Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighter Squadron (Warner) is a war movie about U.S. flyers who operated from bases in England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
...Communists feared most. Former Senator D. Worth Clark had gone to China as investigator for the Senate Appropriations Committee. After a hardworking month of travel and talk with Chinese on all levels, he came back with a program based on these points: "Immediate and extensive" direct military aid, combat advisory aid, financial aid for military operations, financial aid to stabilize the currency, and strict U.S. supervision of the distribution of U.S. money and supplies. Clark's conclusions: "Piecemeal aid will no longer save failing China from Communism. It is now an all-out program or none; a fish...
...Bulldog, didn't have a very good day either. The Harvard Band came over during the half and blew in his car and then there was that damn turkey. A couple of guys, Harvard cheerleaders by the looks of them, brought this tough old bird over to do combat. But Dan wasn't having any, not with something that flew and pecked and scratched. He showed the turkey his rear and made it very plan he wanted to be left alone. After the game, when the noise really started, Dan made a boe-line for New Haven where...
After a quarter of inconclusive combat in the center of the field, jayvee tailback Dave Warden tossed a 30-yard pass which Rick Hudner grabbed under the eyes of two Yale halfbacks and took out of bounds on the one-yard line. Dune Mauran plowed over for the first score on the next play. Bill Rosenau missed the point, and at the end of the half the Crimson...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...