Word: airman
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...Said one airman, thoroughly mindful of the Navy's crack job in the Pacific: "It is still a fact that they have never quite forgiven the Wright brothers for inventing the airplane...
Younger naval airmen rejoiced tepidly last week when they heard that Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain had been relieved of his job as the Navy's No. 1 Airman: deputy chief of naval operations...
...naval air zealots' way of thinking, the only choice for the Navy's top air job is a top-flight airman. Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around. That was the reason joy was only tepid. The man picked to fill McCain's shoes was another naval officer belatedly made into an airman: genial, 60-year-old Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch...
...Where do you pay?" the airman asked...
...Twelfth Air Force was at work over the lines. It also ranged north into the Germans' rear areas, smashing bridges, shooting up railroad and truck trains. It was busy every hour of the day at what Joe Cannon called its "strangling operation." General Cannon had given his airman's word that all heavy communications from the north had been cut days before the battle began, and that they would stay cut. If his judgment was correct, the men on the ground could plow forward with hope at their grim job: making the Germans spend ammunition and men until...