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THE CHINA: MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST. 4, 1954.
BADER MEETS HIS SQUADRON
T
And his charm thaws even the tough Canadians
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR.....
on the
Back in the RAF Douglas Bader is promoted to Squadron Leader and gets his first command, when he is posted to Coltishall, near Norwich, to take over 242 Squadron. He is warned by Air Vice- Marshal Leigh-Mallory, A.O.C. 12 Group, that the pilots are mostly intractable Canadians, whose morale Is Jaw as a result of their experiences in France. They, In thiele turn, hear with misgiving that they are to have a legless commander.
there the rumpled uniforms, Within a couple of days the preference for roll-neck was a perceptible impression of sweaters instead of shirts and the whole squadron clicking into ties, the long hair and general position on a team, untidy air. At last he spoke:
HE pilots were all noting
down at the disper- sals, on readiness. "A Flight" disperan was a wooden hut edge of the airfield, and he pushed the door open and stumped in unheralded.
lurching walk From his they knew who he was. dozen pairs of eyes ed him coolly from
No one and the iron beds.
hands Even the got up.
the pockets and stayed in the room was silent. Watch- ful. The duel seemed to last a long time.
and
Bader kept trying to get the "Look here... it is not smart tools and spares. About the to walk about looking 11kc mechanics who haven't washed seventh day he stamped across
A to the station commander the grease off their hands. good "squadron looks smart. Just said: "Look, sir, the boys are fit for a start I don't want to sco
for anything now, but we stil A any
more flying boots or roll- haven't got our tools and spares. neck sweaters in the mess. You
I've sent this signal to Group." survey will wear shoes, and shirts nhd
He handed across a slip of paper chairs ties."
curt and Beisiegel read the message with mounting distress:
"242 Squadron except tional as regards
non-operational
At last he said, not ag- gressively but firmly: "Who
is in charge here?"
No one answered.
"Isn't anyone in charge?"
A large dark young man said:
"I guess not."
Bader
then
Jittie
eyed longer, anger flaring under his
was t
DOL the collar. But
He moment
get tough. to turned abruptly and went out.
the In B Flight" dispersal unresponsive eyes again stared zilently.
"Who is in charge here?" he
asked.
After
a
while
a
Thick-set
Turner said unemotionally n deep, slow Canadian voice! "Most of us don't have
ties
shees or shirts or what we're wearing."
In
tiny
REACH FOR
nou орета- pilots but repeat non-
THE SKY
PART 70
By
PAUL BRICKHILL
CHANBURY.
Bader pulled himself up on the wing of the Hurricans. If they thought the new CO was a cripple, there was a domn' good way to make them think again.
West broke a few moments of pregnant silence:
the
"Well, sir, we'll either be getting our tools or a new Co."
Bader wai wanted оп
He pleked it up and telephone. the voice of a squadron leader (equipment) at Fighter Com- mand Headquarters sald coldly:
"Squadron Leader Bader, what is the meaning of this extra- ordinary signal you sent today?"
"It means exactly what it says," bluntly. "We haven't got any tools or spares and I'm
keep going to
this squadron non-operational Ull I get them."
with
"Yes, sir," said the squadron In the morning a little com-
"I knew you would bo munications acroplane landed on leader. the airfield and Leigh-Mallery very angry about such a signal." Dowding said coldly: will got out.
not have any officer taking my He said: "Your non-opera- name in vain or predicting my tional signal cousori mild emotions. Your job is or was sensation at Group. I'm afraid to help the squadrona in the
by Bold. you're going to be sent for
You will be off this headquarters in 24 hours." the Commander-in-Chief."
A
Acrimonious
came,
summera
A
а
After the equipment officer went out Dowding pressed an-
buzzer other
and shortly air viće-marshal grey-haired walked in "Daddy" Nichol,
a
hangar
THE Bader who looked after all equipment flow down to for Fighter Command Fighter Command At Coltisholl Belsiegel held an
even inquiry and
before the Headquarters.
Behind tids Coltishall stores officer, too, had desk sat the austere finished clearing his desk for his Marshal Air Chief
Sir Hugh successor, the lorries were roll- type ing past the guardroom and up Dawding. He passed
the
maintenance written report over, and Bader to
brisk good saw it was from the equipment where West, with The valce observed
unloading
of crates
spare severity that these were difficult officer-an account of the phone humour, supervised his fitters
He glanced over
wheels, spark plugs, oleo legs, times and tools and spares were it and said:
spanners, files, piston rings and There was a proper pro-
an repards equip short.
"I did have acrimonious about 100 other assorted bits and "What d'you mean?"-aggres operational
cedure for obtaining new equip conversation with an equipment pieces. sively.
ment"
"Good god," the wing comment.
officer, sir, but it was between "We lost everything we had mander was appalled. "Why the
two offers of equal rank. He devil didn't you show it to me
tried to shake me by saying you Best?"
were furious about my signal and that annoyed me."
in France."
