Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1943 — Page 5

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1043

bombing to fresh hazards beyond.

By CAPT. HAROLD F. WATSON TIME STOOD STILL, as we bombed Tokyo. I looked at my watch. From the time we first flew into the flak until we came out after hitting our target, only five min-

utes had passed.

Now, with our bomb load dropped, we headed west—through still more flak—at a much better speed. The anti-aircraft fire didn’t touch

us.

At about 1:30 we were out at sea and figured we were out of I relaxed for the first time, and discovered that my hands were cramped from gripping the wheel and that I was wringing wet. But I hadn't been too busy to see the imperial palace, about two fles north of our waterfront target, or to notice that downtown oityo seemed solid and well constructed and not the flimsy fire trap

danger.

thas many people think.

The mission had been a success, but we realized that the rest of

it was just beginning. Griffin, the navigator, was trying his best to try to find a way to get us to China. We knew we couldn’t make it, but there was still that spark of] lope until Griffin checked the gas against the distance.

I got the boys up front and

we talked it... over. I had a. plan for some § time — pick out § fa sampan, overpower its crew, crash - land beside it—and sail it in to China. The crew agreed. But before we could carry out the plan we’ picked up a definite tail wind of about 35 miles an hour. That revived the spark of hope and was the deciding factor. We determined to get as far from Japan as possible and at least reach one of the islands in the China sea.

Capt. Watson

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‘We Check Our Chutes’

A LIGHT RAIN began at dusk, and grew steadily worse. I put the ship up to 10,000 feet, then to 18,000, which was as high as we could go without oxygen. But we couldn't break out on top. We

came down to 10,000 feet again. I couldn't even see the wing tips. We could only judge where we Were by our spesd and the time from the last checked spot on the chart. We circled what we thought ghould be our pre-arranged airport but couldn't see a thing. So with about an hour's gas, we kept on, hoping for clear skies. »8ecott had parachuted a couple of times before, and told us what to do. We planned to jump as close together as possible, stay where we lit that night, and jein up the next morning. The gas indicator showed empty, but the engines were still running. We shook hands with Scott who went to the rear hatch. We loaded up with what we wanted— cigarets, first aid kits, morphine tubes. We tried to carry on a convergation but everybody was pretty busy with his own thoughts. So we ate a couple of candy bars and finished our coffee. Everyone kept checking his parachute and harness. 2 » 2

Time to Step Out IT FINALLY came. engine sputtered and I lowered the wheels to reduce our speed. “This is it, Scott,” I said, you go.” “Aye, aye sir” called back. “See you later.”

The right

Scott

I was the last one out. I took a |

final look around, and suddenly knew how a navy captain feels when he loses a ship. . . slid out of that black hole. In the darkness there was no sensation of falling. We bailed out a? 10,000 feet but I had no idea whether I was over a mountain peak or level ground. I waited till I was sure I had cleared the ship, then pulled the rip cord. I felt the silk whip past my face. My right hand, which had just pulled the cord, became tanged in the shroud lines. They pulled by arm up with a tremendous jerk. Four weeks later, after an X-ray fn Chungking, I learned that my shoulder was fractured and badly dislocated. I only knew then that it hurt. I couldn't move it, so I had to pull it down with my left arm. I put my right thumb between my teeth to keep the arm from flopping around.

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* A Friendly Chinese THERE WAS nothing to do but hang there and wait. I guess I was partly “out,” for although I

. hit the ground pretty hard, it did not hurt. Using my left hand I jabbed the hypodermic needle into my leg and waited for the morphine take effect. Nothing happened. in I put the last dose in my githt arm. I woke up at dawn. I was in a valley between two high mourains. Immediately I wondered about the other boys, but they were nowhere in sight.

{Tokyo Bombers Greeted Like Gods by Chinese

Yank Flier Tells of Harrowing Flight After Attack On Island Capital.

Yesterday 27-year-old Capt. Harold F. Watson described his thrillIng experience as pilot of one of the American bombers that raided Tokyo. Today, in the second of two articles written for The Times and NEA Service, he tells of his sensational getaway from the scene of the

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BOARD 2 SENDS.

Inducted Men Is Announced.

The following 48 men were inducted into the armed forces from

Marion county board 2:

Rollie Williams, 1226 N. Illinois; Thobert Frost, 940 Belmar; James Bobbitt, 517 N. Oakland: Arnold Clark, 1203 8. Sherman; Harry Albert, 1360 N. Gale; Harry Mitchell’ Rus shville- Earl Ross, 38 'W. 24th; Harry King, 3759 Kinnear; Richard Scott 818 Gerard dr.; Charles Haas, 3002 E. Michian; Frank Rutter, 1912 brie ossell, 1161 Villa; Burnis Mills, 21st; Thomas Carter, 1963 Hillside;

tral; Lambert Sutton, 126 N. Bloomington; Ernest Miller, 2815 Ralston; Leland hoemaker, 310 N. Alabama; Louis Kootz, 1747 Roosevelt; Theodore Uberta, 3732 Hillside; Roderick Keeney, 1508 Broadway; Fl Sharpe, 2322 Carroliton; Robert 2331, Massachusetts; William Frick, 416 N. New Jersey; Hartley Newton, 2255 College; Charles ‘Seekamp, 630 E. 17th: Ernest Wallace, 559 West dr., Woo druff Place; William Stevenson. 1118 N. Capitol; Anthony Altevers, 1907'2 N. Alabama: James DeFrees, 719 Park; Fred Farah, 622 Stevens; Richard Donon 2143 N. Alabama; Frank Coleman, 2115 N. Alabama; Herbert Tope, 6281 Central; Roger Bender, 2059 N. Atha: Olden Vickous, 2006 Winthrop: Warren Swenson, 2365 Dearborn; Carl Padgett, 257 N. Baaeview: Robert Davis, 2003 Hillside; Willard South, 108 E. 2 Bernard Wiles, 622 E. 23d; Robert Thomas, 3850 E. New York; Robert O'Mahoney, I 1831 N. Alabama; William O ahones 1831 N. Alabama; an oynahan Down the valley 1 could See Sore Broadway; Glenn Mullen, 1706 Roosevelt, rice paddies. I made a sling for | and David Melvin Jr., 1968 Holloway. my arm from the chute, tucked 8 my pistol in the sling and started toward them. Some people were working in the rice fields. I stayed out of sight and watched them until I was pretty sure they were Chinese, for I didn’t know but what i was in occupied China. I shouted and waved and after 4 good deal of talk one man came toward me. I grinned at him and repeated “lishu maygwa, lishu maygwa,” which we had been, told means “I am an American.” He simply looked mystified. 1 tried pidgin English with no better luck. But he started smiling and nodding when I told him in pantommime that I had dropped out of an airplane, that my arm was hurt and that I was hungry and thirsty.

Cadet Snyder Lt. Steinmetz Jr.

LEFT: Cadet G. Edward Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Conklin, 3030 Stuart st., enlisted for training as a naval aviation cudet in. Chicago Aug. 26, 1942. He is stationed at the pre-fiight school, Del Mente, Cal. He is a graduate of Technical 2 high school and a former employee at the New York Central Brightwood railroad shops.

RIGHT: Lt. George J. Steinmetz Jr. recently completed a course can or that there was a war going |in administration at Washington, on, but they gave me magnificent | D. C., with one o the highest svar ¢ | ages ever made by an officer taking restinent ‘ _ ithis course. The son of Mr. and I stayed two days and nights in Mrs. George J. Steinmetz Sr, 115 E. their dirt floored farm house, 40th st, he is at home on leave whose living room and four small from his station as an officer of the sleeping rooms housed several technical training command at! generations of a family that

totaled 23 members. They fed me Trunk neil, Madison; Wis bountifully on rice with a thick | a. i meat sauce and, of all things, |= = lie EF fresh fried eggs. BE Fae kL The other crew members had | landed close together and had | been picked up by a band of Chinese soldiers. None of them | was hurt. I rejoined them in a | small town on Tuesday. From there to Chungking, by sedan chair, Ford station wagon and army truck, we passed | through towns and villages where the people literally welcomed us as if we were gods. | The climax came on May 17, when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek invited us to a banquet to be presented to the generalissimo. Our clothes were unbelievably filthy, | but she made us feel as if we were there iy our dress blues. ployed at the Link-Belt Co. “I envy you very much,” Mme. | RIGHT: Pfc. William E. Covett, Chiang told us. “You have looked |is a paratrooper in the marines. He down upon the Japanese.” {1s now stationed at Camp Elliott,

|San Diego, Cal. Pfc. Covett is the . Win Honors

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Dinner With Mme. Chiang I'LL, NEVER know if those Chinese even knew that I was Ameri-

Pfc, Covet

{ LEFT: Fireman 1-¢ William | Stockwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-| liam Stockwell, 1602 €. Market st., | ras at home on furlough recently from San Diego, Cal. Before en-| listing last September he was em-!

