Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been lost to enemy AA. fire in the past five months. January was the worst month of the air war, with 52 U.N. planes lost in combat, and 44 of them were downed by flak. Already heavy and deadly, Red flak is growing constantly more so. Said a U.S. airman gravely: "The free ride is over...
Youth for Christ International, which has sent earthbound missionaries to Europe and South America, last week appointed Paul Hartford, 37, its first official Flying Evangelist. Airman Hartford's first Y.C.I, mission will be to the Caribbean. His basic equipment: a two-seater Cessna, tracts and leaflets to be dropped from the air, a public-address system for use on the ground or even in low, circling flight, and a Spanish-speaking interpreter...
...wing itself-the only U.S. tactical air outfit anywhere in France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only four months before it was yanked back into federal service last March, got a refresher course...
...Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
...duty. On April 2, two weeks before the baseball season opens, Ted will report for his physical. If he passes, he will start getting a captain's base pay ($356 a month) and probably go to work at his old wartime job: teaching cadets how to fly. Airman Williams, an indiscreet talker when he gets his dander up, said the right thing this time: "If Uncle Sam wants me, I'm ready. I'm no different than the next fellow." Just to show that it was impartial-and not out to sabotage the Red Sox pennant chances...