Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the Armistice, was captured again. His peacetime career was equally spectacular-he became the New York Trust's president at 33. He went to Washington, D.C. in August 1941 at Franklin Roosevelt's request, dived into the vast job of organizing an expanded naval air arm, managed to fly some 300,000 miles to and from war zones and war plants before...
...have earned the right to return to private pursuits ... it was under your direction that the naval air arm played a major role ... in the Atlantic . . . and in driving to ultimate victory in the Pacific...
...Ensign John Henry Towers was a young man with a consuming idea: he thought the Navy should have an air arm. When Congress prodded the Navy into an experimental aviation program, Jack Towers was one of the first three pilots trained. He survived accidents in the air, his two colleagues (thus becoming Naval Aviator No. 1), and his disappointment over the kicking around the air service got from the battleship admirals...
...probably regain independence, of a sort. But Boston's Surgeon Donald Munro, who has seen it happen, is sure that they can. Says he: "If he is properly treated, every patient with a spinal cord injury who is intelligent and cooperative and has the use of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles can be made ambulatory . . . lead a normal social life and . . . earn a satisfactory living...
...captain's arm drops...