GOD IS MY i <, . CO-PILOT Col. Robert L.Scott w-ftu RfcLtA.se. Ill story tons IU: Alter iridBaUif (rem Weet Point, Eobert Scott wins Mi wtof s 1 MUl PleM US Inker rp ccmbsl Mil. He kne been an Instructor lor (ear rears when the war breaks eat, aM U laM be Is aa? toe oM lor combat ?y tnf. Appeallas to seesral Generals, ke IS AnaHr tali ke can set Into Ike litt. He Sles a bomber to India, bat on ar rival Is nude a terry pilot and this does not salt him. Alter a visit to Gen. cben naolt he sett a Elttyhawk and eooa be comes knows as the "an# man air torce," taking heavy Jap too to Burma. Later he to made C.O. el the ard Fishier Group, bat still keeps on knocktos down Jap pianos. His "Old Exterminator" la badly mauled to a dostshL CHAPTER XXIV As I looked around now the bomb ers were gone, but climbing up from the South I saw tour twin-engine ships that I thought were I-45's; i later we decided they were Japa nese Messerschmitts. I had plenty of altitude on the leader, and start ed shooting at him from long range, concentrating on his right engine. He turned to dive, and I followed him straight for the water. I re member grinning, for he had made the usual mistake of diving instead of climbing. But as I drew up on the twin-engine ship, I began to be lieve that I had hit him from the long range. His ship was losing al titude rapidly in a power glide, but he was making no effort to turn. I came up to within fifty yards and fired into him until he burned. I saw the ship hit the water and continue to burn. We had been going to wards the fog bank in the direction of the Philippines, and I wondered if the Jap had been running for-Ma nila. i snot ai iwo 01 me orner iwin engine ships from long range but couldn't climb up to them. Then I passed over Hongkong island, flying - at a thousand feet; I was too low but didn't want to waste any time climbing. And I saw something that gripped my heart?a fenced-in en closure which I knew was Fort Stan ley, the British and American prison camp. There was a large group standing in the camp and waving at my ship. My saddest feeling of the war came over me then. Here were soldiers who had been prison ers of the Japanese for nearly a year. Month after month they had waited for the sight of Allied airplanes at tacking Hongkong?and at last it had come. Even in their suffering they were waving a cheer to the few United States planes that had finally come, and I swore to myself Td come back again and again. Then I saw above me the criss crossing vapor paths of an area where fighter ships have sped through an air attack. They almost covered the sky in a cloud. Here and there were darker lines that could have been smoke paths where ships had burned and gone down to destruction. I was rudely jerked back to at tention by a slow voice that yet was sharp: "If that's a P-40 in front of me, waggle your wings." I rocked my wings before I looked. Then I saw the other ship, a P-40 nearly a mile. away. I think from the voice it was Tex Hill. I went over to wards him and together we dove towards home. The presence of the other P-40 made me feel very arrogant and egotistical, for I had shot down four enemy ships and had damaged oth ers. So 1 looped above Victoria har bor and dove for the Peninsular Hotel. My tracers ripped into the shining plate-glass of the pent houses on its top, and I saw the Diuneu w uiuuwo cascaue ii&c buuw to th? streets, many floors below. I laughed, for I knew that behind those-windows were Japanese high officers, enjoying that modern ho tel. When I got closer I could see uniformed figures going down the fire-escapes, and I shot at them. In the smoke of Kowloon I could smell oil and rubber. I turned for one more run on the pecked fire-escapes filled with Jap soldiers, but my next burst ended very suddenly. I was out of ammunition. Then, right into the smoke and inrough it right down to the tree-lop levels, I headed Northwest to get out of Japanese territory sooner, and went as fast as I coula lor Kweilin. 1 was the last ship in, and the General was anxiously waiting for me, scanning the sky for ships to come in. He knew 1 had shot down an enemy, for I had come in with my low-altitude roll of victory. But when I jumped from my cramped seat and said, "General, I got four definitely," be shook my hand and looked very happy. "That makes nineteen then," he said, "for the fighters and the bombers." We had lost a fighter and a bomb er. The bomber had become a strag gler when one engine was hit by anti aircraft; then it was shot to pieces by one of the twin-engined Jap fight ers. The pilot had managed even then to get it down, but he had re mained in the ship to destroy the bomb-eight, and bad been shot through the foot by a Jap cannon. Two of the bomber crew had bailed out and were captured. The