European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                September 1950 the stars and stripes spatter pilots stalk bandits9 in cubs Page 7 red prisoners sprayed with Dot by Hal Boyle 6 i Bandit Hunting in he air Over Korea As Well As on the and the Quarry int always american artillerymen use cub Grasshopper planes to Circle Ove the front lines and spot enemy Fiek guns and and some believe the reds have somehow managed to obtain a few cub planes o their own which they paint with american markings and Send up 1o pinpoint Allied batteries for their this May sound fantastic but in War anything is possible and the communist North koreans have proved to be Tricky As Well As Tough at All kinds of one Day by Accident i went along on a trip trying to track one of the enemy Aerial false pretenders Over Natone i was flying with it Don of White Sulphur Over the Paktong River we were in an unarmed t6 Mosquito plane and our Mission was to direct fighter planes to enemy Tanto after Morgan had sent Down two flights of fighters to their targets suddenly got a new heavy fire was falling intermittently be Hind our lines and the ground control officer called us on the i clamped on a Headset and heard him say every time one of those cubs flies Over our Battery we get some enemy rounds into our positions can you Check and see whether they have slipped a Bandit in among our boys up there said if theres one around we will find him for he banked the Mosquito dizzily and we were off on our unusual sky there were four grass Hopper planes in the All widely separated and swooping and fluttering about like windblown one by we stalked flying up until our wings were Only a few feet it gave you a feeling that both planes were hanging motionless in the air from two propellers buzzed noisily but you had no sense of in each Case like cubs held men who locked at us first in startled wonder and then waved Morgan looked them Over carefully until he was satisfied Thoy were then he waved Back and we wheeled on to the next anxious moments the lieutenant was enjoying the Chase and so was i until we started after the Forth i was dipping and circling so Muci that i began of feel it was dodging and then i remembered that our own plane was we Drew up even with the Las plane but the Pilot was looking the other Morgan edged Grid no nearer and i could see the suspicion on his features tiny icicles began to gather on my wha would we do if the other Pilot was a North korean just then he turned and i found myself looking into the eyes of a re haired youth with a freckled face split by a Grin As wide As Morgan waved and reported in to the ground control officer All the cubs up Here look like the last one Only had one Man in it but he is one of our unless the reds Serif a red with red hair and Roger and replied the ground control officer Digap when we landed i asked Morgan what he would have done if he had found one of the planes was a i could have opened my canopy and shot at him with my he and if i could not get him that Way we could have of behind him and rammed his rudder with our that Ifould Knock him t North korean prisoners line up to be sprayed with Dot to protect them and their captors from disease in this american pm temp in South District offices on Ruislip Wallow 4300 in 3311 1034 Alsfeld Augsburg Berlin 465 7931 763951 163952 48146 48149 5343 33603 6568 73156 1563 34953 35707 93787 31149 7722 29718 Astoria hotel r53z44 Bremen Bremerhaven Frankfurt Heidelberg Numberg Grafen Obr Munich Stuttgart Wiesbaden Hunhing number of and 5 stripes h25 per York Herald Tribune per York times s3 00 per total 1 understand and certify that the amounts specified pay Abl o he Stan and must accompany his order form before delivery Wujs be unit Type and sign for stars and stripes use Only name at route District Dale of first delivery stars and stripes Nyht not Winter to test Korea lift i than 120 planes Havi been carrying thousands of troop and supplies to Korea in the great est Tran Ocean air lift in i was not one of the planes has had even a minor officials said although flights have been made in visibility Zero weather and As Many As 26 transports have been in the air at the same in less than two the four engine transports have carried troops and More than rounds of cargo across the North Pacific to the fighting but now the air lift faces a crisis because Winter is approaching Over the alaskan Mainland and the Aleutian about a month from the planes will be battling 50 below Zero frequent heavy rain and it col Charles in charge of military air transport service at Elmendorf air Force said that visibility already has had some effect on the air planes kept moving we have found that we can keep planes moving across the North Pacific in visibility Zero he it is not generally known that for six weeks during the pres ent air Shemya Island was con stantly shrouded in fog or yet ground control radar facilities kept planes moving through this Aleutian Stopover Point Day and in some of the air traffic May be rerouted to Japan via the mid Pacific Reid but that route is up to Miles longer than the Alaska and Canadian military planes and transport planes provided by six private airlines Are participating in the this air lift has licked Many Reid but now we face our greatest the bit Ter Alaska army mental test san 6 f youve had 12 years of schooling or have a High school the army figures you can pass the mental test Given a direct Ive from the 4th army at Sam Houston said men meeting these qualifications Are mentally eligible serve in the army regardless of whether they pass the red Shock troops use youngsters As shield e ably not since the childrens Cru Sade of medieval times has there been a Grimmer use of youngsters than in the korean they have been used As Shields by Waves of hardened North korean they have been used As after being trained to recognize and report on the position of and South korean their and where it is there is one recorded Case of a boy spy whose bicycles motion generated the Power he needed for his tiny portable radio which he was transmitting information to North korean gun the Blac Market Price on Amer ican c i g a r e t s has Jap anese businessmen who have acquired a taste for the american brands now must drop Back to such Jap brands As smokes like perfumed in Advance of the arrival of British ground sent from the us Liaison Mission cons dered it proper to release the following announcement in View of difficulties with regard to the various new posts established Here in connection with the korean this Mission has thought it might be helpful to inform All newspapers that air vice by Bob cons1d1ne of Board to meet on promotions 6 a selection Board of senior air Torce officers will be convened at air Force he late this month recommend officers for promo Jon to the permanent Grade of lieutenant according to in formation received the names of those officers Selec de will be submitted to the presi Dent for approval for placement on a recommended actual per manent promotions will be phased Over the next 18 months to two dependent upon of author nations and it is expected the first promotions will he made in november from the recommended marshal b o u c h i e is official title is As follows senior United kingdom military Liaison officer to general Macar thur As commanding general of All forces placed by members of the United nations under unified com therell always be an England t one of the biggest publishing successes in history is the japanese edition of readers it is the brainchild of Young Dennis son of and onetime copy boy on the los Angeles Young of his schooling in Tokyo and Speaks the language As Well As most returning to Tokyo to write a piece for the after a career As a foreign correspondent and Mcevoy suggested a japanese Edi Tion and was immediately told to Start its circulation quickly mushroomed to britons killer gets sentence 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