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Broadway, New York I, A. y. Pvt. Lorber's home address was 158 Sherman street.Oman, 3746S3dalt;. iroop isiReg. C. R. T. C., Barracks 204S,Fort Riley, Kas.Tooman Attains Record of400 Combat Flying Hours■9After completing 100 bombing missions, covering 400flying combat hours, under highly adverse flying conditions, Capt. Roy Tooman, pilot of a heavy bomber in Indiaand China, has returned to Muscatine for a brief leave be-lt;*fcorereceiving a domestic assignment. He is spending his leave with his wife, Mrs. Mary Tooman, and with hisparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tooman, rural route No. 6.Capt. Tooman’s bombing missions covered 400 combatflying hours over some of the most treacherous terrain in t*he world. He piloted his heavy bomber more than 80times over the high and rugged Himalaya mountains mIndia where he encountered the “most hazardous weatherin the world.On one flight over India, Capt.coman recounts, his plane wask-Pirced down on the desert by the weather and an approaching sandstorm. The plane landed near Jodphur, “the most remarkable city I have ever seen,” accord-g to the pilot.O^The city is in the middle of an expanse where for miles in eachdirection there is nothing but the desert. The houses and the fences are all of slate marble, Capt. Tooman related, and a gran-e wall surrounds the city withW*marble fort in the middle of the town. Stones for the construction of the city were carried by camel from quarries miles away, he said and such caravans are still used to haul marble slates to the city.Clll vegetation, even the trees,.s kept alive by irrigation.While on a tour of the city, Capt. Tooman and his party were allowed to visit the gold room of the fort, where the ceiling of room was engraved and decorated in solid gold.Costumes of the people are still of ancient times. Traditionalsacrifice themselves in fire ifthey are cast from the temple there.Lauds Chinese.fuards stand watches at the gates •f the fort. The maharajah hast* or Jf) wives and persons stillWhile Capt. Tooman was in China he was privileged to see approximately 500,000 Chinese working on a single flying field. He reported the Chinese were very cooperative with the Americans and complimented them on their ingenuity in building flying fields in spite of then* crude procedure.Everyone in China works,' he said, from the time they are able until they are too old. The people appear slow to accept new methods and are a thousandbehind the United Statesyears in progress.Capt. Tooman made the trip from India to Miami, Fla., in one of the new C-54 luxury airliners. The new 40-passenger, four-engine plane is entirely sound proof and is beautifully upholstered inleather, he explained.Capt. Tooman received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for outstanding service in the Far East during hisperiod of service there.Vc1 W tew
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1944
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