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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Hunker, his opponent in the finals, also received a certificate for his wins over S. T. Collinson, 6-1, 6-4; John Benn, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1; and Jack Zinsser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lynch Beats Hunker to Take Tennis Tourney | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

Hunker, who stamped himself as the man to beat when he vanquished Jack Benn, favorite at the start, lost the first set of his semi-final match before rallying to beat F.M. Shore, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Hunker is an officer in the Naval Supply Corps School here, and came into the semi-finals after a three-set match with John Zinsser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lynch, Hunker Appear In Tennis Final Round | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

Hunker labeled himself as a man to watch when he defeated Jack Benn, resident of Cambridge and former number one man on the Brown varsity. The scores were 3-6, 7-5, and 6-1. Shore trimmed Ed Twarog, AST, 6-3, 6-4; Lynch overwhelmed G. C. Fuller, 6-0, 6-0; and Mann took over Robert E. Stokes 6-2, 6-2 to round out the septet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Netmen Advance In Tennis Competition | 8/20/1943 | See Source »

...Forces headquarters for combat expertness is a postgraduate school. Its name: the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, at Orlando. There air men learn such new developments as Chennault's winning mass-fighter tactics; the deadly skip-bombing developed by the late Major William G. Benn of MacArthur's Air Force; the countless tricks of navigation, gunnery and high-altitude bombing developed the hard way by Ira Eaker's Flying Fortressmen and Liberator crews over France and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: School for Combat | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...stay in formation with the speeding craft as they shot toward the target. The first bomb hit the ground short of the target, bounced, ripped through. The next three went smack through it. The planes that followed had nothing left but the circle. No bomb missed it. Major Benn's skip-bombing lesson had come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: School for Combat | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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