the ghost pilot story

UNUSUAL STORIES OF WWII, By Bart Anderson Scott, a former Flying Tiger, and When the Americans got close enough they were shocked, as one of the P-40 pilot radioed: a Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk similar to They returned with an amazing story: they had seen a plane, but it was an American P-40 that looked like it had been through a battle. In 1987, Mrs Sayer was visiting air airfield in England with her friend. The notes, although a lot, are far from being copious and, once thought by me as being fully comprehensive, are actually rather hit and miss as to the information contained therein, with as well, after having finally located them, finding intermittent pages missing, misplaced, or possibly even taken for unknown reasons --- but by whom, when, or why, also not known. The “bomb” was, in fact, an inert bundle of cloth, and the unpiloted enemy plane, strung along a zipline, was loaded with a primed explosive. As they peered into the window the pilot raised slightly, turned in their direction, and smiled offering a meek wave towards his two allies. It doesn't make sense. His face was a mask of blood. "When you start seeing about 90 men a day dying, it gets pretty tough," he said. All well and good except for one thing. McMullen said only about 25 of the unit's 350 soldiers survived the war. It is not known if he was tossed from his seat, or if he jumped hoping for safety, but when the plane was sixty feet from the ground, Stites plummeted to the feet of the crowd. From there, they flew 1,900 miles to French Frigate Shoals to refuel, 550 miles from their target, Oahu, where they were to bomb the "Ten-Ten" dock --- named for its length, 1,010 feet --- located at the Pearl Harbor naval base, the idea being to disrupt as much salvage and repair efforts as possible. shortly thereafter, McMullen never "Three months to the day after the POW camp opened a lone plane clearly marked with U.S. insignia, all by itself and not a bomber but more like a fighter equipped with bombs, slipped in along the southern edge of the island very low and slow, catching everybody off guard, in turn wreaking havoc all over the air station before heading off out over the open ocean towards China." w.attachEvent('onload', f) : w.addEventListener('load', f, false); }(document, window)); It was April 1942 when, after a week of bad weather, pilots of the American famed Flying Tigers of the China Air Force could get off the ground. Although I had followed Terry and the Pirates a good portion of my life, and knew how Milton Caniff, the artist-cartoonist of the strip presented Terry and the world he and his so-called Pirates lived in, Wood's top-half opening drawing below, showing his version of an underbelly far east like milieu, real or not, that exemplified the Asian atmosphere along with the rest of the story hit me like a hammer, with me, the teenager that I was, sucking up his version as my version and as my version, the real version. The next phone call or letter may Permission had been sought, and granted, to attack any flights in Philippine airspace. there.". on the island. Of course, the engine was making a whole lot of noise, dust was blowing all over the place, and I had the number wrong, so either nobody got it or nobody heard it. "I told the badly wounded medic that I had been a member embedded within a special communication team on a covert mission that crossed over several miles deep into sovereign Chinese territory. With the fall of Bataan, Corregidor By the next day, the story about Murdy and Casey encountering a “ghost” in the backlot was making the rounds among fellow Horror Nights and Universal staff. It doesn't make sense. Fighters would begin their GI's, what can I say? He dropped the bamboo skis and flew 1,000 miles to Taiwan --- an extraordinary feat for a P-40, even with 50 extra gallons of gas. THE DYESS STORY If it had been worded something like "radar of the United States Army picked up an unusual reading" it may have been better --- at least it would add a little more credibility to the story. The Americans were puzzled. many covered completely by over- Colin Kelly, a ragtag group of G.I.s launched their own attack against Japanese territory. Mong La came up because in fulfilling the request of the man in the Thai restaurant he had asked me to meet a man in the border town of Tachileik, Myanmar, a man that was unable or unwilling to cross into Thailand. Saying "radar in the United States picked up an unusual reading" and "what appeared to be an airplane was heading for American soil from the direction of Japan" sort of stretches the understanding of the situation. Caught out in the open and unprepared they began shifting their guns around toward the plane while the sub began preparing to submerge. For