Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starke, Fla...
Soldiers who read the some 600 service papers in which the Army's Terry has appeared lapped it up, and yelled for more. But this week's strip may be the last. Unexpected trouble arose in December. The tabloid Miami Beach (Fla.) Tropics, a small daily civilian paper, was printing an Army sheet called "To Keep 'Em Flying" for the Miami Beach Air Force Schools. Somehow one of Milt Caniff's titillating Army strips got into the Tropics. The Miami Herald, which prints the civilian Terry in that area under an exclusive contract with the Chicago...
Hulking, 300-lb. multimillionaire, twice-divorced Donald Roebling never set out to be a munitions inventor. Grandson of Brooklyn Bridge Builder Washington A. Roebling, he could have raced fancy cars, captained yachts, cavorted on his Clearwater, Fla. showplace estate for a lifetime. But last week amphibious tractors, invented by 34-year-old Donald, were rolling off the production lines of four big U.S. manufacturers, were the pride & joy of the U.S. Navy, were one of the reasons for U.S. successes at Guadalcanal...
Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
...Shells Come In. Staff Sergeant William E. Williams of Jasper, Fla., the tail gunner, winged the first German. Another Fortress crowded close to the stricken Pappy and swung its guns on the Germans. But Pappy was the wounded duck. The 1905 pressed home for the kill. Said Captain Williams...