Word: evreux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Man's Poison. In Evreux, France, Prisoner Pierre Hennocque, having failed at hanging himself, tried to stuff himself to death by swallowing two can openers, a poker broken into ten-pieces, five four-inch nails, an assortment of screws, nuts & bolts, some curtain rings and a shattered wine glass-failed again...
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...
...first combat flight, last July 28, she led a sweep over Abbeville; the 100th mission was to bomb an airfield at Evreux, near Paris. In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...