Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Lee Maxwell of our San Francisco office is another of our men who wears the D.F.C. (As pilot of the "Puffing Hussy," he has gone on 51 bombing raids, once brought his crew safely home from an unescorted mission even though enemy fighters had shot away his landing gear. Only casualty was the toy elephant he carried as a mascot.) Second Lieut. N. Robert Drake of our newsstand department has the D.F.C. and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters (a bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been...
...before releasing them. Also possible: bomb-launching submarines, operating off the coasts, or a longer-ranged V-bomb. To the people of northern England, the method did not matter much. The reality was that they were being bombed again. Hastily they remobilized their defenses; in one district the old crew reported for duty ten minutes after the first alarm...
Every mile of road had its quota of trucks stopped for repairs, with mechanics under the chassis or the hood, and frigid passengers thawing themselves by the roadside with a fire of rice stubble. Some vehicles were parked for the evening with passengers and crew sleeping underneath for shelter against the wind. Others had broken down completely. They had been stripped bare of every useful article-tires, lamps, seats, even motors. Abandoned beside them lay cargoes of bombs and ammunition, shining and useless in the biting cold...
...championship Duke University quintet. The tallest man on the squad, 6 foot 5 inch Bob Gottschling, was a starter for Manhattan College, while Jim Gallagher, an Irishman from Notre Dame, Bill Dearden from Ursinus, and Bill Bateman, a member of the 1943 Brown five, round out the crew of prospective high scorers...
...ships engaged in the landings, in South France. LST 282, the one to which the lieutenant was assigned, was destined to be the only ship sunk in the entire action. After 20 minutes in the water, the men on the life raft were picked up by the crew of one of the other Allied vessels in the D-day engagement...