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A price must be paid for glory —in blood, sweat or téars | TU different Stamps! Giant collection from all over the world provides many hours of fun and_ interest. Includes 5 WINSTON CHURCHILL gold inscribed Commemoratives: Mauritius, Antigua, Barbados and other scarce colonies. MALAYSIA fine mint set of 5 Flowers Kelantan Trengganu, Johore. RWANDA magnificent POPE PAUL special issue, Many other fascinating and unusual items from all over the world. Grand total 111 all different stamps. Worth 5/9, yours for only 1/- to introduce tamous approval service. (Stamps sent for 14 days inspection Buy what you want, return the rest.) SEND COUPON WITH 1). TODAY OR WRITE ASKING FOR LOT P50 ENCLOSE VORUSH ME TIT aiferen 1 PLU LV amps "Senda Seleetion of Bargaln Approvals for fr 1a 6 VME Neste cece aa e ee ADDR OL Aen wes 5 Lot No, PSO | Please’ tei’ your parents you are ansivering this advert © Fleetway Publications Ltd., 1967 A A330 ‘THEY WERE FOUR UNITED ff STATES NAVY FLIERS, FOUR fy MEN WITH VARIED BACK- |GROUNDS AND DIFFERING CHARACTERS, BUT THEY |AD ONE THING IN COMMON, THEY WERE ALL Chapter 1. SAY LOOMIS | JAY LOOMIS CAME FROM ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ‘COLONEL CHARLES LOOMIS FOUGHT FOR THE CON OF GALLANT SOUTHERN STOCK ... FEDERATES (M THE CIVIL WAR, DYING GLORIOUSLY ~ B WHERE IN MOONIN’ OVER TARNATION’S YOUNG ‘THEM ANCESTORS JAY? OF HIS IN THE PICTURE GALL'RY, MISTOR LIEUTENANT COLLEY LOOMIS FLEW A FIGHTER WND YOUNG JAY LOOMIS LIVED FOR THE IN THE AIR BATTLES OF WORLD WAR ONE... DAY WHEN HE COULD CLAIM HIS SHARE OF ‘THE FAMILY GLORY HUNS, IT'S THE SAME TO ME! EARLY IN 1941, WITH THE WAR CLCUDS GATHERING OVER THE PACIFIC, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD JAY LOOMIS VOLUNTEERED EAGERLY FOR THE UNITSD STATES NAVY... = — = AREN'T YOU KINDA JUMPING THE GUN, JAY? THEWAR HASN'T STARTED MAYBE NOT, BUT I WANT TO BE THERE WHEN ‘THEY HAND THE 6 SNAP THOSE HEELS DOWN, MEN! ‘YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO WALK BEFORE YOU CAN RUN! THE INITIAL TRAINING CAMP AT PENSACOLA, WITH ITS DULL ROUTINE OF ARMS DRILL, GALLED THE HIGH-SPIRITED SOUTHERNER ... WRONG OUTFIT! WHO'S AIMING TO RUN? FLYING TRAINING, WHICH STARTED SOON, WAS MORE ITO THE QUICK-WITTED JAY'S LIKING. BUT HE SOON |GOT IMPATIENT AT THE SLOW PACE OF INSTRUCTION. DON'T BE SO DARN EAGER, LOOMIS! ‘YOU JUST TRY THOSE BANKING TURNS ‘ANONTH LATER, PASSING THE STATION COMMANDER'S HUT, JAY OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION ... YOU MEAN) ‘THESE CADETS ARE TO BE TAKEN OFF FLIGHT TRAINING, 'M SORRY, COMMANDER, BUT WE JUST HAVEN'T GOT THE AIRCRAFT FOR THEM TO FLY! IF THEY WERE SKILLED PILOTS JAY CARRIED THE NEWS TO ‘THE CADETS’ QUARTERS... HEY, FELLERS! WE'RE WAS A TALL LEAN TEXAN . +6 ‘THE CADET WHO STEPPED FORWARD THEN, 8 JAY LOOMIS JOINED THE THREE OTHER CADETS, ZACH BRENNAN, BILLY TUCKER, AND OSCAR HAYS... T THOUGHT | WAS THE ONLY GLORY BOY IN THE DRAFT... BUT THAT MAKES FOUR OF US, ZACH! J ‘THE FOUR CADETS SLIPPED OUT OF THE MESS HUT AND MADE FOR THE HANGARS. ‘THERE WERE SEVERAL NORTH-AMERICAN TEXAN TRAINERS PARKED ON THE APRON. HLL SEND YOU ‘THAT ORDER TOMORROW, COMMANDER! YOU CAN TRANSFER ‘THOSE CADETS OF YOURS ‘THE DAY AFTER! FELLERS, THESE KITES HAVE GOT GAS IN THEM... FIVE NINUTES LATER, AS THE ADMIRAL WAS CROSSING THE FIELD IN HIS CAR, THE GROWL OF AERO ENGINES DREW HIS GAZE SKYWARDS ... 7 \ THOUGHT YOU'D SUSPENDED FLYING FOR THE DAY, COMMANDER? THE FOUR TEXANS DIVED OUT OF THE SKY FROM DEAD AHEAD, BLARING OVER THE ADMIRAL'S CAR WITH A SHATTERING ROAR FROM THEIR WASP RADIALS.... 10 ‘THE STATION COMMANDER MAS IN A TOERING RAGE, BUT THE ADMIRAL’S LEATHERY FACE WAS CREASED IN A GRIN... IF THOSE ARE KY CADETS UP THERE, I'LL BREAK THEM ! HAVE THEY GONE CRAZY? THEY WERE SHOWING ME JUST HOW WELL THEY CAN FLY! ’D SAY NOT, COMMANDER ...

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