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1945
1945 - 0597.PDF
GEL Bestowed on the Air Command: Jiper Cubs ma 4 Two's company on the return flight withwounded over the inhospitable Burmese jungle, but the Stinson's 175 h.p. " flat-six '' Lycoming engine can be trusted. FLYING out daily to forward areas in thejungles of Burma, the Stinson Sentinelsand Piper Cubs of Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer's Allied Eastern Air Command carry out a varied list of assignments including that of bringing wounded and sick men away from the front. It was, in fact, a wounded American soldier evacuated safely by one of the sergeant- pilots of these sturdy, adaptable little aircraft who nicknamed them "jungle angels." On their outward trips they carry food, mail, blood plasma, messages, ammunition and medi- cal supplies, landing on and taking off from hastily cut, rough airstrips. They also act as artillery spotters, observe enemy troop move- ments, and transport staff officers and technicians between the bases and the front line. Often they have to fly at night, navigating to some little airstrip hidden among the mountains when Jeep headlights provide the " flare path," and recently two Cubs flew mechanics out to a crash-landed P-47 in a rice field and salvaged $15,000 worth of its equipment—guns, instru- ments and radio. tcher-bearers to the reception; casualty clearing station. rrival at the casualty clearingten to a base hospital. airstrip while the stretcher-l. The lives of many badly se " jungle angels "
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