Bader said: "I am sorry. Have allowance for young man with wiry hair and you claimed an a face that looked as though it loss of kit?" hed been roughly chipped out of granite, rose slowly out
2
of
Apparently they had, and it chair and sold in strong was assumed that the claim was Canadian accent: "I guess I am." drifting quietly along one of the
proper channels,
He wore only the single ring of flying officer braid round his sleeve.
"Isn't there mander?"
1
Bader
да
After a heated scene there, went back to his office and showed it to West, whose
yes widened as he read.
"There'll be an awful shindig at Group, sir," he suggested.
"Right."
"50- Douglas said.
"They'll be an awful shindig morrow the whole lot of you go from Fighter Command, too," copy into Norwich, to the tailors said Bader. "I've sent a flight con Order what
want. I'll there as well.” you
O.K.?" guarantee that it's paid.
"There's one somewhere but he isa't here," said the young
men.
"What's your name?" "Turner." And then, after a distinct pause, "Sir."
No spares,
tools
think again.
was
(brizily)
What
A shuffle of assent,
"Right Now "Relax and take it easy. fighting have you had and how did you get on?"
on
The next half-hour WLS อ
discussion lively
varicus aspects of the trade, and after- interviewed each
wards Badet pilot in turn, finding, with one
at
I
"I've carried out the correct procedure and nothing has hap- pened," Bader snapped.
"You don't seem to care what troublo' you cause," snapped the equipment officer. "The Com- mander-in-Chief is furious about
it."
conversation.
Bader sent a signal to Group, with a copy to Fighter Com mand:
**242 Squadron now operational."
fully
"Oh, he said I was furious, WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED did he?" Dowding pressed his Reach for the Sky,” by Paul buzzer.
Brickhill, equipment Collins,
the In a minute squadron leader came in.
"Did you say 1 was furlous the receiver about
from 242 He nearly had
the signal slammed down his ear.
Squadron Dowding asked
Nathaniel
in wide
trunks
warns
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La published by
SATURDAY
Bader puts a new ides across
Gubbins
hit any
part of the August
he ob-
A Well, of course, dear. Q: Why do you say, "01 the course" in that patronising be way? Do you think I'm stupid?
A: No, dear. A
eyes, and manager's face will never invited little dinners after office hours.
to one
of those cosy
Cricket Guide
Who decides if the ball would have hit the wicket or
not?
The umpire, dear.
The first warm day occurred early in May. Millions of bluc- bottles opened their little eyes and stretched their tiny arms to greet the sunshine. They tried their wings, buzzing quietly but happily about the Tarders they kitchens and know and love so well.
we are all at the top F you нес 4
girl exercise their eyeballs, twisting would
their wicket if not obstructed by the of our form and frightfully ft. to keep walking about
your their
slim, blowing like batsman's logs, office wringing her waists
whales to develop their chests, Q: Why shouldn't hands like Lady Mac and pulling their ears up and struct the ball with his legs? or two exceptions, that he liked beth you will arrive at one down just for the hell of it. A: Because he could stay in all day, dear, by just stopping BADER surveyed them very much. Suddenly they of two conclusions. You will
them the ball with his pads. But Gubbins again the were keen and co-operative.
think that either some
that this will get them
Q: Doesn't he want to stay watchful eyes and
A The stores officer at Coltishall, disaster has befallen her or
girl in all day? where in the office. turned and Dgain
A working serenely on vouchers in that she has gone crazy.
who sits
scratch- walked out.
on a knee her tread, rolling her ing dozen yards from his kingdom of shelves, saw two descend palm
Watching her carefully
blowing in
The older ones, who read the the door stood
a square hands
He looked
knew that meat Hurricane. He beaded for it and down on his desk.
newspapers, rationing has ended and bluebat. pulled himself up on the wing up into a pair of glowing eyes. you may then see her sit at cross her knees
les all over the country were in CO Politely enough, Acting Squad- her desk, if they thought the new
good heart, looking forward to was a cripple there
one ron Leader Bader asked about
then the other
long-delaved season of abun damn good way to make them the tools for his squadron, and and rotate first one foot and
dance. For once young blue- the stores officer, shrugging
You will then dis
bottles listened without yown- the masses of paper work, ex- circles.
Q: How does he know?
to very old bluebottles zirfeld Flight over the
for plained
wal that he
nearly card your first two theories
A He docan't know
for us 11 and decide that she is
good old half an hour non-stop he snowed under.
certain, deor, It's a matter of talking about "the
days." tumbled the Hurricane round
"I literally haven't got enough bold girl making, an
opinion. the sky, one nerobatic merging
: Q Suppose the umpire's o Within 48 hours the tempera- into another, without pauses to staff to type out the forms," he delicate pass at you.
ture dropped several degrees, then elevates It sho
lic Women's Guide to Cricket, Men cheat?
