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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1953-05-28, Page 7t'FRTFtSDAX, NIAY 28, 1953 C.. Enrol' NEWS-R1,CORl PAGE SEVEN RCAF Station and Adastral Park News Edffi��' FIL T. E. W. EQDSON Phone 382, Lpeal 352 NO. 128 TOugClouds A� .Stry of the R,C.A•F, By SEYMOVR ROBERTSON 1 - Lciughing Copyright 1952 30th INSTALMENT nitude, involving as it did crews from a hundred bomber stations, a leakage of information must be reckoned with. Some ass, some- where, had certainly blabbed, Some one always did, despite all threats and warnings. That would mean a host of enemy fighters, prowling about, looking for just such a killing, Inexperienced crews on their first sortie would be an easy prey. Hurry up! Hurry up! What was the matter with those brain- less clots in the Control Tower? Did no one know how to switch to the green light? .. Of course he had an excellent crew, the best Midlands could of- fer. Their faith in his skill ap- proached the sublime. He hoped they would not expect the im- possible. He was no superman and an aircraft was always a tempermental beast. Why hadn't he kept his mouth shut after reporting Fletcher's ill- ness? No one expected him to go out tonight. No one, save Braith- waite and the lads in his awn air- craft, knew he was out there, waiting . waiting . . Light still red. What was wrong now? He'd been there an age already .. . For the century (the ' actual time was three minutes) that ,Jack Graydon sat in the cock -pit with 'C -Charlie's' engines idling he kept telling himself he was a • quixotic fool, What business had he to be at the controls of this big bomber? $is proper role at Midlands was that of Assistant Ground Instruct- or, His proper place at that mom- ent was his desk in the office un- der the Control Tower, Not only was he no longer an operational ;pilot but seldom had he felt less like one. His only familiar s`bn- sation was that old gnawing 'emptiness at the pit of the stom- ach, as he felt the muscles tight- ening. What ailed him? Had he not outgrown that, after 28 sor- ties? This was only one more—'a piece of cake', the Chief Instructor had termed it. So had Graydon iaimself. The hell it was! In spite of all his depreciative "talk in the crew -room Graydon knew the target would be a strongly -defended' area. In the marshalling yards of Cologne end- less trainloads of supplies as- sembled to pour into occupied France, bound for the Channel toast. How easy it was to belittle a task one did not expect to per- form oneself! There would be plenty of flak about, 'And, on a raid of this mag- BAYFIELD PAVILION Dancing EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT FRANK TRAHER'S ORCHESTRA 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. 20-tfb Had Group Captain Harmon discovered who was actually pilot- ing 'C -Charlie'? The Old Man would call him in and scrub the flight after all. What sort of ex- planation could he give the Com- manding Officer, who had small patience with mock heroics, with Henty-book stuff? There it was! Flashing green! Thank God!'" At last he had something to do! .. . "Chocks away!" "Chocks away, sir!" - . Graydon waved a hand from the cockpit window, drew it shut. Dusk was falling, as `C -Charlie' described a wide arc and ap- proached the runway. Group Cap- tain Harmon was already air- borne. Harmon, twice the age of the lads he was leading, had for- gotten nothing about flying tech- nique. Y -Yorker' followed. That was 'Tex' Proctor with his all -RAI' crew starting his run. Now 'Tex' was away, his aircraft soaring Like a great graceful gull, Stout fel- low, `Tex'' Small wonder those nglish lads swore by him. Graydon's initial nervousness had left him. He was now cool, self-possessed, handling his levers with automatic precision. Flaps . boost ... revs, Nothing to it. Get up. Get over. Drop 'em, Get back. A few hours job at the most. HERE WE GO! The engines opened up with a full roar. The giant bird quivered, shook itself, lurched forward. Now it gathered speed as it raced down the runway. Faster! Faster! The ground left them. Graydon caught sight of several dark fig- ures below. He saw a big arm raised high in the air; knew that was Braithwaite jerking a thumb skyward. "O.K. gang?" "Okey-doke, skipper, MacLar- en's voice carne over the inter - comm. • "Stooge round a bit, Set course in two minutes." Now he was circling high over the flat roofs of the station build- ings. Harmon's machine, Proctor's machine, were two dark shapes against the twilight.Below, some one else—'Red' Gibson probably— was climbing to join him. MacLaren gave him a course. Jack checked, set his compass. They were for it now, flying high over Byford Copse, above those Cotswold manor -houses, shadowy outlines in the gathering dark-- ness. Shakespeare country, wasn't it? Forest of Arden. - Hedge -bord- ered meadows, turf smooth as vel- vet, woodlands where one might stage 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. One thing (Graydon told himself with a chuckle) there was nothing wrong with his night -vis- ion. What a joke on those old maids of the Medical Board! Now they were crossing over a large factory town. Below men and women were stumbling along blacked -out streets bound for the night -shift at their Iathes. In that sprawled -out plant beside the gasometer factory wheels were turning, machines roaring, pistons driving, to turn out more and more aircraft identical with 'C - Charlie'. Now it was quite dark. Fire - watchers had begun their all-night vigil. Wardens were at their posts. Special constables were making their rounds. Pubs were --, rlrq0. ' r ' :111IIIIIIfilllli 1. 9III :Y.,,m . IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.NB .1 .► ►' r, .. alill7721::,.::.1.irY:1-.7,,,...-L"—lior'... Tests moisture seals For bearing protection To deliver the power and per- formance expected and demanded of them, combines, tractors and power machines are precision manufactured froth high quality materials. 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The book was printed before it was disclosed that some nations have carried experimentation with dealth-dealing weapons into the field.of hydrogen explosives, which may be even more lethal than the much -publicized atom bombs. But, experts of the Defence Research Board, Canada, scientific advisers to the civil defence authorities, be- lieve that the principles which it sets • forth in layman's language hold good under any typeof at- tack, including those with high explosives ' or _- incendiary bombs, and, indeed, are applicable in most types of peacetime catastrophe as well, Playing Safe "This business of getting ready for attack by an atomic or some other kind of bomb, does not mean that the place in which we live is going to be bombed", the book notes in its introduction. "It simply means that we are playing safe. It's the sort of thing we do all the time when we buy insur- ance, put lightning rods on the roof and pour anti -freeze into the car radiator. We just don't want filling up; darts games would be in full swing; perspiring barmaids rushing half-pints. Couples would be holding hands in darkened cin- emas England! He had hated it all when he first came overseas, with its strangeness, its odd customs, the unintelligible accents of its people. How he loved it now! Be- low Ilim, as he pictures them, lay thatch -roofed cottages like those on the old Christmas cards; chur- ches that had stood since the Nor- man Conquest, their bells mute these last few years; sleepy little hamlets, unchanged for centuries; roads built by the Romans, over which Rupert's horse had clatter- ed to Naseby; ivy-covered houses like Halebridge . . He could faintly discern the course of a winding river, the old, old Thames. Now he was high over the old road along which Chaucer's pilgrims had trudged to Canterbury. Far to port lay Lon- don, a dark, brooding city with its searchlights piercing the clouds. A city of battered streets, of parks with freshly -dug shelters, of gun sites—and of Gothic towers like those at Lincoln's Inn. Graydon found himself wondering what the DP would say if he knew what his liaison officer was doing that night. Now MacLaren called through for him to change course. He re– peated the message, made the shift. "Vroom . . . vroom . vroom .. ," The motors hummed steadily. He- could dimly see waves breaking along the shoreline as he neared the Channel coast. There stood the White Cliffs. Ahead— darkness, ceilinged by dim stars, the untracked emptiness of limit- less space, And silence, save for that steady "vroom . vroom .. . vroom. MacLaren checked for drift, called through once more. A good navigator, Mac! As laconic in ac- tion as he was voluble in the mess. Graydon altered a full degree to starboard. He was missing the usual back -chat over the inter comm, the querulous crabbing of his former crew, who had been a talkative lot, These youngsters with him tonight were mute. He could feel how tense they were; knew it by their very silence. ENEMY COAST AHEAD! (Continued Next Week) to take a chance." de- fence and ll insurance betweencivil rawn throughout informational material issued by the Civil Defence Divi- sion of the Department of Nation- al Health and Welfare. It reite- rates, in all its publications, that since disaster is no respecter of persons or places, everyone must be prepared to meet any type of emergency, including enemy at- tack. Civil Defence is described as or- ganized preparedness, helping to minimize the effects of disaster, save lives and property, maintain production and sustain the coun- try's will to pull through and to fight back out of adversity. Preparedness Pays If Canada became involved in a war and wassubjected to hostile action, government officials feel that the enemy would be more in- terested in bombing unprepared communities than those where everybody was ready because, then, they could cause more cas- ualties and do far greater damage. So, the better prepared, the better a community's chances of escaping with little or no injury, "As a matter of fact," says. the government book, "our chances, according to the law of averages, are pretty good in any case, but they are far better if we take, ap- propriate. precautions". The book goes on to describe Gun Club President, Thomas Sherritt The Kippen Gun Club held its annual meeting in the club house following the first Wednesday shoot, May 13. 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