December 11, 1944 (4 pages)

~ MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 bn 1944 NEVADA CITY NUGGET ciieeeemeniainees om ey ‘our. ships into the sun before we frags and set sail for Lashio. I re. ’ came within sight of the field we But I had seen enough. Even were to observe. I picked up little . ' membered to drop the belly tank before I. went down into the antithough this bridge was being built of CHAPTER XIV bamboo; they were making.it very strong, for the abutments were of heavier lumber and of stone. The Japanese were evidently planning to. Jeremiah Angove Is Summoned services under direction of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary -will be held this afternoon in Grass Valley for the late Jeremiah Angove, wh@ passed away Saturday morning. The services will be held at the residence of the deceased, 318Neal Street. Burrial will be in the Masonic Cemetery. The deceased was a. Cornwall, England. native He came of in and his earlier years were spent rk Yo New in ed the mines. He work Hill, the Eureka, and for a time in Sheepranch Mine in Calaveras coun. ty. More than a half century azo he entered Grass Valley’s business cir cles establishing a clothing the only to York. LaGuardia region it serves Field in New CHRISTMAS PARTY The American Legion Auxiliary will give a Christmas party Wednesday evening, Detember 13th, in the veterans Memorial Building. Mem store bers will exchange ‘which he maintained until his bers of the Army Board that had been appointed to induct the AVG re 50. cent gifts among themselves. tirement in 1939. Last Christmas -The auxiliary has purchased a Eve, he and his late wife, the fornumber of war bonds, and several mer Julia Wedlock, celebarted their dozen boxes to be distributed among 6th wedding annivarsary. service men who are on the high sea Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. on Christmas Day. They completed Edwin Matteson and Mrs. Ray ParDians~for making candy and cookies sons, both of this city, four grand-— for service men now in DeWitt Genehilrren and one great grandsom. eral Hospital. '" ‘ning now and for which you are buying and holding War Bonds, insist on Adequate Wiring. » In-your house of tomorrow you will be using and more electric appliamces as well as better _ improved lighting im every room. Adequate . Wiring makes sure there are plenty of conveni ence outlets, switches and circuits to give you the best service from your lamps and appliances. + The small difference in cost between : cheap or-inadequate wiring is more than paid . for by the extra conveniences, comforts and lower operating costs of appliances working . I came in to the target from. the Homalin and the railroad yards at have a foot of water in the “‘basha’’ that was Operations, and the men were sleeping almost in the water. I damnedest strafing ana bombing raids the Japs had ever seen. It would be my swan-song from Assam and I had to celebrate in some way or another. ound HE on “Old Exterminator,” -erners on the old familiar ‘subject. of the whys and wherefores of the’ ‘and I walkéd around looking the old PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY War Between the States. As the Southerners were in. greater num % bers, they of course ‘won most of the friendly arguments. From over near Sadiya, we had gotten eight elephants, tame ones, and were working them to move some heavy timbers to be used on ship over. Somehow I figured that the Army—after being pulled out of fighters for being too old, after be ing an instructor for four years, aftx being shanghaied: into being a the warehouses of the new field. There was an old Southern sergeant Burma-roadster, important as the derms. He must have been a mule Corps number 41-1456 on that in significant ship in India, and for all that I had used for sixty-three days over Burma became another num. } ber,. but it would always be “Ola . — Exterminator’ to me. In-those two {}. months we’d flown together 371 hours . over enemy territory and we were* more than friends. That is some what over eighty thousand miles, job had been. Well, I had got what and in combat that’s a long, I wanted and I felt as though I way. pulled the ‘belly tape aad put tie it was activated on the Fourth of . f/ tied the chains to their legs at night, “big, fat, yellow bomb under the bel. July. Ther was no e time for cele. } he would wrap the links with cloth ly, and tightened the sway braces. . bration. Radio Tokyo started right . = . to Keep them from chafing the thick The sight of that bomb made me . off with a , and we definitely . -skin of the big beasts. feel pretty good. knew hard work was ahead. On Another sergeant, from about the Next morning before dawn I was the night of July 3, Radio Toky same section of the country that in the air, my course set for Homathe old elephant caretaker hailed from, came by one day and looked lin. As I climbed out above the the stalls over with a quizzical eye. “clouds I began to recite ‘poetry in “Say, Micky,” he called back as rhythin with the engine. To the he left, ‘‘you’re taking too good care verses of “Gunga Din” I dropped of the day on the: of those elephants. You're going to my first bomb get ’em so comfortable that the Yan-_ docks of Homalin.: Then I flew back ing o ee. kees will come down here and free home with the words of the “Galley reckoned without the strategic brain Slave” going out over the radio in a . of the General, or the loyalty of ’em.”’ T Hotel Clunie . Bob Layher, one of the AVG '‘pi lots, came over for several days, and we drank good Scotch whiskey ARE RENOW NED IN CALIFORNIA at night and flew our planes ac¢ross jinto Burma in the day—when I didn’t have to get passengers on the freight ships. 1 iearried a lot, fly RATES FROM $1.50 UP Service—Best Food Pee. hills and jungles of Burma to Kun ming and ‘more adventures together,’ From that moment, we left the Air skinner in either the first World War could jump over the moon. I patted the leering shark’s mouth on old Everything has happened fast in or the border war with Mexico, for 41-1456 , and caress ed this the war, and the organization of the prop that he did everything in his power to rhad taken me in and out of many 23rd Fighter Group was no excep. keep the eight elephants dry and ‘messes. Then I left, while they . tion. There was no holiday, even if well-fed and content. Even when he The Key to the Home of Tomorrow _. . ) S88. ann K srrzert, : So, early the next morning; J 3, 1942, ‘‘me and the old Kitehewk® wended our happy way across the who took good care of the pachy in India, Kittyhawk had had a lot to do with ‘practical purposes the old P-40E getting .me the, greatest. job in the war. It’s not every man who finally gets what-he has always wanted in shane ae —_ 30¥ AND sacons. JACK BEUN®, } -ing on his wing. We'd go over for a look at Myitkyina, and it would ana came back and strafed the My third ‘attack was on the railroad station at Mogaung and I strafed the empty freight-cars in the yard. I had to use a belly tank on the fourth trip, amaze me how effortlessly, without . and so I couldn't take a 5 tack on Independence Day for the aps. had always shown affinity for raids on our holidays. When the Japs arrived over Kweito-find green and in big bomb. . many Ameboys ric who foran weeks But T loaded on six istetecestas a, * private broadcast to the world. On Pipe ser of the FirstAmermy next trip I dropped a five-hun. ican Volunteer Group. _ RAG dred-pounder on a barge at Bhamo The General was much-abused Myitkyina. ee For Ree eae t ' b Ld Enjoyment: e : — : engine from somewhere—had proba I was through with all that lonesome remember. most of the Southern i I told my crew to load a 500boys would argue with the North —=—_ and I finished my ammunition by bly stolen it from, some ‘ship, but I West, with the sun right at my Mongaung the next day, and strafed didn’t know where. So I went on the field at Myitkyina coming back. back. I flew so. low that I was afraid the little windmill on the ‘During the ensuing days until the over in a transport, expecting to nose of the bomb would get knocked 26th of June, I carried out attacks come back later and ferry ‘“‘Old Exon barges near Bhamo, and on one _terminator’’ to his new home. off by the bushes. And then, as I As we came down into the rain saw the bridge, I let the bomb go. trip went to Shwebo and almost to Mandalay, making a round trip of over the lake’ South of Kunming, I. All hell broke loose. When I got back home I looked at nearly nine hundred miles. I strafed never have felt so good. This was “Old Exterminator’ and I couldn’t the field at Maymyo, caught a train another step to the East, towards Japan, and when I got out and saw see why it hadn’t spun in right there on the railroad North of town, and over the N’umzup. There were holes set it.on fire. It was anything for all those sleek-looking fighting ships as big as footballs in the fabric ;action—and the engine of ‘Old Exthat my Group was going to receive flippers and in the metal stabilizers terminator” got pretty rough at from the AVG in five days, my spirof the tail section. There-was a hole times, for by then I had thtee hunits soared another. mile in the air. the rains got worse; some days we’d under “full power’’ fro m Adequate Wiring. . houses by the railroad tracks. I shot up the field but saw no planes, in the fuselage and five holes indred and sixty hours on it and my wy war” ‘stuff. From now . ’ the wing. But I guess the hill iyst mechanics had _had little experience. “one-man on we'd be fighting as a team, with ith Allisons. East of the target had saved me hat night, when I got: home from bombers escorted by fighter ships in You see; the bomb hadn’t waited ; my ‘trip into Burma, I was handed a proper force to represent America. . ten seconds to go off—which would I had already met most of the have given me just that long to get a radiogram that saved