Dyess' complete story, with a totally free no sign-up access to a full unabridged online copy of his book, please click the cover below: After the Japanese attacked Hawaii and Philippines, MacArthur ordered American and Philippine forces to positions on the Bataan Peninsula. Some hours later we came upon an opening with a small roofed wooden structure built at least three feet off the ground on stilts with a set of steps in the center-front leading to a wood floor interior. Historian Richard L. Dunn writes: PILATUS PORTER: STOL, SIMILAR TO BIRD AND SONS Plus, when other people see or read the notes, when added together they always seem to need me as a key to make sense of them all. ... Ghost â¦ From it all, as far as I know I am the only guy still hanging around who has been strafed by a P-40 under military conditions on some road in China.(see). Ten years later, thanks to Uncle Sam and his friendly Selective Service, found me Rangoon, Saigon, and Chiang Mai, as well as other such places, and in those ten year later years, especially in and where I traveled, having gone from a high school teenager to an almost mid-twenties GI, my vision not only didn't wane, but was bolstered and grew. Capra said that Grant Wilson, who is part of the âGhost Huntersâ team, said that Perry Mansfield is super haunted. With additional "When you start seeing about 90 men a day dying, it gets pretty tough," he said. Once those notes were included in the new set of notes the old ones were more or less discarded. "I don't think most people, not even my own family, realize what really happened." Below, in another or second sort of confirmation of the Ghost Ship, like the Kuan Yin one, was originally generated from a totally different or unrelated other story that just so happened, once connected, to coincide with the Ghost P-40 saga. By continuing, the Ghost Plane will be seen to take on a much different and more positive light and instead of chewing it to pieces, we'll try and put it back together. The other major difference is that Lemish totally avoids any mention of Corn Sherrill or anyone similar in his works while in Scott's version Sherrill plays a significant role. No one could have found it _____(for full page image click then click again) The P-40, loaded with bombs under her wings continued northward out of range and out of sight. Plus, when other people see or read the notes, when added together they always seem to need me as a key to make sense of them all. For the Flying Tigers in the China-Burma-India theater it was much the same. The take away is you can't read too much into the first three versions as being gospel (Version Three is still yet to come up in the main text) . Everybody just looked at each other glad it wasn't Japanese and wondering what a lone P-40 would be doing all by itself, not only out in the middle of nowhere, but where was it going with all those bombs. In the 1970âs, tales of such ghostly apparitions flew around the USA and the airline world. Among the three ships that managed to skirt the Japanese forces was Plus, when other people see or read the notes, when added together they always seem to need me as a key to make sense of them all. At the end of the summer of 1953, just as I was about to start the 10th grade or so, the August - September #6 issue of the comic book Mad came out. a metal frame fitted onto the axle spindle, and a large piece of bamboo The notes, although a lot, are far from being copious and, once thought by me as being fully comprehensive, are actually rather hit and miss as to the information contained therein, with as well, after having finally located them, finding intermittent pages missing, misplaced, or possibly even taken for unknown reasons --- but by whom, when, or why, also not known. pilot, probably from Massachusetts, SCENE FROM THE ORIGINAL TERRY AND THE PIRATES AS DRAWN BY MILTON CANIFF DATED JANUARY 27, 1935. THE DYESS STORY One example of those included transcribed notes from earlier sources and put into context of my newer notes, was information on the plane that picked me up at Lao Bao. Saying "radar in the United States picked up an unusual reading" and "what appeared to be an airplane was heading for American soil from the direction of Japan" sort of stretches the understanding of the situation. "While formal permission to recon Formosa had been denied, at lower levels men took matters into their own hands. stripped the armor plate, ammunition Anyway while I don't know their fate they were potentially available for capture.". There he would throw open the doors and inside sitting there all by itself right in front of me would be a fully intact Curtiss-Wright P-40 Tomahawk in all of it's full flying glory. been shot away. ships carrying food and munitions Climbing above "They took us to the dungeons of, Fort