The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-12
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with gliders and airplanes. He goes to
Fl Mcpherson and enlists In the regular
army as private.
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets q fur.
Tough before reporting He is graduated
as. second lieutenant of infantry and
goes TO Europe. which he tours on
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas
CHAPTER Ill: Scott makes MS hrst
solo fight Drives 1900 miles to Georgia
over every weekend 70 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 bandit He carries the mail
for Uncle Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: The val 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 q.
f941, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for a 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 WI: Easter Sunday In Al.
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi, India. covering
n.ooo miles In eight days.
CHAPTER VIII: Col Haynes orders
the group to 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
land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stilwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: Scotts group carries
refugees out Of Burma, heavily overload.
ing the planes. He pays visit TO Gen.
Chennault and tells him he Is o fighter
pilot and not ferry pilot and 10 prom.
ised the next P-40 that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER x: 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
strsfing missions with his "Old Ex.
terninator," as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhsvk. and cuts Jap battalion
to bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are 10 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
to China 10 head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott IL left
alone as commanding officer of the Ferry
Command. Scott is ordered TO report TO
Gen Chennault In Running. China. IS
commanding officer Of the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col Scott is ordered
10 proceed to the Kweilin area to take
charge Of hghter 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" 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 q
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.
CHAPTER XXI: The "Old Extermi-
nator" gets into another fight and one
more Jap will 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.