The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Col. Robert I.ScOff

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER /: Scott's early experiences
With gliders and airplanes. He goes &C
Ft Mcpherson and eniists In the regular
army as q private.
CHAPTER II: scctt wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets a fur.
Tough before reporting. He is graduated
a. second lieutenant OF infantry and
goes to Europe. which he tours on
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his Hrst
solo fight Drives 1900 miles to Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl. Scott
Is now graduated from Kelly Field and
has wings pinned on his chest. Ordered
to report to Hawaii but wanting TO get
married he lays his plight before the
General and is ordered to report at
Mitchell Field. NJ. Y. instead.
CHAPTER ~: En- route TO New York
Scott is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit. He carries the mail
for Uncie Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: rhe waT edges closer
and he Is farther than ever from combat
duty. He has been told he is too old
for combat flying. and after December z.
1e4l, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for q chance 10 fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos q Flying
Yortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from q Florida point
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In AZ.
rica- They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Rarachi. India. covering
1,oOo miles in eight days.
CHAPTER VIII: Col. Haynes orders
ne group 20 report at base In Eastern
Assam. on the India. Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma IL falling into
me hands OF the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
Land nj Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stilwell and his party.
CHAPTER X: SCOTS group carries
refugees out OF Burma. heavily overload
ing the planes. He pays q visit 70 Gen.
ChennRult and tells him he is q fighter
pilot and not a ferry pilot and Ia prom
ised the next P-40 that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER N: Open season on Japs-
the big adventure Is near. Scott gets
his first Japan army bomber on the
ground. He burns I'D some Jap trucks
and q fuel dump
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
w.
terminator," as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhawk. and cuts Jap battalion
to bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are to be inducted into the u. 5.
army. Scott returns 20 India and con.
tinues his single ship raids on the Japs.
He is now known back In the States as
1.-THE one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col Haynes Is moved
to China to head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott Is left
alone as commanding officer Of the Ferry
Command. Scott Is ordered to report to
Gen. Chennault In Running. China. as
commanding officer OF the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col Scott Is ordered
20 proceed to the Kweilin area to take
charge of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI: He intercepts flight
OF Jap planes and downs a bomber.
His tank is empty but he succeeds In
landing 1t dry.
CHAPTER XVII: In which Scott tells
about his friend. Major TEX" Hill. to
whom he owes his life. Mat. Alison Is
hit andstries to land his crippled bomber
at night.
CHAPTER XVIII: Maj. Alison. who
had crashed m the river and had been
given up for lost. comes back In a sedan
chair carried by admiring Chinese. Chi.
nese coolies and rivermen by means Of a
method over three thousand years old
raise and salvage the sunken P-s0-
CHAPTER XIX: The lighter side of
life In China. The fight put up by 1t
Dallas Ginger of Wyoming.
CHAPTER Xxx: Capt. Charlie Sawyer
crash-lands and is unable to identify
himself. Tribesmen get set to execute
him but some new arrival saves him
CHAPTER XXI: The "Old Extermi.
nator" gets into another fight and one
more Jap will never fly again. The
Kittyhawk Is so badly mauled II is
condemned from further use. Col Scott
gets new P-40E.
CHAPTER xxi: Another probable"
for Scott. 1t. Daniels is wounded and
Mai Bruce Holloway is shot down. but
crash-lands In a rice paddy.
CHAPTER XIII: Col Scott leaves on
his greatest mission to date, with Gen.
Haynes in the lead bomber. Tex Hill
gets Zero.
CHAPTER XIV: On the way back
from Hongkong Scott sees below him Fort
Stanley, British and American prison
camp. A large group of prisoners wave
at his ship as he goes over. and he ex-
periences his saddest feeling of the war.
CHAPTER XIV: New P-aos begin TO
arrive steadily. They make a second
attack on Hongkong. Jap bombers look
for u. s. fields but fail. Scott leads l6
fighters to escort II bombers to Canton.
CHAPTER xXvI: The squadron bombs
shipping In the Esst river at Canton and
at Whangpoo docks. sinking two freight.
SrS lOaQeu WIFI LSIOs. iWeHty-IlL6 LGIOS
out of as coming up over Canton are
shot down.
CHAPTER XVII
Another theory was that the real
zation that you had strafed enem
ground troops, shot down Japanes
pilots, strafed troops getting out
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