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By ROBERT J. CASEY

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WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET AT SEA, March 4 (delayed) —The fight was over—we had polished off the seaplane base of Wake Island and its gas storage tanks and landing field with what had been left of the hangars and repair equipment after the Japanese siege. a And blithely we swung beyond the range of land batteries and beyond the speed of submarines, This time we knew that we should not have

bombers and such Bob Casey

until the worried Japs should have a chance to bring up some from the depths of the mandated islands. And that, we assured ourselves,

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would be a very long time. Then off the stern, dimly visible|

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Eight million persons must be trained in civilian defense before the United States will have adequate protection against attack, fred Morley, told 200 future Hoosier air raid warden here today. Mr. Morley, co-ordinator of civilian protection of the Indiana defense council, spoke at the opening air raid warden instructors’ training session at the Hotel Antlers this morning. He said that so far the educational program had bot-

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|comed the air raid warden instructors this morning. This afternoon the men will hear discussions on map making, war gases, the air raid warden’s post and duties prelimindry to an attack. Clem Smith, state fire marshal, will speak tonight.

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idly clearing as the various protec- from cloud to cloud, carefully ob-|

where smoke clouds from burning

the sun, our lookout spotted the | four-engined bomber of a wandering !pilot who had contrived to arrive too late for the bombing.

Alas! Out of Rrange!

|anese equivalent of the late Albert the Aviator and, like his prototype, a good deal of a nuisance.

ladders had ceased. The guns were] manned and loaded. Nobody had got far from them during the brief withdrawal from the flaming island. The Jap plane was squarely under the sights of the range-finder and] spotting apparatus.

And then the gunnery officer |

cumbersome shadow, as he flitted |

| was well out of our reach. The Alberts Make Trouble And the gunnery officer men-|

| which has appropriated $3000 for tioned a truism, something to the of destruction. |effect that it is the Alberts of this good and its crews well-selected. Clarence A. Jackson, director of | World, or a reasonable facsimile; It does not seem to have a very ‘the Indiana defense council, wel. | thereof, who make all the trouble. high ceiling. It is not very manLooking back on the incident as|euverable, and it is a seagoing setit spread out to make an interesting | up for any fighter within gunshot.

|Wake came up into the glare ofl, .,, he had immobilized by such a

| kite-fiyer’s trick as this.

and fight? over another couple of thousands ; yards? , oF | HIE tuned ony Io Be ihe Jan |little prayers that something would (lure him into komb-dropping dis- | tance.

The gunnery officer of the ack-ack |

| battery got his data together before) instructors the pounding of feet on the iron

of this particular Janeapse Albert, his ready appraisal of the situation and his ability to keep on doing the right thing at the right time. He flew back and forth across the bottomless sky of the mid-Pa-cific, leap-frogging the clouds and meandering parallel with our course or over it.

Gun Crews Angered He streaked into the blue ahead

f |of us or back into the blaze we had

left behind us—but never far away —oh, never far. The gun crews stayed in their places like groups of statuary and, despite their high admiration for in all its phases, they cursed this Japanese Albert and the crew who rode with him. He might have cost the warriors their luncheon—if provisions had not been made for such contingencies as this. Certainly, he inter rupted the chance for numerous gunners to sit down and stretch their legs.

Come Down and Fight

And certainly he stretched to the limit the forbearance of all the

Why didn't the so-and-so come Why didn’t he ease

And the pom pom crews made

Nobody seemed concerned with the fact that this huge bomber was probably carrying a couple of tons of dynamite. He probably had six or eight machine guns, too, and maybe a couple of cannon, manned by a crew of six or eight men. However, let's consider the situation of Albertitsu, or whatever his name was. Albertitsu was flying the type of bomber that had become well known in the United States during the defense of Wake—a slow, cumbersome copy of a French commer-

I servant of gunnery rules and ranges, | cial flying boat.

