Word: flyering
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...Tommies leaped on the man, discovered that he was a Nazi flyer, shot down in that night's raid on England and trying to surrender...
...Badly shot up, a U.S. flyer was slinking along the coast to the home base. Suddenly, a British voice came over his earphones: "Cheer up, chicken, we have you." He looked around, saw two Spitfires mothering him back to the home field...
Fortress pilots and gunners could scarcely believe their eyes as the Mustang flyer slashed in, all knees, elbows and fists, shooting and turning like a man possessed. Observers vowed they saw him knock down five or six German fighters. Said the Fortress formation leader...
Howard had learned how to fight from a top-grade teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...
...Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...