 proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your army and your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail the United States Air Force our stories entitled working on the railroad this is the story of a hero a jet fighter bomber pilot captain jet-enders of the United States Air Force and all the officers of the 49th fighter bomber wing US Air Force our first act curtain will rise in just a moment but first plan your tomorrow today there's a future in flying for you young men who can qualify as aircraft observers in today's global Air Force if you are between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half a high school graduate and are otherwise qualified you have a future in flying as an aircraft observer for full details visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station today and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production working on the railroad you're a jet fighter bomber pilot in Korea your name is captain jet-enders the work you and your buddies do is faithfully reported every day in newspapers back in the States like this the Allied Air War against the Communist Rodon unabated yesterday saber jets shot down one MiG and you and fighter bombers blasted communication lines and supported infant reaction all across North Korea how many who read it really understand it the saber jets knocking down MiGs is clear enough but the fighter bomber part what does it mean you know what it means because smashing supply lines in close air support they are too Sunday punches and you deliver them every day of the week weather permitting and sometimes whether not permitting yes you know about it but to tell about it that's different well it's like this it's the night before an airstrike you stop over Lieutenant Rick Tainer's tent he's a new boy in the squadron fresh from state side tomorrow morning he'll be in the flight you're leading his first mission you poke your head through the tent flap all right busy while in Chad I just finished a letter oh you folks yeah telling them how I expect to see my brother any day now no bills back from leaving Tokyo now he's up 86 space is only a hundred miles away you two get together seems funny been in Korea two weeks now and I still haven't seen him can't believe those shiny new wings are real until the big brother season something like that make it official you know it's official in the records you're a jet fighter pilot for real like you want to fight your bomber that's different than interceptors sabers that's the way the ball bounces I could be in his squadron bucking with him hitting big alley with it the three of us will get together one of these days soon remember Bill's the best buddy I got in this Air Force you and Bill what a combination I remember when you hit the old hometown after Vee day two hot pilots with all that eight their force fruit salad on our chest oh we really tore the town apart and I was in short pants then but seeing you guys did it for you ought to take them away they're dealt like it or not what do you mean drawing fighter bombers you don't like it what gives you that idea why you're always talking interceptors saber jets truth is I expected to get sabers mm-hmm but you got fighter bombers some of the joes of my class got sabers and nothing will do for you except you're a hot interceptor pilot nice knocking down me and I'll be with them as soon as I can you got a tour to do first unless I get a transfer Rick don't do it not yet when you've been working on the railroads knocking out communist locomotives and boxcars for a while first they got changed my mind working on the railroads changes a man's mind about a lot of things I'll see you in the morning Rick right Jed in the ready room you sit in the smoke filled briefing shack dragging deeply on the last cigarette you'll have for several hours taking in the briefing by the air intelligence officer our okay troops yesterday moved forward three miles here on the map X regiment regained hill 306 here on the central front and the weather officer broken layer of three tenths strato cumulus 8000 visibility unlimited possible haze in the valleys noting it all carefully on your map jotting the dope down on the mission card you'll take with you and then the operations officer is getting down to brass tax this morning we all have pre-planned missions gentlemen definite targets picked for the group by joint operations center Captain Enders your flight call sign is rainbow Baker you'll be working on the railroad again this railroad here 100 miles behind the central front map coordinates x-ray jig 3174 got it right major any secondary target for us major you may be diverted to 40th division coordinates yoke dog 5 3 2 1 the 10th regimen is having trouble there okay now Captain Foster's flight Charlie is the other flights in the group get their assignments and take off times in and out courses to target and then briefing is over in the equipment room you put on your yellow may west and parachute strap on your pistol and escape kit grab your bright red crash helmet with your name stenciled neatly on it and head for the flight line Rick tiner steps briskly alongside you as you walk across the taxi strip heading for your planes neither of you talk there isn't much to say it'll all be said when you get upstairs you stand before your squat earthbound red tail jet making your ground check carrying under the wings under the tail into the landing gear wells examining the guns testing the filler caps and the tip tanks and then they roll out the battery cart that'll feed the extra juice your inert silver bird needs to come alive you clamor into the cockpit and with swift death motions you fasten your safety harness plug in your radio and oxygen mask and now you're part of the plane you its most vital instrument locked in its innards giving it life as you cut in the fuel tank and flick the starter switch you watch the tailpipe temperature gauge rise start the automatic flow and then the jet engine catches behind you and are you ready to taxi out to the runway you call the tower rainbow baker tower cleared to runway one seven wind one nine zero at one two knots altimeter two nine nine five over Roger Tower so you swing out to the taxi way lumbering heavily down it toward the runway Rick follows close behind you the other two boys in your flight single file behind him at the end of the runway you pause and make a final check while a leader in his wingman raw furiously away down the strip jolt into the air and saw away a neatly coupled wing in