 Proudly, we hail. From New York City where the American stage begins, here is another program with a cast of outstanding players and featuring William Redfield. 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 men of the United States Air Force. Our story is entitled Operation Wing Tip. This is a true story of Captain Jack Miller, United States Air Force, who with Captain John Paladino and Lieutenant Wood MacArthur executed an almost unbelievable maneuver in the war-torn sky over Korea, a story that hit the front pages of every newspaper in the country just a few months ago. Our first act curtain will rise in just a moment. Here's an important message for you young men with two or more years of college. You are urgently needed in your rapidly expanding United States Air Force. The Air Force needs men today to be the leaders of tomorrow, men who will follow in the tradition of the Air Force and its great leaders. If you're between 19, yes, 19, and 26 and a half years of age and can qualify, you are urged to join the ranks of modern air pioneers by becoming an aviation cadet. Stop in at your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station today or write to Aviation Cadet Branch, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, 25 D.C. A group of Air Force planes are winging through the sky. Captain Jack Miller, second in command and flying as wingman to the group leader, is listening on his ear. 15 minutes from primary target area should begin bomb run at 0, 9, 4, 7 hours. We'll confirm. Titan formation, repeat. Titan formation. How's this, Chief? Tight enough? Oh, hold it, Miller. Let's leave a little room for turbulence. We'll start bomb run at 0, 9, 4, 7. Follow according to plan under individual control. Roger, and out. Hey, Joe. Yeah, boss? Switch me over to intercom, will you? Check. Pilot to bombardier. Pilot to bombardier. Bombardier to pilot, go ahead. Right. We'll start bomb run at 0, 9, 4, 7. Heading 15 east, southeast. Altitude 8500, indicated 285. Confirmed. Over. Roger, I have it. Continue heading, we're correct if necessary. Bombardier to pilot, we'll open bomb base. Roger. Bomb base open. Steady on target, 3, 1. Bombs away. Major ship, what's that hanging from there? Hey, yeah, it's a bomb. It's stuck there on that door. Quick, switch over to radio, hand me that mic. Wing to leader. Wing to leader. Come in, Major. Right, Miller. Major, you got a bomb hung up on your bomb bay door. Keep your doors open, I'll nudge it a little. Are you kidding? With what? My wing tip. No thanks. What do you want to do? Carry the bomb back to the base? I don't know. What if it explodes? Don't talk about that either. Better let me nudge it a little. Might come loose. All right, but wait till I look the other way, will you? I don't want to watch this. Couldn't see it from this angle if you tried. All you do is keep level. I want to try something. What are you doing? Trying to kick the bomb loose with my left wing tip. I can't quite reach it. The other side. Why, will that be any better? I just remembered. I'm right-handed. You want me to dust off your rudder while I'm up here? No thanks. Just move your wing tips away a few inches, will you? I have something to tell those kids back in your hometown when this thing is all over. Oh, yeah. Came up on the other side. I nudge the bomb loose with my right wing tip and it dropped and just exploded on the highway. Boom. And that was it. Andy, it's the truth. It happened. I was there. Sound. That's the one I like. Like I told you, Andy, you're diving, see? Now, let's say in a Republic F-84 jet. Yeah. So you're going pretty near straight down, see? Faster and faster. All of a sudden, your ship does a pitch up. That. Well, because the plane kind of, you see, noses up. See? Pitches up, starts to climb. Did you ever do it? Oh, yeah. Fun? Well, yes and no. It's kind of exciting, but it's also kind of dangerous. Conscious all the time. It certainly was, Andy, or I wouldn't be here. Tell me something, Jack. Yeah? If you got such a kick out of being in the Air Force, why don't you go back in? Andy, that's just what I'm doing. You're? Yep. Getting kind of tired of making fences and gates. I'm rejoining next month. You're? Where do you think they'll send you? Williams Air Force Base. Out in Arizona. Hi, fella. Oh, hi. We're just a couple neighbors extending a welcome to Mesquite Matter, the pride of Williams Air Force Base. Oh. I'm Captain John Paladino, and this here is Lieutenant Wood MacArthur. Well, hello. Glad to meet you. I'm Captain Miller, Jack. Thanks for the welcome. OK. Well, we just got here this morning ourselves. Johnny and I met on the train coming out. Oh, yeah? Well, where are you from? I've been making fences back in Oklahoma. Oh? Well, Johnny and his brother ran a restaurant in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was in real estate. Oh, I see. Well, here it feels good to get the old uniform back on, doesn't it? Sure does. Especially when it means that we're here to fly those jet jobs. Johnny's sure hepped up about flying these oil cans. Well, hey, now. So am I. I can't hardly wait till I get one of those babies rolling down the runway. Yeah. We've got an awful lot of transition school to get through first. Jets disproved the early belief that they were not well adapted to formation flight. You can fly even tighter with them. Of course, you haven't got any big propeller out there chewing the air. Now, the new... Our youth gentlemen will be flying faster than a speed of sound, which is Mach 1. Now, let me explain that. The speed of sound varies with temperature from 760 and 510 miles per hour at 59 degrees Fahrenheit to 661 and 610 miles an hour in the thin cold air above 35,000 feet. By incidentally, if you ever get up that high, 35,000, don't try to bail out. A custom here at Williams Air Force Base. Should one of you become a desert boy and a dope who undershoots the runway to cost you money? Because you have to stand treat for the whole flight at the club. That's the custom. Here's the fact. You'll also answer by endorsement. This is done to help you remember the incident. Because where you guys are going, the runways aren't very long. You'll have to learn to hit them. Okay, that's all. And, uh, good luck tomorrow, plasticist. And I guess you guys know what he meant when he gave with that phrase, when you guys are going, the runways aren't very long. Sure do. Where else? Oh, Rhea. Next, my death. Fox, flight leader, Captain John Paladino. Yes, sir. Fox two, Lieutenant Wood McArthur. Present, sir. Fox three, Captain Jack Miller. Right, Colonel. Now the mission. You've, uh, drawn your maps? Yes, sir. Right, sir. Primary target, railroad yards at this point. Secondary target, troop concentration located at this point. Everybody got it? Check, Colonel. Okay. I guess it's happy hunting and be seeing you fellas. By the time you get your ships checked out, it'll be time for takeoff. It'll be all. Well, John, Woody, those I better get that flying blowtorch warmed up. Right. I'll check back with both of you just before takeoff. Give a listen, huh? Okay. Well, let's get them cooking. Captain Miller, the old oil can's ready to roll. Oh, good, Sergeant. How about that oxygen line? Do you give it a check? Right, sir. I don't want you cocking up out there at 30,000 feet. Good boy. Well, let's light her up. All clear. All clear. Hey, Godfrey. Roger, Johnny. Okay, Woody. Right. Over. Let's roll them out. I don't think so, Johnny. They don't look anxious. Okay, let's go. It should be. You are listening to the proudly we hail production of Operation Wing Tip. We'll return to our story in just a moment after this important announcement. Here's good news for you young men with two or more years of college. The age requirement for aviation cadet training has been lowered to 19. Yes, if you're between 19 and 26 and a half years of age and can qualify, you'll receive your silver wings and your commission as a second lieutenant in the expanding Air Force. There's a vitally important job for you as a pilot, navigator, bombardier, radar observer, flight engineer, or electronics officer. And there's golden opportunity in this jet age of air power. For full information, visit your United States Army and your United States Air Force Recruiting Station, or write direct to Aviation Cadet Branch, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington 25 D.C. You are listening to Proudly We Hail. Now we present the second act of Operation Wing Tip. Fox leader. No bandits available, but there's another flight of F-84s on their way home ahead of us. Let's get out of the way. Follow me. Roger. Roger. Fox two. This is Fox three. Isn't Johnny diving a little fast? What do you mean, diving? Now he's climbing. What's the matter with him? Fox leader. This is Fox three. What you doing? Over. He's diving again. What's the matter with him? Think he's all right? Fox leader. This is Fox two. Are you all right, Johnny? Yeah. Sure, sure. I'm okay. Well, cut out the acrobatics then, will you? Now he's climbing again. I'd call that a pitch up. Fox three. This is Fox two. Yeah, Woody. I'm gonna catch up with Johnny. He's leveling off now. You better pull up on the other side of him. I think something's wrong. Can you see him from that side? Uh-uh. Can you see him from your side? Yeah. Looks like he's grabbing at his oxygen mask. Throttle back, Johnny. Throttle back. Fox leader. This is Fox two. Throttle back. Throttle back. I don't think he can hear us, Woody. Throttle back, Johnny. Maybe he heard you that time, Jack. Slow down a little. Can you see him now? I've got a bad angle. Yeah, he's going too fast, Woody. He's doing better than five hundred again. Throttle back, Johnny. Throttle back. Fox leader. This is Fox two. Throttle back. Can you see him now? I've got a bad angle here. Yeah. Yeah, I can see him. Looks like his head's resting against the canopy. What? Hey, something happened. Now he's slumped forward. Fox leader. This is Fox three. Are you all right? Johnny, are you all right? Woody, I think he passed out. Something's wrong, Woody. Yeah? Pull up in front of him. Give him a blast from your tail. Maybe it'll shake him awake. Roger. No good. Try it again. Oh, that's enough. What's the matter? I'm afraid you'll send him into a spin. We haven't crossed the front lines yet. We're still over enemy territory. If we go down now... I think we can hold out. I guess so. I think Johnny can hold out without oxygen. I don't know. They catch him, Woody. He's starting to roll over. It was green for a while, sir. I came too and found out what these two characters had done for me. I should imagine it would be. The most amazing operation I've ever heard. We followed the whole thing on control tower radio. We never thought you'd make it in. Amazing exhibition of nerve and skill. Yes, sir. Yours truly. Well, I sure appreciate Miller's early training in knocking stuck bombs out of bomb bay doors. Never can't serve when such things will come in handy. Guess we'll have to have that song rewritten for you three. What? What song? From now on, we'll be singing. Coming in on a wing and a wing. Well, yes, sir. There'll still be a lot of praying involved. Fine portrayal. Now, here's an important message. Can you qualify to fly in your United States Air Force? There's good news for you young men who have had two or more years of college. Yes, because today the age requirement has been lowered to include you fellows who are just 19. If you can qualify and are between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half, you can fly the mighty bombers and speedy jets of today's expanding Air Force. There's an important job to be done and there's an important future for you in Air Force Blue. For full information, visit your United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station or nearest Air Force Base or write to Aviation Cadet Branch, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, 25 D.C. This has been another program on proudly we hail, presented, transcribed and co-operation with this station by the United States Army and the United States Air Force Recruiting Service. This program featured William Redfield as Captain Jack Miller. This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail.