Word: carmichael
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...Many new planes have arrived, and some fresh pilots have replaced battle-weary veterans. A big factor in the Jap failure to recapture Guadalcanal was the 19th's constant hammering of the big base at Rabaul. Lately the 19th, now under the command of young Lieut. Colonel Richard Carmichael (TIME, Oct. 19), pioneered in flying its Fortresses at low levels. Being taught today to younger flyers are the lessons the 19th has learned, not without expense to themselves...
...Hoagy Carmichael's The Cranky Old Yank, one of the first U.S. war songs to be written about tanks, was tried out last week (amid appreciative whoops) on the same tank corps that heard Stokowski's Shostakovich (see col. 3). An official première of The Cranky Old Yank is scheduled by Bing Crosby this week on his Kraft Cheese broadcast...
Texas-born Lieut. Colonel Richard H. Carmichael is 29 years old; he finished West Point only six years ago. Rated a strict disciplinarian in the loosely disciplined Air Corps, he was given command of General MacArthur's Flying Fortresses last summer, the third commander of an off-&-on outfit within six months. Colonel Carmichael's strong point was his experience in this war with this war's planes: he started the war as a captain flying a B-17 out of the Philippines, learned what it meant to dodge anti-aircraft and swarms of Japanese Zeros while...
Last week Colonel Carmichael put on his first big show over Rabaul, Japanese naval and air base 600 miles northeast of Port Moresby, 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. For once, he had enough planes: more Fortresses than anyone had ever had before in the Southwest Pacific. For once, the raid was well planned. First the Australians went over Rabaul in their Catalina flying boats, loosed their bombs shortly after midnight. Then, about 4 a.m. when the Japs were comfortably in bed again, the Fortresses began coming...
...Colonel Carmichael himself circled the target for an hour and a half during the attack, piloting his own plane, with 34-year-old Colonel Frederic H. Smith Jr. (one of Admiral Ernest J. King's numerous sons-in-law) as observer. Colonel Carmichael was pleased as punch with his first big raid. Said he: "I had what amounted to a grandstand seat at the Yankee Stadium." Early next morning Colonel Carmichael's flyers visited Rabaul again, dropped 40 more tons on its supply dumps, warehouses, machine shops, barracks and jetties...