The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
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 Win B-29s ranging over Tokyo almost daily it's tough for the imagination to conceive that three years ago our Air Forces only as- set was the moxie of it's men =. Bataan was saved at least once by the wizardy of our Air Force per- sonnel, who had plenty of ingenuity as well as courage Enemy ships were tryitng to land troops on the shore one night. Though there were no bombers with which to stop them,, our airmen weren't feazed Mechanics rigged up three pursuit ships with a device whereby two 30O-pound bombs could be at tached to the wing and released by pulling a wire .S. The three ships made three trips that nighta nd bombed and Strafed the Jap boats, preventing the troops from landing -. What made their feat of stal- ing the Japs and gaining time for us even more of a miracle was that most of the pilots had never before flown at night!
 The newspapers not long ago carried story telling how there were no trees in the far AieutianS and that pilots had brought in a single tree, planted it and labelled it "Umnak National Forest"
 What the news story failed ta mention was why the three had been flown in-for the exclusive use ot a flyers pet dog.
 A flyer who had been stationed on an island for too many months developed crush on a half native girl, who looked very beautiful af. ter months in the South Pacific In his barracks one day hf was getting poetic about he girl when his buddy, thurnbing through movie magazine, suddenly turned to photo of Betty Grable in q bathing suit "HowiS that?" ex- citedly asked the buddy. holding uF the picture.
 The pilot took a brief look and snorted, White trash!"
 Despite popular misconception boys of the AAF aren't as pin-up- happy as people think This verse. was penned several montff ago by a B-17 radio operator-gun. her who failed to return from g mission over Italy: "Oh, Hedy La. marr is a beautiful gal And Mareleine Carroll is, too But you'll find, if you query, differ ent theory Amongst any bomb CT crew ;. For the loveliest thing of which one could sing (This side of the Heavenly Gates Is TO Sblonde or brunette of the Hollywood set . But an escort of P-38s"
 During a raid on Schweinfurst several months ago one of our bombers, "Battlin' Robbie" was hit and two of her engines were knocked out . For five hundred miles the bomber hedge-hopped over treeS, roof tops and enemy pill. boxes .. All the time as the plane iimped along her crew kept pray ing the two smoking engines wouldn't blow up When they finally reached home and the per- spiring pilot climbed out of the ship, his comment was, We made a chapel out of that airplane to- day"
 On @ recent bomber mission over Germany the flight ran into seri- ous opposition from both fighters and flax, and a B-17 was hit. Comm. shell struck the top turret. and the gunner fell to the floor covered with blood A colonel who had come along as an observer rushed back to give first aid and, seeing the lads rigid form, thought he was either dead or dying He was about to administer hypo dermic when the gunner opened his eyes The colonel bent over him, putting his ear close to the iad's lips, expecting some last feeble words "Geez, colonel was the gunnerS comment, I'm beginning to think there isn't much future in this racket.
 Daryl Zanuck's version of Moss Hart's Winged Victory" would have cost 51a million dollars to make without Uncle Sam's help Air Forces definition of a metcorolo- gist: A man who can look girl in the eye and tell weather .. Before the U. s. got intot he war and the Tanks in the RAF were transferred to the 9th Air Force, the members of the Eagle Squadron were a familiar sight around Eng land wearing their RAF uniforms with . shoulder patch saying U. s. A. One lad, though, insisted on being different. His shoulder patch said Texas" A Tank pilot, flying alone in the South Pacific, on into a batch of enemy planes, radioed: Hurry up here. I've got 20 Jap zeros cornered!"
 During the siege of Bataan two American pilots (flying to Mindanao