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head for the Burma Road. In four days I’ll be in Chungking fighting them Japs.”WHEN COOKIE said he’d be outin the morning he didn’t know yet. Nobody had told him the Army had decided to cannibalize his plane.They were only going to cannibalize a little bit. In a few days it would be all right, and Cookie could head for Karachi. But they had to cannibalize it that night.Perhaps you don’t know what Cannibalizing a plane is, but you can understand very quickly. It’s a case of plane eat plane. There was another Hudson in the airport with a bad tachometer in this case. It was carrying a priority load and it was considered mor* ’important that this other Hudson gat out than that Cookie get out.So while Cookie was asleep they cannibalized his plane to the extent of removing one tachometer and putting it onto the priority Hudson. They, tried to notify Cookie so helie’s been for the past six weeks. But meanwhile they slowly beganrebuilding his cannibalized plane,and yesterday it was ready for the first trial hop.The Fightin’ Man got up at 3 o’clock in the morning because he couldn’t sleep and at 6 o’clock hewas in the air, trying her out.At 6:05 he entire camp was awakened by a thunderoustice‘’sTEomhs ened by a bloodcurdling roar as Cookie showed what he thought of the whole dam thing by going into a trial power dive at about 550 miles an hour.Flowers For AH OccasionsSHELL THE FLORISTPhone 177The place where you are always welcome regardless o f
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South Western University Megaphone
Georgetown, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 05, 1942
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