The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-05

Iomt competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting. He is graduated
as second lieutenant of Infantry and
goes TO Europe. which he tours on q
motorcycle He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas
CHAPTER III: Scott makes mis- first
solo fight. Drives 300 miles TO Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl. Scott
Is now graduated from Kelly Field and
mas wings pinned on his chest. Ordered
10 report to Hawaii but wanting TO get
married he lays his plight before the
General and Is ordered 10 report at
Mitchell Field. N Y. instead,
CHAPTER Nv: En- route TO New York
Scott Is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit He carries the mail
for Uncle Sam in order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
and he is farther than ever from combat
duty. He has been told he is too old
for combat flying, and after December Z.
1941, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: scott solos a Flying
Fortress 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 Karachi. India. covering
1.o00 miles In eight days
CHAPTER VIII; Col Haynes orders
the group TO report at q base In Eastern
Assam. on the Tndia.Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma Is falling into
The hands Of the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
Land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stiwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: Scotts group carries
refugees out Of Burma, heavily overload.
ing the planes. He pays o visit to Gen.
Chennault and tells him he Is fighter
pilot and not ferry pilot and Is prom
ised the next P-40 that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER NJ: Open season on Japs--
the big adventure is near. Scott gets
his first japan army bomber on the
ground. He burns up some Jap trucks
and a fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
Btrafing missions with his "Old Ex-
terminator," as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhsvk. and cuts Jap battalion
TO bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are TO 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 as
"the one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col. Haynes Is moved
10 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
10 proceed to the Kweilsn area to take
charge of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI: He intercepts a flight
Of Jap planes and downs q bomber.
His tank Is empty but he succeeds In
landing II dry.
ANAs Al WtuLu SCOII tGll&
about his friend. Major TEX Hill. to
whom he owes his life Mai. Alison Is
hit and tries to land his crippled bomber
at 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 new P-40E.
CHAPTER XXI: Another probable
for Scott. 1t. Daniels Is wounded and
dIs la
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 a Zero.
we were turning over Macao,
where the Clippers used to land. To
he South I could see another Jap
ield, Sanchau Island. Now to the
light was Hongkong Island, shaped
ike kidney and mountainous, just
lbout nine miles long and three or
our miles across. ! could make out
he indentations of the romantic
bays whose names I knew
Telegraph, Kellet, and Re-
'ulse. There were points of land
utting towards the mainland-Quar.
Y Point, with its Naval Drydock,
md Shek Tong Tsui, the point over
which we would fight our aerial bat
le. Reaching towards the island
ike a finger was Kowloon PENN
ula, separated from it by the blue
vaters of Victoria harbor. Near the
nd of the spit of land closest to
I saw the large modern
'eninsular Hotel. All of us knew
hat Japanese Generals and staff
slept there with their wom-
n.
We came across the Great West
,hannel. passed North of Stonecut-
ers Island. and came to our turn
ng point, seven miles North of Kow-
Don. The bombers were turning
'outh now for the bombing run. This
yas the crucial moment.
I crossed around and over Gen.
raj Haynes and his formation.