Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 42

"VJTEDXESDAY, MARCH 24, 194a THE WORLDS CBEATEST NEWSPAPED THE REAL FLIP GCDEKIN 1 1 i nr -r i 17 rr 7 rj IVir REPORTS' PLEASE ID AIRPLANE IN THE AIS EVERY TIME A NEW PILOT I WHAT 15 A TO OPERATIONS FORCES ANP YOU CANT TAKES UP A PURSUIT AIRPLANE. FLIP CORKIN, I I'VE BEEN THINK. YOU'RE A I OKAY, I SOFTY AT TAFFYJ I CANT HELP I 3 STEWIN' ABOUT KDS I j-V LIKE TERRY CHINESE PILOTS ON A SURPRISE N6HT RAID.1 VOU STAY OUT PROM UNDKZ. THAT APPLE OFFICE, SIR FOR THE PIRST TIME flip HOLD TERRY'S HANP WHILE HE'S DOINO THAT SPYING TREE WHILE I'M GONE I JOB FOR THE CHINESE ARMY m. 1 1 -At), ill I 3 ft 1 from Caniff's sketch book on Colonel Cochran, show the pilot in his characteristically careless costumes and in his attitudes of disregard for military customs.

Colonel Cochran is short on etiquet and formality and long on fighting ability. Caniff remembered him from their days together as students at Ohio State university. Several years ago Caniff decided to introduce some aviation episodes into his Desiring to be accurate as to minute details of the the artist went to Groton', where Cochran's air squadron was then stationed. The aviators staged "dog fights" for him and helped him to a better understanding of the men who fly, and he in turn helped popularize the air forces with his stirring but accurate pictures. It was during this time that the character Flip Corkin was born in Caniff's mind.

Flip was introduced in the strip last August. Lots of folks now call Colonel Cochran "Flip." EVERY ONE who follows Milton Caitiff's stirring adventures of "Terry and the Pirates," a sample strip of which is reproduced above, is familiar with the daredevil Yankee army air pilot, Flip Corkin, and his bold exploits in China. Some readers perhaps may not yet know that there is a real Flip Corkin; He is Lt. Col. Philip G.

Cochran, U. S. who, instead of fighting in China, has won fame as a flyer in the skies above North Africa. The drawings below, Left: Cochran, the gray -V JOT eaglet is 33 years old. He 4 had white hair at 20.

,1 -rr-V I I Below: His jrj ZT cnrr ideas of military 11 lilt vN I costume are i (M A rX' 1 I I somewhat un- ATeieToTp rV A training flight from th. yM i LWC I Af ground; has enriched the WIT 'v YT -J- rA)IPi I when the Tcolonel I 1 V' t'OZfA AfeS "gets quick with x4rVj the lip" new pi- lots listen: 1 The colonel, dressed for business, with his mind 25,000 feet up, is the despair of regulation-minded senior and junior officers. His salutes are not shown in any guide book. (But the salutes he does with six machine guns at -400 m. p.

h. are attested by piles of Nazi junk on the desert.) Tomorrow's Color Feature "WAVES in War," by Richard M. Fletcher.