Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before, Infantryman Marshall had given Flier Emmons a good idea of the force he was to command. Reorganizing the Air Corps on a wartime basis, he announced that the four Air Corps wings in the continental U. S. (now commanded by brigadiers) would be expanded to 17 as fast as pilots and planes were ready. Army airmen hoped that the 12,800 fighting craft needed would be ready before the promised delivery date (late in 1942), set out to expand the Air Corps's enlisted strength from 45,000 to 163,000. They did not need to worry about...
...command was said to be General Rino Corso Fougier. Named to be active squadron leader was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, a flier of proved ability with a reputation for courage. (He is credited with leading long-range raids on Haifa and, last fortnight, on the Bahrein Islands.) The Corso-Muti squadron was reported attached to the German air fleet commanded by Nazi General Albert Kesselring-but still no Italian planes or pilots were reported over Great Britain by R. A. F., which awaited them with cold-steel curiosity...
...Santa Monica, Calif., 21-year-old, 200-pound George Temple, Shirley's big brother, signed up for four years with the Marines, hoped to become a captain and a flier...
...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...
TACA is the creation of 45-year-old, stocky, square-jawed Lowell Yerex, New Zealand flier in World War I. After the war, Yerex spent ten years barnstorming and selling automobiles in the U. S., then drifted south to Honduras with $25 and an old Stinson monoplane, went into business. His business: to haul anything anyplace in Central America a plane could land. He also managed to keep on the right side of the volatile Central American Governments, even did air fighting for Honduras against revolutionists. One day while he was strafing native troops, a rifle bullet smacked his head...