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He pulled the stick hard back in a desperate effort to gain height, but, even as he did so he felt the plane lose speed and hover for a sickening, stomach. wrenching instant on the brink of a stall. Then it dropped like a stone, and with the ground. rushing up towards him he sot bis teeth and prayed that the end would be quick.

He was still ice-cool-cool enough to think in the split second before everything black- ed-out that this, after all, was how he would have chosen to die. Below other pilots were already running across the crisp, frost-sprinkled grass of the landing field in the direction of the falling plane. They hud been watching his dizzy acro- baties over the drame, and when he had attempted a Inst slow roll not more than 100 ft. Stubbs Road above their heads they had held

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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph is med by the tangkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1910. Such news a hears the indication "U" is received in atongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

their breath in silent conster- nation.

with Death-a pastime that

Bader lightly followed almost every day of his life-this was

AIR.

by

A. W. Helliwell

in the breeze to nvold these aveng- ing furles. Where before there had been an orderly formation there now was nothing but a wild con- fusion of whirling twisting planes.

Into this the Hurricanes struck. banking left and right an each pilot pleked his own target. Three Mes- serschmitts went into a steep climb to escape nn Bader dived upon them; but he was after them in a Bash, and he caught the Inst of them at almost point-blank range will a three-seconds burst from his jjuns.

The devasting effect of a British fighter's Are at such range is in- credible. The hail of bullets las precisely the same effect as a glant circular anw, literally cutting the furget to pleyes in mid-air.

dis- this Ав

Messerschmitt integrated, Bader threw his Hurr!- cane into a breath-taking turn and went after the second. Its pilot had no stomach for the fight. Desperate- ly he pulled his stick backwards and forwards in violent jerks, flying his machine in a series of switchback deavour to shake off his

climbs and dives in a hopeless en-

But there was no escape for him. Once

Bader's wing again

This was more than flirting This is the story of Wing Commander dapper, smiling little Douglas Douglas Bader, the famous Canadian legless pilot who is now reported to bo missing. Bader has secured the highest R.A.F. honours for his exploits spiral dive, leaving a

positively linking arms with it

and asking for trouble.

As they tilted their heads to

follow his progress across the

wintry sky saw the plane hover motionless for a moment

wing began to fly to pieces. An- sharp "woof" of dame from the plane before it went into a long leaving a trail of smoke More than half the enemy had

roared, and the German's starboard other short burst and there was a

and fire in

That anyone without. legs That was not good enough for

"Give me 8 fighter plane to immediately the Hurricanes had at tacked, but they were still out- and then plunge into an uncon- should be able to accomplish him. I want to be in the fun," he turned tall and streaked for home

ny." trolled nose-dive. The terrific this miracle-is almost incredible. sid.

He got his own way in the end, numbered heavily, and cach duel

Germans who impact when it crashed shook But the young man who once

inight One whispered "Til fly again" be- Back in the Air Force blue once had to be fought with a wary eye.

open for any the iron-hard ground.

over his left breast, Bader was the Bader, himself, was nearly cought- wing crumpled like paper. The fore he dropped back into a more, with the precious wings sewn sneak up and catch them unawares.

in this way. As he turned from engine, torn from its mounting, coma does it.

Bader's squadron once shot happiest young man in the world.

The eight-gun Spitfire in which destroying the second Messerschmitt flew one way. The rest of the PETAIN~~~AUTHORITARIAN plane ploughed a long and down thirty-three enemy planes he rode the sites was the apple of he saw in his mirror another coming ragged scar across the turf, in three successive engagements, his eye. With his metal legs on the up behind him with white streams

from his

guns. forward old dash and brillance and promo- It was one of those mangling itself into a twisted his personal contribution to the rudder bar he flew it with all his belching

menns the collection being six machines. ball of wood and metal.

tlon came swiftly. In This legless hero of so many than six months he had command difference between life and death. shrilling sky duels is thirty of the Maple Leaf squadron of young In the same instant that he sighted the enemy Bader acted, and his Wherever Bader leads they fol- Hurricane zoomed sideways and up- Out of that pile of junk, so dark-haired and dapper, and in Canadians.

