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Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 6

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Honolulu, Hawaii
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have seen the pilot get outbut Honolulu Siar-BalUtln, Mondatf, 'August 23, 1943rZUninr 7a Tnll where are all the troops?" The 420 miles an hour which the IllJJlliV VII His Experiences British Expert Praises U. S. Thunderbolt Thunderbolt develops in level flight wtm MA WAirS YS make it "certainly the fastest air plane ever to have a radial engine," As Jap Prisoner Republic designers. "They are both powerful and light and, in consequence, the rat of roll of the Thunderbolt compares well with that of any other fighter flying today an important point. "The Thunderbolt becomes airborne with full load at about 100 after a run of about 200 yards with flaps slightly down.

When coming in to land the approach is made at about 120 m.pJi. and the machine sits down at just according to Masefield. and "as a destroyer of high-flying enemy bombers between 25.000 and 35,000 The swift decline of the Philip NEW YORK. ftP) The Republic mm feet the P-47CL-is supreme." SMEIBV pines from a rising power in the P-47 Thunderbolt, newest fighter plane to appear in service over Pacific to a Japanese prison farm with 16,000,000 inmates will be de BdrtellGets Scroll scribed from KGMB at 7:45 to Europe, is supreme "as a destroyer of high-flying enemy bombers between 25.000 and 35,000 feet, a By JOHN TERRY won 12 out -of 13 games." He told us that Richard Chinen over 100 m.p.h. Once on the ground (Not: This Is one of series night by a Luzon native rescued from a Jap fishing boat in the South Pacific by the crew of an American British expert said today.

it remains firmly put and. because of articles en the work, play and of Honolulu, one of the cleverest NEW YORK, Aug. 23. (U.R Dick Bartell of the New York Giants, who played his 2.000th big league game in the Chicago-New York Peter Masefield, British aviation conduct of Hawaii's youths of the of the wide-track landing gear, is easy to control there." vessel. technician, found in an analysis .1 4Znd combat team at Camp Shel Safe on Oahu after 14 months by.

Miss. This is a croup of opener Sunday, was presented British fliers have been aston under the Japs in Manila, the speak scroll by Frank Mitchel on behalf of the war saving staff, his war lightweights Hawaii ever produced, is coaching the boxing team. Some of the boxers are Kenji Nobori and Henry Oshiro of Honolulu, Wallace Nagao of Kauai and R. Chinero of Hilo. all former title-holders in the islands.

A few minutes from the hutment area by jeep brought us to an area er will discuss the changeover as Jose De La Cruz, an assumed name adopted to safeguard from reprisals his relatives still under ished at the great size of the Thunderbolt, Masefield wrote. An RAF squadron leader, hanging about expectantly after he saw the pilot dismount from a P-47. asked: "I of the American plane, appearing in Flying magazine, that the Thunderbolt both outguns and outdives the Germans formidable Focke-Wulf MW-190 fighter, but would do well to avoid fast-climbing planes like the the Japanese Zero in dogfights at medium alti-i bond league sponsor, and also with a bond from the boys in the press box. American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Because of the controversy over Japanese in the relocation camps and elsewhere.

The Star-Bulletin arranged for Mr. Terry, a member of this newspaper's Washington bureau, to go to Camp Shelby and write about the AJAs there.) THE 442nd AT THEIR CAMP HOME tudes. Masefield's critical study of the P-47 reported that: enemy rule in the Philippines. Life changed abruptly for Jose and millions like him. Once citizens of a nation approaching independence, the Filipinos found themselves charges of a warped master from the north who looted their homes, closed their banks and schools and ruled by hangman and firing- squad.

1. Its extraordinary diving speed where men of the 232nd engineering company were working on a camouflage net. In the group were Richard Matsumoto of 503 Kaiwiula St, Honolulu, squad leader and formerly a draftsman with C. W. Dickey; Private Hitoshi Inouye, Honolulu; approaching the speed, of sxund CAMP SHELBY, Aue.

10 This is the home, temporarily, of is due to its great weight and enables it to break off combat at will. The weight, however, reduces its rate of climb. xn 4zna comDat team, that remarkable United States army unit Squads of Jap soldiers ransacked the island homes of foodstuffs. Private Mike Otaka, also of Honolulu; Private Toshimi Kato of Wai-luku, Maui, and Private Kosuke 2. In maneuver its rate of roll clothing and radios.

Jose witnessed wnose membership is composed of American citi- Jr mwm is "excellent, tnough its turning circle is rather wide. the seizure of students at a girls' Yamashiro of College. Walk, Honolulu, bugler. school and their disappearance from zens of Japanese 3. Its eight machine guns have hitting power of 2,268 muzzle the locahty.

Mike Otaka is married and has a i- ancestry, the ma The Iirst reign or terror over the son whom he has not seen. Mike horsepower, 28 per cent greater than that of the FW-190. volunteered for combat duty shortly Filipinos settled down to an existence of submission or death. Those frit before the birth of his boy. 4.

Wide fuselage, relative position resisting suffered the punishment Capt. Pershing Nakada, a main of wing and cockpit, and large radial cowling restrict the pilot's jority of them from Hawaii. Camp Shelby, itself an enor-mous establishment, lies on a Cat. pine dotted plain that stretches across the lower part of which has singularized Japanese occupations from early days in China to the islands near Australia. land AJA, is the commanding offi view.

cer of the 232nd engineers. "Of all controls, Masefield found. "the ailerons stand out for their brilliance a great tribute to the Filipinos who had scorned the "coprosperity sphere" as a madman's fantasy found themselves its first victims. Jose's rescue at sea and the 14 Tve got a smart lot of men in my company," he said. "They're rigfit on their toes." mm Nearby were more men from the jm Mm.

