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This is Lee Habib and this is Our American Stories. James Warner Bella's pulp fiction writings on cavalry and Indians were published in paperbacks or serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. His short stories were turned into films by John Ford. and his screenplays became movie masterpieces. Here to tell another Hollywood Goes to War story is Roger McGrath.
McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes, Violence on the Frontier. He's a US Marine and a former history professor at UCLA. Dr. McGrath has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries. And he's a regular contributor here at Our American Stories.
Take it away, McGrath. Uh The great movies, actors, directors, and writers of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Produced what has since been called the golden era of Hollywood. Scripts came from great novels and works of history. and from compelling stories serialized in magazines.
one of those who contributed mightily to the golden era. In particular, to the movies of John Ford, was the writer James Warner Bella. Fort Apache, she wore a yellow ribbon, Rio Grande, and others came from the pen of Bella. His stories were powerful and poignant. and filled with men of character and courage.
He himself was a veteran not only of World War I, but also World War Two. Bella is born in New York City in 1899. To an upper-middle-class family that can trace its roots back to the colonial era. As a youth, he is a voracious reader and excels in English and history. He's also interested in aviation.
And he thinks she might become a pilot one day. Although at 11 years old in 1910, He witnesses the crash of a biplane at an air show in New York. Yeah. After high school, he's afraid he'll miss the Great War if he waits for the United States to get involved. and crosses the border to Canada.
We enlist in the Royal Flying Corps. He passes all the qualifications for flight school. And it is assigned to a group of cadets instructed by Pete Landry, a short, tough veteran of the great Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge. Landry calls his cadets, Huns. Because he says they destroy more British planes than do the Germans.
With fewer than 10 hours of instruction, Bell is ordered into the sky for a solo flight. Roaring down the runway, he thinks the old Jenny is shaking more than usual, but he pulls back on the stick and the plane soars into the sky. Approaching Toronto, he makes a sweepy left turn and heads back to the airfield. His landing's perfect. Beginner's luck.
On his next three landings, he breaks, one after another, a wheel, a strut. and a tail skid. Whether that's a result of hard landings or the age of the plane, is open to debate. What Bella didn't do is crash a plane as it did other cadets. including several who died.
More weeks of training and more solo flight time follow. Occasionally the runway is covered with snow. An officer gets the idea that the plane's wheels can be replaced with skis. Bella and a fellow cadet get the first chance to try taking off and landing with the new gear. They both succeed.
Bella says he and the others are endowed with The supreme courage of ignorance. They also attempt aerobatic maneuvers without any real instruction. Bella flies his first loop. It's trial and error. The brass are worried and issue two pages of rudimentary instructions.
The first page describes how to initiate a particular maneuver. And the second, how to recover from it. After reading the two pages, Dame a butcher. one of Bella's close flying buddies, wads up the first page and throws it away. If you don't read that, he says, You won't need this.
and he crumples the second page and throws it away also. Bella thinks they are all on a path of acute insanity. Despite all this, Bella grows restless. He sticks pins in a map of the world, identifying places he'd like to visit. Arthur McKeo, a good friend and highly decorated veteran of World War One, Ask Billa how long he will be gone, replies Billa.
Probably the rest of my life. in a little longer. Uh Bella first lands in Arizona. I meet Jimmy McGuire. A New York Irishman who fought in the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898.
and then went to Canada in nineteen fourteen for World War One. Maguire served with the Canadian Light Infantry and came home as a captain. Decorated with Britain's military cross.
Now there's talk about a revolution brewing in Mexico. British General Melville Boynton You lost an arm in World War I. Is put in charge of organizing a brigade of mercenaries to aid the Mexican rebels. He appoints McGuire, commander of the First Regiment. McGuire intern?
offers Bella command of one of the regiment's companies. Upon learning, his battalion commander was a very good man. will be the famous playwright. Porter Emerson Brown. who had been a speech writer for Teddy Roosevelt.
and had written with Poncho Villa. Bella accepts immediately. It all sounds like high adventure to Bella. His first contact across the border is with a rebel commander known as Il Coronel. who controls a good portion of northern Sonora.
The colonel wears high, beautifully polished boots, a tailored uniform. and silver spurs. He has a silver plated forty five strapped to his waist.
Some of his troops are barefooted Indians. He lives on a large ranch show. with dozens of workers and servants. He's fond of offering girls, barely into their teens, to his guests. Bella thinks he has too much power.
Too much cruelty. and too little intelligence. Upon successfully completing flight training, Bell is commissioned as second lieutenant. Within days, he shipped to England, Where he joins the newly formed 117th Squadron stationed at Witten near Cambridge. It's more training for Bella in fighters and bombers, but also day missions across the Channel.
