The Burma Banshees

We were getting ready to go overseas and they had already put three or four airplanes on the boat to go to England. Something happened that they were having trouble with the plane bearings that raise all the rods and pistons and so forth. We had stopped flying and we were pretty well restricted to the base. We usually had to stand alert...and alert went usually from daylight till about 1 o'clock. So Nellis and I, we had a scheme, worked out pretty well. We'd get an early fl

We were getting ready to go overseas and they had already put three or four airplanes on the boat to go to England. Something happened that they were having trouble with the plane bearings that raise all the rods and pistons and so forth. We had stopped flying and we were pretty well restricted to the base. We usually had to stand alert...and alert went usually from daylight till about 1 o'clock. So Nellis and I, we had a scheme, worked out pretty well. We'd get an early fl

The New Year brought the squadron the news for which it had long hoped. On January 9,1944, Lt. Clower, who had been reported as missing in action in the bombing attack on Myitkyina Airdrome on December 26, 1943, was reported safe and in the hands of friendly natives. He was brought into Ledo on January 15, 1944 flown back to Nagaghuli on the 17th. His was a harrowing tale of the twelve day trek alone through the jungle with Japanese patrols always near and with virtually no f

The New Year brought the squadron the news for which it had long hoped. On January 9,1944, Lt. Clower, who had been reported as missing in action in the bombing attack on Myitkyina Airdrome on December 26, 1943, was reported safe and in the hands of friendly natives. He was brought into Ledo on January 15, 1944 flown back to Nagaghuli on the 17th. His was a harrowing tale of the twelve day trek alone through the jungle with Japanese patrols always near and with virtually no f