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Born in 1909, in Sidney, Ill., "Whitey" Dahl learned to fly as a U.S. Army cadet, later dropped out of the Air Corps. and by 1937 was ready to launch his flamboyant, horsepower-opera career by marching off to the Spanish civil war with a $1,500-a-month contract to fly and fight for the Republican side. On a bombing mission over the Madrid front, he was shot down, captured and sentenced to death before a Franco firing squad...
...that they have a duty to their country to become officers. A few want commissions in the regular Army. Some are members of the unit simply because they would rather serve their two years in the Army as officers than as enlisted men. Whatever his reason for joining, each cadet attempts to get decent marks...
...change has been prompted by the redesignation of the cadet battalion from Artillery to General Military Science...
...mother was a Virginia Stuart, descended from an impressive roster of jurists and socialites-but not, as reported, directly from Confederate General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Jeb apparently was a distant kinsman, a member of what Outerbridge's forebears joked was "the cadet branch of the family...
Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...