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YANIVS CUURAGE CHARLES CARTER NAWARDED FOR meritorious service. . . . meritorious. Those words echoed through his head. Bob Keith could not believe what had happened to him in the past three months. His thoughts wandered back to a cloudy day, May, 1944. The sky was overcast above the English Channel and the steady hum of the motors was the only comforting thing. The crew of Blue Boy a B-17 bomber were ex- cited and nervous This was the first combat mission for most of them They all loved their new plane and they bragqed about it like a bunch of grown up kids They relied on each other from the pilot down to the waist gunner He was a strange character that waist gunner His name was Sgt Robert Keith of New York An ex playboy who used to throw money away while others strove to get it He was tall lanky and had the face of a High School Senior To the other fellows he was just another guy with the same courage as the rest of them In his heart he was scared Sure so were the rest of them but he was scared m a different way Afraid of a lot of things that other people would call In the lme of duty I dont know why he chose the Air Force Maybe he thought he would become a somebody or come home a hero or a thousand and one other ideas He found it wasnt as easy as that and he would jump at the first opportunity to transfer or maybe even go over the hill A voice broke the silence of the intercom It was Sandy the pilot We should be running into the Ierrys pretty soon all gunners had better recheck their guns No sooner had he stopped talking than a sharp voice buzzed over the intercom Enemy fighters diving at two o'clock. The ship lighted up with excitement, with all guns blazing at the planes overhead. The opposition was too great and in a few minutes they had the rear control surface shot to shreds. They got Emie, the tall gunner, in the first couple of bursts. Emergency hatches were immediately opened as the gallant Blue Boy dipped his nose towards the fields of France far below Then it came A thlng a flyer hates to do The order to bail out No one actually fears this moment until it comes Thoughts scurned through Bobs head He would have to jump or go down with the plane Cold sweat rolled down his neck as he fastened his chute straps around hs legs He closed his eyes waited a moment then plummeted down down through space How the chute ever opened st111 remains a mystery Part of the operung mechanism was shot away Almost immediately tne Ierrys started firing short bursts of ammuntlon at the large silk canopys over the heads of the doomed men Common sense made him play dead but the others didnt have to act Thmkmg they had killed all the planes headed back to join in the slaughtering of the rest of the squad ron Bob hit the ground with a jolt and was sent sprawling Then every thing tumed black 'EQ' wr-'Ks -f ig. 18 1 1 I I . . I I ' 1 . , I . . . - 1 , 1 1 . I I 1 1 1 . . . I 1 1 . . , 4 I I - I I 1 1 1 I I I 1 1 1 1 . . 1 . . 1 . . , I 5 I I I 1 L I I I ' I . 1 . 1 I- - 11 - 1 - . . . 1 - 1 I ' - I I I I - 1 I I U I I I ' 1 1 ' . ..,. , . F . ' - . . 1 ',' ' ' . . :::,:..1'1,k.' I I .3' . A 0, - 5 .5 'ff '- . 1' . . , .c- tt . . iixgij Q - . , - xx ' , gg... - . .ca . . . Q , - 11 3 .1 .. . , - -, I .m 3 . , Q: ,at--'.. me I ff 'fp I - -. .-
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