March 12, 1945 (4 pages)

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945. ps & pier SER Cer eben greta Seal] apa Ey g (0) ALF Base R OUAIL ah RALdL ah SAN PRAINCISCO, March 12. At : : ‘ oa ) a, : 1 its mecting. in San Francisto.the California’ State Fish and Game Commission approved a proposed cooperative program ‘between the Division of Fish.and Game atid the Us: Army involving the rehablitation of convalescent soldiers . stationed Camp Lockett, San Diego» County. Working with living things,. it has been learned, has a very beneficial effect on many soldiers who are rement and an animal husbandry program has already been carried on experimentally by army -officials at Camp: Lockett and elsewhere in the west with marked success. The program -is under the direction of Maj. A. V. Boldt: The Division and Game of Fish has agreed to provide pheasant, quail . ro ’ . + * eggs and the! February follows: and chukar partridge chicks which will be reared at Camp Lockett and liberated in the vicinity as a part of the rehabilitation * Miscellaneous $194.00. :$20:00. OPA i $7.90 —$1,518.25—.$2,529.40. proper ; program. Soldiers who are interested in predator control will be provided with traps and trained in trapping methods by members of the division’s regular predatory animal control staff. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CHATTEL MORTGAGE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson intend to ex~ecute a chattel mortgage.on all fixtures and dairy equipment situated in and upon the premises commonly known and designated as Bret Harte Dairy, situated at 336 Jordan Street, Nevada City, California, and also on fixtures and equipment situated in and upon the premises commonly known and designated as Bret Harte Ice Cream Parlor, situated at 104 f Pine Street, Nevada City, California. ‘That the names of the Mortgagors are U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson whose addresg is 338 Jordan Street, Nevada City, California, and A the name of the Mortgagee is Bank of America National Trust and Sayings Association, Nevada City Branch, and whose address is 300 Broad Street, Nevada City, California. That the said Chattel Mortgage will be executed on the 15 day of “March 1945, at the hour of 10:30 A. M. at the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, in Nevada City, California. Dated this 6 day of March 1945. U. S. N. JOHNSON. ' LUCILLE C. JOHNSON. State of California, County of Nevada, gs. On this 6 day of March in the year One Thousand Nine. Hundred and Forty Five before me, H. A. Curnow, a Notary Public, in.and for the County of Nevada, personally appeared U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson, his wife, known to me to be the persons whose names are , Subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at my office, in the County of Nevada, the day and year in this certificate first above writen. H. A. CURINOW, Notary Public in and for the County of Nevada, State of California. My Commission Expires April 2, 1946. ert L.Scoftt at) . Mullis $66, Chas. Holstead $254 Arcovering from surgery or other treat-. thur. ;ey $23.57, . : PTT $17.60, Plaza Service Station . Lawrence Motors $1.36, Std. Oil Co. of Calif. $2.10, Std. Oil. of Galit $9.72, Alpha Stores Ltd. $62.70, N. . C. Red Cross Nurse $33.33, Geo. 8. Galanan $20.00. —-$2,080.72.The city treasurer’s FEpore =f or W:N.Y. RELEASE Us Cooperation program w conference betwee wing a month., a February Bills Paid Thursday night ordered. bills paid! as follows: . \ Sam Hooper $150,\ Geo. H. Galahan, $20, T. J, Allén $170. Otis -A “Hardt $150, J. Jackson Hallett $185, Miles D. Coughlin $15. $150, Hi, ral Mrs. Emma Foley $12.50, Mrs. Iva . . Williamson $70, Mrs. Grace Himes $65, Nick Sandow $140, Louie Keip ‘ ley $130, -W. M. Hallet:+*$130, Wm $31.43, Ella DucotNID $24.76, PGE $293.60. D. Draper 99 FA . $18.90. A. Carlisle and Co. $58.15, Receipts: Balance in treasury $8. 011.15. Water ‘collections $1292.60. Court toll calls $3.75. Disbursements: Warrants paid. en gemeral fund $2,443.25. ‘Warran:s paid on fire fund $58.00. Warrants paid on library fund $126.00.—$2.627,25. Balances: Balance in treasury $6.902.15. Balance in: fire fund $1,219.85. Balance in library fund $1.053.76. Balance in general fund $4.5516.5 4. Girl Scouts To Meeting Series The first of a series’ of font meetings of‘ Girl Scouts was held yesterday afiternoon in the Girls Scout Hall in the upper floor of the old fire house on Broad Street. The meetings are for the purpose ‘of acquainting parents with goals sought in Girl Scouting, with the intention expanding programs and membership in Grass Valley and Nevada City. Total Girl Scout membership in the United States now tops a million. In Nevada City ehere are 85 memlbers belong to two troops of Girl Scouts and two of Brownies. Grass Valley thas two Girl Scout Troops and one of Brownies. The series of meetings are in charge of Mrs. Jesse Morgan of this city and Mrs. John Myers of Grass Valley. Attending the meeting yesterday was a troop of Grass Valley Girl Scouts and many counsilors and parents of both towns. Topics today included the mechanics. of troop practice and the requirements of leadership. Grass Valley Mines Is Borne to Rest Funeral seraices were held yesterdayfor Ralph A. Norris in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley with Rev. Mark Pike offieiating. Interment wag in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. Norris died Thursday following an illness of five years. The deceased was a mine mechanic, aged 56 years, and a native of Lovelock, Butte County. He had resided in Grass Valley for 14 years. He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1940 from which: he never fully recovered. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Minnie Norris, two daughters, Vivian and Minnie May Norris of Grass Valley, and a son Clifford Norris with the U. S. Army in Italy. Norris was a member of the Mine Workers Protective League. Ss oa Hotel Clunie ; UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE” noe BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP . Excellent Service—Best Food : SHOP AND COCKTAIL 8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. 9 SAGRA’ , CALIFORNIA JACK BRUNO, Manavor Nevada City council meeting). fines4 JRAPTER XXV Pilots waiting for the order to go into the fitting at the crude table, wait for 4he chow wagon or for an ale istening with keen for the jinle of the telephone: my or poker, but 5 @ that was going > would be dealing the . tine of dropping a card here, and ‘one there, the phone would ring. The card would. stap in’the air, poised over the table while we all heard the, Chinese interpreters pick up the! magnete utter the famillo.”’? The card would remain there over the table, undealt throughout the player realized what h 5 ing. Then he’d. go he’itat 7 on. Perhaps the call was one of the . nt nothing; only . we could only wait and find out. Then . iver of the telephone . might drop Back into place and the . interpreter would saysomething to . hundreds that me: the Chinese really and knew, again, the tece another Chinese. This:-second one would go to the plotting-board, look at the marked co-erdinatés, and quietly puta little red flag down over a certain city towards Japanese territory. Even then, with one warning only, the game could go on for a long time in confidence. _ But as the phone kept ringing and the proximity of an attack became slower. More and more words would sentences would never end, nervous laughs would become more frequent. and to nothing else, and wishing subconsciously that you could pull it off the well. But there would always be more to come, with Chinese saying ‘“‘Wey,* wey — wey —. wey.” walk soundlessly across the room; no: jabberingfrom their business, and they knew when quit advancing and turned back, that something would happen. Maybe at this stage someone in the game would get up to investigate, and would come back and say, “Eighteen unknown in L-5,”’ or enemy plane over in S-15.’’ Then somebody else would grin hopefully ports every day.” alert that day would move out of the game and start looking the map and the flags over, sizing up the Situation. As the picture formed and it became apparent that this was a real attack he’d just go over and tell the card-game about it. Or maybe two or three men would begin to get helmets out. would silently break up, with cards and CN left where they were: Helmets and gloves would be put on. Men who. were pretending to be sleeping in~the._bags on the floor would be awakened. And the tension dropped off like a cloak. It wasn’t the actual combat these fighter pilots feared, for we all wanted combat more than anything else; it was the damnable uncertainty—the ringing of a telephone, an ominous sound that. most of the time meant nothing., When men went out of the door to get into their ships and take off there was no handing to friends on the ground of last letters to take care of, no entrusting of rings and watches to room-mates. For fighter pilots don’t think of.not coming back. They are invincible, or think they are, and they have to be that way. Down in our hearts: we may figure that some accident will get us some day, when we are old and gray, when our beards get in the way of the controls, or we get to where we don’t see well or react fast—but we know that no enemy fighter is good enough to shoot us down. If that happens it’s just an accident. These thoughts are the “chips” that we carry on our shoulders, and ‘they have to be there—arrogant, egotistical chips mellowed by flying technique and experience and fortified by the mottu, ‘‘Attack!’