Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tabor Academy took the measure Saturday of an informal civilian crew which traveled to Marion, Connecticut, to compete over a one-mile course. A rough day contributed to the three-quarter length margin of defeat for the Crimson oarsmen, who included W. M. Pickles at bow; W. L. Sprout, 2; Polhemus, 3; H. P. Hall, 4; T. R. Morse, Jr., 5; W. L. Saltonstall, 6; T. A. Haymond, 7; R. A. Pellaton, Jr., 8; and D. R. Foster, coxswain...
...correct your impression (printed in the SERVICE NEWS) that our crew had been defeated in the recent Charles River regatta. The result of the race, which can be obtained in the May 25 issue of the Radcliffe News or from any of the official judges, was a conclusive victory for Radcliffe...
...again at 5,000 with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo Bay in a pall of black smoke. In its seven-minute agony the Cabin had shot down eight other attackers. Air Force officers recommended posthumous decorations for all the crew, and the Medal of Honor for the Cabin's commander, Major John E. Krause, of Elmhurst...
...their arctic flying suits, the British-Canadian crew of the converted Lancaster bomber looked like men from Mars. Every available inch of their 37-ton, four-engine plane, the Aries,* was filled with scientific equipment, much of it secret. When they left Whitehorse in the Yukon one day last week and landed 20 hours later at Shrewsbury, England, on the last lap of a two-week tour of Arctic exploration, they had accomplished more than many an explorer of a generation ago did in a lifetime. They had made three trips into the Arctic, found the present accurate location...
...Aries left Iceland for her first flight on May 16. That afternoon she was over the geographical North Pole. After circling for an hour and a half, completing a trip around the world in 76 seconds by tightly banking around the Pole, the eleven-man crew dropped a beer bottle and a Union Jack...