Sparky Ames of the Ferry Command ROY J. SNELL FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM Series FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY TABLE OF CONTENTS A Formation of Four-Motored Planes Passed Over Sparky Ames of the FERRY COMMAND Sparky Ames of the FERRY COMMAND CHAPTER I THE FLIGHT OF THE LONE STAR CHAPTER I THE FLIGHT OF THE LONE STAR The air above the Brazilian jungles along the dark waters of the Rio Branco in northern Brazil was full of sound. The roar and thunder of many motors beat down upon the sea of waving treetops until it seemed to stir them into animated life. A formation of great, four-motored planes was passing over. Two natives in a small dugout on the river dropped their paddles into their wooden canoe, then sat staring upward. The river’s current swept them beneath the branches of a dead mango tree. One of them reached up to snap off a brittle branch. Breaking pieces from this branch he placed them, one by one, in the bottom of the canoe. When there were thirty-eight pieces, he stopped to sit as if in a trance watching those great, man-made birds go sweeping on. Presently his companion grunted, then pointed at the sky upstream. The first native again looked skyward, then placed two more sticks with the
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