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MORE
(From A Special Correspondent Somewhere
In England)
IT IS ALLEGED THAT the first thing that you notice in these parts is an old Roman grave. Its occupant is the only one of the local citizenry who appears to be getting much sleep.
Even in his case there is some room for doubt, for his grave is on the edge of an aerodrome where American pilots are training for the war, and it is one of the noisiest places in England..
Americans at home were surprised to learn a few days ago there are 30 young men from the United States in this gion now.
re-
Two are from Chicago, three From New York, one from Was- consin and a large delegation from i the Western States, with emphasis
Californ
They have been iver for more than a month in the uniform of the RAF trung to Bght us at group of uncamouflaged Ameri-
cans During the week-end the
Air Ministry thought
they had
pogressed sufficiently to warrant inspection by inquisitive reporters and photographers.
So it comes about that a lot of these lads cease to be nebulous figures in powder-blue uniforma with the spread eagle insignia on their shoulders and take on character as the sort you used 10 sec around airports in Des Moines, Los Angeles, Boston and Tombstone, Arizona,
The bombs hud been dropping somewhat freely in the first part of the night when the Press con- tingent arrived here, but it was interesting to note that the boys the Officers' Club were already used to that sort of thing.
"And that's way it was," you hear one voice say, "I ran a hot- dog stand at the airport in Pas- sadena and spent the profits on in- struction. I am what you might call a ham-and-egg_flier."
Crop-Dusting
RAMMED
'PLANE, THEN 'LEFT HURRIEDLY'
"And so I left hurried- ly". This was the laconic] comment of a young R.A.F. pilot officer after his Hurricane fighter had rammed a Dornier bomb-
er.
HIS GUN
BEAT 14
'PLANES
Hussar regiment, patroll- A sergeant in a famous
ing in an armoured car in the Western Desert-
* Fought a lone battle with fourteen Italian fighter planes;
Shot one of them down; and Drove off the remainder.
The sergeant was on the ders of the Libyan Desert when two Italian fighters appeared and, diving low, machine-gunned hum
The sergeant grabbed the ar moured car's Bren glit and re. turned the fire.
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Bullets in Head
Twelve more Italian pianes appeared, firing their machine. guns and dropping bombs, of which fell thirty yards away from the car, tearing off the base sump and bringing the vehicle to a standstill.
one
The sergeant continued to blaze away with his gun, and wa, ses warded by the sight of une 1 aban machine of the Breda type crasha- Here is the story of what haping to the ground. The other ma pened before he "left hurriedly."
The pilot officer was flying with his squadron at 19,000ft, when they saw a formation of Dorniers ac- companied by fighters.
"We went in to attack the bomb- ers
and did several quite good at- tacks," he said later.
"Finally all my ammunition was gone, but I had the satisfaction of ploding in the air and saw another seeing one Dornier 1 aimed at ex-
go spinning down with part of its wing off.
"My aircraft then rammed onel of the enemy bombers amidship, One of its winga was torn off. My aircraft was wrenched clear of the enemy aircraft, which was now minus ita port wing and most of its engine.
chints eventually made off.
the
pilot of the crashed 'plane had twe
Investigation showed that
bullets through his head.---Route:.
"BRAVEST MAN" KILLED
Sec. Lieut. F. R. Martin, of the Royal Engineers, whom Earl Stan- hope described as "the bravest man I have ever met," has been killed "My cockpit was filled within action. glycol fumes and the machine was falling out of control in an inverted
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From another corner came an- other nostalgic fragment; "I did a little crop-dusting out in Califor-spin, sa 1 left hurriedly." nia. In those days we were kill- ing Japanese beetles or something.
I never did get the straight of it.
"We got lots of experience doing that sort of thing but of course we did not need to do it in for- mation. And we did not have machine-guns and cannons, only high-pressure fly-swatters."
A third sald. "There'll be a lot more of us over here before this is finished." And a fourth de- clared, "We are not soldiers of fortune, We are a lot of home boys trying to make good in a big time. We are all flyers, and right here is where the flying ia." It may be several weeks before these enthusiastic youngsters get | Into Spitfires or fly over Germany. Days are spent in formation flying and technical study, with more time in classrooms than in the air. The course stiff and the re- laxations few.
All Have Ability "But the lads are taking it, well,” the commanding officer of the camp said. "They are not finished flyers yet, but they will be. They all have ability, two or three a re-"] markable lot of it. And they have one thing that makes good avlators, ** Intense interest in what: they are doing,"
These youngsters represent all conditions of life and occupation, Young John Ayre was in lumber business in Milwaukee and a re- scrve oflcer in United States Army. Victor Bono was transport
yer in San Francisco. Edwin Or-. bison was student at a Sacramento. State College. Irn Sullivan. was a crop-dus'ing flyer and stunt-pilot in Texas.
Squadron Leader W. E. `G. Tay- 1or, in active command of the Eagle Squadron, was in the United States Navy Air Service, and later a pilot between New York and P. & O. Building, Chicago, and more recently was
commissioned in the Flect Air, Arn In England.
SURGEON DETAINED
"I have never known a mun who had less regard for his personal safety, Earl Stanhope told a re- porter. "He never seemed to lose his nerve."
Lieut. Martin was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Martin, of Haywards Heath. He married last year Miss Kathleen Barbara Hawkes, of Cuckfield, Sussex. Hc was the Sussex county hock.y goalkeeper.
Sir Ernest Graham-Little, M. P. for London University, asked the Home Secretary in the House of grounds this action was taken. Commons whether he was aware Mr. Herbert Morrison replied that a member of the Emergency that this man was detained under Medical Service, a Fellow of the Defence Regulation 18 as having Royal College of Surgeons, had been concerned in conduct without any warning or reason trimental to public safety. The given been put under arrest in advisory committee would hear his Brixton Prison and on what case as soon as practicable.
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