Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1945 — Page 23

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945

We Japanese. Targets Routine Job for U.S. Flier

By GERALD R. THORP

Times Foreign Correspondent

scape in a rigid pattern. The“gun-

I ners checked their guns and ‘the

WITH THE U. 8S. 43d BOM-|plane .dropped to treetop level. BARDMENT GROUP, PHILIP-| Butts sent the Liberator skimming

PINES, Tuesday, April 10 (Delayed)

—This is a day in the life of Capt.

across the area, its guns chattering. The Japs opened up with 50-cali-

Earl A. Butts, 27, Camden, 8. C.iber guns and ack-ack. Shells one of the most famed pilots with| flashed near the plane fora second the 43d bombardment group of and then the bomber was beyond

the U. 8. 5th air force, Butts, who looks like a Holly-

wood athlete, stretched his six foot

Frange. There was a ragged hole in the left wingtip. As the plane headed for its pase,

two frame at 3 o'clock this morning,| a V-shaped flying formation .ap-

vawned and climbed, into the cockpit of & Liberator bomber _ along with his § crew of nine, 9 They were taking off on a routine mission to bomb Jap shipping in the vicinity of Hainan island, For eight

“ - héurs their plane Mr. Thorp

droned over the Pacific. Butts was Not an enemy

glum and bored. ship had been sighted.

. Blasted Bridge -

He turned the.plane inland and |

peared on the horizon, The gunners were alert again, Then everyone relaxed. Wants to Be Fighter “Geese,” someone said. “It scared the hell out of me. They weren't flapping their wings.” At 6:30 p. m., 15'% hours after the takeoff, Butts and his crew climbed out of the Liberator at Clark field, They told their story to an intelligence officer and: war correspondents and then debated whether to go to a movie that night. Butts walked toward his tent, confessing that he was tired of be-

to transfer to a fighter group. “But aren't you a little big for

flew lazily, dipping occasionally to a fighter cockpit?” someone asked.

explore the countryside. A bridge loomed in the distance. The crew| ga p-38. Besides, those: boys havel’

members. looked hopefully at Butts.

“Nope. IT just fit comfortably in

all’ the fun.”

ing a bomber pilot, that he wanted'|

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The great bomber arched into a ‘BOARD . ‘SIGNS UP UP FOR

steep dive. Lt. John H. Lewis, 23, | of Norfolk, Va,

roaring 650 feet above the ground. The first bomb landed 20 feet short

set the fuses for skip-bombing. The. Liberator was

UNDERPASS AT BELT

! struction of the W. Morris st. un-

of the target. The second blasted derpass at the -Belt railroad was

the bridge squarely.

| signed yesterday by the works board.

The plane climbed steeply, then| The resolution now goes to the floated gracefully through cloud | railroad. After that it returns to

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