COUGAR WARRIOR

About the Book

Writing under the pen name, Cougar Warrior Winslow, the author was called to duty from Southwestern College in February 1943 after refusing deferment as a Conscientious Objector. In April, 1945, he joined a ten man bomber crew island hopping across the Pacific to join the 13^th. Air Force. This journey initiated a chain-reaction of adventures. Torture and death by beheading was a standing vendetta to any member of the hated Thirteenth Air Force. Follow the author and his bomber crew into air and ground warfare as they become locked into a struggle for survival.

A great love story precedes this tale of survival and narrow escapes, climaxing on the Flying Dutchman Ranch outside Cheyenne, Wyoming in the fall of 1946.

About the Author

Church offered him tuition free education through the Doctoral level if he would declare himself a Conscientious Objector, and become a ministerial student. This great honor caused him much turmoil, as he had to make a decision within one week. He wrestled with this life changing decision up until the minute the conductor said, “All Aboard” and the train carried him away forever as a Flyer in the “Greatest Generation.”

Entering the war late, he found himself flying a B-24 bomber island hopping across the pacific to join a combat Squadron in the 13^th. Air Force. Years later recounting his tour, he realized his war was anything but normal. He was urged by friends to write about those years fighting a desperate enemy who had not lost a war in 500 years. From Honolulu, Hawaii, to refueling at Canton Island, Tarawa atoll (15,000 American dead), Guadalcanal, Biak, New Guinea, Nadzab, New Guinea, Morotai Island, and finally joining his combat Squadron on Samar Island, Northern Philippines and incidentally cris-crossing Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated route of 1939 make for many hair raising experiences from which he feels lucky to have survived. How he gets his Cheyenne Indian name is a colorful and exciting story made unforgettable by the love of his life, Pollyanna Andersen. The combat missions over Japanese held islands are first hand, eyewitness accounts as seen from the cockpit of the author’s B-24 bomber. Once a bomber ceases to fly, the flyers become foot soldiers in ground combat hunted by a desperate and cruel foe that prefer death to surrender and met out torture and death to their captives. The war becomes all too real for the crew of B-40 on Morotai, and later in the jungles of Borneo. For the ultimate story of survival and a love story second to none, read Cougar Warrior and be there at this exciting time in history.

The philosophy of the Cheyenne Shaman and Christianity as dispensed by the secular gospel are interestingly contrasted with some mystifying Questions posed about the protection of a supernatural force and asks some searching questions about mysticism’s supernatural powers.

This is a book for mature readers, but youths will find many questions raised about life as posed by the author’s alter ego, Cougar Warrior as he recounts his life and loves at a time in life they can readily identify. The author’s age at the time of his adventures was twenty-two.