? Never be on the defensive. Shoot the enemy down before he can shoot you down. You are better than he is, but don’t give him a chance. He may get in a lucky shot but you’re invincible. Move towards any dot in the sky that remotely resembles an airplane. Move . to attack, with switches on and the sight ready. If it’s not a ship or if it’s a friendly one you'll be ready anyway, and your arrogant luck will last a lot longer. ‘The worry comes before you get to take off for combat—wondering whether or not you’ll do the right thing out of habit. After you’re in the’ air it’s all the fun of flying and doing the greatest job in the world. You _are up there, pitying all earthbound creatures who are not privileged to breathe this purer air on -high. Your training makes you do the combat work that is ahead without thinking about the movements. Months and years of training hours of waiting on the ground. . . high-powered engines pulling you up and up to the attack—and then in a. few fleeting “seconds the comhat is over, your ship is all that’s in the sky, and you’re on the way home again to base, whistling and, thinking how easy it was and‘what a great and glorious life it really is, You’re wondering if you can pick those cards up and finish the game and take your CN back from Ajax or Johnny or Mack.: You might be more certain, the game would get . be left hanging in the air, more} You'd realize finally that you were . listening to thatdamned telephone . More little flags would form a line on } the map, and more Chinese would . them—it -was “the flags got to a certain point, or . “Heavy engine noise to the East.” . It might be: the something that let . the tension off a bit, such as, ‘“‘Oneand say, ‘‘That’s old reliable—he re. _Perhaps the Squadron commandér or the officer who was on the The game } . thinking how good that sleeping bag is going to feel, or wondering whether the transrorts that can land on ‘the. field; now that the ‘air raid . alert is over. have brought you any . Niall. 2.) ‘one,.I wonder if Pes ven-made somé there in the new + some ; iybe_your warned him anyway. . Who knows? Day after day, through the early part .of November, we actually prayed that the weather East would clear, so that we could stop our small, piddling: attacks on Burma and go back to Hongkong. I knew’ that General Chennault and Cdlonel Cooper were planning a big one for the next time, for now we had the largest force of fighters we had ever seen in China.New P-40’s had been arriving in small numbers, steadily. being built up to strength at last. sent with his transport ground personnel to Kweilin. Aviation fuel and bombs were placed ready for instant use, and I: could feel the tension in the air again. From the daily reports on the airwarning net it could be seen that the Japanese had maintained a constant aerial patrol over Hongkong and vicinity since our last attack, ‘With the first break in the clouds we sent observation planes over with A group of fighter pilots on the alert at Kunming. a top-cover of several fighters, but the Jap would not come up to fight the shark-mouthed planes. His instructions appear to have been: Wait for the American bombers. On November 21, the ground crews got to Kweilin. Instead of keeping them in the hostel that first night to insure that information would not leak out. to the enemy, we sent them to town, first casually remarking that we were here now for the second attack on Hongkong. News traveled fast, as the General expécted it would, via the Korean girls and prostitutes in Japanese pay. General Chennault knew that within four hours the enemy would be waiting for us to strike Victoria harbor again, for his aerial patrol over the city had doubled. Our warning net showed that. Early next morning our twelve bombers slipped into Kweilin, with Colonel (promoted since the last attack) Butch Morgan in the lead ship. The strengthened fighter force of between thirty and forty planes infiltrated for reservice—some went to Kweilin, others scattered to the surrounding emergency fields for better protection of the bombers. As soon as I landed I ran up to the cave and the General took me in and showed me the plotting-board. The little red flags indicated increased vigilance at Hongkong. Then I got my orders: ‘“‘Strike Hongay.” In an hour the bombers were off to bomb the coal mines and docks of that Indo-China port North of Haiphong. Morgan sank a 12,000-ton ship that was reported to have been an aircraft carrier. The fighter escort strafed ferry boats, small surface craft, and looked for Jap fighters trying to intercept. But none came. That night the enemy sent up a flight of three bombers to each of our fields, looking for our forces. But we were so scattered that their luck was bad. Night fighters from all stations took off, but those under Maj. Harry Pike at Kweilin made perfect contact. The entire Japanese formation of three bombers was shot down over the field. Pike, Lombard, and Griffin ‘each added an enemy ship to. their scores, but Lombard was shot down in flames when the Jap gunners blew up his belly tank. Lombard had made the tactical error of pulling up over the bombers after delivering fire that shot one down. We had given him up for lost when he walked in carrying his chute—and begging for another ship: See At dawn the next day, November 23, I led the group to escort Morgan to Sanchau Island with twelve bombers. We had noted that the Japs were strengthening the air patrol! over Hongkong even more. The General had smiled and said, ‘‘We’re making them’ waste a terrible amount of gasoline.’ We saw Morgan’s bombs take out but . The Group was actually . ton. two of the three hanear?