Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humbly. Just after midnight on Oct. 21 Captain Eddie, with seven Army officers and enlisted men, climbed into a Flying Fortress, took off on a special mission to the South Pacific. By next morning the compass had gone awry, the radio was out of kilter, they were lost. They crash-landed in the ocean, clambered into three rafts...
...little congregation in the Lana Turner did not hold next Sunday's church service on the reef. Ten days after their crash landing, a destroyer and three PBY flying boats picked them up. Last week 15 of them were in the Naval Hospital in San Diego. The rest were either on furlough or back on duty...
...world," proved the versatility of a plane that was once the dog of the Air Forces. It is almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced off by the P-38's tailpiece when they jumped. In high altitudes the complex electric system went...
...score of late Lieut. Colonel Werner Molders, designated "Ace of Aces" by Hitler, decorated with the diamond-encrusted insignia of the Oak Leaves with Swords of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He shot down, according to the Germans, 103 planes, then was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger...
...Distinguished Service Cross for shooting down at least three Japanese Zeros over Java (TIME, April 20), had long been considered No. 1 anomaly in an Air Force whose combat crews' average age is under 25. After fabulous Gunner Silva's death in the accidental crash of a Flying Fortress in Australia last July, oldsters apparently lost their toe hold in the Air Forces. But last week in London a lean, grizzled, Fortress tailgunner aged 44 turned up: Staff Sergeant Merril W. Gilger, World War I Field Artillery wagoner, onetime Los Angeles real-estate...