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Whatever happened to Bob Feller? Fans have wondered ever since the onetime pitcher ace of the Cleveland Indians disappeared into the silence of Navy sea duty 14 months ago. Last week, in a letter to the Chicago Daily News, a Seabee reported that Feller is a chief specialist on a battleship in the Pacific, that his pitching arm is still good. Against two strong service teams on unnamed islands, Feller struck out 15 in the first game, 18 in the second, and drove in three runs himself...
Died. Lance Wade, 26, ace Wing Commander of the R.A.F.; in a behind-the-line crash; in Italy. The modest Texan had a score of 25 confirmed kills, one less than the U.S. record for World...
Hubler's conclusion is that "ratios of award should be established." Servicemen who agree with him point to the rigid parsimony with which Britain doles out her medals, particularly the nearly impossible-to-get Victoria Cross. Marines could also point to their missing ace, Major Gregory Boyington. He had knocked down 26 enemy planes without getting a single decoration...
...mystery was cleared up. A joint statement by the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces announced that the Allies have developed a radically new type of fighter aircraft which flies without a propeller. It is driven entirely by jet propulsion. Work on the design was started in 1933 by ace British designer Frank Whittle, now an R.A.F. group captain. It took him four years to lick the engine problem, four more before a plane actually flew...
Over New Britain, U.S. fighter pilots saw their squadron leader, 23-year-old Army Major Edward Cragg Jr. (TIME, Nov. 29), close with a silver Jap fighter, knew he had found the man he had been looking for. Major Cragg, second ranking U.S. ace in the Southwest Pacific (17 planes), for days had been still-hunting the Jap pilot who had apparently shot down about a dozen U.S. craft...