Santiago where I was beaten and interrogated. Saying "radar in the United States picked up an unusual reading" and "what appeared to be an airplane was heading for American soil from the direction of Japan" sort of stretches the understanding of the situation. Capt. A lot of people who read the above paragraph in reference to Terry and the Pirates say I have not much more than a pretty romanticized view of the Asian atmosphere and the milieu that I imply exists. No one It has been called the Ghost Ship, the Phantom P-40, the Ghost P-40, the Ghost Plane, and any number of other names, but whatever it has been called or whatever it has been referred to, rather in history, lore, or legend, it continues to show up --- and when it does it is always a P-40, but not, although often pictured as such, never a Flying Tiger. Gamblers who put money on such things bet that any attempt on recon as far north as Taiwan, official or unofficial, not only became impossible, but served no immediate logistical purpose in that the Japanese had already relocated most of their forces south to the Philippines. The attack on Pearl Harbor is usually given as 7:48 AM, 46 minutes later. pilot's identity and the story behind Then, as the plane was almost on top of them, it was clearly seen to be an American P-40, the pilot tipped the wings up and down in a more or less friendly manner and when he did they spotted U.S. military insignias on the fuselage and wings --- although truth be told, they were of the type with the red circle in the star since discontinued after Pearl Harbor. Following Pearl Harbor he joined the Navy and not long after that, the Navy in all it's wisdom, because he was a carpenter, sent him to the South Pacific ending up being assigned to PT boats because they were, after all, made of plywood. She and the monk spoke in muted tones for a few minutes pointing and making gestures, then, without explanation, both left, leaving Phyllis and I alone. said. On the Kuan Yin page he said from ancient times there was a "girl Buddha" whose followers believed that reciting the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, would, because of her compassion, deliver them from harm. The above three versions of the Ghost P-40 are pretty much standard internet fluff. That morning, Stites learned that his friend, the leading aviator Lincoln Beachey was killed while performing a stunt in the San Franciso Bay. The central core of the story is attributed to the most honorable Robert Lee. The islands had two operational radar stations. Mindanao, where the P-40 reportedly lifted off, with no known refueling point, is around 5400 miles from Hawaii. "That's an American insignia, it's a P-40." It was one of the great ghost stories of the 1970s. Re the following from the main text above: "With the fall of Bataan, Corregidor and the rest of the Philippines, many Americans were forced to surrender to the Japanese. SCENE FROM THE ORIGINAL TERRY AND THE PIRATES AS DRAWN BY MILTON CANIFF DATED JANUARY 27, 1935. So too, because of what or how things are presented in the three versions should you discount totally the whole story of the Ghost Plane. "While formal permission to recon Formosa had been denied, at lower levels men took matters into their own hands. (function(d, w) { var x = d.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0]; var f = function() { var _id = 'lexity-pixel'; var _s = d.createElement('script'); _s.id = _id; _s.type = 'text/javascript'; _s.async = true; _s.src = "//np.lexity.com/embed/YW/6988eb1e4bf127f4ca37e1cd26b64961?id=d219c0504756"; if (!document.getElementById(_id)) { x.parentNode.insertBefore(_s, x); } }; w.attachEvent ? Both have a strong ring of referring to the Continental United States, the mainland, being of course, some 2000+ miles to the east of Hawaii. After the fall of the Philippines, "Corn" Sherrill and eleven mechanics cannibalized a few aircraft to make one plane fly. "Three months to the day after the POW camp opened a lone plane clearly marked with U.S. insignia, all by itself and not a bomber but more like a fighter equipped with bombs, slipped in along the southern edge of the island very low and slow, catching everybody off guard, in turn wreaking havoc all over the air station before heading off out over the open ocean towards China." "Lt. Col. Eubank, the commander of the bombing group, had let it be known that he would not object too much if individual pilots chose to fly a bit too close to Formosa. Japan is basically straight due west of Hawaii. He found three planes in packing crates and while testing one that he had assembled, shot down a Japanese transport. "Japanese records confirm that there was an American P-40 over Formosa on Dec. 8, 1942, but where it came from remains a mystery." Notice the tommy guns, stabbings, hand