ve got the Japs worried now, we’ve hit everywhere except what he thought we’d attack. To morrow is the Day.’’ We could hard ly keep from cheering. But we held up our “brimming cups’’ and just said, “To you, General,” The drops never tasted better. That night, after the announce ment, we closed the post and kept all men from going into town. This would cause talk in the right places. Colonel Cooper went into Kweilin and discreetly passed out the news that we -were ready for the main attack. Somehow he arranged for just the right information to begin its round-about journey to the Jap anese. The seed had now been sown. On November 27 the largest force of bombers we had ever used in Chi na, escorted tr the l?Z2est force of GOD IS MY CO-PILOT Col. Robert L.Scoff WN.U. RELtASt fighters, rolled” down tfie runway at Kweilin. There were fourteen bomb ers, with twenty-two P-40's for es cort. We had also left a strong force on the ground at Kweilin, just in case the Jap tried something while we were away. I led the headquarters section of the fighter escort and made up the reserve. My position in the escort would be three thousand feet above the bombers. Down below me a thousand feet was Johnny Alison with his flight of eight, on the right flank of Morgan’s bombers. Colonel Bruce Holloway had the flight on the left flank, an other thousand feet lower. Colonel Cooper was riding in the lead bomb er as intelligence officer, and that day was going to demonstrate the teamwork that he had striven for, between the fighters and the bomb ers. Cooper had been so anxious to ac company our raids that he seemed keenly disappointed whenever other duties interfered. He was threaten ing today to take over one of the tur rets in the lead bomber and shoot down the first Jap. I joked with Coop on the way to our fighters that morning, and told him that we in the fighters were so glad to have him along that we were going to let one Jap through, just so he could shoot it down and get the pilot’s ears for his little boy. We laughed as we sep arated. The large formation—large for us in China—assembled over the air drome and took a course North in the direction of Hankow. We want ed reports from other spies in Kwei lin to get started, for this mission was planned mainly to get the Jap Air Force into the air where we could get at it. We usually evaded towns as we began our attacks, but today we went low over Kweilin, and then to the North. When we were beyond the prying and ready ears of any spies, we turned to a direct heading for Hongkong. Now we climbed above high over cast to twenty-thousand feet, and settled down for the three hundred miles ahead. In fifty-five minutes the clouds began to break and scat ter, and we approached enemy ter ritory with a cloudless sky and per fect visibility. Over to the right now I caught the glint of the sun on the junction of the three rivers that meet near Canton in a figure like a trident. Far ahead I saw the hills of Hongkong Island and the ever present fog banks out in the Pacific. We crossed the East River that led down to Canton, and the bomb ers turned ninety degrees to the right, away from Hongkong—and we swept towards Canton. For again we were going where the enemy were not expecting us. The Gen eral was about to outguess the Japa nese as always. I could imagine the small aerial screen over Hongkong watching and waiting, while on the ground at Kai Tak in Kowloon, on Sanchau Island, at Tien Ho and White Cloud in Can ton, the enemy Zeros were waiting to take off after we had passed Can ton, to come and get us over Hong kong or to intercept us on the way home. We bored in towards our tar gets—shipping on the East River at Canton and at Whangpoo Docks. We had special reports that two freight ers were unloading new Zeros and spare airplane engines at Canton that morning. Just South of Tien Ho airdrome, we split the bomber formation, and one of the fighter echelons went with each of the three bomber flights, each with an assigned target. My flight stayed with the lead bomber formation, and I saw our target, an 8,000-ton freighter surrounded by many lighters, there in the river. The smoke from the single stack was lazily going straight up. Mor gan’s bombardier was* bending tensely over his bomb-sight now, keeping the cross-hairs on the tar get. I knew the A.F.C.E. was fly ing the lead bomber as we went on the straight bombing run towards our target. I saw fhe string of bombs bracket the freighter perfectly, and later photos showed four direct hits from the first flight. The lighters around the doomed vessel were blown high and in all directions. Down to our left, Holloway, escorting the other flight whose target was a freighter, saw the vessel hit, then saw the smoke. Alison had his fighter force with the third flight they had al ready bombed the docks and were fighting Zeros from getting to the bombers. I heard the bomber com manders call that bombs were away, and give