European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fortunes Olfort in scorch of a fast Dollar or fun Wing pm 9f John Nana staff writer War it after Tow Tineri were Gen Cherma Urt took Urh s now a pm in of Dir of says dictionary one who follows a Mili tary career wherever there is Promise of adventure or behind that sentence lie some of the great individual romances in Century largely Given Over to heroics in the for Gaudy knights still abound in the age of the Gray flannel individualists with the flair of a Lancelot with a Little larceny thrown there was it Gen Claire who in july of this year lost his final Battle to there is Allen a Young airman held prisoner in an indonesian military Hospital there is the astounding Gen Morris two gun Consort of chinese warlords in his seventh and time didst run out on Harold Whitey Dah or James Earth quake Mcgoon Mcgovern until they had crammed in a few lifetimes of a former Louisiana High school would have been remark Able As an instructor of airmen a Genius of air he included both Pope and Mcgovern among his and recruited the famed flying tigers of world War of he was far More than a tear he like most of this Cen turns born to the when world War i gave him a chalice to learn to he turned his Back forever on the by the he was head of a three Man group billed As the men on the Fly ing he and his comrades wove through intricate their planes linked by 30 feet of they landed with Tho rope this was no the army was concentrating on bomber production holding the alow moving planes to be Chen Rumult argued for Pursuit planes and wished to prove that formation flying had replaced the Manto Man combat of the he was retired in 1937 few the More Alert to his theories than the tested them during the Spanish civil offered him a year to become adviser to the red air he turned them went instead to China engaged in a death struggle with the was Down to just 18 with an offt Hereford from Wash Chennault organized the american Volunteer called this flying he never had More than 87 pilots at his but in six months his men shot Down More than 250 japanese with total losses of at wars he again Dis gusted by what he regarded As washing tons critical attitude of Chiang he foresaw the communist Victory in but organized the civil air trans port a cargo transport line took it to Formosa with Chiang in saw his organization Gross co a fighting used to in Vite his tougher High school pupils to step outside with surrounded him self with Tough men from his Sec Tion of the men like col Robert most famed of the tigers and author of the bestselling god is my Copot one of these was a shy my Alan named Allen who Learned flying in the korean joined Chennault cat four years flew through the terrible skies Over Denbie Phu As that fortress fell to indochinese happily married and seemingly Pope asked for six months leave from but he didst want a it soon was he was captured by the indonesians after bombing Jakarta for the Sumatra he is now in a military Hospital awaiting trial it is not Likely he is upset in a you expect to get shot at said a colleague who did not live through the Day before that fortress just completing his 45th James Earth quake Mcgoon crashed in his last heard Over the radio of his were spoken calmly looks like this is Mcgovern was a huge with a huge laugh and a huge con tempt for life on the he flew with Chemi Auletti 14th air Force shot Down four japanese his 30o pounds shake the Earth when he his comrades wrote in yet soars with the Grace of earthquake joined cat after the in december of he crash landed on a River Sand was captured by Chi Nese released six months later after he had lost 75 he said he had been Well treated except that the captors stole his Wristwatch and when bullets severed tie elevator cables of his plane on another he regarded it As an amusing we could make it up or but never we went Home like a flying cargo to  was Lucra pay was As High us a but despite the derisive laughter of his fellow was there for an additional reason Way i figure we either got to fight the Blanks at Home or Over no such idealism uplifted the career of Whitey a native of who Learned to Fly As an army he was shot Down by Francos forces during the Spanish he was condemned to a letter from his dancer Edith Rogers attracted International at addressed to Franco the letter noted that Whitey was completely Neutral and flew for the republicans Only because they paid a the Duhl enclosed a photograph of Franco announced he would commute the death sentence in a courtly Span ish signed the letter meaning i kiss your rumours that he had fallen in love with the picture were dismissed Only when it was proved he had never seen a Junior officer hav ing put hands on it Dahl was finally in the reunion in new York was Cool baiter All the heat generated i the work dont muss my cried Dahl As lit Eppel from the on Poge 1958 the stars and stripes 11