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God Is My Co-Pilot and the Battle to Bomb Tokyo
A WWII memoir fragment follows Robert Scott, West Point grad, earning wings at Kelly Field, training pilots in Panama, and joining General Chennault’s Flying Tigers premise. The narrative traces long Atlantic routes to Africa and India, misgivings over delayed combat, and crew loyalty guarding B‑17s in Karachi as they near a planned offensive that never fully materializes.
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Robert Scott
West Point
Kelly Field
Texas
Mitchel Field
WN. Y
Panama
Washington
America
Florida
Brazil
Col. C. V. Haynes
Ivory Coast
Togoland
Cab Calloway
Africa
Gold Coast
Kano
Nigeria
Vichy France
Lagos
Niger
Natal
Khartoum
Sudan
Chennault
AVG
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Rangoon
Lashio
Burma
Navy
Marine Corps
Japan
Army
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company
Camco
San Francisco
Java
Singapore
Radio Tokyo
Burma Road
Fijichan
General Chennault
Flying Tigers
Tokyo
Karachi
India
Haynes
Doug
Equatorial Africa
Sergeant Aaltonen
Cobb
Chad
Fort Lamy
El-Fasher
White Nile
Aden
Eritrea
Gara
Massaua
Red Sea
Yemen
Somaliland
Gulf of Aden
London
Bataan
Corregidor
Arabia
Arabian Sea
Gulf of Oman
Delhi
Pearl Harbor
Air Corps