Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1943 — Page 2
So sai the Rescue , Pilot As He Sighted Yank Fliers ~~ Lost in Veldt.
By A. T. STEELE
Gop ht, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times ; 4 The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
Eight American aircraft, being ferried to the battlefront, were missing in the middle of Africa. We got the word when our transport plane, flying toward America, came down to a landing on & central African airdrome. Would we help in. the search? | . Our pilot, Lieut. ' George Conroy, a
ly. , : “Sure,” he said, i “they'd do thes How we found !E the ‘lost planes: and rescued the
Mr. Steele
the difficulties
and the hazards that American fer-|S ry pilots are running in piloting new |=
aircraft across the ocean, forest and desert to the places where they are heeded. For an hour we circled low over the trackless veldt within a short . gadius of the airfield. Nothing. We landed on the only other air- - port in the vicinity, a clearing in ' the bush in French Equatorial Af-
rica. The French commandant came |§
hurrying out to greet us. Used Tribesmen
We told him our troubles He was co-operative. He said he would send out 50 African horsemen immediately into the surrounding bush to seek information and to stir up the tribes to assist in the search. We resumed the hunt,
~ ground so that nothing would miss "our straining eyes. After three hours
‘ of this, our radio operator, Master 8 * Bergt. ‘C. F. Keppler of Chicago, |:
A picked up a message. A passing B-25, he was told, had
been in radio contact with the miss- |? We changed course im-|&
ing men. mediately.
“There They Are”
Just as we were about to abandon search for the day, a shout came from the cockpit.
-{in the armed services.
pilots illustrates 8
in long 3 ! parallel sweeps, flying close to the 3
“There they are.”
A black puff from a smoke bomb |
By REYS M. ods 5 United Press Staff Correspon $
—1If the enemy is listening as service men talk in ‘railroad coaches, diners and smokers, he’ll learn little tll give him aid and comfort. Traveling out of the Midwest into this city today, I chatted with many I learned much—nothing about what the army and navy are doing; lots about what the army and the navy dre made of. The men talked about their wives and girls, griped a bit, praised their mates and their buddies. - On a dinér, “Sergt. R.” was asked ty he didn't wear his Jetiow | bar
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“Men. in my outfit Have bars that imean * something-battles, actions,” he replied. “I'll wear one of them bars pretty quick.” Conversation drifted to the new detector of enemy craft.
and we're using it with amazing results,” he said enthusiastically but enigmatically. At the word a ” a first lieutenant 1 the aisle arose, asked to SIk to th to the sergeant, In a few minutes “Sergt. R.” returned to the table, blurted:
“It's a magic thing, that radar,|
“If anybody could get any dope
wouldn’t say nuthin’ either. “Seaman T.” had made more Soy trips “than y8u got fingers and toes.” Where, he wouldn't say. ‘“But tell your friends the ships are sailing—puu-lenty.” ‘he added. “And they ain't filled with hay. There's death in those ships—death for the Axis. Puu-lenty.” ! That's the way it was with all of them—tight lipped, hearts in ‘their service and with the “folks at home.” Sure they griped—one was sore because a buddy, home from 18 months
“It’s a five-month cruise to Australia. I know. That'd give .you mighty little time to get wounded and spend four months in the hospital if you've been in service only seven months.”
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was rising from the crest of a low, | =
brush-covered rise. There they were, all right—seven | American fighter planes and a light|§ bomber lying about in the bush’
with a group of men among them, :
some waving. ’ One of the planes was on its back. | Several others were cocked. at srazyi angles. “Button yourselves in and, Hold ‘on tight,” the co-pilot, Lieut. Stockton L. Newman of New York, - warned us. “We're going to land.” :
We swooped low but rose sharply :
ggain when the pilot saw he gouldn’t make it. :
Off Radio Track
On the second try we touched IS fand and rolled along through the|= bumps and brush to a stop, tearing|= a chunk of canvas and aluminum |:
out of our tail in the process. Our «pilot stepped out and with putstretched hand approached the
jeader of the grounded convoy. Ij:
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~ “Hello, Frank, what are you do-
ing here?” The Americans had gotten off!
the radio track and lost their way. | Running low on gas, ‘they had decided to make a landing on the nearest thing to a clearing. they
oould find. Four of the planes were badly damaged, one somersaulting, though its pilot, John W, Sherak of New
York, escaped with an injured arm |;
and a bumped head. Only one plane of the whole company was ih sufficiently good shape to take off.
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