Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera, performed in Leningrad, seemed patriotic enough at first glance: a Soviet pilot loses both feet in a crash, manages to fly again to prove his devotion to Stalin and the motherland. What more could a composer do? A good deal more, apparently, if he was to satisfy the music-loving Central Committee. Said Culture and Life: Prokofiev's music for the Tale of a Real Person was "in screaming contradiction with the text . . . hard on the ear and lacking in melody for singing . . . really insulting for a Soviet audience...
...commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...began as a routine rescue operation. Within 24 hours after an Air Force C-47 disappeared over Greenland's bleak south coast, search planes spotted the crash, 100 miles north of the Air Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...
Every week an old U.S. Navy crash boat, renamed the Marlin, shoves off from Fort-de-France, Martinique. Aboard are 4O-odd brightly turbaned native women, carrying demijohns and wicker baskets and headed for the British island of St. Lucia, a five-hour ride across the choppy blue Caribbean...
Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...