Word: colins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
President Roosevelt, it appeared, started a trend when in 1941 he arranged a West Point appointment for Colin Kelly III, now 4, son of World War II's first U.S. air hero. Following along with many another school and college, New York University last week awarded its 17th Gold Star Scholarship to the child of an alumnus dead in war. The recipient: eleven-month-old Philip H. Davis Jr. of Chattanooga, whose father was killed while piloting a Liberator over Europe...
...appointed Revenue Minister Colin Gibson as Air Minister, to replace Charles Gavan Power, who had resigned. James MacKinnon, Trade & Commerce Minister, would keep that portfolio, said Mr. King, and take on Mr. Gibson's Revenue Ministry too, temporarily...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of the British ground forces in Europe, reached up and added a bar to the D.S.O. of Major General Colin Muir Barber, leader of the 18th (Scottish) Division and tallest British Army General...
...eight short of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's U.S. record of 26, far under the R.A.F.'s brilliant Spit-fireman, Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan, who destroyed 32 Nazi planes, most of them during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Top R.A.F. pilot still in combat is Squadron Leader Colin Grey, with