The "Gooney Bird"

The ten-year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney Bird" and settled down for a night's work.

While many a faster, flashier cousin was earthbound last week for lack of targets, the C-47 creaked in slow circles over enemy territory as the girls broadcast a steadv chatter to the Communist soldiers below. Unperturbed by the heavy flak which broadcasting planes invariably draw, the two girls talked about hardships on the front and the spring planting that was being neglected back home.

"Gooney Bird" flights are designed not to induce surrenders but to create unrest. By week's end, however, the Communists themselves gave the "Gooney Bird" its biggest pat on the tail. The two girls, known only as Miss L. and Miss C. to the Communists, were officially branded as war criminals.

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