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...journalist, no OCD coordinator, but a youth right out of college and training for an Army Air Corps commission wrote the week's most penetrating comment on morale. Published in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader was a letter written back home by handsome young Flyer Jerald B. Davis...
Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...
Short-Cut. In Chillicothe, Mo., an amateur flyer lost the paper form he was to fill out showing the CAA he had dismantled his plane. Because sending for a duplicate form "would have been too much bother," he piled all the parts on a trailer, drove 100 miles to the nearest CAA inspector, showed him the pieces...
...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...
Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...