The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-28

CHAPTER I: Scott's early experiences
with gliders and airplanes. He goes to
TT. Mcpherson and enlists In the regular
army rs private.
CHAPTER II: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets q fur.
Tough before reporting. He is graduated
as second lieutenant OF infantry and
goes 10 Europe. which he tours on q
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his frst
solo flight. 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 be 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 q bandit He carries the mail
for Uncle Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: The war edges closer
and he Is farther than ever from combat
duty. He has been told he In too old
tOE GOrnDdk uylug. anu 6lLGI DcGSitiOSi ..
1941, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for q chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos q Flying
Fortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves tor
India from o Florida point
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday IN Az
RIGA. They dy along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India. covering
12.ooo miles In eight days.
CHAPTER vIn: Col Haynes orders
the group 70 report at . base in Eastern
Assam. on the India. Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma Ii falling into
the hands Of the laps. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
Land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Shlwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: scott's group carries
refugees out OF Burma. heavily overload,
ing the planes. He pays q visit 10 Gen.
Chennault and tells him he IL q fighter
pilot and not . ferry pilot and is prom.
ised the next p-<o that arrives from
Africa.
The big adventure 10 near. Scott gets
his hrst Japan army bomber on the
ground. He burns up some Jap trucks
and y fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strahng missions with his "Old En-.
terminator.'' as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhsvk. and cuts q Jap battalion
TO bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are 10 be inducted into the u. s.
army. Scott returns to India and con-
tinues his single ship raids on the Japs.
He is now known back In the States NJ
"the one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col Haynes In moved
to China TO head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott IL left
alone as commanding officer Of the Ferry
Command Scott Is ordered TO report to
Gen. Chennault In Running. China. AZ
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 q bomber.
His tank IL 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. Mai Alison Is
hit and tries to land his crippled bomber
nj night
CHAPTER XVIII: Maj. Alison. who
had crashed N 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-40.
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 win never fly again. The
Kittyhawk is so badly mauled II Is
condemned from further use. Col Scott
gets a new P-40E.
CHAPTER XXI: Another probable"
for Scott. 1t Daniels is wounded and
MAJ Bruce Holloway is shot down. but
crash-lands In rice paddy.