Word: airmanship
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...eventually to get half from the academy's planned enrollment of 2,600. As at the older academies, cadets will be nominated mainly by Congressmen. The Air Force has already planned a sinewy four-year curriculum (1,548 hours of humanities, 1,629 of science, 2,176 of airmanship, including drill as well as flight), and intends to build, besides school buildings and barracks, an air field and a stadium for the football team...
...bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been a prisoner of war in Germany). And Cinema Writer Alfred Wright Jr. is still another TIME man who holds the D.F.C. and the Air Medal (plus the Presidential Unit Citation) for "outstanding airmanship, heroic conduct, loyal devotion to duty." (In the Solomons Lieut. Wright bombed and strafed 25 Japanese vessels "with cool courage and titter disregard for his own safety in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire...