Word: daymond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete lineup of the Varsity shell consists of the following: Stroke, T. S. Ross '48; 7, H. Grant '48; 6, J. D. Kottelic '46; 5, R. B. Perkins '47; 4, R. W. MacNamara '47; 3, T. Daymond '47; 2, M. C. Wambaugh '44; Bow, P. B. Roll...
...Quentin Reynolds. They are modest young Americans, and they look as if they knew their business. One of them, says Reynolds, is the squadron's acknowledged ace and "one of the greatest pilots in the R..A.F." He is a curly-haired ex-Hollywood makeup man named Gus Daymond, just turned 20 and holder of Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross...
...killed or captured. Of 32 Eagle casualties, 20 are prisoners of war and twelve are dead. To replace these, 28 others are in training besides 84 Eagles who are now taking part in operations in England. Of the original Eagle Squadron of 34 men, Peterson and Flying Officer "Gus" Daymond of Van Nuys, Calif, are the only ones who remain...
This was the Eagles' first really large-scale job-though they had had weeks of patrol action.* They did their job really well. Attacked by several Messerschmitts, they shot down three, damaged two others. The youngest of them all, Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied...
...Daymond shot down his second Nazi plane. But in drawing blood, the Eagles shed it. They lost Pilot Officer William Isaac Hall of Springfield, Vt. But they hoped he was all right; the last they saw of his damaged machine, it was gliding toward open country, wheels down...