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...attempt to be as much like an infantry company as possible, the unit will be organized with a cadet system having cadet officers and non-commissioned officers. Appearances may deceive, however, as the trainees will be in civilian clothes except during periods of military training. College ROTC men will aid with the military drill
...Aviation Cadet Erwin D. Wissenback is 23 years old, shy and serious. He looks like hundreds of other cadets learning the combat flyer's trade at Miami Beach. But Cadet Wissenback is different. He has already had an unusual military career. He holds the Air Medal and the Purple Heart, and when Germany is knocked out (but not before) he will be able to tell one of the strangest stories of World...
...Army would admit only the obvious - that he somehow got a change of clothing and faked identification papers. When traveling he played deaf-mute or pretended to be asleep to fend off the curious. The rest of Cadet Wissenback's story will have to wait: other U.S. flyers may be wandering in Europe today, using the same methods...
...lying on a davenport, got her to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital just before her baby was born. Later that week the young mother was able to tell her story. She had come from a north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies' lounge of the Gunter, four days in the lobby waiting for a phone call from her husband...
...close of the conference there had been plenty of argument, a good deal of agreement, some conclusions unanimous or purely personal. Some of the conclusions: U.S. fighter planes are the world's best. They have one common fault: decreased pilot visibility, inevitably sacrificed for bigger engines, better performance. Cadets could use more training, but could hardly crowd more into their schedules. The cadet now is "as busy as a one-legged man at a fanny-kicking contest." One young major summarized the problem : "Of course we'd like to turn out every one of these kids...