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THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1951

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Lucas Takes a Fast

Ride in Jet

By JIM

Bomber

LUCAS

Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

OVER NORTH KOREA

IN A B-45, Aug. 0— From!

40,000 feet, North Korea looked as blue as the ocean. I had] to take some one’s word for it that we were actually over land. Up front, Bob Dusenbery of Salt Lake City, the]

navigator, bent over his charts, “Target at 42 miles,” he said. At better than 500 miles an hour, that's a matter of seconds. Bob was talking fast. “If you get in any trouble,” he told Capt. Stacy Naftel, of Foxboro, Mass, our 3 pilot, “take her | out any way you j can." In the time it took to say that, = we were over Chinnampo. From his navigator’'s post, Bob started shooting away with ¢cameras, movie and still Then he =aid: “Their radar guns are tracking us now. I'm getting interference on my scopes

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u u " THE REST of us couldn't see the ground, but we could picture what was happening. North Koreans or Chinese would be slowly wheeling their guns around Keeping us in their radar sights. Beside each weapon the gun commander stood ready to order fire, They've become mighty good with their ack-ack lately we've given them plenty of practice. Capt. Naftel cut in on the interphone, His voice was meant to be soothing. “They can shoot this high,” he said, “but very seldom do we get flak at this altitude, This is good weather — plenty of clouds .to hide. in. I'd say it's impossible for any MIG to find us. All we've got to-worry about is flak, and that's not too much.” Once more I-tried to look out

«, to see the ground, but it was use-

less. Only Bob Dusenbery through his radar scopes has any idea what's down below. 2 z Over in a Soe tk Kendrex of Loong Beach,

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asleep now. Maybe you get that way after 50 missions. : ‘Back in Japan before we had taken off Captain Naftel had filled us in. Among other things he told us the best way to walk out of North Korea Pointing at a map, he'd say: ‘There are large troop concentrations here and there. ” n ” “AFTER YOU hit the ground get away from your parachute and lie ‘low. They'll be beating the bushes for you. After that get out the best way you can, but we will try to make it to the sea. At our altitude I think we can

Outcome of any future war could depend on jet bombers— ours or theirs. Last fall the U. S. Air Force announced it had sent a few all-jet B-45's to the Far East for combat tests. What they've done, where they've been and other facts about them are among the Korean war's most closely guarded secrets, North American Aviation’s four-engined B-45 is the first jet bomber the Air Force accepted. The men who fly it are still convinced it is the best in the air. Air Force releases say it's in the “40,000-feet, 525 miles-an-hour class.” When one of the Far East Air Force's B-45's flews its 50th combat mission, Jim Lucas was along. It was the first time a civilian had flown in a jet bomber in combat.

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but ‘you can't ditch one of these babies. You'll still have to jump.” I must have looked scared. “Don’t worry,” he said. We'll all four be together. You won't have to hoof or swim it alone.” So our big jet named Miss Double Exposure—took off with a swoosh. She climbed rapidly 2000 feet per minute-—and headed for Korea. It was air-conditioned inside, Condensation from the tirbines filled the cockpit with steam for a while, but that soon disappeared. As Miss Double Exposure nosed her way into higher altitudes, we put on oxygen masks and tightened our crash helmets, Over the Japan Sea, Captain Noftel dipped his wings as we flew over a part of the Seventh Fleet placidly steaming northward. We spotted two carriers and 10 or 12 escorting cruisers and destroyers. .» After photographing Chinnam-| fo extensively, we turned and headed Sor NV onan. + at a : v. o n : 4 ‘WE WILL fly south: from Pvongvang,” said Capt. Naftel. “We, can’t take this plane there without fighter escort.” Over Wonsan it wa sthe same

story. Their radar tracked us, but they didn’t fire. Next was Hamhung. Then

Hungnam. Now we are headed home. At better than 500 miles an hour we'll soon be back over Japan, Before long we dropped to 9000 feet, then 5000, then 1500. And a few minutes later we were on the ground-—nice, firm, safe ground.

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