Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's gangling, 36-year-old Frank L. Kluckhohn is regarded by his colleagues as an energetic but sometimes foot-in-mouth reporter. Last week in the Southwest Pacific, Correspondent Kluckhohn gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...
Whatever the great U.S. ace race might be doing to fighter pilots' teamwork against the enemy, it was making news and new heroes. Out in front last week was a blond, crinkle-eyed, corn-fed youngster from Poplar, Wis. Over Hollandia, New Guinea, the Army Air Forces' stocky, 23-year-old Captain Richard Ira Bong had smashed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's 26-year-old record* by knocking down his 26th and 27th Jap aircraft...
...after he put down his Lockheed Lightning on his home base, Dick Bong became a major. He had also a clear claim to the title "U.S. ace of aces," which had been claimed earlier by an unwary Eighth Air Force public relations officer in England for Mustang Pilot Don S. Gentile (TIME, April 17). As Captain Gentile's score of 30 includes seven grounded aircraft, there were no cries from England when Douglas MacArthur proclaimed Dick Bong...
Moscow's hero worshipers fast week heard the latest: Major Alexander Pokryshkin had shot down his 59th enemy plane, was still beyond challenge, the ace of all Allied aces...
Killed in Action. First Lieut. Peter Gerald Lehman, 27, eldest son of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Director Herbert Henry Lehman, roommate of top-flight U.S. Ace Captain Don Gentile; in the crash of his fighter plane; somewhere in England. Powerful, popular, jovial Lehman, a football player at Lehigh (ex-'40), joined the R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded...