Word: airman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old flying comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence...
With the alias John Hume Ross, Lawrence sought anonymity at the height of his fame (1922) by joining the R.A.F. as an ordinary airman (his later and more famous pseudonym was Shaw). Playwright Rattigan's account begins in the barracks, uses a series of flashbacks to go at the hero's question: "Oh, Ross. How did I become you?" As Guinness of Arabia, Sir Alec is at his subtle, suggestive best, and even the physical resemblance is striking. In his radicalism, there is more than a hint of the showoff; in his sophistication, a climber's cunning...
...flung airstrips-England, Japan, Turkey, Alaska-began to see the strange, gliderlike jet come and go on its errands. But details of its mission and its performance were hard to come by. Whenever a U-2 landed, military police swarmed around it. Its pilots were civilians, and when an airman would nudge up close at the officers' club bar to swap plane lore, the U-2 pilot would smile and move along...
...least willing to pay a Cinna's price and be torn for his bad verses. He survived 50 actions and almost as many uniforms-for the poet used his prestige to transform himself at will into a cavalry lieutenant, an infantry officer, a combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little...
...most of the 72 duty flight and ground crewmen live in the underground section) and completely soundproof. The area is guarded at the barbed-wire fences by police dogs and armed sentries. The guards even have a secret code-by voice or glance-to cover the possibility that an airman might enter in the company of a saboteur who has an unseen gun in the man's ribs. Any suspicious occurrence-the sudden toss of a stone, a drunken soldier-is flashed to Eighth Air Force headquarters immediately as a "seven high" report...