1956-12-08 — Page 7

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The JOHNNIE

JOHNSON Story

(Continued from Pago 6)

Soon enough, we were back over the front line. I was flying with Wally's squadron whru we Anw nine Mosterschmit below. We tore down into a line-estern attack. Just before we closed in firing range 1 saw the leader of the chemy subourd secun pull his into a vertical climb.

1 kw is mataservie. The pila. would Half-ruti

at the top of his loop, having gard vitut altitude. I would then alleron-turn hl Messer- 2chnitt

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come down in

furt #live searching for Splitre. My own target was vy elox, but before i blasted him with my Cannons I string line to cry.-

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"Watch that brute. Wally.

He knows the form!"

"Paula had married a fighter pilot and hád always taken it for granted that I would want to see the thing through.” Here is Johnson today at his home in Norfolk with his wife and one of his two sons, Michael;

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A MIX-UP WITH THE

RUSSIANS AT BERLIN

I

Fort

With

a Ponda and neither his CO

De Mertersetirkli,

semmi. Inavy bet He staders to buto name tely, bo T wa Udnking of the douger from

Ilked out mit above. amily 1 pulled my Spitfire, with throdile wide open, I'a verteat elimu.

The

1

To gain bengld I was cany bug et a drullar manoeuvre Hi Mesomehmitt, bu! us the 19117403 fell

111. away སྱཱ། ཙཱ-༢༥ ;

dropped I realised the vulanability of THY

posit

CLOST-EXHMune.l all pilots, but no one had MEETI Wally or his quarry after the broak-up of our billad attack.

WAN

the

I walked to my rotavan and phoned the italy controler The

friend froin an l Kenley days and knew Willy These

twx of meeting qual etmmander, but he wild, etre, it all journe ot Information Monedaley

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1 Bech 20" replied that we had destroyed five of the Messerschmitis, but the price of our success might be bigh

I wont be far better to erm. Hay pite the last low position of the hop within the sanctuary of the chand rather than to the sky, who no I would present an easy shot to the Messerschmitt,

1 Shelehed the ble of the top to the tax rate, ani with a sigh of relief save ** Ky Vabar swirl

round my Splitfre

1 was Arredonderwi the dark cloud. But The sited at mutter, feg od ty to case the stick forward and The Spire would continue its aring that and south

the viene sky.

2+21

fall

MY TOAST

HAT night

Peng the city.

We flew over The warded suburtis and a

prawled below with raping holes here and there,

Fitt were tarting i th dozen different plae s. Sutten- 15 we

by the Wi',c

assulet

1 vorrupting

hard The Burslar aybillery wa 31 11 As we flew towards the we saw the flashes of their Kun and the debris thrown up from the shelle Russian tanks cundaked into the elly from the east.

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"Fifty-pitis 1 Greycup Saune level behind."

'clock. More

"Are they Hann?' I w kert. as 1 focussed my Harkle.

every (T)

front and the pack followed behind, rising and falling with the gaggle continually change

Ing chape. They reminded me of a great. wheeling. tumbing pack of starlings which une som lince sees ng a winter day In England.

Every few moments a handful from the pick, broke away

teburety. and then circled atacked something in the deseri of brick and rubble, In this way they worked Over Hie dying city.

was

(1

10 remember thu when, ie more EXPERIE than five years later I was In Korea with The serving Unlied States Air Force and the well-trained. fist squadrons of well-disciplined MIC15's made their appearance over the Yalu lover The Coaeminists bud urind a lot during those few Years.)

Son of erw.rd; we flew our Wa Fast operation of the war. were loid to putrol south of

the Kiel until B a.m. and then re- turn to Celle. When we saw any enemy airplanes we were lo escort them to a Brillah air. held and ree that they lander

seted Ir they

In

hosill We were to take the

"Don't look like Tune to me,

came I took the palat: Greycup,”

The reply, 116 Lanuvain for drinks and "Probably Russians." dinner. I wanted to jerk them out of their dejection.

A

At Le Cafe du Sept Coins we into had

U

"AU right chaps,” 1 said. "Stick together, Don't make n

And move."

myself

to

I

manner

usual steps,

Heres welenne thought: I'm for it if this mix- REALLY OVER

und a tremendous dinner. An up gets out of hand!

I sipped a liqueur and Inhaled a good rigar, both suppiled by our host. I glanced round the

I plut ged out of the cloud an adies with the speed building

alterori-turned the table at my small band Splitre on to an even keel Canadians, none of them more went into #ght wirel, but thai. 22 or 23 years of age.

