Word: corkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wingate's air officer was U.S. Colonel Philip Cochran, who had won some fame of his own as the model for "Flip Corkin" in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. On their first meeting, Cochran thought Wingate was an elaborate hoax, and was so baffled by his British public-school accent (Charterhouse) that he was sure Wingate suffered from an impediment in his speech. But at their second meeting, Cochran found "something very deep" about him and realized he "was beginning to assimilate some of the flame of this guy Wingate...
...team was headed by Colonel Philip Cochran, better known as the prototype of Flip Corkin in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates.* When Cochran reached India in 1943, Wingate's expedition had been called off for lack of transport planes. Cochran calmly announced that this was no problem ; gliders would do the trick. Through and sometimes over Wingate's persistent doubts, Cochran reconstructed the tactics of the campaign...