Word: alabaman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot-a dark, level-eyed Alabaman named Eugene W. Townsend -was one of the thousands of young men who were swept into the air by World War II. He seemed to have been born to fly; he was a quiet, controlled fellow who moved with the easy grace of a natural athlete. As a Navy fighter pilot, he fought from the Marshall Islands to the Philippines, shot down six Japanese planes, won the Navy Cross. But like thousands of other young military airmen, he had got away from airplanes fast after...