Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grizzled, gregarious Writer-Flyer Galdwell a foaming bucket of the best propwash for a crack job of hangar-flying...
...living.*Katherine Rawls, 26, greatest all-round woman swimmer before the war, was expected back home in Florida by Husband Theodore H. Thompson, who sued her for divorce and then dropped it as "a misunderstanding on my part." She has been a Women's Auxiliary Service flyer stationed at Detroit, but Thompson said she would now concentrate on taking care of his farm, do her war work in her spare time...
Allied airmen called Müller their best assistant, the Germans' worst flyer. "Tally ho!" they yelled when they spotted him. "Here comes Müller's bunch!" As they went after the Messerschmitts, they could hear the Nazi commander bellowing angry curses over the inter-plane radio: "Müller, verdammter Esel! [damn ass!]. . . . Müller Menschenskind! [man alive!]. . . . Müller, Sie Trottel! [you dope...
...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
...whatever that is"-jitters, insomnia, loss of confidence and weight. One tense veteran of 39 missions was a hard nut to crack until the flight surgeon invited him out on a double date with two sisters who had a pilot brother. On finding the girls understood his language, the flyer began to talk about his combat experience, about seeing his friends crack up. After that he went back to the center, got three good nights' sleep, played 18 holes of golf the fourth day. Then he told the flight surgeon he wanted to go back to duty...