Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roundabout routes, they flew to Eglin Field, Fla. Lieut, (now Captain) Ted Lawson picked up four men on the way. There was matter-of-fact Dean Davenport, co-pilot ("I liked the way he flew"), Charles McClure, navigator, Bob Clever, bombardier, and David Thatcher, gunner-engineer. "Without realizing it, I had picked my crew. . . ." The crews, swelled to 140 men, crowded the Operations Office to hear Major James Doolittle: "If you men have any idea that this isn't the most dangerous thing you've ever been on, don't even start this training period...
...time. When Lawson decided to climb and fly in on instruments and then jump (it meant losing the plane), they ran into a hole in the weather, saw a clean, concave beach. Lawson dropped low, dragged the beach, inspecting it for logs. It was all right. Co-Pilot Davenport called off the airspeed. Suddenly both engines coughed. They were a quarter-mile offshore when they...
...upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
...number included Thomas J. Adams, Joseph W. Cummings, Robert C. Davenport, Edward S. Fitzgibbons, Albert P. Moore, Grover O'Neal, James F. Reidy, and Holland Rogers. The rest of this class of ROTCers are at MP school prior to their entry...
...four books a year-at $1.66 each, plus postage. The books are to be selected by a Gallup poll of the club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas' best-selling The Robe...