Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, a 62-year-old flyer, had just taken command of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...
Captain John survived the Liscome Bay's sinking off Makin Island in late 1943, Captain Henry, only non-flyer among the Annapolis-trained brothers, commanded a destroyer division, participating in many a Pacific raid. Lieut. Commander Quentin, youngest (27) of the five, bosses a fighter squadron aboard a Pacific carrier...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...
...number before one midge to whom life has ceased to have meaning. A midge dives and misses, by a matter of yards, of feet, and sprouts its fierce little explosion of utterly useless death. In his last seconds of life what must be in the mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy...