The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-31
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SYNOPSIS
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CHAPTER 1: Scott.s early experiences
with giiders and airplanes. He goes to
Ft Mcpherson and enlists In the regular
army as private.
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting. He Is graduated
as second lieutenant of infantry and
goes 10 Europe. which he tours on
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his first
solo flight. Drives 800 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. N. Y. instead.
CHAPTER ~: En- route to New York
Scott is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit He carries the maii
for Uncle Sam In order TO gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: rhe wal edges closer
and he is farther than ever from combat
duty. He has been told ne is too old
for combat flying. and after December Z.
1e4l, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for q 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 Florida point
CHAPTER VII; Easter Sunday In Al.
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India, covering
1z.00o miles In eight days.
CHAPTER VIII: Col. Haynes orders
the group to report at base In Eastern
Assam. on the India 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
stiiwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: Scott's group carries
refugees out OF Burma, heavily overload
ing the planes. He pays o visit to Gen.
Chennault and tells him he L. fighter
pilot and not ferry pilot and Ii prom
tsed the next P-40 that arrives from
Africa
CHAPTER II: 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 . fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strafng missions with his "Oid Ex.
terminator." as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhavk. and cuts Jap battalion
10 bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are to be inducted into the u. 8.
army. Scott returns to India and con-
tinues his single ship raids on the Japs.
He Ii 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. Chennauit and Scott Is left
alone as comm anding officer OF the Ferry
Command. Scott is ordered 10 report to
Gen. Chennault In Running. China, rs
commanding officer Of the 2ard Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col Scott Is ordered
10 proceed to the Kweiiin area to take
charge of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI: He intercepts fight
OF Jap planes and downs O 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. Maj Alison Is
hit and tries TO land his crippled bomber
ut 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-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.