Word: cochrans
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...This is Mr. Cochran's office," said a secretary...
...speak to Mr. Cochran, please? This is Del Solar, from TIME...
General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, pinned the D.S.M. on the bemedaled chest of Colonel Philip Cochran, 34-year-old inspiration for "Flip Corkin" of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip. The citation: for crack performance in the first airborne invasion of Burma...
Then the Air Forces' ladies, fed up with civilian status, gave their ultimatum. Said Jackie Cochran: the WASPs should get military status or be washed out altogether. As Congress showed no disposition to change its-mind, there was no choice for Hap Arnold. Admitting that there were now enough men to carry on the WASPs' jobs, principally ferrying of Army aircraft, he swung the washout brush, picked the December date "to permit the WASPs to reach their homes by Christmas...
Home is where most WASPs will land, according to Mrs. Hazel Taylor, their public-relations officer, who predicted: "Their careers will be marriage." Jackie Cochran's own "tentative" plan is to run an orphanage on the Odium ranch in California. But airmen who heard such intimations of renunciation wondered. Flying is a habit hard to break...