grenades and exotic women. About eleven in the morning that day, while still in the process of unloading supplies and refueling, and even though they had a gaggle of spotters, most scanning the skies higher up, a lone plane very low to the surface of the water slipped into view heading in their direction. GI's, what can I say? As other reviewers note, this is the nonfiction story of Eastern Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades back in 1972. THE GHOST PILOT. A box of Pasqually's Pizza, the delivery-only ghost kitchen of Chuck. from the pilot. Years later, in an attempt to locate a half way decent graphic of that particular plane to use here for example, I was told that the exact same Pilatus Porter that picked me up crashed three months later on June 26, 1964 at Chiang Khong, Thailand, totaling the craft. It was April 1942 when, after a week of bad weather, pilots of the American famed Flying Tigers of the China Air Force could get off the ground. Sightings were always well to the west, Burma, Western China, Thailand, Laos, sort of old Flying Tiger stomping grounds. The ghost pilot, with his grotesque character design and aura of creepiness, is one of SWAT Katsâ best one-shot villains, and he inspires the animators to create several wonderfully eerie â¦ Who was this brave pilot who flew The operation telephones at an airfield at Kienow began to ring off the hook. The notes, although a lot, are far from being copious and, once thought by me as being fully comprehensive, are actually rather hit and miss as to the information contained therein, with as well, after having finally located them, finding intermittent pages missing, misplaced, or possibly even taken for unknown reasons --- but by whom, when, or why, also not known. "When you start seeing about 90 men a day dying, it gets pretty tough," he said. The unknown plane was now only thirty miles east. In a sort of so what moment I wrote down the plane was a Pilatus Porter PC-6/H1 Turbo owned by Bird and Sons along with some numbers and letters XW-PBQ and 554. attempt to fabricate a new wheel I say so because in December 1939 the United States Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War, established an Aircraft Warning Service (AWS), using radar for the defense of American territory including the Hawaiian Islands. That connection was discovered and put together by the author of the Pearl Harbor P-40 Ghost Ship segment linked at the end of Footnote [2] below. Baxter said only about half of the Americans who served in the Philippines survived. They could make out the pilot behind the shattered glass of the windshield. Hawaii was not part of the United States in 1941, a territory true, but not a state, making the statement "radar in the United States" questionable. Convoy bearers reported the plane as being a "Ghost Ship." He also said I was the first, first-person witness he had talked to that had actually seen it." As with my questions regarding Scott my question regarding McMullen, considering all the atrocities and suffering he had to endure as a prisoner of war, is the same: Why would he come forward and say he worked on the P-40 if it wasn't so? The Center provides the setting for a free room and board six to twelve week around-the-clock meditation program for visiting and foreign monks and practitioners. 1945, he joined the Army Air Corps McMullen said only about 25 of the unit's 350 soldiers survived the war. Without breaking any tenets on my part, the paragraphs that follow were written by the highly distinguished and well received author and researcher Alfred McCoy, and found in his book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972) and are being presented for you to infer what you wish: "From Nam Yu the teams were flown fifty-five miles due north and dropped off on the Laotian bank of the Mekong River. "With the fall of Bataan, Corregidor and the rest of the Philippines, many Americans were forced to surrender to the Japanese. _____(for full page image click then click again) The plane was flying, perhaps, by bracing the stick between his knees, the P-40 continued on course, but flown by a dead man, a phantom pilot. He did however have an inflatable boat with a small electric motor in the truck bed. Kelly made is not known." If you take a look at where the grandfather worked on P-40s as well as the photo below, you will find after leaving the Flying Tigers he went to Karachi, India, then Tingkawk Sakan in Burma, then to Myitkyina, Burma, all locations of the Burma Banshees. hanging coconut trees and jungle A pilot who crash landed runs down the runway with his clothes on fire, while an engineer who lost his arm in machinery staggers around screaming. My eye was put out by a cigarette butt." Their airfields were so well camouflaged that even the Japanese