Secret Weapon

Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane.

Anatolian peasants saw an airplane come through a narrow opening in the hills, soar down a long valley until it approached a mountain closing the end, make an 180-degree turn and glide back up the valley until it landed in a flat field. When the peasants reached the plane, they found only two dogs inside.

The word has spread through the hills of Anatolia. Turks stride with new confidence along the banks of the swift Kizil Irmak. They know now that the Russians cannot win. Have not the incredible Americans trained dogs to fly airplanes?

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