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it was routine for the L-:; to ClIT\' three, :I)}(I the 1,-1, four passenger's, On occasion, the 1,-1 carried five men, There was no other w.iv to hring out the wounded. As Colonel Alisou sal'S, "The men were \'cry glad to sacrifice comfort for safctv, A wounded man behind cncmv tcnitorv is a worried man. The k;IO\\lcdge' that the light planes were el';leuating the cnsuultics was a great help to general morale, Those planes came into postage st.uup fields of 50n feet and less. You'd look at the heavily loaded planes .md wonder how in the world t licv could do it. There \\'as jungle on ;;11 sieles of the strips and we lost a couple of planes wl«:n thcv era,hcd into the trees on their take:offs. BeClme the fields were so small, onlv a fell' planes at a tunc could come in, so we ran a regular shuttie xvxtcm with some planes making three and four trips :1
GET WISE Here are a few of the easily avoided mishaps that are costing the AAF many lives, limbs and manhours~ Gel wise: you can pay for mistakes like these with your life Case I. Some people should never he gi\Tn a knife, Thcvrc hound to hurt themselves. Take the C( in It.rlv, for inst.mcc. Instead of pluuging his i"u~ knife into a German hcllv, he sent it into hi, own. Not intcntrouallv, of course. lIe wasn't committing harakiri. I lc \\as mcrclv tn'ing to make a hole in some leather. Placing the butt of the knife on the table, he pressed the leather agaimt the point. Darned if that knife didn't go right through the leather and into the soldier's alxlominul \\',111. To repair the damage, a surgicil unit required an hom- :m hom of v.iluublc time which could h.ivc heen gi\Tn men woun.k«] in action. Case II. l'erh:lps the four officer" \\']10 were: riding :1 Jeep in :'\ornLuHh', couldn't rc:«]. It's !I:ml to bel inc thcv would be tool ish elJ()(lgh to disregard the' ,ign which in plain Jitll;lish w.uuccl : "Shonlders 'Ill' not free of mines," The quartet \\as tLI\cling a r ur.il road, \\hen for some reason t hcv decilled to turn b:llk. The dr ivcr S\\'lm~ out on the shouldcr of the road and ,ill t h.it sett~ed to earth after the explosion \\'as clu-,t. The gran' registration men arc st ill looking for the dog Llgs. Case III. The grolmd crcwm.m \\':IS :1 goodlooking 1')\c,Ir;,ld kid. But he isn't goodlooking '111\' more, Ix-c.m:«. he didn't usc his head. I Ie decided to make a cigarette lighter from a 2iJ nn u shell. fignring the gadget would he a nice souvenir. After rcmOl'ing the projectile, he found the w.nlding \\'as p'lCked tighth', Picking at it with OCTOBER,1944 By LT. COl. GEORGE S. RICHARDSON, Me 9th ;\ir Force his knife didn't seem to do much good, so he hghtly tapped the base of the shell. Sometime later, he wokc up in a field hospital. lie couldn't sec, and his hands and car hurt him. I Ic didn't realize innncdurtclv that both eves had been blinded bv casing fragments, t'hat both hands and part of one car were gone and that his face would al- \\'al'S carrv blue scars from the shower of eXI;loding' powder p,nticles. I Ic knows all about it now. I lc knOll'S also that fooling with .uuunmit ion is d'lngerollS, Hnt l,e got \\'ise too late, Case IV. Clean clothes 'He nice, but there's a hmit to the price a man should p:I\' to get them. ,\ line chief in .\fricl 1(;1(1a \\hale of a !a II11(1rv hill-the torture of infected bums for ,!a\'s' and nights on end, six months in the hovpit.tl and ngh' SCIrS for life. Clc.ming facilities weren't \'(T\' good in the desert. so t he line chief \\'ashe;l his «over.rll. and pants in a bucket of gasoline. It \\'as uufort un.itc t kit a spark from a cig,nette tonthcd off the Iumcs. but luckv for him that a B,2-f crew lIas \\'illing to risk a flight through a s.mdstorm to get him to a geneLil hospital in time to sa\'(' his life. lIe's home now. but he'd LIther be b.ick on t lic line, keeping t ho:«- planes in shape to speed the victorv. Case V. "Don't point" is a rule \\llieh .ipplic« to oflclutv gllnh'lndling :IS well 'IS it docs to soei,il bch.ivior. Fvcrv soldier h:ls been told time and 'lg:I;n never to point a glm 'It .uivonc he doesn't intend to shoot. .Vn .\.\1,' man in Fr.mrc disregardcd the rule to his SO!TOI\'. Pla\inf; '\,;ldier" with a gronp of lrcnch yonilgsters, he "eh:Irgcd" 'It them wit l: his cnrbinc. Apparcntlv the ,,:!fet\' \\:IS off, for the piece \\:IS tired, and a 1 )'n':nold bov lIas shot throngh the .ilxlomen. The kid lived oulv bcc.ru:«: a ticld liovpit.r! \\,:IS 'It h:1I1d '111 II'IlIds sll'Ittered In' snicid:Il f;rellade explosions, It \\'IS a gren:lde t hut did the job Oil the Sen'ice Croup hov, too. Bnt it w.ixu']' t lrrown bv the cncuiv. 'lli« "duel" he had picked nl; proved to he .tlivc. I Ie \\"IS flowu to a gcner:Il hospil:d wlur« the h.md :111(1 part of his forearm \\Tre .unput.rtcd. The bO\'s ill l,is outfit "lid: "Too b.id :lbollt [oc. ,\ good gu\' like him didn't deserve such luck.' But it w.ivu'! luck. It \\':lS sheer curelessness. IIc'l1 wcar a prosthdic li.mr] the rest of his life. 1:: 11
