Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from it all for a few brief moments, he flew to West Point at week's end. There he saw the Army-Oklahoma football game and spoke with engaging frankness to the cadets: "In my youth, many, many years ago, I had hopes of being a member of this Corps. I didn't make it. I am sure-morally certain-that if I had made it, I think I would have made a good officer...
...hurt to be carried through the bush to nearby Wolf Lake, where PBY planes were waiting. And no plane could land closer. Only helicopters could do the trick, and the nearest helicopters were 1,175 miles away in the U.S. At Elizabeth City, N.C., the Army dismantled a helicopter, flew the parts to New York. Another helicopter was waiting at LaGuardia Field. Both were loaded into C-54s and flown to Gander, reassembled...
...land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...
Back & forth, between plateau and lake, the helicopters hopped. Back & forth from lake to Gander the PBYs flew. The shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...
...clapboard torture house, built by the Japs on the campus of Shanghai American School, was gone; its victims' screams no longer echoed down Avenue Pétain in the city's old French quarter. But over the Georgian school buildings flew a motheaten U.S. flag; S.A.S. was in session again...