Fireman Stockwell

brother of Mrs. Esther Wineman, [1557 S. Belmont st. Before his en-| | listment last December he attended Manual high school and was em- | ployed at Allison's. ” 2 s

‘End Hospital Course

Five Indianapolis men were graduated from the hospital corps| | school at the U. S. naval hospital, |Great Lakes, Ill, recently. |graduates have been mi in rating and will continue training lat the school before being sent wo

| duty. They are Theodore R. Chadwick, a8ts! E. 31st st.; Harry E. Germain, R. R. 3; Bernard Watkins, 1676 Kessler

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woltman Sr. waiter a, Wiltsee, 1510 Barth ave. aii four Jromoted to hospital apprentice 2-c

2724 Guilford ave, is one of 10 il ou LL to,h 2], 2 Pprentice 2c an William an, ale § men selected from his class at] romoted to hospital apprentice 1-c. Naval Air Gunners’ school, Jack- $4 4

sonville, Fla., for special honors. He received his diploma and the By A Same on Mr. commendation of his commanding | 274 IS. Flarius Garne Dor officer at graduation exercises for | nell ave, has been promoted to his class in aerial gunnery and is| Corporal at Dyersburg army air now an aviation radio man third | base. Dyersburg, Tenn, where he is a member of an aviation squad-

class. fo nlistm ron. He formerly was stationed at Before his enlistment in the navy Olmstead field.

he attended Technical 1. Tw high stheo Pvt. Garnett is a graduate of

RIGHT: Lt. James R. Stout, mes out, SOI Crispus Attucks high school and

of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Stout, and former district manager of the L. B. Woe as a painter before entering vice.

Price Mercantile Co., was one ofS nine Indiana aviation cadets grad-| . s

uated last week from the Blythe- | Maj. Kuhn Visits Here

ville, Ark, air field. He received| his commission as second lieuten-| Maj. W. E. (Bill) Kuhn is spendant and a rating as pilot of twin-|ing a 10-day leave at his home, 3840 engine bomber aircraft. Lt. Stout|E. 62d st. from his station at Flora, is a graduate of Shortridge high|Miss. Maj. Kuhn is president of

school. North Side Chevrolet, Inc.

NE S Fred Woltman Lt. Stout LEFT: Fred Woltman Jr, son of E

Harrison Men Transferred To Numerous U. S. Posts

hushand of Mrs. Edna Nerneice Kiefer,

The following men have been 606 E. Youn Te Camp S! Sheiby, Miss,: Albert J. Cam-

transferred from Ft. Harrison to den Rusband of Mrs. Kathleen Camden,

the camps named below: 240% W. Washington st. To Camp Robinson, Ark.: Pvis. Thomas! Teo Indiantown Gap, Pa.: Kenneth A. E. Manning, husband of Mrs. Margaret P.| Barrick, husband of "Mrs. Wilma W g, 1 E. Washington st.; eager Barrick, 624 S. Taft st, and Norr husband of Mrs. Fernl Glidden, husband of Mrs. Gladys Gidea, 1724 Cottage ave. To Camp Crowder, Mo.: Jack W. Hoy well, 920 N. Kealing s son of Mrs, Gustave Hoyt, 1555 Shelby Ly To iss: Herbert Blacksmith,

Fred M 1 Jefesson Parracks, Mo Ma SB husband of Mrs. Myrtle Blacksmith, §

Box 202-A, and Herbert R. Hert, hus-] N. Senate ave.

Band of Mrs. Mary Hert, 108 N. Gladstone ave. Sy Greensboro. 8. C+ Harry iting] WOMEN Who suffer SIMPLE | roi.

son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hidinger, 2441 ANEMIA =:

Pierson ave, and Albert E. Robert, son of Roy Robert, 1602 Rembrandt st. In Ihe of blood-iron makes you pale, “dragged out”—try Lydia pk

A. Hurst, 4333 Stratford st.,, and Merdith E, Caldwell, pusband of Mrs. Lorraine Cald-

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ministration school,

Cadets Advance

48 INTO ARMY

New Contingent of Local §

Cadet Allender Cadet Mantel

3 A wo i 4 Cadet Danner Cadet Allen

Looking forward to the day when they will get their “wings of gold” are the four aviation cadets above. Ali have received preliminary flight training at the naval air station, Peru, Ind., and will now take intermediate flight training at Pen-

1st; | sacola, Fla. 3 Upon completion of the intensive

course at the “Annapolis of the air” they will be commissioned ensigns in the naval reserve of second lieutenants The cadets are: UPPER LEFT: Herbert E. Allender, son of Mrs. Hazel E. Allender, | 5723 Beechwood ave.

UPPER RIGHT: Samuel J. Mane)

tel, son of Maj. Samuel J. Mantel, 5650 N. Pennsylvania st. LOWER LEFT: Jack S. Danner, son of Mrs, Genevieve R. Danner, 4249 S. Walcott st. LOWER RIGHT: Robert W. Allen, | son of Mrs, Lois Allen, 410 E.|

l16th st.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

in the marine corps. §

36 IN TRAINING AT GREAT LAKES

Local Men Begin Begin Basic at Naval Center Near Chicago.

