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April 11, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH-H~H-H-** WHAT A
-RELIEF.
SNIFF*
AD
THE Royal Air Force.
carried out another
reconnaissance raid over Germany last night.
A
number of leaflets were
dropped....
You shrug, perhaps, at the familiar words, drop the news- paper or turn off the radio. "Another leaf- let raid.... Just a com- monplace item
"9
of the war
news.
Just a job of routine work. a practice lip for our boys before they get down to the real work of the war in the air. There are many men and women at home, reading the news by the comfort of their firesides, who dismiss it like that.
Well, here's the great story I'am now. able to tell of one leaflet ruid that will bring a real thrill of pride instead of a shrug.
It was made by a.flight of five bombers, manned by crews whe knew that they were facing wea- ther which meant death.
It was carried out without a shot being fired, yet high officers in the R.A.F. consider that this flight is the grimmext and most courageous epio at the war in the air.
It ended with crews uneon- scious from Inck of oxygen, wings iced up, engines on fire, parachute jumps into the darkness. and complote succesa,
“Nickels" Express
To Germany WHEN five Armstrong- Whitworth "Whitley" bombers of a squadron in -France were detalled to drop" leaflets over five towns in Ger- many, the pilots and crews were faced with possibility of Arctic weather conditions,
They know that they would be flying high to escape detection by German searchlights... hey knew that their worst enemy would
Rose broke the anguished silence. "Yes Andy," she said, "a man can feel great hurt too.”
He gave her a swift look to see whether she was laughing at him. But her eyes were honest with sympathy. Painfully, he rose. "I guess," he said allmy, "that a man would aland on his feet and take
She looked at him with beaming admiration. "Yes, a real man does. Suddenly, his expression changed and all at once, he was strangely, indefinably, more adult. "Sit down Rose."
She sat down and he smiled
in a way that was Infinitely more poignant than any words of his had been. "I guess I'm being kind of a nuisance, ain't aren't I?"
She lifted one eyebrow quizzi- cally, "You'll always be a nuisance - charming delightful nuisance.” He matched her words with an nir of mockery. "You think so Rose?"
"Yes" she said, watching him steadily, "and through everything, every storm of life that twists you, every time fate smashes you right In the face, nobody'll ever break that fine honest courage of yours, Andy."
He stared at her. "Gee, It's funny
"What's funny Andy?” -
He groped for what he meant. "I know, just as well as I'm sland- ing here, I know you're telling me these things only so as to make me be these things"
She could see him examining himself mentally, could almost hear the wheels go round.
-“And yet somehow,” he went on, "it's working. I feel I can take It,” He grasped her, hands, "I feel I can take it Rose. Gee, I feel ko a man. Honest I do,"
went
on.
She twinkled at him. "Now you're thinking like one Andy."
"Look, I He stopped, then "I'm all right now, Rose. I guess I caught my second wind." "You're sure?" she asked, know- Ing it wasn't true at all. He'd fooled her for a second and part of what he'd said might have been Just a little bit to the good. To have realized what she was doing, and to have wanted her to believe It had worked was oven a step further than he was aware of.
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NIGHT FLIGHT
LEAFLETS
The R.A.F.'s
Grandest
Story
BY WILLIAM COURTENAY
be, not Messerschmitts, but the elements.
But the Squadron had alrendy. been in France for a month wall- Ing, as most of the R.A.F. at home are waiting for the thrill of action,
the
Pont-up feelings found expres- sion in unrelieved joy when signal was received that this, the biggest of all the leaflet and recon- nissance ruids was to be under- taken by this Squadron.
The loads of "nickels"—as the leaflets are formed in Ser- _vice_clrctes—were, taken aboard. in France, several tons of them.
In the darkness of this wintry night, "nickels" were loaded up, fuel filed the petrol tanks for the long night ride, crews donned their "teddy bear" suits, Aerce- lined boots and parachutes. Here was the great adventure at last.
The flight took off at midnight. The Ave bombers parted, each set
Concluding-
on a compass course for the town on which the feaflets were to be dropped.
Climbing 10 17,000 feet the machines crossed the frontier and in the Inky blackness of the night penetrated deep into the heart of Germany.
