Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cadet, Eichelberger, son of an Urbana (Ohio) lawyer, seemed to have an easy time at studies: maybe it was because he had already put in two years at Ohio State. The Howitzer labeled him "divinely tall and most divinely fair" and his wife, whom he calls Miss Em, still quotes it, remembering the second lieutenant who proposed to her 34 years ago in the Canal zone the first evening...
...Frustration. As a West Point cadet, Bob Eichelberger did not make the football team, won no letter. But he had wanted to. When he came back in 1940 as a major general and Superintendent of the Point, physical requirements for ad mission were so drawn that a tall candidate had to be underweight to get in. This anomaly was corrected. Eichelberger, who had come back with a fierce determination to make the Academy's football team the best ever, had his chance...
Boys' Championship in '43 and reaching the Junior semifinals in '44. Perhaps he was impressed by the absence of Air Cadet Bob Falkenburg, whose crashing play highlighted the two previous visits...
After an Ohio boyhood (his father was an ironworker in Columbus) LeMay went to Ohio State University, was near to graduating when he quit to be a flying cadet in the Army. In due course he became a fighter pilot (later as an Army officer he went back to Ohio, got his degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This...
Those who pas will be sent to pre-flight training, being transferred at that time to the status of Aviation Cadet, Class V-5. The present schedule calls for 29 weeks of pre-flight training, 16 weeks of primary flight training, and approximately 20 weeks of intermediate flight training...