Mississippi south Mr. Terry islands, under command of Lt. Wal to the Gulf of Mexico. Dawn was just breaking when ter Matsumoto of 838 Lukepane we arrived here this morning and got our first view of the place Honolulu. He commands the first platoon of the engineering company, and is company transportation terror-stricken months before have left him stunned with disbelief of his own fortune and pity for those behind him in the Philippines.

He speaks of Luzon in nervous tones, as if trying to link the fragments of a nightmare into a comprehensible report en the tragedy of Manila. "When organized resistance end where boys from Oahu, Maui, Mo lokai, Lanai, the Biz Island and officer. Kauai are living and undergoing training for combat service. We" arrived after an 18 mile auto 4 mobile trip from the neighboring town of Hattiesburg, accompanied Walter, a graduate of the University of Hawaii, won his commission in 1936, while in the university. Prior to the war, he was an engineer in the city-county bureau of plans, under Walter Mowrey.

Back in Honolulu Walter has a rung. It was Earl Kubo, formerly of the Honolulu police department. "He scored 25 consecutive bulls-eyes at 200 yards on the range," Murakami said. "That's the best anybody in the 442nd has done." Kubo Is attached to the service company at regimental headquarters. He says he likes army life.

Almost without exception, the war and army life has given Hawaii's AJA's their first sight of territory outside the islands. Earl is one of the exceptions. In 1938, while on the Honolulu police force, he brought two prisoners to the mainland. NEXT: Tackling Tough Problems of the War. ed, we began the long hard wait for the Americans," he says.

"We knew it was impossible to free our by Col. Charles W. Pence, com manding officer of the 442nd com selves without help, so we passive bat team, and MaJ. Oland Russell, ly resisted, working only when the public relations officer. During the Jap boss was there, always hating Over 21 Years of Age automobile ride, Col.

Pence gave wife and a son, age 16 months. They will be interested to know that he the invader. us our first authentic information looks perfectly fit, thinks his 'You who have never lived under about the combat team from one platoon is the best in the army, and Jap rule don't know how thankful you should be. You should pray to God daily for the strength, to shares the high spirits of his men. mm We piled back into our jeep.

The of its own members. "They are doing well. They're doing fine, the colonel said. "Their spirit la tops, and they are learning fast. The heat bothered the Hawaii boys at first." mm defend your freedom." driver was Private Archie Mura kami of Honomu plantation.

He is a graduate of Hilo high school. As time went along we were to learn that Col. Pence has pride in the men he commands, and, even though much training lies ahead and ultimately the experience of Registration al Waipahu High School for the school year 1943-1944 will be from Wednesday, August 25, to Friday, August 27, between the hours of 8:00 a. m. to 4:00 p.

m. All students are requested to follow the schedule listed below and to bring their identification cards and book rental fees when they report for registration. Eighth and ninth graders report tc the Waipahu High. School Annex on September 1 for registration at 8 o'clock. Nearby we found a group of men receiving instruction in stringing barbed wire.

They were working under the eyes of Lt. Gregory Ikeda of 1040 Kinau Honolulu. Gregory was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1939 when he was with the ROTC vnlt at the University of Hawaii. He has come a long way from battle, he already has faith in the combat record they will establish in the future. The day's activities were just get ting under way when we arrived Honolulu, both in miles and in his Seniors 8:00 to 11:30 o'clock 25 activities.

Not so long ago he was We Pay WAGE SCALE 9 U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION wm in clerical work. Now he is the confident commanding officer of the ammunition and pioneer platoon of the 2nd battalion of the 442nd infantry regiment. 'One thing about my platoon, he juniors (A to 12:30 to 4:00 o'clock August 25 Juniors (N to Z) 8:00 to.

11:30 o'clock. 26 Sophomores (A to M) 12:30 to 4:00 o'clock August 26 Sophomores (N to Z) 8:00 to 11:30 o'clock August 27 said. "They are very willing. They learn fast. The heat bothers them some.

But their morale is high. They are a fine bunch of men." at the hutments of the 442nd inside the boundaries of Shelby. Reveille had sounded, and the men were on their way to their mess halls for breakfast, at 6:30 a. m. After breakfast and until 7:30, the men's time Is their own their own, tSat Is, if there is any left after they have made their cots and straightened up their hutments.

At 7:30 they begin drilling, and keep it up until 11:30. Lunch is at 11:45. Drill resumes at 12:45 p. m. and continues to 4:45, when the men clean their rifles, care for any other equipment they have used, and prepare for retreat.

mm With payment of respect to the colors at retreat at 5:30, the day's work normally ends. Supper is served at 5:45. Nearly three hours of summer daylight remains for outdoor sports. Lights in the hutments go out at 9 p. but in each company's "day room." or clubhouse, lights are permitted until 11 p.

m. mum Back at combat team headquar ters a familiar figure came out from one of the buildings. 'Remember me?" he asked, grin- raw mi PLENTY OF OVERTIME Over 40 liours We Work 24 Hours Daily rui ji 6 mm After breakfast, and on our way Into the field watch Hawaii boys undergoing military training, we met Lt. Norman Gilbert, athletic officer of the combat team. "We have some pretty good talent in the outfit," he said.

"We hold the Camp Shelby baseball title. There is a man from Pearl City here Lefty Matsuo Iguchi, who really knows how to pitch. RECORD PLAYER kNew portable type recordi "players, leather case and to S2I095 Thousands by Doctors Or Money Back. Many Helped. Recommended We Heed the Understand he used to pitch for the Hawaii All-Stars.

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