The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting. He is graduated
as q 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 fight 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 10 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 bandit He carries the mail
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 he is too old
for combat flying. and after December 2.
194i. he begins writing Generals all over
the country for chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: scott solos Flying
FORTRESS for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from a Florida point
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In AZ.
RIGA. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land Mt Karachi. India. covering
l2.ooo miles In eight days.
CHAPTER VIII: Col Haynes orders
the group to report at a base In Eastern
Assam. on the India a-Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma In falling into
the hands Of the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stlweu and his party.
CHAPTER x: scotrs 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 q ferry pilot and is prom
ised the next P-zo 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
ana fuei dump
CHAPTER xI1: Scott goes on some
xtrafing missions with his "Old Ex-
terminator." as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhsvk. and cuts Jap battalion
10 bits.
CHAPTER xIIE The AVG are told
they are 10 be inducted into the u. 8.
army. Scott returns 10 India and con.
tinues bis 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
TO China TO head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott Is left
alone as commanding officer Of the Ferry
Gen Cnennault In Running, China, ~
commanding officer OF the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col, Scott is ordered
10 proceed TO the Kweiiin area to take
charge Of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI: He intercepts flight
Of Jap planes and downs a 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. Maj. 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 P40.
CHAPTER XIX: The lighter side of
life in China. The fight put up by 1t.
Dallas Ginger of Wyoming.
As the words sank into the con
sciousness of the flight, and of Ella
their ominous signif
icance became apparent. Ella
ierked his head around and looked
at his wing man. Even to an in
experienced eye, the silhouette wa
unmistakable. 1t was a Jap Mode
LOT, one of the old fixed landing
gear types. The entire formation
tried at once to get it as they finall,
realized what it was. But they hat
the laugh on Elias. Just as he rec
ognized the Jap, the enemy pilot evi
IDENTIFY recognized the P-40's in tn,
twilight before darkness-perhap
he saw the leering sharks mouths
For as Elias showed the nose of hi
ship straight down and dove for him
the Jap pulled his ship straight III
and climbed for the sky. Later
when our imaginations began to em
broider the joke, Elias took the kid
ding in good part and always had ;
comeback.
A small two-seater biplane,
Fleet, came to Hengyang from
Kweilin one day with Chinese OF
ficer. We looked the little ship owe
as it came into the field wide opel
at some seventy-five miles an hour
and I told Elias that / saw his futur
destiny.
I'VE now have just the bait w
need" I said. Lieutenant Elias,
want you to borrow that Fleet from
the Chinese. know trick to max
the Japs lose lots of face and air
planes. -
Elias had laid down his Opera
tions reports and was listening al
tentively. This ought to get yo
promoted" I went on. Now yo
get that plane and service it tonight
then early in the morning you tax
off for Hankow. Alison, Baumler
and I viii be along later and wi
arrive over the Jap city before yo
do" Elias was looking at me i
wonder. Then, when you get there
fly over the enemy airport at thirty
five hundred faef-fhat,n kean ,tn,