Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like other squadrons, they have their separate mess, quarters and administration. But at Red Cross clubs, movies, officers' clubs and post exchanges they mingle freely with white soldiers and have felt no particular race consciousness. Said a fellow flyer last week (a Missourian in a white squadron operating from the same base...
...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...
Bull's-Eye. In the South Pacific, a U.S. flyer landed after disregarding orders by flying through his own side's flak to shoot down two Jap bombers. When he explained, "I figured if they couldn't hit the Japs, they couldn't hit me," he was grounded for a month...
...most important new invention is "trimetrogon" photography. This enables a flyer to photograph the ground below from horizon to horizon. The equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force...
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...