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Under tough, practical Hal George were only a few P-40s and Philippine Army training planes when U.S. troops retired to Bataan for their last stand in Luzon. He used them as if they were bombers, hid his anxiety for his youngster pilots by working at his hobby: woodcarving. His "Lady Bataanin," a shapely reclining nude, became a luck piece which pilots touched before going out after the Jap. They needed luck. The Jap bombed the two makeshift fields endlessly, was always overhead with fighters when they took off because he was close enough to hear their engines warming...
...contact through his own filling station, is shunted into a cozy nearby bar to haggle price and delivery with the bootlegger or his agent. Some tires are stolen. Others come from pre-Pearl Harbor stocks of crooked dealers who did not list them on OPA's inventory forms, hid them in cellars, attics or backwoods garages. Prices are outlandish: from $30 to $60 for a Chevrolet-sized tire (6.00 x 16) which once sold...
...stern of the tanker, Kelly and ten shipmates struggled frantically with the falls of a lifeboat. Said Kelly: "I saw the captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...mission. Under their tutelage, the mission built airdromes at Ogelbeng, Ega, Asaloka and Raipinka-but missionaries would naturally want to carry the gospel into the interior jungles. When World War II broke out, they flew the mission's single-engined Junkers plane, Papua, to Dutch New Guinea and hid it in the bush. Then-it was reported-they proceeded to Germany...
...soft and the lengthening days were heady. He forgot to notice that the sidewalks would be wider if the sandbags could be removed, that the skyline was neater before the bombs fell. A car starting up suddenly might make him jump. His children, when they hid in closets and crawled under chairs, informed him pertly that they were playing "shelter." But almost no one said: "You wouldn't know there...