-on the is. land” field, and we we it down: to strafe and watch for interceptors taking off. Some of the flisht sot three, but my plane wos hit hy the n immed ly to fail, I started si] re ] . going from ty F: Hy. 0-7 iiig yu ret to l . tt I 1f { hip « y BIE iis it mi lat 1 tH QO That aftei 1 shters t ) rs to. ¢ Capt I “om, Ww ) i 4 Lé 1 on Tc ea I f Apri d the cled to t outh of Tien Ho airdrome 1 covered the tar area perfectly with his long string of bombs. ‘The anti-aircraft was heavy and increased as we went on North over. White Cloud field. I. looked back at the results at Tien Ho and felt a surge of pride: at’ that perfect bombing from fourteen thousand feet. This was teamwork, I knew now, with bombers -and fighters properly proportioned: All of uS .were mad because the Japs . wouldn't come up. The bomber With the first breaks in the heavy . erews had reported them taking off ’ winter clouds, Bert Carleton was and our, . from both fields and keeping low, but heading in all directions. The accurate bombing must have de-. } stroyed many of them on the ground, for we had made a feint of continuing on South to Hongkong. one ship home with each bomber. The rest of us hung back and tried to tempt the enemy Zeros to come up; but they had evidently received their orders. Next morning Lieut. Pat Daniels . got up begging the General to let him lead a dive-bombing attack on an aircraft assembly. plant in CanHis plan was good, and the mission. was made ready. All of us .went down to the alert shack and watched the ground crew loading the little yellow ‘fragmentation bombs under the wings of six P-40E’s. were off, with Daniels waiting to blow up the factory, and all set with his movie camera to take pictures automatically as he dove the bombs into the target. Three hours later only five of the six returned. Pat Daniels was missing in action. His wing man had seen his leader lose part of his wing in’an explosion on the way in with the bombs. Anti-aircraft could have done it, but most of us agreed from the description that Daniels’ bombs might have hit his own propeller. At the tremendous speed that a fast fighter-ship builds upina long and nearly vertical dive, pressures are also built up from the inscreased speed. This torque necessitates so much compensating Pressure on the rudder that one must actually stand on the rudder control. While doing this, Pat might . have relaxed pressure just as.he reached down to pull the bomb release; this would have allowed the Speeding plane to ‘‘yaw’’ or skid, and the bombs could have struck the arc of the prop. The only note of encouragement was that a chute had been seen when the fighters left the target. Lieut. Patrick Daniels was one of our best and most aggressive pilots, and we missed him immediately —and hoped for the best. That same night, Johnny Alison led eight, ships in a fighter sweep and dive-bombing attack on the docks at Hankow, over four hundred miles to the North. In the river harbor, with the sky criss-crossed by tracers from the ground, Johnny dropped his bombs on the hangars and on a large freighter. Then for ten minutes he strafed the enemy vessel and badly disabted’ it. Captain Hampshire dove and shot the searchlights out until he was out of ammunition. The night attack so deep into enemy territory was a daring one and did much to confuse the Japs further. Johnny’s ships were rather badly shot up from the ground-fire, and he was lucky to get’ them all back to base safely. But it was such missions as these which built up the circumstances that would assure the success of the big attack the General was planning. Next day, with eighteen fighters, we escorted the bombers to raid Sienning, an occupied town near Hankow. We kept the circling movement all around our B-25’s and tried to give them an added feeling of security by our presénce. Through heavy anti-aircraft fire, Morgan led the attack in and didn’t waste a bomb. We left the warehouses in flames, and there was much less ack-ack coming up towards us than when we first approached. : : Arriving back at our advanced base, we refueled and bombed up again. Then we made the second raid of the day towards Hankow, over the town of Yoyang. Once again Morgan blasted. the ‘target, with black bursts of anti-aircraft fire bouncing around the formation. But there was no interception, and now we were feeling blue. We couldn’t destroy the Jap Air Forcé if they were going to try to save ‘their airplanes. We spent the next day, Thanksgiving, working on the airplanes and . resting. We had flown seven missions in four days, and both men and machines were tired and in need of repair. We had a special dinner that night, but remained extra Vigilant against a surprise by the Jap. On that Thanksgiving evening, as. we were grouped arqund the General, he brought out a bottle éf Scotch some one had given him, (TO BE CONTINUED) I sent . a A short time later they . 