Way no

vithr sigh of

There

Split

Wally

Their spirits

Incomments

my

For

п

הינום

which A LONE wu-engined trans-

The Russian Yak fighters

slow began would bring them behind our I couldn't allow this Spitfires and I swung the wing to star- board and turned over the top They numbered about a hundred all told.

of the Yaks.

vitality Alesseirchmitt, and had praponded to our pleasant

L!}{L Joy suroundings

few gasbd cult, on the tuho,

Thoughts OWI To thing's fight. 1 fared that Wally was dead. drank I silent toast to his mempry und the enenunters WHE C Luftwaffe WC had the shared together.

ON

BLACK OUT

Я тож

the

Bremma burning wrecka aircraft, unid although I

M BI

After the war 1 learned that the

few Wally was hand ava ut high speed,

ced, wreckage of his Spititre, wilch They were so disintegrated that crashed near the scene of our

I could mi identify

then as fight.

either friend or foe, Mine wULT the eleventh Spitfie to Jand from Our mission, And the other 10 pliota were waiting for me. Wally was not among them.

The pliot who hud flown

nearest to Wally told me that

I

BERLIN

"More above us."

"Tighten it up." I Don't break formation,"

A GAGGLE

circled each other for couple of turns. Both sides were cautious and suspicious. I arrowed the gap between us

much as I dured.

When

was opposite the Russin leader 1 roked

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port was soon spotted by

The my pilots.

enemy air- plane look evasive action, Lurned back to the north anÍ paid the full price,

Then we spoltesi four Focke- Wuits. The fuss waggled their wing Gropped the.r under- carriages and generally behaved

nervous mner. The Spitfires flew on either side ana eventually this strange lile gaggle set course for our lines.

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My boys chattered to them- selves about their prospects or nequiring Luger automitics and But the 190's Leica cameras, Janded at the first British ar fhid they saw and left the frus trated Splulro

circling pilots above,

The next morning We were

SHALL not easily forget my wings and watched for him lụ not awakened by the powerful

first sight of Berlin.

do the same. He puld

but regard,

The roads to the west were he hud last seen his lender packed with a mass of refugees

streaking after the looping, Mosserschmitt. The wingman had atempted to follow, but the "g" furves had made him

This series

was adapted

after soon

no song of our Splifires being run. he up on the pre-down checks. I

straightened out of his turn realised then that the war was and led his ragged collection really over-and that I was süll back to the east.

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We watched them fly away. There seemed

be по

flying. The tender was

black out in the light pull-out, from Wing Leader (Chatto pattern or discipline to their und when he had recovered he and Windus, 15s.),

alive.

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THE END

ANGRY WITH THE AMERICANS

London.

NTI AMERICANISM

A was the phrase of the

By LES ARMOUR

week. From wherever you about a "rising tide of Bri- stood, it seemed to have its tish nationalism."

uses.

Cabinet Minister must

Most of the people who seemed to be angry with the Americans did not depute tho right of the U.S.

There are people, no doubl. who celze on every opportunity to slack

and the Americans who are motivated by nothing more rational than Jealousy. They may have much to do with look as if they are really rES- the current feeling. But it does ponable for it.

The extreme right wing have had some difficulty Government to oppose Bri- of the Conservative Party stifling the temptation to tish policy. Nor were they said that anti-Americanism welcome it. For, there was had reached such propór no doubt about it, the more very angry that the U.S. quite simply, what are we going

Government should have

tions that the Americans anti-American feeling grow, done so. would have to behave them- the more popular solves. Moderate Conserv. Government scemed

become.

SENSELESS FORMS

the

Meanwhile the question is,

to do about it?,

The

DIFFICULT 1/ME

whether

to What did anger them was atives

that U.S. opposition seemed to warned that the

Government, people who were fostering it

be taking senseless forms. Why right, wrong, or indifferent, 19 were compounding the un-

didn't the Americans get down conlainly in for a difficult bing, to it and sort out the oil prob- Short time working de aprend doubted difficulties of the

lems? Surely, they didn't think log, and national hardship will Government. Socialists Bút, at street level,' it anyone would gain anything grow with every day of the oil with perhaps a little more seemed that the politicians from

shortage." European economic gleetham was proper had misjudged. Some people that an oil crisis

crisis? Surely they didn't think Thac pointed to it as the mad who were angry with the them make what they had weather the storm. But the consequence of the Govern Americans were also angry claimed all along was, a moral form must necessarily work ment's policy.

with the Government and, point?

fogainst the Covernment, winte though they might support Moreover, in President Elson the aluation. And the Brillati Leven the rights, and wrong), of Nevertheless, there was thoir Government against personed militude, they Government has 3 work CLIC a danger. The Times warned the Americans, they still end betrayal Eisenhower has gut. For it man itnow that that there was a "growing did not necessarily approve always been

'ne well unifovéinenente óen fall, as a result danger of a Britain united in what their Government had/uin.American Now y hay for their good deeds er woll as u

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