my life. As members of the First American Volout of the way of the explosion. It unteer Group, but it was an even had gone off almost immediately, greater pleasure to meet them now. and as a result I’d been just about Some of them were men who were blown out of the sky. The one-tenth going to sty with the 23rd Fighter second of grace, with me traveling Group and fight.under me. Of all at some three hundred miles an the honors: that I ever have rehour, had let me go only about fifty ceived or ever will receive, the feet across the, target, but even that greatest to me will always be the had been enough to permit a small honor of. being given command of knoll to shield me from the main. ‘ that great group of sky fighters un' explosion. ‘ der the Command of Gen. Claire L. When I could get my breath again Chennault. I asked Sergeant Bonner to find out During the four days that followed from the armament men what in go over the military equipment hell was the matter with the bomb. ° He brought them back with him, off/the sqiadron that was based at and the ordnance expert told me that i and I got my headquarhe hadn’t said ten-seconds délay but ters staff organized. In this Army, one-tenth second delay. Just one Ster Sergeants showing officers hundred times less delay than I had. what to do have always betn the + expected! But ‘‘Old Exterminator’ backbone of a fighting force, and I lived through it, and as soon as will never. forget Master-.Sergeant they’d patched the holes I went back McNeven. I was certainly expectover the bridge. _We’d blown the ing to lead the group ‘in its fightsabutments, all the timber, and all against the Japanese, and the adthe ‘Japs from off the N’umzup. A ministrative work that the Sergeant five-hundred-pound bomb with eitherMajor of the 23rd Fighter Group aca ten-second delay fuse or a tenth. * Sergean t LaRue of the 23rd Fightcomplished’ so efficiently made / it, . second delay fuse will discourage .er Group. Everything has happened possible: for ine to fly and have th even the most persistent people. fast in this war, and the organizaPapér-work go on at the same time. As the June days passed, Colonel tion of the 23rd Fighter Group was Later in the week I heard that Haynes was moved to China to head no exceptio n. There was no holiday, “Old Exterminator” was ready with the Bomber Command under Geneven if it was activated on the @ new engine. But with the report eral Chennault, and I was left alone Fourth of July. came another that some other Group as Commanding Officer of the Ferrying Command. On the day the cheerI read it my face must have turned was moving into Assam, and that ful Haynes left, I felt as if I had lost white; I know that tears came to the engineering officer had stated my best and last friend. For this . my eyes, for I felt them burn, But he knew nothing about that ship 41meant that I’d have to stay. on the I didn’t care. I was ordered to re1456 belonging to the Chinese Gov-' ground more, and work the adminport in Kunming} China, to General ernment. It would stay in India, he istration as well as the operations of Chennault, as Commanding Officer said. I went on and flew back to the ABC, which was getting tougher of the 23rd Fighter Group which was India in one of the P-40E’s that we and tougher with all the rice we to be activated from the AVG on had just received from the factory . were having to @rop and the passenJuly 4, 1942. I wiped the tears from that repairs them in China. Landing at my old base, I waited gers we were ‘having to haul. my eyes and looked out. on an imuntil dark, and then had the numOn the one day that I stayed on proving world. I could hear the the ground, it seemed to me that birds singing again, and people, bers on the ship that I had flown in xchanged with those of my old every time I looked up from the desk were laughing; I knew I was the ter. For morale purposes alone, that I was ‘‘flying,’’ some long, lanky luckiest man in all the world. had to have that ship in the . tea planter would be standing there I carefully folded: the radiogram 23: Group. All this change invol in the door in sun-helmet and shorts. to show my grandchildren ved when the was a stencilling operation With his bony knees sticking out, war was over to put and went out to look 41-1456 on the ship that I had flown he’d ask me in cold clipped accents: at my. ship. For I had, something from China, and another to put on “I say old chap—do you have transelse on my mind too. I was going “Old Exterminator’’ the serial numportation for Calcutta?” : to go into Burma the next day on -ber of the fighter that I was leaving . ff My morale got pretty low. And” fo:ur of the dy THE HOME OF TOMORROW that you are plan 137-W-1244 aircraft, and I dropped the six little frags in two of the big green ware er heavier equipment North. I went right back to Dinjan and had Sergeant Bonner strap on a nice 500 to the best airport in the nation, second Grass Valley when 21 