flight now the runway is yours you glance over at Rick and he nods tower this is rainbow baker are we clear to roll cleared to roll rainbow baker you kick out to the runway Rick off on your right wing tip nose wheel centered pointed straight down the strip flaps down you slowly push the throttle forward watching the tailpipe temperature gauge your feet ram hard against the brake pedals and you release the brakes from the sudden surge of unbridled power jerks you back in your seat now you're rolling picking up speed as the jet engine goes power keep the ship in line by lightly tapping your brake pedals your controls bite into the rushing wind you pull back on the stick in your airborne you pull up your landing gear and flaps and now you have that heady feeling of triumph as you rush away from the earth you're truly of the air now your altimeter points almost at 25,000 feet now way down below through the blue haze you can see the hills and ridges of South Korea tiny distant like a scale model somehow unreal up here the four of you skate swiftly over glistening cirrus clouds the sun burning hot through your canopy leveling off at 25,000 boys back to 92 you're almost at the main line of resistance separating UN forces from the Reds if you go down on this side of the line you're in luck if you go down on their side you'll need luck but your target is a hundred miles on their side and it's time to report to tactical air control center brawl beats rockets napalm fifties over rainbow baker this is brawl beat continuous brief over now you've reported it you're in the game now and when you've done your job you'll check out on the way home you fly a hundred miles into enemy air and soon you're over the target area railroad tracks down below but no locomotives in sight no boxcars in sight so you spiral down to 5,000 feet looking for your target keep your eyes peeled boys around here somewhere Roger boy see any rolling stock on the tracks down there negative nothing but trees see those trees at three o'clock they've got no shadow that's camouflage Roger looks like maybe something's playing possum in there probably our boxcars loaded to the gills with ammo in trail rainbow baker follow me after your rebel baker later we'll use bombs here we go top of trees have real half camouflage as you barrow down your roller coaster course the camouflage rips away revealing the dark shapes of locomotives and bulging boxcars and ominous shapes watered under them and a glint of guns and bright lights went for the trees lobbing lazy golf balls up suddenly jarring red hot business all about you and I've got the first locomotive clearing your sights you release your bombs and flare out of your dive bank sharply and climb in a seat heavy stomach sinking face tearing maneuver looking down at the target just in time for an explosion from below to bounce you on your ear fight to keep the ship under control moments later there's another explosion and another spray of metal chunks curving to the air through the white black lace smoke as the black guns become silent your number three man's excited voice burst in your earphones beautiful shooting you guys you got both of them that's going to finish up for capes negative two a few minutes later and you're back over the main line of resistance the front lines for the infantry boys you're over your secondary target area circling at 25,000 feet so you call for the nearest mosquito a trainer type aircraft used to direct air ground strikes and as you call you spot one way below ladybird rainbow Baker leader with four ladybird x-ray here rainbow Baker over Ladybird we've got rockets some they pop what have you got for plenty a red build-up area supply dump coordinates yoke dog five three two one the tenth regiment needs help down there have you on site ladybird but where's the target that hill off my right wing see that's dead center got your lady bird follow me rainbow Baker now you and your flight of strung out deadly screaming dives dropping napalm bombs jellied gasoline the flames on the blurred grab checkered side of a hill that is the enemy buildup point ripping traces and rockets into tents and shacks and masses of stores but here the plaque is heavy as it studs the sky with tight patches of white bracketing you as you're going to each dive the proper trees up to the right allows you with a a to the proudly we hail production working on the railroad our story will continue in just a moment after this important message today thousands of alert and intelligent young men are needed to enter aircraft observer training and become flying officers in the United States Air Force if you act now you can get a four-month selective service deferment and stand a good chance of being enrolled in a training class before your deferment expires upon graduation you'll receive a commission as a second lieutenant your silver wings a liberal uniform allowance and a starting salary of approximately five thousand dollars a year in addition you'll have an interesting and colorful career that offers unlimited opportunities for education and advancement why not find out about it right away for complete information right to aviation cadets headquarters the Parkland of the Air Force Washington 25 DC classes begin every two weeks you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of working on the railroad over your secondary target the enemy flak takes its toll your wingman gets hit rainbow baker leader your wingman hit I heard eight o'clock below Roger have you in sight I'm climbing rainbow baker three you stick at your job you and four classroom we'll go rainbow baker we'll continue run how bad is it Rick not good joining up on you now Rick right kids you gotta get out of that fast you're smoking fast I'm missing parts of my left wing and rudder keep climbing if you can no can do no power I don't go buddy it's good to smoke in here not for cover when you hit the deck we'll cover you and send for a helicopter get me a chopper fast it's largely with commies down there and cover me get down as low as you can and shoot up everything that moves I see you the canopy of your wingman's plane flies off followed by a dark hurtling form then you watch your best friend's kid brother floating away falling down beneath a white mushroom of a parachute drifting toward a gray green hillside not a mile away from the communists you call your flight rainbow Baker three and four over three here over Rick's down his parachute affirmative have him in sight helicopter gets here we'll call rainbow leader you sent for the chopper yet about to raise Ramrod now joining you at 2000 to cover him you okay rainbow Baker go ahead rainbow Baker did he parachute rainbow Baker Roger I'll put it through joint operation center what are your coordinates yoke dog five three two one over yoke dog five three two one Roger now and minutes later if you and your number two and three men's circle of 2000 feet the tightest circle your swift jets can manage firing at every movement you see near your down pilot rainbow Baker leader this is Ramrod got a chopper in the vicinity they got a position affirmative rainbow Baker they're on their way now Roger and thanks we're standing by rainbow Baker out out to you rainbow Baker hope they pick up your boy in time rainbow Baker this is rainbow Baker three troops in the valley they're heading for Rick couple tanks Roger following you in so you're all down on the tiny brown figures and pull up and away in a tight circle looking behind and down to see your napalm bombs hit and shut the valley with a wall of fire a protective wall between the commies and your wingman on the hill that didn't rainbow Baker they're gone now looks like he may pay off have his shooting sight Rick's got more trouble down there rainbow Baker where they're bringing up a tank bottom of the hill I see him rainbow Baker better take care of him well you better lay him on that tank then the race between chopper and tank chopper loses thanks just as close to your pilot as I am no farther than 500 yards the other side and now you're in your steep dive carrying those two lethal rockets the only thing you have that can stop that caterpillar dreaded monster as you hear chopper's head tank nail it how bad you hit helicopter but now you think of only one thing delivering into the tanks very cannon mouth it's destruction your two deadly rockets if the chopper can't get to Rick neither will the tank suddenly the tank filled your gun sights squat and ugly and your rocket squirts smokely ahead dead into target as you flare out of your dive below you an exploding mass of metal as the tank dies that's laying it on him rainbow Baker stop shooting boy chopper was another one like that and that's all brother that's all she wrote letting down for your boy now rainbow Baker make it fast chopper more troops coming these rainbow Baker and long minutes later after you've stared doubly at the huge jagged holes in your wings and fuselage and at the fuel counter clicking off your few remaining minutes of airborne time rainbow Baker now probably you got an emergency field handy trouble rainbow Baker try hitting this one map coordinates x-ray sugar 5149 towers man over to you you're over South Korea now and you know everything is going to work out all right and then you spot it the most beautiful site you've seen all day a brand new metal carpeted landing strip long enough for jets with shiny familiar looking jet fighters parked nearby and those beautiful things are f-86s sabers and you barely listen as the tower hardly clears you for your emergency landing because already you can taste the big hot meal you've been promising yourself for the last hour and the chance to talk with the saver boys Rick hasn't caught up to you now a cigarette and boy what kept you hey Rick I thought you'd be back in the base by now don't like Peter just couldn't make it got a hole in it you could poke your fist through oh you ought to see my buggy that's why I drove in here yet you know what basis is saber jets should have known you'd hit here with have a chance it's my brother's basis group just moved in here Bill oh that's great he's on his way over here now that old there they'll be good to see him finally we get to see him though we had to get shot at the door the guy gets hold of you and you'll be in sabers before breakfast tomorrow baby what you think of those sabers lined up outside handsome handsome mighty handsome hey they finally pinned the wings on you a little brother sure did rare you should have seen him today you'll do all right I got to get him in sabers somehow you know he's always wanted to fly interceptors you too buddy no not me Bill not this trip how about you kid like Jed says not this trip not for me Rick how come the switch I don't know maybe maybe what I saw us doing today and maybe it's flying on this poor man's way well I know how you feel kid he was my flight leader my first 50 missions in the 8th Air Force the three of us will fly him together one of these days this time Jed looks like the old two musketeers got a third jet jockey third jet and Roaring to go a sergeant fuel down three tanks to fill we got to get this three jet team organized there's your goonie bird all warmed up and ready to go welcome site that C-17 we'll be back at the base inside a couple hours it was great seeing you guys number one we'll do it again soon next time approaching the south huh in air worthy pilot's impatient I gotta go Bill so long Rick oh great guy that brother yours yeah the greatest hey you know you handed me a shot so not jumping at the idea of joining him and sabers oh that we're about to take off huh edge of the runway now yeah you know you were right all along jet I hope you see it my way yeah I had to learn what it was like first by working on a railroad young men of America today there is an urgent need for aircraft observers in your United States Air Force if you can measure up here's your chance to get the finest aviation training training that equips you to fly in the most modern aircraft in the world and prepares you for executive positions in military aviation you'll work hard train hard and play hard but when it's over you'll be a flying officer with a career that will take you as far as you want to go you graduate from aircraft observer training as a second lieutenant specializing in radar navigation or bombardment you'll receive a starting salary of approximately five thousand dollars a year and a liberal uniform allowance to qualify as an aviation cadet in the aircraft observer training program you must be a high school graduate be between nineteen and twenty six and a half unmarried and in good physical condition if you act now you can get a four month selective service deferment and you stand a good chance of being enrolled in a cadet class before your deferment expires for complete information visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station or right to aviation cadets headquarters department of the Air Force Washington 25 DC this has been another program on 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