Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1942 — Page 5

FRIDAY. DEC. 11;

Daredevi ¢ Enlarge Jap Air Force (ver China. By .\. T. STEELE

hiicago Daily News, Inc

CHENMAULT NEN EAGE? FOR JAPS

Eager to Blast

By GEORGE WELLER

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Dec. 11.—If anybody ever writes a war book called “Front ‘Line Dentist”—and why shouldn't they?—you’ll be able to tell who it is about without opening the cover. It will be about Capt. Charles McCracken, a middle-sized, plumpish tooth and gum man

“First Li

” a i . : a iq! Line Dentist tied down among: the American fighter pilots and has had his fingers in the mouth of prac-

tically everybody of importance

who is septic in Papua. And that is a lot of people. Fliers, especially fighter pilots,

.are at their prime in cloud war“fare at the age when their wis“dom teeth are just emerging. They

get both metophyorical and real wisdom teeth at the same time,

in New Giinea Guards Pilots’ Teeth Against Air Hazards

bras and Kittyhawks. lock with Jap zeros. Wisdom teeth, especially, begin to give pain above 20,000 feet. Consequently, when a pilot's need for vigilance is great est, he may suddenly be stabbed with a toothache. Dr. McCracken, who is 29 and a graduate of Loyola university, New Orleans, started “his frontline life when the Jap posts could practically be seen from his He was then

upon . ground sloping downhill. Whenever he said, “Open, please,” his left foot was on ground several inches lower than his right. From the other side, he looked downhill info the patient's widened mouth. Lacking a bone chisel in those days, Dr. McCracken made one from a screw. driver. His motor for his drill was purloined from a refrigerator. He worked nine

range, Dr. McCracken has two . chairs instead of one and he often works from 10 to 12 hours daily instead of nine. He has two assistants, Wilbur Nichols of Peoria, Ii, who once worked in a dental laboratory there, and Virgil Dockery of Nashville, Tenn, " Dr. McCracken now has a screen-in laboratory with a

thatched roof and hip- -high’

thatched walls built by bushy-

gether with grass and bamboo

thongs. He has even been able

to get screening against the everpresent flies and mosquitos. These quarters, Dr. McCracken shares with Maj. Reynolds Smith of Oakland, Cal., flight surgeon of the Airacobras under Lieut. Col. Richard Legg, a West Pointer from Ala, Neb. Both doctors have bamboo tables with bamboo weights, This American dispens-

sight tests for fliers can be giver In humid New Guinea, Dr. Mos Cracken works shirtless, with only | a white tunic over his torso. ne! dusts with sulfanilamide powder"; 3 in all his treatments as an infect! ; tion preventive. Teeth are filled’ © :

‘with a concrete and metal alloy, * hy

overlay, because this seems to give better results in the tropics, ° { One ground crew man, fresh froma

and teeth are very susceptible to

: revolving chair, high: altitudes where our Airaco-

quartered in a pyramidal tent

Coo NG, Dec. 11.—The| daredevil forves of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennaull, many of whom were members of the famous American volunteer grcup of fliers known as the Flying Tigers before they were transferred t» the U, S. army air force in July, are safe, well and mn r— intact and biding ; their time for a continuation o f the whittling process which has been followed so successfully against the Japs. And this - despite the fact that there is evi- ; dence that since i the big battle ~ Mr. Steele. or Canton on Nov. 27 wher. the Americans destroyed 24 Jap fighters for sure and seven probakls, with no American ships lost, lie Japs have reinforced their air strength - in the Canton area :nd hope to be able to claim that t 1ey “annihilated” the Yank air for: for the third time. In an inteitiew which your correspondent rec ntly had with Lieut. Col, Herbert 'forgan of Freedom, Pa., who, as bombardment commander, led si>: of the recent seven American rail. against Jap objectives and, lik: the men under his command, thi- :s knocking the Japs uot of the sky great fun, he estimated that th: small American air force in Chir: was pinning down at least 500 i st-line Jap aircraft in the China + ar theater—thus reducing by th: much pressure on other sectors ir the Pacific.

Doesn’t | nderrate Japs

But Col. M(rgan is not one of those who tal:: Jap flyers lightly. He believes t it while there has been some det oration in Jap personnel as a sult of the heavy] losses of expe: 'nced men, the impressiveness o' the American box score is equall attributable to the increasing nun: bers of Yank pilots and gunners. , “Our boys l:ve become so accustomed to fi: iting against overwhelming odds hat when they are up against a siiple Jap advantage oo of three to tw as in the Canton sl battle, it seem: like ducksoup and they really .go to town hard.’ “But let’s giv: the devil his due. Jap pilots: are 211 trained in the fundamentals ¢ | flying and . have plenty of guts. One of their main weaknesses is thit they still cling to orthodox {lebook methods. When they try 1. vary their tactics, we are one jump ahead of them,

Respect Our !fachine Guns

“I notice too ‘iat they have developed a healt!i! respect for our 60-caliber machir 2 gun which can shoot farther ar hit harder than anything they hi: eg got.” Col. Morgan sti | that a few. Jap planes - carry a iachine gun approximating the .merican weapon in size but inferi r in quality. He has respect or the Jap navy zeros, but assert, that while the Japs In attack approach our bombers in beauti 11 formation, they fail to hold it ail quickly scatter under fire. Explaining hoy tally their score,

hours’ daily. Now, with the Japs

3 headed Papuanas without a sindriven across the Owen Stanley

ary is the only qualified office in gle nail. Everything is tied to-

from Tulsa, Okla., who has set- New Guinea where six-four eye-

the United States, needed 16 such. fillings. =

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SPANISH TEA HERS ABANDON WEETING

WASHINGTON, Dec | 11 (U. P.).— The annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish, scheduled to be held here Dec. 28-29, has been cancelled at the request of the of ice of defense transportation. The ODT request poiated out that “there is every indici. lon that the carriers will be face: with their greatest problem at 1 is season of the year, and it has zen for this| reason that we have r- uested postponement of all me¢:jings which ‘would involve traveli g at that period.”

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