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...fact that on later flights he was busy making tests on the pilots and himself, ascribes very little of it to getting used to enemy fire. For a man never gets really used to enemy fire: Kirsch has records of a pilot who reacted similarly on his 8th, 15th, 22nd and 25th missions...
...newcomer to Harvard's communications school, Lieutenant Dobin has been in the Navy for almost two years. The citation presented to him by Commander Paradise bears the signature of Admiral Lowrie, commander of the 8th Amphibious Forces. The entire contingent of officers enrolled in the three months' communications course witnessed the presentation...
Leading his battalion of the 8th Marines into another beachhead landing-at Saipan last June - 6-ft, 200-lb. Lieut. Colonel Henry Pierson Crowe came about as near to getting killed as a man could, and still live. First a Jap bullet pierced his left lung, not far from his heart. Then he was almost killed by one of his own men who mistook him for a Jap. Just as the man was aiming, Jim Crowe raised his head feebly, identified himself by twirling his famed red mustache. Finally dragged back to a shell hole in the sand near...
...typical of Mikkola-coached teams, Harvard placed four men in a bunch in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th spots. The summary: Harvard 26, W.P.I. 31. Winner, Atwell (H); Lemieux (WT); Lacedonia (WT); Tuttle (H); Brooks (WT); Rochello (H); Homans (H); tie between Noble (H) and Cady (H); Chase (WT); Stricker (WT). Time...
...steep ravine we toiled again, and plunged through a glorious mountain field, sprinkled with red flowers, silvery brooks and green pine woods, with the wind roaring before us like a boisterous symphony. Above the woods, 4,000 feet up, I finally found the staff of the 8th Corps and Major Randolph Churchill...