Bella returns to base one day with bullet holes in his plane. including one in his headrest. By the end of the war, Bella has been promoted to deputy leader of B-Flight in the 117th. Months back home in New York. Bella enrolls at Columbia University.
and earns a bachelor's degree. He later earns a master's at Georgetown. With college by them, Bella sets his sights on becoming a writer. His head's full of stories. And they soon find their way onto the pages of the Saturday Evening Post.
He also writes his first book, these frantic years about the roaring 20s in New York City. He later says the book has been forgotten by all. and perhaps deservedly so. Two more books follow quickly. the sons of Cain.
a novel about the fragmented lives of men and women. and the gods of yesterday. a fictionalized account. of his fine experiences in World War I. Belle enjoys a good income.
and is living well. He comes to know acclaimed authors F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edna Ferber, and John P. Marquand.
He knows Charles Lindbergh before Lindbergh makes his daring solo flight across the Atlantic. Bella is a good friend of New York's mayor, Jimmy Walker. Because of articles Bella has written about the military. including one supporting Billy Mitchell. There's talk in political circles.
Let he be considered for a post in the Department of War. And you've been listening to Roger McGrath tell the story of James Warner Bella's life in the end, a crazy life, a life of voluntary adventure. And of the highest degree and highest order. Sneaking across the border at a young age for adventure in war, in battle, in the air, the most dangerous place, and getting the kind of experience, well, young men used to dream about, back when young men used to dream and have lives of adventure. And soon he pursues his life of writing.
This is after the war, after World War I. And pretty soon he's hobnobbing with the greatest writers and leaders of New York. When we come back, More of the life of James Warner Bella. Here on Our American Stories.
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Let's pick up. Where we last left off, here's Roger McGrath. Bella soon learns that L. Coronel, simply takes whatever he needs, saying it will be paid for later. One night, Bill is dining with the Colonel when a well-dressed, silver-haired man approaches their table and addresses El Coronel in Spanish.
Bella understands it's something about a debt the Colonel owes the man. El Coronao suddenly draws his forty five and puts two bullets in the man's belly. The man collapses to the floor, writhing in pain as he dies. Stunned by what he has just witnessed, Bella can see nothing. He simply gets up from the table.
walks out the front door of the dining club and heads for the border. Old hands such as McGuire and Brown understand the killing is simply the reality of life in Mexico. those with power exercise it at their own discretion. This is not what Bella signed up for. He resigns his commission and is off for his second pin on the map, China.
He's soon in Harbin. The commercial center and largest city in the province of Manchuria. It's still an international city when Bella arrives. There are dozens of nationalities resident in the city. The largest number of foreign settlers are from Russia.
a consequence of the Trans Siberian Railroad and a branch line that extends from Lake Baikal southeast into Manchuria. It was the Russians who in the early 1900s Turn the small village of Harbin. into a thriving city. An old friend of Bella's, George Hansen. is the U.
S. Consul General in Arbin. Bella thinks Harbin is something like a booming mining camp in the Old West. No single entity actually governs the city. Each nationality looks after its own.
Chinese warlords may exercise power in the countryside. But in Arbin, Chinese are simply one of many nationalities. In an effort to bring some order to the city, Hansen hosts a dinner party at the Railway Club, inviting the leaders from the many different communities. He hopes the gathering will result in an informal compact to govern the unruly city. Henson makes Bella the chief of protocol.
Bella's chief duty Is ensuring that the bartenders mix all the right drinks and the waiters promptly serve them. Martinis in Manhattan's are served in honor of the Americans. Vodka in honor of the Russians. Scotch in honor of the British. Rice wine in honor of the Chinese.
Sake in honor of the Japanese. Everyone drinks, everyone sings, everyone expresses friendship. George Hanson beams. Several Russians begin their famous deep squat dancing with daggers half stuffed down the collars of their shirts. Tied to the exposed handles of the daggers are lighted candles.
The climax of the dance. Comes when the Russians bound high into the air and jerk their necks and shoulders forward. The daggers fly out. in with candles burning brightly. Stick blade first in the wooden floor.
Well, it's unclear if the stunt was entirely successful. By this time, it doesn't matter.
Well lubricated Americans, Russians, British, Chinese, Japanese, and others. are jovial and feeling no pain. Bella says It's the nearest the world has ever come to international amity in the Far East. Bell is soon off to his next pin on the map, Shanghai. Then other pins, Hong Kong.