orders to close the bomb-bay doors. As we wheeled over our targets, turned from West to North, and started home, I heard Morgan call “California,” which was my signal that he was on the way home with the big ships. Then, under the lead flight of bombers, I saw the enemy fighters coming up and I knew we had them.. All the enemy planes were below us, climbing steeply for the bellies of the bombers. They had waited on the ground too long, had waited for us to pass Canton and go on to Hongkong. Now we had every ad vantage. General Chennault had foxed them again, and I had an idea that we were in for a profitable day. I called directions to the Group as the bombers closed up and I started down. Alison was even now shoot ing down Zeros around the last for mation of bombers. Holloway called to one of his elements to take the climbing Jap ships and return to formation. We were fighting this battle like a business, and we were, going to keep together until every bomber was safely on the way home to lunch gt. Kifreilin.. PesiAattal Slacks bathing suits ... ice cream cones—all the trappings of midsummer long awaited ’tis true—but there’s no doubt about it being here in ernest temperatures in the mid-nineties—they were in the fifties last week and lawn sprink this season and the Buckeye, coming into top place in public favor after a long cold spring and corn making up for lost time—looks like lots of roasting ears soon and watermelons in demand at prices ranging for $1 up and with Pat's and Johnson’s places closed for vaca tion this week Bob Lewis' is holding the line singlehanded on the haircut and shave front and politics dead as a dodo—vastly different from the depression days when there was a battle royal for the marshal’s job and a public office pay check looked as big as that full moon Tuesday night but times change—as one former resident said, she never realiz ed how sweeping the change has been until she read in the News that Bluff ton’s meat markets were closed on Saturday night who would have thought that this would ever come to pass? Don’t get impatient with telephone central these days if you encounter some slight delay—it isn’t the heat. Fact is the operators are kept on the jump by farmers calling the elevators here to inquire if there is storage room for more wheat. A bumper crop—together with shortage of freight cars for shipping has caused congestion at the elevators Monday and Tuesday, with both shippers unable to take any more grain until additional cars were pushed on the sidings ready to be filled Tuesday afternoon. And speaking of wheat yields— Fred Mueller reports a yield of 563 bushels from a tract of 11 acres bordering the Dixie highway near the Kermit Kibele residence. And Elmer Lehman, old time thresherman of the Settlement is back in the harness helping his brother Roy who was injured recent ly, receiving a broken bone in his heel. Elmer, who lives in Lima and hasn’t manned a threshing rig for a good many years still knows his way around and members of the Settlement threshing ring said it looked like good old times to see him back again. Good Hearing is Good Living Wback HY suffer in silence Come in 1 when a hearing aid can bring the full enjoyment of living? I Many thousands have found new happiness new lives of usefulness bj! wearing the Zenith Radionic Hearing Aid. Join them! lay for a free dem io one will press castration, you to buyi HEARING AID RADIONI A model for pr ictically every type of co rectalJe hearing kna Cot ire ready to wear. Only $50 complete conspicuous 1 ______ Color Receiver i nd Cord. Choice of ampli ier colors at no extra cost FRESH SHIP. IENT ZENITH LONG LIFE HEARING AID BATTERIES JUST RECEIVED! JAGEL’S RESTORATION SERVICE 410 N LES BUILDINtf/J* FP DLAY, OHIO include in your menu. Always ready to serve you. Bigler Bros. Fresh and Salt Meat# THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO Another reason w y Bluffton should have soft city water in the present soap shortage. We note from press dispatches that, Toledo and Columbus, both of which have enjoyed soft city water, have taken steps to further soften the water as a soap conservation measure. In Columbus it is estimated that a $10,000 expenditure will save $500, 000 a year in soap bills. Bluffton’s city water, one of the hardest in the state aggravates the current soap shortage, because of larger quanti ties of soap required. Soft city water has been long overdue here and its’s time we’re giving the Bluff ton housewives a break. And speaking of the soap shortage several women in the Bluffton dis trict are trying out the soap making recipe which appeared in this column last week. They have agreed to let us know the results. However, as from two to four weeks are required to age the soap, we can't tell you anything further at this time. Friends of John Winkler, former Bluffton resident, wh- has been liv ing in Los Angeles for a number of years will be interested to learn