Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship's heave had plunked into the sea. A proud Britain awarded Hero Rutland one of its most sparingly given decorations: the gold Albert Medal...
General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...caught fire and then the bomber scraped ground, damaging a wing and punching a hole in the fuselage. Kegelman regained control of his plane and flew on from the target area, only to be faced a few moments later by intense fire from a nearby anti-aircraft tower. He dove straight at the tower, silencing it with his forward guns, then took his crippled ship back to base...
Retriever. In Donalsonville, Ga., Hunter Egber Ward's dog swam out in a lake to retrieve a dove, returned with a trout...
...Dove in Hornets' Nest. Axel Wenner-Gren was not used to such treatment. He was used to being treated as a king-the industrial king he is-not as a criminal. And he was a king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt...