Lt. Col. Arnold
Responsible For
42nd Squadron
(Editor's Note:—Hero-pilrfts of
the b:g Alaskan 'ransport planes
and how the trails they blazed
help ^ the Army retake Attn
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In Accordance With Chapter 38.
Session Laws of Alaska. 1943
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By CARRIE M. McLAIN. School
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cinity.
and Kiska are described in this,
the third of a series of four arti
cles on the 52nd Troop Carrier
Squadron, which recently re'urn
ed to the U. S. afier two years
in Alaska. See the final article
in Monday’s issue of The Nugget,
for the story on flying in the
Aleutians today.)
By CPL. TOM LOVE
i
(lllh AAF Correspondent)
HEADQUARTTRS. ll’h AAF
SERVICE • COMMAND — Most
resDons ble for the full use of <no
radio ranges and instrument fly
ing in the Aleutians was a young
looking lieutenant Colonel by the
name of. Patrick R. Arnold, of
San Antonio, Tex., who had
come to Alaska in February, 1941,
with a fighter uni’ and later be
came commanding officer of the
troop carrier group.
Col. Arnold overcame the nat
ural aversion of his p lots to fly
ing when low ceilings greatly re
stricted visibility by himself tak
ing off in bad weather, flying on
instruments all the way and prov
ing to his men that it was not as
hard as it looked.
Lt. Col. Louis B. Grossmith, of
Oakland. Calif., who later took
over Col. Arnold’s job as com
manding officer of the troop car
rier group ‘and who is at present
commanding officer of a troop
carrier unit in Alaska) describes
a typical Arnold day during the
Jap occupation of Attu and Kis
ka.
‘‘Col. Arnold would arrive in
his jeep at Elmendorf Field around
midnight just when the far-north
e’-n sun was finally set. He a"r’
his crew would take off for Adak
and arrive there early in the
mortiing. Af*er rummaging
around the windy island for an
early breakfast, the colonel would
make personal calls at the hut
ments of his transport pilots. He
seldom lost much time in getting
his men out, regardless of wind
and fog, and shor’ly transpor*
planes would be roaring off in all
directions. It was the colonel’s
theory that we had a lot of fly
ing to do before the Japs were
rooted out, and the weather could
and must be licked.
‘‘I think Alaskan flyers give
Col. Arnold full credit today,”
Col. Grossmith said. ‘‘By his ex
ample, he transformed the pilots
from contact flyers to instrument
flyers, and this is the saving fac
tor in flying in this theater of
operations today.”
The Army was now getting
ready to take back Attu and Kis
ka. A task force pulled west
from Adak and landed at Am
chitka, and once again, the engi
neers went through the tortorous
task of putting in the landing
field first and thinking of them
selves later. Kiska was now a
mere matter of 65 miles west, and
transports of the 42nd landing on
the steel mats of the new strip on
Amehitka began to think serious
ly about Jap bullets and bombs.
Attu was taken, and our engi
neers found the Jap runway still
unfinished although the Japs had
been working on it for the better
part of a year. Our aviation en
gineers blasted a runway out of
Attu’s volcanic rock in precisely
two weeks, and a transport of the
42nd was the first to land.
One of the heroes of the 42nd
turned up during this period. He
was Cap*. Miles A. Werner, son of
Wade Werner, veteran Associated
Press war correspondent, and he
had joined the 42nd prior to
Dutch Harbor.
“He was just a green kid,” Capt.
Scavenius recalls, "but he had
the most amazing energy of any
one I ever saw. In two months
from the day he arrived, he was,
one of the best pilots in the squad
ron. Next thing we knew, he
was studying Russian. After a
twelve-hour trip down the chain,
he’d flop down on a cot in our
Quonsct hut, wi*h the wind howl
ing like a dervish outside, and
he’d conjugate Russian verbs.
Then he took up the accordian.
He had bought a second-hand one
in Anchorage, and in between the
J
verb conjugations, he played songs
for us.
His last hobby proved fatal. He
loved P-38’s and couldn't resist
zooming around Amchitka when
he got the chance. One day. he
volunteered to fly down to Kiska
with a squadron of fighters to
shoot up the Jap gun positions a
bit. We never saw him again.
The troops that occupied Kiska
months later found his body and
the wreckage of his plane lying
just where they fell.”
The squadron has its heroine
too. During the Attu campaign,
an air exacuation unit was at
tached to the group, and planes
of the 42nd converted to hospital
planes transported wounded back
to base hospitals. An Army nurse
accompanied each of these mis-'
sions. While enroute to pick up
wounded, one of the transports
crashed near Naknek, and 2nd Lt.
Ruth M. Gardiner was killed in
stantly.
To symbolize the high courage
of these flying nurses, the Army
recently named a new hospital
for Lt. Gardiner. This marks the
first time an Army hospital has
been named in honor of a woman.
(To be Continued*
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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON—That ‘‘Oh my.
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other name was Wendell L. Will
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Men have been nominated and
even elected to office on “write
in’- votes, but not often. The rea
sons are simple. If a voter’s can
didate isn"‘ on the ticket, the vo
ter thinks “What's the use?” Anl
stays away from the polls. I: f he
does go, he frequently doesn't
know how to write in his candi
date, or even ‘hat he has the priv
ilege of doing so.
The fact that Dewey, who was
just a ghost so far as the Nebras
ka ballo* was concerned, piled up
almost half as many votes as the
popular, young former governor
. of Minnesota, who, according to
the ballot, was virtually unoppos
ed, was enough to make the pol
iticos gasp.
Following Dewey's overwhelm
ing victory in the Wisconsin pri
maries, and thjfc announcement
that 92 of New York’s 93 Repub
lican delegates would be for him
at the outset, Dewey’s preconven
tion stock is soaring.
Students of the political scene
point to two important factors:
<D The Republican convention is
only two months away and unless
Dewey misplays his hand, or op
ponents within the party trump
with some card that isn’t known
to be in the deck now, the New
York governor will go to Chicago
in June with tricks to spare. Time
is important in politics. Many a
bandwagon has started rolling foo
soon and found itself behind the
caliope when the big show began.
Dewey opponents are going to
have to hustle if they want to
stop him in e ght weeks.
'2' Nebraska voters are notor
iously as independent as that
fabled hog on ice and thus may
be a better cross-section of vot
ing trends than many other states
would be. Nebraska is consider
ed normally Republican, but it
has jumped the traces a number
of times. For 30 years, it sent
to the Senate that great indepen
dent, George W. Norris, who was
always identified more with is
sues than party alignments. Dis
regarding sentiment, the Nebras
ka voters deserted the aging Sen.
Norris in 1942 and elected a Re
publican. The state's entire Con
gressional delegation is now Re
publican.
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