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Working quickly, the G.R.S. men placed the airman's remains in a rubber-lined, zippered pouch. An aircraft expert combed the wreck, snipped off bits of metal bearing serial numbers. Then the party scrambled back to its own lines. By last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will...
...longer-ranged Sabre. Among reasons for the Sabre's performance in battle: superior speed below 25,000 feet, better diving speed, a fine electronic computing gunsight, better pilots. "If I could have a couple of sessions against those characters in one of their own planes," said a U.S. airman last week, "I could really show 'em some tricks...
...practice to rotate a man home as soon as he became an ace (five kills). But Major Davis and the two other squadron leaders in his wing all became aces about the same time, and they could not be spared. This week, with 32 missions, Major Davis, professional fighting airman, expected to round out 100 missions before going home. At 31, he is on the elderly side for jet combat, but is unworried. "Up to the point of physical deterioration," he says, "it depends on the individual...
Married. Piotr Pirogov, 32, Russian airman who made headlines three years ago when he fled to Austria with his fellow pilot Anatoly Barsov,* is now working for the U.S. Air Force; and Valentino Burnos, 25, Russian D.P., who was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, came to the U.S. from Austria; he for the first time, she for the second; in Washington...
Nancy Mitford's favorite characters have the candor and abruptness of people well into their third or fourth glass of champagne. The hero of The Blessing, Airman Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, of the Free French, is clearly one of Novelist Mitford's favorites. He is, in fact, a woman's dream come true: handsome, rich, brave as a lion, bewitching as a magician. It is thus a serious tactical error when the unimaginative Hughie Palgrave invites Charles-Edouard to look up his fiancée, Grace, in London...