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...born into a warring generation, and at 21 he sat in the cockpit of a fighter over the coast of France. Behind his Spitfire, with the green shamrock on its side, thundered the other ships in the command of the R.A.F.'s youngest Wing Commander (lieutenant colonel), the R.A.F.'s leading ace (32 planes): Brendan Finucane...
Finucane's Spitfire has a thorned shamrock painted outside the cockpit and the letter "W" (for his first Spitfire, "Wheezy Anna") near the shamrock. Such small personal idiosyncrasies this great fighter pilot permits himself. For the rest, like U.S. Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, he insists on team play in the air and will stand for no Hell's Angels antics from his fighters. Officially credited with 28 German ships. Finucane for months has led a squadron made up of Australians, Czechs, French, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Canadians, South Africans, Hollanders and Britons...
...gear fouled his regular parachute on the tail assembly of the plane from which he was jumping, leaving him snarled in the shrouds and dangling in the air. He was spectacularly rescued by a Navy pilot who flew close enough to the other plane to take Osipoff into the cockpit. On receiving Osipoff's letter above, TIME unable to understand why, if he had had a knife, he could not have cut himself loose and descended with his emergency chute, wired him for enlightenment. Lieut. Osipoff replied as follows...
...good shot at a German, found his gas tank near the wing root, fired into it and into the front of his cockpit till his plane started to smoke and he rolled over on a wing and headed for the ground in flames...
This week, 93 years after a flock of sea gulls from over Great Salt Lake providentially saved Brigham Young and his Utah Mormons from crop-devouring hordes of crickets, another aerial attack is under way against these insects. On an airfield near Elko, Nev., beside two small, light, open-cockpit biplanes, loll Department of Agriculture pilots, waiting impatiently like R.A.F. pursuit pilots for reports that the enemy has been spotted...