Singapore, the south of France, London, Scotland and Ireland. In County Galway, Ireland, quite by accident. He runs into William Gargan. who had been one of the best pilots in the one seventeenth. The two haven't seen each other.
since the war fourteen years earlier. Miller returns to New York and writes furiously. churning out six novels and several short stories from nineteen thirty two through nineteen forty. He still has an itch for military life though. And in 1937, joins an armory reserve unit.
Four years later, Just before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Bellas put on active duty as a first lieutenant. Bella hasn't flown since 1923, and at age 42, the Army is not going to put him through flight training. With his World War One experience, His writing skill. and a sophisticated knowledge of people and places.
Bella's perfectly suited. for a billet as a staff officer. He first serves in this capacity stateside, with an infantry division. but is later sent overseas to the China-Burma-India theater of the war. This puts Bella.
who's rising quickly through the ranks in his element. The CBI theater is the wild west of World War II. It means that Billa can leave his staff duties. and volunteer for missions behind enemy lines. Early in 1944, James Bella, now a lieutenant colonel.
gets himself attached to the 1st Air Commando Group. Led by Colonel Philip Cochrane. One of the most innovative and daring American commanders of World War II. Colonel Cochrane's Mission is to insert troops behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Burma. to begin a counteroffensive.
always set for the night of March 5, 1944. in what's code named Operation Thursday. The troops will be carried in gliders towed by C-47s. The military version of the Douglas DC-3. Bella will go with the first wave of gliders.
At six in the evening, the C-47s start taking off from an airstrip in India. The gliders are attached to the planes by long tow ropes. Our glider jerked and shuddered as our tow ship took up the slack on the rope, says Bella. Then we began to move down the strip and into the dust. On both sides of the field, the long lines of troops were still filing in endlessly.
to fill the other gliders behind us. Once you're born, They have to sweat out a nearly 300-mile flight to the landing zone. Code name Broadway. The men inside the glider are packed tightly together, with their bodies, gear, and weapons pushing into each other. They're mostly silent.
Bella wonders what will greet them when they land. If they land, will a Japanese fighter pilot with exceptional night vision take off from one of the several Japanese airstrips along the way and intercept them? Bullet toe rope, break. while a thunderstorm sent them into a mountainside. Finally, word comes they are approaching the landing zone.
Impela can see smudge bots glowing in the distance. At 1,000 feet above ground level, he feels a sharp jolt as the tow rope is disengaged. It's now up to the glider pilot to land the heavily loaded crate. And you've been listening to Roger McGrath tell the story of James Warner Bella's life. And my goodness, more adventure for any 10 men or women.
It's just remarkable. That story of him sticking pins in the map of the world, places he planned to visit, places he actually would visit, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Scotland, Ireland. This wasn't just travel the way we do it today, stopping off at fine eateries, stopping off at fancy hotels. No, this was very different kind of adventurism, and it's flanked by his participation in not just the First World War, but the Second. As McGrath said, he had an itch for.
military life. When we come back, more of the story of James Warner Bella here on Our American Stories.
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Not just as a writer, but as a fighter. And we continue now with Roger McGrath. in the final part of this story. Here we go into a blind clearing at better than a hundred miles an hour, says Billa. Howling down the night wind.
Deep into the heart of enemy territory with a whole Jap army between us and the following waves. Wabella's glider is one of the lucky ones. It lands without mishap, and the troops disembark and race for the cover of the surrounding jungle. Bella is soon leading a recon party. to locate lighters that have missed the landing zone.
Meanwhile, gliders in wreckage are being removed from the landing zone. One glider is positioned and set up with lights to act as a control tower. A parameter is established. In a short time, More than 9,000 troops are on the ground at the cost of 150 dead. Within hours a fairly secure airfield is in operation.
200 miles inside enemy lines. Within days. Mitchell B-25s and B-51 Mustangs are flying off the field to strike at Japanese forces. James Bella stays in the CBI Theater through 1944. And for a time serves on the staff of British Admiral Lord Mountbatten.
the commander of Allied forces in the CBI theater. Bella doesn't return to the States until late in 1945. He comes home with decorations that include the bronze star, the Legion of Merit, the Commendation Medal, and the Air Medal. He leaves active duty in January 1946. But will serve until 1957 in the reserves, retiring as a colonel.
Mm-hmm. After World War II No. Bella buys a home in the Santa Monica Canyon, apart of the greater Pacific Balzades community. His post-war years in his canyon home see his writing productivity equal that of his earlier years. from the late 1940s.
Through the 1960s. Bella has eight books and three dozen short stories and articles published. He also writes or co-writes nine screenplays. James Bella will probably best be remembered for his work with John Ford. The two first met, not in Hollywood, but in India during World War two.
Ford's famous cavalry trilogy Fort Apache, 1948. She wore a yellow ribbon, 1949. and Rio Grande, nineteen fifty. are the products of Bella's brilliant writing. Fort Apache comes from Bella's story Massacre.