He Knew His Business

Slow as it is, if protected by fighters, it can do an excellent job Its bombsights are

Probably Albertitsu knew this

Pilot Shows Wake Raiders

quite as well as anybody else. So it seems likely that, having looked down once on the havoc that had befallen Wake, he promptly retired to a distant cloud and eonsidered the best course for the future.

y So He Joins the Ships

Even the Japs would not have required Albertitsu and his crew to commit hari-kiri had they streaked away from there at top speed and taken shelter on some unblasted island. Instead, he sized up his attack calmly or, at any rate, accurately. He knew what he was goifig to do, and did it. Albertitsu found things as he probably had figured they would be. The American fighter planes had gone away on their own mission. The ships were busy, and there was nothing at the moment to prevent the big Japanese bomber from joining them—at a discreet distance. Albertitsu obviously had enough gas to keep him aloft a day or so. If he could contrive to keep out of the way of the ack-ack there was no telling what he might find out— no telling where, perhaps, he might lay a profitable egg. So began a long, annoying, not to say worrisome association. Albertitsu was first sighted along about 10 in the morning. He was never much out of sight thereafter.

Not Bothering Anybody?

And after awhile the ship’s company left him to the lookouts. There was no illusion about him. He was part of our parade only because he hoped to be able sooner or later to do us damage. But meantime, he wasn’t bothering anybody—much—and there wasn't much the crew could do about it. From the first everybody expected this shadow to turn out to be a real menace. He was too smart an operator to be ighored—too skillful in avoiding the death that the boys were waiting to hand to him. They knew that h= would be deadly when the time came, and they speculated on how he was going to bring it off. So there was no surprise when the trumpet and bells sounded over the ship’s loudspeaker at 4:20.

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The few lads off watch scrambled up the ladders with noisy acclaim. Albertitsu was about to show his

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wares—and that would be a great help. The lookout had spotted a plane astern of us and high up in the sun. It was impossible, because of the glare of the sun to count the engines. So, conceivably, it might be the running mate of the shadow, or it might be the shadow himself. After half an hour's wait for something to happen, the ack-ack gunnery officers were inclined to the latter view. The day was not going to last much longer and Albertitsu had better be attacking soon if he was going to attack. He would be out of luck in the dark.

World Upside Down

Normal watch was restored at the guns. The lads went back to their other jobs. And so Albertitsu rode with us, this time unseen but certainly felt, until 6 o'clock.

Then the whole world suddenly went upside down!

The bugle blew almost simultaneously with the lookout’s call that two planes were directly overhead. It was impossible that they should be there! Impossible that they had been able to ride that isolated lump of cloud till they were in a bombing position above us, with the sun squarely in owr eyes. It never could happen—but there it was! And we had no time to philosophize about it. Albertitsu, who had called these buzzards from far away, guided them in for the kill. Almost as soon as we saw them, we saw bombs coming down through

the flaming light of the low sun, four gold-plated sugar beets falling vertically, routs down, starting at 13,000 feet. They weighed 500 pounds apiece, and aggregated a ton. : . The ship spun as we watched them hurtling toward us. One of the engineers said later that it was the highest speed turn he had ever seen. : The huge mass of iron careened and everything not tied to the deck, including observers, sailed to stare board. But it was all like the slow-mo= tion effect of a nightmare as the deadly clunks came down. It isn’t often that you get to look at bombs as intimately and as close= ly as this and live to tell about it. Each one appeared to be coming straight at you. Every man aboard knew that it was impossible for them to miss and, thus, got a look at inevitable death,

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It was impossible for them to miss —but they missed, not by very much. Tons and tons of water blasted into the air and dropped like & cloudburst over the stern. Seven minutes later the deck was level again. The sky was still bright blue. A white sliver of moon hung in it. And hundreds of sober-eyed younge sters were staring up at it. They had not expected to be seeing it any more. The bombers went away. So did Albertitsu. We don’t know what happened to him.

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