Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First speaker was a junior member of the House, Lieut. Rupert Brabner, a Navy flier on leave. Making his maiden speech and drawing on his personal experiences in the Mediterranean, Flier Brabner pulled no punches...
Died. Prince George Valentine Bibesco, 61, pioneer flier; in Bucharest. He was the 20th man to receive an international pilot's license, commanded the Rumanian Air Force in the Balkan war of 1913, bombed his own country's oil fields for the Rumanian general staff as an ally of Britain in World War I. For the past eleven years he had been president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale...
...Newfoundland, the Navy chose a long-range patrol officer, Commander Gail Morgan, who now commands a unit (Patrol Wing I) of big flying boats. Along with their flying watchmen, these planes can also carry bombs or torpedoes for attacking enemy ships. Assigned to Bermuda was a close-in combat flier (Lieut. Commander Robert F. Hickey), who now heads a group on the aircraft carrier Ranger (fighters, torpedo planes, scout bombers...
Almost alone last week in believing that separation in itself would not cure the ills which the separatists wanted to cure was Congressman Melvin Maas of Minnesota, a onetime Marine flier (who still holds a colonel's reserve commission), now the ranking Republican member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. One of the ablest Congressional critics of naval and military affairs, he, too, believed that the air forces had been hampered by the general Army and Navy commands; that in some respects U.S. conceptions of air power and its use are outmoded by the lessons of World...
...judgment which many a disappointed naval flier shared. It was also a cruel judgment, which overlooked the realities that a Navy Chief of Aeronautics has to face. Among those realities, No. 1 is the fact that in the U.S. Navy the air service is still subordinate, existing on sufferance...