Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-29
Armies Of Revenge
Men in Training
Sacrifice Money,
His Leg
Eager to Contribute.
Knowing Comrades
Are Giving Far More
BY WALDO McNAUGHT
CHAPTER ID

BY WALDO McNAUGHT
CHAPTER ID
II both the officers mess ant
the airmen's canteen is a small
receptacle with a sign over it, M
Victory Without Sacrifice.
Into this both groups of mer
drop offerings - their change =
sometimes a dollar bill.
The men believe that they have
m a d e no sacrifice as yet - tina
others have made more.
CALLED NUISANCE
They all know about one mar
who did make quite a sacrifice
The pilot who wishes to be known
as Pontefract-the-Bear told abou
him:
'T met him In the officers
ward of very nasty hospital,
not far from England. He was
very small and very young and
q nuisance.
"MOst of the cases on the bal
cony were head cases, hut not
his. He had a leg I'm plaster so
he ran about I'm a wheel chair,
and his main source of amuse-
ment was spinning II round and
round. He kept on crashing into
tho beds and upsetting the
people with sore heads.
"Wally was his name and he
BOXED as though he ought to
lave been playing with trains.
He was all of 10 years and two
months old and n pilot officer to
boot.
CHEERED HIMSELF
"He worked as a team with n
huge Scots captain. who. as
Wally couldn't. walk. would take
him In to meals by the simple
process Of heaying him over his
shoulder and striding of.
His noisy cargo would cheer
himself to the echo and wave to
every one from his inverted and
rearward position.
"Most afternoons they would
disappear. ostensibiy for fresh
air, but actually for the golf
club where they had an arrange
ment with the bar man. They
would always return, half an
hour late, In taxi with the
wheel chair dashed on the back.
Zone day the doctor APP
preached Wally and said:
Well, young man, I'm afraid
We'll have to take your leg of
IN the bone hasn't set by the
next X-ray. You see, there's 40
much poison about. Sorry and
all that
OFF FOR PARTNER
"All Wally said was We'll,
well. well. everything happens
TO me- and he departed spin
ming wildly 10 find his partner.
Then I began 10 realize that
Wally was n remarkable fellow.
IL was only after much effort
that i found out about Wally.
He was In one Of lhe battle
squadrons which did such heroic
work In slowing up the sdvanc-
Ing Hun with low level bomb
ing. Their casualties were
enormous and they carried on
against all odds.
"Wally was one OF forms-
port column far behind the lines.
They went over low down and
were soon involved in swarm
OF Messerschmitts. but, as usual,
they plugged on and eventually
got clear.
AIRCRAFT HIT
They began meeting 'ac
ac' or FAX as the TeutOn calls
IL. about 80 miles short of their
target, and, despite intensive
linking Wally's aircraft was
hit by a light shell.
1.-THE bOmb-aimer never knew
what hit him. Wally did.
His right leg was shattered
from the knee down. The shell
had burst just under his foot
and afterwards they picked I47
bits of small shrapnel out of his
leg and still left a lot TO grow
out.
Apparently little things like
that didn't bother him for he
few on for 10 minutes with the
formation to the target, bombed
II from a very low level, despite
terrific ground defense.
GETS DIRECT HIT
"Wally used his own bomb re-
leases and was seen by another
aircraft to have scored n direct
hit.
"Still with the formation, he
few back through another cloud
of Messerschmitts and landed at
his base. Thus he saved the re-
mains of his kite and his rear
gunner who also was wounded.
1.-THE crew that ran out to the
kite found young Wally uncon-
scious when they reached him.
His first action when he came
to next day was to ask after the
>boys who had been with him."
4 REALLY SACRIFICED
That's why the men at Port
Albert believe that more sacrifices