Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...Germany they call flu Kellergrippe. One British expert thinks it got there by a roundabout plane ride from Britain to the U.S. to South America to Lisbon to Ber lin. He did not explain why the infection could not have gone directly from London, by parachuting flyer, to the Continent. Flu was reported by Swedish papers to have killed 2,000 Berliners last week...
...buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...