Each bomber reached its objee- tive, scattered the propaganda leadets, and turned for home,
IT was then that they faced ...a grimmer
the battle
fight than that against men and guns, a fight against cold, and ice, and fire..
ran
One by one the machines into snow and ice-forming cloud." The temperature was thirty de
Ice grees below freezing point. formed on the wings and weighed the aircraft down. Ice froze the instruments and made the planes unmanageable.
The men were frozen. Crewa suffered agonies as they crouched In their places in the grip of frost-
He decided to land, Gliding down he through the inky, darkness, strained his eyes as they swooped to carth. Nearer... nearer
Suffering agonies the
crews crouched
in
Suddenly a killside loomed up before him. There was a crush, and the great machine piled up on the frozen grass. The crew serain- bied, half-stunned to the ground. All five were saved.
The remainder
the of
Flight was droning on through the clouds, while the cold grip of Ice them. Men sped and cried ns they strugged breathe.
in onc Captain and navigator machine beat their heads against the metal fittings of the pilol's cock- pit as a relief against the agony of lack of oxygen.
their swaying planes closed on
fighting ice and fire,
bita.
And then, in one plané the oxygen supply, necessary for high- altitude ying, falled.
Men slumped to the floor, Sick and giddy they rolled about in the swaying plane. Gunners In tho' turrets were hunched, un- conscious, across their guns which were no jammed by ice that they could not have fired.
Then a streak of flame shot through the blackness of the night. A new terror had attacked the alr- men.
FIRE!
Engines abluze, the plane sway- ing dangerously, the captain of the aircraft ordered his men to jump.
But ice had wrecked the inter- communication-telephones-to-his- crow. Two men could not receive his order.
While the flames roared through the roar of the engines, the cap- taln was faced with the grim alternatives of bailing out to save three, and leaving the other two to their fate, or of attempting to land and risk killing all five.
ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER
like a dream," he said, fighting back the tears. "How could a guy like.
maneres vacum ins Metro Goldwyn Mayer ture
BEATRICE FABER
"Sure." Andy thought of his last trip to the Capitol. "There's a lot
me ever deserve anybody like you of beautiful women in Washington. yel? Gee, I gotta lot to do before
I rate a woman like you.”
SHE knew then, which wound He was was hurting him most. feeling the raw pain of humiliation. And it was up to her that it didn't leave a scar. "Why Andy," she sald with a deprecating smile, "in a couple of years I'll be that funny Hittle country school teacher who once gave you a few weeks of high There'll be a sehool dramaties, dozen other girls who will have come into your lile."
He cocked his head incredulously. "You mean twelve different girls In two years?"
She poured it on. It's inevitable when a man is attractive."
"Oh. You think I'm gonna be un attractive man?”
Rut
"No girl will ever forget you." "Of course," he said virtuously, "I wouldn't deliberately set out to break any woman's heart." Then suddenly, there was a genuino note of excitement in his voice. any, I've got a lot of other things, to think of besides love. I've gʊlia study law and get to practice and be a judge like my father. I'm going to try to get to the Supreme Court of the United States,”
Rose didn't seem in the least sur- prised. "I think you'll make it Andy"
Blo sald comfortably. "There's steel in your backbone. And there'll be plenty of woman in your life too."
Foreigners, you know. Sples and lobbyists,
She sat back, breathing freely now. The boy actually sounded normal. "You'll be able to cope
with with them and
all the mysterious and wonderful things that are going to happen to you.'
Andy reflected, Then he turned to her and said judiciously, "I can't Eny thoroughly approve of your Franklin guy but there aren't any hard feelings on your pari?”
She shook her head happily. "No Andy. I always knew we could never be anything but a milestone In each other's life."
He spoke magnanimously. remember you always, at least until I get started to going to college, You see,"
ce" he added frankly, man'd be a fool to promise" any- thing in the face of two thousand co-cds."
"Fair enough," Rose assured him. "And now, I think I'll go inside. This has been an exciting evening and I'm a little tired."
"Sure,"
10
blandly. agreed "You're bound to get tired casier when you're approaching middle- age." He held out his hand. "Good -night Rose. It's been a pleasure to
meet you."
