One Man Air Force Skims Burma Skies in Combat
After years as an instructor and a late start in frontline battles, Captain Robert Scott presses into combat over Burma. He shoots down a Japanese fighter, narrowly avoids disaster, and escapes over rice paddies while nursing an overheating engine before returning home by radio contact with Ajax Baumler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
Robert Scott
Kelly Field
India
Chennault
Burma
Elias
Holloway and Baumler
Ajax Baumler
Old Exterminator and the China Air War Tale
A veteran describes the damage to his P-40E Old Exterminator after missions from Hengyang to Kunming. He details cannibalizing parts, crew morale, and a Hanoi raid led by Maj Ed Rector with Pat Daniels and others shooting down Japanese I-45 fighters.
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Nanchang
Kukiang
Hankow
Elias
Haynes
Canton
Lieut
Pat Daniels
Charlie Sawyer
Butch Morgan
Chennault
Ed Rector
Lieutenant Marks
Haiphong
Rector
Kweilin-Hengyang
Burma
Indo-China
China
Russia
Thailand
Hengyang
Kunming
Hanoi
Gia Lam
Lackau
Daniels
van Nuys
California
Marks
Hollywood Wars on Screen Across Historic Battles
Hollywood has staged battles from ancient times to World War II on California soil. Filmmakers recreated sieges and campaigns from Verdun to Tokyo, including biblical and desert warfare, using sites in Chatsworth Culver City and Burbank. Major stars and directors coordinated stunts, sometimes turning accidents into scenes, while critics note the industry’s desire to stop war by arbitration.
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California
Hollywood
Garden of Eden
Cortez
Montezuma
Paris
Bastille
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Verdun
Doolittle
Tokyo
Hal Roach
B. C
D. W. Griffith
Bethulia
Chatsworth
Calif
Palestine
D. W
Babylon
Cecil B. de Mille
Paramount
Rome
Cleopatra
Egypt
Actium
Claudette Colbert
Nile
Chateau Thierry
John Gilbert
Philippines
Gary Cooper
Mojave
North Africa
Ouida
Napoleon
Moscow
Culver City
MGM
Garbo
Charles Boyer
Dunkirk
Ty Power
RAF
Robert Taylor
Bataan
Colors
Mother and Daughter Dutch Bonnets Pattern Offer
A nostalgic note describes a young mother and daughter in ginghams and matching white hats. Crochet instructions for the Mother and Daughter Dutch Bonnets Pattern No. 5875 are offered for 16 cents with name and address.
Improvised Kitchen Hacks From a Resourceful Home Page
A list of frugal tips shows how to bind meat with oatmeal for firmer patties, stabilize a meat chopper with a sandpaper base, repurpose a piano stool as an adjustable chair, and keep salt free running by blotting paper under the shaker to absorb dampness.
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God IS
Robert L.scott
W.ny
Ajax
Hoffman
AVG
Panama
T. R. Smith
Air Corps
Ete
Leslie Fenton
Fred MacMurray
Vasquez Rocks
Bagdad
Zoltan Korda
Paul Muni
Marguerite Chapman
Burbank
Korda
North African
Humphrey Bogart
Sahara
Bracken
Crosby
Eddie Bracken
Sinatra
George Marshall
Don Costello
Alan Ladd
Henry
Sewing Circle Needlework
South Wells St
Chicago
Tno
St. Joseph
Yat Hart
United States
Africa
Latin America
Liberia
Japan
Intercity
Bfgoodrich
Rian
Sen Dribking
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