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Born. To Sergeant Marion Hargrove, 25, best-selling G.I. humorist (See Here, Private Hargrove}, feature editor of Yank] and Alison Pfeiffer Hargrove, 22: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...Department files finally opened up. Washington told how U.S. Colonel Philip Cochran and his second in command, onetime A.V.G. Fighter Pilot John R. Alison, landed "up to a division" of Wingate's Raiders deep behind Japanese lines in Burma, in one of the great Allied airborne assaults...
That weird first night, 27 big C-47 transports hauled their double tows of gliders up to a rough, gullied clearing in the jungle. The glider pilots, Colonel Alison among the first, cut loose, hoped for the best as they headed down for the clearing...
...Said Alison: "We were in complete darkness [on the field] because we didn't dare turn on any lights. [Gliders] were landing at all angles and their pilots couldn't see us any more than we could see them...
...Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...