years of age and they helped ine later. On the twentieth of June, mem passed through Assam, and my } strafing the main street of the town. hopes faded of ever getting over to . I saw two plate-glass windows spatwork under General Chennault. I! ter across the street like artificial , knew that out of those Colonels, . snow from. a Christmas tree, and I pound bomb with a, delayed action the powers-that-be had surely picked . laughed hysterically as two figures fuse. At any rate the armament some lucky one to get the greatest Scott : i W.N.U. RELEASE men told him it was a ten-second job in the world. This was of course ran from a‘ pagoda. That day I landed back home tired . delay fuse. This type of target _ that of commanding the AVG after . . { had to be hit exactly, and if I were it came into the Army, with its . and happy. More orders had come S. F. Airport Is for me: I was to go to Delhi before to. glide in for a dead shot I'd nucleus of old AVG personnel and Pledged 50 Million surely get shot down by all the antithe new pilots as replacements from I went to China. I went there the next morning with ‘‘Long Johnny’ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11— To! aircraft. So I made up my mind home in the States. General ChenPayne. long before I got there to turn it nault, was to be the Task Force Commatch the propoed expenditure of loose just as low as I could fly. Even mander and was to’ be over the When I had received my official $20,000,000 by San Francisco for if I missed the bridge by only fifty Fighter Group and the ‘Bomber instructions from headquarters in its enlarged airport in San Mateo yards, which is close for dive-bombForce. Delhi, and had been wined and dined county, thirteen airlines this ing in ships. not made for that type If the Scotch hadn’t given out, I ' by good friends—war correspond. week of work, I’d knock a lot of leaves would have got drunk that pledged improvements to night. their fac. off the trees, make a big noise, and But instead I went on another strafents like Berrigan, Magoffin, and ilities to exceed $50,000,000 Briggs—-I came on back to pack my accordmaybe kill some gunners. But the ing raid in the late afternoon, and things in Assam. I tried to take the ing to-:utilities manager E. G. Cahill. abutments of the bridge had to be had to land after dark. old fightership: with me, but my. These improvemerfts will give San hit just about dead center if I was to So I took it out in action. I bombed crew had chiselled a new Allison Framcisco and make the Japs stop work. CO-PILOT Bu Funeral transport trucks, tanks, or some oth things like that as I flew with him. had beenflying with the AVG. 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~ MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 bn 1944 NEVADA CITY NUGGET ciieeeemeniainees om ey ‘our. ships into the sun before we frags and set sail for Lashio. I re. ’ came within sight of the field we But I had seen enough. Even were to observe. I picked up little . ' membered to drop the belly tank before I. went down into the antithough this bridge was being built of CHAPTER XIV bamboo; they were making.it very strong, for the abutments were of heavier lumber and of stone. The Japanese were evidently planning to. Jeremiah Angove Is Summoned services under direction of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary -will be held this afternoon in Grass Valley for the late Jeremiah Angove, wh@ passed away Saturday morning. The services will be held at the residence of the deceased, 318Neal Street. Burrial will be in the Masonic Cemetery. The deceased was a. Cornwall, England. native He came of in and his earlier years were spent rk Yo New in ed the mines. He work Hill, the Eureka, and for a time in Sheepranch Mine in Calaveras coun. ty. More than a half century azo he entered Grass Valley’s business cir cles establishing a clothing the only to York. LaGuardia region it serves Field in New CHRISTMAS PARTY The American Legion Auxiliary will give a Christmas party Wednesday evening, Detember 13th, in the veterans Memorial Building. Mem store bers will exchange ‘which he maintained until his bers of the Army Board that had been appointed to induct the AVG re 50. cent gifts among themselves. tirement in 1939. Last Christmas -The auxiliary has purchased a Eve, he and his late wife, the fornumber of war bonds, and several mer Julia Wedlock, celebarted their dozen boxes to be distributed among 6th wedding annivarsary. service men who are on the high sea Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. on Christmas Day. They completed Edwin Matteson and Mrs. Ray ParDians~for making candy and cookies sons, both of this city, four grand-— for service men now in DeWitt Genehilrren and one great grandsom. eral Hospital. '" ‘ning now and for which you are buying and holding War Bonds, insist on Adequate Wiring. » In-your house of tomorrow you will be using and more electric appliamces as