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...that Burma sky they grew into a fighting outfit that for democratic spirit and complete lack of operations formalities may never be equaled. Nor will their record of performance soon be equaled. In their show, always against heavy odds, A.V.G. knocked down more than 200 Jap planes, lost only 16 pilots. Even some of those 16 the Jap could not claim. They were lost in forced landings and in the occasional wild flying that is inseparable from the air work of a high-spirited outfit like the Fei Hu (Flying Tiger...
...about over. There would be an end to the high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...
...retired to Bataan for their last stand in Luzon. He used them as if they were bombers, hid his anxiety for his youngster pilots by working at his hobby: woodcarving. His "Lady Bataanin," a shapely reclining nude, became a luck piece which pilots touched before going out after the Jap. They needed luck. The Jap bombed the two makeshift fields endlessly, was always overhead with fighters when they took off because he was close enough to hear their engines warming up. Like his pilots, General George took it all with a tight grin, hoped for better days...
Ordered to Australia, he shaved his Luzon beard, got back to trig uniform, waited with burning impatience for the day when his comrades might be somehow relieved. Lady Bataanin was with him, a reminder that kept his eyes blazing when he was out against the. Jap in the Australian area. The day never came. When he heard of the fall of Bataan one day at mess, he unashamedly wept for his youngsters, who had taken everything in their stride, who had talked of missing buddies as though they had gone out to lunch...
...India is not so nonsensical as it appears to Western eyes. It has even more cogency in Hindu India than isolationism once had in the U.S. Gandhi's followers have always regarded Satyagraha as the best way to fight would-be aggressors. It is not a pro-Jap policy except in possible effect. As explained by the Congress: "We may not bend the knee to an aggressor. . . . If he wishes to take pos session of our homes and our fields we must refuse to give them up, even if we have to die in an effort to resist...