The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
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II Mcpherson and enlsts In the regular
army as private
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets a fur
Tough before reporting He Is graduated
as. a 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 his first
solo fight. Drives 300 miles to Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl. Scott
Is nov. 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. NJ Y. instead.
CHAPTER Nv: 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
Tying 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,
19af, he begins writing Generals all over
The country for q 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 q Florida point.
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In Az
xaca. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India, covering
1sOO0 miles In eight days.
CHAPTER vm: Col. Haynes orders
me group 10 report at q 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
Stilwen and bis party.
CHAPTER x: scott's group carries
refugees out OF Burma, heavily overload.
ing the planes. He pays q visit to Gen.
Chenrault and tells him he Is fighter
pilot and not q ferry pilot and is prom
tsed the next P-40 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 fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strafng missions with his "Old Elk.
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
"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 lis ordered TO report 10
Gen. Chennault in Running, China. as
commanding officer Of the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col Scott is ordered
30 proceed to the Kweilin area to take
charge Of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI; He intercepts flight
Of Jap planes and downs q bomber.
His tank is empty but he succeeds In
landing II 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
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 q
method over three thousand years old
raise and salvage the sunken P-4o.
CHAPTER XIX: The lighter side of
hfe In China. The fight put UP by 1t
Dallas Ginger of Wyoming.
CHAPTER Xxx: Capt. Charlie Sawyer
erash-lands and Is unable to identify
himself. Tribesmen get set to execute
him but some new arrival saves him.
nator" gets into another fight and one
more Jap viii 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-4os begin to
arrive steadily. They make a second
for u. S. fields but fail Scott leads I6
fighters to escort II bombers to Canton
CHAPTER XVI: The squadron bombs
shipping In the East river at Canton and
at Whangpoo docks. sinking two freight.
ers loaded with Zeros. Twenty-nine Zeros
out of As coming UP over Canton are
shot down.
CHAPTER XVII: Scott and his fight.
ers run across Zero flying wild in the
SKY, It's puot OSd0. 1HSJ AOuOW IL ui.s1
Ii crashes in the hills.
CHAPTER AAvIu
It looked as il we'd get TIL
chance very soon. too, for the hels
In western Yunnan had been select
ed by the newly formed Air Trans
port Command, which was suppressed
ing the Ferry Command, as tn
Eastern terminus of the route &
China.
For the purpose OF security Il
future operations, viii not nam
our base in western Yunnan. Blu
there was a big turquoise-blue lax
less than ten miles away which tn
General and I called Yeching. Il
us that meant "good hunting" TO
ducks and geese abounded. tn
landmark for our base was just on
of the many lakes in Yunnan.