that he observed his 81st birthday an niversary, July 7. Marilyn Wollman, 19-year-old dau ghter of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Well man of Freeman, South Dakota, and a granddaughter of A. E. Lugibill of South Lawn avenue is the author of a number of poems, some of which are appearing currently in the Daily Argus-Leader of Sioux Falls, one o fthe large South Dakota news papers. Besides her literary en deavors she is an accomplished musi cian, following in the steps of her mother, the former Estelle Lugibill, well remembered here as a talented vocalist. This is the season of budget hear ings—if you’ve ever taken the trouble to read those fine print notices that appear in the Bluffton News about the middle of July you’ll know what we mean. And just in case you’ve skipped them—as every one does—you may be interested to know that the law provides that every public body—village, school district, township, etc., must estimate its receipts and expenditures for the coming calendar year. The meeting at which this budget is read is open td the public—and a notice of such hearing is required to be published. However, we’ve never seen any citizen or taxpayer at a hearing. It’s a formidable looking document, that budget, with headings and sub headings and contains rows upon rows of figures which the clerk usually reads in a dull monotone and the rest of the group smoke, draw pictures on scraps of paper o just look bored until it’s over—when requirements of the law have been fulfilled. Of course you don’t know any thing about a budget, because you have never attended a hearing—and we doubt if you would know much more about it if you did. LaFayette Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Henkle were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Henkle *s son, Mr. Millis Klingler and family of Kenton. Mrs. Mae Doornberg of St. Louis was a week-end guest of Mrs. Etta Guthrie. Cpl. and Mrs. Darwin Hull of New Orleans are spending a furlough with relatives. Miss Vada Staley of Ft. Wayne, Ind. and Mrs. Bertha Desenberg were Thursday guests of Mrs. Marceille Coon. Miss Imogene Fredericks was a Sunday guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert Williams. Mrs. Imogene Guthrie and son Dwaine, and Mrs. Etta Guthrie were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Fletcher of Canton. Mrs. Dile Arnold, Mrs. Dai^y Lud wig, Mrs. Laura Bitmen and Mrs. Josie Hall were Tuesday guests oi Mrs. Dale Murray. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Houser have left for Van Nuys, California. Mr. and Mrs. Regis Sullivan and son of Lima were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Hawk. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hall were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morrison. W. S. C. S. of the Methodist church met at the home of Miss Georgia Fackler. Members present were: Mrs. Inez May, Mrs. Daisy Ludwig, Mrs. Dile Arnold, Mrs. Delma Watt, Mrs. Laura Biteman, Mrs. Dale Murray, Mrs. Edith Down we’ve come a long way together /I-.1. A Ohio, you have given America seven 127 0 ib lirpresidents in the 75 years we have been *1 945^ citizens of your state. In those 75 years lap- you have given the nation its first street lighting, its first elec- trie street railway, its first airplane, cash register, pneumatic tire, become one of the industrial and ducers because have dreamed of better ways to do things. self starter. You have country’s greatest agricultural pro- your inventive citizens Many of these inventions have called for new develop ments from petroleum and Standard Oil men have been up to the job of creating them. Standard Oil provided the lubricants for the first airplane flight for Ohio’s early railroads so they could speed up To the independent business men selling Sohio products: On our own 75th Anniversary we are p. oud to point to your con tinued high standard of service over the years. We appreciate your services in representing Sohio to the people of Ohio. THE STANDARD OIL CO. (OHIO) ing. Mr.«. Blanche Heiser, Mrs. Josie Hall, Mrs. Deila Baertsche, Mrs. Iva leen Vrich, Mrs. Mildred Carey, Mrs. Bess Brackuey, Mrs. Ethel Heiser, Mrs. Alice Fackler, Mrs. Fannie Bergman, Mrs. Louella Koog ler, and Mrs. Bessie Slane. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Morrison were Wednesday afternoon callers of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Barber of Harrod were Wednesday evening callers of Mrs. Oil ie Hullibarger. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brillhart and Ellen Kay and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hall and son were Saturday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Morrison. Mrs. Eda Hall spent the week with Mr. Doyt Hall and sons. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Morrison of Uniopolis and Mr. Fred Dawson of Westminister were Thursday night callers of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mor rison and family. Pleasant Hill Mr. and Mrs. Francis Younkman of Ada called on Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips, Sunday evening. Mr. and rs. Earl Winegardner and daughter were Sunday dinner guests of Guj’ Younkman. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Gormatter and family were Sunday evening visitors at the Dennis Brauen home. Mr. and Mrs. Landolyn Kindle and son of Beaverdam were Sunday even ing callers on LaMar Basinger and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen were Sunday afternoon callers on the Jesse Bracy family. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Hauenstein were Sunday visitors at the Lewis Hauenstein hom^. Mr. and Mrs Gerald Huber were past week callers at the Karl Huber home. Past week callers on Mike Cleason and family were: Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stines, W’m. Gleason and family of Lima, Mrs. Walter Gleason and family of Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Faze and daughters, Josie and Mary Nell and Billy Hess, Eileen and Elwood Brauen. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman were Sunday afternoon visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Herr. Mrs. Dorothy Zimmerman and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zim merman and family, Mr. and Mrs. 1 fc.,v Iw i I *wM.s- sK *4 ASOS ,., SR trains for the first automobile internal combustion engine—after it had been labeled a failure and was about to be sent back to England. Through petroleum, and the magic power it holds, we have helped bring your people a new and better way of life. Machine power to do the labor they once had to do with their hands ... in the factory, the home and on the farm. Heat, light and hundreds of other conve niences. Fast, comfort-j^^^.^^. able transporta tion... new leisure /oT’lS-SF new freedom. Yes ... and with coveries from petroleum now being made—and still to come—we’ll go a long way together in the years ahead, Ohio. PAGE SEVEN Oscar Zimmerman and H. P. Zim merman were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Long and daughter. Emerson Baldwin of Detroit is spending some time at the I. R. Shindiedecker home. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bell and children were Sunday visit ors at the Orton Stratton home. Rodney Jennings and Roger Reich enbach spent Friday with Billy and Mary Nelle Hess. Lillie Fett and Nellie Huber spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hess and family and called on Mr. and Mrs. Hdward Smith in Findlay. Those who called Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mefferd to congratulate the recently married Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mefferd were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mefferd, Mrs. Kesler Mefferd, Don and Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Purk and three sons of Van Wert Mr. and Mrs. Silas Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Miller and son of Ohio City Mary and em Miller, Venedocia Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gilmore and Phyllis and Ruth Gilmore. AN ORDINANCE (Section list. (J. C. of Ohio) GIVING CONSENT OF THE VILLAGE TO I HE IMPROVEMENT OF JEFFERSON STREET UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF I'HE DIRECTOR OF HIGHWAYS. HEREAS. The Director of Highways is coii- i«-rine th, matter of the improv .-merit under his supei'viGon of the public highway known h- State H«th*ay No. 1 3*. and U HERBAS, JcfferHon Street within thia village li whole or part along the line of -ail ?tate highway, said Jefferson street Iwiny mor. particularly described a follows: Redlining at Main street thence proceeding on Jefferson street in an easterly direction to the East CoriKiration Line, a distance of ap proximately 0.274 mile on S. R. 13. WHEREAS. It ie proposed to extend said state highway improvement into, within or through this village and aloni the aforesaid Jefferson street. NOW, THEREFORE. Be It Ordained, by the Council of the Vil lage of Bluffton, State of Ohio: SECTION 1: That it is declared to be in the public Interest that the consent of said village be. and such consent is hereby iriven, that said Jefferson street, or so much thereof as is above described lyintr alony the line of said State Highway No. 13* may be improved under the supervision of the Director of Hiirh way*. SECTION 2: That the Clerk be, and he is hereby directed to furnUir*tt the Inrector of Highways and to the’floard of QbMnty Com missioners of Allen juountuj^QhjX a certified copy of this OrdinaiW taking effect thereof. SECTION 3: That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. SECTION 4 s Permission granted by the council of the villafre of Bluffton. Ohio, with stipulation that said permission carries with it no liability for payment. Passed: July I«, 1945. Attest: W. O. GEIGER, W. A. HOWE. 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