could not locate them all. Inside #6 was a story, drawn by my all time favorite non-animator cartoonist Wallace Wood, that spoofed or satired big-time the long running comic strip Terry and the Pirates, and that Wood, in his spoofing, called Teddy and the Pirates. "During his research, Norris learned that a small group of Americans on Mindanao habitually gathered crashed and wrecked aircraft, hoping to keep one aircraft always serviceable. Hawaii was not part of the United States in 1941, a territory true, but not a state, making the statement "radar in the United States" questionable. As I pulled myself up out of the culvert on the other side, the side the bag was on, I could see a wheels up World War II fighter plane, looking all the same as a P-40 skimming along just above the road at full speed heading face on toward the convoy. Although Phyllis never knew about it nor did I ever have a chance to tell her, for the services rendered there was a price that was to be extracted. About ten miles from the Kienow airfield, two Americans spotted the mystery plane zipping along only two hundred feet above the ground. A few days before I was to complete this 12 week session, and for all practical purposes, on a countdown in hours to depart, in a highly unusual set of circumstances one of the monks, came to me and said an American woman had arrived at the office requesting to see me. defenders. It was only after being disbanded and the USAAF took over that they moved as far east as Kienow. 450 tons of food, 2.5 million rounds of McMullen told about the But, they did find a document which was assumed to be the remains of some sort of diary. wrecked aircraft, hoping to keep one aircraft always serviceable. "From Mong Hkan, the CIA teams hiked north for several days to one of two forward bases only a few miles from the border --- a joint CIA-KMT radio post at Mong He and a CIA station at Mong Mom. It was April 1942 when, after a week of bad weather, pilots of the American famed Flying Tigers of the China Air Force could get off the ground. For the Flying Tigers in the China-Burma-India theater it was much the same. Re the following from the main text above: Plus, when other people see or read the notes, when added together they always seem to need me as a key to make sense of them all. She â¦ FOR A VIDEO OF MY TAKE ON IT CLICK IMAGE "Using light-weight, four-pound radios with a broadcast radius of four hundred miles, the teams transmitted their top priority data directly to a powerful receiver at Nam Yu or to specially equipped Air America planes that flew back and forth along the Laotian Chinese border. My eye was put out by a cigarette butt. Today only four are living. The plane was an older version One day he found himself pretty much unprotected laying in wait out in the middle of the open ocean for several days with a couple of other PT boats somewhere in the South China Sea about 200 miles west of Luzon. On Dec. 6th, he told his crew to load live ammo into the B17-C's machine guns. But a few refused, and COL. HENERY EDWARD "PETE" WARDEN: FATHER OF THE B-52 Nicknamed the "Porcupine," they were heavily armed carrying ten machine guns and 20mm cannons. Although you would never know it from some of the comments that show up on the various aircraft, World War II, and P-40 related forums and pages, and, although the story may have been floating around in some minor form years before previously, except for the Pearl Harbor side of it, the Ghost P-40 story has a fairly solid history. We left one of our primary tool bags sitting in plain view along side the road. Mindanao is roughly 2000 miles south (and slightly west) of Japan, but mainly south. She was is Southeast Asia hoping for my assist once again, telling me this time, now, she was totally serious in wanting to head into the jungles of Asia alone, becoming a frequenter of lonely places in an ever expanding attempt to enhance a deepening Awareness. former sergeant with the 701st Aviation Ordinance Squadron of the 19th Bomber trick, one pilot fired a short burst into Then the P-40 zipped up into the clouds and set a course for Kienow. Then he laughed and if to say goodbye to a a long lost buddy, he clasped his hand in a firm but friendly manner on my shoulder. IN STAR WARS LUKE WAS WARNED THAT HE'D NEVER FIND A MORE WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY IN THE WHOLE GALAXY THAN MOS EISLEY. While it does a fair job presenting the gist of the article, it is NOT the Reader's Digest article --- which, like I say, runs multiple pages. efforts made on Mindanao during His story, in the book titled "Back From the Living Dead: Bataan," below, was originally printed serially in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat October 4 to 12, 1945. I have always carried a certain fondness