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He pulled the stick hard back in a desperate effort to gain height, but, even as he did so ho felt the plane lose speed and hover for n sickening, stomach- wrouching instant on the brink of a stall. Then it dropped like

stone, and with the ground rushing up towards him he set his teeth and prayed that the end would be quick.

He Was still fee-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 gross of the landing field in the direction of the falling plane. They had been watching his dizzy acro- batics over the drome, and when he had attempted a last slow roll not more than 100 ft. Stubbs Road above their heads they had held

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with Death-n pastime that

This was more than flirting This is the story of Wing Commander dapper, smiling little at Douglas Bader, the famous Canadian legless pilot who is now reported to be missing.

Bader has secured the

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

positively linking arms with it

and asking for trouble.

As they Ulted their heads to.

follow his progress across the

highest R.A.F. honours for his exploits

by

A. W.

Helliwell

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

Into this the Hurricanes struck. banking left and right as each plot picked his own target. Three Mes- sersetumlits went into a steep climb

to

escape As Bader dived upon them; but he was after them in a flash, and he caught the last of them at almost point-blank range. with a three-seconds burst from his

AURS.

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

As this Messerschmitt diş- integrated. Bader threw his Hurri cane into a breath-taking turn' and went after the second. Its pilot hind no stomach for the fight. Desperate- ty he pulled his stick backwards and forwards in violent Jerks, flying his machine in a series of switchback

deavour to shake off his aftneker,

mba and dives in a hopeless en-

But there was no escape for him. Once

Bader's wing

foured, and the German's starboard

wing began to fly to pieces. An- other short burst and there was a

live, leaving

sharp "woof" of fame from the plane before I went into a long trait of smoke and fire in its wake.

More than half the enemy had

wintry sky they saw the plane THE prefx "special to the Telegraph hover motionless for a moment That anyone without legs That was not good enough for is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to indicate nows which sirtetly copyright and then plunge into an uncon- should be able to accomplish him. "I want to be in the fun," he turned tail and streaked for home still out- tacked, but they were under the provisions of the Telecommuni- trolled nose-dive. The terrific this miracle is almost incredible. Bald. "Give me a fighter plane to mediately the Hurricanes had at- hears the indication "Up" is received in impact when it crashed shook But the young man who once He got his own way in the end. had to be fought with a wary eye numbered heavily, and each duel the United Press Associations, who rex the iron-hard ground. One whispered "Ty again" be- Back in the Air Force blue once open for any Germans who might

cations Ordinance,

Such new as

Hongkong on the date of publication by serve all rights and forbid repúblications,

arrangement

to

Granting the Marshal this credit, it becomes less and less possible for friends of France and freedom to regard him as anything

of agent an reaction in Europe; For "totali- tarinn" he substitutes the term "authoritarian." The

but

Miraculous

murmured the

stunt aces.

when

tion

that

the

forn

any

either wholly or in part witheus previewing crumpled like paper. The fore he dropped back into a more, with the precious wings sewn

over his left breast, Bader was the sunk up and catch them unawares.

Bader, himself, was nearly caught engine, torn from its mounting, coma does it, flew one way. The rest of the Bader's squadron once shot hoppiest young man in the world.

in this way. As he turned from long and down thirty-three enemy planes he rode the skies was the apple of he saw in his mirror another cuming The eight-gun Spitfire in which destroying the second Messerschmitt PETAIN-AUTHORITARIAN plane ploughed a

ragged scar across the turf, in three successive engagements, his eye. With his metal legs on the up behind him with white streams EVEN those disappointed mangling itself into a twisted his personal contribution to the rudder bar he flew it with all lite belching from his forward guns.

ofd dash and brilliance and promo- ball of wood and metal.

collection being six machines.

It Was one of those moments when came swiftly. In a little more a split-second decision means the with the foreign policy of the

This legless hero of so many than six months he had command difference between life and death. Vichy regime have tried to avoid

shrilling sky duels is thirty, of the Maple Leaf squadron of young In the same instant that he sighted enemy Beder neted, and his condemning Marshal Petain Out of that pile of junk, so dark-haired and dapper, and in Canadians. 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 up- the former light low. There is not a man in it who wards with a wrench that would recover consciousness until he Crowley,

also would not fly straight into Hell be- ho

the wings from scious of the probability that woke up in hospital with both weight champion, who hind him. If Goering could boast ordinary machine.

In two seconds he had shaken the French collaboration with the legs gone, they dragged a man wears Air Force blue these days, one squadron with half the guts of

In Americn, that land of pic, this one all Germany would ring enemy off and was turning to dive who eight years later was to

in his own attack, but the German Nazi "new order" is not the free become one of Britain's out. turesque slang, they would call with tales of its prowess choice of France, and that even standing fighter pilots!

But here in England it is different. pilot was heading for France as fost Bader a "Birdman." He has 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 Darlans

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- are told only in the cold prose of Enthusiasm through tondying Hitler, that he could possibly survive. lege nt Cranwell as a cadet, and official bulletins,

Here Is but one story of the mʊny. That was a proud day for his Petain himself was doing his "My God! Poor Douglas" at the age of twenty-one he had

first of his already made a name for him- are could be told of Bader and the squadron. They brought down 11 dare-devil company who fly with German machines-eight Messer- best for France.

schmilts and three Heinkels--in that friends to reach the wrecked Belf as one of our most daringey were 15,000 ft. over the brief but hectic dog-fight, and they plane. Bader was imprisoned

peaceful Essex countryside when came back to their landing ground in that tangled Versatile

they sighted some 3,000 ft. below without so much as a single bullet somewhere

then a swarm of twin-engined Ger- hole in mass, but there seemed no hope

of the Hurricanes, In any he could still be living. They Fear bad-or has not any place man

bombers and fighter bombers In two other similar engagements -in-this-remarkable young man's flying in tight formation. There they brought down twenty-two more got him out at last, and, lexicon. They say he can make a were between seventy and a hun- enemy pinnes, while Bader has also aircraft in the night and, further distinguished himself by miraculously, a faint spark of plane do anything but talk. Thou- dred 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 body.

don

plr pageants by his wonderful other swarm of planes flying in sea after a fierce and dramatle

Even nying

experienced pilots stepped-up formation-a favourite aerial duci.

practice-covering the sky

Only a

a few months ago his engine For days he lay unconscious. stared skywards in open-mouthed enemy

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

falled as he came in over the alr chief Both legs were amputated, one admiration

field and he crashed lightly. They Im out with both metal legs difference between his "revolu- completely, the other at the "went to town" a few hundred feet

alate their heads in a sparkling suc- Incredible tion" and that of Hitler is that knee. For many weeks after ecssion of death-defying manoeuvres.

bent. the operation the shadow of But it seemed he had dared-once

legless wonder of the skies Petain's would disturb caste death still hung darkly over too often when he crushed at that There were no other British Oghters grinned as he squatted on the gross second's waiting while an artificer carefully Alnes less, would alter the distri- him, yet the first thing he said Reading air field. Even though he in sight, but without

survived, no one thought he would hesitation he banked and threw his straightened them. bution of power in France by when he realised that he had ever ny again. The tragedy was all Hurricane Into a vertical dive right "It's a good job I've got tin legs," 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 restoring it to church,

formation. On his tall came the booked for a few months in splints pro- tors were still struggling to such a brilliant athlete, perty and other "responsible" keep the slender thread of life He was a magnificent Rugby foot- rest- handful of planes against fnstead of fen-minutes". wait."

Twenty minutes later he was In elements,

As they swooped, the German the air again. to play for the famous Harle- while denying its from snapping, was "I'll fly baller-one of the best serum halves more than a hundred.

again."

quins, and was certain of his inter- fighters and bombers fanned out That's the sort of spirit the Luft- exercise by the rank and file of

national cap. He had played cricket over the sky, scattering like leaves waffe will never conquer. To-day he does ride the

for the R.A.F. and] 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 П new of dare-devil Canadian pilots Legless, it seemed that the two denied him, but sport-nust 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. sal suffrage. While doubtless D.S.O. for gallantry, and with deploring defeat by the Nazis he steadily mounting total of taking his first hesitant steps on his new metal legs, he was already enemy aircraft to his credit.

making plans. and others bade good-bye will-

"I haven't a lng of my own to ingly to

stand on," he grinned, "but I'll st get by." Republic.

I don't know whether you

He even refused to use. a stick to Some significant disclosures have ever sat in the cockpit of help him. As soon as he was t to work *8 11 Spitfire or Hurricane fighter, enough he went about the Marshal's attitude it is a bewildering 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 glittering col months head fulfilled his vow. 1914-18 hava recently tended to lection of controls and dials the He was flying solo again-fully

imagination boggles. You con-qualified evil pilot. confirm uneasiness awakened by ceive, a new and awe-struck taken back into the Service, It was Immediately Bador applied to be his very first utterances as admiration for the young men his first, he only, love. But they leader 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 ty. He played cricket, tennis and squash again, doing everything pas- six miles a minute or more. sible to prove that he was as useful

to

the French Third Nonchalant

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

Pellin' pessimiam is into rable. Inngine-he said ...The Germans will beat un!" Should -generol talk like that? .. le dared to say that if two were beaten wo would owe it

A few months after his crash,

without his legs as before,

There can be little question Persistence

Hitler is

of Petain's sincerity. That is

When war broke out he tried to boaldo the point

join up agala. 11e begged, argued,! probably a sincero Nazi. Mer pleaded and cajoled, "Just give mu shal Potain simply does not one chance" he asked. "That's all belleve in the democratic way I need." of life.

He cannot therefore

to the English....*

At last his dogged persistence, oi Petain also appears among look forward to British victory or the light that gleamed in his eyes was his obvious sincerity perhaps it thoso backward military lenders with any enthusiasm. In a as he argued, impressed the Board, of France who opposed develop German, Europe Franco might They decided to give him a test. ment of the French air force have a hard time, but it would Bader passed with flying colours, and as a result he was offered 4 have more chance of evolving as commission and a job na

a.taxl- even while Nazi might was Marshal Petain thinks it pilot-fying, aircraft from factories

to airfields and similar, duties, should. sprouting torrible wings,

Bader and his men were alone.

a

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"I've often said that my family has enough. troubles to be a

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