well as better _ improved lighting im every room. Adequate . Wiring makes sure there are plenty of conveni ence outlets, switches and circuits to give you the best service from your lamps and appliances. + The small difference in cost between : cheap or-inadequate wiring is more than paid . for by the extra conveniences, comforts and lower operating costs of appliances working . I came in to the target from. the Homalin and the railroad yards at have a foot of water in the “‘basha’’ that was Operations, and the men were sleeping almost in the water. I damnedest strafing ana bombing raids the Japs had ever seen. It would be my swan-song from Assam and I had to celebrate in some way or another. ound HE on “Old Exterminator,” -erners on the old familiar ‘subject. of the whys and wherefores of the’ ‘and I walkéd around looking the old PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY War Between the States. As the Southerners were in. greater num % bers, they of course ‘won most of the friendly arguments. From over near Sadiya, we had gotten eight elephants, tame ones, and were working them to move some heavy timbers to be used on ship over. Somehow I figured that the Army—after being pulled out of fighters for being too old, after be ing an instructor for four years, aftx being shanghaied: into being a the warehouses of the new field. There was an old Southern sergeant Burma-roadster, important as the derms. He must have been a mule Corps number 41-1456 on that in significant ship in India, and for all that I had used for sixty-three days over Burma became another num. } ber,. but it would always be “Ola . — Exterminator’ to me. In-those two {}. months we’d flown together 371 hours . over enemy territory and we were* more than friends. That is some what over eighty thousand miles, job had been. Well, I had got what and in combat that’s a long, I wanted and I felt as though I way. pulled the ‘belly tape aad put tie it was activated on the Fourth of . f/ tied the chains to their legs at night, “big, fat, yellow bomb under the bel. July. Ther was no e time for cele. } he would wrap the links with cloth ly, and tightened the sway braces. . bration. Radio Tokyo started right . = . to Keep them from chafing the thick The sight of that bomb made me . off with a , and we definitely . -skin of the big beasts. feel pretty good. knew hard work was ahead. On Another sergeant, from about the Next morning before dawn I was the night of July 3, Radio Toky same section of the country that in the air, my course set for Homathe old elephant caretaker hailed from, came by one day and looked lin. As I climbed out above the the stalls over with a quizzical eye. “clouds I began to recite ‘poetry in “Say, Micky,” he called back as rhythin with the engine. To the he left, ‘‘you’re taking too good care verses of “Gunga Din” I dropped of the day on the: of those elephants. You're going to my first bomb get ’em so comfortable that the Yan-_ docks of Homalin.: Then I flew back ing o ee. kees will come down here and free home with the words of the “Galley reckoned without the strategic brain Slave” going out over the radio in a . of the General, or the loyalty of ’em.”’ T Hotel Clunie . Bob Layher, one of the AVG '‘pi lots, came over for several days, and we drank good Scotch whiskey ARE RENOW NED IN CALIFORNIA at night and flew our planes ac¢ross jinto Burma in the day—when I didn’t have to get passengers on the freight ships. 1 iearried a lot, fly RATES FROM $1.50 UP Service—Best Food Pee. hills and jungles of Burma to Kun ming and ‘more adventures together,’ From that moment, we left the Air skinner in either the first World War could jump over the moon. I patted the leering shark’s mouth on old Everything has happened fast in or the border war with Mexico, for 41-1456 , and caress ed this the war, and the organization of the prop that he did everything in his power to rhad taken me in and out of many 23rd Fighter Group was no excep. keep the eight elephants dry and ‘messes. Then I left, while they . tion. There was no holiday, even if well-fed and content. Even when he The Key to the Home of Tomorrow _. . ) S88. ann K srrzert, : So, early the next morning; J 3, 1942, ‘‘me and the old Kitehewk® wended our happy way across the who took good care of the pachy in India, Kittyhawk had had a lot to do with ‘practical purposes the old P-40E getting .me the, greatest. job in the war. It’s not every man who finally gets what-he has always wanted in shane ae —_ 30¥ AND sacons. JACK BEUN®, } -ing on his wing. We'd go over for a look at Myitkyina, and it would ana came back and strafed the My third ‘attack was on the railroad station at Mogaung and I strafed the empty freight-cars in the yard. I had to use a belly tank on the fourth trip, amaze me how effortlessly, without . and so I couldn't take a 5 tack on Independence Day for the aps. had always shown affinity for raids on our holidays. When the Japs arrived over Kweito-find green and in big bomb. . many Ameboys ric who foran