wrench that would any former light- low. There is not a man in it who wards with

also would not fly straight into Hell be have forn the wings from terribly injured that he did not looks and build not unlike Dave recover consciousness until he Crowley,

hind

Goering

those disappointed EVEN with the foreign policy of the Vichy regime have tried to avoid condemning Marshal Petain himself. They have been con- scious of the probability that French collaboration with the Nazi "new order" is not the free choice of France, and that even though the Lavals and Darlans may be seeking personal profit through toadying to Hitler, Petain himself was doing his best for France.

In

Miraculous

1

the

little more a split-second decisioments when

woke up in hospital with both weight champion, who

both Wears Air Force blue these days, in sundron with hit the guts of ordinary machine the hind shaken the

legs gone, they dragged

In two In America, that land of pic- this one all Germany would ring enemy off and was turning to dive in his own attack, but the German But here in England it is different. pilot was heading for France as fast who eight years later was to become one of Britain's out. Luresque slang, they would call with tales of its prowess.

Bader a "Birdman." He has standing fighter pilots!

never had any other ambition Our heroes' are, for the most part, as he could go, and Bader had not

anonymous. Their deeds and what the fuel to chase him.

of No one who saw him erash at except to fly. He went straight glorious, stirring deeds they are

Enthusiasm Reading back in 1931 thought from school to the R.A.F. Col- are told only in the cold prose

Here is but one story of the many That was a proud day for his that he could possibly survive. lege at Cranwell as a cadet, and official bulletins,

ut the age of twenty-one he hat

machines-eight Messer- company who fly with German "My God! Poor Douglas!" already made a name for him- that could be told of Bader and the squadron. They brought down 11 murmured the first

schmitts and three Heinkels in that were 15,000 ft. over the brief but beetle dog-fight, and they friends to reach the wrecked self as one of our most during

Essex peaceful

countryside when came back to their landing ground a single bullet plane. Bader was imprisoned

they sighted some 3,000 ft. below without so much aa somewhere that tangled Versatile

them swarm of twin-engined Ger

In two other similar engagements

of his

in mass, but there seemed no hope

stunt aces.

his

"SECEhed enemy practice-covering the sky

Bader from 15,000. ft. to 20,000 1,

eession of death-defying manoeuvres. But it seemed he had dared once

Dornier 17 Into the flerce and dramatic

Only a few months ago his engine falled as he came in over the air- field and he crashed lightly. They pulled him out with both metal legs badly bent. Bader and his men were alone. The legless wonder of the skies

second's

straightened-them

Granting the Marshal this credit, it becomes less and less

Fear had-or has not any place man bombers and fighter bombers hole in any of the Hurricanes, possible for friends of France he could still be-living. They in this remarkable young men's dying in light formation. There they brought down twenty-two more and freedom to regard him as got him out at last, and, lexicon. They say he ran make a were between seventy and a hun- enemy planes, while Bader has also distinguished himself by aircraft in the fight and, further miraculously, a faint spark of plane du anything but talk. Thou- dred anything but agent of

life still Bickered in his crushed sands were thrilled at the old Hen- hovering 1,000 ft. above them, an- swoting down

wonderful other swarm of planes flying in sea after a don air pageants renetion in Europe. For "totali- body.

flying, Even

pilots slepped-up formation favourite aerial duel.. tarian" he substitutes the term-

For days he lay unconscious. stared skywards in

admiration when Douglas "authoritarian." The chief Both legs were amputated, one adm

"went to town" a few hundred feet difference between his "revolu- completely, the other at the "We tion" and that of Hitler is that knee. For many weeks after above their heads in a sparkling suc- Incredible

the operation the shadow of Petain's would disturb caste death still hung darkly over tog often when he crushed at that There were no other British fighters grinned as he squatted on the gross fines less, would alter the distri him, yet the first thing he said Rending air feid. Even though he in sight, but without a

when he realised that he had survived, no one thought he would besitation be banked and threw his waiting while on artificer carefully ever fly again. The tragedy was all Hurricane into a verilent dive right "It's a good job I've got tin_legs,” bution of power in France by lost his legs and while the doc- the greater because he had been into the heart of the tightly packed he joked. "otherwise I should be formation. On his tall came the booked for a few months in splints restoring it to church, to pro- tors were still struggling to such a brilliant athlete,

lle a magnificent Rugby foot- rest-a handful of planes against instead of a ten-minutes' walt,

Twenty minutes later he was in German, the air again. perty and other "responsible" keep the slender thread life

As they swooped, the

That's the sort of spirit the Luft- ever to play for the famous Haric- clements, while denying its from shapping. Wisof fly baller one of the best serum halves more than a hundred.

quins, and was certain of his inter- Bihters and bombers fanned out national cap. He had played cricket over the sky, scattering like leaves waffe will never conquer. exercise by the rank and file of

the R.A.F. and To-day. he does ride the

and squash individual citizens. His recom-

clouds again, legless but in- showed great promise as a boxer: mendations to the commission domitable, leader of a squadron and cross-country runner. charged with drafting a now of dare-devil Canadian pilots Legless. It seemed that the two who again and again have things for which he lived-flying and sport-must be denied him, but Constitution for France, frankly struck terror into the hearts of Bader made up his mind that he ask for the revocation of univer German raiders, holder of the would not be beaten. sal suffrage. While doubtless D.S.O. for gallantry, and with deploring defeat by the Nazis he and others bade good-bye will-

again."

for

A few months after his crash,!

a steadily mounting total of taking his first hesitant steps on his new metal legs, he was already) enemy aircraft to his credit.

making plans.

ingly to the French Third Nonchalant

Republic.

"I haven't a leg of my own to stand on," he grinned, "but I'll still get_by."!

He even refused use a stick to

he went to work as

I don't know whether you Some significant disclosures have ever sat in the cockpit of help hins. As soon as he was t a Spitfire or fighter. about the Marshal's attitude it spite of and humbl. traveller-in a specially adapted car spending every penny he could toward Germany, and Britain ing experience. Surrounded by save on flying lessons. Within nine even as long ago as the war of that complex and glittoring col- months he had fulfilled his vow. 1914-18 have recently tended to lection of controls and dials the He was dying solo again- fully

imagination boggles. You gon- qualified clyf plot.

Immediately Bader applied to be confirm uncasiness awakened by coive a new and awe-struck taken back into the Service. It was his very first utterances as admiration for the young men his first, his only, love. But they him. Disappointed who nonchalantly squeeze them- would not have solves into these snug seats and but not discouraged, he continued to o hurtling across the sky at fly. He played cricket, tennis ond squash again, doing everything pos sible to prove that he was as useful without his legs as before.

leader of Vichy. The memoirs of Poincare describe Clemenceau as shocked at Petain's pessimism and anti-British sentiment. To quote Clemenceau:

Pelala's pessimism is intolerable. Tiogine-le sald. **The Germans will beat us!" Should a general talk like that? ito dared to say that

If we wore beaten we would owe it to the English.

six miles a minute or more.

There can be little question Persistence. of Petain's sincerity.

That is

When, war broke out he tried to beside the point, Hitler is Join up again. He begged, argued, probably a sincere Nazi. Mar- pleaded and cajoled. "Just give me shal Petain simply does not ene chance" he asked. That's all believe in the democratic way I need."

Ar

At last bls dogged persistence, of of life. He cannot therefore Petain also appears among look forward to British victory perhaps it was his obvious sincerity the light that gleamed in his eyes those backward military leaders with any enthusiasm. In a os he argued, Impressed the Board. of France who opposed develop German Europe France might They decided to give him a test. mont of the French air force have a hard time, but it would Bader passed with flying colours, commission and a job as a taxi- have more chance of evolving us and as a result he was offered a

ft:

aircraft from factories pilot-flying even while Nazi might was Marshal Petain thinks

to airfields and similar: duties, should. sprouting terrible wings.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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