3 o ae ad PEE ENS HSS iH AEN IH IIENIE NS ye “taka ah, KA > thefothetate she sh he ate. > %, wee +, > *, enka oie ate tists cient otest OOOH ‘ fe thetateatet hotest teatet rat Mas Ao Mt hs be iheateste + st , ‘Ss se at a tested : = % % 7 * BOS + *, * ic Sc ic she he “tS % + % ae * 5 K 3 % Og , 6 t se Our patrons find that despite rationing wartime conditions the quality of our meats measures up to the same high stadnards ‘always ¥, mt?) +3 % , Ys and ot, aw, oy PAtMS HOH Mt Heat foloiotitet we have it <? , gS 4 ee % maintained. Our meats come % ee *% from the best cattle, lambs and ; 3 swine that money can buy. Our . x ne Service to our patrons is built on a foundation of high quality and: reasonable prices. Ask your neiglibors about us. They will tell you. 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MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945. ps & pier SER Cer eben greta Seal] apa Ey g (0) ALF Base R OUAIL ah RALdL ah SAN PRAINCISCO, March 12. At : : ‘ oa ) a, : 1 its mecting. in San Francisto.the California’ State Fish and Game Commission approved a proposed cooperative program ‘between the Division of Fish.and Game atid the Us: Army involving the rehablitation of convalescent soldiers . stationed Camp Lockett, San Diego» County. Working with living things,. it has been learned, has a very beneficial effect on many soldiers who are rement and an animal husbandry program has already been carried on experimentally by army -officials at Camp: Lockett and elsewhere in the west with marked success. The program -is under the direction of Maj. A. V. Boldt: The Division and Game of Fish has agreed to provide pheasant, quail . ro ’ . + * eggs and the! February follows: and chukar partridge chicks which will be reared at Camp Lockett and liberated in the vicinity as a part of the rehabilitation * Miscellaneous $194.00. :$20:00. OPA i $7.90 —$1,518.25—.$2,529.40. proper ; program. Soldiers who are interested in predator control will be provided with traps and trained in trapping methods by members of the division’s regular predatory animal control staff. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CHATTEL MORTGAGE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson intend to ex~ecute a chattel mortgage.on all fixtures and dairy equipment situated in and upon the premises commonly known and designated as Bret Harte Dairy, situated at 336 Jordan Street, Nevada City, California, and also on fixtures and equipment situated in and upon the premises commonly known and designated as Bret Harte Ice Cream Parlor, situated at 104 f Pine Street, Nevada City, California. ‘That the names of the Mortgagors are U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson whose addresg is 338 Jordan Street, Nevada City, California, and A the name of the Mortgagee is Bank of America National Trust and Sayings Association, Nevada City Branch, and whose address is 300 Broad Street, Nevada City, California. That the said Chattel Mortgage will be executed on the 15 day of “March 1945, at the hour of 10:30 A. M. at the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, in Nevada City, California. Dated this 6 day of March 1945. U. S. N. JOHNSON. ' LUCILLE C. JOHNSON. State of California, County of Nevada, gs. On this 6 day of March in the year One Thousand Nine. Hundred and Forty Five before me, H. A. Curnow, a Notary Public, in.and for the County of Nevada, personally appeared U. S. N. Johnson and Lucille C. Johnson, his wife, known to me to be the persons whose names are , Subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at my office, in the County of Nevada, the day and year in this certificate first above writen. H. A. CURINOW, Notary Public in and for the County of Nevada, State of California. My Commission Expires April 2, 1946. ert L.Scoftt at) . Mullis $66, Chas. Holstead $254 Arcovering from surgery or other treat-. thur. ;ey $23.57, . : PTT $17.60, Plaza Service Station . Lawrence Motors $1.36, Std. Oil Co. of Calif. $2.10, Std. Oil. of Galit $9.72, Alpha Stores Ltd. $62.70, N. . C. Red Cross Nurse $33.33, Geo. 8. Galanan $20.00. —-$2,080.72.The city treasurer’s FEpore =f or W:N.Y. RELEASE Us Cooperation program w conference betwee wing a month., a February Bills Paid Thursday night ordered. bills paid! as follows: . \ Sam Hooper $150,\ Geo. H. Galahan, $20, T. J, Allén $170. Otis -A “Hardt $150, J. Jackson Hallett $185, Miles D. Coughlin $15. $150, Hi, ral Mrs. Emma Foley $12.50, Mrs. Iva . . Williamson $70, Mrs. Grace Himes $65, Nick Sandow $140, Louie Keip ‘ ley $130, -W. M. Hallet:+*$130, Wm $31.43, Ella DucotNID $24.76, PGE $293.60. D. Draper 99 FA . $18.90.. A. Carlisle and Co. $58.15, Receipts: Balance in treasury $8. 011.15. Water ‘collections $1292.60. Court toll calls $3.75. Disbursements: Warrants paid. en gemeral fund $2,443.25. ‘Warran:s paid on fire fund $58.00. Warrants paid on library fund $126.00.