Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Editor Carl Broome of the weekly Brantley Enterprise (at Nahunta, Ga.) when he filled out his draft questionnaire...
Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...Guilford, Ind., Carl Buchanan took out his old Army uniform, found a letter in it he was supposed to have mailed for a friend in 1917. Now, as Postmaster of Guilford, he mailed...
When Major General Carl Spaatz asked Sergeant Gilger how he disposed of a Messerschmitt during a recent raid, the sergeant cropped his answer as closely as he crops his hair. "I shot him down," he said...
Better than Hollywood. The most diverse flying team of World War II went into North Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought...