Word: birdman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1945 Towers was named boss of Third Fleet carrier forces. It was his chance at last to show his mettle in a combat command with the air weapon he had done so much to forge. But the Japs surrendered before he could strike a blow. Last week to Birdman Towers came as much recognition and vindication as he could now expect; with an admiral's four stars, he was named to succeed Spruance as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Naval aviators, already winning key posts in Washington (TIME, Dec. 10), were at last...
Spaatz had the advantage of being a West Pointer, as well as an early birdman. By the time World War II broke out he was chief of the Air Corps plans section in Washington, and in 1940 he went to England to observe air war at first hand. That summer he wrote home...
...birdman) will lead a cheer for the Air Forces...
...that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London last week, he was singing new words and a new tune...
...Quiet Birdman. Stocky, nerveless Jimmy Doolittle set at least a dozen speed records, owns almost all the important aviation trophies. But he is far more than a speed and a stunt flyer. Doolittle has been a ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term...