Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring was a natural air fighter, quick-thinking, resourceful, ruthless. Although the story of how he spared the life of an enemy flier whose machine gun jammed is legend in Germany today, he accounted for 36 enemy planes. He won the Iron Cross and Germany's highest decoration for valor, Pour le Mérite. He was wounded in 1915 and again disobeyed orders, by returning directly to the front instead of reporting to a reserve squadron. After the death of Manfred von Richthofen and his successor, a Captain Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen...
Down a gangplank in Jersey City after almost three years as a prisoner of General Franco marched Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, and bussed his blonde wife, Edith Rogers Dahl, who helped to publicize him by sending her picture to General Franco with a plea that she should not be made a widow (TIME...
Died. Henry Tindall Merrill Jr., 11-month-old son of Flier "Dick" Merrill and Cinemactress Toby Wing; of suffocation (he was first thought to have strangled in his bedclothes); in Forest Hills...
Homeward bound from Spain was Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, two years and seven months after his plane was shot down behind the Franco lines in the civil war. He became Nationalist Spain's best-known U. S. prisoner when his blonde dancer wife sent her picture with a plea for mercy to Francisco Franco and got the Generalissimo a lot of bad publicity by publishing his reply.† Said Edith Dahl in Philadelphia, where she is doing a Spanish dance number: "Maybe we'll settle down and raise a family." Also looking forward to Dahl...
...complex controls of this dynamite-loaded machine is round-faced, 42-year-old Victor Emanuel. president of both ATCO and Aviation Corp. at around $50,000 a year. A flier in the U. S. Naval Air Service until 1918, Cornell-man Emanuel took over his father's utility business, made it into National Electric Power Co. in 1923, spread it farther & wider through the Middle West, sold out to Insull in 1926. In 1929 he returned to the power business by buying into the Byllesby system's Standard Power & Light. An associate in this foray was famed International...