Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fights spaced two days apart, one over Manila Bay and one over Ormoc, Commander David McCampbell last week downed two more Jap planes, brought his air-combat total to 34. It was still two shy of Major Richard Bong's top score. But in some respects, the Navy ace's record was more remarkable...
...Sheridan, dressed in old clothes, posed on a Hollywood street and got a free facial-in blackface-from ace cinemakeup man, Perc Westmore. She then drove down Hollywood Boulevard in an open car to fulfill her election bet with Democrat Westmore. Hollywood bets led to other antics...
...Bong knocked down two more Japanese fighters, ran his score to 36. ¶ Flying from his carrier, the Navy's top man, Commander David McCampbell, got two more over Manila, ran his score to 32. ¶Near Cebu, Major Thomas B. McGuire, the Army's No. 2 ace in the Pacific, bagged two Jap fighter bombers, ran his score...
...planes was almost broken in 95 minutes of furious fighting during the second battle of the Philippines, when Commander David McCampbell, piloting a Hellcat, shot down nine Jap fighters (plus two "probables"). McCampbell's air-combat total after his rampage: 30-which made him the second-ranking U.S. ace...
Death by Fragment. In the next room McCarthy and Dowling were trying to help Terry. There was nothing anyone could do for Ace Bush. He had been instantly killed by a fragment. His body was virtually un marked, his face calm and serene. It was obvious that he had not known even a momentary flash of panic or pain...