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He pulled the stick hard back In a desperate effort to gain height, but, even as he did 80: he folt 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 set hla teeth and prayed that the end would be quick.

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still ice-cool-cool was enough to think in the split second before everything black- cd-out that this, after all, was how he would have chosen to dle. Below other pilots were. already running across the crisp, frost-sprinkled grass of the landing field in the direction of the falling plane. They had been watching his dizzy aero- batics over the drome, and when he had attempted a last klow roll not more than 100 ft. Stubbs Road above their heads they had held their breath in silent conster- nation.

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This was more than

with Death--a pastime that dapper, smiling little Douglas

Bader lightly followed almost positively linking arms with at

every day of his life-this was and asking for trouble.

As they tilted their heads to

follow his progress across the

the

iron-hard ground.

murmured

AIR

This is the story of Wing Commander Douglas Bader, the famous Canadian legless pilot who is now reported to Bader has be missing.

secured the

by

A. W.

Helliwell

In the breeze to avoid thesa oveng- ing furies, Where before there had been an orderly formation thero now was nothing but a wild con- fusion of whirling twisting planes.

Into this the Hurricanes struck, banking left and right as each plot

his own target. Three Mes- erschmills went into a steep elimh

Lo

escapo no Bader dived upon them; but he was after them in a nash, and he caught the last of them at almost point-blank range with three-seconds burst from his guns.

The devasting effect of a British fighter's fro such range is in- credible, The all of bullets has precisely the same effect as a glant circular saw, literally cutting the target to pleces in mid-air.

As this

dis- Messerschmitt Integrated, Bader threw his Hurri- cane into a breath-inking turn and went after the second. Its pilot had no stomach for the fight. Desperate- ly he pulled his alick backwards and forwards in violent jerks, flying his machine in a series of switchback

climbs and dives in a hopeless en-

deavour to shake off his attacker,

But there was no escape for him. Once

Bader's wing Kuns

to fly to pleces. An-

roared, and the German's starboard

wing began other short burst and there was a nlinep ""what" plane before It went into a

of flame from the

highest R.A.F. honours for his exploits spiral dive, leaving a trail of smoke

and Are its wake.

More than half the enemy had

in this

up-

any

wintry sky they saw the plane

not good enough for That anyone without legs That was hover motionless for a moment

Immediately the Hurricanes had at- 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

Dy,"

numbered heavily, and each duel trolled nose-dive. The terrific this miracle is almost incredible. Give me a fighter plane to tacked, but they were still out-

He got his own way in the end. had to be fought with a

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

One whispered "I'll fly again" be- Back in the Air Force blue once

openk

for any Germans who might over his left breast, Bader was the sneak

Budernd enlch them unawares

himself, was nearly caught wing crumpled like paper. The fore he dropped back into a more, with the precious wings sewn

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

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

The eight-gun Spitze in which destroying the second Messerschmitt flew one way. The rest of the

long and down thirty-three enemy planes he rode the skies was the apple of he saw in his another

mirror PETAIN-AUTHORITARIAN plane ploughed n

rugged sear across the turf, in three successive engagements, his eye. With his metal legs on the go behind him with white streams old dash and brilliance and promo- It was one of those moments when EVEN those

disappointed mangling itself into a twisted his personal contribution to the rudder bar he flew it with all his belching from his forward guns.

ball of wood and metal,

collection being six machines,

tion came swiftly. In a little more a This leglegs hero of so many than six months ho had command second decision means the ind difference between life and death. with the foreign policy of the

shrilling sky duels is thirty, of Vichy regime have tried to avoid Miraculous

Canadians.

the enemy Bader acted, and his Out of that pile of junk, so dark-haired and dapper, and in Maple Lent squadron of young In the same instant that he sighted condemning Marshal Petain

former light low. There is not a man in it who wards with a wrenchs that would himself. They have been con- terribly injured that he did not looks and build not unlike Dave Wherever Bader leads they fol- Hurricane zoomed sideways and

would not fly straight into Hell be have torn the wings from also recover consciousness until he Crowley, the

hind him. It Goering could boast ordinary machine. scious of the probability that woke up in hospital with both weight champion, who French collaboration with the legs gone, they dragged a man wears Air Force blue these days, one squadron with half the guts of In two seconds he had shaken the In America, that land of pic- this one ali Germany would ring enemy off and was turning to dive

of its

its prowess.

in his own attack, but the German who eight years later was to

But here He has Nazi "new order" is not the free become one of Britain's out. turesque slang, they would call with tales England It is different. pilot was heading for France as fast.

Bader a "Birdman." choice of France, and that even 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. though the Lavals and Darians

No one who saw him crash at except to fly. He went straight glorious, stirring deeds they are may be seeking personal profit Reading back in 1931 thought from school to the R.A.F. Col- ure told only in the cold prose of Enthusiasm

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

"My God! Poor Douglas!" at the age of twenty-one he had that could be told of Bader and the squadron. They brought down 11 eight Messer- Petain himself was doing his

the first of his already made a name for him- dare-devil company who fly with German machines-

him.

schmitts and three Heinkels-In that best for France.

friends to reach the wrecked self as one of our most daring they were—16,000 ft. over the brief but hectic dog-fight, and they peaceful Essex countryside hen came back to their landing ground Granting the Marshal this plane. Bader was imprisoned stunt aces,

they sighted some 3,000 ft. below without so much as

single bullet in that tangled Versatile

them a swarm of twin-engined Ger- bole in any of the Hurricanes. credit, it becomes less and less somewhere

mass, but there seemed no hope

In two other similar engagements Fear had or has not any place man bombers and fighter bombers -possible-for-friends of France he could still be living. They

In this remarkable young man's flying in tight formation. There they brought down twenty-two more and freedom to regard him as got him out at last, and, lexicon. They say he can make a were between seventy and a hun- enemy planes, while Bader has also the light and, further distinguished himself by anything but agent of miraculously, a faint spark of piane do anything but talk. Thou- dred aircraft in

life still flickered in his crushed sands were thrilled at the old Hen- hovering 1,000 ft. above them, an- shooting down a Dornier 17 into the of planes flying in sea after a flerce and dramatic reaction in Europe. For "totali- body.

don air pageants by his wonderful other swarm

Even flying-

experienced pilots slepped-up formation-a favourite aerial duct.