"Goodnight dear-and goodbye."" Andy looked out after her as she disappeared in the shadows and in that moment ho actually seemed to grow-alx inches in height. Then he
looked over the universe with majestic pride, jammed his thumbs into his belt and struck an attitude. "Co'mon Hardy," he said to the high heavens, "we got a mile-stone in our pocket now."
"
He strode on down the street and when he saw the blaze of Polly's garden party, Chinese inmps, and kids all over the plate-with-re- freshments, he turned up the path. Everyone praclically leaped on
him.
"I almply adored the moon," said the soulful fourteen-year-old Maxine.
Andy nodded with superior adult 'calm. "I agree. Young Higgin-
botham is a promising your d
Stickin'. Plaster had been
In the shadows, Now, hardly dar- ing to breathe or believe his own cara ho came forth. His eyes were all swollen from weeping.
Andy spoke to him. "Nothing's worth crying about my boy," he said in his father's tone. "You've got to take things like that moon to-night with steel in your buck- Ind's bone." He patted the shoulder. Listen son, anything bothers you from now on you come to me and I'll straighten you out, man to man.".
Suddenly Polly appeared. Sho was quite dignified. but all the hurt hostess, "I'm glad you came Andy," she said. "Your father flenhoned. Do you want to use the
brary phone????
*
an-
AGAIN a spurt of flame, frantic orders shouted into the telephones ... other engine was on fire. Captain of the aircraft gave the order to jump.
First man to ball out with his parachute was caught on the fall- ing plane by his iclephone head- phones.
HE HUNG THERE, SWAY- ING IN MID-AIR, WHILE THE PLANE SPUN DIZZILY DOWN- WARD, FLAMES SHOOTING FROM THE BURNING ENGINE.
hacked him free, and he dropped. The captain watched his men go, while he struggled to re- cover control of the machine.
But ice had jammed the controls. She dived downwards, utterly un- manageable, dropping from 15,000 tect to 2,000 feet. It took the com- bined strength of pilot and navi- gator to pull it out on to an even the keel.
trimmed The captain bomber to glide to land by itself with no one at the controls.
Then, less than 300 feet from- the ground, he jumped overboard. By a miracle, in that short space between burning plano and earth his
checked, parachute opened,
and saved his fe.
Alaronic announcement WIS made. "Another successful flight by the R.A.F. over Germany. ...
That's all.
"Perhaps I'd better." He looked about him. "Charming little affair. Polly. You'll pardon me, please?"
THE Judge almost fainted with rellet as he heard his son's voice. He began to lle elaborately. "Oh I only called up, Andy to-to con- gratulate you on the play,"
"Dad,"' Andy-said, "I appreciate your thoughtfulness but I don't think you should've stayed up 60 late."
"What! Met Why Andrew, I WB5mm
"I'll be out late Dad," Andy cut in, "so you go to bed and try to get some sleep 'because you been lookin'
pretty rocky these past few days. "Whooo," he alglied and went weak with thankfulness. Rose Meredith had certainly done her job well.
But in the Benedict library, Polly was facing Andy with dangerous calm. "Well," she said, "Adrift In Tahiti is now a thing of the must say I'm not past. And
wouldn't
sorry."
sure you..
be
"I'm Polly"
"What do you mean I wouldn't?" Andy regarded her with friendly tolerance. "When you're older, you'll understand. When you've experienced the storms of life, when you've passed a milestone or two
She advanced on him with a
Andrew menacing eye. "Listen Hardy, you're not talking to poor Ittle Tahula now. You're talking to Polly Benedict. And Polly Bene- dict doesn't jump in volcanoes."
Suddenly she lung her arms violent around him and gave him kiss. Then she pulled away and aald wickedly, "weil, Rear Admiral, ΠΟΥ aro you through with 'women?"
Andy stared at her. Then his face widened into a grin. "Woo- woo," he cried. Then he reached out for her. "Little Polly sure heap malden." pretty native
She darted away and the chase was on. Milestone or no milestone, Andy Hardy was going to get an- other kiss from his beat girl or know the reason why.
THE END
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