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...prisoners had all been collected-Hubbard, Gordon, Colonel James Duckworth, the sick. There were some 500 of them. Herded by their rescuers, in weird and motley columns they plunged westward through fields, over streams and across the rice paddies toward the American lines...
Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...been cadets only too recently. Combat pilots do not rate the Lockheed Hudson hard to handle, but it is mighty hot to fledglings whose most advanced experience has been in an AT- 9 . Yet "The Duck" found instructors who had flown Hudsons only two or three hours. Joe Duckworth was horrified. Two years ago they would not let a man sit in a bomber before he had flown 1,000 hours...
Pilots circulated rumors: "The Hudson is full of green dragons." Reported Colonel Duckworth: "The idea got around that if one motor went out, you were about gone. The boys were letting the airplane fly them-they were not flying the airplane." Stalls, followed by crashes, resulted when green instructors and students climbed too rapidly after the takeoff...
Colonels Mallory and Duckworth set up rules: No man could become an instructor until he had six months' experience as a pilot, 300 hours on a twin-engine plane, two hours' cockpit instrument checking...