Thirty-six Indianapolis men have | started basic training at Great | Lakes, Ill, naval straining station. | The recruits are:

John Hill, 853 W. New York; Ray Alkern, 231 S. East; Richard Routh, 909 N. Riley; b, 2352 N. Delaware: Leonard | . 15; Wallace Nees, 5826 Haver- | "Bane, 2834 N. Gale; Donald | 1564 Dudley; Donald Raths-| 6: Joseph Thompson, 4860] Bernard Delaney, 829 Lineoln; Thomas Amos, 401 Temple; Kenneth | Johnson, R. R. 8; Stephen Rich, 1653 8. | Delaware: Everett Hattabaugh, 3435 Parker; Willlam Davidson, 807 E. 64th; William Hurst, 1651 Norfolk: Frank Nelson, 2322 N. Illinois; Floyd Hamblen, 23 E. Tis; Charles Fox, 3417 Roosevelt; Carl | Lirgang. | 2649 Sutherland; Harold Bates, R. 4003 E. 26th: James Skaggs, N. Olney; John Fogarthy, 2445 Park: Willis Burch, 517 E. 22d; Vietor VanGordon, 4507 E. 19th; Roy Hayden, 3715 E. 34th; Willim Bolles, 2750 Adams; Osten Cook, 1641 Barth; William Mentis, 2137 Carroliton; Lewis Baker, 1405 E. New York: Omer Churchill, 501 W. 30th; Jesse Johnson, 2425 N. Olney; Jack Cruse, 2931 Capitol, and Floyd Carrie, 514 N. Pin

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Pfc. Crider

Ensign Wilmeth

LEFT: Harvey D. Wilmeth, son | of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert O. Wil-| meth, 4337 N. Pennsylvania st., has|

| been commissioned an ensign in the

(at Allison’s until last week.

Pfe. Jarrett 1st Sgt. Barbour

Pfc. John Jarrett (left) was re-|; ported missing in action in North ||

Africa Feb. 17, according to word received in a telegram from the war department by his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Clyde Jarrett, 1021 Goodlet | ave.

Pfc. Jarrett is the nephew of Mr. | Ss and Mrs. Leslie Barbour, 538 Marion | 1st Sgt. Joseph

ave, whose son, Barbour (right) is now in Reno, Nev. after serving 34 months in the canal zone. Pfc. Jarrett, 22, had been in the

RIGHT: Pfc. Louis -D. Crider, husband of Mrs. Katherine Crider, | 1541 Park ave, is stationed at] Amarillo army air field, Amarillo, | Tex. Pfe. Crider was formerly Scout- | master of Boy Scout Troop 57 and! Mate of Sea Scout Ship here. He was employed at the army air corps| at the Fairgrounds and has been in service two months. ” ” 2

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Cadet South Carl Johnson

LEFT: Mrs. Nell Newberg and| Mrs. Betty South, mother and wife of Walter J. South, are visiting him |

army three years in September. He|.i gtate College, Miss, where he is|

attended armored force school at! Ft. Knox, where he studied motorc mechanics.

gt. Barbour has recently been at |

home on furlough. He has been in the army three years and is 21.

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Flint Commissioned

2d Lt. Arthur Flint, whose wife, Mrs. Nova Flint lives at 804 E. 40th st., has completed O. C. S. and received his commission at the air adMiami Beach, Fla.

Previous to his appointment for

officer training Lt. Flint was sta-

tioned at Gulfport field, Miss,

{where he served as a sergeant.

Lt. Flint attended Mt. Kilborn and Middlesex preparatory schools and | Harvard university. He is a member of the Hasty Pudding club and the D. K. E, club,

Pvt. Martin Pvt. Goens

LEFT: Pvt. Frank Martin Jr, serving in the air corps of the marines at San Diego, Cal, has won two medals as a sharpshooter. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin, 1443 S. Kenyon ave. He attended Ben Davis high school when he enlisted in January. RIGHT: Pvt. Elwood Goens, a nephew of Mrs. J. W. Poynter, 624 Holly ave, is a mechanic in the tank corps at Camp Shelby, Miss. His brother, Cpl. Eugene Goens, is stationed in Hawaii. = ” = Promotion from technician fifth grade to corporal has been received by Charles L. Catellier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Catellier, 2202 Station st. Cpl. Catellier is taking a teletype maintenance course in the signal corps school, Camp Crowder, Mo. Before induction last January he was a splicer’s helper for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.

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| in training as an air cadet. RIGHT: Carl Troy Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson, | 1545 Richland st., is in service out- |

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