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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle, Captain Pease insisted on taking off with his squadron from a New Guinea field, though he had had only three hours' rest from his previous mission. Despite an attack by 30 Japanese Zeros, several of which he shot down, Captain Pease made his run over the target. En route home his plane caught fire and was last seen plummeting toward the Coral...
...Compensation. In Miami, Asa Sebits arrived from Detroit with a new ambulance for delivery to the Red Cross, explained how he had got gasoline en route without a ration book. Two celebrating soldiers he had picked up had passed out, and Sebits told a gas station operator they were dead. The operator took a look, believed him, filled the tank. Donor of the ambulance: the W.C.T.U...
...Nazis captured Jimmy on the Zam-zam, detoured him to a concentration camp in Occupied France. En route, Jimmy and another American smashed a train window, leaped to freedom, made their way to the U.S. Consulate at Vichy...
...Democratic Party's James A. Farley, greatest living political tourist, first-named his way up & down the Midwest last week. He turned up in Denver "on business," dropped by Omaha on a "chance visit en route," just happened to hit St. Louis to talk to "old political and personal friends...
Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...