for that type of milieu and because of that fondness have been drawn to such odd-ball fictional characters and stories like Dan Duryea in China Smith and of course Terry and the Pirates as well as real life places such as Rangoon, Burma; Bangkok, Thailand; and Chiang Mai." The next thing I knew the plane began unleashing a whole stream of machine gun fire from her wings, scattering the convoy all over off the road and tearing the shit out of the asphalt for well over a mile. All three were flown to the field at Maramag, where two were captured by the Japanese (p. From this diary, researchers were able to deduce that the plane must have originated from the island of Mindanao, located about 1,300 miles away (actually it is more than four times as far). recognition signals yielded no reply Then, as the plane was almost on top of them, it was clearly seen to be an American P-40, the pilot tipped the wings up and down in a more or less friendly manner and when he did they spotted U.S. military insignias on the fuselage and wings --- although truth be told, they were of the type with the red circle in the star since discontinued after Pearl Harbor. On April 18, 1942, a little more than four months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the full power of the United States combined forces, the Army and Navy using aircraft carriers and B-25 bombers, launched the Doolittle raid against Japan, albeit leaving the island with only minor damage, still hitting the Japanese capital of Tokyo and other places in the country's heartland for the first time since the war started. "Corn" would fly one last mission and hit the enemy where it would do the most good. The following quote about Scott was written by Olga Greenlaw, the author of Lady and the Tigers, probably one of the best all around tomes on the the Flying Tigers, scribed by a person who had been there from day one: "I was up at six-thirty and had breakfast with Colonel Bob Scott, who was to become leader of the 23rd Pursuit Group, which was later to succeed the A.V.G. "Any mention by me of Terry and the Pirates is typically made to draw an analogy to whatever I am writing about and the exotic-like underbelly-type milieu, real or not, that exemplified the Asian atmosphere Terry and his companions, pirates or otherwise, operated in. Major Bert Bank is the man identified as Captain Bert of Alabama in Lieutenant Colonel Edward Dyess' book. Like the Dyess book above, Bank's book is totally free with no sign-up access and is a fully unabridged online PDF copy. Then the P-40 zipped up into the clouds and set a course for Kienow. KENNETH M. TAYLOR, PEARL HARBOR, AND THE P-40 He also said I was the first, first-person witness he had talked to that had actually seen it." The story of the ghost plane As their plane approached the base at Takao, a float plane was seen to take off, and head straight for the ship. AVALANCHE PRESS: Air Raid: Manila failed. Re the following from the main text above: Both have a strong ring of referring to the Continental United States, the mainland, being of course, some 2000+ miles to the east of Hawaii. insignia as it approached For Dyess' complete story, with a totally free no sign-up access to a full unabridged online copy of his book, please click the cover below: The Americans were puzzled. On December 8, 1942, over a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, radar in the United States picked up an unusual reading. forward and pulled alongside. She had at one time, especially during my youth and before, been rich and powerful and a person of influence in many circles. Since the P-40s were sitting around falling apart, more idle than not, and with more and more being rendered unflyable because of being cannibalized, with no pressing need for mechanics with P-40 expertise, toward the end of the war he just left, returning to China. When the Americans got close enough they were shocked, as one of the P-40 pilot radioed: Their airfields were so well camouflaged that even the Japanese could not locate them all. Japan is basically straight due west of Hawaii. Guided That's when one of the most unusual things to ever happen, happened. a pieced together airplane over hundreds of miles of enemy territory? "We designed the skid so that it I asked the motorcyclist if he knew what the old man had said and he told me he clearly understood the words alright, he just didn't understand the meaning. If you notice in the above VERSION I: The China Ghost Ship, the two pilots who scrambled to meet the incoming bogie were listed by the author as being Bob Scott and Johnny Hampshire. Then I asked if either he or his father had ever experienced in any fashion a so-called Ghost Ship. Of course, we have the above. not survive the war. 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