weeks But T loaded on six istetecestas a, * private broadcast to the world. On Pipe ser of the FirstAmermy next trip I dropped a five-hun. ican Volunteer Group. _ RAG dred-pounder on a barge at Bhamo The General was much-abused Myitkyina. ee For Ree eae t ' b Ld Enjoyment: e : — : engine from somewhere—had proba I was through with all that lonesome remember. most of the Southern i I told my crew to load a 500boys would argue with the North —=—_ and I finished my ammunition by bly stolen it from, some ‘ship, but I West, with the sun right at my Mongaung the next day, and strafed didn’t know where. So I went on the field at Myitkyina coming back. back. I flew so. low that I was afraid the little windmill on the ‘During the ensuing days until the over in a transport, expecting to nose of the bomb would get knocked 26th of June, I carried out attacks come back later and ferry ‘“‘Old Exon barges near Bhamo, and on one _terminator’’ to his new home. off by the bushes. And then, as I As we came down into the rain saw the bridge, I let the bomb go. trip went to Shwebo and almost to Mandalay, making a round trip of over the lake’ South of Kunming, I. All hell broke loose. When I got back home I looked at nearly nine hundred miles. I strafed never have felt so good. This was “Old Exterminator’ and I couldn’t the field at Maymyo, caught a train another step to the East, towards Japan, and when I got out and saw see why it hadn’t spun in right there on the railroad North of town, and over the N’umzup. There were holes set it.on fire. It was anything for all those sleek-looking fighting ships as big as footballs in the fabric ;action—and the engine of ‘Old Exthat my Group was going to receive flippers and in the metal stabilizers terminator” got pretty rough at from the AVG in five days, my spirof the tail section. There-was a hole times, for by then I had thtee hunits soared another. mile in the air. the rains got worse; some days we’d under “full power’’ fro m Adequate Wiring. . houses by the railroad tracks. I shot up the field but saw no planes, in the fuselage and five holes indred and sixty hours on it and my wy war” ‘stuff. From now . ’ the wing. But I guess the hill iyst mechanics had _had little experience. “one-man on we'd be fighting as a team, with ith Allisons. East of the target had saved me hat night, when I got: home from bombers escorted by fighter ships in You see; the bomb hadn’t waited ; my ‘trip into Burma, I was handed a proper force to represent America. . ten seconds to go off—which would I had already met most of the have given me just that long to get a radiogram that saved my life. As members of the First American Volout of the way of the explosion. It unteer Group, but it was an even had gone off almost immediately, greater pleasure to meet them now. and as a result I’d been just about Some of them were men who were blown out of the sky. The one-tenth going to sty with the 23rd Fighter second of grace, with me traveling Group and fight.under me. Of all at some three hundred miles an the honors: that I ever have rehour, had let me go only about fifty ceived or ever will receive, the feet across the, target, but even that greatest to me will always be the had been enough to permit a small honor of. being given command of knoll to shield me from the main. ‘ that great group of sky fighters un' explosion. ‘ der the Command of Gen. Claire L. When I could get my breath again Chennault. I asked Sergeant Bonner to find out During the four days that followed from the armament men what in go over the military equipment hell was the matter with the bomb. ° He brought them back with him, off/the sqiadron that was based at and the ordnance expert told me that i and I got my headquarhe hadn’t said ten-seconds délay but ters staff organized. In this Army, one-tenth second delay. Just one Ster Sergeants showing officers hundred times less delay than I had. what to do have always betn the + expected! But ‘‘Old Exterminator’ backbone of a fighting force, and I lived through it, and as soon as will never. forget Master-.Sergeant they’d patched the holes I went back McNeven. I was certainly expectover the bridge. _We’d blown the ing to lead the group ‘in its fightsabutments, all the timber, and all against the Japanese, and the adthe ‘Japs from off the N’umzup. A ministrative work that the Sergeant five-hundred-pound bomb with eitherMajor of the 23rd Fighter Group aca ten-second delay fuse or a tenth. * Sergean t LaRue of the 23rd Fightcomplished’ so efficiently made / it, . second delay fuse will discourage .er Group. Everything has happened possible: for ine to fly and have th even the most persistent people. fast in this war, and the organizaPapér-work go on at the same time. As the June days passed, Colonel tion of the 23rd Fighter Group was Later in the week I heard that Haynes was moved to China to head no exceptio