Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue. Over Germany, the crew of a crippled Liberator bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
John Basilone commanded two machine-gun emplacements. When one gun crew was wiped out, he rolled back & forth over the ground, firing first one gun, then the other, kept them chattering through the long night. When the guns got too hot, he used his pistol. When the ammunition got low, he went back through enemy fire for more. When the Japs gave it up, there were 38 dead in front of just one of John Basilone's emplacements. He and his handful of survivors had virtually annihilated a Jap regiment, had helped save Henderson Field...
Coach Haines seems confident of a successful season, but he warns that, "I am starting out with a very green bunch. Become of them have never been in a shell before." The Varsity crew will be strengthened by the return of three former members of Crimson shells, 2, John Kettele, Jr. V-12; 3, Thomas A. Raymond '47; and cox, Daniel S. Paul...
...their perverted zeal to record all the trivialities of a good sized book on less than two hours of celluloid, a crew of incompetent scenarists neglected completely the compelling, warmly emotional drama of the situation and turned out an aimless documentary on horse raising...
...hours; altitude zero. Noticed mouse in radio room. 1150 hours; 10,000 feet: crew taking oxygen. Mouse okay. 1310 hours; 22,000 feet: mouse cold so I'm putting him in my heated muff. He's pretty drowsy. 1325 hours; 25,000 feet: mouse unconscious. Fleas show activity. Target bombed. 1510 hours; 20,000 feet: mouse stirring. 1600 hours; 10,000 feet: mouse running around radio room. 1630 hours; altitude zero: gunner just salvoed mouse out of plane. When last seen mouse and fleas were doing okay...