The Freedom Call (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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THE FREEDOM CALL 'FREEDOM OKLAHOMA '
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CHAPTER IV
- It took them thirty minutes to find
out that the mere fact that I was
traveling in a car with a Western
license plate didn't make me Pretty
Boy Floyd who they said was on
the prowl in that area I finally
had to telephone the Commanding
Officer of Mitchel Field and as he
didn't know me all he could say was
that an officer by the name of Lieu-
tenant Scott was supposed to be on
the way to Mitchel from Kelly Any-
way I still don't think I looked—
even then—like Pretty Boy Floyd
My arrival at my new station was
the start of a hectic time for the
Air Corps First I began totry to
work in some flying time by volun-
teering for every flight I could get
I had an especially good break when
I got on the Department of Com-
merce weather flights I used to
have to get up at two o'clock in
the morning and take off—no mat-
ter what the weather was — at
4
2:45 a m
On one of these I found myself in
quite a bit of trouble As soon as I
took off I went on to instrument fly-
ing and climbed up through the
heavy clouds in the Curtis § Falcon
—known then as an 0-39 Out to
the side fastened to the "N" struts'
I could dimly see the barometro
graph which was to record the
changing weather as we climbed to
as high as the ship would go It
was necessary to climb at a con-
stant three hundred feet a minute
which in several thousand feet be-
came fairly monotonous I finally
adjusted the stabilizer so that the
ship would climb this altitude and
then all I had to do was to keep the
wings straight and level with the
turn and bank indicator and the
course tonstant with the gyro
That afternoon I looked at the
graph paper of the barometer re-
' cording and there were two little
Jagged lines plainly showing where
the ship had lost nearly four thou-
sand feet in two spins
The weather flights got pretty mo-
notonous and I would take off from
Mitchell and fly up over Boston
then let back down to my home
base Finally the meteorologist
caught on and told me to please
stay over the area as he had other
weather ships taking the same read-
ings over Boston
These flights taught me enough to
save my life when the Army took
over the airmail contracts a little
later in the year
If you remember 1934—there was
trouble between the Government
and the air lines concerning airmail
contracts To me even this was
a life-saver in securing flyingtime
for all of us had recently been or-
dered to fly no more than four
hours a month This was the bare
minimum to receive flying pay and
as it turned out for many the best
way to get killed in airplanes It's
still a game that takes practice
The weather we flew in to carry
the mail during the winter of 1934
was about the worst in history I
sometimes think the powers on high
collaborated to give us a supreme
test 1 There were fourteen pilots
killed along that airmail run and
most of them were killed because we
had no instruments for the ships or
at least not the proper type for fly-
ing blind We flew pursuit ships
which carried fifty-five pounds of
mail we flew old 13-8 bombers that
would carry a ton of mail at a
speed of eighty miles an hour pro-
viding the wind in front of you
wasn't too strong—sometimes they
almost went backwards We flew
everything from a Curtiss Condor
to the old tri-motored Fords And we
flew through the worst weather in
the country
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CO1PELED
Col Robert IScott ' WRV R
The story thus far: After many nip
linecessful attempts Scott finally makes
West Point and in the summer of 1932
after being graduated and commissioned
as a second lieutenant of infantry goes to
Europe which be tours on a motorcycle
Ile is happy when be finally arrives at
Randolph Field Texas and becomes an
air cadet for to fly has been his ille's
dream He is graduated from Rely field
and has some wings pinned on his chest
Be is now an army pilot Then come
orders to report in Hawaii' which leave
Scott pretty blue as he wanted to get
married to a girl in Georgia to whose
home he had driven over 84000 miles
while on week-end trips from Texas He
tells the General about his plight
The route that I flew from Chica-
go to Cleveland to Newark was
what was known to all airmail pilots
as the "Hell Stretch"—and it was
Just that as I found out pretty
quickly
Sometimes people on new Jobs got
mixed up and sent the Cleveland
mail in the wrong direction from
Chicago towards Omaha or sent
the Chicago mail from Cleveland
to New York the reverse direction
—just normal events amid the
"growing pains" of an Army flying
the mall
INNV RELEASE '
Once the control officer finally got
a man in the air after sweating the
weather out to the West for days
I saw his ship take off and disap-
pear in the snowstorm Then I saw
Sam Harris jump up for the U S
mall truck had just driven up It
was late and in the excitement of
getting the ship's clearance the ea-
ger pilot had forgotten to wait to
have the mail loaded: The control
officer had to call him back and
start all over
About that time when men had
begun to die on airmail I wrote a
letter to this girl the same one I
had been going to see by automo-
bile from Texas It was addressed
to her in case the "old ship hit some
'Col Robert L Scott Jr author of
"God Is My Co-Pilot"
thing" and I carried it around in
my pocket during all my trips of
airmail—I nearly wore it out just
carrying it But the ship didn't hit
anything and she didn't see it In it
must have just asked her to mar-
ry me—that's all I used to ask her
anyway -