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Page 3 and 4: Rendezvous Who Is He? Dear Editor:
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Page 15 and 16: Airborne soldiers. shown here durin
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Page 23 and 24: OCTOBER,1944 The first thing the a\
Page 25 and 26: YOUR ENEMY All ;Iirer;!ft fllillg o
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Page 29 and 30: 28 011 BOll~aiIldk is quicklv unloa
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Page 33: THE PHiliPPINES DISTANCES SHOWN IN
Page 36 and 37: The economic system of the Philippi
Page 38 and 39: The AAF's homing pigeons are recogn
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Page 44 and 45: High Intensity Controlled Lighting
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tanks and truck-borne infantry and
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FIGHTER CONTROL (Colltilltled from
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Property of tDe Library ARMY INDtJS
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For the Record I)e:lr h!Jtlll Rende
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he Allie's into German-held of the
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H Combat may make you Lazy By Maj.
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..... -; ... The results of two yea
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Production charts show the disaster
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all key points of the factory's 3-+
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HE Fortresses T wings to the took o
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'l'h is was a YClr ago, but these a
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Pulling in His Ne-:I:. Reeelit de,c
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When a radio operator makes a mista
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Lifeline to the US,S R BY HERBERT R
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Ten o'clock of a December morning a
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THE MAN WITH THE PRIVATE BREEZE By
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THE AIR WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFI
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STANDARD FLIGHT INSTRUMENT PANEL E
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technique ••• CO]\;Tl:"UED Ne
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INSTRUMENT PANEL (Continued from Pa
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LIFELINE TO THE US S R ( Cout iuucc
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F\lr:RCF'\~CY FOUrp\lr:,\'T luvpcct
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50 COMBAT MAY MAKE YOU LAZY (Contin
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EN of the AAF-including the hundred
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August 7. Patton kept moving his he
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l'Iiavigation Training En Masse. Th
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"WE arc not going to bubble over wi
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A wood block support; injured legs
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Burma. A Japanese light antiaircraf
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HOW ,SHARP ARE YOU? A 'hoto Test of
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.. ' Back to the Philippines PART I
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Tacloban strip \\";IS not sC'ITicca
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volunteers between the agcs of II .
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I f By Capt. Greer Williams Air SlI
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Flaming debris (If njllI, ])1]]1:ll
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ground fire the pilot should look f
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two weeks: Cincinnati. one week: Pi
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At 5.000 fed. the pilot opened the
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cardboard bombs on their choice of
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turn to Traffic Scction, Crcnicr Fi
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Oil refineries arc gooel targets, T
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Tile air campaign to choke off fuel
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fallen into Allied hands, thus maki
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THE ABC OF D-DAY When an invasion i
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By all AIR F( )RCl-: ()\"t'rsc;/s S
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The fighters called for help and th
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A jeep, laden with leftover explosi
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THE ABC OF D-DAY t Cont inu.xl [r o
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