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...white boys reacted geographically. Grumbled a Florida boy: "It ain't working out at all, I'll clue you. You can't tell them to do anything but what they go running to the C.O. yelling, 'Those white boys are picking on me.' " An airman from Michigan dissented: "I think the thing is working out pretty good," he said. "After all, there are some lousy white guys...
Russian airmen are proudest of their jets, boast that they cruise at about 450 m.p.h. and are capable of top speeds of 560 m.p.h. Recently, some officers have been heard bragging of a new jet capable of a supersonic 800 m.p.h. "With a ship like that," one Red airman gloated, "we can give America hell. We might not come back alive, but it will be worth...
...gentle manner that touched people, prompting them to tell him what they thought. He also brought considerable training. Chicago-born Bob Doyle, graduate of Northwestern University, had been a newsman and radio writer before he entered the U.S. Navy to serve in the Pacific as senior intelligence officer to Airman Admiral Arthur Radford. After the war, he studied Far Eastern history at Columbia and Chinese at Yale's Institute of Far Eastern Languages (whose director called him one of the most brilliant students who ever attended the institute). In 1947, he came to work for TIME Inc., soon took...
Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...
...Independence Hall he would be chosen one. Four days later, on Memorial Day, 1951, the U.S.'s symbolic warrior of World War II would be enshrined. Unlike the Unknown Soldier of World War I, near whom he would lie in Arlington, he would be neither soldier, sailor nor airman. He would be simply "The Unknown...