—$2.627,25. Balances: Balance in treasury $6.902.15. Balance in: fire fund $1,219.85. Balance in library fund $1.053.76. Balance in general fund $4.5516.5 4. Girl Scouts To Meeting Series The first of a series’ of font meetings of‘ Girl Scouts was held yesterday afiternoon in the Girls Scout Hall in the upper floor of the old fire house on Broad Street. The meetings are for the purpose ‘of acquainting parents with goals sought in Girl Scouting, with the intention expanding programs and membership in Grass Valley and Nevada City. Total Girl Scout membership in the United States now tops a million. In Nevada City ehere are 85 memlbers belong to two troops of Girl Scouts and two of Brownies. Grass Valley thas two Girl Scout Troops and one of Brownies. The series of meetings are in charge of Mrs. Jesse Morgan of this city and Mrs. John Myers of Grass Valley. Attending the meeting yesterday was a troop of Grass Valley Girl Scouts and many counsilors and parents of both towns. Topics today included the mechanics. of troop practice and the requirements of leadership. Grass Valley Mines Is Borne to Rest Funeral seraices were held yesterdayfor Ralph A. Norris in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley with Rev. Mark Pike offieiating. Interment wag in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. Norris died Thursday following an illness of five years. The deceased was a mine mechanic, aged 56 years, and a native of Lovelock, Butte County. He had resided in Grass Valley for 14 years. He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1940 from which: he never fully recovered. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Minnie Norris, two daughters, Vivian and Minnie May Norris of Grass Valley, and a son Clifford Norris with the U. S. Army in Italy. Norris was a member of the Mine Workers Protective League. Ss oa Hotel Clunie ; UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE” noe BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP . Excellent Service—Best Food : SHOP AND COCKTAIL 8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. 9 SAGRA’ , CALIFORNIA JACK BRUNO, Manavor Nevada City council meeting). fines4 JRAPTER XXV Pilots waiting for the order to go into the fitting at the crude table, wait for 4he chow wagon or for an ale istening with keen for the jinle of the telephone: my or poker, but 5 @ that was going > would be dealing the . tine of dropping a card here, and ‘one there, the phone would ring. The card would. stap in’the air, poised over the table while we all heard the, Chinese interpreters pick up the! magnete utter the famillo.”’? The card would remain there over the table, undealt throughout the player realized what h 5 ing. Then he’d. go he’itat 7 on. Perhaps the call was one of the . nt nothing; only . we could only wait and find out. Then . iver of the telephone . might drop Back into place and the . interpreter would saysomething to . hundreds that me: the Chinese really and knew, again, the tece another Chinese.. This:-second one would go to the plotting-board, look at the marked co-erdinatés, and quietly puta little red flag down over a certain city towards Japanese territory. Even then, with one warning only, the game could go on for a long time in confidence. _ But as the phone kept ringing and the proximity of an attack became slower. More and more words would sentences would never end, nervous laughs would become more frequent. and to nothing else, and wishing subconsciously that you could pull it off the well. But there would always be more to come, with Chinese saying ‘“‘Wey,* wey — wey —. wey.” walk soundlessly across the room; no: jabberingfrom their business, and they knew when quit advancing and turned back, that something would happen. Maybe at this stage someone in the game would get up to investigate, and would come back and say, “Eighteen unknown in L-5,”’ or enemy plane over in S-15.’’ Then somebody else would grin hopefully ports every day.” alert that day would move out of the game and start looking the map and the flags over, sizing up the Situation. As the picture formed and it became apparent that this was a real attack he’d just go over and tell the card-game about it. Or maybe two or three men would begin to get helmets out. would silently break up, with cards and CN left where they were: Helmets and gloves would be put on. Men who. were pretending to be sleeping in~the._bags on the floor would be awakened. And the tension dropped off like a cloak. It wasn’t the actual combat these fighter pilots feared, for we all wanted combat more than anything else; it was the damnable uncertainty—the ringing of a telephone, an ominous sound that. most of the time meant nothing., When men went out of the door to get into their ships and take off there was no handing to friends on the ground of last letters to take care of, no entrusting of rings and watches to room-mates. For fighter pilots don’t think of.not coming back. They are invincible, or think they are, and they have to be that way. Down in our hearts: we may figure that some accident will get us some day, when we are old and gray, when our beards get in the way of the controls, or we get to where we don’t see well or react fast—but we know that no enemy fighter is good enough to shoot us down. If that happens it’s just an accident. These thoughts are the “chips” that we carry on our shoulders, and ‘they have to be there—arrogant, egotistical chips mellowed by flying technique and experience and fortified by the mottu, ‘‘Attack!’