The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-06
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CHAPTER I: The story of the famous
10th and 7th Bombardment Groups. OF
Lieut.. Col. Frank Kurtz and his Fortress
crew in the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
In the Southwest Pacific. Lieut.. Kurtz.
who was pilot of the old Fortress, known
as The Swoose." which escaped from
Clark Field. in the Philippines. tells OF
that fatal day when the Japs struck. He
pedals to the wreck of Old 80. finds eight
of his crew lying in an irregular line.
CHAPTER III: Lieut.. Kurtz tells how
orders to camouhage Old 80 were coun-
fernandez: instead they were to load
bombs. reload with cameras and rush
the camouhage. Preparations made for
taking pictures of Formosa. Someone
shouts. Look at that pretty navy forma-
ton" The navy formation" happens TO
be flight of Jap planes.
CHAPTER III: Bombs hit the mess
hall; The Japs move of They hear
they prove to be Zeros coming in from
the direction of Corregidor The boys
duck back into their foxholes.
their targets and towering above the
group is Colin Kelly. about to head out
on his first mission. Buzz Wagner Is
chased by Japs In his P-z0. He meets
Lieut.. huSS ANuTCn ana Iley poEilD a
Jap field. Church fails to return. The
death of Colin Kelly.
CHAPTER v: Fortresses are kent in
the air to save them from the Japs.
Through some mistake someone opens
fire on them. Japs begin photographing
the place. No longer safe to sleep in the
barracks, cots are moved into a. corn
field. With no fighters left to defend
them. evacuation begins. Lieut.. Kurtz
tells Of last plane trip out in a patched
UP plane. Japs land light tanks at Apart.
Squadron commander Major Gibbs fails
TO return from mission. u. S. forces fee
from Clark Field to Mindanao.
CHAPTER vi: Navigator Harry
Schreiber tells of q fight with Zeros In
which Shorty Wheless takes part. He
by Fiipinos. The crew buys an outrigger
canoe and sail 10 the isle OF Panay. Later
they take off for Australia.
CHAPTER VII: Lieut.. Kurtx takes up
The story again. He describes the hot,
dry Christmas day In Australia. and how
u. S. fiers spent II. A report comes In
over CIV radio. II was from Schaetzel
saying he'd be In after dark with one
body aboard. Schaetzel gets In. his plane
O wreck. Gen. Brereton lands on the
field and the boys are summoned TO q
meeting.
1nAE ZEN tAAAs " % IuEI@ 6IFANE a.
the Dutch field. and shortly after start
on fight for Davao. In the Philippines.
but run short OF gas and come home.
Gas up and take OF at midnight for
trip over. Krtz sees tremendous concen.
tration of ships, makes bomb run. Jap
fighters come up. Bombs awayt"
had caught Japs fat-footed. At Malang
Field boys are briefed before dawn.
told about big concentration of Jap ships
NE. of Borneo. They take of, but hit
bess Sh eons E oanS oa. os iss sss 6sRe SsR sh
huge black cloud resembling tornado. 1t
was the Dutch burning their Borneo oil.
CHAPTER X: One OF Kurtz' motors is
direct hit on cruiser. Losing altitude
fast. Tries to make Malang Field on
Java, but changes mind and heads for
Surabaya Field. Sets her down safely on
short runway. Dutch get reinforcements
from U. S.--new Z model Forts.
CHAPTER xl: Bombardier tells Oh
hazardous trip to Brazil when running
ow on gss and Gf e. On pane
model Fortresses tangled with the Japs.
CHAPTER XII: Lieut.. Kurtz tells OF
saoa sobnson an ON rados 10 ses s
base at Malang 10 have ambulance
ready" Then Major Robinson's plane
goes into dive and crashes into sea.
CHAPTER XIII: A Jap transport hit
by U. S. bomb. goes up In confetti. Lieut..
Kurtz, now In Batavia. gets word that
P-40's are on way from Australia with
belly tanks. The P-40's arrive at Gnoro.
Japs move into Borneo and the Celebes,
ard three waves of Jap bombers fly over
Java.
CHAPTER XIV: An American sub
gneaks through from Corregidor with Ia
passengers aboard. Sergt. Boone, the
gunner. tells how Queens die.
CHAPTER XIV: Java sea now full. OF
Jap carriers, continues Lieut.. KurtZ. Japs
lombard helpless Dutch town. Scant
Dutch rations described. Japs come
over and blow up the kitchen; a bomb
scores direct hit on their supply of beer.
CHAPTER XVI: Japs learn weakness
of model Fortress, and u. S. fiers put
In a .50-caliber machine gun. Attack a
Jap cruiser. Lieut.. Kurtz senses he Is
being watched.
CHAPTER XVII: Morale sags when
boys learn that an aircraft tender stacked
with P-40's goes down with all on board,
Houston gets around. Bud Sprague gets
his commission as Lieut. Col In the
morning; rides TO his death In a dive
bomber In the afternoon. Japs take Bali
field. Java begins to cave In.