One night I took off from Chicago
and came to Cleveland They
couldn't find the man who was sup-
posed to take the mail on to New-
ark I found out later that he was
sick So I talked them into letting
me take the ship on East I climbed
In and headed out towards the bad
weather When I got to it follow-
ing the experience I had gained in
the months before and the advice
I had received from the airline pi-
lots I climbed instead of diving
to hunt for a way through At
18000 feet I came out and over the
clouds I was alone for as far as
you could see There were stars
and a moon and down below were
the swirling clouds over the Alle-
ghenies dropping their snow ' and
ice If I had turned back towards
Cleveland I would have had to let
down in the dark and probably would
have crashed So I decided to head
into the clear sky of the night at
18000 feet and as the dawn came
the next morning I started my let-
down for at least I would have light
in which to make the landing
My radio had not worked since I
had got into the snow and ice so I
was flying merely by dead-reckoning
I let down somewhere over
what I thought was northern Penn-
sylvania but after buzzing the town
and reading the name found I was
over Binghamton New York I flew
on South having remembered a field
at Scranton Pennsylvania and
there I landed
The landing was quite an experi-
ence As I dove over the field I
saw workmen there frantically wav-
ing their arms They were repair-
ing the field But I was about out
of gasoline so I came in motioning
with my hand for them to get out
of the way The only damage was
caused by my landing on one of
the small red flags on a stick that
one of the workmen had been wav-
ing—he had hurriedly stuck it in
the ground when he saw me land-
ing regardless and I came down
right on top of it ' but the small
tear was of no consequence I re-
paired it had coffee with the man
in charge of the airfield and went
on toward Newark
They had long ago given me up for
lost for in that same night two oth-
er army pilots had met their death
over the Alleghenies Once again I
felt that something had told me to
climb when I got to the bad weather
and if that same thing had told those
men to climb they would have flown
through instead of going down—they
might have disregarded a warning
In a case like that we think it's
luck but maybe it's not To me
something had said "Get altitude
don't roam around down here get
altitude and go on" And I think
that after that things just took care
of themselves
With airmail over we went back
to our usual duties at Mitchel Fleid
Things sort of settled down and
to make more flights and
more automobile trips towards
Georgia
Finally I talked the girl into it
We went on up to West Point and
were married Catharine really fits
into this story because it was the
trips over to Georgia to see her
from every place in the United
States that not only made me drive
an automobile but taught me cross-
country flying -since I had been fly-
ing in these later months fronn wher-
ever I was—by way of Georgia
From Mitchel Field I was sent
to Panama And then began my
real pursuit training In P12's I
roamed across the country of Pana-
ma up into Central America and
down into South America I was
given a Job constructing flying fields
which we figured would some day
protect the Canal These fields were
put in for the purpose of installing
radio stations and also air warning
devices to tell us when enemy
planes approached the Panama Ca-
nal I would have to 'go down on
the Colombian border and contact
the natives some of whom were
head-hunters to work on these fields
that we were building We would
have to get the grass cut off and I
would make motions with a machete
—the long knife of the Darien In-
dians—and show them what we had
to do to keep that field so that air-
planes could land on it
The natives didn't work very well
with us at first But we doctored a
few of them for chiggers and for
other infections under their finger-
nails which had become very in-
flamed or we flew men in to hos-
pitals who needed operations and
soon they began to appear more
friendly By the time we left there
they were calling me "El Doctor"
When my training of other pilots
began I realized the terror I Must
have caused my own instroctoi For
in training I perceived my own
faults better learning even to an-
ticipate the mistakes the student
would make And I learned much
about the peculiarities of man for
on one occasion I had a student
who attempted to kill me I don't
know why—he would have killed
himself too
One day I Was told to take out a
cadet listed as an incorrigible vend
to try to find out what was wrong
with him I gave him forced land-
ings and such and when he tried to
glide down and land on a highway
I would take the ship and caution
him about gliding low towards
trucks and automobiles On one of
these tries as I gave him a forced
landing—you do this merely bycut-
ting the throttle to idling speed to
see what the student will do—he
rolled the ship on its back and pulled
it down in a dive towards the
ground I waited as long as I could
and then I took it away myself I
found that the man was glaring
straight toward the trees we had
almost hit I landed the ship and
asked him what was the matter
He appeared very sullen and so I
took him aloft again -
Once more I put the ship on its
back and told him to bring it out
Immediately he pulled it toward the
ground and I knew it was intention-
al With alarm I realized that with
him almost frozen to the controls
I would have extreme difficulty tak-
ing the ship from him by force I
hurriedly kicked the right rudder
which carried the half roll into a
complete snap roll Then I wer$
through every acrobatic maneuver
I knew until I made him sick after
that I flew him back to Randolph
Field with my own heart beating a
little wildly
As I landed the ship two men
stepped from behind a plane ask-
ing to see the student- "You just
wait a minute" I said "After all
Le's my student and I have some
things to say to him" Then they
pulled gold badges out of their pock-
ets to show me they were FBI
men They had been looking for
this student for a long time He
had been a pilot before and had
smuggled dope across the Mexican
border and I believe to this day
that to evade the arrest that was
waiting for him he was trying to
end it all But the worry I had here
was that in ending it for himself
he would have been ending it for me
When I first came to Randolph we
worked only half a day and had the
rest of the day to play around at
golf to hunt or do anything we
wanted But as the belief that war
was coming got into a few American
people we started the limited Air
Corps expansion program We then
began working all day and I was
moved up to a Flight Commander
and taught instructors for the Gov-
ernment was giving contracts to ci-
vilian corporations to train Army
pilots The Air Corps was begin-
ning to grow As the years rolled
into 1939 I was moved to California
to become Assistant District Super-
visor of the West Coast Training
Center This job was to check all
flying cadets in the three schools
at San Diego Glendale and Santa
Maria Later on I received my first
command—that of the Air Corps
Training Detachment called Cai
Aero Academy at Ontario Cal
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' Lesson for December 31
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se-
lected and copyrighted by International
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Permission
THE BASIS OF COURAGE FOR
THE FUTURE
—
LESSON TEXT—Matthew 16:13-20 II Pe-
ter 3:14-18 I John 3:1-3
GOLDEN TEXT—Wherefore my beloved
brethren be ye steadfast unmovable al-
ways abounding in the work of the Lord
forasmuch as ye know that your labor is
not vain in the Lord--I Corinthians 15:58
A significant yeai-1944 But now it
is gone We look into the future and
ask ourselves what next? Shall we
enter the new year with fear and
trembling or may we face it with
courage?
If man's knowledge and dependa-
bility are all we have to stand on
we had better be afraid but there is
a real basis for courage and assur-
ance if we look to God and to His
Word We have:
An Unfailing Christ (Matt 16:
13-20)
It is not enough that men recog-
nize Christ as a teacher a moral
leader or a man willing to die for
His convictions He must be more if
He is to deliver mankind and thank
God He is more
Peter speaking by the guidance
of God declared Jesus to be "the
Christ the Son of the living God"
This Christ the unfailing One
established a victorious Church
built on the acceptance of Him as
God That Church marches on into
1945 as it has entered every 'other
year assured that as it follovls
Christ and preaches God's Word
there is reason for encouragement
and joy even in this awful day
An Uplifting Faith (II Pet
3 :14-18)
Christianity is not just a set of
rules and regulations It is a life
It must grow and it does grow The
really born-again believer cannot
stand still in his spiritual experi-
ence He has a faith which must
move him forward and upward for
the glory of God -
This experience is called growing
In grace which means that each day
of this new yearwe as believers are
to become more like our Lord We
are to have stronger convictions
and at the same time we are to be
kinder and more"' loving We are
to be more forgiving tenderer
more eager to serve Christ
Christian have you made any
spiritual progress in the year 1944?
If not it is because you have failed
to take God's provision for your life
You have let the enemies of your
soul mislead you (v 17) You have
not been diligent in your Christian
life (v 14)
God does not want any believer to
live a defeated life not growing in
grace and in knowledgeAnd there
is the secret—study God's Word in
1945 Learn more about God and
you will grow That's something to
look forward to
Then note that this is to be in
the light of the promised return of
Christ (v 14) He may come in 1945
An Inspiring Hope (I John
3:1-3)
We have already touched on the
great hope of the Church—the com-
ing again of our Lord Jesus 'and
here it is presented as the inspira-
tion to holy living
Sometimes the world points a fin-
ger of scorn at Christians ex-
posing their wealmesses and fail
urea It makes us ashamed and
we resolve to do better but we are
not discouraged The world doesn't
understand spiritual truth or Chris-
tian experience We believers are
"the children of God" born again
through faith in Jesus Christ
All that is involved in this new
life does not yet appear It is hid-
den under the imperfections and the
failures of our lives But it is there
and one day when Jesus comes
again it shall be made known "We
shall be like him" Ah that makes
one square his shoulders and lift
up his head to meet 1945 with as-
surance Observe that this hope of Christ's
return is not just a theological doc-
trine to discuss or a religious slo-
gan to proclaim It has a tre-
mendously practical application
The one who expects Christ to come
back seeks that holiness of life
which is spoken of in verse 3
He is coming I must be ready to
meet Him with joy So my life—yes
the details of my daily life—must be
right -
Well he-re is real courage with
which to meet the new'year May it
be a blessed one in your life no
matter what the experiences and cir-
cumstances may be God is in the
new year Let us move forward
with Him
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