? Never be on the defensive. Shoot the enemy down before he can shoot you down. You are better than he is, but don’t give him a chance. He may get in a lucky shot but you’re invincible. Move towards any dot in the sky that remotely resembles an airplane. Move . to attack, with switches on and the sight ready. If it’s not a ship or if it’s a friendly one you'll be ready anyway, and your arrogant luck will last a lot longer. ‘The worry comes before you get to take off for combat—wondering whether or not you’ll do the right thing out of habit. After you’re in the’ air it’s all the fun of flying and doing the greatest job in the world. You _are up there, pitying all earthbound creatures who are not privileged to breathe this purer air on -high. Your training makes you do the combat work that is ahead without thinking about the movements. Months and years of training hours of waiting on the ground. . . high-powered engines pulling you up and up to the attack—and then in a. few fleeting “seconds the comhat is over, your ship is all that’s in the sky, and you’re on the way home again to base, whistling and, thinking how easy it was and‘what a great and glorious life it really is, You’re wondering if you can pick those cards up and finish the game and take your CN back from Ajax or Johnny or Mack.: You might be more certain, the game would get . be left hanging in the air, more} You'd realize finally that you were . listening to thatdamned telephone . More little flags would form a line on } the map, and more Chinese would . them—it -was “the flags got to a certain point, or . “Heavy engine noise to the East.” . It might be: the something that let . the tension off a bit, such as, ‘“‘Oneand say, ‘‘That’s old reliable—he re. _Perhaps the Squadron commandér or the officer who was on the The game } . thinking how good that sleeping bag is going to feel, or wondering whether the transrorts that can land on ‘the. field; now that the ‘air raid . alert is over. have brought you any . Niall. 2.) ‘one,.I wonder if Pes ven-made somé there in the new + some ; iybe_your warned him anyway. . Who knows? Day after day, through the early part .of November, we actually prayed that the weather East would clear, so that we could stop our small, piddling: attacks on Burma and go back to Hongkong. I knew’ that General Chennault and Cdlonel Cooper were planning a big one for the next time, for now we had the largest force of fighters we had ever seen in China.New P-40’s had been arriving in small numbers, steadily. being built up to strength at last.

sent with his transport ground personnel to Kweilin. Aviation fuel and bombs were placed ready for instant use, and I: could feel the tension in the air again. From the daily reports on the airwarning net it could be seen that the Japanese had maintained a constant aerial patrol over Hongkong and vicinity since our last attack, ‘With the first break in the clouds we sent observation planes over with A group of fighter pilots on the alert at Kunming. a top-cover of several fighters, but the Jap would not come up to fight the shark-mouthed planes. His instructions appear to have been: Wait for the American bombers. On November 21, the ground crews got to Kweilin. Instead of keeping them in the hostel that first night to insure that information would not leak out. to the enemy, we sent them to town, first casually remarking that we were here now for the second attack on Hongkong. News traveled fast, as the General expécted it would, via the Korean girls and prostitutes in Japanese pay. General Chennault knew that within four hours the enemy would be waiting for us to strike Victoria harbor again, for his aerial patrol over the city had doubled. Our warning net showed that. Early next morning our twelve bombers slipped into Kweilin, with Colonel (promoted since the last attack) Butch Morgan in the lead ship. The strengthened fighter force of between thirty and forty planes infiltrated for reservice—some went to Kweilin, others scattered to the surrounding emergency fields for better protection of the bombers. As soon as I landed I ran up to the cave and the General took me in and showed me the plotting-board. The little red flags indicated increased vigilance at Hongkong. Then I got my orders: ‘“‘Strike Hongay.” In an hour the bombers were off to bomb the coal mines and docks of that Indo-China port North of Haiphong. Morgan sank a 12,000-ton ship that was reported to have been an aircraft carrier. The fighter escort strafed ferry boats, small surface craft, and looked for Jap fighters trying to intercept. But none came. That night the enemy sent up a flight of three bombers to each of our fields, looking for our forces. But we were so scattered that their luck was bad. Night fighters from all stations took off, but those under Maj. Harry Pike at Kweilin made perfect contact. The entire Japanese formation of three bombers was shot down over the field. Pike, Lombard, and Griffin ‘each added an enemy ship to. their scores, but Lombard was shot down in flames when the Jap gunners blew up his belly tank. Lombard had made the tactical error of pulling up over the bombers after delivering fire that shot one down. We had given him up for lost when he walked in carrying his chute—and begging for another ship: See At dawn the next day, November 23, I led the group to escort Morgan to Sanchau Island with twelve bombers. We had noted that the Japs were strengthening the air patrol! over Hongkong even more. The General had smiled and said, ‘‘We’re making them’ waste a terrible amount of gasoline.’ We saw Morgan’s bombs take out but . The Group was actually . ton. two of the three hanear?-on the is. land” field, and we we it down: to strafe and watch for interceptors taking off. Some of the flisht sot three, but my plane wos hit hy the n immed ly to fail, I started si] re ] . going from ty F: Hy. 0-7 iiig yu ret to l . tt I 1f { hip « y BIE iis it mi lat 1 tH QO That aftei 1 shters t ) rs to. ¢ Capt I “om, Ww ) i 4 Lé 1 on Tc ea I f Apri d the cled to t outh of Tien Ho airdrome 1 covered the tar area perfectly with his long string of bombs. ‘The anti-aircraft was heavy and increased as we went on North over. White Cloud field. I. looked back at the results at Tien Ho and felt a surge of pride: at’ that perfect bombing from fourteen thousand feet. This was teamwork, I knew now, with bombers -and fighters properly proportioned: All of uS .were mad because the Japs . wouldn't come up. The bomber With the first breaks in the heavy . erews had reported them taking off ’ winter clouds, Bert Carleton was and our, . from both fields and keeping low, but heading in all directions. The accurate bombing must have de-. } stroyed many of them on the ground, for we had made a feint of continuing on South to Hongkong. one ship home with each bomber. The rest of us hung back and tried to tempt the enemy Zeros to come up; but they had evidently received their orders. Next morning Lieut. Pat Daniels . got up begging the General to let him lead a dive-bombing attack on an aircraft assembly. plant in CanHis plan was good, and the mission. was made ready. All of us .went down to the alert shack and watched the ground crew loading the little yellow ‘fragmentation bombs under the wings of six P-40E’s. were off, with Daniels waiting to blow up the factory, and all set with his movie camera to take pictures automatically as he dove the bombs into the target. Three hours later only five of the six returned. Pat Daniels was missing in action. His wing man had seen his leader lose part of his wing in’an explosion on the way in with the bombs. Anti-aircraft could have done it, but most of us agreed from the description that Daniels’ bombs might have hit his own propeller. At the tremendous speed that a fast fighter-ship builds upina long and nearly vertical dive, pressures are also built up from the inscreased speed. This torque necessitates so much compensating Pressure on the rudder that one must actually stand on the rudder control. While doing this, Pat might . have relaxed pressure just as.he reached down to pull the bomb release; this would have allowed the Speeding plane to ‘‘yaw’’ or skid, and the bombs could have struck the arc of the prop. The only note of encouragement was that a chute had been seen when the fighters left the target. Lieut. Patrick Daniels was one of our best and most aggressive pilots, and we missed him immediately —and hoped for the best. That same night, Johnny Alison led eight, ships in a fighter sweep and dive-bombing attack on the docks at Hankow, over four hundred miles to the North. In the river harbor, with the sky criss-crossed by tracers from the ground, Johnny dropped his bombs on the hangars and on a large freighter. Then for ten minutes he strafed the enemy vessel and badly disabted’ it. Captain Hampshire dove and shot the searchlights out until he was out of ammunition. The night attack so deep into enemy territory was a daring one and did much to confuse the Japs further. Johnny’s ships were rather badly shot up from the ground-fire, and he was lucky to get’ them all back to base safely. But it was such missions as these which built up the circumstances that would assure the success of the big attack the General was planning. Next day, with eighteen fighters, we escorted the bombers to raid Sienning, an occupied town near Hankow. We kept the circling movement all around our B-25’s and tried to give them an added feeling of security by our presénce. Through heavy anti-aircraft fire, Morgan led the attack in and didn’t waste a bomb. We left the warehouses in flames, and there was much less ack-ack coming up towards us than when we first approached. : : Arriving back at our advanced base, we refueled and bombed up again. Then we made the second raid of the day towards Hankow, over the town of Yoyang. Once again Morgan blasted. the ‘target, with black bursts of anti-aircraft fire bouncing around the formation. But there was no interception, and now we were feeling blue. We couldn’t destroy the Jap Air Forcé if they were going to try to save ‘their airplanes. We spent the next day, Thanksgiving, working on the airplanes and . resting. We had flown seven missions in four days, and both men and machines were tired and in need of repair. We had a special dinner that night, but remained extra Vigilant against a surprise by the Jap. 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