Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of postwar Germany, clutches the lifeboat, is hauled aboard. Cinemactresses Mary Anderson and Tallulah Bankhead rush to help him. "Kill him!" cry the men - among whom only the gentle radio operator (Hume Cronyn) has any doubt. As the trembling boy holds them at bay with his water-soaked pistol, the Negro disarms him. They debate whether or not to kill him. Tallulah Bankhead recalls the man the German captain drowned and a young mother (Heather Angel) who was pulled aboard the lifeboat, later jumped over board after her dead baby. When Lifeboat ends, they are still debating, like...
Among Army airmen major credit for the Marauder's comeback goes to slim, youthful (38) Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, commander of the Marauder squadrons in Britain.* Within six months Anderson and his staff reshaped the Marauder outfit from a misused, ineffective stepchild into a high-stepping member of the Eighth Air Force...
...Conversion. Sam Anderson decided first that too much had been expected of the plane. Overzealous publicity had led the Air Forces to expect a miracle ship with fighter-plane speed and Fortress carrying capacity. Anderson scrapped all previous notions, treated the ship as a medium bomber for medium altitudes, got it moved from the Bomber Command to Air Support Command...
...installed a rigid daily training schedule for his crews, taught them to fly and fight a really "hot" aircraft. By midsummer the Marauders tackled the broad assignment of pounding the Luftwaffe's northwestern French airfields. By October Anderson could report that the enemy squadrons had been pushed inland 40 miles. He kept at it, developed new tactics for evading flak, trained his bombardiers to needlepoint precision...
...husky, youthful (38) Major General Frederick L. Anderson, boss of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command...