Word: crews
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...Benton's crew took their B-17 bomber on 35daytime missions over Germany in late 1944. Theybombed cities with "oil production facilities orfactories" such as Magdeburg and Schweinfurt, hesays...
...still see some of my crew members," saysBenton, who will attend a bomb group reunion inEngland this July.Photo Courtesy Harvard ArchivesPart of the training for some futuresoldiers was this "guerrilla drill," pictured inOctober...
Some of us put on shows for servicemen, theDance Club hopping through Mexican steps, theFrench Club inventing a cabaret for the crew of aFree French warship in Boston Harbor. For thisevent, from a record, I learned to sing "LeFiacre." Later, I corresponded with one sailor ashis maraine-de-guerre(godmother-of-war)--until French censors found, inone of his letters to me, a snapshot of his ship.For this lapse, my godson-of-war did some time inthe brig...
...fiercely understated. What a good ending is supposed to be. Like an actor in a play who quietly leaves the stage after a sublime performance before the audience can erupt into applause, the show closed gracefully, without heralding or fanfare, bang or whimper. In the final scene, the seven crew members who had meant most to the show--Jean Luc, Deanna Troi, Whorf, Data, Geordi, Commander Riker, and Dr. Crusher--sat around a table after escaping their hairiest adventure ever, playing cards and talking over life. It was an elegant exit and the essence of good art, leaving...
...though the filing out of junior and sophomore friends wasn't bad enough, it seems like half of the senior class is gone as well, vacationing in Europe or the Cape, searching for housing in New York, or jobs in LA, cleaning strange toilets for dorm crew. The lie was that after everybody else had departed we would have the place to ourselves to reminisce. We do indeed have the place to ourselves, but we are hardly reminiscing. Because I realize that June 9, the "bang" in the year's end has more to do with Harvard than...