other two carried the injured pilot until he had begged them to leave him alone and escape. They had ban daged his foot tightly, but had re fused to go without him. . As they moved on through the en ? y emy line* that night, they stopped i to rest, and the wounded pilot 1 crawled away from them to Insure i their getting away to the guerrilla i lines. They escaped, and later we i received a letter signed by the other I two crewmen which said that the ] pilot had been captured and was I then in a Japanese hospital. The | letter was a Japanese propaganda i leaflet that the Japs had dropped ' near Kweilin, but being properly signed, it gave us hope (or the re- \ mainder of the crew, and for the i heroic pilot, Lieutenant Alters. That night Morgan led a night ? raid to bomb Canton, and had a successful attack. Later the same night, Ed Bayse led six bombers to | destroy the power station on Hong- : kong Island. In his return to Kwei- ] lin, five of his ships landed but the ; other continued to circle?informing ' the radioman that he had no air speed and thus was having difficulty bringing the fast bomber in to land. Bayse, who had worked all the day and most of the night over ene my lines, started his ship and went aloft, got the other ship on his wing in formation, and told the pilot to keep the position. And then this experienced bomber pilot led the younger pilot in to a safe landing. It was teamwork of the sort that had begun to appear among the bomber crews, and more important still, as the co-ordinated attack had shown, between the fighters and bombers. This was what Colonel Cooper had been working for during the past several months. Cooper had done another fine Job, one that we learned of only after we returned to Kunming from the at tack. In India the field in Assam had been raided heavily by the Jap anese at the same hour as our at tack on Kowloon, and simultaneous Gen. Chennault observes the re turn of the CJLT.F. from s raid. Lieut. Grosselose at left. ly the Japanese had tried to strike at Kunming with a large force. Colo nel Cooper had been left behind in the hospital with a sinus infection. He was chafing at the bit, and we sympathized with him?for after having planned the greatest raid of the war in China, he had been forced out of accompanying the mission. But it has always been our con tention out there that "everything happens for the best." And it proved out again. When the enemy planes approached Kunming, Cooper left the hospital and took charge of the defense of the home base. He sent Schiel's Squadron towards the South at exactly the right time. They not only intercepted the enemy and foiled the attack but shot down eight of the enemy. That made the score for the Group twenty-seven enemy planes on October 25th, and three highly successful bombing raids. We were ordered home the next day, although we now had the ene my at our mercy without fighter protection against future raids to wards Hongkong. But heavy at tacks had come to India, and we were needed to protect the terminus of the fprrv route to China. , v We managed, however, to leave a small force of P-40's under Holloway and Alison, with mission to dive bomb shipping in Victoria harbor within the nest few days. They took eight planes down and dove through the overcast towards some big enemy freighters that were on the way South towards the Solo mons. Their bombs damaged two 8,000-ton freighters and sank a 12, 000-ton vessel. Captain O'Connell made this last direct hit by almost taking his bomb down the smoke stack of the enemy vessel, and in doing so he was shot down. He took the bomb very low, and in re covering from the dive he was at tacked by a single enemy, who got one of the best pilots in the Squad ron. Clinger and Alison saw the enemy ship, but from their dis tance they could do nothing in time to save O'Connell. While Alison was getting the lone enemy ship, Clinger dove in anger along the docks of Kowloon, strafing three anti-aircraft positions in the face of very heavy ground-fire. The most vivid memories of our air war in China come from the lit tle things. Like the memory of General Chennault, sitting there at the mouth of the cava in Kweilin through the long hours while we were away on the attack missions | Sitting there smoking his pipe and, like a football coach, planning the aext week's work. Joe, the Gener al's little black dashahund, would be burrowing into the rocks, looking for the inevitable rats. When with the passing minutes the P-40's or the bombers were due to return, the General would begin to watch the eastern sky. There he would sit. without a word until the last ship was accounted for. Sometimes I thought: The General lives through every second of the combat with us. With his keen knowledge of tactics and of the Jap