The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER 4: Scott's early experiences
with gliders and airplanes. He goes to
IT. Mcpherson and enlists In the regular
army as private.
CHAPTER II: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting. He is graduated
as second lieutenant OF infantry and
goes to Europe, which he tours on a
motorcycle He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes mis- first
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 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 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 Is too old
for combat flying, and after December Z.
1871, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for q chance TO fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos q Flying
xortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from a Florida point
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In AZ.
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India. covering
1z.000 miles In eight days.
CHAPTER WIN: Col Haynes orders
NE group TO report at o base In Eastern
Assam. on the India Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma Il 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: SCOTS group carries
refugees out OF Burma, heavily overload.
ing the planes. He pays q visit 10 Gen.
Chennault and tells him he Ia a fighter
pilot and not O ferry pilot and is prom
ised the next p-so that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER xI: 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 q fuel dump
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strahng missions with his "Old Ex-
terminator." as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhavk. 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
1.-THE one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col Haynes is moved
10 China TO head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott IL left
alone as commanding officer of the Ferry
Command. Scott In 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 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 be succeeds in
landing IL 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 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 P40.
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
Mai Bruce Holloway is shot down. but
crash-lands In 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
ut his ship as he goes over. and he ex-
periences his saddest feeling of the war
CHAPTER XIV: New P-40s begin to
arrive steadily They make second
attack on Hongkong. Jap bombers look
for u. S. fields but fail Scott leads l6
fighters to escort II bombers to Canton.