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...decided to see how far I'd get as a reporter. The first step was to look up Buckingham Palace in the telephone book and call Whitehall 4832. When I got His Majesty's press agent representative on the wire, instead of saying to him 'Hey Butch, how about a squint at the big shot?' I had to call him Sir Eric and couch my request in Sunday language.* It worked...
...being noised around that Brother (Call Me Pentode) Busch is making application to join the Radar Ranks . .. also floating is the news that several of the Baker boys will be held on as staff members . . . including Przychodzin, typing; Rossi, in the first morning class; Tommy Kennedy, third; and Butch Bratton, fourth . . . Strictly off the record is the dope that our boy Klein is on the inside track to take over as company commander, come the first when there won't be any More . . . ditto Hershie for assistant -- he's a wicked-worker when it comes to a watch bill . . . They...
...lieutenant, a fighter pilot attached to the carrier Lexington, when the Japs came over on a February day in 1942. Alone against nine bombers roaring in for a kill, Butch O'Hare shot down five, damaged a sixth, scattered the remnant. The Navy and the U.S. were proud. Summoned from the South Pacific to Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much...
...lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into...
Said the task-force commander, Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford: "Butch, with accompanying planes, saved my formation from certain torpedo hits. I am recommending him for a second Congressional Medal of Honor." Said fellow pilots: "Butch did it twice...