Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Day Major George E. Preddy Jr., son of a freight conductor and top U.S. ace in the European Theater, was shot down by his own comrades. Shy, stocky George Preddy, P-51 fighter pilot, had 25½ enemy planes to his credit (plus five destroyed on the ground) when he climbed into the skies over Belgium that day and tangled with two German fighters. He knocked them both down and took off after a Focke-Wulf 190. U.S. troops on the ground opened up with ack-ack, trying to get the 190. Instead they shot down 25-year...
Last week the New York Times received a dispatch from one of its ace staff members, written from a Manhattan hospital bed. It came from thin, thoughtful Brooks Atkinson, who chucked 20 years of play reviewing to become a war correspondent. During his two years in China for the Times, he watched a hungry nation fight a lean war, saw men killed, and lost his own health. Since returning to the U.S. two months ago, he has been in & out of hospitals, recovering first from jaundice, then from an operation...
Easily the outstanding player on the court was Jaworski, ace Melville guard, who last year broke Hank Lusetti's scoring record. With only 11 markers Wednesday, Jaworski was forced to bow to Jack Clark of the Crimson for scoring honors, but the big guard's play marked him from the opening whistle as the boy to watch...
...give me a home near the Capitol dome, With a yard where little children can play; Just one room or two, any old thing will do, Oh, we can't find a pla-ace to stay...
Major Richard Ira Bong, snub-nosed, wavy-haired U.S. Ace of Aces (40 Jap planes), returned from the Southwest Pacific, where he had burned up the skies since last September, promptly set off to visit his fiancee, Marge Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., whom he plans to marry...