A: Please don't shout, dear. Although many of us, stunned and are advised to cut this out and Q: I shall shout as much by the cold, managed to scrum- "To hell with your forms and eyebrows, holding one up
you hand it to any women pestering an I like. It's a free country, Ble back to our winter quar-
with silly questions she is either therm with a Gamecock speelally in your blankets and your blasted pulling the other down.
Suppose the umpire's a cheat?" ters, many were caught in the to arder which he pulled up in loop, toilet paper," Bader said wrath may inter
that you during a match in
A : English umpires aro open or on window panes at the fully. "I want my spares and expressing surprise
convers3- flick-rolled into a spin
or avoid embarrassing have ignored hor advances top, pulled out of the spin and tools, and I want 'em
that she is taking the micky tion like the following: completed the loop. When he soon
out of you.
Question: Why is he out? dropped her on to the grass and axied in all the pilots wore
Answer: LBW, dear. standing outside the hut watch- ing, but he climbed out unaided, did not even look at them, got into his car, drove off to his office in a hangar and sent for Bernard West, the equipment officer.
two or three said frankly.
gain height galls off the top, loops in
row,
rolla, stall turns, finishing up
damn'
Ice was broken
that
in-
Finally, it sho cups her RADER went to palms over both eyes, removes her hands, blinks at the light, Wing Com- and then blows her cheeks out mander Blesiegel Tico balloons, you may revert and explained that to your first suspicion that the until he got tools poor girl is screwY, and
spares and the pilots trained under new flight commanders there was, no point in regarding the "Eighteen Hurricanes,
squadron as operational. This West said. "But we have no was not happily received,
"What's our equipment state?" he asked.
sir,"
spares
and
по
tools. I'm
charm on them. Boon
All your theories will be wrong. She will be a girl who has been reading Anita Colby's Beauty Book, which tells her to improve her looks by Ave- minute exercises while at work or play.
PEING the second instalment B of the
Unintelligent
Q: What does that mean?; A: Leg before wickel, dear, QWhich leg?
A: It doesn't matter which leg, daar.
Q: Where's he supposed to
Behind have his legs? wicket?
A: No, doar. Q: Always in front? A: Yes, dear,
both out?
the
1
never cheata, dear.
behind curtains where they Don't talk nonsense. And perished miserably from the why are you so red in the face blows of rolled newspapers or A: I don't know, 'dear. in the laws of cats because Q: Have you been drinking they were half asleep and too
weak to By... away. too much?
A: I expect mo, dear,
Letter from a bluebottle
I do not remember how many times the weather has changed from summer; to winter and from winter to summer, but I
· do know that the limit or our eukurance - has almost beên reached. Although it is possito: "to" (surer DGO or event (two major isappointments with high courage "hope...deferred maketh the heart sick.”
Q Then why aren't they DEAR SIR;
15 a constant reader of your
· Perhaper I would not have despite the dim- A: The ball must hit a A column,
is, culty of spelling out each letter troubles you with this letter but given out LBW, dear,... as I walk along each line, may for my concern at the declin« on your valuable ing morale of the younger I Intrude
scrounging what I can, but if After lunch he began leading
they'll the pilots up in twos for forma you do any operations all be grounded in no time," tion, and was pleased to see The wringing of hands, for, batsman's legs before he
that they knew how to handle instance, ia to avoid pudgy "What do you mean, no spares their Hurricanes. That night in knuckles, She rotates her fact 1 Q3 Just now the other or toolaf Bader demanded..
of the public the plight of blue human counterparts therand the mess he turned his ang low to burn up faity issue and balınan was hit on the leg by paco `to bring to the attention · bluebottles.... Like some
Why isn't he pine bottles thuring, an exceptionally the world of today full of Wast
explained that they had was broken and his pilots avoid thick ankles. Sho elevates
cold summerf:
fears and frustrations "Cand roset in much the esma "way all been lost in France. The clustered round, laughing and her eyebrows to amooth out pit?
She cups her
ɖof the wickat, done. Indent, forms, and vouchers for telling, taking ewige at their wrinkles.
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ball.
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get rid of those mouth-to-nosed when I my it was not places which must remain
in fennt at the wicket, dear, I secret for obvious reasons. thoir turn West considered. By the second morning there furrow
mean 11 was not in mich's post the list, warm day that the channel were well was already a feeling of direc
When the Gubbins Beauty tion that would obstruct the or summer wol an clogged.
tion about the squadron. People
and Book is published, girls will be passare of the ball if the ball and refreshed and
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