Word: crash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 19 issue of TIME carries a story on the fatal crash in Mexico of an aircraft chartered by the joint U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (hoof & mouth disease) . . . Certain statements have caused embarrassment to the Military Air Transport Service and, unfortunately, are not substantiated by the facts as we know them...
...Rescue men did not interfere with Mexican news photographers . . . The rescue team did not, in fact, reach the scene of the crash. 4) Mexican newsmen were loaned blankets...
Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take off by dropping 1,000 feet over a precipice...
Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times...