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...BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (334 pp.)-Thomas E. Gaddis-Random House...
Russian-born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, the eminent early birdman and aircraft designer, has never forgotten a monumental nosebleed he suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start...
...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...