The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
SYNOPSIS


army as private.
CHAPTER II: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting He is graduated
as a 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 his frst
solo fight 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: rhe 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 I.
194t. he begins writing Generals all over
the country for chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos q 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
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India. covering
12.0o0 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 Mt Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stilweu and his party. ...-a... u s.s.-
CHAPTER x: scctts group carries
refugees out Of Burma. heavily overload.
Ing the planes. He pays q visit 10 Gen.
Chennault and tells him he Is fighter
pilot and not . ferry pilot and Ia prom
ised the next P40 that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER XII: Open season on Japs-
the big adventure Is near. Scott gets
his first japan army bomber on the
and fuel dump
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strafing missions with his "Old Ex.
terminator," as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhsvk. and cuts a Jap battalion
to bits.
they are to be inducted into the u. s.
n
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 Ii 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 KweiIin 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 1t dry.
CHAPTER XVII: In which Scott tells
about his friend. Major "Tex" Hin. 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 N the river and had been
given up for lost. comes back in 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-Iands and Is unable TO Identify
himself. Tribesmen get set TO execute
him but some new arrival saves him.
CHAPTER XXI: The "Old Exterml-
nator'' gets into another fight and one
more Jap will never fly again. The
Kittyhawk is so badly mauled IT is
condemned from further use. Col. Scott
gets new P-40E.
Even with the hardships that 1
rugged country like China imposed
/ was living a wonderful life ther,
in Running. Those were days tha
I would never forget-not only fol
the adventure that / was sharinl
with the other fighters in the Group
but for the privilege of living witt
my boss, General Chennault.
! Gen. Caleb Haynes, Doctor Gen
try, and L lived together with tn,
General in house the "Gissimo'
had built for him. Situated neal
the field at Running, it was a mod
ern home, or as modern as a bunga
low could be in Yunnan. With 1
private room for each of us, will
the Chinese houseboys the Genera
had collected in his six years il
China, we lived a wonderful life il
a war-torn land.
There was Wong Chauffeur" whe
drove the Generals car. Wong hae
a little boy-of course called "Lit
tie Wong was suspicious O
foreign devils and who used to GOV
er his face with his hands when
spoke to him. The General told mi
that as far as he had been able II
find out from long time in China
we'd always be foreign to the Chi
nese. For, after all, the only wore
in China that could mean a per
son other than a Chinese was 'sfor
eign devil"
NThe General told me about an au
tomobile trip he had made with Ma
jor Shu down the road from Chih
kiang to Kweyang. This was bandi
country, through the wilds of Kwey
ang province. Arriving at Kweyang
the capital, they had found an an
cient walled city. The General, a.
a trusted servant of the Gissimo
had been taken to the Governor.
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