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When last seen, Ziggy, wearing knife-pressed G.I. pants and brilliantly polished German boots, was driving away with a captain as his escort. In his pocket was the letter. It said: "The bearer of this letter, Private First Class Sigmund Simkowski, is the best damn barber you ever saw and the most useful man around a kitchen. Treat him right...
Died. Captain Frederick John Walker, 48, "Nelson of the little ships," crafty, courageous stalker of U-boats; of a heart attack; somewhere in England. A Navy man for 34 years, a four-time winner of the D.S.O., balding, sunken-eyed Walker led the Royal Navy's Second Escort Group, a flotilla of five sloops. His uncanny nose for pigboats netted his flotilla a score...
Before coming to the present tour of shore duty, Lt. Comdr. Havemeyer commanded a patrol craft and destroyer escort, with operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific...
Next day, coming off an escort job near Evreux, Gabby spotted three low-flying Germans, prodded one of them into a steep, twisting climb, chased him into a cloud and out again, shot him down in flames. Thus, with 28 victims, Colonel Gabreski became-for a while, at least...
...seconds later, another chute opened and then the bomber pilot gave us his parting shot: 'Thanks for the escort, fellows; see you after...