too, he sees exactly what we are doing. Another memory that always brings a smile is Lieutenant Couch's [ace when he was explaining what happened the first time he got a Jap Zero in his sights. The enemy ship was a lone "sitter," probably some Inexperienced Japanese pilot who wasn't looking around and didn't know the P-40 was behind him. Couch said he kept moving up closer and closer until he knew the Jap was going to be dead the Instant he pressed his trigger. Then he pressed ?and nothing happened. He squeezed the trigger until he thought he'd press the top off the stick; he found that he shut his eyes, flinched, and bit his lip, but still the guns didn't Ore. The American pilot from the Caro linas swore and throttled back, drop ping to the rear while the Jap kept flying innocently on. After Couch had recharged his guns he began to stalk the Zero again, going closer and closer until he could see the enemy pilot at the controls. He set his sights right on the cockpit and pressed the trigger once more. And again nothing happened. Couch came home disgusted, and I think he worked on his guns all night. Up between Hengyang and Ling ling we had broken the main Jap force with several attacks and there were only stragglers around the sky. We had been searching them out for fifteen minutes when I saw and heard a remark that was nothing short of classic. From 21,000 feet I observed a lone Zero. But there was a P-40 trailing him, and so I held my altitude and watched. The P-40 closed the gap more and more, following the acrobatics of the Jap, and then drew up for the kill. As the tracers from the six guns went into the Zero I heard the voice of Captain Goss say, "There, Hirohito, you bastard?God rest your soul." Over the radio you could also hear the staccato roll of the six Fifties. The Zero slowly rolled over to de struction. Sometimes the hated Japs had the last word. In regions where the air warning net was working poorly or not at all, our first knowledge of the approach of the enemy would be the sight of Japanese bombers overhead. As the bombs blasted the runways and the Jap radial engines were taking their ships at high alti tude back towards their bases, we would hear over the radio on our exact frequency, in perfect English: "So sorry, please, so sorry." We would just shake our fists and wait for better days. When I first brought "Old Exter minator" to China, 1 had painted the number 10 on the fuselage. Later on we used the last three numerals of the Air Corps numbers for call let ters, or were assigned some name like "ash," "oak," or "pine." But the first time I came back from Chungking, late one afternoon, I ap proached Kunming down the usual corridor, expecting that to identify me automatically, and from far out I called by radio: "One-?ro, coming in from the North." Of course I was using the numerals of the num ber "ten" to identify me to the ra dio-man. Instead, as I came over the field I aaw anti-aircaft men of the Chinese Army running for their guns, and I saw six P-40'a taking off to shoot the invader down. Mean ing me. You've probably guessed it by now?the radioman gathered that some one had Just warned him that one enemy Zero was about to strafe the field. Needless to say, I took myself to safer placea for a few min utes until I could properly identify my ship. Then I landed and changed the fuselage number to lucky "sev en"?but definitely not seventy. There Just wasn't much relaxa tion in China with Scotch at one hundred dollars gold a bottle?when you could find it In fact, we didn't get to drink anything except boiled water and that really terrible rice wine. This we had to learn to down with the Chinese and in their man ner, which was with the inevitable salute, "Gambey," or "bottoms up." Then they'd come and.proudly show you the bottoms of their glasses, and you'd have to follow suit with a weak little gambey. Then there was the incessant ring ing of the telephones in the warning net plotting-room that got on all our nerves. After months I found out that without exception every pilot tried Dot to let others know of his nervousness. But it became un mistakable, for the tension that built up around the card-tables in the alert shacks was not ths most ef fectively disguised in the world. (TO BS CONTOTUKD) ^ | IMPROVEDuwiuuui UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson Lesson for April 22 Ltwon aubJecU and Scripture teste se lected sad copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used bar perm i salon - THE FOUNDING OF THE NATION LESSON TEXT?Exodus 1S:19-M; 19:M. GOLDEN TEXT?Rl*hteou?nen eialleth a nation; but tin ta a reproach to any pooplo. ?Proverba 14:34. God has a purpose for the lives of men and of nations. Happy are those who seek His guidance so that their lives may be directed in right and useful channels. God's threefold purpose for Israel, which we noted in our lesson of last week, could only be worked out in a nation which was separated unto Him, following holiness in its life and service. Moses, one of the greatest and most able figures of all history, was God's appointed leader. His success is explained by his willingness to fol low God's leading. He sought: I. God's Counsel (18:19). Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, having observed how he was bur dened constantly by the affairs of the people, came to offer him ad vice. He started in the right place, by urging Moses to continue to seek God, yes, to spend even more time in the Lord's presence, asking His wisdom and guidance. No man can lead a people in the right way if he does not have his own life in constant touch with the throne of God. Much of the failure of our day centers right there. We talk much to other men about our national and international problems. There are multiplied meetings and conferences. They do have value, but very little, unless there is a seeking oi God's will. A day of national repentance and prayer would do more for us than many weeks of discussion and de bate. We need to seek God's coun sel. Note that the coming of Moses to God concerned the daily affairs of his people. That reminds us that not only the life of our nation, but that of our own homes?and our personal beings?all need God's counsel. To aid Moses in administering the affairs of the nation, JethTo recom mended the appointment of men who were to serve as: n. God's Counselors (18:20-24). There has been not a little criti cism of Moses for accepting this ad vice. It Is pointed out that when God puts heavy burdens on us, the way out is not to shift the load on someone else, but to seek God's spe cial grace to bear it and to do it acceptably. There is value in such an interpre tation; but when one considers the devout and careful approach of Jeth ro to the matter (w. 0-12) and his evident desire to glorify God in it all, there is ground for believing that he was giving Moses good advice. The great unorganized host of pos sibly two million people were going through a very difficult experience. The result was dissension and strife, often over trivial things, which need ed to be settled. For all this to come tafMoses seemed undesirable; there fore other men were chosen to be counselors to the people, inter preting for them the law and the will of God. While each of us should carry every God-given responsibility with gladness, that does not mean that we are to assume that only we are able to do things. There is no more tragic figure than the pastor or church officer who tries to do every thing. Why not put others to work? How can our young people and new converts ever find a place of service if older Christians hold on to every Job in the church? Let us train them; then trust them with real re sponsibility. Counsel, encourage, pray, direct if need be, but do not try to do it all yourself I Now we come to the solemn and crucial moment when God was ready to establish His people and they were ready to accept: fit -..4 /Ifi.O OV 1U. UVU ? WTCHU1ft \19.0-Of. In the sacred and awe-inspiring meeting place before Mount Sinai, where the Lord was to give them His law (Exod. 20), they made a sol emn covenant with God. In preparation for it He reminded them of what He had done for them in the past. God is the unchanging One. If He was tender and gracious toward them in the past, they could enter the future confident of His blessing. And so may we! Note verses S and 6, for they give us God's great purpose for Israel. All they had to do was to obey His voice by keeping His covenant. This they, in solemn assembly, agreed to do (v. 8). How different their his tory?and that of the world?would have been had they kept their prom ise. We lament their failure, but what about us who are so highly favored that we have Christ in our midst? Are we obedient? Following the making of the cove nant (which God will one day fulfill in spite of their failure), we have the giving Of the Ten Command ments, and the establishment of Is rael's center of worship in the tab ernacle. It was the dwelling place of God runong His people. How precious! ' HQQUyJU|K fl RaiitMd by Western Kumni Union. HOW 80ME HOBBIES WEBE DISCONTINUED TO FOUR OF MY ACQUAINT ANCES the war has made an un usual difference In that it has tem porarily put an end to the follow ing of their hobbies. All four are business or professional men whose incomes are devoted to the pursuit of hobbies. The business of CoL Charles E. Jacques Is that of manufacturing baking powder. In normal times he can be found at his business of fice possibly as much as one month out of each year. The other months he works at his hobby of traveling to the out-of-the-way places of the world, seeing and talking with the little-known people of such places. His dream is that of inspiring such people with the ideals and ideology of America, and of bringing back to the people of his own land such good as he may find. It is surprising what he has accomplished over the years in his travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and all in be tween, but his hobby is out for the duration. I do not recall the full name of the second of these acquaintances. To me he was just "Bill," "Bill" Morden. His income comes from the manufacture of frogs and switches for railroads. For many years that income was spent in pro viding American natural history mu seums with specimens of rare wild animals of the world, especially the New York Museum of Natural His tory, under whose auspices he trav eled. The travel bills were paid with the profits on frogs and switches. One of his most prized accomplish ments was the pair of Siberian long haired tigers that are a prize posses sion of the New York museum. That hobby, too, is out for the duration. A third is Dr. Frank Thomp son, an eye specialist of Chicago, "r or many years be has devoted six months out of each two years to the hobby of photographing wild animals in their native haunts in Burma, the Malay states, India, Indo-China and other far east coun tries, but especially Africa. His de sire is to bring to America photo graphs that will be of scientific value to the students of schools and col leges. He has been remarkably suc cessful, especially in the pictures he has secured of African elephants. His hunting is not for the pleasure of killing, but the joy of photograph ing for a laudable purpose. His activities have been suspended by the war. I have always thought of the fourth acquaintance as a travel scout, a man who seeks new places for others to go after he has blazed the trail. The advertising agency Mason Warner operates pays for his travel scouting expeditions. He finds a practical way to reach the grave of Dr. Livingstone in Central Africa, or a passable new route across the South American Andes. He returns to tell ethers how they, too, can go where he has gone, and see the things he has seen. Like the other three, the Mason Warner hobby is out for the duration. ? ? ? 'WHEN THE BOXS COME HOME AGAIN' THE WORLD MOVES. CONDI TIONS CHANGE. Old generations go and new ones take their place. Few things can, or do, stand still. That applies especially to communi ties. The town that attempts to live without change will die. The gen eration of today cannot make the rules for the new generation of to morrow, especially for a genera tion that has had a place in the action of the last three or four years. The men who have fought on the battlefields of the world will not, on their return, accept a nine o'clock curfew rule; they will not come home to, and remain in, the home town if to do so they must accept as their way of life that which is satisfactory to, and prescribed by, a passing generation. TL? U that kaa Mwa Am XUC I1UII1C HSWU UiOi 1IOO ?U1IC HI bed at nine or before, will have to sit up until 10 or later if it hopes to satisfy the boys it has sent to a global war. It is not that these boys, when they return, will not be good citi zens, but they will have seen the world; they will have acquired a de sire for a later than nine o'clock bedtime, for something more excit ing than an hour's perusal of the home town paper. They will want life, entertainment, people. If the home town does not supply these things, they will move on to towns that do. What has been satisfactory to the present generation will not appeal to those who will soon take over. An appeal to them means mov ing forward. They will not be will ing to stand still. ? ? ? THE SHARE OF THE NATIONAL INCOME of those who work for wages is increasing year by year. In 1940, of a national income at $75, 851,000,000, labor, those who work for wages, received as their dividend $47,005,000,000, which was a trifle over 62 per cent. In 1041 labor received 64 per cent of the $02,260, 000,000 national income. In 1042 tt was 66 per cent of the $114,762, 000,000, and in 104) it had jumped to 70 per cent of the $138,101,000,000 national income. It would seem that labor is receiving a very fair share I SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Bolero Top Favorite This Year A Complete Wardrobe for Baby Bolero Fashion's Fet "THE youthful bolero outfit is a -*? fashion pet this season. It will be smart made up in checks, polka-dots or plain fabrics, high lighted with giant ric rac trim. A button-back blouse is included in the pattern. ? ? ? Pattern No. 1304 Is designed for sixes 11, 14, 16, 18 and 30. 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