Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Platitudinous Paraphrase. Sensing the growing strain on U.S.-British relations, Britain last week dispatched its ace trouble shooter, Minister of State Richard K. Law, to Washington...
Lieut. Wayne Morris, 30, tall, blond, peacetime Hollywood movie actor, now a veteran Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific, returned to Hollywood on 30-day leave, became its first real-life war ace: seven Jap Zeros. Said he: "My biggest fear all the time I was at sea was that one of my pictures would be shown aboard my ship...
...Major Richard Ira Bong, the ranking U.S. ace, last week went the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry . . . above and beyond the call of-duty" from Oct. 10 to Nov. 15. During that time 26-year-old Dick Bong, officially classed as a gunnery instructor, had volunteered to fight, had bagged eight Jap planes...
...citation did not mention Major Bong's score-36-and if it had, the figure would have been out of date. On the day the citation was made public. Bong went out over Leyte in his Lockheed and bagged two more. In the U.S. ace race he was four ahead of the next contender, the Navy's 34-year-old Commander David McCampbell, who was out of the contest for awhile-called home to show other Navymen...
Married. Captain Don S. Gentile, 23, dark-haired, dimpled, Mustang fighter ace, credited with shooting down 23 enemy planes; and Isabella Masdea, 21, his home-town sweetheart; in a cross-sabred, military ceremony; in Columbus, Ohio...