But the others are forgotten. You're wrong there. They aren't forgotten because they haven't died. They're living. Right out there.
Collingwood and the rest. They'll keep on living as long as the regiment lives. Their pay is $13 a month, their diet beans and hay. Maybe horse meat before this campaign is over. Fight over cards or rot gut whiskey, but share the last drop in their canteens.
Faces may change. Names. They're there. They're the regiment. The regular army.
Ooh.
Now and fifty years from now. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is based on two of Bella's stories, The Big Hunt and War Party. But I know you're Performance under you. New Commander Make me proud of you. Always been proud of you.
Rio Grande comes from Bella's Mission with No Record. I haven't seen you for 15 years.
So I've been told, sir. I have no clear memory. You proved that. when you failed at West Point. Yes, sir.
Where did you enlist? At Highland Falls, sir, next day. Uh lied about your age. Recruit training. Jefferson Barracks, sir.
Well, on the official records, you're my son. But on this post you're just another trooper. You heard me tell the recruits what I need from them. Twice that I will expect from you. At Chipola Pack.
My father, your grandfather, Shot for cowardice, the son of a United States Senator. That was his duty. I will do mine. You've chosen my way of life. I hope you have the guts to Endure it.
But put out of your mind any romantic ideas that it's a way of glory. It's a life of suffering and of hardship. An uncompromising devotion to your Oath and your duty. Have I the colonel's permission to speak? Within proper limits, yes.
I didn't ask to come to this regiment, sir. but I wouldn't have it otherwise now that I'm here. May I also put something straight? Proceed. I'm not in this post to call you father.
I was ordered here as Trooper Jefferson York of the United States Cavalry. And that is all I wish to be, sir. Then we understand each other. We do, sir. Bellow will work again with John Ford, writing the screenplay.
For Ford's 1951 war documentary. This is Korea. This is Korea. When Ford and Bell go to Korea to shoot the documentary, they both are still serving in the reserves. Ford goes as a captain in the Navy.
and Bella as a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Beller later co-writes the screenplays. for John Ford directed Sergeant Rutlage, nineteen sixty. And the man who shot Liberty Valence, the man. nineteen sixty two.
You didn't kill Liberty Valence. What? Think back, pilgrim. Valence came out of the saloon. You were walking toward him when he fired his first shot.
Remember But Tom, why did you do it? Why? Cold-blooded murder. But I can live with it. Callie's happy.
Mm-hmm. She wanted you alive. But you saved my life. I wish I hadn't. Collie's your girl now.
Go on back in there and take that nomination. You taught her how to read and write.
Now give her something to read and write about. Beller's work in Hollywood is not restricted to collaboration with John Ford. Bella has a hand in five additional movies. either writing the screenplays or the stories the movies are based on. Probably the best of these films is Sea Chase.
1954. starring John Wayne and Lana Turner. James Warner Bella. dies of a heart attack in 1976. At the age of 77, and is buried at the Veterans Cemetery in West Los Angeles.
Whether stories of courage, daring due, and valor, He was one of those who made the golden era of Hollywood golden. Although the author of 19 novels, dozens of short stories, and nine screenplays. on his headstone, according to his wishes. Nothing of that is mentioned. All that is said about his life is Colonel USA World War II.
Korea. Yeah. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Roger McGrath. Another great installment in our Hollywood Goes to War series, this time James Warner Bella's Life.
Is featured, and I didn't know nearly as much about this man as I thought. I knew a little about his battle, tested endurance, a little about his life, definitely about his work and the cinema and his screenplays, but nothing else. And my goodness, the length of his military career, the length is astonishing. I mean, it bridges wars and right to Korea. and he retires, my goodness, by almost not stopping.
I mean, he's straight through to 1957 in the reserves, retiring as a colonel.
So imagine this, you know, World War I in the teens of the 20th century, World War II, right almost dead center, Korea heading almost to the 1960s, and there he was. serving the call, answering the call, and doing so with gusto. Purely voluntarily at any time, he could have ended this. He'd paid his dues. This was something he loved.
It was a part of the man. And then we find out, of course, about the writing. And so much of it couldn't have happened. could not have been possible. without his war experience.
And the great ones, you should all see them. She wore a yellow ribbon, Rio Grande, and of course, Fort Apache. which is one of my favorites. And then the man who shot Liberty Valence, which is a classic. And he died in 1976 of a heart attack.
Buried in the Vette Cemetery in L Lay, and on his tombstone, all that mattered to him was his service to his country. The words kernel. USA World War II through Korea. The story of James Warner Bella, here. of our American stories.
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