Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff in combat if it could be avoided, Pilot Lieut. John C. Summers dived toward the sea. At 50 feet the Fortress leveled off and shot for the land. Fifty-caliber bullets from the top turret sent one of the German fighters limping away. Two others attacked. The Fortress copilot sagged to the floor with a bullet in his shoulder. Jimmy Doolittle yanked his soft khaki cap down on his balding head, climbed into the copilot's seat. The gunners fought off two other Germans before the Fortress got clear and proceeded to its destination...
...only astonishing feature of this episode was the fact that General Doolittle was not flying the Fortress when it was attacked. Said one of his cronies in London, upon hearing that the copilot was wounded before General Doolittle took over: "I hope Jimmy didn't shoot the lad to get at the controls himself...
When Hughes took up flying seriously, he first became a crack pilot, then worked as an American Airlines copilot, under an assumed name, to perfect his technique...
...least nine more. But U.S. airmen and especially Bomber Commander Ira Eaker were interested in something more than that the Fortresses had beaten off an attack against overwhelming odds. They were most interested in the fact that again all the Fortresses got home (although one carried a dead copilot, a grievously wounded commander...
...Colonel Haynes, who handles a bomber as another man would handle a pursuit, was in the pilot's seat. We were in the air with bombers and fighters strung out behind us. Haynes's second in command and copilot was Major William E. Basye. Black-haired, poker-playing Butch Morgan, longtime associate of Haynes's, was in the bombardier's compartment. This was a tough mission and Haynes was putting his best...