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...Princess still yearns for her rejected airman, Peter Townsend, and hopes that if both of them turn Catholic, his former marriage might be annulled and they could marry in the Roman Catholic faith...
Composers are seldom ordinary citizens, but Serge de Gastyne, 25, is extraordinary even among composers. He is 1) a count, 2) an Airman First Class,* assigned to write music for the Air Force, and 3) the composer of three symphonies...
...soon after heroic Army Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr. ordered his crew to hit the silk and then crashed in his crippled B-17 bomber on Luzon, President Roosevelt penned a request to "the President of the United States in 1956." F.D.R. asked that the airman's infant son get a West Point appointment as a nation's thanks for Captain Kelly's valor. Boy Scout Kelly is now undecided whether to set his sights on West Point or the new Air Academy...
...combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily (who disappeared in 1953), trailed Zhukov to Odessa after his demotion...
...While Airman Smith was still unconscious, Navy salvage crews began to search and drag for his airplane. No one remembered exactly where it hit, but one of the divers had happened to take a picture of an oil slick off South Laguna. By triangulation the point of impact was found, and after 381 dives, most of the airplane was fished up and collected in 44 barrels. "It looked," said a North American man, "like enlarged cornflakes...