Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-22


chaperoning an orphanage outing.
After the first few minutes of
diffidence. they all wanted to talk
and did. The result was this
impressionistic ge-podge:
Sopwith. an angular, lean-faced
youth of "a, started to tell about
Dunkirk and taxing as many as
three bomb-loads a day through
that historic hell.
81 looked down through my
ships glass nose," he said. land
saw vast hordes Of our soldiers
standing In queues, waist deep
in the surf, waiting for rescue
like they might he lined up TO
buy tickets for a cup-tie match"
But his crew had loads to deliver,
with orders TO dump them on the
nearest Nazi tank column. trans
port train. troops or artillery EN-.
placement - and hurry back for
more.
BOMBERS FLEW Low
I'VE few low" said Sopwith
as boy might tell about a
bicycle ride. land when we
dropped our stickfuls we could
clearly see the effect. They
blew pieces of tanks, trucks and
trains all over the landscape
and gouged up huge craters In
the roads. Every time I looked
through that bomb sight and
released the trap. I'd feel better
about those men on the beach"
'Did you get into that Sedan
shows" asked Danny Roy. an
Irish ex-accountant from Dub
lin.
"The roads In the back areas
were 50 clogged with material.
supplies and troops that couldn't
bulge. either forward or back,
II was like spittln' on your foot.
We'd just follow the line Of the
road and let 60 anywhere
kiss from Poppa! You couldn't
miss. I mind the time :"
A pert-faced rooster of SER
geant named Howard fhe'd been a
prewar traveller in ladies neither
wearl interrupted.
81 was among the first bomb
crew to fly over Italy when they
declared war. 1t was funny. We
were after the Fiat works In
Turin. and we caught the town
with their lights full on :. they
didn't know what a blackout
was So we buzzed around like
housewife shopping for Sunday
dinner with the whole place lit
like a chemists shop.
"Not an anti-aircraft shell,
not searchlight. So presently
we found the Fiat plant and let
70 the first stick right through
the roof. an you shoulda seen
the lights GO out then musta
yanked the wires out by the
roots. We got n helluvs belly
laugh while we're poking around
for the second dose n cinch.
too. because we've not a nice fire
TO shoot at :"
PARIS WELL LIGHTED
"Nss Paris lit up when you
flew overe" asked Sergeant
Jackson. without waiting for an
answer. give gone over that
place since the Heinles took IL,
and honest. you'd think II was
1888 at the Follies. ! itched TO
drop a trayful those Ger
mans are ~ sure we won't
bomb the place. Know what? I
think they light the town up
hoping that wei drop some
z thing. So the FreHch'll jump us"
Might do like George here.
the night his crew raided the
Templehof station in Berlin, and
overshot the mark" SAID Ser
Ceant Howard. Howard, Tell
'em. George"
20. we went over with n Ber-
lin gas works rs our primary
target" said Henderson. a quiet.
scholarly youth. "only, when we
got there. 80 many OF our crowd
were dropping stun on IL, we
chose the secondary target. the
TemplehOf. There was a flock
of our ships over that, too
the place was flaming like
pearh basket, 80 we coasted over
q hit and let loose only we
got y little teeny-weeny extra
drif,age somehow. and hit fhe
Reichstag. The Heinies raised
hell about that. said we were
bombing nonmllitary detectives"
DIFFICULT TO SEE
Did German fighters. SNAP
perS' as the boVS called them