n. There was no holiday, “Old Exterminator” was ready with the Bomber Command under Geneven if it was activated on the @ new engine. But with the report eral Chennault, and I was left alone Fourth of July. came another that some other Group as Commanding Officer of the Ferrying Command. On the day the cheerI read it my face must have turned was moving into Assam, and that ful Haynes left, I felt as if I had lost white; I know that tears came to the engineering officer had stated my best and last friend. For this . my eyes, for I felt them burn, But he knew nothing about that ship 41meant that I’d have to stay. on the I didn’t care. I was ordered to re1456 belonging to the Chinese Gov-' ground more, and work the adminport in Kunming} China, to General ernment. It would stay in India, he istration as well as the operations of Chennault, as Commanding Officer said. I went on and flew back to the ABC, which was getting tougher of the 23rd Fighter Group which was India in one of the P-40E’s that we and tougher with all the rice we to be activated from the AVG on had just received from the factory . were having to @rop and the passenJuly 4, 1942. I wiped the tears from that repairs them in China. Landing at my old base, I waited gers we were ‘having to haul. my eyes and looked out. on an imuntil dark, and then had the numOn the one day that I stayed on proving world. I could hear the the ground, it seemed to me that birds singing again, and people, bers on the ship that I had flown in xchanged with those of my old every time I looked up from the desk were laughing; I knew I was the ter. For morale purposes alone, that I was ‘‘flying,’’ some long, lanky luckiest man in all the world. had to have that ship in the . tea planter would be standing there I carefully folded: the radiogram 23: Group. All this change invol in the door in sun-helmet and shorts. to show my grandchildren ved when the was a stencilling operation With his bony knees sticking out, war was over to put and went out to look 41-1456 on the ship that I had flown he’d ask me in cold clipped accents: at my. ship. For I had, something from China, and another to put on “I say old chap—do you have transelse on my mind too. I was going “Old Exterminator’’ the serial numportation for Calcutta?” : to go into Burma the next day on -ber of the fighter that I was leaving . ff My morale got pretty low. And” fo:ur of the dy THE HOME OF TOMORROW that you are plan 137-W-1244 aircraft, and I dropped the six little frags in two of the big green ware er heavier equipment North. I went right back to Dinjan and had Sergeant Bonner strap on a nice 500 to the best airport in the nation, second Grass Valley when 21 years of age and they helped ine later. On the twentieth of June, mem passed through Assam, and my } strafing the main street of the town. hopes faded of ever getting over to . I saw two plate-glass windows spatwork under General Chennault. I! ter across the street like artificial , knew that out of those Colonels, . snow from. a Christmas tree, and I pound bomb with a, delayed action the powers-that-be had surely picked . laughed hysterically as two figures fuse. At any rate the armament some lucky one to get the greatest Scott : i W.N.U. RELEASE men told him it was a ten-second job in the world. This was of course ran from a‘ pagoda. That day I landed back home tired . delay fuse. This type of target _ that of commanding the AVG after . . { had to be hit exactly, and if I were it came into the Army, with its . and happy. More orders had come S. F. Airport Is for me: I was to go to Delhi before to. glide in for a dead shot I'd nucleus of old AVG personnel and Pledged 50 Million surely get shot down by all the antithe new pilots as replacements from I went to China. I went there the next morning with ‘‘Long Johnny’ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11— To! aircraft. So I made up my mind home in the States. General ChenPayne. long before I got there to turn it nault, was to be the Task Force Commatch the propoed expenditure of loose just as low as I could fly. Even mander and was to’ be over the When I had received my official $20,000,000 by San Francisco for if I missed the bridge by only fifty Fighter Group and the ‘Bomber instructions from headquarters in its enlarged airport in San Mateo yards, which is close for dive-bombForce. Delhi, and had been wined and dined county, thirteen airlines this ing in ships. not made for that type If the Scotch hadn’t given out, I ' by good friends—war correspond. week of work, I’d knock a lot of leaves would have got drunk that pledged improvements to night. their fac. off the trees, make a big noise, and But instead I went on another strafents like Berrigan, Magoffin, and ilities to exceed $50,000,000 Briggs—-I came on back to pack my accordmaybe kill some gunners. But the ing raid in the late afternoon, and things in Assam. 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