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...they had earned their pay-$600 a month plus a $500 bonus for every Jap shot down. In Kunming they could spend it easily-for cigarets at $2.80 a pack, for Scotch at $45 a bottle, for cheese at $12 a pound, for tooth paste at $4 a tube. In Burma there was nothing to spend it for, except cables to the folks at home. For that they spent...
...Pilots Raymond Hastey and Gil Bright took on seven Japs at 21,000 feet. Hastey was on a Jap's tail, firing, when an unnoticed Jap behind shot off the tail of his plane. Hastey stayed with the tumbling wreck for nearly a mile, then bailed out. To give the Japs the least possible chance of potting him as he floated down, he decided to fall another two miles before opening his parachute. Meanwhile he took off his wrist watch, which had been jarred loose, and put it in his pocket; remembered a passage in his textbook which said...
After bagging 25 Jap planes, Squadron Leader Newkirk was awarded a D.S.C. by the British Government. To his family he wrote letters describing the flora and fauna of Burma; he told of killing a seven-foot cobra in the barracks...
Newkirk's last combat was a raid on the Jap airdrome at Chiengmai in Thailand. He and his squadron dived low, burned or shot up 40 planes on the ground, machine-gunned the Jap pilots as they ran for their cockpits. At the edge of the field a Jap gunner with a machine gun mounted on a truck drew a bead on the enemy leader's plane, poured a long burst into its belly. While all the others zoomed away, Scarsdale Jack's plane stalled, shuddered, crashed in flames...
...Corregidor and in the foxholes of Bataan the strict procession of days marched on with a deadly, thundering sameness. The Jap, scorned in his offer of "honorable surrender," was back at work again...