Action for Men, May 1960 — page 25: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“DEATH BEFORE CAPTURE’ ESCAPE OF LT. CLEM SUMMERSILL By CLAY BLAIR, JR. @ ON JANUARY 15, Captain Wayne Sawyer and Lieutenant Clinton Summersill were relaxing in their tents in South Korea enjoying a day off. They had flown 18 mis- sions in nine days and were tired. They had just finished a big chicken lunch and planned to spend the afternoon and evening over a bottle of brandy. These plans were abruptly From the book BEYOND COURAGE by Clay Blair, Jr. Copy- right 1959 by Clay Blair, Jr. Courtesy of David McKay Co., Inc. quashed when they received word from Opera- tions that they had been assigned to fly a “‘fill- in” mission for a T-6 crew that had been unable to report for duty. As he pulled on his heavy winter flying suit, Summersill stared at the unopened bottle of brandy. “Just our luck,” he said to Sawyer. The two men arrived on the flight line at PLEASE TURN PAGE cS