Only a few months ago his engine open-mouthed enemy practice-covering the sky tarian" he substitutes the term

For days he lay unconscious, stared skywards in

failed as he came in over the air- when Douglas Bader

fold

and

he crashed lightly. They "authoritarian." The

chief. Both legs were amputated, one admiration

pulled him out with both metal legs badly bent. difference between his "revolu- I completely, the other at the "went to town" a few hundreder from 15,000 ft. to 20,000 ft.

cession of death-defying manoeuvres, knee. For many weeks after above their heads in a sparkling suc- Incredible tion" and that of Hitler is that the operation the shadow of Eut it seemed he had dared not There were no other British fighters grinned as he squatted on the renss The legless wonder of the skies crashed at that Petain's would

second's waiting while an artificer carefully caste death still hung darkly over too often when he

survived, no one thought he would hesitation he banked and threw his straightened them. lines less, would alter the distri-him, yet the first thing he said Reading air field. Even though he in sight, but without

"It's a good job I've got tin legs," bution of power in France by when he realised that he had ever fly again. The tragedy was all Hurricane into a vertical dive right

lost his legs and while the doc- the

formation. On his tall came the booked for a few months in splints a brilliant athlete. restoring it to church, to pro-tors were still struggling to much realer because he had been into the heart of the lightly packed he joked, "otherwise I should be

He was a magnificent Rugby foot resta handful of planes against instead of a ten-minutes wait."

Twenty minutes later he was in perty and other "responsible" keep the slender thread of life

baller-one of the best scrum halves more than a hundred.

As they swooped, the German the air again. ever to play for the famous Harle-

That's the sort of spirit the Luft- elements, while denying its from snapping, was

quins, and was certain of his inter- fighters and bombers fanned out again."

He had played cricket over the sky, scattering like leaves waffe will never conquer. national exercise by the rank and file of

cap.

for To-day he does ride and

the R.A.F. and squash individual citizens. His recom-clouds again, legless but in- showed great promise is a mendations to the commission domitable, leader of a squadron and cross-country runner. charged with drafting I

new of dare-devil Canadian pilots Legless, it seemed that the two denied him, but .sport-must be Constitution for France frankly who again and again have things for which he lived-flying and 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.

A few months after his crash, sal suffrage. While doubtless D.S.O. for gallantry, and with deploring defeat by the Nazis hen steadily mounting total of taking his first hesitant steps on his

| enemy aircraft to his credit.

disturb

and others bade good-bye will- ingly to the French Third Nonchalant Republic,

"Plly

the

fest

boxer

new metal legs, he was already making plans.

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

Ile even refused to use a stick to

at' went to work as help him. As soon as he was enough he

save

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I don't know whether you Some significant disclosures have ever sat in the cockpit of about the Marshal's attitudo Spitfire or Hurricane fighter,

It is a bewildering and humbl traveller-in a specially adapted ear on flying lessons. Within nine) toward Germany and Britain ing experience. Surrounded by pending every penny he could even as long ago as the war of that complex and glittering col- months he had fulfiled his vow. again-a fully 1914-18 have recently tended to lection of controls and dials the He was flying sola Imagination boggles. You con- quatifled civil pilot.

Immediately Bader applied to be confirm uneasiness awakened by ceive 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 lender of Vichy. The memoirs who nonchalantly squeeze them- would not have him. Disappointed selves into these snug seats and but not discouraged, he continued to go hurtling across the sky at fly. He played cricket, tennis and

squash again, doing everything pos six miles a minute or more,

sible to prove that he was as useful without his legs as before.

of Poincaro describe Clemenceau as shocked at Petain's pessimism and anti-British sentiment, To quote Clemenceau:

Petals's pessimism in Intolerable. Imaging-be kald... "To Germans will beat ul" Should a general talk like that?... Ife dared to any that if we were beaten we would owe it

to the English.

There can be little question Persistence

- When war broke out lo tried to

of Potain's sincerity. That is 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 one chance" he asked, "That's all believe in the democratic way I need."

At last his dogged persistence, or of life. He cannot therefore Potain also appears among look forward to British, victory perhaps it was lils obvious sincerity or the light that gleamed in his oyes those backward military leaders with any enthusiasm. In as he argued, impressed the Board. of France who opposed develop German Europe Franco might They deckled to give him a test.

Bader passed

with flying colours, ment of the French air. force i have a hard time, but it would and a result he was offered a have more chance of evolving as commission and a job as a taxi- oven while Nazi might was Marshal Petain thinks it pilot-fying aircraft from factories

to airdelds and similar duties should sprouting terrible wings,

:

Bader and his men were alone.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lichten

"I've ofton said that my family has enough troubles to be

radio social, too!!

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