Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crew coach Bert Haines said last night that a meeting of the rowing mentors last Saturday had recommended that the revival of the prewar Poughkeepsle classic be held in the Charles River Basin, but, in the absence of confirmation from Bingham, it was assumed that the revised schedule as reported in the New York Times yesterday was correct...
Though replacements kept the Midway's complement only a hundred or two below her wartime strength of 3,425 (excluding aviators), this was no index to the crew's efficiency, for most of them had never been to sea before-there were even chief petty officers in this class...
Three Gold Coasters and a lone Puritan complete the stellar eleven, and the Adams trio again provides a clue to their spot the final standing. The under-manned but never out-fought Gold Coast crew took on all comers successfully, except for the invincible Elephants...
...most dreadful occurred one December night when a plane carrying 30 nurses back from a Christmas dance in Chabua took off without clearance on a 20-minute flight to Ledo. The plane crashed in landing, killing the 30 nurses and the crew. On an even worse night last January, 33 cargo planes crashed...
...with 80 Chinese passengers and a crew of four Americans crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across the runways in front of whirring propellers, hoping that the blades would chew up the evil spirits which they believed were following them. Some propellers missed the shadows but devoured the substance. But loss of life was amazingly small in proportion to the magnitude of the undertaking. Army airmen again had reason...