Secrets of Radar

The girl with wind-blown hair ordered the coolie pushing a cart loaded with instruments and strange radio-like boxes to come close to the big anti-aircraft gun and leave the car...

Mac found three of his weary comrades waiting patiently for his return to the parking space. Like Mac, they had their billets in the city and hoped for a ride in. They got it, t...

Three times during the day her long electric radar fingers reached out to touch metal floating in the sky. Three times, with quickening pulse, she followed these a hundred, two...

Slowly the sound of battle faded away in the distance. With fingers that trembled violently, Gale drew the blind before her window aside and started her radar set working again.

Eager as Gale was for a look at the scene that lay spread out beneath her window, she gladly followed the colonel's lead in a slow, leisurely breakfast. Full well she realized t...

They drove for what seemed to Gale endless hours. Smooth, paved roads gave way to hard surfaced ones with many bumps, but still they roared on. In their open car, with the air c...

Than Shwe, who had become the center of an impromptu gathering, slipped away, and the circle broke up. After stirring her iced tea thoughtfully, Gale drank it slowly, set the gl...

Though Jimmie had given Gale the name of the river that flowed out of the narrow valley where his plane had been wrecked and had even told her that he was on the right bank of t...

She got a slight inkling of what was coming from the little Burmese nurse, Than Shwe. Like some frightened bird Than Shwe came dancing into Gale's room just as she was preparing...

In the meantime Isabelle found herself in a situation that in some ways seemed more precarious than that of her companion. Having found her way from the temple room through a na...

The following morning when just before dawn Gale and Jan wound in and out among the trees of the Secret Forest on their way to work, it seemed as if they were in another world....

The trail the three girls followed was strange. It was not a road. There were no wheel tracks, and yet it was well traveled, trodden down and smooth by years of constant use. He...

Gale was surprised and startled by her visitor. She had talked to the colonel once, and that only the day before. He had suggested that she go out and practice with Sergeant Mac...

"We--we've got to get out of here," she exclaimed. "Just got to down one of those bombers. We--" She stopped short. The roar of more exploding enemy bombs drowned the sound of h...

For many days after that, out on the battle front, life for the American forces was an almost monotonous succession of victories. Taken by surprise, the small force of Japs defe...

The petition was delivered and acknowledged, and there the matter rested for some time. The rainy season dwindled away more and more. Each day increased the suspense hanging ove...

"Stick around and they'll get your radar," was the sergeant's encouraging comment. "Some dirty spy has put a finger on this spot. That's the third time they've been over here."

In the brightening dawn of that eventful day Isabelle watched Pete ride away leading the big push, atop his tank. She saw him cross the bridge that only a few hours before had n...

The meal over, they were once more on their way. The road grew rougher and steeper. Jan was forever switching from two-wheel to four-wheel driving. At one time they seemed about...

They had just reached the top of a flight of steps leading to the lawn when all of a sudden a door leading to a second story balcony flew open, releasing a flood of light. In th...

"It may have been bad aim," said Jimmie. "But it didn't do your gun a bit of good." He was examining a mass of twisted steel that had been Mac's gun. "You can contribute that to...

It was a shame to sneak off after they had received such a grand reception, but had they remained, they must surely have been crushed by the mob of boys in khaki eager to congra...

It required all the next day to bring Jimmie by slow stages down the rough mountain trail to the temple. There they were given a real treat, some rare vegetable soup, rice bread...

The road that led to Hell's Half Hour grew more difficult by the hour. More than once Jan climbed out to push while Gale held the wheel. "Get along there, Jeep," she would cry....

For some time after retiring that night Gale lay on her army cot, eyes staring at the blank walls of her tent, fully awake. Through her mind whirled delicate chimes, ladies, lon...

Jan was frantic. In the air raid shelter, gas from the explosion was stifling. "I've got to get Gale out of here," she told herself. She tried to move the steel door. It was jam...

Gale did visit the colonel next day, but at his request, not hers. And not a word did she say about the temple adventure. She was rather ashamed of the whole affair. True enough...

"Isabelle told me about these, and that you have seen the woman in a temple near here. It is not easy to keep track of all the people around us. I sent two Intelligence Officers...

Gale and Jan climbed down the rocky cliff over which the radar set had been blown by the enemy's bomb until it seemed they could go no farther. They at last found themselves on...