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Three Trumps. Mahurin is tied for fifth place among U.S. aces of World War II. Of the first ten, Major Walter Carl Beckham is the only other one who fought Germans. His Thunderbolt was downed by flak three weeks after his 18th victory (TIME, March 13). The only other Army man on the list is much-decorated Lockheed Lightning Pilot Captain Richard R. Bong (D.S.C., D.F.C., Silver Star, Air Medal, a cluster of ten Oak Leaf Clusters), whose 21 Jap kills put him in fourth place...
With Hanson giving out with the accounting in Baker A, and not-to-be-out-done Beckham authorizing advances in Baker B, the feeling of the called hog is becoming, natural to both companies. Let us hope the good lieutenant will see justification for inserting the tougher parts of Gravert Leather into the disbursing final...
...treetop level, doing close to 500 m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...
Lieut. George Perpente, second wing leader, hesitated for a split second. Beckham barked at him again...
...last they saw of him, Major Beckham was at 12,000 feet, his ship aflame but still flying under control. George took the boys home...