Word: 88s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which wounded the copilot...
...Gallery started the war as commander of the fleet air base at Reykjavik, Iceland. His relationship with the U.S. Army Air Force was sometimes-less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck if I found...